Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1942 — Page 1

‘Fler was in the shape of the figure ~ "g»_ formed ‘by empty grain sacks

of thefirst air force said today it

Without warning five stories of this s warehouse erumbled in a: cloud of dust. ‘w :

Bulging wal Still Stands; De

BAST DOUBT ON

War » Dofitnent ss story Of bth Column. Work. ‘May. Be Untrue.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (U.-P). ~The war department: cast doubt today on’ reports, ‘released ‘by the army’ at Mitelrel Fields N: Y. tha guide: signs for enemy planes had been found pointing twa aircraft factories and ‘bases | “the east. A war department memorandum to the press said: & “Reports reaching the war, department indicate that a story relative to signs pointing to important defense installations, released at Mitchel Field, N. Y., for. publication on Monday, may be untrue. The commanding general, eastern defense command, is having a detailed Jnvestigs}ion made and he will take priate action.” - Existence of the siarkers..some of

them. in the form of arrows ingeni-| - ously contrived in plowed fields and)

on rural paths—was reported by Col. Dache M. Reeves, commanding ffi i cer of the first ground air support command. at Mitchel field. 2 a

"One in Shape of 9

aE The ‘markers, visible: only from “the alr, were attributed to fifth “columnists in the east. One mark.

“ins field, with ‘the tail pointing|-. toward a military objective, | “Aerial observajjon photographs ~~ yeleased tothe press showed the .. purported arrows and pointers on : the ground.’ °°

i MITOHEL FIELD, N. Y. Ri 11 : w. P.).—The public relations office

had approval of the war depart- * ment’s bureau of public relations _ before it released reports thatarmy|" “air force observers had discovered on and obliterated ground markers for. * enemy planes on ‘the East coast.

2 LANDS ON: HIGHWAY GENTRYVILLEnd, Aug. 11 (U. P)—hn army airplane on a routine flight ran out of gas early to\day and was forced to make an | emergency landing on highway 62 Just south of here, None of the five

{building 330 W. New York: st., to-

Iwas’ awaiting : investigation of ‘gova|

[inspector for the city, said the brick

s ® co .

apolis Warehouse & Storage Co. Washington-Harding Realty Co, the owners; said it was “impossible” “| day prompted: police fo restrict the public’ from a “safety zone” there:| until: the ‘contents ° have been] - Meanwhile, removal of the debris checked. “While raiffoadmen said "200 carernment officials who had “thou-|loads of sugar had been “unloadad Isands of dollars “worth” of com-|recently, C. R. “Tracey, Secretary modities in the wreckage of six|treasurer of the M. K. Hurst Co. floors of ‘the - northwest portion | refused to attempt a figure ‘on his ‘which collapsed at 10:42 o'clock last| firm’s loss on sugar and canned night. goods, He said the sugar was stored William Holmes, chief building}in the Hurst firm's. 100-foot secbuilding of wooden floors and timber Huriéd under. the five collapsed top supports collapsed under the weight floors. of thousands of tons of sugar, automobile tires, stokers, canned foodstiffs, new pianos and many: items yet undertermined. While Mr. Holmes

The -only estimate on loss to property in the building was ventured by George H. Hosmer, head of ‘the Hosmer Stokol Corp. who estimated ~ (Continued on Page Three)

Property Taxes in County < __ Drop to Five-Year Low

township POOL relief wil be eliminated entirely next year.

By NOBLE REED ! _ Government officials and tax ex-

pn of ori

to: make. an estimate of the ltss| |

‘tion of the first floor and was|

| at camp | & S588. chicken

perts predicted today. that property tax rates in Marion county next year will be the lowest in five years, after the pruning knife has been wielded on departmental requests. ’ They estimated that the rate for Indianapolis in Center township may be about $3 or less compared t0 $3.25 per $100 property valuation this year. This would mean that” if you owned: property assessed at $5000 and paid $162.50 in taxes this year you would pay only $150 on the same property next year. Similar reductions were: egpected to be made in other townships inside he city limits. = e of the first ma cti was revealed last major rods ons

- Another big’ reduction is expected in the city corporation rate. The present city levy of $143 may he cut to $130 or even less. Other possible reductions include a proposal 10 cut 4 cenis off the requested “98-ceént school city levy for next year and a proposed :2cent cut im‘ the present 14-ceat state levy. Offsetting these’ proposed reducs tions is an: estimated increase: of 6% cents in the: proposed county government ‘rate to take care of salary ‘increases and $280,000 to pay for reassessment of real estate. However, most ‘county. officials have agreed - ‘that the reassessment Budget will be stricken. This would

ures| cut 4 cenfs off the county rate,

leaving it somewhere neat he pres-

| ent 45-cent levy.

Boots, Slacks and Pince-Nez! That's Sevitzky ‘In the > Rough:

; ‘By RICHARD LEWIS WHAT DREW me north to the shores of Lake Oliver in a blind-

ing rainstorm Sunday. was not ed

the attraction of outdoor opera

the of dinner. |

Opera. I can get- over thé ra-- | - Chicken I

No, the lodes 5

lost. Nor was ib

in a Tougher set Murat theater, in:

of the labor volunteers.

—

[WAR NDUSTRES

~ otton Mart Close ses.” 5 BOMBAY; India, Aug. 1° @: . “Rioting in. Bombay took a sudden anti-foreign- turn. “today and the strike paralysis. creeping. over the country. hit ‘war industry for the first time. i Police fired on thousands sof student rioters outside the great Bombay municipal hospital, killing two and wounding many. The death toll here had reached 17, and 209 persons had been wounded before today. There were casualties so far unestimated . when police fired on riotérs at Poona rand: Lucknow, The students demanded the hats and neckties—symbols of their white race—of their. professors and burned them in bonfires. In fact, Bombay’s turbulent northern suburbs, where police had fired 10 times on rioters yesterday, was unsafe for anyone wearing western clothing. Surging e¢rowds, . chanting their slogan of “freedom or death,” forced the surrender of all hats, neckties (Continued on Page Thee)

1000 FRENCH WAR - PRISONERS FREED

Nazis Get One Specialist

For Every Three.

VICHY, Aug. 11. (U. P.)—Germany released 1000 war prisoners to France today in exchange for volunteer French workers for German industries, but Pierre Laval," in meeting the returning: soldiers at Compiegne, indicated there would be only -a few more exchanged. Laval explained that. Germany| Sent.

, ‘and be. no exchange Whatever for oni

mon laborers and thus far special-| ists have comprised only 35 per cent |

ISX. SIRENS. 70 WAIL [owovaxave AFTER SOME. Je (aud ag

was| tempting to escape by

‘the coastal road to Batum, on £ Turkish border, jterminus of 3 pipe=|

a! 2

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DRIVE AT RUSS FLEETS BASES

Belgtan And Norse Troops Are

Aiding Germars.

By HENRY SHAP: RO United Press Staff Correspondent ; MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—~Large volun-{ teer legions from ‘Spain. France, Belgium and Scandinavia arc being} thrown into Adolf Hitler's offensive threatening the Soviet fiect's vital Black sea bases after overwhelming Soviet defenses around thc Maikop|. oil fields, according to froni-lirie advices today. German armored forces.

: sector and attacking with massed

‘trial city on the Volga. The renewed assault on the approaches -to Stalingrad was backed by all available axis arniored reserves, front line dispatches said.

Fight Near Oil Ficids

(The German high command claimed that the Russians had been

several sectors of the Maikop oil front and that a Soviet force west of Kalach, which is only 40 miles from Stalingrad, had been encircled and annihilated. The ‘axis

on the Sea of Azov- 75 miles west |

Frontline advices id ? | been disclosed by the testimony of

Spain; France, Belghun, and Denmark wi inte . the battle to fill caused by the Nazis’ heavy losses.

men ‘had been killed or. the Volkhov_ fronf, to the north ard that the survivors of the legion had been shifted to the Len ingrad front, German advances in the Rrasnodar and. Armavir sectors of the North Caucasus placed nc: only the fate of the Maikop oil ficlds buf the Russian black sea ficet's mam bases at stake. te

Claim Russ Flee port:

The Novorossisk nav:! base. lies only. 65 miles west of Krosnodal and the port of Anapa is, {only slightly northward nea: the mean straits. (The German high sald that Russian troop:

tad Wr ore. ‘at=

the ports of Novorissisk, Taupse| and Anapa under consiani Naz aerial bombardment that hes sunk 11 transports totaling and damaged nine other ports.)

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. Should thé Germans reach the i Eo

sea, they will be able to figh’ al

ON BLACK SEA

| French, Spanish,

were re-| . |ported penetrating Russian ‘army * |positions’ in the : Kletsk:va, ; tanks inj’ {the Kotelnikovo area in z new twin offensive toward Stalingrad, indus-|

thrown back into the Caucasus onl

also claimed capture of Yelsk, port|

The reports said that 2000 Duteh-|

these

16 had : H

| prisoners taken during the lust 10| N days that fresh legion:aires from|tificati: Norway| nois's: era being rushed! Bu the gaps Deer.

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ling from the great oil wells off % Baku, and ‘the last Soviet Black]

sea ‘naval ‘base.

(The Germans had claimed cap- :

ture of both Krasnodar and Maikop.)

On the War Fronts

Aug. 11, 1943

AUSTRALIA: &merican ent allied] 1 forces rain blows on Japanese byl

“land, sea and air alone 2700-mile] 3

“front; marines battle to :ccp foot-|; hold on Tulagi area in : Solomons,

4 BOMBAY: Rioting and nivodshed;de!

"spread atter British call o.1. roops| he

2nd planes drop tear ga; 01 Bom- | hay crowds: strikes spre:d to Wor IAusy arses.

nd n- bo :

to vital} dieted

iam P. Phillips 00 “It’s dream ‘here, except for ‘not being here.”

PHILLIPS PROMOTED’

sts Feb. 25 Letter; Notified May 11 Was Missing. REMONT POWER ‘2 latter ‘part of NovemMrs. Elizabeth Phillips from her boy, William, n the Philippines serving oriean’ Srmy-—and ‘liking

§ her Home, HUT, my May 1. + November. there ‘ad x thom. Wiliam or Yow {ing along. .

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ppened to that letter and ntually got. to Indianap-aake-a story in itself, but is, it was. about, Pvt.

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rating, on Feb. 13, 1942.

en of outstanding ability]

for: these positions, st. Class Phillips has od on Fase Fifer) :

U.S. Situation Still Is Believed Favorab {

MacArthur Fliers Slug Enemy Along ~2100-Mile Pacific Front.

By EVERETT R. HOLLES United Press Cable Editor

The. American and allied battie for the Solomon island¢’

apparently. entered a crucial stage today with the outcor still undecided, but with both sides attempting to th gleater striking power into fighting for the harhor

Tulagi.

The American offensive extended from the. hot

where' U. 8. shock forces of commando-trainea mari

seized a foothold in their drive against the Tulagi ba

the New Guinea mountains where Australians. pushed the Japanese on land, and westward to Timor, where a bombers kept up heavy assaults on enemy supply lines.

~ After five days of fighting, it was emphasized in

patches. from allied headquarters that there still was.

grounds for drawing definite conclusions. Situation “Still Fayorable” . ‘Auckland, headquarters of Admiral Robert L. Ghor

woe ’

ley; who is in active command of the Tulagi battle; beli

that the situation’ continued favorable. . . . ‘In Australia official Seiines suggested rd ‘thie

, ‘te fin the initial surprise

But none of orts ai : Hast statement from Washington and a thorough can headquarters sources emphasized that the rfecessity of 1 taining radio’ silence still shielded’ the: Solomons ‘conflict

{military secrecy.

MacArthur’ s Planes Strike: Hard

There was nothing to indicate that the ‘American fc had lost any ground, but at the same time there was no

indication of further progress.

Admiral Ernest J. King, commander of the U. S. A ‘made it clear that the struggle in the Solomons is

against great odds and that considerable losses—both inn

and ships—must be reckoned with. . If the Japanese are driven from the Solomons it

shatter their hopes of blockading the eastern “Austra coast and a large part of the threat to. the allied life

‘removed.

supplies from the United States will have , although.

The forces of Gen. Douglas MacArth

involved in the Solomons attack which is “purely a na show,” struck out with s : support of the naval offensive.

ng, round-the-clock: blows

Start Great Fires at. Rabaul

Determined to prevent the Japanese from reinfo their: air and naval forces in the Solomons region, } Arthur's allied’ ‘bombers and fighters struck at the

along -a 2700-mile front from the island of Timor. eastw to the Solomons.

In. the in ior of New Guinea where Japanese

forces had struck across jungle-like trails and the Ow

‘| Stanley foothills’ to take Kokoda, only 55. miles ‘from

“|advanced allied base at Port Moresby, Australian and tive troops launched a small-scale offensive.

They drove the Japanese back “with severe casu it was announced, while American and Sutralian 1

: bombed and damaged a Japanese destroyer off Timor, sf

| fire to a medium-sized cargo ship. and! probably sank a s

cargo ship. ) : ~~ ‘At Rabaul in’ the. Bismarck islands, northwest o

Solomons; ‘allied bombers hammered :

wi |supply depots and started fires visible

‘The pattern of the allied bombing attacks owed cl cle