Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 182
FORECAST:
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“Get what we mean,” ask Lorraine Roush (right) and Betty Miller, who ride the streetcars to work at RCA. “I never have had a gentleman get up and give me his seat,” declares Betty. Pictured here
ARE gentlemen. They just posed sitting Sgwh 4 to Bein™ us out.
CLAIM CONTROL OF INDIA PE
Rondon Declares Reports
of Disturbances Are Exaoyerated,
id BULLETIN The situation in India is “com‘pletely in: hand” and any picture: of widespread disorder there is utterly distorted, the Indian office here said today in an official statement. “The latest official information _ from India leaves no room for doubt as to the sporadic character of the demonsirations.”
NEW DELHI, India, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Rioting independence demonstrators surged closer to the Brit-ish-American residential section today and police—backed by troops with machine guns—again- fired on erowds ' which previously had suffered 12 killed and 35 wounded. The disorders were spreading from the old Delhi section to the approaches to New Delhi, which in- = gludes the British and American vesidences and government offices. Police opened fire on a crowd near the postoffice at Karol Bagh, in suburban Delhi, causing a few casualties. Slight disorders also were reported at other points but troops stationed all over the city appeared Jo be getting the situation under, control.
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Soldiers on Guard
Fourteen persons were tied in Y. ‘Bombay yesterday. ‘At Wardha, the center of the AllIndia Congress party, police fired Jour rounds after vain charges with their batons tp disperse a meeting which had declared illegal. Many ‘constables were injured
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‘man in 20, they say, will gallantly rise and proffer his seat, to, the weaker sex. The other 19 shrug their shoulders and retort: “Where do you get that weaker sex stuff? They're wearin’ trousers now, a. ain't they ”
It began shortly after the city’s transportation problem became acute and the women war workers
men, on getting seats at rush hours. It didn’t take long either to develop into the dirty look stage for the women and the bland face stare on the part of the men. But woms= en just naturally come to the explosion point and have to get things off their chests.
Early in the Morning One did. - She wrote The Times
who completely ignored the weary feet of the “woikin’ gal.” Literally a barrage of letters: from Sir Walter Raleighs, Queen Elizabeths and other “woikin’ gals” poured. in de~ beating the question pro and con. . It looked like a little private investigation work was in order. I'd been. riding the’ Pennsylvania line between 6 and 7 myself. For one whole week, both to and from town, I'd ridden on my feet. It wasn’t so bad. After all, most of the men had lunch boxes to hold ‘and probably had corns on their feet. That is, it didn’t bother me until this morning—There must have been ‘about 20 “Imen and 20 women seated and
.1about 11 of us in the feminine con-
tingent hanging on in’ the aisle as best we could. Not a man stirred.
It Makes a Difference Who— “Then at the next stop, a double for Ann Sheridan got aboard. Masculine eyes lifted from newspapers. There ‘was a shuffling of feet. -She moved back to stand where I was hanging onto a seat occupied by two males. She smiled. They rose as a body. Took off their caps. She moved in to the inside seat. I made a dash for the other—but one of gentlemen beat me to it. tried another line—this time on (Continued on Page Five)
Dedication.
(Pictures of Camp Atierbury, Page. 9 9) :
native of Jasper, was expected to arrive at Camp Atterbury “any time now” to replace Maj. ‘Gen. John
3| Millikin, who has been transferred to command of the 33d infantry
[division at Camp Forrest, Tenn. Although Gen. Millikin left here Monday to assume his new post, the dedication ceremonies at Atterbury Saturday will be Held 4s planned J
+ 14, 18|Gen. Milbumm 3 will be to 8
By ROSEMARY REDDING
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<I MILBURN ARRIVAL AT {ATTERBURY AWAITED
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2 NAZI FLIERS SLAIN IN PARIS
Killed by Patriot Grenades Tossed Into Group of 60 in Stadium.
VICHY, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—French patriots in Paris killed two German ‘warplane pilots - and wounded . 18, eight gravely, when they - attacked a group. of, 60 with hand: grenades, it was reported today. ‘The 60 German pilots were exerising in the Jean Bouin stadium on the western edge of Paris when the attack was made. The men reportedly were closely = grouped when the hand grenades fell among them. The attack, one of the boldest ever made in occupied .territory, climaxed a ‘week of intensified sabotage and terrorism. One Killed Instantly The gttack occurred last Wednesday. The patriots had stalked the | Germans, watched them. go to the fleld ‘and then hidden behind a high hedge until the aviators trotted past on the cinder path. As the group raced by two grenades One German was killed instantly. A second died en route to a hospital. French police and German Gestapo and storm troopers immediately threw a cordon around the entire stadium area and made many arrests but the patriots escaped. Observers who have seen ‘the rmans have -taken .on hostages innocent individuals for lesser offenses, feared
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Somewhat warmer tonight
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942
———
BROWN GETS 5
WOMAN IS PUT
Miss Henderson in Tears as Baltzell Suspends TwoYear Term.
By EARL RICHERT Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today - sentenced William. Dudley
‘Pelley, founder of the anti-Semitic
Silver Shirts, to 15 years in federal prison for publishing seditious articles in his magazine, "The Galilean,” since Pearl Harbor. : “1 don’t know how long the war will last” the judge commented, “put the sentence should be such that we will be assured that no
duration.” He sentenced Lawrence A. Brown, aid of Pelley, to five years and sen tenced Miss: Marion . Henderson,
| Pelley's secretary to two years, but
suspended it and ordered her placed on probation for five years. Fellowship Press Fined Pelley, 52, “was convic by federal jury of farmers and small} businessmen’ last week on all 11 counts of an indictment charging him with sedition and conspiracy to commit sedition. His aids were tonvicted only on the conspiracy count. While Pelley ¢ og Jabiia te & siski~ mum sentence: and $110,000 in fine ng dj: guilty of all 11 counts, the explained that he did not
106, the : “corporation | 1b-| ; lished hg 0 Galilean” ‘and which];
alts foud guilty By the Jury: on all 11 counts of the indictments,
Miss Hénderson Weeps
their left. - Bui tears streamed from Miss Henderson's face and in answer to cne of the ‘judge’s questions, she replied, “I can’t As he was being led away to the county jail with Brown, Pelley said that upon the instructions of his attorneys he had no ‘comment tol make upon the case, but that he was glad of the leniency of the court “to the young woman.” Appeal to Be Taken U. 8. Marshal Julius Wichser said that he would ‘ask the U. S.:attorney general to designate the prisons to which Pelley and Brown should be sent. Defense Stiomeys Floyd Christian and Oscar F. Smith immediately announced they would appeal the caserto the U. 8. circuit court of appeals. Before passing sentence, the judge reviewed briefly the history of the Silver Shirts and the testimony which showed that so-called “eso-| teric” meetings attended by many former Silver Shirts have been held (Continued on Page Five)
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They say “it’s the woman ‘who pays”~but . look . what they've done to father: ; ."Sbmetime “ago, Methodist hos-pital-decided it was high time something was done about the .plight of “expectant Ifathers.” They fixed up a cheerful room ‘where he could read or walk the floor - (in company) until nurse arrived with “It’s twins!”
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Exposiont Fathers’ Room At Methodist Is Invaded|
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RAF STEPS UP
ops 13000 Tons on “Westen ‘Europe in: une,
waffe’s worst ali on Britain, it was announced . today after a
Pelley and Brown showed no Stno- Mainz. in
oy center at the june-, tion of the Rhine and Main rivers. The 13,000 tons of bombs hurled on war centers of Germany and targets in the occupied countries during June and July represented an increase of ‘about three and a
{half - times the weight: of bombs dropped
by the: RAS PF. in the same period of 1940 When 3500 tons were used. While the summer: months offer ‘the ‘best weather conditions for le bombing ‘operations, of = ficial: circles said’ they: ‘believed the attacks: would continue to grow this fall’ snd winter. ;
Drop Block Busters
‘More than 450 tons of bombs were dropped. on: “Ospabruck Sunday night. The Gérmans’ biggest, attack on London=-on the night of April 16, 1941—hammered the city with less
The Germans raided London on the. night. of Oct. 15, 1940, with 220 tons of ‘bombs and attacked Coventry on Nov. 14, 1940, ‘with less than 200 tons. In Sundsy night's R. A. P. assault on Osnabruck ‘between 40 and '|50 of Britain’s- new two-ton “block busters” bombs were It was indicated; on ‘the basis of the acknowledgement of 16 ‘bombers lost, that at least 300 planes engaged in last night's bombing of
|Mainz. Simultaneously, - the Germans
fanned out a few raiders over widely scattered parts of the British
London, which was brief and passed Without incident.
By Surprise. _ LONDON, Aug. 12 (U. P.)—Stif-
Isles, caused a “silent alarm” inf
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|S GAINING
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on Toward Soviet | Bases and Big ozny Oil Fields.
sored forces, advancing owns and fields laid waste it, scorched-earth “retreat, » the Caucasus mountains i drove Soviet army de-
sack’ upon the highway}:
Mikoyan Shakhar, barely from the, Turkish frontier. directly: south from the 3aku railroad, the Gerried their attack into the 5 in an effort to clear‘the flank of their forces strik= taneously ‘toward the Rus's Black sea bases to the the rich Grozny oil fields Jaspian coast to the east. he Nivinomoniskaya junc1e Armavir-Baku rail line, ans panzers swung southpushed the Russians back mountains along a branch h runs through Cherkess.
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tain highway leads from Shakhar across the high s to: the Black sea port of porth ‘of Batum and|! } miles: from the Turkish Tastward from. Mikoyan lies the Caspian and the Makhach Kala, Li miles
cupied hy. town and] 1 the north ‘Caucasus was in flames or ruins as the advanced - southward. a Russians had not dehe Germans now savagely ad, £5.44 tions that the Russians their own oil wells came io Vichy, which broadcast © fighting armies” were behind German ‘troops in
;ASUS, “fighting fires that}
lans had ignited in their - Berlin broadcasts said nans were only 142 miles ny. : 1d. Stalingrad Lines 1 ermans claimed today that 1 taken Slavyansksya, 20 ‘thwest of ‘Krasnodar and from- the Black sea mouth uban river.) issian position in the north ‘official sourcés Here said, to be irretrievable. wiet noon communique rerussian forces engaged :in battles with a numericalor enemy in the Krasno-,-some 65 miles northwest il town of Maikop, which nans had stormed. KXrasiet naval base of Novorosabout 60 miles from the ie Black sea. 'nemy is bringing up re1d sin spite of huge losses ly = attacking,” the com-
asserted. a battles were reported. in
crad, respectively, but the Taek gaiied in the last
he Wai Fronts|
Aug. 12, 1042 i LIA: American marines ttling way into interior nds of Solomons in
a ports, strike southeast-
* in 175 ies of Gis:
islands.
American Pacific offensive.
CARRIER SUNK, BRITISH ADMIT
Attack on Convoy in Mediterranean. : (Photos, Page Three)
LONDON, Aug. 12 U. P)S-The admiralty ‘announced today _ the sinking of the 22,600-ton. British aircraft carrier Eagle and a German submarine in an engagemnet in the Mediterranean where axis radios} said a large-scale attack was underway against a strongly ' protected British convoy. In reporting the sinking of the 24-year-old Eagle, fifth British aireraft carrier officially acknowl miralty indicated that the ‘battle. stili might be underway. oR “The admiralty is able to announce that at least one U-boat operating in - the same ares ‘as H. M. S. Eagle has been sunk,” the communique said.’ :
special announcement. yesterday re‘with a broadcast saying that: strong
ranean since Tuesday evening. plement -of 749 officers and men and
21 planes. A larye part of the erew was saved, the admiralty said. :
NEITHER DOES TORY0)
Learns’ of Congratulations Sent to Admiral, -
By ATED. Ft
Germans Lose U- Boat in :
edged as lost in the war, the ad-|
The German high command, ina
ported the sinking of the Eagle—| "| originally laid down as a battleship S| for Chile—and followed. up today
Italian and .German air and sub-|g marine forces have. been attacking [len ‘the British convoy in the Mediter-
The Eagle carried a normal com- |
Hint U. §. Is Using Parachute Troops; Jap= _anese Forces Resisting Stubbornly In Hand-to-Hand Fighting.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U.P. y—Pacific war r council members today reported a cautious degree of encourages ment over American offensive operations in the Solomon,
ea bios srerm— By EVERETT R. HOLLES United Press Cable Editor °
Auierietn marines, possibly including parachute Ta : were believed to be fighting their way into the interiors of three main islands of the Japanese-held ‘Solomons. today, 4 against fierce enemy resistance on the sixth day of the
Unofficial reports from Australia said the eomantios ; trained leathernecks were “making progress” and appeared to be established firmly in the Tulagi harbor area.. =. At the ‘New Zealand headquarters of Vice. Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, leader of the American attack forces, it was pointed out that the absence. of amy report of American withdrawals warranted the a operations still were “dominated ‘by u. 5
Battle Japs With ‘Bayotiets
$hat the
effecting their fifst landings used parachutiste:
lands—with bayonets and grenades: —under savage Japanese air bombs ings and machine-gun strafings. = = . The Japanese were believed to be putting up ‘a desperate delaying battle, while they rushed reinforces ments. The difficulties of the lay partly ii the fact that the Americans had the guns of their warships but no land-based fighter planes to protect their Siac, + The Japanese, on the other hand, had “zero” fighters and bombers the Solomons and other air forces in occupied islands nearby.
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