Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1942 — Page 1
BRITISH BLAST
RUHR AFTER 1ST ALL-YANK RAID
Battle Off French)
Aerial Coast Follows; One Heinkel Destroyed
LONDON, Aug: 18 (U. P.)—Allied fighter plapes, carrying on a 24-hour-a-day offensive by United States and British air forces, en-
gaged a force of Nazis planes -off |:
the French ‘coast today. They ° destroyed one Heinkel patrol ship and damaged another despite their strong fighter escort, the air ministry announced today. : After the British and American airforce commands said last night they were prepared .to launch the greatest sustained aerial assault in history, planes swept over the chan-
nel early today in a continuation of|
yesterday's American bombing raids on Rouen .and the R. A. F. at-} tack on the Rhineland-Ruhr area.
Spitfires Break Through
The two Heinkels, both termed float planes and one -carrying torpedoes, were. protected by six Focke-Wulf-190s, ' but -the British Spitfires broke through the screen and caught the Heinkels ‘just above the water. The entire British squadron attacked and the pilots saw the Hein-kel-115 break up in the air. The! second Heinkel, only one motor functioning “after the Spitfires hit it with canpon five, was foreéd io) . land on the water. ‘Two British. planés are missing from the engagement. American flying fortresses mads
the attack on Rouen, while the| British attack, which centered on|
Onsabruck, a railway and war factory center, used their own heavy bombers. They shot down one enemy plane and five of their own craft were missing, indicating that probably about 100 planes made the attack. .
Down Nazi Bomber
In addition ‘to the raid on Germany, medium bombers and fighters attacked air fields in enemy occupied territory and shot down one German bomber, taking ‘off to attack Britain. German planes made a weak retort to the allied offensive by bombing southern and western England. They caused some casuaities and damage but paid for their raid with the loss of two ‘plines shot down, one off the south coast and the other as it arrived over its hase in France. The population. of Osnabruck is sbout 80,000 and the city is a junction for railroad lines from Berlin, the Ruhr, Holland, Hamburg and Bremen which serve most of the war industries of the Ruhr and Rhineland. Germany admitted that explosive and incendiary bombs had caused fires and said, as usual, that residential districts especially suffered. Twelve of the U. 8. army Boeing flying fortresses, the precisionbombing B-17s, dropped every one of their tons of bombs in a heavily defended target area at Rouen, 84 miles northwest of Paris’ and 56 miles east-southeast of Le Havre. They soared, in their attack, over the ancient place Vieux-Marche, (Continued on Page Five)
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
. 68% 10am. ... 4 v.60 11 a.m. ... 37 .e. 63 12 yon) .
CENTER INSIDE
Levy to Under $3; Hearings Set.
By NOBLE REED’ Even before any cutting is started on proposed local. government budgets;~the proposed 1943 tax rate for Center township-inside Indianapolis today stood at $3.07, com-
pared to $3.25 per $100 property valuation paid this year. During the next three weeks, city and county councils are expected to further reduce their respective bud-
rate for.Center township inside the city to $3 or less for the first time in ‘five -years. ‘The proposed rates are: 1942 1942 City - Corporftion....... $1.29 $1.13146 County. ..... veeesessnets 032 1 AEE School City 95614 State Jt Poor | Relief sear 2104 Poor: Relief Bonds. ivaves 18 16 Township Fund 0054 $3.25 County council miembers already have indicated they intend to. trim 4 or 5 cents off the county rate and state officials are discussing the possibility of reducing their. rate to 13.or perhaps 12 cents. . Tax experts:also said revision of the school city budget may result in a cut of as much as 3 or 4 cents in the 96-cent school rate. . In these reductions materialize the Center rate inside Indianapolis would-be $2.98. The city council will start hearings next Monday night on the budget requests © which call for! a municipal property tax rate of $129, a reduction of 14% cents un= der the present levy. - After committee deliberations Thursday nights of next week, a public hearing on the budget will
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be held Aug. 31: Delors final passage.’ ®
indiana Ave. Conditions ~ Draw Increasing Criticism
ori of conditions on Indiana ave. which culminated in the brawl Saturday Herning and the
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critical injury to two policemen was increasing today. A delegation of Negro civicieaders headed by City Councilman F. B. Ransom and W. Chester Hibbett,’
protested the situation to Mayor Sullivan today.
They demanded increased, police protection and asked that a Negro vice squad replace white officers in ‘patroling the Indiana ave. area. - At the same time, several members of the Indiahapolis Federation of Community Civic clubs demanded |.) their organization take some action
nounced the federation would. up the matter: at its next meetipg, ‘Sept. 25.
gets sufficiently to slash the total}
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and|
“That will give the police depart- P ment ample time. to complete . its 6 investigation, ” Mr. Wetter
T0 GET TAX CUT,
Councils ope: fo" “Reduce |
BRAZIL EXPECTED
T0.DECLARE WAR]
Anti Axis Riots Reported; Claim Sub ‘Destroyed.
RIO. DE. JANEIRO, Aug.-18 (U. P.) —Anti-German “demonstrations; in which. German-owned downtown stores ‘were stoned by crowds demanding vengeance for ‘the torpedoing ‘and sinking of five Brazilian’ ships, broke out today as a war declaration : against - the axis appeared
to be only a ‘matter of time.
.Meanwhile, Joao ; Baptista Luzardo, ' Brazilian ambassador at Montevideo, Uruguay, said that the 4801-ton Baeperdy, one of the five
terpedded vessels, shelled and sunk|
the submarine that ‘attacked her.’
It was the 4801-ton: Baependy. Unofficial reports had said that 700 40 1000. men- were. lost, but the ‘department. of press and propaganda assertéd late last night:
1000 LEAVE WORK AT METAL PLANT
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 18 (U. P.)—One thousand C. I. O. employees of the Reynolds Metals Oo. walked off their jobs today and threw picket lines around the company’s 11 plants, climaxing an A. P.
of L.-C. IL. O. Jurisdictional dispute i
of several months.’ R. W. Pasnick, field representative for the International Aluminum ‘Workers of America (C. I. 0), described the work. stoppage by C. I ©.'employees as‘g “lockout” and charged that the.company had fired Ray Stober, unit chairman at the, com 's No. 7 plant, without |, good reason.” ©
Today over 1000 men Tefused tos a “4 return to work until Stober is taken tie
One ship was foaded with troops. |
‘the is the victim of a severe form | of infantile paralysis.
vise a dash to Riley ‘hospital-in Indianapoll
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1. David Goodman improved din ‘Riley hospital's iron 1: after a harrowing 100-mile dash from Louisville. ;
2. Dr. Hubert A. Hensel and Harold Meredith (back, left
administered - artificial. respiration
during’ ‘the ' entire trip.
Hosea (lying down) was’ the ambulance driver. "| 3. Arthur Goodman, the boy's father, watches— -4. Mrs. Goodman, who is’ being. treated for shock rece:
.she learned of her son’s condition and the solent. ;
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and Harold Meredith.
Doctor’ s Care of Pa:
Add to the list of. ~home { front heroes Dr. Hubert Hensel. Fro
And include, also, a 7-year-old boy named David ‘Goodma: Through southern Indiana during’ the early morning h sped the four in an ambulance. David could breath only wit ficial respiration administered ‘by Dr. Hensel and Mr. Meredi
He was stricken Thursday and at 2:30 a. m. today Mr. Hoséa and Mr. Meredith, employed by the Coots funeral home of Jeffersonville, were called to. the home: of the boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goodman of that city. . They were -to rush David to the Memorial. ‘Infirmary at
lung in Louisville was in use. + Dr. Hensel was assigned to super-
All'went well until the reached Capitol ave. at st... A truck, its driver unable to hear the siren : hydraulic drills of street were : making, too ' m: bumped - into. the amb! tipped "it ‘against the: : chinery. hia ‘The collision threw. Di: ambulance cot onto the ; mb ata 45-ci:
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WARINES WIN OF BIG BATTLE
Australia’s Opiiinism on Solomons Grows; Air Fighting Increases. | MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR- | TERS; Australia, Aug. 18 (U. P.).— United States naval and. marine i | forces won a: historic victory in the
: first phase of the 12-day Solomon | islands battle, dispatches indicated Yoda. -
| A navy department announce- | ment at Washington that the shore “| positions taken by the marines had ‘been developed and were now well _ | established’ was believed to' mean R that the United States forces held
: : Japan WAS expected to fight bitg terly to prevent further expansion “| of the American footholds, and if possible to’ rewin the areas which ‘| the ‘marines had’ taken under the guns and planes of - the Pacific fleet. ‘ But there was belief as well as hope that the’ marines were in the Solomons to ‘stay until they and the allied troops of Gen. Douglas MacArthur started northward, ‘to ‘oust the Japanese from the south seas. The: Washington navy communique and dispatches from the: south Pacific fleet headquarters of Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley left little doubt that thousands upon thousands of marines were now in the: Tulagi-Florida-Gavuto-Makambo-Guadalcanal area of the southern Solomons: + Tanks, artillery and plentiful supplies were ‘ believed streaming (Continued on Page Five) -
EXPECT CALL SOON, 3-A MEN ARE TOLD
Hershey Spokesman Says ‘1-A-Supply Is Low.
BOSTON, Aug. 18 (U. P).—~A general draft of married men under 46 with dependents will come “in the not far distant future,” a spokesman for Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey’s national selective service board predicted today. Public Relations Director Ted Luther, speaking at the 52d annual reunion of Legion of Valor: members, said the nation’ Ss reservoir ‘of 1-A men was “practically ex-hausted”-and that it now would be necessary - to obtain soldiers from ‘11-B and 3-A classes. “The ‘selective "service board: is most anxious to avoid breaking up homes and families,” Luther said. “But because of the few men in 1-B _jclassification and the smaller number that can be obtained from among those reaching 20 yea#s of age each month it will be necessary to:1ake. those with dependents.” io » ¥ ®
On the War Fronts
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+ hits. “24-hour . 8 day. pace; night attacks made in Ruhr-Rhineland '| * area, day. raids. directed against . French coast; British. press restrained in comment on Moscow entershos with 20 indications of
INITIAL PHASE |
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Ea the Russians have attacked
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PRICE THREE CENTS
Allies Carrying Fight to Axis on World Fronts; Nazis Complain of Tropical Heat in South Caucasus.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Was Weiter
new defense positions. There was. no indication that a general German drawal was involved, but the Moscow reports said that o the Kotelinkovski front, 90 miles southwest of Stalin Nazi forces were compelled to retire and reorganize. ®
No Nazi Claims of Gains-
These reports might indicate that Marshal Se Timoshenko has massed substantial masses of men to pr ches to, Stalingrad and the: vital Volga ziv Berlin ct mentiofted no specific gains. in South sia, but complained of tropical heat in-the Caucasus w apparently was slowing down the Nazi spearheads. Germans also again took note of powerful Soviet diversio attacks in the Vyazma and Rzhevs sectors. -
lines in one sector on the Stalingrad front. Moscow continued to emphasize the Soviet desire for. second front. However, there was no hint. in London or Moscow: ports of the conference of Prime Minister Winston Chure and Josef Stalin that any such move had been deter: mi) upon. ; Cautious on Second Front Comment
London press reports took a cautious line and exptes the opinion that the discussions were predicated on belief that Russia can hold on through the winter. “According to this view, the chief objectr of discussic was the question of supplies for the Soviet army and possibility of allied reinforcements from the Middle Eas if the Caucasus situation should become desperate.
special session of parliantent or make a world-wide broadcat concerning his Moscow discussions. Although the second land front possibilities seen dimmer the allied air front against Germany was, build up rapidly. A Australian Reports Optimistic The royal air force and American airmen were op ing against axis objectives on a round-the-clock sche with night attacks on the Ruhr-Rhineland and day a ‘on oceupied France. American bombers were active, too, in the Middle E E where medium planes blasted at Matruh. Heavy bomb attacked an axis convey ,in the Mediterranean: and set fi ire to a large enemy merchant ship. ; In the southwest Pacific optimism was running over the American attack in the Solomon islands becal of the U. S. communique indicating. that the initial ph of the operation was successful. Australian observers believed that in 12 as of fi ing American marines. and naval units had won a bis victory. : There was increased action by air on the approaches Australia.
Russ Army Holding Firmly. | . In Fight for Stalingr
MOSCOW. Aug. 18 (U. P).—The grad, = massed Russian ‘Germans have suffered so many| mowed | down Nazi shock ti defeats in their all-out assaults) tanks, and the Soviet noon southwest. of Stalingrad and the|munique indicated that bath Volga river line that they have re-|of the frenzied Nazitreated ‘several kilometers and are| Stalingrad were being firmly. entrenching themselves in new de-
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Russian paratroops were landed behind the Germat
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