Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1942 — Page 1

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Escures—mowamp] VOLUME 53—NUMBER 140:

U. 5. COLLECTS DATA ON DEATH OF HOSTAGES

Warns * Perpetrators of

‘Barbaric’ Acts of Post-War Wrath.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today issued a stern warning to axis nations to halt their atrocities against citizens of occupied nations or else face the wrath of the united nations after the war is won. In a formal statement, the president said the perpetrators of “barbaric” acts in occupied countries " «will have to stand in the courts of law” in the very countries in which barbarism now rages, and answer in those courts for their crimes. The president pointed out that the American government for some time has been: collecting evidence on axis crimes against civilian population of the occupied nations, such as the execution of hostages.

Gives Fair Warning

“The united nations are going to win this war,” he said. “When vic- . tory has been achieved, it is the purpose of the government of the United States, as I know it is the purpose of each of the united nations, to make appropriate use of the information and evidence inrespect to these barbaric crimes of the invaders, in Europe and in- Asia. “It seems only “fair that they should have' this warning that the = ‘time will-cgme: when they-will have ‘to stand in courts -of law in the vely eountries which they are now oppressing and answer for their acts. ” The president acted after Secretary of State Cordell Hull forwarded to him a report on latest axis atrocities.

Dutch Envoy Brings Plea

The president told his press con- _ ference that his action also stemmed from reports of recent executions - of hostages in the Netherlands, oc- ‘ cupied France and some in Norway. The president said the communication forwarded to him by Mr. Hull came from the ambassador of the Netherlands and the ministers of Yugoslavia and Luxembourg on behalf of the governments of all the occupied European nations. The president, departing from the text of his statement, told his press conference that this country had hoped that the barbaric actions against civilians would de-

crease, but there seemed to be a :

current increase, ®

On the War Fronts

(Aug. 21, 1942)

PACIFIC—Japanese radio reports landing of American troops on Makin, Gilbert islands. U. S navy says marines are mopping up in Solomons. MacArthur's bombers attack naval concentrations near Solomons,

RUSSIA—Moscow claims that German troops which crossed Don 40 miles from Stalingrad were deci‘mated and driven back, but admits situation is growing worse on two other fronts.

EUROPE — Experts believe divebombers and parachutists would : have widened allied success at Dieppe. Flying fortresses take a more important role by bombing three French rail cities in three days. Vichy estimates allied losses at Dieppe at 3500 killed and 1800 prisoners.

CHINA — Chungking announces second major victory this week with recapture of Kwangfeng.

OHIO BANS WOMEN CABBIES . COLUMBUS, O., Aug: 21 (U, P.. —Ohio's industrial relations department puta ban on women taxicab drivers today because the work is “too strenuous.”

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Reports to Allies

Wendell L. Willkie

WILLKIE TO TELL OF U. S. OUTPUT

Going to War Zones as FDR Emissary to Correct

False Impressions.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (U. PJ. —Wendell L. Willkie will tell leaders of countries he visits during his forthcoming trip the truth about American war production and correct erroneous impressions that production is not all it should be, President Roosevelt said today. Mr. Roosevelt told a press. conference the 1940 Republican presi-

special representative. of the: ‘presi the dent, = Mr. wilikie announced yesterday he will leave within three weeks for Russia and the Near East.

Takes Message to Stalin

The chief executive said Mr. Willkie will carry messages from him to a number of leaders, including Premier Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union. Mr. 'Willkie’s itinerary, he said, will include ‘ Egypt, Arabia,’ Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Mr. Willkie will report back to the ‘president when he returns to this ‘country not later than Oct. 15. The president hoped Mr. Willkie would impress upon the nations he visits and the leaders with whom he confers the comparison between the world that will result from the united nations victory and that

victory. Production Not Satisfactory

As his discussion of Mr. Willkie’s trip turned into a commentary on American production, a reporter pointed out. to the president that statements had been made that American production is falling off. The fundamental problem. of production, he said, is getting raw materials to plants. He said the priority system sometimes did not work out, but added that the very use of the system signified there are not enough raw materials to go around. Asked whether he was satisfied with production, the president said no and that he never would be. But he added that he was not blue about the situation.

BLUE PLANS PROBE OF POLICE ACTIVITY

Says He Has Reports of

‘Restrictions’ on Force. (Earlier Details, Page Threr)

Prosecutor Sherwood aii today said he plans to conduct a grand jury investigation of reports

“restricted in their activities in making gambling investigations.” In a letter to Police, Chief Mor-~ rissey, Mr. Blue asked the chief if he would be willing to “guarantee to the members of your department ak here wil be 6 SSHSRAtIO0: t they » tru 2

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which would result from an axis

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RUSSIA DRIVES

{GERMANS BACK ON DON FRONT]

River Riins ‘Red ‘Red With Nazi Blood,” Crisis Grows On Other Sectors.

MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (U. P).—A slaughter of Germans that “turned

enemy” was reported in official dispatches today to have crushed a Nazi drive that had carried across

lingrad and Russia's Volga lifeline. Thousand of German, ‘Italian, Rumanian. and Hungarian dead— some ground beneath the treads of charging Soviet tanks, others bayonetted in hand-to-hand struggle— were said to litter the east bank of the river southeast of Kletskaya where the Germans forced the crossing in massive strength.

Reinforcements Necessary The Germans still clung to a

vices reaching Moscow said that it soon would be wiped out unless the Germans could move across reinforcements. . The Germans forced the crossing yesterday, after advance units were destroyed 24 ‘hours earlier. On the southern flank of the Stalingrad front, northeast: Kotelnikovo,

. Statin grad Ire ilroad ] Be disregard of losses. ‘This is|

the area from which the Nazi were driven last week in huge tank battles.

“Wearing Down” Foes

After the defeat of their tanks, the Germans regrouped forces with fresh reserves and, opened a new drive simultaneous with the attack southeast of Kletskaya. The Soviet noon communique said that in this sector the Russians again were “wearing down the enemy.” Nonetheless, the Russian position was growing steadily worse on the two other main battlefronts: South of Krasnodar, where the Germans were driving toward Novorossisk, best remaining Soviet naval base on the Black sea, and southeast of Pyatigorsk, where they were pushing toward the rich oil fields of Grozny. Despite enormous losses, the Germans still pushed the Russians southward upon Novorossisk, 63 miles above Krasnodar. Admit Breakthrough Dispatches said a German breakthrough south of Krasnodar several days ago had been accomplished by two infantry and one tank division’against one Soviet unit. The Russians counter-attacked on one sector and almost cut off the tanks, but a neighboring sector gave way, enabling the Germans to penetrate the Soviet rear on a wide front. It was the second withdrawal south of Krasnodar, since. the Russians announced fits: evacuation at midnight Wednesday.

Fight Suicide Troops

Southeast of Pyatigorsk, stubborn battles were in progress against suicide squads of German tommy gunners who had filtered into Soviet positions, and the midnight communique. announced that on one sector the Germans had succeeded

Pyatigorsk is 210 miles southeast of Krasnodar and 140 miles southwest of Grozny. Russian forces were on the offensive on the Leningrad front.

He Didn't Fiddle, But Home Burns

T. ERNEST MAHOLM, the

morning—he' just slept. ; Emerson Wiseheart, a neighor, saw smoke pouring from a window in Mr. Maholm’s home at 6700 E. 34th st. He pounded at the door and then broke out a window, Mr. and Mrs; Wiseheart and another neighbor, Mrs. Glayds Hiatt, formed a bucket brigade in ° an attempt to put out the flames

{ which were ‘consuming the fur-

niture in the living room. They omked for 20 tninutes,

the river red with the blood of the

bridgehead today. under teirific Red| | army attacks and front-line ad-| 3

An Ameriost ‘ringer lett) pocsives | a Tight trom a British éommando,’ as war-bigiimed comrades Took on after their return to England from: the daring. raid on Dieppe.

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BULLETIN '

EVANSTON, nL, ‘Aug. 21 (U., P.)—Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said today’ that draft boards would begin calling men with dependents before Christmas.

The new draft ofiler: to place all

1-B men not totally unfit-for mili-|.

tary service in class 1-A ‘will do little to ease the manpower situation now so critical in the state- that hundreds of married men are, _béing called, draft officials emphasized today. oe hiere are 15,000 1-B men in the ‘state and could all these be added at once to the now practically empty reservoir of 1-As they would be taken in an astonishingly short period of time, so heavy are the present calls, it was, said. (Draft quotas are a military secret.) As it is, local draft boards be-| ginning Sept. 1, must go through the lists of 1-B men and place all men totally unfit in class IV-F and from the 1-Bs left, they cannot place. more than 25 per cent of them in 1-A each month.

. Continue Calls

Thus, with the 1-As practically gone and enly 25 per cent of the board’s 1-Bs available for induction each month, it will be neces-|; sary for most of the local boards to continue to call married men with-}

‘So far, practically all of Indiana's 152 local boards have been able to avoid calling married men with dependent wives. and n. Those taken, for th ost part, have had working wives or sufficient income from ‘investments that their families were not dependent on them. The order to place all 1-Bs not totally unfit in class 1-A came, it} was learned, after the army had conducted experiments with a num-

type of military duty. It is estimated that there are 300,000 1-B} men in the nation,

reclassified in 1-A after the army lowered. its physical standards, have been called from the state during

however, did not exceed 10 per cent of each local board's quota.

CHINA WINS SECOND

lupe in Kiangsi Proyince.

ber of 1-B men and found them} highly satisfactory .for a certain|

A number of 1-B men, who were}.

| the past two months. This number,|

VICTORY OF WEEK|"

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12 Landed, Only 5 eh

IN Aug. 21. , P,) ~—Five men of United States ranger Sergt. Ken-

‘neth | D. Stempson’s: 12-man group

came back: from Dieppe but they got their pill-boxes and permitted a commando demolition: squad .to get to a coastal battery and blow if up.|guns ‘Stempson, 23; of Russell; Minn; Corp. ‘William* R: Brady, 23, Grand Forks, N. D.; Sergt. ‘Alex Szima, 22, Dayton, O., and ‘Capt. Roy Murray, Berkeley, Cal, who led the ranger

detachment in the. allied. raid, told}.

their stories. ‘today. and - Murray ‘summed it up: “I saw that day. everything a man could see.” ° “It was hotter than nell” said Stempson;, as had so many others in the raid. “My group. of ‘12 was |assigned to knock out the pill boxes and clear the way: for. the demolition men te. get their battery,

ENGLAND,

and I didn't even get my feet wet. “We scaled a 150-foot cliff, 1 squirmed forward on my belly. A German sniper got busy. We fired everything at him but he was well concealed,” and then the machine guns got busy. “We were so close we could hear the heinie corporals calling out. orders; but the heinies fell back from the pill boxes to higher ground just beyond. “We silenced the pill boxes, and our biggest ‘job then ‘was to get back to the beach where the landing craft was to pick us up. We . {had to travel through a deep gulley and the machine guns got us there. More of our boys got it. “But we reached the beach. y “It was a hell of a. bitter affair. There were only five of us at the {Continued on Page Ten)

In Darkness the Padre Read: "Put on Whole Armor of God"

By BOB BOWMAN Canadian" B oadsasting Srporaiion rresponden

LONDON, Aug.’ 21 U. P.).—The Padre called the men in the tanklanding boat about him: while they still could see: the dark ' English quay behind them. . : Standipg in the bow in front of a tank, he read ‘the sixth - ‘chapter of Ephesians, holding his Bible in one (hand and-a flashlight in the other. “Finally, my brethren, ” he read, “be strong in the Lord and in the power of his. might.. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of ‘the devil. For we are to wrestle, not against flesh and . blood, but ‘against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Then he prayed, the last prayer some aboard would. ever hear.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 21 (U.

U-boat, the ‘second put out of ac-

tion since a ruthless sea and air search was started for the subma-|

Most of the men aboard—they were members of the Calgary tanks —dropped off to sleep as the boat plowed on toward Dieppe. They were awakened just before dawn by rumbling explosions on the French coast. The explosions were of bombs dropped by the royal air force. It was still dark. ‘A red glow crept up and down the coast. The first British commandos were opening the way for us. Suddenly a Verey light went up; it was from the commandos and mean.” “objective : attained—coastal batteries wiped out.” Machine guns and artillery on shore roared and chattered, and when daylight came, the batteries started lobbing shells at. our boats. British warships opened. Our tankmen sat calmly, watching a sky filled with aircraft and burst-

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Brazil Claims Sub Capture; Vargas Pledges Seamen Aid

seized by the Germans in Compeigne, France, were expected to be sent into the interior, along with

other axis nationals and sympa-|

thizers, as labor battalions.

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ZONDOR.. a E 21. — The commando troops landing on | | the beach southwest of Dieppe | at dawn Wednesday morning : ‘ were suddenly confronted by a | sign which made them gasp.

“We. landed! right on the beach

“achitmg! Miven, read the || ‘printed

bombers today were reported

= |in the southwest Pacific. Reports from London and Tokyo radio stations indica that the tactical offensive of American forces in the sou west Pacific#was broadening in scope to cover a front of thousands of miles along the flank of the vital Hawaii-Auss

tralia supply line.

PROVE 20 FRONT

Great. Bravery and R. A. F. Power Fail to Knock Out

German Defenses.

LONDON, Aug. 21 (U.P). — A flight of 11 American flying fortresses was attacked over the North sea today: by 20 or 25 German Focke-Wulf 190s, and in the ensuing 20-minute battle, planes were destroyed or damaged, announced. ‘No ‘American planes were lost.

By WILLIAM H, STONEMAN

LONDON, Aug. 21.—Allied service chiefs are busy studying the results of the Dieppe raid in order to determine what went right and what went wrong and for what reasons. Bystanders can already form a few opinions of their own. If, as is generally understood, one of the principal purposes of this operation was to test German defenses and German methods for future reference, it can be said im-, mediately that the German defenses

nothing which happened on this expedition went to show that an allied invasion of western Europe would be any easier than had been thought. The scintillating work of the R. A. F. fighter pilots, the stubborn courage of the Canadians in their first baptism of fire, and the heroics of the commando troops are deserving of unstinted admiration and they have received it. The question remains whether the main force on this operation was able to accomplish all of its objectives with ‘the weapons at its disposal. The original objectives have not ‘(Continued on Page Ten)

RUSSIA PREDICTS 20 FRONT ‘VERY SOON’

Due Before Reich Expects It, Moscow Radios.

six Nazi, United States army headquarters

were very formidable and: that)

U.S. WIDENING [TS OFFENSIVE IN S. W.PACIFI

Allies Give No Confirmation of Landing iH port; London Says Flying Forts Bomb Enemy Warships Near Solomons.

~ By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

New American landing parties and crack flying for

carrying the attack to Tao

The British radio reported that American flying f .|resses carried out a strong attack on Japanese naval squ rons in the Solomon area. The results of the precision | ‘ level boing attack were not immediately known but

vious bombing expeditions this character have cost pan’s navy heavily. The flying: fortress at

fae said to have ‘been ade

sforee troops had En ashore at kin island, heart of an island infested with Japanese sea and bases. Makin is ‘the most norther the ‘Gilbert group near’ the cei of the flat triangle formed by Gilberts, Marshalls and |

Version Vague

There was “confirmatit U. 8. authoritie of the 1

the force did not seem large e to hold out lengthily amid a Japanese hornet’s nest. Japahese reports said the icans had been driven back on kin after making landings from eral waships in rubber assault be It left the present status of | fighting uncertain. Tokyo also admitted that fgh still is in: progress in the Solom in contrast to repeated attempts

the Japanese propaganda mé

to make it appear that the So mons attack was almost at an

“Mopping Up,” Says Navy ] 4

An official spokesman in admitted that the marines had yet been “extermina The lin radio quoted Tokyo as p pmi; an official announcement as = the Americans have left Soloinons. ; Au American naval commun last night reported that U. 8. rines now are “mopping up” Japanese remnants on the which they. hold. : In Australia there was gi belief that the marines in bic fighting had won additional curity for that great subcontin

There to Stay, Say Aussies

It was believed in Australia the Americans were in the mons to stay. Gen. Douglas Arthur's air force carried out other attack on the Japan Timor in support of the; Sol engagement. The capture of a group of Solomons has given the allie nayal base site of great p ities and at least one air field