Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1942 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Warmer tonight and tomorrow forenoon, eo
BRMSH READY TO FORCE BACK
ANY AXIS BLOW
Weather Is Improving and Nazi Marshal Likes the
Full Moon.
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
CAIRO, Aug. 26.—Tenslon in the|: western desert was reported grow-|# ing today with movement of Ger-{}
man armored forces in- the southern sector noted by British observers. British sources believed that at any ‘moment Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel may launch a new offensive||
against the British desert lines. (William M. Stoneman, London
correspondent of The Indianapolis):
Times and the Chicago Daily News cabled that the “imminent battle may. break out at any moment,” but that either side ‘might take the initiative, since both “have every reagon to want to break the present stalemate.”)
* Aff Action Increases
In the northern ares of the front observers spotted Italian troops concentrating and apparently carrying out similar tactical preparations to those which occurred before the last axis push started. Air action was reported increasing steadily with German night air} attacks in the battle are having|
niki a was shot down by Zealand plot, A bag of his squadron to:288, 183 -have been shot down gy os Middle East. The communique reported that Jong-range British fighters attacked an east bound Nazi truck
*gomvoy along the Solum-Matruh
The Moon Is Full
Observers point ‘out that the best fighting weather of the year is almost at hand and that the moon is- already full, a ‘condition under which Rommel likes to fight. British morale is high and U. 8B. army air force planes—flying fortresses and Consolidated Liberators —as well as American purstiit planes are working out daily with veteran R. A, F. fighters. The British position at El Alamein has many natural advantages and observers believe that it is capable: of withstariding terrific assault. Rommel’s position is reported to have received two new divisions and two regiments of paratroops and ‘is bound to put up & formidable performance.
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Fido Faces Loss
Of Canned Food
(CHICAGO, Aug. 26 (U. P.).— Even Fido, Rover and other animal pets face sacrifices in total
They will have to change their diet for the- duration because of the tin shortage and restrictions on vitamin A, fish oils, and meat. Dr. M. L. Morris, New Bruns-
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Killed in Service
The Duke of Kent, killed in a plane crash en route to Iceland, is shown here crouched under a huge U. 8. bomber during an inspection of an American plane plant on his visit to Baltimore in 1941.
CHANGE VENUE IN CAFE CASES
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Myérs Disqualifies self; Action Protested by
Prosecutor.
Judge Dewey E. Myers of criminal court today disqualified himself hearing the cases of two operators of Indiana ave. cafes who are charged with maintaining public nuisances. Attorneys for Sea Ferguson, operator of the Cotton élub, and: Joe Mitchell, operator of a restaurant and pool room, filed: the affidavits’ for a change of venue, charging that
Judge Myers is prejudiced against
their interests. Judge Myers granted the motion over the protest of Prosecutor Sherwood Blue and continued in effect the ‘restraining order ‘he issued’ last week closing the two cafes pending trial on the nuisance charges.
Seeks Permanent Closing
The cases will be tried separately with special judges selected in each. Prosecutor Blue filed the charges against -the two .places last week along. with padlock petitions asking that injunctions be issued to close both permanently on the grounds that operators have permitted persons of bad character to congregate in them. Action to close the places was started following a riot in front of the Cotton club at Indiana ave. and Vermont sts. early on the morning of Aug. 15, when two police officers were badly beaten and three others wounded by bullets and knives. - In preparing the cases, Prosecutor
-| Blue clashed with Police Chief Mor-
rissey over the availability of police
{records against the cafes. After an
exchange of letters, Chief Morrissey
i |turned over to Prosecutor Blue all
No Evidence Heard
At that time Prosecutor Blue: said he planned to conduct a grand jury
{investigation of reports that some
police officers hive been “restricted in theirilaw entorcement achvities): on ndiana ave.” More than a score of police oft-|. cers, including Chief Morrissey, were subpenaed into criminal court today for a hearing on the restraining order but no evidence was heard and they will be recalled when the cases
{are set tor trial.
; Dep i ANGRY BULL PERILS
3 PLANE SPOTTERS
stood today.
.|moors for lost sheep when they
~ | New York for a time. He enlisted
today when a boiler exploded atthe
DUKE OF KENT
Burns After Crackup On Hillside.
LONDON. Aug. 26 (U. P.).— Britain’s royal court began four weeks of mourning today for the Duke of Kent,, King George's youngest brother who was killed on duty with 14 others in an airplane crash yesterday. The giant Sunderland flying boat taking the 39-year-old duke to Iceland crashed in desolate country in
northern Scotland only 60 miles from its take off, it was under-
The plane burned after striking
searchers reached the scene. The London Evening News saifl the hill against which the big flying boat crashed was. extremely rugged. The scene was two miles from a hamlet.
Farmer Hears Crash
David Morrison, a farmer, and his son, Hugh, were searching the heard the crash about 2:30 p. m. The son rede into the village and
plane
ho pi wPE - hI , "| smoke ‘of the burning « guided the men to the spot: = . Some of the bodies. still were in the wrecked cabin. Others were scattered over the hillside,
(The British Press association reported that one-:survivor—the rear gunner of the plane—walked away from the scene before the searching party arrived, and is in a hospital.) Duke’s Aids Also Die
to the viscounty of Lowther, and his royal air force aid, Michael Strutt, second son of Lord Belper, and husband of ‘the former Ariella Frazer, of Detroit and, Newport, |. A R Strutt is the daughter of Joseph Washington Frazer; former Chrysler motors executive and head of the Willys-Overland Co. of Toledo. Strutt worked in Wall Street in
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MINE BOILER BLAST “KILLS 1, INJURES 2
Hoosier Truck Driver Victim Of Mine Accident.
¢ BRAZIL, Ind; Aug. 26 (U. P).— Chauncey Sampson, 45, Seelyville truck driver; was -killed and two other men were scalded severely
Lowe“Kalen. coal company’s mihe north of here, The injured men were Albert Bell, Coal Bluff, fireman, and Clint Johnson, Terre Haute, another truck driver. The three men were standing in the door of theboiler house at the time of the blast, which wrecked the building and hurled two trucks
14 Others Killed; Plane|
a 1000-foot elevation. The fire had} virtually burned itself out when 3
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1942
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one else but me.”
‘Under the Apple Trde'
“The lyrical message of thousands of soldiers and sailors to thousands of Hoosier lassies is “Don’t sit under the apple tree—with anyAnd who wouldn’t “come marching home” to sit under an-apple tree with Miss Nancy Horne, 5254 N. New Jersey st.
TOOp Moves Indicate Rommel
ALL BRITAIN IN MOURNING FOR
#5 | the country by radio.
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With the duke died his private] secretary, Lieut. John Lowther, heir|
* Than Ours, Ordnance * Assistant favs
reached: a scale’ sufficient to support. a full-sized" \army dn | the field in
today. ¢ “The. only problem now remains the question of - transport to get the materials here,” Gen. Barnes said. He refuted suggestions of German superiority ‘in’ equipment, for example its much vaunted 88-milli meter (346+inch) guns. y “The * United States has many surprises,” he.said. . “We do’not admit any superiority in ‘German equipment—there is no exception to that.” = He said he had seen many British “surprises” in production centers and at secret demonstrations. “They are. real eye-openers, ns ibe said.
CALLING ALL CARS
MOUNT VERNON, Ind, - Aug. 26 Us P). “want ‘to bé a Mount Vernon policeman? Ralph Rowe became a . police chief - without a force today when his three-man force resigned “en
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and en automobile to the top of the mine Sump. )
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Man and 2 Women Killed i in
notified police, . -, Who immediately i 'a shesding sapvartible. o coups tailed to. negotigte & eurve 0 Road 29 atthe southeast edge of the county early Tota, iitng thies. ‘persons |”
and ‘Mrs. Eula dines oe N. Delaware ‘st, The injured man. Earl "| Place, brother of
Nazi Equipment Not Better|} :| Grace Nicholson than a. ayarier of
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——* Nicholson, 526 W. Drive, Woodruff Jesse. “According to’ state police. Jeports
nesr ‘Macks Chicken: Dinner establish men t, rolled ‘over :seven times and continued. through ‘fields. for. more
a “mile.
relatives in Brazil, Ind. They. have. a, 3-year-old § i son, Daniel." Taal iE The Nicholson EariNicholson | brothers and their father are machinists, Jesse Jr. being ployee at the” Ideal- Engineering “Co. and Earl R. at the RCA plant. Tho pre reat at rin r| Mrs. ‘Nicholson; the-dead is survived by her husband, C Nicholson; a son by a previous marriage, Rayond ‘Robert Doyle, 4; her gan mother, Mrs. Anna Wall, 520 E New York st.; two. ‘sisters, .. Mrs. Evelyn Denzio and Mrs. Emma Butler, both of Indianapolis.
‘She and Mrs. Jines were waitresses at a Hel-town: tavem. :
. .: Jagainst, French Guiana. {2 in mos-
: ‘The propaganda Ho “Brass ‘entry into the war and| | axis sources repeatedly noted that| andj. ail Ti a aaa].
‘| a radio:address to the people on the
.| about the competitive bidding be-
bi coming soon.
| the youth of the world, in occupied
tional Student Service.
L Axis Propagandists. Say
Entered ot Secme.cisss Matter. at Posotten ; od daily except 8
Indianapolis, Ind. Issu
ttack Is Imminen:
FDR MAY OPEN INFLATION. WAR ON LABOR DAY
Radio Talk Will Outline Program to Curb Rise * Of Living Costs.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.). The White House announced today that President Roosevelt would send a message to congress and deliver
cost of living, ‘probably on Labor day. « White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said Mr. Roosevelt, who has been studying anti-inflation measures for some time, would send the message to congress, if congress is in session, and then talk to
Meanwhile C. I. O. President Philip Murray and A. F. of L. President William Green discussed wage stabilization with the president today but said afterward they had “reached no conclusions.”
Confer on Living Costs
The labor leaders said they would return to the White House next Thursday for another conference. Green said that there was no dis‘cussion with the president about labor representation on the war production board. Mr. Roosevelt has held similar meetings with farm leaders in recent weeks on the subject of infla-
"The Ee talked at Tengihi and sternly, at his press conference
tween labor and: agriculture for things - they cannot have without forcing up the cost of living. ; It would not. be fair, he said, to stabilize farm prices without: sta= bilizing wages and he made it plain .that such ‘action Would" be forth-
Plans Other Speeches - The country, he said, is Solna) Whip-sawed. by two. groups—Ilabort{ and agriculture. He explained that ctually they were part of the American people and did not constitute ' two groups. even though they voted. that way. ~~ The White House also announced that’ President Roosevelt will deliver a short radio address at 4:30] p.m, ‘Aug. 31, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the bureau of medicine and Surgery of the U. 8. navy. The resident also. will address]:
as well as free countries, when he speaks at 11:30 p. m. ‘(Indianapelis
| time) Sept. 3 in connection with| -
the assembly here of the’ Interna-
|FEAR NAZIS TO SEEK|srusk
CONTROL OF OF DAKAR
Base Faces Allied Attack.
: Sy UNITED PRESS : ‘A sudden splurge of axis propa-
in Dakar today] ads (eb Dear wag
be taking the first moves in a cam-
paign to bring the vital west African gol
base under Nazi control.Both the Berlin and Rome radios broadeast. = series of rumors that ed action against t. Other propa-
ara invasion of Tunisia or a move
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drive was keyed|
On the War
1a counter-attack “on the Tulagi{Guadalcanal area of the Solomons
“Fronts
(Aug. 26, 1942)
RUSSIA = Axis forces push from three sides toward Stalingrad and ‘the Volga river lifeline.
PACIFIC—Rew battle in the Solomons may overshadow in importance the original landing operations; setback might cripple the
er challefige the U. S. fleet.
AUSTRALIA—Land based planes - destroy a Japanese gunboat and damage two transports in Tobriand. islands. Rabaul and Gasmata bombed. CHINA-Chinese besiege Chuhsien and Lushui, potential “bomb Tokyo” bases.
NORTH AFRICA — Full: moon,|. slightly cooler weather and reinforcements for both sides indicate fighting is likely to break out on large scale soon.
PACIFIC BATTLE ON LARGE SCALE
Solomons Defeat Might Seriously Cripple Japan’s Fleet.
HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET, PEARL
“Bfates marines
southern Solomon islands is developing into a big scale air and naval ‘battle overshadowing the original marine landing, well informed quarters said today. A navy communique issued at ‘Washington yesterday made it plain that the Japanese despite their heavy losses in the ‘battles of the Coral sea and Midway, had thrown ‘an important navil formation into
which the marines, ‘with navy and big allied Pacific offensive.
A setback for Japan in this battle, it was asserted here, might reduce the Japanese navy to a point where it would not. be able again to chal(Continued on Page Seven)
PREDICTS DRAFT OF 18, 19-YEAR-OLDS
Minois Congressman Sees Call ‘Before Long.’
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P). —Chairman Adolph J, Sabath (D.|.
long.” ; - The house thus far has balked
Japanese navy so it could nolong-|
Aug: 26. (U. P).—A de-| anese “abtempt, t to dis<|’
air force support, seized in the first|
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ENENY 15 |
ON 3 SIDES (
Russians Toil Amid Be To Evacuate Factory
Machinery.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent The German threat to south Russia bastion of Ste grad mounted today Soviet reports that 750, German troops were advane ing behind a spearhead of
armored divisions. The Nazi forces were moving ward Stalingrad from three tions—the northwest, west southwest—and on . the western sector were 4m ile of “Gary of the Soviet Union” the Volga river. lifeline, red Soviet. reports indicated that Germans massed a great s tiy of numbers, tanks and airc in the: offensive and made P ‘that the best Russian efforts h only checked or temporarily slo the movement of some of the man advance guards. :
Sevastopol defense. of the ] ened city'and were moving out tory Hashiery ‘and devoting of civilians to building forts
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Stalingrad had been checked in exceptionally heavy battle in pumbers . ‘of Soviet tanks went
being moved out of ‘factories. in vious fear that the city may Stevedores were working and day to load valuable m
Volga to safety. It was believed most ‘of the women and ¢ and many of the civilians ¥ 0 evacuated: also. Burning Fiercely, Nazis Say Nevertheless, the Russians ¥ expected to defend Stalingrad the approaches to the Volga
the same stubbornness: with they resisted the Germans at
suburbs of “fiercely burning” ingrad had been evacuated and § houses on the outskirts of the | of 290,000 were being turned pillboxes and, forts. . The German high
Grating men Younger than 0.
:south ‘Atlantic from the Brazil-|P.)~
France’ s 3d Port Knocked a J a Swiss Observers rs H