Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1942 — Page 1
4 Ton Bombs. Are The Ultimate In Destruction
By UNITED PRESS
"LONDON, Sept. 19. —Four-ton bombs capable of wip-
ing out whole city blocks are contributing to the turmoil
. caused by the royal air force raids on Germany, it was
- officially disclosed in the British air ministry communique last. night i in London. If one of the 8000-pound super-block buster bombs struck at 50th st. and Fifth ave. in New York it would probably obliterate the southwest corner, gut the front side of the southeast corner, knock half of St. Patrick's cathedral flat and make every building: in Rockefeller | Center leap ‘on its underpinning like a beanstalk in an - earthquake.
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A Weekly Sizeup by ‘the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
§ WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—Fall of Stalingrad will
_ mean longer, tougher war for you, personally. \ Hints this week (Gen. Hershey's suggestion that "armed services may require 13,000,000 men, Donald Nel-
* son's admission that what seemed to be all-out production
. effort last spring isn’t enough mow) are just the start. * You'll be hearing about bigger programs, sterner demands, from now on. Sab . » 2 » 8 . How Capital War Experts Dope It ‘If you're guessing about Japan's next move—so are Washington
snd London,
< - Action in India or Siberia is probable. Pacific, Hawaii and Aleutians is Ponsinie.. This is the way it’s figured: ;
Action in Southwest
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‘shble for 1 India looks easy. - Bengal and Assam, 0 per cent of ‘India’s industries, lie next to Jap-occupied Burma. As In Burma, Tost natives hate the British, If the Japs take India they can dominate Indian ocean, cut off Russia, be in with Nazis in Middle East, On the other hand this move would require
Y considerable Jap shipping, and Indian ocean is still unsafe for Jap
transports and. warships. Japs have no overland route for supplying large army. ® 28 : » o » SIBERIA: Japs must move in there soomer or later to keep us from getting bombing bases around Vladivostok. Expedition would take little shipping; Jap armies already in Manchukuo and Korea probably have supplies for several years. Berlin tells Tokyo that together they can knock out Russia by Christmas. On the other hand: Cold weather is starting—and it’s even colder in Siberia than the country where last winter's battles were fought. And Tokyo, knowing Berlin must keep fighting in Russia, hopes to march in when Russia is nearer collapse. 8 = 8p = SOLOMONS AND SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Japs must hold flank of our foute to Australia. Otherwise we outflank them. - But: Major thrust here is highly dangerous, as Coral sea battle proved. ® = =» . = = HAWAII AND ALEUTIANS: They must be taken before U. 8. “ean be bombed, invaded. Civilians in. Hawaii are still being told it is not safe, urged to proceed to mainland. But: Action here would take support from practically the entire Jap fleet. Midway was foretaste of what might happen. : # 8 » ” » »
; | Minton to Replace Stimson?
-, Seventy-fifth birthday (Monday) of Secretary of War Stimson gevives rumor he will retire. He's the oldest man in a top job in administrative end of government. Cabinet begins to resemble supreme court when president said members were t00 old to serve. Hull, 71; Knox, 68; Ickes, 68; Jones, 68. Possible successor: Appellate Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, former U. S. senator, world war A. E. F. captain. He visited here this week, friends started boosting him. » . 8 w » » Ruml pay-as-you-go ibcome-tax plan will be up. again Monday. ' Missouri’s Senator Clark will urge it in senate finance committee, will take it to senate floor if he fails. Advocates say majority favors the plan but fears Roosevelt may denounce them for “forgiving taxes of the rich.” A word from F. D. R.
EXACTLY WHAT DAMAGE one of the new bombs
does only Germany knows.
Reconnaissance photographs
show great areas of nothingness where they have struck but it has been impossible to identify the area leveled by a single bomb. .- Recently a bomber dropped one of the four-tonners in a thinly populated area of England where it was thought nobody could possibly be affected. ; Next morning military authorities received a: letter from the headmaster of a boys’ school miles away. He said he recognized the necessity of trying out explosives . but hoped next time warning would be given because a "heavy chandelier in the school assembly room had swung
_ are to come.
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; perfected. The first difficulty was to make sure that the
~ went off at once. The bomb is so packed that it explodes
lunited nations the munitions of ‘war
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position to join up
so violently it nearly crashed.
WORKER DRAFT
SURE TO COME, LEGION IS TOLD
Arms Output tout Ts Second Front, Patterson Says; Knox Asks Unity.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 19 (U, P.). —Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson warned the nation today that “the time will come” when it will have “broali national service
women -may be assigned to indus-] trial jobs.” Addressing the American Legion, he said ‘the second front of world war II is the manufacture and delivery to the: armed forces ofthe
Which ghey Tised to defeat ihe axis. second front, Mr.
tions pldnts. cannot: be: tolerated, even for a day .. . means that workers at home may be required to stay Hin their present employment even though more attractive jobs at higher pay are available to them elsewhere.” Knox Sounds Warning
Mr. Patterson spoke after Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared that “we can lose: this war unless we as a united people actively support the president in all phases of the war effort.” They appeared at the 24th convention of the American Legion, a meeting strangely contrasting to that the organization held here in 1921 which rocked the city to its heels with Legionnaires driving police to cover while they engated in innumerable antics. It was the Legion's first war-time convention and ‘no fanfare was planned.
Raps Political Sniper
Today the delegates, many of them greéy-haired, were calm and quiet as Col. Knox pleaded for cessation of politics and told them the “political sniper is as dangerous to our victory effort as the Japanese sniper who hides in a palm tree and picks off our marines.” While “some of us” may have
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DOROTHY LAMOUR
10 ATTEND RALLY
legislation under which men and}
Spur Bulldogs in Opener With Xavier
ROAD BUILDING
~ T0 BE CURBED]
State Highway Cc Commission Fears Gas Rationing Will Cut Revenue.
You, Mr. Hoosier Motorist, aren't the only ong worrying about the changes gasoline rationing will b : Your state highway commissioners .are waiting for what to them will be bad news in about. the same frame of mind as students waiting for the professor to announce the final examination grades. They know that regardless of the amount of gasoline Washington decides to permit Hoosier motorists to use each week it will play havoc with the state’s road building and maintenance program—a program on which theyre used to spending around $25,000,000 a year.
Will Reduce Bank Account They can’t tell, of course, just what gasoline rationing will do to the commission’s bank account until the definite announcements is made concerning the amount to be allowed the average motorist.
-- but it is said that the Germans will get many more of them.
FOR WANT OF a better name, royal air force men call the new bombs Jumbos. Iti is hinted that biggef ones
For the moment, the new bombs, four. tons of steel. and high explosives Tepresent the: ultimate in military
There were many difficulties before jumbo was entire mass of high explosive, product of a secret formula, with five time the power TNT.
One of the new bombs is heavier than the entire bomb load of a flying fortess. Its details are still secret,
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Four more inspirations—Majorettes Jerry Mohler, Jeanne Steiner, Jean and Bernice Hauser (left to right). And, incidentally, Butler plays Xavier in the bowl this afternoon.
'Ice Pick’ Burglar Wears
Jitterbug Pants, Police Told
Indianapolis’ “ice pick” burglar wears “jitterbug” pants. That .was one of several descriptions given to police last night as the
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STRIKE
Soviet Retake ‘Vital
Swedish dispatches today counter-blows, designed to aid Stalingrad by easing German river front.
KAISER ELATED BY 1ST ORDER
Confident 3 Experimental Cargo Planes Will Lead To Huge Fleet.
(Bead “It Can Be Done,’ Page 2)
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P.),
tion of a fleet of 500 or more. The experimental planes are to be built over a period of two years and at an estimated cost of $18 - 000,000, according to a letter of intent to Mr. Kaiser from the Defense Plant Corp. which is financing the work. But the “miracle” shipbuilder will try to cut production time and cost—and he believes it can be done. 50 Per Cent Wood
Parts will be fabricated in the Culver City, Cal, plant of his associate, Howard Hughes, millionaire aircraft manufacturer. It has not been - determined where the “ships will be assembled. L The twin-hulled planés will be composed of more than 50 per cent wood and, Mr. Kaiser said, critical materials needed for army and navy fighting planes will not be drawn upon. He told reporters that if he is given a go ahead on construction of 500 or more of the giant planes, he would be able to produce necessary materials withbut tapping war and navy supplies. “It can be done—it must be done,” he said. “Everybody’s Happy” The husky shipbuilder made no effort to conceal his elation over the award at a hastily called press conference. At the same time, he took every precaution to pour oil on the troubled waters that surged about him in his two-months’ controversy with the government over the project.
ANEW
AT VORONEZH AND IN NO
Hill in Stalingrad as
Air Reinforcements Try to. Brush Off Swarms of
Bombers.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
reported two strong Russian the hard-pressed defenders of pressure on.the vital Volga
+ The Swedish reports originated in axis sources but had partial confirmation in dispatches from Moscow. One Soviet counter-attack was said to be directed against the Finnish front where the strongest Russian effo since last spring was reported to be in progress in th Poventsa region, north of Lake Onega.
The Stockholm report said the Russians were attacking on a scale that indi= cated they hoped to crush Finnish resistance. Russian Reserves Used |
The second attack was aimed north of Stalingrad, presumably in the Voronezh sector where the Rus sians hold a salient into German lines which they were ‘believed to be trying to turn into & flanking = threat to 'the Nazis attacking Stalingrad to the south. Stockholm said this attack had been in’ progress for 24 hours and that large numbers of Russian res
ten the “Volga and, the "| rivers; * (i At Stalingtid’ fiselr the ition of the defenders was eased s by the arrival of "air ae ini and the recapture of a. dominant, hill. : Moscow reports emphasized that the Stalingrad crisis is deepening despite arrival of new air squadrons, intervention of Siberian-trained ré-
serves and foot-by-foot tesistance of
hundreds of thousands of Red amg men and workers. 4 The recaptured hill was said to dominate : river crossings—presums ably the Volga—and the center Stalingrad.
Nazis Keep Air Supremacy
No previous Russian report had suggested that the Nazis had won an important elevation deep inside the city although German propaganda early this week claimed that Nami troops had reached the Volga in the center of the town, cutting the defense groups into two parts. Fifty German tanks had attacked and taken the hill after 22 of them were smashed. German occupation seriously threatened adjoining sec. tors and enabled small groups of German tanks camouflaged with Russian colors and numerals and tommy-gunners in Soviet uniforms to penetrate Soviet lines.
Germans Attack in Vain
Russian tanks supported by aire craft. finally recaptured the hill after a five-hour battle. The Ger~ mans re-attacked in vain, 4 The new air reinforcements weit the second contingent reported to
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Willkie Kisses the Ballerina And Wins the Russian Vote
KUIBYSHEV, Sept. 19 (U. P)— Wendell L. Willkie - stopped the show last night, touching off a spontaneous demonstration; the like of which—Russians said—had not been seen in a Russian theater since before the Bolshevik revolution. " Willkie appeared at the famous
tumn flowers to the dancers. He kissed the prima ballerina, Irina Tikhomirova. a The audience rose and cheered to the Te Applause for Willkie continued for three minutes.
The audience was captivated by|
Willkie’s gallant gesture in kissing
Bolshoi theater for a performance .of the ballet and at the end of the| performance, Willkie left his box|sponden Ed ee “he presented large Jarge: ouquetsiof -an~
| TIMES FEATURES
Star . to Help S Sell Bonds Here Friday Night.
‘Dorotliy Lamour, who rode to Hollywood fame in a sarong, will come to Indianapolis Friday to apBa re We nally a1 Cade
WESTERN EUROPE:
since approximately $30,000,000 of the $40,000,000 now pouring into the highway fund each year is in gasoline taxes—4 cents on each gallon. (The commission gets to spend only $25,000,000 of this amount because of diversions made by the legislature—$12,200,000 to counties, $3,000,000 to’ cities, $1,300,000 to state police and $1,250,000 to the general fund.) . While, from the standpoint of (Continued on Page Two)
On the War Fronts
(Sept. 19, 1042)
RUSSIA — Soviet counter - blows Jauneiad on, Voronesls 40d Fa
nish fronts; Busia sean vital hill in Stalingra ai re. inforcements arrive. :
Germ broadcast says British planes flew over Sweden during the night: ‘British air ministry reveals four-
to more than 100 in the last two months. ‘The térritory worked by the burglar last night was from 31st st. to 39th st. on streets around Kenwood and Graceland aves.
REICH REPORTS RAF SWEEP OVER SWEDEN
Russia’s Baltic Air Arm
Raids Enemy Port.
LONDON, Sept. 19 (U. P.).—Al-
| lied ' planes—presumably Russian— were active over the Baltic area
‘One of his victims, Mrs. Maude Cordary, 421 Congress ave. told police’ the man entered her home and took a purse containing more than $13.
“Paul Leisure, who lives at the Cordary home, told: police his billfold containing $5 was stolen along with a watch valued at $65. Walter 'Spangenberger, 3910 N.
“Everybody’s happy,” “This is great. It is now up to us. I am content to go to work.” He regarded the authorization as testimony of War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson’s confidence in cargo planes and in the Kaiser-Hughes combination. He said thet “Nelson never had changed his mind ‘on the need of these planes.”
Also Discussed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. PJ.
ARMY-NAVY PAPER jo-
HINTS DAKAR GRAB
- -1U. S. Action in Caribbean
have arrived at the Stalingrad front in the last three days. The Gers mans still held the upper hand the air but the Russian planes v breaking up some of their bombin formations and ham the N attempt to level the city with blo by-block pattern .bombing, : The most critical area stint peared to besthe northwest sec where the Nazis won a within the city. Fighting wes
] of smoke and dust that turned day into night. |
Vow to Fight to Death