Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1942 — Page 16

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Italy has become that it is to be the front, neutral observers in close touch with Rome and Berlin said today. Italian fears have been intensified, informants said, because Germany has started to pay conspicuous

attention to Alpine .defenses be-|’

tween Italy and Austria. ‘There were indications. that Germany also is awake to the danger that its concentration on Russia may make the opening of a second front in the Mediterranean easier and that aerial attacks on Malta by reinforced German air forces have been the result. - Informants said Italy now feared it might be attacked not only from the southeast, toward Egypt and Libya, but from the southwest, the direction. of French North Africa. It was reported here that an apparent purge in the German army high command was partly due, at least, to the insistence by some generals that Adolf Hitler was making’ a mistake by concentrating. all his forces against Russia and neglecting the Middle East. :

GLOOM SETTLES

ON-GOLD TOWNS

Fear ‘Ghost’ Existence as U. S. Ends Operations For Duration.

By UNITED PRESS Gold mining communities of - the Western states faced the prospect ‘of becoming “ghost” towns today as hard rock and placer miners ceased digging for gold, the war's most useless metal, by order of the: govern-| ment. Silent, grim-faced suiriors walked from the mile-deep Ross and Yates shafts at the Homestake mine, the world’s largest gold mine, at Lead,

E'S. D, last night. ' They had hoped

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for an order countermanding the war ‘manpower commission direcjive to close down gold mines, the first order of the war closing down an entire industry to conserve labor. The “reprieve” never arrived. The night : shift ‘crews broke out the last new ore for the duration from the mother lode veins directly beneath the little town which never had known depression because fabiilous Homestake had yielded more than $19,000,000 annually for many years. 20,000 ‘Are Affegted Then the miners returned to their homes to worry about new jobs. The hard rock crews had no jobs today because the first operation of gold mining—breaking new rock—had been ordered stopped and only the “clean-down” and maintenance men took the cages down this morning. The jobs of the latter were good for 60 days or less, a‘ the end of which time only skeleton crews will remain in the diggings which began in 1876. . The same scenes occurred at Cripple Creek, Fairplay, Alma and Victor, Colo., and in some gold camps and towns of northern California and the communities of Nevada. An estimated 20,000 miners were released for work in copper, chrome and other non-ferrous metals mines where serious labor ‘shortages have

developed. Not all of these will seek |-

work in other communities, but the WMC hopes that at least 4000 will do. so. Nem No Ill Feeling As in Lead, the miners at Cripple Creek accepted’ the WMC directive without’ violence or ill feeling. They worked feverishly all week, even Sunday. .California, which ranked first as a gold producing state, foresaw the uselessness of mining gold and began converting its gold industry to war uses some time ago All mines sold their od. ‘to’ the United States, at the government price of $35 an ounce. Only a small percentage: found its way into commercial channels. The rest was buried at Ft. Knox, Ky. ;

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war, probably by. a full scale attempt to recapture Guadalcanal island and its vital air. field. :

The first big enemy counteroffensive started two months after

was believed possibly to indicate that the Japanese were no longer able to accumulate quickly the forces needed for a concentrated attack, in view -of their dispersal over vast areas. The navy department communiques. issued at Washington were taken “to mean that the new, big Japanese landings were being made in the vicinity of Cape Esperance, the westernmost tip of Guadalcanal,

“130 airline miles west of the marines’

Henderson flying field on the north coast. Use Desperate Tactics It ‘was ‘the first time that: the Japanese were attempting landings under a-canopy of land-based high altitude and: dive bombing planes and torpedo carrying planes. This procedure, regarded here as most hazardous; might be taken to indicate the determination, if not desperation, of the enemy. On the basis of the six weeks I 1spent on Guadalcanal after landing with the marine invasion forces, it is safe to say that the troubles of the enemy: troops will only begin when they are ashore. . Two routes of attacks on the marine positions. are practicable. One is along the coastal trail, which is passable but vulnerable to bombing and machine gunning by planes. The second lies down the hilly cduntry inland, where the going is rough. Between the hills and the beach is almost impenetrable jungle.

U. S. Artillery Effective

It was believed here that to make good their counter-attack the Japanese ‘would need heavier weapons than they had employed so far. deadly. ia To supply the enemy forces with

tack and to move the guns through the jungle would be difficult, and the marines are eager to go when the Japanese reach the end of the trail. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific_fleet commander in chief who has just returned from the Solomons, said today in presenting medals to a group of Pacific war herces in a ceremony aboard a warship in the harbor, that the American forces on Guadalcanal were effectively meeting every attack.

“Task Will Grow Tougher”

“I need not remind you, who have been in the battle and must return to it, that our task is tremendous,” he. said. “It will grow tougher as we go forward. The end is not yet hb. “I recently returned from the territory won by our marines in the Solomons. I visited them in their forward - positions on Guadalcanal, from which with - their traditional enterprise and courage they are effectively meeting every. enemy force hurled at thm. “The Japanese are continuing ever-intensified pressure with a view to: recapturing Guadalcanal, the first. territory taken from them in this war. Let me commend to you the splendid motto of the marines’ leader in the Solomons, Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift: “God favors the bold and strong of heart’.”. __ Admiral Nimitz said that:at first

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This is where American eyes are spotlighted today. — tegic American airfield on Guadalcanal, which the Japanese are trying to retake, is near Kukum. The Jap landings have been at Cape Esperance, near Veisali, about 30 miles from the airfield.

there may have been some question of the skill and aptitude of Americans for jungle warfare and the suitability of their equipment. “Now I am sure that even the Jap will agree that we have bota the men and the tools tor the task,” he said. “Our entire effort in the South Pacific must. be constantly expandin men, bases and material as we go forward.. Success of the great venture on which we are embarked depends on the production and supply of the necessary ma-

terials. We rely on the workers at home to keep up and increase the flow of these vital implements of war." >

JUST ANOTHER ROOKIE FT. DEVENS, Mass., Oct. 16 (U. P).—Pvi. Arthur Crowley was watching a flock ‘of geese flying south in the usual “V” formation when his sergeant happened along. One of the geese was flying out of line and the sergeant, gazing skyward, remarked: “Looks like the geese have trouble with rookies,

QUARTERS, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—Allied planes of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ‘command have and machine gunned a light cruiser. irom low altitude off

island in’ the Solomons, it was announced today. Crews of the: offensive reconnaissance unit which made the’ attack showered 500-pound bombs on on the enemy cruiser and saw it| St lose speed, turn and come about dead in the water. “Evidently it was seriously damaged,” a communique said.

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