Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1942 — Page 1
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 190
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HINTS SENATE
MAY 0. K. CAMP BAN ON LIQUOR
Barkley Sees Approval If Lee Amendment Comes To Roll Call.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (U. P) — Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky. predicted today
draft bill establishing prohibition in areas surrounding military and
|naval posts probably would be
adopted “if it gets to a roll call vO Asked if he would oppose the amendment, offered by Senator Josh Lee (D. Okla), Barkley told reporters: “Well, someone probably will.” The Democratic leader said that legislation lowering the draft age to 18 will not be taken up in the senate until Thursday in. order to accommodate senators who left the capital on the understanding ‘that no important business would - be transacted in their absence.
Beer Is Included
The Lee amendment, previously turned down by the senate’ military affairs committée, would prohibit
{the sale, possession, use or gift of
all alcoholic beverages, including beer, in army and navy posts and within surrounding areas to be
.| designated by the secretaries of war
and navy. Lee told reporters that “a training camp is a school teaching the most serious business in the. world.
:| Liquor is not allowed to be sold in
or near the schools these boys
| would be attending if they were not
ed in the war effort.” “His amendment has the backing
lof the Women’s Christian Temper-
ance Union and other dry organiza-
tions.
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2 000 Thrilled af Opening Of Show i in’ Butler Stadium
4 Te Ee A on history vii res its “War Show” ‘last ‘night in- Butler Bowl: 0 Tonight, and’ every night through Thursday, as many more will be sd by he War: Shows ;partiaval of what he bovs: are doing
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~ Asks Lower Voting age
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) introduced a constitu-
‘| tional amendment to reduce the
legal voting age to 18 years, to coincide with the new draft age. “If young men are to be drafted
‘(to fight for the government,” he *|said, “they ought to be given a say. in .the kind of government : they
want to fight for.” It will not be possible to offer the proposal as a provision to the draft bill, since it is a constitutional amendment. The senate military affairs committee today files its formal report on the draft bill which it unanimously approved last Friday.
Sets Up Draft Priorities Its version, which conforms more
closely to army ‘and selective
service recommendations than the house version, merely lowers the minimum draft age from 20 to 18 land provides special temporary deferments for high school students called up during the second half of
‘| the current academic year.
The house bill extends that: deferment clause to college as well as high school students. The house measure also sets up ah elaborate “draft priority” system
'iwhicl) would prohibit the induction {of married men in a given. state ‘juntil all supplies of single men have {been exhausted, and would prevent| the induction of men with children
until all childless married men have been called.
[FOX APPEAL LOSES IN SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (U.P) ~
“| The supreme court today denied the
appeal of Movie Magnate William Fox for a review of his convicticn on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and of the subsequent $3000 - fine and year-and-a-day sentence imposed on him. Rejection of Fox's petition highlighted the court’ second decision day of its new 1942-43 term. There still ‘was no word of the longawaited opinion in the case of the eight Nazi saboteurs, six of whom were executed last summer. ; The ' tribunal . rejected pleas of three members of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious sect for reviews of their convictions on charges of|Goal violating ‘local SMinaness of as
that an amendment to the teen-age]
Here is the first picture to reach the United States showing the devastation suffered by Stalingrad the German siege. Smoke and flames rise from bomb ~Shattered buildings in the background as two women carry supplies to the heroic defenders.
Acme Telephoto. from
1 DEAD, 5 HURT IN 85-MPH CRASH
Car Fails to Make Turn, Spins, Strikes Pole Six
" Feet From Ground.
A car traveling “better than 85” failed to make the “S” curve at 21st» st. and Northwestern ave., early today and. wrapped itself around a utility pole: killing one Negro and injuring five others. Inspector Lewis Johnson described it as one of the most spectacular traffic. accidents in the city’s “history. <u He said the car, alldtediy driven by Harold Harrison, 2409 Bond st; was doing between 85 and 90 miles an hour north on Northwestern ave. It went out of control and “spun” several times, . its momentum lifting it off-the ground so that it hit
the utility pole at least six feet off the ground.
Others Critically Hurt
The middle of the car struck the pole and the front and back ends of the: machine each were touching a fence several feet from the pole. John H. Tate, 21, of 1145 Roache st., was thrown from the car and killed instantly. Also thrown. from the car and injured critically ‘were Edward Dunlap, 1047 W. 27th st. Anna Lucille Crecine, 1843 Boulevard pl.; Morris McCray, 1045 W. 26th st., and Harrison. ;
Pinned in Wreckage
Amos F. Lyles, 20, Negro, of 914 W. 28th st., was pinned in the back seat of the'car. Police 'said-he had his legs crossed when the accident occurred ‘and- when the car struck the pole the chassis of the car was bent up across his legs. It required almost an hour to free
George Johnson, Negro, of 2209 Martindale ave., was injured fatally Saturday night when he was struck by a car at 22nd st. and Martindale ave.
DRAFT BOARD ORDERS MATURE INTO ARMY
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 19 (U. P.) —Movie actor Victor Mature’s selective service board announced today that his temporary -appointment in the coast guard reserve will be canceled and that-he will be indueted in the army possibly. by the end of the month. Lieut. Comm. Albert G. Berry Jr., selective service co-ordinator, said the. board has served notice of the order on : Mature: after unsuccessfully attempting to contact him
the enemy in all categories.
the public can expect, and the best it will get, is that on average the equipment of the allied air forces shall be superior to the equipment of the enemy.” The report, in preparation for nearly four weeks, shattered hopes and predictions that the defeat of the axis would be hastened by absolute allied superiority in all types of aircraft. It warmed of future battles to be lost and “crushing deéfeats” that may be suffered and asked ‘Americans to-indulge “to the! full their genius for critieal analy sis. ” Summary ‘of Report
Here are the highlights of the 32page report: 1. The navy went to war with considerable quantities of obsolescent planes and thus sufféred losses which could have been avoided. 2. The army aircraft score in the Pacific is better than ‘the enemy's, but it could have. been improved if “the services had been more on ‘the alert for Japanese treachery or had more accurately forecast the performance of Japanese aircraft.” 3. Basic specifications for United States aircraft now flying in combat areas were laid down five years ago. (Continued on Page Five)
AIR AGTIVITY OVER
20 ‘Towns Raided Today; London Has® 3 Alarms.
LONDON, Oct. 19 '(U. P.) —Ger-, man air raiders bombed and strafed about 20 east Anglian towns and
today in the greatest enemy aerial activity in months. .
in the raids. Several were injured, and some 'damage wés caused. Two raiders were shot. down, The Nazi planes took ‘advantage of low-hanging clouds to carry out repeated hit-and-run attacks.’ ,
two hours in London, reminding | residents of the battle of Britain, but no bombs fell within the city itself. On the outskirts, ‘however, antiaircraft guns were in action and
since Friday. *
WAR FUND FACTS: Se cones sess. $1,500,000.00 So to date cavern 713,063.50 Per cent of goal “asenscs Ta O [Amount needed
At Least $125,000 More Seen for War Fund Today
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gave London three daylight alerts|
At least eight persons were killed |:
Sirens wailed three. alarms within |
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Can't Have Best i in Every Type of Plane, OWI Says
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (U.P.).—The office of war information, reminding that the United States has paid with defeat and blood for its “determined blindness” toward air power during peace, reported today that the united nations’ air force is not, nor is likely to be, superior to In its long awaited report on the performance of American military airplanes, the OWI .said:
“The best
SCRAP COLLECTING T0 BE CONTINUED
700 Salvage Depots Re-
main Open in County.
The newspaper scrap metal drive has *, but don’t think for a minute that the scrap metal collec-
+. |tion campaign In general is over.
The Marion county salvage committee is arranging new collection programs it will announce in a few days. In the meantime, the 700 salvage depots remain open throughout the city for the collection of smaller pieces of scrap metal and Market 3321 is. still the number to call—day or night—for the disposal of large articles. Blodgett Brennan, Marion county salvage director, said that trucks are disposing of the metal which has piled up at the central salvage collection station at 11th and Meridian sts. Between 300 and 500 tons of metal were in the central heap.
Oil Drum Bridge
Is Russ Lifeline
MOSCOW, Oct. 19 (U. P.).—The Russian lifeline across the Volga at’ Stalingrad is a ‘wooden bridge, 39 inches wide laid on empty oil drums. = - A ‘The Russians built” it in three days last month. At, first it was ‘only ‘20 inches wide, but it was made ‘wider so horses could cross + it. ,The drums are firmly tied by cables and anchored to the river's bed by heavy pieces of machinery, . wheels and worn-out parts of mo- - tors. Since 4 was - built,’ seven rifle battalions - (perhaps 7000 men) with full equipment, ammunition and food :have crossed to aid in the . defense of Stalingrad. Twenty-eight thousand civilian refugees - and thousands ' of wounded ' haye crossed it to the east bank and safety.
On the War Fronts
. (Oct. 19, 1942)
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC =~ Reinforced Japanese - prepare drive against key airfield on Guadalcanal. MacArthur's bombers attack Japanese naval concentration in .Buin-Shortland area. Australians and Japs. clash near . Templeton’s Crossing in. New Guinea. .- SC AFRICA—French loudly fear Amerfcan attack on Dakar, -
| Yank forces in Liberia. Malta
~ downs: 122. axis planes’ in a week.
RUSSIA — Germans gain gain another| city ‘block in Stalingrad, but Russians make Headway south of city.
WESTERN EUROPE—AIr . activity over Britain flares up; 20 East ARSHAR owns raided; ‘London has +3 alarms. Fri
QUEEN RECOVERS LONDON, Oct. 19 (u’ P.).—Buck~ isued a statement that Queen Eliza~
porting
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Three Jap Cruis WASHINGTON, Oct. 19
meet a “strong assault” by troops on Guadalcanal island. American airmen were °
NAZIS CAPTURE ONE CITY BLOCK
German Losses in Six Days Of 3d Stalingrad Blow Put at 15,000.
By UNITED PRESS Battle reports from Stalingrad today indicated the Germans were making slow, stubborn progress in their drive through the smashed factory buildings of the Volga city. ‘A Soviet report said that another city block had been captured by the Nazis, possibly in the same northern factory center where the third’ German offensive has been gaining ground for neatly a week. However, the price in casualties paid by the Germén army was said to be exceedingly high. Six days fighting were said to have brought 15,000 casualties and knocked out 233 Nazi tanks.
Losses Slow Up Nazis
The German losses were so large that their ' war machine was brought to a halt in some districts but reinforcements enabled them to push ahead in others. The German high command made no specific claims regarding the city but said that more ground had been won in mopping up operations. Moscow said that a Russian counter-attack south of the battered city was making progress. The Moscow communique said that Marshall Semyon Timoshenko’s column
‘mons should succeed.
U.S. AVIATORS DISHING IT OUT’
PLANES
Marines and Army Men Brace for Land Battle; MacArthur Planes Score Hits on
ers Near Buin.
(U. P.) —The zero hour was
at hand in the Solomon islands today. American. marines, soldiers and sailors were braced to
heavily-reinforced Japanese
‘dishing it out.” = They and
anti-aircraft gunners bagged 17 more planes with the loss of only one of their own. But the navy made no attempt
to hide the fact that the Americans’ position is critical and that “in a battle of this nature losses must be expected.”
The battle was for the airfield on Guadalcanal—a clearing chopped out of the dense jungle by the Jap~ anese and captured by U. S. marines early in August before the enemy had a chance to use it, The battleground was a 25-mile stretch of ant-infested beach be= tween Cape Esperance at tHe northe western tip of Guadalcanal and Tenaru, near the middle of the north shore,
Both Sides Willing to Pay
The area is narrow, the mountains and jungle extending close to the shore. Because'of that and the fact’ that both sides had given clear indication of willingness to pay almost
lany price for control of the airfield,
losses on both sides probably will be heavy. : A British cbreesponident repotted in the London News Chronicle to« day that the Japanese may have as many as 250,000 troops concentrated at Truk, their major Pacific base in the Marshall islands, ready to drive south on New Zealand or Australia if the attack on the Solos The Japanese—on the offensive for the third time to retake the airfield—continued ‘softening up” operations over the week-end as a prelude to a grand assault, . They were using large-scale bomber ate tacks Saturday (Solomons Time), the last day reported.
Over 300 Planes Downed So Far ' The defenders. were being aided
northwest of the city was engaged only in “local battles,” but the Germans indicated that artillery ‘and tank reinforcements were being brought up between the Don and Volga for a renewed attack.
Report 12 Divisions Smashed In the Mozdok, area of the Cau-
\ time, either at Stalingrad or in the
casus, the Russians reported the Germans had been ‘dealt another heavy blow in their attempts to break through to the Grozny oil fields. More than a dozen German divisions of 15,000 men each were said to have been smashed in that region. :
The Soviet reports said, in ‘fact, that the Germans had lost so heavily that they are not able now to aslault more than one point at a
by heavy army bombers under coms= mand of Gen. Douglas MacArthur which blasted the' major Japanese advance air-naval base at Buin, 300 miles from Guadalcanal, in four raids and with 22 tons of bombs in= cluding =many* thousand-pounders, Bombs dropped among destroyers, cruisers and transports and were believed to have scored direct hit on three cruisers. ? The efforts to bomb the airfield on Guadalcanal ended disastrously for the Japanese. The seventeen
bombers and fighters shot down by
Americans brought total enemy
plane losses for the Solomons bdt«
tle to more than 300. The attacks on the airfield came
Saturday morning and afternoon. ai Fourteen bombers escorted by eight
Caycasuis.
2 EX-GONVICTS HELD ON HOLDUP CHARGE
Bail Fixed at $5000 in Gas Station Robbery.
Two ex-convicts captured Saturday afternoon after they had held up ‘the Anthony Wayne Oil Co. office, 44 Kentucky ave., were bound to the Marion county grand jury on robbery: charges today under $5000 bond each. They are Joseph Taylor, 405 E. Washington st., and Harry M. Mallick, Des Moines, Ia. They waived examination before Judge John Niblack in municipal court.
and were captured a few minutes later by detectives near the union station. . .
HINT ROMMEL ILL, DELAYS AFRICA TRIP
that ‘ Gen. Erwin Rommel, mander of forces in Africa, would not rejoin his troops for a
troubles
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fighters attacked in the early morne ing. American fighters and anti aircraft: batteries destroyed all of the bombers and two fighters, No More Landings Reported .
In the early afternoon, 15 bomb= ers and a number of fighters tried again. One enemy homber was probably @estroyed. . The only other news the navy had to report yesterday was that there have been no reports of more
enemy landings on Guadajoanal since Thursday (Solomons ). ;
There has been no mention of American naval vessels for several
days, but it was encouraging to know that despite 11 bombardments or shellings of American positions on Guadalcanal since last Tuesday, American planes are still able to
use the airfield.
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