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Sure sows]. VOLUME 53—NUMBER 196
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1942
_ Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
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US, RAF RULE AIR; AMERICAN
TANKS IN FIGHT)
Axis Emphasizes Strength Of Attack; Milan Raided
By Daylight.
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' By HARRISON S SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent 2The imperial Eighth army drove deeper into Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Alamein lines today, pushing forward. in an effort to make contact with the main Nazi armored forces. ‘The initial breach in the axis lines was being widened and American and British aircraft kept the axis positions and rear communications lines under constant attack. The Afrika Korps launched some Soymier-atiacks, desert reports said, they were held off and hard-
* fighting New Zealand, Scots, British and Australian troops pounded |
forward in an effort to turn the present “break” in- Nazi lines into & full-scale “break-through.” Million Men, Nazis Say Nazi propaganda reports made. it evident ‘that Berlin regarded the offensive with concern. The German reports exaggerated the size of the attacking force to a million men and 1000 tanks and made no pre¥dictions as to the possible outeome |
of the Sttack, aliaough claiming
American oi and ae were 5
in the forefront of the expanding “battle Ww, may be the opening + phase’ of a major effort to oust the "axis from Africa and win back allied control of the Mediterranean.
Hint 24-Hour Attacks
The royal air force was backing up: the African offensive with its
heaviest assault against northern}
Italy. For the first time in four nights the Italian industrial tri“angle escaped attack. But the damsage inflicted on the three successive nights—plus a daring daylight raid on’ Milan—was believed by the R.A. F. to have been crippling. “Air experts in London hailed the R. A. Fs daylight attack on Milan —carried out with big Lancaster ‘bombers—as Indicating “the allies dre now in a position to conduct a
© 24-hour air attack on Europe, util-
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izing American Boeing bombers for nearby daylight targets with ‘fighter escort, Lancasters for more ‘distant = daylight targets and the heavy R. A. F. bomber command for rountine night operations.
Communique Is Conservative
Backing up continuous air attacks on axis ‘supply ships in the Mediterranean royal navy submarines boosted their bag for the month of + October to 24 ships sunk or damaged—a sizeable total of tonnage. The imperial communique from Cairo today was couched in con_servative terms. It reported that axis counter-attacks had failed ‘fo - dislodge the imperials from thi tions inside Rommel’s defense]
¥, Fost and said that armored forces
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of both sides were going into action. Thus far, Cairo reported, 1450 exis prisoners have been taken. . Rome claimed’ that. a British --Janding attempt had been repulsed
‘at Mersa Matruh. However, the
! report: appeared to stem. from a
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coastal bombardment carried out by ~ British light naval forces. “The axis gommunique claimed that * 904 British tanks had been destroyed
- and 14 planes shot down.
‘Henry Gorrell, United Press staff gorrespandent, reported from. an
force, Oe ot. American planes, had the sky to themselves and. that axis were not challenging them even when fighter squadrons hovered over axis bases and
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record-breaking cold temperatures today and the weather bureau predicted even colder. weather this afternoon with not much change in temperature tonight.
At 6:15 o'clock this morning, the mercury went. to’ 24, the coldest Oct. 26 ever recorded here.. The
‘Jxrecord was 27, set in 188T,
Although : the bureau ‘was ‘not permitted to give a state-wide picture of the cold wave, at least one other point in the state was experiencing colder weather than Indianapolis. Ft. Wayne recorded a 22-degree temperature. "Accompanied by. ‘“traces” of rain in the morning and evening yes--terday, the break started at about 2 ‘p. m. yesterday, when it was 59. From 59, it went to 35 at midnight and on down to 24. ; The previous lowest temperature recorded here this fall was 33 on Sept. 28.
OPERATIONS BEGIN IN TERRE HAUTE PLANT
“TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. 26 (U. P.)—Du Pont officials said today the manufacture of high explosives has started at the Wabash river ordnance works considerably ahead of schedule. Construction work at the plant, near Newport, has not been completed but technical supervisors and chemists have arrived to, start production. As ‘additional ‘units are completed, they will’ swing into op-
INDIANAPOLIS shivered under |
eration, oficials said.
Fighting for: America in : the blazing skies over the desert. of Africa, Lieut, Ernest D. Hartman ‘heeded ‘the stout-hearted words of his mother, ‘ She had told him what to do. He did it. And an Italian Macchi
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man, of 4479. Washington blvd, Ernest was not born When he was entering the ox rh forces
Br-r-r-r! Adios Freeze
Like a good many other motorists, Emmert Christian, 4940 W. | Morris st., found that his auto required a bit of thawing before it And there was a reason—the mercury slid to 24 at 6:15 o'clock a. m., the coldest Oct. 26 we've ever been
; JAP ATTACKS
On Guadalcanal, 5 More Warships Damaged.
' WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (U. P.).—
The long-expected, all-out Japanese land offensive. on Guadalcanal was under way today. The Americans, having beaten off five savage tank and artillery attacks, braced themselves® for more as the enemy landed fresh troops on the northwest tip of the island. That was revealed in a. naval communique last night which also disclosed that five -more enemy warships—one possibly a battleship —had been damaged by. aerial bombs. The list included : three cruisers, one heavy cruiser or battleship, and one destroyer.
Jap Tanks Destroyed
The rushing of reserves to the Guadalcanal front, from an invasion fleet that has been concentrated north of Guadalcanal for two weeks, indicated ‘that the enemy's. tank attacks had been costly. The navy made no mention of casualties beyond the destruction of five enemy tanks. The latest attacks brought to seven the number of. times within five days that the Japanese tried to (Continued on Page Five)
NORSE OFFICIAL DEAD, BERLIN, Oct. 26 — (German broadcast recorded by U. P. at New York) — The German Transocean News agency reported from Oslo to-
day’ that Dr." Gulbrand Lunde, Nor-
wegian minister for culture and popular - enligitehment, «and his wife, were. killed in an automobile accident.
Locul Flier Knows Now That He Has Courage for Wa ar
that Lieut. Hartman needed on that ‘troublesome, lonely day. That was a year and a half ago. Lieut. Hartman won his wings at Randolph field, Tex. and last July he set sail with a huge convoy for the African battle front: = + Today a United Press report Saran from the “advanced allied air forces on the desert,” telling of a *cledn=-cut “success” ‘on that" front,
8 vention building.”
BOND po hy |
CLAIM DENIED BY TEACHERS
| Association Heads Charge|
‘Insult’ in Reply to ‘War Savings Staff.
The Indiana war savings staff and the Indiana State Teachers as-
sociation locked horns today over| the teachers’ role in the war sav-
ings program. In a statement, the war savings staff charged that “no other group of citizens in Indiana has been so
indifferent. to the war bond cam-
paign as teachers in the public school system.” The charge . followed the annual teachers’ convention here in which Eugene Pulliam, state war bond
_| program executive chairman ap-
peared on the convention program to urge 10 per cent participation in the war bond payroll plan. His representatives attempted to make similar talks at the branch meetings in four other Indiana cities, .
Staff Cities Figures
The war saving staff said that] ____ out of 3040 schools in the state, only nine are participating in the payroll savings plan while only three are 100 per cent and two others 90 per cent. The war staff charged that Mr. Pulliam’s time on the program was cut from 30 to 15 minutes and he
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Te “Even then the war bond speaker was urged to ‘hurry it up, we have other things to do here’,” the statement declared.
‘Miss Ewing Replies
“This brought sharp replies from Miss Sara Ewing of Indianapolis, president of the State Teachers association, and Robert: ‘Wyatt, executive secretary. “Mr. Pullman rejected our advice as to how to proceed and grossly insulted the teachers by questioning their patriotism,” Miss Ewing said. “I spent three years fn the last| war selling Liberty bonds. In all that time I never heard anyone use such poor psychology in attempting to reach an audience. He threw consternation into the group after he-had insulted them by. attempting:to take a poll as to how many had taken war bonds and stamps.”
Issues a Challenge
Miss Ewing said Mr. Pulliam “came into the meeting without a word to the chairman—the program had already. been streamlined to the limit, and then he took altogether .too much me, and used it very poorly. “I - would ‘challenge him to find any group that has done as much as the teachers in this war effort.f He states how few schools have adopted his particular plan but he fails to. state how many teachers
have purchased bonds and the total] -lamount. I would trust any group
of teachers to the utmost. . . .” “In the first place, Mr. Pulliam Was. advised . by. school. authorities not to approach a meeting of 10,000 teachers ‘with a program of filling out ‘blanks and answering the questionnaire, but rather to approach them through local school authorities,” Mr. Wyatt declared. = “After rejecting the advice of officials, he practically denounced a group of public spirited. citizens who have purchased millions of dollars in bonds, collected ‘more: than 40,000 tons of scrap voluntarily and given a million hours of their labor freely for war drives and registration. “His attitude in’ asking’ such of(Continued on Page Five
On the War Fronts|
| —Oct. 26, 1043—
MEDITERRANEAN British -eighth army drives forward into
_Rommel’s lines and axis counter-|
attacks fail to. oust imperials.| . "American ‘planes and tanks figure - prominently. R. A. F. attacks Mi- , lan by daylight.’ $
1-86 sours. PACIFIC —Allout Japa-
NAZIS RENEW HEAVY
Col. Walter S. Drysdale (left) and Pvi. Robert H. Suckow. . ..
not making a complaint. He
doesn’t have any to make.
‘Hello, Eleanor,’ Doughboy: Shout in Greeting Mrs. R.
N, “Oct; 26° (TU. P.).—Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt’ today wii raid alarms and drew Cheers from a mess-
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INDIANA READY FOR NAVY DAY
200 Vincefines Avengers Take Oath Tomerrow-as - Part of Ceremonies.
Two hundred Indiana youths will vow vengeance for the U. S.'S. Vincennes, sunk on’ Aug.‘ 9 following the. original landing of American troops on: Guadalcanal, when: they are sworn into the navy.at .3:30 p. m. tomorrow on the steps of Monument circle. ’ Ministefed by Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of navy personnel, the ceremony‘ will be ‘one of e highlights of Indiana's ‘celebraffon of Navy day—the first since Pearl Harbor. 2 Prior to the sweating in, Admiral Jacobs will address "500 civic”leaders, heads of patribtic societies and officers’ of ‘the army, marines and navy at a noon’ luncheon in the Co(lumbia club: Admiral Jacobs is ‘scheduled to arrive: at Union station: at°9:10 a. m.: tomorrow and hold‘ a press conference shortly afterward. At 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night, Homer Capehart — business executive. who-has made 'a hobby of staging parades—will : direct : 35,000 marchers through downtown streets. Comprised: of: patriotic: organizations, labor, civilian ‘defense and armed service- representatives, thé parade is expected to last more than three hours. Mr. Capehart announced that the; huge parade will form at St. Clair and Pennsylvania sts., march south to Washington st., :west to Meridian, north: to North st. - and: west. 10 Illinois st. , . ig ;
STALINGRAD. ATTACK
Utilize indian Su ‘Summer for
- New Advances.
By UNITED PRESS Indian summer has’ returned to the : Stalingrad area and inspired a new Nazi atiempt to drive the
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Roosevelt was ‘when either of the two brief alarms sounded. However
|days (ago and : reported to. Mr.
gave no Rotice to the gl ae Hormones fd in the vicinity Where Murs.
a few giins' on the ‘outskirts went info, action and two enemy hombeis were shot down. . Mrs. Roosevelt continued ‘her trip according to schedule’ during: the alarm this afterrioon.
Read Mrs. Roosevelt’s own story, cabled from England, in her column; My" Day—Page Orie, Sec‘ond Section. :
She was the guest of Prime Minister and’ Mrs. Winston Churchill last night. Today she inspected ‘an air: transport auxiliary depot and made a short speech. She met Miss Lettice Curtis, nrst British woman to fly a four-engined bomber. Reporters who had covered Wendell L. Willkie’s visit last year said she threatened to outdo him in going places and doing tHings. She started her visits,to_ American servicemen yesterday, by visiting the Washington club+of the American Red Cross in: Mayfair. . She promised the men she would use her influence to get them warmer soeks and intrease their mail. - “Hello, - Eleanor,” shouted hundreds of doughboys, sailors, airmen and parachute troops when. Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at the club after saying goodby to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the “king’s door” of Buckingham Palace. In keeping with the simplicity (Continued on Page Five)
WILKIE ON RADIO ONIGHT AT 9:30
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Promises “Plain Truth’ of
Recent Tour.
NEW YORK, Oct.. 26 (U. P).— Wendell L. Willkie reports to the | people by radio tonight the “plain truth? about what he saw and the
conclusions he reached during his recent tour of battlefronts . and], united nations capitals. His speech will be carried on all major networks from 9:30 to} 110 p. m., Indianapolis time. Hither-} to, such radio facilities have been had only by President Roosevelt. Since Mr. Willkie returned 10|
Roosevelt, whose ‘personal representativ ‘he was, he has been steadily] work ‘on the report. Persons to him said it would be com1étely. ‘non-political. -
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DRYSDALE DOOR ALWAYS OPEN
Fort. Comnar "Certain Enlisted Men ‘Get Square Deal. ° ‘By FREMONT POWER ‘As to the manner in which ‘army officers deal with the common en-
“liisted man, Col. Walter 8. Drysdale,
commandant of * Ft. Harrison, has neatly: reversed the popular conception. y He doesn’t bellow at them, nor sneer, nor in any way that we know, make the common man in the army feel conscious of the fact that he has no stripes or bars to distinguish him from his’ buddies. This, we learned, not from Cel. Drysdale’s staff officers, be assured, but from. “some of the boys” at Ft. Harrison who just happened to volunteer the information. In his office at Ft. Harrison, where a striking, "colored portrait 6f hero Gén. MacArthur. hangs, . Col. .Drysdale hears a myriad of complaints and troubles from the army private.
.The Private Can Complain
Any private at Ft. Harrison "has the privilege of coming to the colonel directly, and’ without the knowledge of his immediate commanding officer. . There was the case, Col. Drysdale related, of the man who éame in and said that, in his opinion, he
|was not being promoted at a pace
commensurate with his ability. Col. Drysdale made a study of that man’s case and (the privates will be happy to learn this) the man is now a second lieutenant. The colonel was: inclined to agree that the man was being somewhat: tarded.“But I don’t: Kriow whether that’s such good publicity or not,” the colonel laughed. “They may all be {Continued} ! ‘on Page Five)
PHILLY STRIKE ENDS
PHILADELPHIA,’ Oct. 26 (U. P)). —A two-day work stoppage of 1700 street - cleaners and garbage collectors, and threats of a sympathy strike > 1800 other city Workers,
nder. Makes], :
Sales to Be Frozen o 5 Warning Is Issued. About Hoarding.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (U. P.).— Nation-wide rationing of coffee will be effective at midnight on Nov. 28, Price Administrator Leo id
Hendérson announced today. The average ration for all per< sons who were 15. or “over ‘when
: they registered for sugar May 4
or'5 will ‘be one pound each five weeks—about a cup a day. .-All retail sales of:coffee will be
frozen at midnight, Nov. 21, for week before rationing begins/ to permit merchants to s their
shelves. : In announcing the order, Mr, Henderson said there was no rea-
grocer, put “the squeeze on him and try to force him to lelp a hoarder.” “There is absolutely no excuse for hoarding coffee at this me) he emphasized. Ninth Rationed Product
Coffee will be the ninth rationed product. ~ Othérs are sugay, ; farm equipment, gasoline, autamsbiles, tires, bicycles, typewriters, workers’ |¥ubber ‘boots and ‘rubber shoes. “The program will sestrict A SOME Bip ULL
eligib le 16 “rations.”
| but . officials said it would include
hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, and all other large.and small estab= lishments in which coffee is served. Authorities sig privately that they probably ould. be helpless against hoarders who have accumu= lated substantial coffee stocks or are able to do so before rationing becomes effective. : No estimate was available : of the probable amount of the bean already “in hiding.” Mr. Henderson said the rationing date 'was announced early in order to prevent “more confusion and hysteria than even now exists on the subject of coffee” arising from forthcoming conferences between OPA and representatives of the ine dustry on the subject of rationing. He pointed out that for 10 years before 1941 the per capita consump= tion of coffee was about 13 Hounds year. New ‘Registration Likely = : “Consumers will not have to register to obtain coffee. They * W suse their sugar.rationing book. get’ the first coffee ration, the ( sumer will be required to the last stamp—No, 28—in sugar book. Subsequent rations coffee will be on coupons taken sequence toward the center of the book. Y Ultimately, it was believed, * new registration will have. to : made for the rationing of sugar as well as coffee. Ages of children given on sugal rationing books will detérmine whether they are to get coffee, Rationing is expected to stop practice in use in some areas whic officials termed “vicious.” OPA has received reports that some mer chants have required’ customers purchase a bill of groceries ama ul ing to $2 or $4 in order to obt: a pound of coffee. To the question of .what 0 prevent a person from enjoying hi usual consumption of coffee Shy patronizing restaurants, soda ters and other similar estab! ments, OPA ‘said the plan been ‘worked’ out yet but some: strictions will be made. ! 8 8 8»
~ Welcome Coffee Ratic
today actually loomed “the | prospect of one cup of It’s more than many have been
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jail and a $10,000 fine for fail fo state’ the actual “sv
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