Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1942 — Page 6

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uld be to defend the narrow istal corridor between Gabes and the Libyan frontier. ~The main| allied army would be free to strike direct for Libya to meet the Rommel’s tattered Afrika Korps, fleeing westward before the British 8th army under Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, The German-dominated Vichy radio reported that a new and powerful allied naval force, including two battleships, two aircraft carriers, four cruisers and nine destroyers had left Gibralter for the Mediterranean and that 36 merchantmen, five transports and two hospital ships had arrived at Gibraltar under the protection of warships.

61 Axis Planes Destroyed

These reports were not confirmed from allied headquarters. But radio Morocco reported that a spearhead of the British-American army was advancing with all possible speed * into Tunisia and it seemed certain that advanced allied scout forces were in action. Moroccan | dispatches reported that 61 axis planes had been destroyed in the air or aground in . savage aerial combat along the coast. Eo Allied planes including long range ~ fighters from Malta destroyed 42 of the enemy planes in dog fights and - 19 aground on axis held fields in Tunisia, it was asserted. :

Axis Air Force Reduced

Cairo reports said the German air force in, Libya had been almost wiped out ‘by the allied planes

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army. mdb ~The 8th army yesterday, by occupying the axis the Libyan coast and the road junction of Mekili 45 miles inland, brought its main force to within 630 miles of Tunisia. Axis radios | continued to broadcast fantastic claims of the sinking of 89 allied ships off Africa. These claims were described as vastly exaggerated “even beyond the usual German naval claims.” Berlin broadcast the assertion that London newspapers were publishing reports of transport sinkings which American correspondents were not permitted to relay to the United

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It was Friday, the 13th of November, when British soldiers once more raised the union jack over the rubble that was Tobruk as shown

to New York. Marshal Rommel’s

Afrika Korps gave up the battered desert town without a fight. To

States. These assertions likewise were totally untrue.

Situation Confused

Radio Vichy described the African situation as most confused. It said violent air fighting had been in progress for two days over the Tunis airdrome. Radio Rabat, Morocco, announced that Robert Murphy, United States consul general at Algiers, had been appointed special supply adviser to allied headquarters. The German Paris radio, promptly extending German anti-Jewish propaganda -to cover the African theater, said Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the allied commander in chief, had received a Jewish deputation when he visited Algiers last week-end and that anti-Jewish laws of the Vichy regime in North Africa would be repealed soon. There was a lull here in comment on the French political situation in Africa, after the Fighting French statement yesterday repudiating Admiral Jean Francois Darlan whom the allies recognized as temporary head of the French North African administration, Talk Politics Later . British sources said that it was the allied duty to take what action was necessary now to make the conquest of North Africa as smooth as possiyle, and leave political talk for the future.

Though reports up to today that the big fight had started in Tunisia had proved premature, it was evident that the allies were ready to start their grand drive at a moment’s notice. Radio Paris reported that allied planes were attacking the Tunis airdrome constantly, spraying it with machinegun bullets at low level as well as bombing it, but asserted that nevertheless axis transport planes continued to land troops there and an axis “air bridge” for reinforcements had been established over the Mediterranean,

Reports Untrue

Dispatches direct from the general headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Eisenhower, filed yesterday afternoon, said specifically that reports of fighting outside Bizerte were untrue and said also that radio Morocco, a chief source of reports of fighting, was still French controled and French censored, and could not be -accepted as representing the allied command. A dispatch of the Italian official news agency from Tunisia said that Maj. Gen. Walther Nehring, a Ger-

had been named axis commander in chief in Tunisia.

SEES NEW ERA FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY

NEWARK, N. J, Nov. 17 (U. P.). —Governor Harold E. Stassen (R), Minnesota, said here last night that the recent elections have changei the Republican party from a minority group to a “partnership” party in government. He asserted that both Republicans and Democrats will seek to steer away from isolationism in working out a peace program after the war,

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INDIA, CRITICAL POINT PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17 (U. P.). —Sirdar J. J. Singh, former member of the all-India congress committee and president of the India League of America, said last night that American victories in North Africa have made India a critical point in united nations’ strategy.

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Insists Anti-Rationing Plan Is Not Unpatriotic; Cites Backing. (Continued from Page One)

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Q—Have any investigators been around to see you? A—No, but they've been asking questions about me around town.

Q—Are you worried? A—Absolutely not. I've sent a

message to Washington: “Investigate and be damned.”

Backers Fear Reprisals

Q—How about your books — are they open to investigation? A—At any time, Q—Why can’t be publish a list of the backers of the committee's movements? A—Because many of them fear reprisals from Washington.

Q—Why didn’t you come to the newspapers with publicity for your movement at the outset like 99 out of 100 other groups do?

A—For several reasons, but chiefly because I felt the papers might not want to go out on a limb ,

Q—Do you realize a lot of average citizens are doubting your patriotism? A—Yes, but it’s because they're misinformed. We're not asking that gasoline rationing be abandoned. We're simply -asking for a 90-day delay so that our plan of voluntary rationing coupled with strict enforcement of the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit be given a trial. Denies Any Detriment

Q—But couldn’t 90 days have a detrimental effect on our rubber supply? , A—Not according to our information. I asked a large contributor to the committee for a statement. He said that because he is an oil man his position probably would be misinterpreted. So I asked Sid Siegel, Indianapolis representative of the United Commercial Travelers of

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committee’s movement, to make a statement: He said: “We have 2500 members in IndiWe are in full-hearted support of the gas rationing program being sponsored by the Midwest Rubber Conservation committee as gas rationing will affect approximately 250,000 salesmen in the United States. “These men have been on the road a good many years and have rendered a service to their clients, both economic and advisory. : The salesmen are contributing to the war effort by buying war bonds and are soliciting their cugtomers to do likewise.

Salesmen Pledge Low Speed

“The salesmen have agreed to drive their cars 35 miles an hour and to take busses and trains on long trips instead of using their cars.” ; Mr. Stoops pointed out that the National Petroleum News indorsed the committee’s efforts in its leading editorial of Nov. 11. It charged

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Mr. Jeffers is the proper man for the job. It only disagrees with the coupon method of gasoline rationing, Mr. Stoops said. The Baruch report, on the other hand, declares that “gas rationing is the only way of saving 1ubber. Every way of avoiding this method

was explored, but it was found to be inescapable.”

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TAKES PLANE TO CAPITAL NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (U. P.).— Mayor F. H. LaGuardia left for Washington today aboard an Eastern Air Lines plane. :

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Kas. : Survivors are her “husband; a brother, Noble Shane, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Dickey and Mrs. Robert Bennett, all of Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. North Vernon, and several nieces and nephews. Services will be held at 10'a. m. Friday at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary with burial at North Vernon.

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