Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1942 — Page 4
Five Other U. S. Ships Are Damaged in Landing in North Africa.
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air losses to naval gunnery also had been heavy. Assessment of attacks on enemy submarines are not yet complete, Alexander said, but he added: “It is already known that more than 30 attacks caused destruction or damage to U-boats.” © He disclosed that for the first ~ time a toxpedo plane had topedoed & submarine. Mr. Alexander explained that the allied North African force sailed in three parts. One sailed from the United
States for Casablanca and Rabat, on the Atlantic coast. Two sailed
from Great Britain for Algeria and . Oran. Largest of the sunken American
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Productioneer is the name given all Link-Belt workers and is being
adopted by many other war plants. The company’s suggestion system, under the direction of a war production drive committee of which J. M. Bryant is chairman, is based on the honor system rather than War bonds or American flags are given employees whose suggestions to increase plant production and efficiency are ac-
Kautsky was foreman in charge of punch press equipment and chain
at Link-Belt ed by President
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assembly ,at Link-Belt Co. before world war I, He enlisted in the army in 1917 and was mustered out of service shortly afterwards. He was transferred to the ordnance department at Cincinnati, where he served as an expediter for ordnance material b e i n g manufactured throughout the country. He ventured into a small business of his own in 1938 and manufactured various types of hand tools. His business was wiped out by fire in 1939 when he joined the LinkBelt Co. again. He has long been a pioneer in his machine shop work and spends his spare time in his shop tinkering and experimenting with new ideas.
built in 1821. The Bliss, the former liner Presi-
dent Cleveland, also was approxi-
vessels was the Hugh L. Scott, the former liner President Pierce. Tlis vessel had been serving the army in recent years, but was transferred to the naval service. The Scott had a gross tonnage of 12,546 and was
mately of the same tonnage. As merchant ships, each carried a crew of about 240 men. The Scott was placed in commission in the navy on Sept. 7 this year and the Bliss on Sept. 15. The Leedstown was formerly the Santa Lucia. A vessel of 9135 gross tons, it was placed in commission for the navy also in September.
TUNISIAN NAZIS ARE REINFORCED
British Navy and Yankee And English Planes Smash Ships.
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Africa from allied sources were scanty. However, they made evident that the Germans had developed a powerful opposing force in the Bizerte-Tunis area and there were some indications that the allies had been forced to draw in their advance spearheads which had been within a few miles of Tunis. Axis reports said the Germans had put ashore heavy tanks, heavy artillery, flame-throwers and automatic weapons, apparently jn considerable numbers, at Sifax and Gabes on the Tunisia east coast. By utilizing these weapons and
their growing air strength in Tunisia the Germans obviously were
French columns a tough fight. Claim Capture of-Tebourda
However, the Nazis losses in Mediterranean transport indicated that the axis faces a costly task if the stream of supplies and reinforcements to North African is to be maintained. The German radio claimed that a heavily reinforced Nazi column, advancing from Djedeida, had captured Tebourda, rail communications center 18 miles west of Tunis. There was no confirmation of this ssertion from allied quartets and he latest dispatches from the field n Africa reported that allied troops at Tebourda were beating off a trong German counter-attack. Allied sources admitted that the Germans had won temporary local superiority in the air because of their ability to move planes quickly from Sicily. - P-38s in Battle
In the land fighting in Tunisia the Germans obviously were mustering powerful forces in a lastditch battle to save Tunis and Bizerte. . Crack elements of the Nazi air tore had been thrown into the fight but were being challenged by American twin-Allison-engine P-38 Lightning fighters as well as royal air force fighter squadrons.
Tunis Airport Bombed
Allied planes carried out raids of great destructivemess on the Aouina airdrome at Tunis, ‘possibly putting it out of commission. American tgnk units were reported in the vanguard of the fighting. Planes from the east smashed heavily at axis supply lines in Libya. Heavy bombers of the 9th U. 8S. air force destroyed or damaged six merchant vessels and wrecked a large werehouse on the Spanish mole in Tripoli on Tuesday. On Sunday American Consolidated bombers, it was revealed today, made hits on four other merchants ships while naval planes scored a direct torpedo hit amidship of a large southbound tanker at Maritimo island, off Sicily. The British 8th army still was feeling out Marshal Erwin Rommel’s defenses on the El Agheila line and the main battle had not been joined. It was the third time a British army had stood at El Agheila facing an axis force on the swampy 35mile front. None has managed to get beyond.
KANSAS HOUSEWIFE STARS IN OPERA ROLE
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asked her if she would stand in for Miss Pons at rehearsal because Miss Pons had a cold and they needed a soprano who knew the role for tenor Jacques Gerard to rehearse with, “Even then I never dreamed I'd get a chance to sing it,” she said, “but I couldn’t help hoping.” On Tuesday, her wish came true, and last t, after a gruelling day and night of rehearsals, fittings and advice, she took over the role. “She is a fine musician,” commented Edward Johnson, manager of the Met. “Her work is only begun.” Reared in Ithaca, N. Y., Mrs. Wilkins met her husband when they both sang in the church choir. When she went to Paris to study singing, he followed her, and they were married there. A few years later, she went to Italy, where she sang in the Milan opera house, ard then she returned to this country and to Lawrence, where her husband teaches singing at Kansas university. They have one child, a daughter. “I wish they could have been here,” she said* “But there wasn't time.” Small—only 5 feet 5 inches—with sandy hair and brown eyes, Mrs. Wilkins said she didn’t look at the audience at first because she was so nervous. “Then, suddenly, I thought to myself ‘they like me!’—and I felt like jumping up and down I felt so good,” she said. “Buf I didn’t real-
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/ BLOCK-BUSTERS HIT FRANKFURT
R. A. F. Switches Attack to Western Reich, Leaving
Panic in Italy.
LONDON, Dec. 3 (U.P.).—R. A. F. bombers switched their block-buster bombs from Italy to western Germany last night, reminding the axis that Germany is still No. 1 on the bombing list. Frankfurt was the only objective named. It was almost dawn today when the last bomber droned home over the southeast English coast towns. Six failed to return.
The last raid on Germany was on Nov. 22 when Stuttgart was the target. Western Germany was last raided Oct. 21, when mustangs and mosquito planes in daylight gunned gas factories and barges in the Dortmundems canal. That was the first time single-engined fighters such as the mustangs, based on Britain, had penetrated German territory. It was heavy bombers that attacked several points Mn western Germany last night. The Nazis at the same time were making their first night raid over Britain in more than a month, A bomb dropped on a coast town last night slightly damaged a house, but there were no casualties. There was a brief alert in south London during the night. Official British reports said Italian authorities were unable to restore order for three days after the heavy bombing of Turin last Saturday night.
A. F. L.-C. I. 0. TRUCE WAITS RATIFICATION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U.P).—
for wartime settlement of jurisdic-
councils of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of) Industrial Organization. Agreement to establish a perman-
court on all such disputes
committee after unity discussions were postponed indefinitely,
An armistice agreement providing
ent committee to sit as a labor was! reached late yesterday by the joint A. F. of L.-C. I. O. peace negotiating | planes during the Magwe bombing,
20 PAYNE TRIAL MAY END TODAY
Defendant on Stand Can't Remember Incidents on Night of Slaying.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 3 (U. P.).—The second trial of 45-year-old Mrs. Caroline G. Payne on charges of murder was expected to end today. The Bloomington newspaper woman testified four and one-half hours yesterday. She maintained she couldn't remember anything that happened the night of July 5, 1941 when her fiance, Charles O. Mattingly, attorney-examiner for the Indiana public service commission, was slain. Mrs. Payne’s testimony, almost word for word as in the first trial which ended when the jury failed to reach a verdict; virtually completed the defense case. It appeared certain the defense case would rest today. Physician Testifies
The defendant was the only witness yesterday except for a Bloomington physician who treated Mrs. Payne the night Mattingly was slain. He testified that Mrs. Payne was of unsound mind. Mrs. Payne then took the stand and told of her early life and marriage to Senator Earl Payne; how she assisted Mattingly financially when he was a law student at Indiana university and, finally, how he had deserted her after their 16year romance to marry his pretty
SDAY, DEC. 3, 1942
U. S. UNDERSTANDING Information Director Eimer Davis
HELD BEST WEAPON 2 (U. P)— Joseph Clark Grew, former U. S. ambasador to Tokyo, said last night that an understanding of the need for victory and the price of defeat was America’s greatest weapon in
DALLAS, Tex., Dec.
the war against Japan.
Grew told a public assembly that the Japanese warlords were attempting “to ring the minds of the people with a charmed circle of lies” and that only a complete military defeat could break that circle. He quoted a statement of War
ithat Americans “have a right to understand the terrible necessity of victory and the terrible price of defeat” and added: “This understanding is our strongest weapon and it is all the stronger because it is the one weapon that is denied to our enemies.”
ITALY NEXT FOR HIMMLER MOSCOW, Dec. ‘3 (U.P.).— The Tass Russian news agency's Geneva correspondent reported today that
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi gestapo chief, was en route from Toulon,
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Hoped to Marry
Asked by the prosecution if she did not prefer to live with Matting ly out of wedlock during their 16year relationship, Mrs. Payne said financial conditions prevented their marriage at first but that she “always hoped” they would be married. The newspaper executive admitted owning a .32 pistol but denied owning the Colt automatic from which the fatal shots were fired. She said the automatic pistol belonged to a roomer at her home and was “kept somewhere” about the house.
CONTINUE RAIDS ON JAPANESE IN BURMA
| NEW DELHI, Dec. 3 (U. P).—| The royal air force reported today
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tional labor disputes today waited | continued successful raids on Jap- | formal ratification by the executive anese installations in Burma, in-
cluding the air field at Magwe, | ‘where bombers concentrated on the, main runway and dispersal areas, {and the railway stations at Kadu| and Haughton on the MandalayKyitkyina line. ! The Japanese sent up no fighter
and all R. A. F. planes evaded antiaircraft fire,
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Hitler gambled on superhighways and a motorized Germany to provide most of the mass land transportation, military and civilian, necessary
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He starved Germany's railroads.
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Railroad Crisis
Reader's Digest reports neglect of railroads may be vital factor in breakdown of German war machine
“The German economic high command has recently made an unprecedented decision— allocation of raw materials, factory space, and manpower for the repair
and construction of locomotives is to have priority
rating as bigh as tanks, airplanes and U-boats.”
, From “Hitlers Vulnerable Spot—Railroads,”
"Reader's Digest, cabled
ighways are now struggle with th
traffic, which 1
higher.”
He banked on a short war and stolen
1940, 76% in 1941, and is now even
“Transportation men in Sweden...
in November
from London by Allan A. Michie.
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says “are forced to e Nation's entire increased 63% in
are laid up for
are astonished at the dilapidated equipment to keep them running.™ condition of cars arriving by train He guessed wrong on that one, too. “The (German) railroads, Reader’s Digest,
ferry from Denmark, ..” “Neutral estimates agree that ... one-third of Germany's locomotives,
“The German Reich Minister of Economics recently admitted that transport had become the central problem of the whole German war ¢ffort.”
Now Let's Look At Our Own Railroad Picture
repairs.”
Pearl Harbor found America’s rail roads, in spite of lean years, ready to go at the drop of the hat. They had worked out a plan of unified war operation. They had the men, the know-how, and the equipment to put that plan into instant effect. For a full year of war—with the cooperation of government agencies and civilian shippers and travelers— or railroads have handled successfully the greatest traffic load in all history. So far, so good.
But What of the Future? Such a record has its price. That price is immense strain on all physical plant, especially in the ceaseless pounding of trackage, cars and locomotives.
We, too, shall face a transport crisis —unless materials are available for repairs, maintenance and replacements to maich this growing wear and tear.
Supreme Test Still to Come No man knows what our traffic peak will be, or when it will come. We do know the load increases
daily.
We do know there is a limit to the performance that can be squeezed out of existing equipment, Keep 'Em Rollin’~or Else No nation that does not possess efficient mass transportation can hope
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to win a modern war, In America
“that mass transportation job is
squarely up to her railroads, If they Jail, we lose. To meet this tremendous responsi= bility, we ask for every possible cone sideration in the allocation o materials Jor vitally essential repairs, maintye nance and new equipment. ™
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