Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1942 — Page 5

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ATP NR ot i West i

, Yanks Raid Romilly and

i Downs One + Focke-Wulf 190.

LONDON, | Dec, 21 (U. P3.—Brit-

- ish planes om heavy bombers to

. fighters attacked Germany and oceupied territory during the night in 8 new non-stop aerial offensive as part of which hundreds of planes including United States army flying fortresses and Liberators made one of the biggest sweeps of the war. yesterday. The B-17’s and Boss were cred-

| fted with shooting down at least

46 German fighters and damaging : 80 more.

Staff Sergt. Robert 1. Shephen-

son of Kirklin, Ind., received credit ; for Shooting. down one Foche-Wulf 190. 2 In the night raids four-motored|%

British bombers left many large fires burning in Duisburg, great German industrial city and communication center.

Eight Trains Shot Up

British Whirlwind bombers, used |:

for the first time as intruder planes, shot up eight trains in France, one

_ @s far inland as Orleans.

, ‘The raids - deep inside France marked a new phase in the allied aerial offensive. Orleans is 70 miles south of Paris, and the American bombers had gone -180 miles into France yesterday to attack Romilly. One of the most important German airfields in France is at Romilly

and its hangars wefe left ‘a “tower|

of flame,” U. S. pilots said. The big bombers were escorted by hundreds of allied fighters, including Canadian, British, Polish, Fighting French and Czech planes. Not one fighter was lost. Six of the American bombers were missing, the biggest single day’s loss in this theater.

Duisburg’s 56th Raid

Last night’s raid, under a bright full moon, was the 56th, raid on Duisburg and the first since Sept: 6. In the target area, on which it was believed that some. 8000 pound triple . block buster bombs were dropped, are factories which turn out parts for diesel, airplane and submarine motors, great’ railroad yards and the one-mile railroad bridge across the Rhine. Announcement that 11 of the big royal air force bombers which made the raid on- Duisburg, at the junction’ of the Rhine and ‘the Ruhr, had failed to return indicated that the - “strong force” of planes engaged numbered upward of 200. Germany admitted “some fires and damage to residential quarters” and “small civiliah casualties.”

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Today’

to a close. .

Roosevelt regently. said. Both Hitler and the Japanese are still powerful foes and the road to victory is going to be long and hard. The Japanese are strongly entrenched over a vast area of the Pacific an@ Asia. The, actions on Guadalcanal and New Guinea and the presen drive into Burma are the beginhings of the process of driving them back mile by mile but are actually only nibbling at the fringes of .a sprawling area of conquest. Hitler’s position is far less enviable than that of the Japanese. He is ringed in now on thé west, east and south and the jaws of the trap are closing. His position in Russia is growing more serious as the winter advances. The newest Russian offensive has carried the Red army as much as

75 miles ahead in the Bon region

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Josef Stalin is 63 today. This map shows how his armies both north and south of Stalingrad and around Smolensk are making his Biriday happy and making the Germans retreat.

s War Moves

Y LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The offensive power of the united mations is being increasingly shown as the fateful year of 1942 draws|.

The axis powers are everywhere on the defensive. There is nowhere any ‘present sign of a developing counter-offensive,

especially is in a position to strike an effective counter-blow. There can be little doubt! that 1942 has seen the turn of the tide, as President

or any indication that Hitler

west of Stalingrad and the Germans are losing heavily in men and equipment. There is no longer any question of whether Hitler will take

Stalingrad, as. he so confidently boasted he would do, but of how long: it will take for the Russians to drive him out of the region. And Hitler is confronted with an equally grave menace in the Mediterranean. The problem there appears insoluble for him. The allies are regaining mastery of ‘the sea and air on the inland ocean and have the axis forces routed in Libya, The allies in Tunisia are mustering their strength for the final blow to the presence of the axis in Africa. Hitler knows that the next move will be the invasion of

southern Europe.

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High government officials responsi-

|the existing rationing program.

_1the rank of minister.

‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. P)—

ble for gasoline and fuel oil distribution met.at the White House today to study - proposals for ‘revamping

The meeting. was called by Stabilization Director. James, F. Byrnes “because of recent developments affecting the Eastern seaboard area.” “The -most drastic develop 60-hour gas ban on gaso

over: the weeki today, but with less valuable: coupons. ‘The value of “B” and “C” ration coupons was cut from. four to three gallons. “A” coupons, which were cut from four-to three gallons last month, remain unchanged. Appeasing Congress Byrnes called to the White House today retiring Price Administrator Leon Henderson, Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes and Transportation Dirsctor Joseph’B. Eastman, heads of the three agencies responsible for control and distribution of gasoline and fuel oil. They have been asked to submit to Byrnes reports indicating “(1) in what respects our existing policies and machinery may not be effective, and (2) what remedial action should be taken both for the present and the future.” The White House conference is expected to devote considerable attention to the fuel oil probléh, especially as it applies to New .England, New York and other Eastern states>where a cold wave has heayily taxed already low fuel reserves. . . ‘Appeasing’ Congress * But in most quarters Byrnes’ announcement. of the meeting was interpreted as the opening of a major drive to get the rationing program as a whole into better shape before the new congress meets. First administration move to “appease” congress was seen in the resignation of Henderson last week. Reliable sources reported that it was part'of a bargain between the administration and the farm bloc to prevent congressional enactment of higher parity scales. 5

NAMED N. AFRICAN AID ALLIED NORTH AFRICAN HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 20 (Delayed) (U.P.).—Lieut Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announced today} that President Roosevelt had appointed Robert Murphy his personal representative in North Africa, with

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