Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1943 — Page 5

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Physical Standards to Be Raised for New Induction Policy.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U, P). —Men aged 18 through 37 who will be draftéd under the new combined calls for all armed services which take effect Monday will face tougher physical examinations than those

ters. : The new physical standards have been agreed upon by the army, navy, marine corps and coast guard. When the combined -call pro-

gram was announced by the selective service bureau of war manpower: commission yesterday the announcement described them as higher than those of the army. | It was evident that War Manpower Commissioner -Paul V, McNutt had failed to persuade the navy department to relax its physical standards so that they would be comparable to those of the army. Mr. McNutt, who had said he was seeking such relaxation, won his plea for standardization, however. : Rejeciees Not Deferred

Men meeting the new physical standards willl be apportioned among the variotis forces, but all those rejected for failure to meet the new standards after examinaa joint army-navy medical board will not be automatically deferred. ; Instead, the army can take those registrants whose minor physical defects make them acceptable for limited service, or any service they

under the army’s former standards. The combined call program resulte from President Roosevelt's manpower order of Dec. J, 1942, which terminated enlistments by all services of men aged 18 through 37. In the interim, the sea-going forces have been depending upon voluntary inductions.

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Inductees hereafter. will be sent to induction stations operated jointly by the several services. Those meeting physical requirements will be assigned by the army-navy personnel to the service for which they appear best qualified. Inductees will be permitted to express a preference for the army,

navy, marine. ¢orps or coast guard,|-

and their wishes will be given “fullest consideration practicable.” The bureau said that. if no vacancies are available in the preferred service, the registrant will be assigned to the service for which the military assignment board finds

mation of enemy dive bombers and

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Pharmacist’s Mate Wheeler Lipes, 25, of Upper Darby, Pa., is the seaman who performed that successful appendectomy in a submerged submarine in Jap waters. And with improvised instruments.

2 JAP WARSHIPS SUFFER DAMAGE

Two Cargo Vessels, Tanker Also Damaged in

: Solomons Raid.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U. P)). —American airmen, in a new burst of aerial activity in the Solomons, damaged two Japanese destroyers, two cargo vessels’ and a tanker, and downed 10 enemy planes. Six more enemy planes probably destroyed. One of the enemy cargo ships was left sinking. Four American planes are missing. American ground forces on Guadalcalanl captured a well-established Japanese command post, wiped out two other pockets of resistance and killed 36 more Japanese. : On the morning of Jan. 27 (island time), U. S. fighters engaged a for-

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high level bombers approaching Guadalcanal. Nine escorting zeros were blasted from the skies and that six others probably destroyed. -The enemy planes did not succeed ‘in dropping’ their bombs. It is from this action that the four American planes are missing.

Kolombangara Hammered

The same day, a force of Martin B-26 medium bombers hammered enemy installations on Kolombangara island, starting a large fire. That evening a force of Douglas Dauntless dive bombers and Grumann Avenger torpedo planes attacked an enemy destroyer and a

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NAZIS SNARED IN VORONEZH TRAP

Liquidation of 9000 and Capture Of 3 Generals.

MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (U. P.) —Russian troops have liquidated one of the strongest pockets of enemy’ re-

ing or capturing 9000 more axis effectives and raising to at least 81,000 the number of prisoners taken on that sector, it was discovered today. Three German generals were among a group.of 6000 enemy troops who surrendered, the Soviet noon communique disclosed. Three thousand others were killed by picked tank forces, Red guards and cavalry commanded by Col. Gen. Philip: 1. Golikov, : The capture of Kastornoye, vital junction of the Moscow-Taganrog and Voronezh-Kursk railrodds, by Gen. Golikov’s northernmost forces| placed the Red army in excellent position to strike at the flanks of the German armies retreating from the east. 5000 of 220,000 Remain The newspaper Pravda reported that the Germans had heavily fortified Kastornoye to protect the flank of their forces to the south. The Russians smashed through despite concentrations of axis tanks and artillery and widespread mine fielcs. The Germans also hag erected thick ice walls to protect their positions, Pravda said. : The grim work of cleaning out the first gigantic Russian mantrap, at Stalingrad, continued relentlessly and it was indicated that there could hardly be more than 5000 men remaining of the 220,000 encircled and smashed there.

Report Generals Yield, Flee

(The Moscow radio, heard in London, said German Lieut. Gen. Repke had surrendered at Stalingrad with all that remained of the entire German 297th division. - (Ilya Ehrenbourg, famous Russian war correspondent, wrote in a special dispatch to the London News Chronicle that Gen. Friedrich von Paulus, German commander in chief at Stalingrad, was said by German prisoners to have fled, turning his command over to one Lieut. Gen. Hibner, who in turn also deserted his men and fled by airplane.) Another potential mantrap, which threatened the entire 185,000 axis troops below Rostov, was developing. : Yesterday's gains brought the Russians within seven miles of Kropotkin, southermost: of three railroad junctions through which the axis troops might hope to escape. A second powerful Russian army was within 18 miles of Tikhoretsk, | 35 miles north-northwest of Kro-

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NAVY COMMUNIQUE 265 (Issued Friday, Jan. 29) : - >. SOUTH PACIFIC (all dates are east longitude): : 1. On Jan. 27: (a) y Ground opetations on Guadalcanal island resulted in the capture of a large, well-established enemy command post. Thirty-six Japanese were killed and Sufee prisoners and a large amount of en2my equipment were captured. In other sectors two pockets of enemy resistance were wiped out. (b) During the morning, enem bombers and high-level bomber: by fighters, approached Guadalc ~~. fighters engaged the enemy pl complete reports indicate e zer were destroyed and six others ‘probably destroyed. The enemy planes dropped no bombs. Four U. S. planes are missing.

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(c) A force of Marauder (Martin 8-26) medium bombers, with Airacobra (Bell P-39) escort, bombed enemy installations aT mB wa tare a group. arge as s 2 ae Pats returned. (D) During the evening, a force of Dauntless (Douglas) dive bombers Avenger (Grumman TFB) torpedo planes with wildcat (Grumman F4F) escort attacked an snemy destroyer and a cargo ship in the Ve! gulf. Two direct hits

left sinking. B fell close to the desury er, which was left smoking.

s Jan. 28: | (A) During the afternoon, a force of

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. One of the four enemy BI ed was. shot down,

EVERY 14 MINUTE LONDON, Jan. 29 (U. P.)Moscow radio said yesterday the Red army is destroying Ge tanks at the rate of one every minutes. More than 700,000 Germans been killed or wounded in the months since the Russian win offensive began, the broadcast s: a force “bigger than the whole Napoleon’s. army of invaders.” The summer offensive cost th Germans 1,250,000 casualties be= tween May 15 and Aug. 15, ti radio reported.

ing ‘a nearby . decks were heavily strafed. A coastal village was machine gunned. {Gasmata—One of our medium units bombed the airdrome at night. Cape Gloucester—One of our heavy units

| | bombed the airfield. NEW GUINEA — Wewak—Our heavy pmbers attacked . installations near the rdrome, po melisHing several ita schafen—One of our heavy un bombed the area y

Mubo—Our attack planes bombed and strafed enemy positions in the area. | et AED

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SECTOR: - TIMOR—Our long range fighters heavily strafed the Fuiloro airdrome and adjacent enemy localities. AMBON—One of our heavy units, atemy merchant ship in Bins new Bay, was intercepted by five enemy :s. One of the enemy planes was shot down. ; a

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The cargo vessel was last seen sinking. The destroyer, was left The next afternoon, a force of Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger torpedo carriers struck at Japanese ships about northeast of Kolonbangara. A torpedo hit on an enemy destroyer caused a large explosion. . A bomb hit and several near hits were. made on a cargo ship and near hits on a tanker were observed.

This Russian army was less than 50 miles east of Kuschevka, 50 miles north of Tikhoretsk and 43 miles south of Rostov, third and last escape junction.

DISPUTES WHEAT PENALTY BATESVILLE, Ind. Jan. 29 (U. P.)—Frank P. Huber, president of the Ripldy . County Independent Wheat Growers’ association, said today his organization would contest the imposition of the 49 per cent

One Japanese fighter was shot down.

sought war. Only the Nazis launched the war and the Nazi S. S. (Hitler elite guard) are alone responsible for the outrages and atrocities in occupied lands. Confirmatory evidence that trial balloons are being flown is provided today by publication in the London?Daily Telegraph of an allegedly genuine document reaching London from Brussels. This purports to emanate from the German army and inveighs bitterly against the S. S. (elite guard) and iS Obertruppen Fuehrer Thierack. It. complains against the better food issued for the S. S. who watch and spy on us and shoot our womenfolk if they dare to ask for higher wages or better food.” “We have known them since 1933 and it is they who bring about atrocities in- the occupied countries especially Russia,” it continues, “Hitler, by his S. S. terror, wishes to force both soldiers on the front and in the interior of Germany to hold out but we have had enough of war.” A gradually changing German

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people, transferring the emphasis from boastful confidence to a grave conception of Germany's defensive role, has been apparent for a long while. Suddenly, the switchover has become violent. The existence of a most serious manpower shortage is no longer hinted but is blazoned forth. The German people are expected to recognize as perfectly normal Russia’s “overwhelming superiority” in men and equipment, By exhortation and terrorization, the German leaders evidently hope to hold the internal situation for a certain time. Information available here suggests that the German masses are very weary but do not yet realize that defeat is possible, though intellectuals and industrialists and ,many generals fully understand: the gravity of the situation, The generals certainly are not yet prepared fo seize’ power in an‘\attempt to make peace, but there ‘are some indications that Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler is thinkfig along those lines. Some British political circles certainly seem persuaded that the enemy is about to make proposals for a negotiated peace and are planning accordingly. Japs recently renewed to China proPosals for peace on the basis of the 1937 status quo. But London does not consider that the EuroPean and Asiatic ends of | are working concertedly, ihe xls Et ———

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