Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1943 — Page 5
~~ British, French Attack
Near Oussetti.
By UNITED PRESS ‘Radio Morocco, a reliable but unofficial station, reported today that units of the British eighth army
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and American forces had made a
juncture in southern Tunisia. There was no indication how strong the British units were, but it was believed they were patrols which had filtered around the Mareth line on a scouting expedition. The main body of the British eighth army is néar the Tunisian border, Radio Morocco said. Farther north in Tunisia, the British and . French were said to have attacked German positions in the Qusseltia region, 45 miles from Sousse. : Allied headquarters announced that American troops had withdrawn from Sened after holding the railway town for 48 hours and beating off one enemy counter-attack. A
spokesman said that the Americans
“had Huifilled ‘the purpose of their ‘raid. ” Fierce alr fighting broke out in the Tunisian sector and 25 enemy “S$. planes were destroyed and 26 damaged. Ten allied planes are missing. Most of the action occurred when allied pilots bombed Bizerte and raided the air figld near Gabes. American flying fortresses accounted for 24 ‘of the destroyed enemy planes. Docks were the chief targets at Bizerte, which is one of 'Y the big German reinforcement bases
MAJ. JOHN C. FRAME MADE BRANCH HEAD
_ Times Special
CAMP-ATTERBURY, Ind., Feb. 4 Maj. John C. Frame has been ap‘pointed chief of the post quartermaster branch, Col. Welton M. Modisette, post commander, has announced. Previously, Col. Clarence Lineberger had held this assignment in addition to his present post as director of supply.
SOLDIERS SEEK CITIZENSHIP CAMP ATTERBURY, Feb, 5 (U. P.)—Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell will move a session of his federal court from Indianapolis to Atterbury tomorrow to conduct a naturalization hearing for 20 servicemen who wish to become ‘American citizens.
over Guadalcanal
to regain full control of the Solomons. They will not be announced, it said, “as long as such information might jeopardize the safety -of our forces in the area of operations.” Fut a navy spokesman said that the skirmishing was still going on. Evidently reinforced, the) Japanese air force moved more idly and more frequently against the key American base on Guadalcanal island. For two successive days their aircraft attacked American positions at night. American airmen —flying torpedo planes and dive-
enemy’s central Solomons’ air base at Munda, setting fires and eausing explosions. These were the first raids on Guadalcanal announced by the navy since the Japanese came over last
been ordered to Turkey as new Italian ambassador, was ambassador at Washington from 1932 to 1936 and has an American wife. His two sons are American citizens. In a neutral capital he will have contact with united nations diplomacy if he wishes. Ankara reported yesterday that the Turkish minister to Rumania, who left Bucharest suddenly for Ankara, was believed to be carrying peace feelers from Marshal Ion Antonescu, Rumania dictator.
Terms Are Rumored
Stockholm advices quoted reliable displomatic sources as saying that an Italian delegation headed by a high army officer had left for Paris
with proposals designed to be the basis for a peace agreement with Pierre Laval of Vichy. Italy would renounce its claims to the Nice area¢of France and be content with minor “frontier corrections,” the advices reported. It proposes instead of its specific claim to Corsico and Tunisia a joint : French-Italian administration of both areas, and it further suggests joint French-German-Italian administration of the former African colonies of all three countries. A dispatch from C. R. Cunningham, United Press war correspondent at allied headquarters in North Africa, reported that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, leading the
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1 pains to move the Italians ah f the Germans for fear of causing a political breach between Hitler and Mussolini. Italian prisonHenry T. Correll, United Press war correspondent with the British eighth army, talked, were bitterly angry, charging Rommel had sacrificed them east of Tripoli to save his own men,
Prohibition New Style
Italy announced last night that effective Saturday no hard liquor would be sold anywhere in the country because alcohol was needed for war industry. : This was a minor reflection of a grim test, the grimmest of 41 months of war, which started today for Germany and every one of its satellite. or occupied countries throughout Europe. Not only, under decrees promulgated yesterday are between 100,000 and 120,000 small businesses to be closed by a March 15 deadline in Germany but orders have. been issued for the rounding up for home service of all Germans in occupied and’ neutral countries, Stockholm reported. Finnish Anger Grows
The call for Germans abroad extended to refugees, half Jews and foreign women married to ‘Germans, Stockholm reported. Stockholm said also that though Germany promised that its refugees in such countries as Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Portugal might retain their passports, they were refusing to go and that many Germans in good political standing
details of the engagement ‘at ses, it originally described as| indicative of a “major effort” by the enemy]
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On Guodalesil Increasing |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (U.P) ).—The tempo of Japanese sir activity| to be increasing today while both American| ~ Yanks Give Up Sened asi,ng Japarese SN forces continued skirmishing in the Solomons The navy still wi d
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Friday. They were evidently designed to interfere with or to immobilize American air forces on the island who might participate ‘in the sea engagements. For the second time in three days, the communique reported the presence of Japanese barges in the vicihity of Cape Esperance, which had been an‘ enemy reinforcement landing point. A navy spokesman said there was nothing to indicate whether the barges had been used to land reinforcements or were at hand to help evacuate Japanese {roops on the island. American troops on the island continued to apply pressure to the remaining enemy forces concentrated in the northwest corner of the island. The new - advance brought the ‘Americans to’ within
were likewise declining il leave their present domiciles. ih h ad refused, Stockholm said, 4 Y in Sa Locatio
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Italians Showing Signs of Being Ready to Ask Peace
LONDON, Feb. 5 (U. P.) —Italy is ‘showing new signs of weakening under the strain of war and Benito Mussolini is trying to reach a secret peace agreement with Vichy France in an attempt to present to his discouraged people some profits to set off against the loss of the entire Italian empire, dispatches from Stockholm reported: today. At the same time Ankara pointed out that Augusto Rosso, who has
the correspondent of a well-known Nazi newspaper. Finland, already at the cracking point, was said to be roused because] Germany was trying to grab Finnish women married to German: soldiers on the Finnish front. Finns. have protested vidlently. Stockholm said, and Finnish: girls engaged to Germans have . postponed their marriages. Stockholm said Germany faced its big test in trying to mobilize the thousands of lukewarm Nazis who had successfully avoided either the army or war industry. An indication of the severity of the mobilization decrees was given by Stockholm’s notation that insurance agents and peddlers have been banned entirely, that hair dressers will not be permitted to manicure their patrons but may only cut hair or shave them, that nearly all jewelry, china, perfume and candy shops will be closed at once, and that the number of shops selling furniture, textiles, boots and toys will be reduced drastically. The German radio announced that effective March 31 Vichy will ban entirely the selling of radio sets. Germany ordered the closing of many business and industrial firms in Holland in order to conscript additional labor. Stockholm said Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor, ~-had secretly ordered Norwegian newspapers to stop attacks on Great Britain and to emphasize that Germany might lose the war with the result that Bolshevism would overrun Europe. Quisling ordered the newspapers to play up the statement made by Field Marshal Hermann Goering last Saturday that Germany could negotiate with ‘‘gentlemen” but not
However, he cautioned the news‘papers not to go too far along that line.
SLIDES AND MOVIES TEACH AIR WARFARE
WITH U. 8. AIR FORCES, Somewhere in England, Feb, § (U. P.)—Flak popped all around, the tail gunner crouched behind his gun as enemy planes roared above him—and it all took place on the ground, within an area of a few hundred yards. ’ This is the new army method of teaching combat flying realistically. It's so real that it sometimes fools the instructors. By using slides and movies, every conceivable situation is placed before the men. The new program, replacing the old method where boys learned all their fighting from textbooks and gained experience only at the cost of lives and materials, is directed by Maj. John P. Dwyer. In “bombardier hall” small slides are inserted into a gadget which gives the effect of seeing the ground from 2500 feet. To make it more realistic, wires and mirrors are juggled to: produce the effect of enemy aircraft at va-
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LOS ANGELES, Cal. (U. P)—
with Russia, so must fight on.|
MeNutt Directive Puts + Hiring and Transfers in US. Agency’ S Hands.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 . P)— War Manpower Commission * Chairman Paul V. McNutt was ready today to effect priorities on labor in 32 shortage areas, a move that will virtually “freeze” essential workers in war industries. To Hiring practices indorsed by McNutt in a policy. statement last night would prevent workers in the shortage areas from moving from essential to nonessential work, and permit movement from job to job only’ of war workers who have a “release” from their employers or-from a representative of the WMC. (Indianapolis: was not. listed as a shortage area.) : The priority plan is the principal feature by which regional and area WMC. officials will carry out McNutt’s order to establish hiring controls in the 32 areas where intensive recruitment efforts failed to provide workers for essential activities,
Workers Channeled
Under policies set forth by MecNutt in a directive, workers will be referred to jobs which will utilize their. skills most effectively in the war effort. The priority, he ordered, shall be accorded to employers engaged in essential activities, in the order of the urgency of their activities, to meet labor needs which cannot be met by efficient utilization of labor. already employed. McNutt said hiring controls. can be established in areas other than the 32 designated if the regional
director, after consulting with the
fas "and his directive fulfilled
% promise. to the labor shortage;
|areas. He established the following pol-| lioy in connection with his order: ,/1. ‘All hiring, solicitation and relcruitment of workers for specified employment shall be conducted through the U. 8 employment service or any approved agency conforming to WMC policies. 2. Hiring controls shall be exercised to eliminate wasteful labor turnover in esseatial activities, reduce ‘unnecessary migration by encouraging use of local labor, direct the flow of scarce labor to employers engaged in essential activities, and provide maximum utilization of manpower resources. 3. Stabilization agreements shall provide for appeals machinery to weigh complaints of employers and employees who feel that any action or failure to act is unfair or unreasonable. 4. No program shall contain any provision violating any federal or state law affecting labor relations, wages, hours or conditions of employment.
The labor shortage areas desis:
nated by McNutt were: Akron, O.; Baltimore; Bath, Me.; Beaumont, Tex.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Brunswick, Ga.; Buffalo, N. Y.;
.| Charleston, 8. C.; Cheyenne, Wyo.;
Dayton, O.; Detroit; Elkton, Md.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Hartford, Conn.; Las Vegas, Nev. Macon, Ga.; Manitowoc, Wis.; Mobile, Ala.; New Britain, Conn.; Ogden, Utah; Panama City, Fla.; Pascagoula, Miss.: Portland, Ore.; Portsmouth, N. H.: San Diego, Cal: Seattle; Somerville, N. J.; Springheld, Mass. ; Sterling, Ill; Washington; Water- | bury, Conn.; Wishiia, Kas, :
Trio Completes Basic Train- . ing Period ‘at Ft Des Moines.
Three Indianapolis WAACs ‘have completed basic training at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, and have been assigned to duty at Pt. Knox. ‘They are Auxiliaries Suzanne R. Murphy, 4130 Park ave.; Margaret J. Irish, Lincoln hotel, and LaVerne Brown, 1228 N. State st. 8% 8 Margaret ~Alexina Maxwell of 46th st. and Millersville rd., has been commissioned a third officer in the WAACs at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. The rank is equivalent to that of second lieutenant and she was selected for officer training on the basis of her record as an auxiliary. ® & =» > Two women from here have been graduated from the WAAC administrative school at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa. They are: Auxiliaries Kathryn M. Booth, 1706 Spann ave., and Ione E. Wilson, 5248 Kenwood ave.
Six women from here have been ordered to report Tuesday at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., for training with tthe WAACs. : They are Emily E. Johnson, 2021 N. Pennsylvania st.; Anna Mike, 1341 Barth ave.; Della K. Schwartz, 2128 N. Pennsylvania st.; Marie E. Stout, 2248 Central ave.; Maxine V. Walker, 131 S. Elder ave., and Sue M. Warden, 24 Johnson ave.
LA PORTE PHYSICIAN DIES LA PORTE, Ind. Feb. 5 (U. P.) — Dr. Edward F. W. Crawford, 73, a physician here for almost 50 years,
died after a heart attack last night.
_ Of Message Affer 10 Yec
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 8 (UU. P)— Small, white-haired Mrs. Harry
Houdini, who for 10 years spent|
the anniversary of her husband’s death in a darkened room beside his candle-lighted picture, said today that communication between the living and dead is “impossible.” » Mrs. Houdini, confined to a. rest home with a heart ailment, said she wanted the world to know her conyictions before she dies. With her friends, “the newspaper boys,” gathered at her bedside, the magician’s widow said: “Harry could escape from anything: on earth. If he can’t slip through a message to me from Heaven then the whole deal 1 off.” She recalled the pact she had made with Houdini before he died. They gave each other messages in sealed envelopes, she said, and the one who died first promised to uy to send the message back. Mrs. Houdini, who helped her husband into strait - jackets, chained his handcuffs, Jocked trunks for him and sealed barrels, said her failure to receive a message had made her doubtful about life after
death. But if there is a hereafter,
she said, the dead cannot talk to the living. “After trying fruitlessly once 8 year for 10 years to pull down a message from Harry, I'm convinced the dead can’t communicate with the living,” she said. + “I sat in a dark room with a candle burning in front of Harry's picture on every anniversary of his death for 10 years. Nothing ever happened.” Mrs. Houdini had her hair marcelled, put on a bright new bed jacket, propped herself up on the pillows and invited reporters to her room for what she said may be her “last interview.”
“I gave the spirits their chance
to make their move,” she began, ners 8 She said seances that pro table-knocking, bell-ringing, 5| writing, and ghostly voices are “not only phonys, they're fakes.” Ar one who claims to receive a sage from her after she dies, said, Vill be “fibbing to say the
a recalled the visits she has received from persons. Who claimed
was a friend and adviser, her that it rained the night she made her last attempt to receive ° the message. That was Halloween, 1936, on the roof of the Hollywood= Knickerbocker hotel. He said it also rained the night Houdini died in 1926, and suggested that the down: pour might have been a mani festation. “No,” Mrs. Houdini said. “Harry could have done better than tha Once before, she said, a man told her he had a message. y “It started out ‘Dear Agnes’ I stopped him right there. If Harry didn’t know my name was Beatrice after 49 years of marriage then I'd better send him a message.”
BLAME FAMILY QUARREL SOUTH BEND, Feb. 5 (U. P.).~— Coroner T. C. Goraczewski today blamed a family quarrel for the death of Arthur L. Sholty 18-year= old factory hand. Sholty died yes~ terday in his gas-filled apartment after his wife, Alice, threatened to leave him, the coroner said. 8
HOOSIER A JAP PRISONER ¢ BLUFFTON, Feb. 5 (U. PP.) The ' war ' department informed friends of Pfc. Chester W. Green yesterday that he was being held a prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines. Green previously had Been listed as “missing.”
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