Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1943 — Page 1
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Let us-face the issue squarely and
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off : : Death among the daisies. Sappers of the British eighth army search among flowers outside Mede‘nine, facing south Tunisia’s Mareth line, for mines planted by Rommel's Afrika Korps. These are the first pictures of battle action in the Mareth line and were transmitted by radiophoto from North Africa today.
This map shows how Rommel faces trouble from four directions in southern Tunisia. The shaded area shows American gains since German penetration to the Algerian border. 3
RUML TAX PLAN DEBATE OPENED
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(D. N, C) of the house ways and means committee, today assailed the Ruml “skip-a-year” income tax plan ais heresy, and urged the house not to vote itself a bonus of “blood money at the expense of men on the fighting fronts.” Rep. Doughton spoke in support of his committee's bill to start July 1 levying a 20 per cent withholding tax to be applied against 1942 income taxes. He opened the longawaited house debate on pgy-as-you-go income tax collection methods. ! “The least which could be asked of us is that we pay our taxes on incomes which have already been earned and enjoyed,” Rep. Doughton said. “Let us not be misled.
sincerely, We must not be slackers on ‘the home front. We must help win the war by contributing our share of the tax burden, not by forgiving taxes.” After all the revisions that have been proposed in the Carlson version of the Ruml plan, Rep. Doughsaid, the following inequities exist: : 3 1. For those making less than| $2000 a year, their tax for 1942 is completely ‘forgiven. “I wonder if this provision will bear some special appeal to members of this {Continued on Page Four)
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RUSSIA EXPECTING MAXIMUN' HELP
Soviet Ambassador Calls For Aid Soon.
LONDON, March '25 (U, P.).— Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London, said today that Russia expects the United States and Great Britain ‘to exert their maximum effort “in the nearest future” in the war against the common enemy. Declaring that Russia is doing her utmost to bring about the defeat of the common enemy, Maisky in a luncheon speech added: ° “My country and my people are expecting that all our: allies, and most particularly Great Britain and the United States, will also do their maximum in the nearest fus
war to an end.” Maisky emphasized that while the Nazis recently had taken “a number of nasty knocks,” they are by ne means beaten. ' “We still have a long and hard road to travel before our final goal is'achieved, and our final goal is and
Hitlerite Germany,” he said.
ture in order to bring this terrible
Some of Our Wounded Heroes|
Living on Borrowed Blood
Calls. it Heresy; 5 | They Come Back Alive From Battlefields Because the : Red Cross Was. There “With Plasma. Hh They gave Pvt. Jolin Bienil 25'blood Plasma ranstusions, |} - And for three weeks he lay in a small first aid station somewhere
= He was burned, so severely burned.when a field range exploded, that he couldn’t be moved. It didn’t matter that the dressing station was an
care for simple cases.or.for those ~==10n their .way to. well-equipped hospitals.: John ‘Biehl had to be cared for right there. His life depended on it. So the medical officer gave him a transfusion of blood plasma. And another. And another. They kept him alive that way. All in all, Pvt. ‘Biehl received 25 before he was able to be flown out to a hospital. , "Today, he’s at Billings general hospital, Pt. Harrison. He's no longer living on borrowed time but he is on borrowed blood—maybe your blood, blood donated to the Red Cross. Plasma spelled the difference between life am death for Pvt. Biehl. That's just one story. There are countless others of life-saving through blood plasma from New Guinea‘to the Tunisian front. There are stories of men given plasma for shock, to withstand | surgery, to keep up their strength while being carried to a base hospital for treatment, ‘There's the story of another Billings patient, a young lieutenant in the air force. He was shot down over thé New: Guinea Jungle 11 {Continued on Page Four) a ————————————-
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NAZIS FORTIFY BALKAN AREAS
Three, . Disisions Reported
By UNITED PRESS
in the Balkan area in fear of allied invasion thrust.
government in exile revealed’ this it plans to follow invading allied] armies back into Greece. United «Press dispatches from. , Turkey, reported that the Nazis had put three crack divisions: on the island of Crete and stocked the garrison with enough supplies to hold out for months. \
Nazis Fight Patriots
Teliable diplomatic sources neutral Turkey, said the German command evidently was planning to concentrate on defenses in northern Greece ‘to make that its first main line of strongholds with secondary positions as far back as the Danube. ‘A report from Sofia picked up in Ankara said” Admiral Séhuster "of Germany, described as being the chief of naval operations in the Balkans, had started an inspection tour of defense work progress along the Bulgarian Black sea Roast at salons.
The Germans were reported today b to be rushing defense preparations : an
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Gibraltar Ships Worry the Axis
LONDON, March 25 (U. P). —The German radio reported today that more than 140 al=
liéd troop transports and tankers are anchored at Gibraltar.
are orn Gibral ? -. It /said most of The tankers, and transports “took shelter trom. the Mediterranean.”
REPORT 2 MISSING BOYS SEEN TODAY
Believed to Be Pair Who Fled Dime. Store.
: Detectives today concentrated a search downtown for two 8-year-old
in boys mising from home since March
tal? and who were originally believed to have drowned in Fall creek, “Thé search. Was intensified after reports that boys answering -their descriptions were seen this morning at the G: C. Murphy Co. store, 33 N. Illinois st, * Two boys had been’ appearing at ihe.) postal card counter every day
Here is a view from a British armored scout car as a “Bangalore” torpedo exploes fo open a
barbed wire around a German mine field at the Mareth line.
“Bangalore” torpedoes explosive-
planted by sappers of an attacking force, who then retire to safe distance as the blast opens the bri vi,
PRICE IS HIGH, STIMSON SAYS
Victory in. Tunisia Called .. Bartain but at Cost, of
WASHINGTON, March 2 2% w. Py.
—~—War Secretary Henry L. Stimson 3 today expressed confidence in. al-
lied victory in Tunisia, but ‘warned that! American forces “there must | expect heavy: casualties. “Many of our boys must pay the . {supreme sacrifice to maintain our way of life,” he said at a press conference. Mr. Stimson said the war in North Africa was heavily in our. favor and that we were shooting down three or four axis planes for every one we lost. “But it must always be remembered that the grim conclusive battles must be fought on the ground,” he continued.
Gain 100 Miles “In this respect the allied forces
in North Africa have ‘more than|
justified themselves against the veteran German troops.” The secretary said that the American forces in central Tunisia had pushed forth more than 100 miles before the enemy counterattacked. This counter-attack, he ‘declared, was successfully repulsed by the U, 8. troops and more than
{1500 Italian prisoners were taken.
Mr. Stimson said that one reason for the success of Atherican air power in North Africa was ‘the heavy day and night raids being made: by British . and American planes on Nazi war plants in Germany and occupied Europe.
Vegesack Target ‘Demolished’ "
“These raids keep axis fighting planes at home which would other-
|wise be used against us in North
Atria he explained. The secretary described the recent bombing of the submarine base
ab Vegesalk, near Bremen, as the
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BRITISH BREACH
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Road; Nazis Fooled, Guettar Sector.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY - United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North ‘Africa, March —Marshal Erwin Rommel has been forced to split*his arm: ored forces into four units te oppose allied columns crowding ;
him toward the sea, front dispatches reported today.
STICKER CLEANUP DRIVE IS MAPPED
Special Detail ‘Assigned to Trace Violators.
By SHERLEY UHL If you're one of about 800 individuals against whom unpaid “traffic stickers are: still outstanding, you can expect to be the subject of police investigation next week, Beginning Monday, City Prosecutor Henry M. Coombs said he will assign a special police detail to trace
When Coombs took office in January he found more than 3000 stickers against individuals filed away as “unpaid.” : Delinquents to Pay Up Since ther notices to delinquents have brought in payments from all
| but about 200.
There still are 600 persons against
whom: affidavits already had been
filed, but’ who could not be reached by: process servers. These are the persons who will be “rechecked” by Prosecutor Coombs’ special detail. - The prosecutor doesn't hold ‘out much hope
® for collection of the remaining un-
paid stickers, however. It's his belief that most of the delinquents are either in the army or have
: moved to other cities.
Many of them originally gave fake addresses, he said. Meanwhile, civil court action filed by Prosecutor Coombs yester-
.|day against firms who had ignored {parking stickers seemed fo be bear“ling results. . " Sri delinquents have paid ‘up
sor stezday. Erowestor Coombe en-|
trafic law: violators who haven't |paid fines. -
The hardest fighting of the North African war is raging in the bloody breach. that the British eighth army has driven
in the Mareth line. The roar of big guns and. the crash of bombs from an all-out allied aerial attack
ern end of the Mareth line, where the Germans’ were fighting desperately to stave off a British break-through. Meanwhile, today’s allied com
‘|munique reported that American
patrols in south-central Tunisia carried out offensive operations. Local gains in the Meknassy area enabled the Americans to push six miles east of the town and cone solidate positions there. The ade A vance carried the U, S. troops | within less than 25 miles of the v north-south coastal road.
Yanks Alter Strategy United Press Correspondent C. Cunningham, with ‘the Am first division in the field, report that the southern column of # American forces had won the round in their clash with the
{eran German armored units. St
ing on high ground in the Guettar region, Cunningham said k counted 16 | burned-out German i Ss They were knocked out in Tuesday's fighting and yes=
probe the U. S. lines. The jab was repulsed without American loss. It appeared that Rommel, once
advocate of massing strength point and hitting hard from
had been forced to divide his arnior into four parts. One is rou ] around ‘the - Maknassy road, ‘th (Continued on Page Four) :
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On the War Front
(March 25, 1943)
TUNISIA—Hardest fighting North. African war in prog
were heard along the northe