Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1943 — Page 12

PACE 12 ‘et Spitz Saves ° [] ° : Family's Lives DECATUR, Ind., April 7 (U.P.).: =Mr. and Mrs. Jack Teeple, Decatur, today credited Mickey, a Small Spitz, with saving their lives. : The Teeples were asleep in their bedroom early yesterday Worning when . the - house caught on fire. Mickey, excited by the fire, jumped onto the flaming bed and ‘awoke the couple. They barely managed to escape from

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~ WARNS OF DEADLINE ON FAT INVENTORY

Saturday is the deadline for institutional users of fats, meats and cheese to file inventories of their supplies, Alex M. Taggart, Marion county rationing. administrator, warned today. : Institutional users are required to set forth their supplies on hand Monday, March 29, and file them with their rationing boards. Many of the institutional users have been slow in filing, Mr. Taggart said. and he pointed out that if they delay until the last day or two to return their reports there will be 8 delay in issuing certificatee covering point allotments in April. Institutional users include restaurants, hotels and factory canteens.

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TRUSS REPULSE

NAZI ATTACKS

Wave After Wave of Fresh Axis Troops. Turned

Back, Moscow Says.

MOSCOW, April 7 (U.

pronged German attack on the Vplkhov front southeast of Leningrad today while Red armies. entrenched along the Donets river hurled back wave after wave of reinforced axis troops. The Germans sent two columns against the Russian positions in the

attempt to narrow the Soviet corridor to Leningrad, but a concentrated artillery barrage broke up the attack and the enemy fell back to his original positions with heavy losses, the mid-day communique said. ; In the Northwest Caucasus, the Red army again hammered the German bridgehead ‘back: closer toward the Black sea and the Sea of Azov by capturing a hamlet in fierce street fighting.

Donets Fighting Spreads

Fighting along the Donets spread from the Soviet bridgehead on the

south bank below Izyum to the Chuguev area, 40 miles to the northwest, with increasingly large German infantry and tank forces seeking to blast through the Soviet defenses. . “ Front dispatches said the Russians not only were holding firmly,

‘but in some sectors. improving their “positions in counter-attacks.

Activity on the Smolensk and Taganrog fronts was confined to artillery exchanges and patrol activity.

Communiques

EISENHOWER COMMUNIQUE (Issued April 7, 1943)

The 8th army successfully attacked the Akarit positions on April 6 and drove a wide wedge juto enemy positions after very heavy fighting. Enemy counter-attacks on the bridgehead position were repulsed. Five thousand prisoners have been captured. Fighting continues in the El Guettar

sector. the remainder of the front, our patrols were active. ° Throughout yesterday, with fighter escorts, A-20 Boston bombers and B-25 Mitchell bombers of the tactical air force carried out repeated attacks on the airfield at La Fauchnnerie _and other enemy landing grounds. orf, seen to burst among the aircraft on the ground and several fires were left burning. Enemy positions and vehicles in southern Tunisia were successfully attacked by fighter bombers and numerous fighter sweeps were carried out along the whole front. : On the night of April 5-6, Wellington bombers of the strategic air force attacked the docks and shipping at Tunis. Bombs were seen to burst in the target area and a large fire was started. Heavy and very successful attacks were carried out yesterday by heavy, medium and fighter bombers on shipping in the Sicilian straits and the docks at Trapani. Six enemy ships were sunk and an ammunition ship was blown up. At Trapani, many, ships df all classes were sunk and others severely damaged and fires were started in the dock area. Flying Fortresses while bombing a conBizerte were attacked by enemy destroyed 15 of them. total of 27 enemy aircraft was destroyed during all ‘yesterday's ‘operations. During the evening of April 5, four Italian torpedo ‘bombers attempted to attack allied shipping off the Algerian coast. All four of these aircraft were shot down by Hurricanes of the North-

- [west African coastal air force.

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From all of these operations, five of our aircraft are missing.

NAVY COMMUNIQUE 336 (Issued April 7, 1943) NORTH PACIFIC— 1. On April 5, forces of army Liberator (Consolidated B-24) heavy bombers and Mitchell (North American B-25) medium bombers, escorted by Lightning (Lockheed P-38) and Warhawk (Curtiss P-40) Fighters, carried out five attacks against Japanese installations at Kiska and one attack against Attu, Hits were scored on enemy positions. SOUTH PACIFIC (all dates East longi-

tude) : : 2. On April’ 7, a group of Dauntless dive bombers (Douglas SBD) and Lightning fighters attacked Japanese positions at Vila, in the central Solomons. Fires were started.

PRICE CEILINGS SET FOR FROZEN FISH

WASHINGTON, April 7 (U. P.). —Maximum dollars-and-cents price ceilings will go into effect April 13 on frozen salt water fish and seafood according to an order issued by the OPA today. Twenty-two per cent of the catch of fresh fish is now being frozen. Today’s order follows placement of meats under uniform dollars-and-cents maximum prices. The order should have no “substantial” effect on retail prices, OPA said. However, slight increases or decreases in individual stores are possible.

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Py—| Soviet artillery smashed a two-| |

Volkhov sector, presumably in anj

Irish grin spread over his face as

the target skimming the water.

fox hole in the

repair now. Rommel had strong, readymade positions at Mareth which gave him the best chance in all Southern and Central Tunisia to fight a protracted delaying action. His defenses were as strong, if not stronger, than they were at El Alamein. : He was out-generaled by Montgomery and his 8th army, who swung the position by a daring flank movement through the desert which Rommel did not think could succeed.

foregone conclusion that Rommel

same army from his improvised defenses around Wadi El Akarit, about 20 miles north of Gabes, especially in view of increasing American pressure on his flank. The repulse undoubtedly means, as suggested by Prime Minister Churchill, that the American forces advancing eastward from El Guettar and Gafsa, and those in the Maknassy area, will be able'to join with the 8th army for the march up the coast. . Rommel is not likely to be able to make much of a stand at Sfax, a bombed-out port with no natural defenses “inland. His next main point of resistance may be Sousse, 150 miles up the coast, where the hilly country should permit a stand on a line anchored westward at Kairouan. Even there, allied troops at Fondouk will menace his flank. The position now is that Rommel is in retreat but in no sense routed. It is a planned retreat, and the bulk of his armor, men and supplies are being moved ghead in good order for further heavy fighting elsewhere. What in the end may defeat Rommel more surely than anything

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THE NDIA

As Irish as Paddy Finnegan is Thomas Gorman, And a typical

he read the account in The Indi-

anapolis Times yesterday of his son’s participation in the “suicide” raid over the toe of Italy last Friday. Gorman, made the prize crack of the raid as his bomber came in at

His son, Sergt. Donald W. He said, “I wish I'd brought my

bathing suit.” Mr. and Mrs. Gorman live at 1204 E. Ohio st.

War Analysis

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The repulse of Rommel from his attempted stand north of Gabes is more than a local victory for the allies. It will have to be followed up by further hardfought battles along the coastal road to the final

Tunis-Bizerte corner, but it clearly

shows the military weakness of Rommel’s entire position in North Africa. Rommel’s failure to hold longer than he did along the was a crack in the dam that he is extremely unlikely to be able to

Mareth line

Find Splinters In Air Raid Baby

LONDON, April 7 (U.P.).—A Moscow ‘dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph agency reported today that a baby born 14 hours after its mother had been injured in a German air raid was found to have bomb splinters in its hip. The baby, and the mother, who was operated upon to save her life after the raid, was reported doing well.

BRICK HURLER TAKES SHOES FROM WINDOW

.. Someone who didn't leave stamp 17 tossed a ‘concrete block through ‘a plate glass window at the Heidenreich Shoe Shop, 1546 N. Illinois st., last. night and stole $60 worth of army shoes. Someone else hurled a brick through a ‘window at the Martha Washington Candy Shop, 5607 E. Washington st., but didn’t take anything.

COLLEGE HEAD DIES

. \ MT. VERNON, Ia., April 7 (U. P.). —Dr. John B. Magee, president of Cornell college, died of a heart attack yesterday ‘at Excelsior Springs, Mo. He was 55.

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Appear Over Two English Towns; RAF Bombers ~~ Sow Mines. LONDON, April 7 (U. P.).—The

England today in answer to the sustained Anglo-American bombardment of the Nazi-held continent

which slackened off last night, presumably because of ‘bad weather, Today’s air ministry communique said today that bombers had sown mines in enemy waters last night, losing two planes. This was the first let-up in the allied air offensive against German and German-operated continental industries since last Friday. Nazi raiders appeared over two towns today, one on-the south coast and another on the southeast coast.

Bombs Strike Churches

Eight fighter-bombers raided the south coast town, killing at least 10 persons. Each raider dropped a single bomb—two of which hit churches—and machine-gunned the streets. When they turned to cross the channel, the raiders were met by British fighters and anti-aircarft fire. Two of the Nazi raiders were shot down, one by fighters and a second by anti-aircraft fire. . Three German raiders hit the southeast coast town. A few persons were injured and an empty convent suffered a direct bomb hit, While pictures made by returning

damage caused by the raids on Berlin, Paris and Antwerp, the royal air force fighter-bombers ranged over northern France yesterday, raiding railroads, airdromes and industries used by the Nazis in that area.

30 Factories Damaged

The targets included an airfield at St. Omer, steel works and a power plant in the Mondeville-Caen area and the big rail yards at Ronet, near Namur, Fighters worked over ground tagets with machine-gun and cannon fire. Canadian Spitfires attacked railway targets near Dieppe. R. A. F. pictures of the Berlin raid the night of March 1 showed that 30 factories were hit with bombs and railway repair shops at one point were destroyed. One workshop area of 22 acres appeared devastated.

‘Terror Raids,’ Axis Says

The Berlin radio and other axis-| controlled broadcasters called the allied raids “terror” affairs. The Antwerp raid, one of the biggest in the current powerful series, caused the death of 2000 persons, Berlin said. Paris dispatches claimed 500 dead in the U., S. Flying Fortress raid there on the Renault works, Meanwhile, reconnaissance reports show that 15 U-boat hulls were hit by bombs from United States Flying Fortresses that raided the German submarine pens at Vegesack, an R. A. F. spokesman said. Seven of the hulls were severely damaged, the spokesman said, and six more were hit lightly.

TOO MUCH DANCING; GRABLE IN HOSPTIAL

HOLLYWOOD, April 7 (U. P.)— Betty Grable, who danced too strenuously ‘in films and cut rugs too violently with servicemen at the Hollywood canteen, enters the hospital today for an operation. Physicians said the operation would not be serious, but added that the film star would be forced to rest for three or four weeks. Shooting of “Sweet Rosie O'Grady” will be halted pending her recovery.

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