Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1943 — Page 7

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iiext Two Days Days May Show How Strong Are Rommel’s Remaining Lines.

By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX

Zopyrh t, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

* LONDON, April 8—German ad‘mission that the Tunisian battle

GRIPS THE AXIS sc. mo rom soto om Nazi propaganda is putting up such a great show nn OR Ve ERE it: . » and House Labor Group Asks cloaks some axis plan for the summer other than Nazi, Italian Troops Get many and Italy in recent bombings ean, Jiaia “sudden discovery by axis radio stations that Britain WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.).|convince the subjugated and satellite nations that their only salvation| LONDON, April 8 (U. P).~In- AB Uy St. C g war production delays on absentee-| The latest propaganda may be an ning . extensive troop maneuvers will continue as a “very unequal power from the helpless smaller na- iis stator of mlert against an allisy ’ meeting to consider the défense of ’ me you'd never know it. . . . Only People close to war production would be welcomed by a large pro- Widen ‘Bridgehead on the tne federal communications comterial shortages, not absenteeism, i the restrained optimism evidenced| rick, a member of the royal Ca- German “new order” means and in the Brenner pass to discuss the «us highly styled . . . favorites and, streaming into open country,| ham Palace after a recent in- | mittee said. the allies. MOSCOW, April 8 (U. P.).—The| United States and Britain as sa The next couple of days will show Norton (D. N. J.). It summarized) p on military power in the East the in ed. allied. aerial the truth when they declare that set out on the colossal task of try-|positions today to widen the Soviet |said that the two air forces have

NOT SLACKERS’ A of apprehension over an imminent allied landing in at 9:30 (Indianapolis time). He will [2nd other conditions caused Europe that there is reason to wonder whether it reveal the dan inflicted on Gers BE re t oo “ passive resistance to invasion. made by the R.A.F. and the U. §. YOUR MONEY BA Congress to Clear False : : The most astonishing propaganda switch is the Ready for Allied Lande [oe i and the United States are a greater peril to Europe than the “bolshevist ing on Continent. Impression. menace.” It is completely out of line with previous Nazi attempts to 9 ontinen —The house labor committee today Som Communist ood 1s 10 ght ; vasion * jitters increased in axis warned congress against blaming Gp oC RUSS ATTACK IN Europe today with Germany beginism and called upon government attempt to instill additional fear : : slong he Narth ha coast. and an «ei OF NEW SPRING SHOES | agencies to clera up the “false im-|and dragoon more immediate man- Blgerian 5 Sash reporting that, , - ) : army has been placed ight,” and reports at present un- k FACTORY SECONDS but : . pression that war workers are 8 If so, it may clumsily over- LI RB confirmed of a Hitler-Mussolini " » landing slackers. look the fact that allied invasion (A British broadcast recorded by Italy against the dreaded allied ni-|§ & rtion of the population of these the very low price tells the ; : problems know that to date ma- Portion o a : : mission quoted Swiss reports that y P . vasion, provide a counter part for| Flying Officer Wayne T. Mer- countries, which have seen what the South Side of River, Hitler and Mussolini. wil meet: soon story, dis Simple + «+ well out here since the British 8th army| nadian air force, from Evansville, | has been the most important fac-|gre peginning to understand that Ae ; forced the Wadi Akarit bootleneck| Ind., is shown leaving Bucking- [tor in reducing output,” the com-|iheir only real salvation les with Moscow Says. delgnte aE Europe) Shar ihe : a budget price. There's a linked up with the American 2d] yestiture at which he received the | The committee's report was read| , ’ ; : at a ' y German attempt. to minimize ver menace to the “n der” co the house by Chairman Mary T. Red army, wresting the initiative |gTa ew order rps. Distinguished Flying Medal, io y the danger the Reich faces from, =. "0 CE ted Ger.|in Europe than Russia. They as- vast carnival of pretty styles. whether the Germans are speaking ‘| testimony on all phases of ahsentee- mans south of , seized several - BOLIVIAN P RESIDENT ism and war production delays pre- [4068 10b ring true. The Germans Sf lay Hitachs Mete Semor Talgsh and they have many more defensive sented by witnesses representing ing to. crush Russia in the fixed|pridgehead on the south bank of|brought more suffering to France

positions on the line northward of i , labor, management and govern-|(, ri.. ioe nly so doing could : . the withdrawal or whether they will ISSUES WAR DECREE ment. : they face the Sy with real hope the Donets river, according to the |than did the Luftwaffe in the whole

of victory.

_ now be compelled to hasten back to their Sousse-Kairouan positions. While the 8th army entered its present phase of battle with armor virtually intact, the enemy is believed here to have lost most of his. This is a very grave situation for him now that the battle has passed out into more open country. Futhermore, if the Franco-American forces can push on through Fondouk and Pichen, they will outflank the Sousse-Karouan positions, compelling Rommel to take up his last stand in the mountains southwest of Tunis.

Air Superiority’ Surprising The overwhelming effect produced

by the immense air force superiority

assembled under Air Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder’s guidance is surprising even the highest London staffs. Airmen express themselves as confident that they can blow out the enemy’s last defenses quicker than soldiers believe possible. The next few weeks will show who is right. With axis spokesmen now not attempting to conceal from their peoples that the Tunisian battle is a rearguard action which must ultimately be lost, and abundant evidence of acute Italian terror as Italy’s ports receive a foretate of what is coming soon, it is inherently probable that Hitler has felt compelled to meet Mussolini personally. Opinion here remains satisfied that the Germans cannot let Italy go by default if they can .conceivably prevent it. But the Italians still are known to be wriggling desperately to avert the country from becoming a battlefield.

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LA PAZ, Bolivia, April 8 (U. P.). —Bolivia went to war against the axis today under a special presidential decree ordering mobilization and setting up the national defense council as a permanent body. President Enrique Penaranda del Castillo signed the decree last night declaring the nation at. war on the

side of the united nations.

Bolivia’s action resulted in reports that other South American nations, notably Peru and Chile, might follow her soon. Bolivia and Brazil are the only South American countries formally te enter the war although most others have broken relations with the axis. Bolivia, 'a nation of 3,426,000 people, has rich tin, tungstenand other meta] resources. She has no coastline to defend and her declaration was important chiefly for its effect on the remainder of South America and on the big German and Ifalian populations within her borders.

REPORT WEYGAND’S ARREST NIPPED PLOT

BERN, Switzerland, April 8 (U, P.)—The gestapo’s arrest of Gen. Maxime Weygand last November nipped a plot by which he was’ to seize the post of French chief of state from Marshal Henri Philippe Petain at “an opportune moment,” German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was quoted today as saying. The Tribune de Lausanne said in a front page article that Ribbentrop made the charge against Weygand in a letter to Petain,

YOUNG HITCHHIKERS SLUG, ROB MOTORIST

Two young hitchhikers thumbed a ride on E. New York st. at the Belt railroad last night, slugged the driver, robbed him of $12. and took his automobile. H. R. Brihner, 35, of 4646 Pleasant Run blvd., the driver, woke up in a ditch on road 29, east of New Bethel this morning. He told state

| police that the hitchhikers both

were under 18. He could give only a partial description of one of them,

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noon communique.

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Communiques

Not Deliberate Truants “They testimony shows,” the re-

in a long day of work in an over-

ditional responsibilities.”

labor with governmental and com-| munity co-operation.

Lower Than World War I

placed by the committee at “about half the world war I rate of 17.8 per cent” in the shipbuilding industry. Illness and industrial accidents

were blamed for from 50 to 75 per] cent of overall absences with poor transportation, fatigue from long working hours, responsiblities outside plants and inadequate housing listed as other major contributing factors. “Another type of absence may be described as ‘wilful truancy’ where workers stay away without valid cause,” the report said. “Their type represents a negligible propertien of the whole. »

Four-Point Program

The committee proposed a four=point program for further study: 1. Keeping of clear, segregated absence records. 2. Use .of the labor department as a clearing house on ways and ‘means of reducing absences. 3. “Immediate action” by governmental agencies to correct such contributing factors as poor housing, transportation and child care. 4. Action by the labor department, war production board, war “manpower commission and office of war information to “lay before the public the real absence problem and clear up false impressions now current that war workers are slackers.”

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on ApH ta Durin| % ce morning a force of Douglas SBD) and Avenger (Grumman TBF) dive bombers escorted by Wildcat (Grumman F4F) hters attacked Japanese installations at Vila, in the central Solomons. Hits were scored in the|q target area and a large fire was started. All U. S. planes returned. (b) In the early evening three Japanese planes bombed ral island: There were no casualties id pe sonnel and only light Jamage was (¢) During the nigh t Post oe pril 6-7 Catalina {Consoligaredt BY) patrol bombers attacked Vila. the same time flying fortresses Hl B-17) jutacked Japanese installations at Kahili in the Shortland island ares "and also small enemy shipping between 'Choiseul island and

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Santa Isabel island. A Japanese fourengine flying boat was destroyed. All U. 8. planes returned. (¢) Ff iy Japanese bombers, ig by 48 zero Ehters: attacked U. 8. ipping in the vicinity of Guadalcanal Famip 8. fighters engaged the enemy and "ghhol down 21 zeros, five dive bombers and 10 other enemy planes whose type was not reported. Augther enemy plane was later observed to crash Danes lost were one Allacobis and Ue ideas fighters. One U. 8. pilot was re rescued.

(Issued Thursday, April 8)

The enemy sounites-utiacks afternoon of April 6 with Serman_ troo; against the A os captured ‘the 8th army that morning were pre. with great determination. These attacks were all repulsed, however, and the enemy suffered heavy losses. The enemy had foal Jecisivel defeated and during the night of April 6-7 it was clear that they could not maintain any position in the Wadi Akarit area. Our mobile forées started to pursue northward early on April 7. The 8th army made contact during the afternoon of April 7 with American forces operating from El Guettar. French troops again soioperated closely on the southern nk of the (U. 8.) corns. In a successful ara they captured a number of prisoners and 2 The pursuit of the enemy BL relentlessly and many more prisoners, toether with much abandoned materiel, ave been taken In. the north, the 1st army carried out a successful attack in the area between Medjaz El-Bab an Munchar, taking prisoners and gaining much ground.

AIR Yesterday in southern ' Tunisia, strong forces of light bombers and fighterbombers of the tactical air force carried out heavy and continuous attacks on enemy troops, tanks and motor transporis. Considerable damage was done and many vehicles set on fire. Spitfire: maintained patrols over the battle ares and during the course of the day five enemy aircraft were destroyed. n the northern sector of the front, fighters and fighter-bombers made attacks on ¢nemy transports, starting fires amon; vehicles. . Fighters on patrol encountere a number of Junkers 87s. One jorjuation was forced to jettison its bombs, and in nine Junkers 87s were destr troyed. Throughout the night of April 6-7, ih t bombers made attacks on ene and transports on the Sfax-So During the same night Wellington bombers of the strategic air force suce cessfully attacked the railw way yards. at Turis where fires were star From all these operations one of our aircraft is missing. Further reports received of operations on April 6 show that five aqditional Snemy aircraft were destroyed on that

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German fear of Russia amounts

port said, “that the typical, Amer- to a Poiia 2g I bas bien sug jcan worker is not a deliberate De al ore Wi a ” truant but a fellow who gets up|g choice of having the Reich overearly, shares his car with fellow |run by Russia or by the allies, they workers, drives 10 to 50 miles to actually would welcome an allied work in all kinds of weather, puts|invasion.

Hence it is not impossible that

crowded workshop and gets home Hitler believes he is safe from any late at night, frequently to face ad- |8llied invasion this summer and will ‘make one more attempt to pin The report said that the witnesses | Russia down, possibly aimed this egreed that the most successful so- |time at the nerve center of central lution to the absentee problem [Russia and Moscow, rather than the

would come from management and Caucasus.

SPEAKS AT SERVICE “Jeweled Rhymes in the Poem of

Passover” will be the subject of Estimates of absence rates from|Ranhbi Israel Chodos’ talk at evening all causes within the country were|service tomorrow at Congregation

Beth-el Zedeck.

The Germans hutled thousands of troops and scores of tanks against

abandoned his offensive after suffering heavy losses.

in this sector in nearly a week.

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the Soviet bridgehead south of |even the Bolsheviks sending their Izyum during the past week in a |ajr squadrons over open cities to vain effort to drive the Russians |slaughter,” the Paris radio said. “In back across the Donets, but the|the West it is a war of barbarism. Soviet midnight communique re-|In the East it is a war of gentleported that the enemy finally had| men.”

Informed sources here said Ger-

man troop maneuvers under way in On the Smolensk front, all was |Holland and Belgium were designed quiet except for artillery exchanges|to prepare for defense against an today following a sudden Soviet |allied invasion, whith axis reports thrust yesterday that resulted in the|have predicted may come next capture of two villages northeast of month. In the summer of 1940, the the axis bastion, the first captured (Germans were practicing in Bel- . | glum, Holland and France for an Three enemy detachments|invasion of Britain that never came launched a new attack against a|off. H It was disclosed that Francis front r southeast of Leningrad, but|D’Arcy Osborne, British minister were thrown back to ‘their initial [to the Vatican, is en route to Lonpositions by a Soviet counter-|don to report on conditions inside attack. Italy.

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