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Iritish- Raid Nap Naples, Allies Down 78 Axis Transport

Planes in Six Days.

| ALLrep HEADQUARTERS, Africa, Apfil 13 (U. P).— fliers saftk one 10,000-ton It éfuisér, badly damaged anOther and shot down 85 enémy planés in week-end blows against

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a rion, British middle-east-Liberator bonibérs raided , taly’s sécond port, on Sat-

Bixty-ohie of the enémy aircraft “shat down were transports attempts ing to fly urgéntly neédéd gasoline

‘ and oil to German Marshal Erwin Rommel’s forces in Borthesstern “Tunisia’™

i a time when somé observers believed Rommel ‘soon t want all the tarnsport erdft he ean lay his hands on to

fore the complete collapse of his ‘ forees. Altogether, the ‘allies shot down 79 transport planes : the six days ended yesterday.

Triéste Sunk, Gorizia Damaged

The ftalian cruiser Trieste was sunk at thé La Maddalena naval base in néfthern Sardinia Saturday

_ duting a raid by one of the largest

foreés of flying fortresses yét used & single operation anywhere in * world, an indicatien that up- | 6f 100 of the big fous-éngined bers must have partiéipated. They flew without fighter escort. The 10,000-ton Gorizia, hit in the #ahe raid, was still afloat but badly

| damage d wheén reconnaissance

planes fléw over La Maddalena yes-

‘terday. Several tugs were alongside and a laige amount of oil was flowing away from the cruiser.

Zy CRUISER UNK BY YANKS

Bombing from an altitude of 20,000 feet, the fortresses also hit at Jeast one submarine and started lage fires in the dock area. All fortrésses returned safely.

Lightnings Smash Junkers Sunday's toll of énémy aircraft rg 27. including 21 transports. All féll to twin Allison-motored - Americati Lockheed Lightning fight i 6s over the Sicilian straits.

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Oné formation of Lightnings attacked a group of 20 Junkers 52 three-engined transports off the .goast of Sicily and destroyed all of thém. Some of the axis pilots were $0 panic-stricken that they crashed without éven being hit. Of the 58 aircraft destroyed Sat-

& Yesterday allied airplanes again fade a record of more than 1000 #ortiés and brought down a total

i of 41 énémy planés compared to 14

atten aircraft lost. Bombing raids were made against the port of Tunis where a large ship was hit by flying fortress pombs and against Marsala and Trapani, in Sicily, where many hits fade oh docks and ships, starting fires. Three ships were Hit at Trapani. ER 5 as mri i =

BAR ASSOCIATION | . TO HEAR JELLEMA

Dr. W. Harry Jellema, head of deparument of philosophy of university, will deliver an address at a dinner meeting of the Indianapolis Bar association Wednesday evening at ‘the Columbia |

His gubject will be “The Relationship Between Philosophy and Democracy.” President Harvey A. Grabill has appointed the following

: . committee for the meet-

: Paul R. Summers, Harry L. , Theodore R. Dann, Albert U , Philip Lutz and Lucien L.| Dunbar.

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government man who hands States Post Office,” which was pub-

WINFIELD DENTON

Career Ends

Daniel C. Roper

DANIEL ROPER 1S DEAD AT 76

Roosevell’s 1st s tst Commerce Secretary Was li 3 Months.

WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.). —Daniél Calhoun Roper, 76, Presi= dent Roosevelt's first secretary of commerce, died of leukemia at His home here last night aftér a three in| months’ illness. Funeral arrangements have not been compléted, but burial is exe péctéd to be in his native South Caroéliha. Until his last illness, Roper had enjoyed reasonably good health since 1940 when physicians did not

monia, His wife, Mrs. Lou McKenzié Roper, and. threé of their seven children were at the bedside. Président Roosévelt sént a letter of condolence to Mrs. Ropér. White House Press Secretaiy Stephen T. Early said the président was “quite|

|saddeneéd” by Mr. Roper’s death.

50 Years’ Service Roper had been in government service almost continuously for 50s years, He first camé to Washington during thé presidency of Grover Cleveland in 1893. He had been prominént in the Démocratic party for many years, but was never ratéd a New Dealer. Although enjoying friéndly personal relations with President Rooseveit, he stepped down in 1988 from his cabinet ‘post to make way for Harry L. Hopkins, who then was just beginning his rise to the position of closest adviser to .the president. : In the summer of 1939, during the visit of King George VI and Quéen Elizabéth, he accepted temporary appointment as U. S. minister to Canada. Shortly after the royal visit ended he resumed “private law practice here. i Graduated From Duké )

Born, in Marlboro county, S. C., on April 1, 1867, the son of John Wesley and Henrietta V. Roper, he was graduated from Duke university in 1888 and four years later served in the South Carolina house. In 1893 he served as cletk to the sénate interstate commerce com.mission. In 1901, he réceivéd his law degree from the National university here and, in the 1909-10 period, served as a spécial agent for the U. 8. cénsus bureau. In 1911 he became clerk of the house ways and means committee, | Follgwing the election of President Woodrow Wilson, he was ap- | pointed first assistant postmaster general, remaining in that post for |three years when he was named |vice chairman of the U. 8. tariff | commission. He was 4 member of thé American bar association, and held many honorary dégrees from various colleges and universities. He also was the author of one book. “The United

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SHS 1 | N.Y. BOMBING,

| Three-Way Air - Offensive

{cuss whether the time i$ opportune

Against Reich Is Under Way.

LONDON, April 12 (U. P.).—The axis, reeling under the impact of} a three-way allied #eérial offénsive, revived talk today of & revenge raid on New York City. The German radio quoted a dispatch appearing in the Rome Tribuna Illustrata as saying that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini will dis-

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to bomb New York with Heirikel 171s. “Such raids might entail the heaviest losses in pilots and planes, but would have the greatést moral and psychological effects,” Pietro

Mormina was quotéd as writing in the newspaper. .Mormina said the Heinkel 177, | powered by four 1000 horsepower 'sngines and capablé of cruising at 248 miles per hour, éould fly from the French west coast to New York and return in 20 hours. Submarines would furnish weather bulletins. - From Three Sides 3 The article appéaréd as the United "States, Britain and Russia weré uniting in a bombing offénsive against Germany, Italy and the occupied countries. Striking from the east, Soviet Bombers touched off large firés and | explosions Saturday night in Koénigsburg, Bast Prussia, British bombers. roaring across Europe from the' west, bombarded targets in Ssouth-. west Germany with two-ton block busters the same night. American

expect him to recover from penu- bombers and fighters attacked south

ern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia from North African bases. f Inclement; weather last night ine terrupted the British aerial offensive’ against land targets, but bombers laid mines in enémy waters. Tw planes were lost. ! At dusk yesterday, British Mosquito bombers raided railway works: shops at Malines, Belgium and a factory at Hengelo, Holland, with loss of two planes. ’ .

FREDENDALL SEES | RANGERS OF 83D

General, Baok Back From Tunic sia, Visits Atterbury. |

Times Spedial CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. April 12. — ‘The 834 infantry division's crack ranger school performed before Maj. Gen. Lloyd R. Frédendall, newly appointed deputy commander

of the bond army yest y. Gen. Fredends#l recently ed from Tunisia, Re . |

The hero of the American land- | ing at Oran, the veteran of 42 years of active service is -& top authority of infantry training and this marks his first visit to the 83d division. He was especially enthu- | sigstic about seeing the rangers in action becuse this type of training has been wholé-heartedly indorsed by Lieut. Gen. Bén Lear, presént commander of the 2d army. The ranger school was publicly introduced several weeks ago when | the war workers from the U. A, W. visited Camp Atterbury and ex-| pressed amazément at the physical. stamina it required. Thé purpose of the school 1s to improvise as accurately as possible combat situations. It is the latest thing and has proven itself as rigid a conditioner as any training metkod yet devised. ! Gen. Fredendall also saw his son. Maj. Lloyd R. Fredendall Jr, a battalion commander in the 83d division.

GETS COMMISSION

Winfield KE. Denton, Evansville

MAKE MUNITIONS

lawyer and unsuccessful Democratic

| nominee for secretary of state in’

AT HOME THIS EASY WAY

the past election, has been com- ' missioned a major in the judge | advocate division of the U. 8. army and will report for duty on April 20. He will go to Ann Arbor, Mich., for & 10 weeks’ training course, Mr. Denton, who was minority leader of the state house of representatives in the ’41 session, was

TO REVIEW TROOPS

Units at Ft. Harrison will march in review at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday before Col. James M. Churchill, the new post commander, in the first parade since his arrival last week. The parade, to which the public is invited, will take place on the north edge of Schoen field, facing Altman ave. Preceding the review, Cai. Churchill will present the 798th military police battalion with the new battalion colors.

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MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 12 (U. P.).— Thé Japanese have begun their expéctéd air offensive‘in the southwest Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said today in report-|in

ling that allied planes shot out of

action 23 of 45 enemy aircraft raiding Oro bay. A spokesman’s report that yesterday's raiders met “equal numbéts” of allied fightérs indicated the al« lies had incréased their strength in MacArthur's command area to match the enemys reinforced air power. “Reconnaissance reports showing major increases in enemy air stréngth and recent hostile attacks indicate the énemy has initiated an air offensive which may atfain-a considérable scale of effort,” the

The attack on Oro bay by dive bonibérs and fightérs was thé third since March 28, when the allies destroyed 20 of 40 raiders. It came only a few days after a major effort by Japanese planes against allied shipping in the Solomons, where they 10st 39 of a force of more than 90 planes. The large forcé of Japanese planes came in over Oro bay at noon and the - ma jor fighting occurred

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iy Planes Shot Down As Japs Open Pacific Drive

bétween 20,000 and $5000 feet—the first sub-stratosphere battle in this area, and, the added, “gis one of the few times our Biuiers have met Japanese planes equal numbers.” Allied planes definitely destroyed five dive bombers and 12 zeros Taméng the six boibers and 17 fighters shot out of action. The allied losses weré fiégligible. Enemy planes dropped 25 to 30 bombs, hite ting & 2000<ton” ship twicé. and forcihg it to ‘beach and causing light damage and casualties.

INSTITUTE SET BY WOMEN OF MOOSE

Several local women ‘will be trained in chapter development of the Women of the Moose at an institute tomorrow at the Moose templé here. They, in turn, will be sent out over the state to instruct smaller chapters. Instruction will be given in ritual work, recorder’s work, membership and committee activities. Mts, Frances Wiebke, member of | the counicll and junior graduate grand dean of the Academy of Friendship, will be in charge,

TRED CROSS FUND

SRP on cht RAGE REFS i Ae oh ne 2 RE #

‘NEARS ITS: GOAL

$85,000 Needed as 90% of The $715,000 Quota

Is Pledged.

The Ind polis Red Cross has raised app tely 90 per cent of its war fund goal, with workers freporting a total of $630,000 in collections to date. Thi§ means that $88,000 is yet to be raised to meet the local quota

. {of $715,000. The drive Will continue

until this amount is raised: James F. Carroll, general war fund chairman, said that nearly 100 industries, many of them among the city’s largest, have not turned in their contributions.

6. M. WORKERS BUY 11 MILLION IN BONDS

ithroughout the Soumisy, he sald.

General Motor employees in In-

‘diana, have purchased war bonds with the maturity value of $11,983,-

875, C. E. Wilson, president of the corporation, ii Detroit, announced

‘grand chancellor's advisory | today.

Thetr purchases aré a part of the $100,000,000 made by G. M. workers

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Last-Ditch

LONDON, April 12 (U. P)— Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini

at their conrerence : last week mapped the defense of Europe against an allisd invasion=or ins vasions—and decidéd to leave all but highly-specialised units in Tunisia for a desperate delaying stand, reports from the continent indicated today. Référence in the official axis communiqiié on the Hitlér-Mussolini meeting to the “danger threatening the Eutopeai and African space both from the west and from th east” made it clear that defense keynote the conference. + Subsequent axis broadcasts ims plied that Hitler and Mussolini were

‘préparing to stretch to thé utmost

their already strained resources to stave off defeat. “Complete and total mobilization of all prevailing economic and military reserves of the ails was dis: cussed,” a Transocean agency dispatch broadcast over the German radio said. The purported axis decision to evacuate as many highly specialized units—tank corps officers, éngineers and signal experts—as possible from Tunisia was believed to répresent a compromise. Reports reaching Madrid said

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Tunisian Stand

that Germany favored A lagges scale Dunkirk evacuation, but Italy objected on grounds that it might involve heavy losses to thé Italian fleet within & matter of perhaps

combat an allied invasion.

Under the compromise ment, it was uhdersioon den of evacuation of ‘units would fall on a apa \ though some ships night Attemps night dashes over the 150 route from Bizerte to tn Sicily. German and Italian infantry and artillery forces then would be left to earty out a last-man defense in the hope that allied invasion plans could be knocked off schedule. “A complete agreerhent has been reached on the measures Bn in every field,” the co! said. “The duce and the fuehrer have confirmed again their firm resolution and that of their peoples to wage the war, by making full use of all energies, until final viétory and until completé elimination, in the future, of the danger tHreatéhe ing the European and Affican sphee both from the west and from the east.”

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