Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1943 — Page 10
Not Lights, Pal;
They're Cannon!
: LONDON, April 20 (U.* P)— ' This story was circulating in the United States army 8th air force today. . ‘A new navigator made- first J trip to the continent Saturday Aboard one of the flying fortresses * which raided Bremen.’ Back ‘home, he told the pilot, an old hand: “What amazed me was the’ fact that those enemy fighters flashed red lights to signal each other when they were coming in to attack.” “Red lights, hell,” the pilot retorted. “Brother, those were 20millimeter cannon flashes.” eee { INJURED IN FALL
John Dobson, 65, Milner hotel, suffered a severe head injury last night when he tripped on the curb and fell at Illinois and Georgia sts. He is in City hospital.
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Yearly Saving of $175,000 Forecast for Long Distance Users.
Reductions ‘in intra-state long distance telephone rates which will effect \an estimated saving of $175,~ 000 annually to Hoosier long-dis-tance telephone . users were announced today by George Beamer, chairman of the public service commission. : The lower rates, to be effective May 1, were agreed upon by offi|eials of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. following conferences with the public service commission. They are the same as those made on inter-state long distance calls several months ago by the federal communications commission.
"Eliminate Some Charges
All report charges are eliminated on uncompleted long distance calls and the rate on calls over three
minutes is cut from one-third to one-fourth of the initial threeminute rate.
The intra-state rates for private {line telephone, telegraph and tele- | type circuits also are reduced.
Mr. Beamer said that while the general plans for reduction have been agreed upon the exact de-
. {tails ‘will be worked out when the
company files its proposed schedule of feduction within a few days. He pointed out that the rate reductions: are of a fype least likely to stimulate additional long distance calling to burden further the already over-congested lines. ~The commission chairman said that as far as he knew this was the first state in which the same intra-
| state rate reductions had been made
as were made by the FCC. Several other states have abolished only the report charges on intrastate calls.
(SHIFT WARING TALK
T0 COLISEUM MAY 6
Roane Waring, American ‘Legion national commander, will speak at the coliseum instead of the Murat temple on May 6, legion headquarters announced today. The change was made to provide for a larger audience. The legion is distributing tickets and there is no charge. Waring recently returned from observations on the North African front. He has scheduled three addresses, at Washington, ‘Memphis
‘land here.
Guests here will include members of the Legion national executive committee and members of 50 other legion committees,
. IRWIN TO SPEAK The John Strange Homemakers’ club will hear a victory garden talk by A. A. Irwin, assistant county agricultural agent, at & 2 p. m, meeting tomorrow in the home of Mrs. C. L. Stratton,”6131 N. Olney st.
confriant 1943,
axis rearguard “which today. holds a of Tunis and Bizerte. We are now infantry that we seem bound to burst through. Yet, because the Germans hold such naturally excellent positions, are so strong in good fighting infantry and seem so determined to fight to the last, here in North Africa, it is anybody's guess when we will finish the jok. In the air we are overwhelmingly powerful, and in tanks and infantry we outnumber the enemy. several times. The fact remains that we have got to punch through several magnificent mountain positions and that all of them are powerfully
{manned by. the compressed strength
of German ané Italian armies which made good their retreat from the
WASHINGTON, April 20 (U.P), —The navy reported today that American fliers showered 17 tons of bombs on Kiska in nine raids on the' enemy’s - Aleutians stronghold Sunday, while U. S. and Japanese airmen traded new blows .in the Solomons. : The Kiska attacks ‘were carried out entirely by high speed fighter planes, specially equipped to. carry bombs. Fires were started in the enemy’s submarine base area. The weight: of bombs dropped in the single day’s assault was believe! to be equal ‘to’ almost half that! dumped on Kiska during all of February when 1000 bombs Were use| a nine attacks, The raids increasec! to 90 the tofal of air attacks or. Kiska so far this month.
Five Airports Bombed
Munda, enemy fighter plane base in the central Solomons, was hit for the 108th time on Sunday (Solomons time). Our: heavy - bombers plastered ‘the runway, causing a violent explosion. The Japanese replied with comparatively ineffectual night borbing of American positions on Guadalcanal. The navy said U. S. casualties and damage to materiel were light. One of the raiding bombers was shot down. ip Japanese shipping, 8ppar ently carrying supplies for the my’s bases, and grounded enemy .plane concentrations have suffered damaging blows by American airmen, Absence of enemy transports -in the northwestern Solomons indicagec! that the Japanese are concentrating on buidling up existing defenses. In three successive days of action, been under attack in the Solomons. of these, an 80-foat vessel, believed to 'be patrol craft, was sunk, a 10,-
000-ton cargo vessel was left in a
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seven Japanese ships have
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Chicago Dally News, Inc. NORTHERN TUNISIAN FRONT, April 20.—American and British sir power, the massed might of our ; allied armored divisions and a concentration of ‘infantry divisions which now front previously held by brigades—a third as strong— y are confidently expected by most observers behind the allied lines in northern Tunisia ti break open and then-annihilate the
sections of the
remnant of Tunisia; south and west Dofent In the ain in tals =
western desert or were here all the time. One is made to stop and think by the fact that the Germans have something ‘approaching a division of infantry in the Medjez El Bab-
‘Sidi Nsir sector alone, and probably
have. been able to reinforce their artillery in “that region by at least 100 guns drawn from the Afrika korps and those parts of southern ‘Tunisia which they evacuated last week. : 1t is also worth remembering that they probably have a large number of tanks still in action here, contrary to previous reports.
Yanks Rain 17 Tons of Bombs On-Japs' Base in Aleutians
sinking condition, one cargo carrier and possibly three other ships—two tanker—were damaged. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s bomb-
ers, westward from the Solomons,
raided five Japanese airdromes and attacked a small coastal vessel The MacArthur © fliers attacked Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea; Finsh harbor and Lae in central New Guinea, and Gasmata and Cape Gloucester on New Britain," The Finsh-' harbor raid was the most successful; it caused fires. A Sunday night raid on Koepang, Timor, started fires visible for 80 ‘miles.
The current upsurge in American aerial aggressiveness in the Solomons hegan Thursday. During the three-day period so far covered in
|ndavy communiques, Americans
raided enemy ground objectives half dozen times. Both army and marine corps fliers participated in the attacks. Torpedo planes, dive bombers, fighters and both Liberator and flying fortress .-heavy hambers were used.
ALLOW ‘DISCRETION TN SCHOOL BUS. BIDS
“Township trustees under a new 1943 law are net required to award & contract for driving school busses to the lowest bidder, Attorney General James Emmert ruled today in an: opinion to Dr. C. T. Malan, su-
perintendent. of public instruction.
Mr. Emmert said that while a trustee must advertise for bids he has the discretion, subject to the cohsent of the township a#lvisory
board, to determine which of the
‘bidders the contract shall be awarded to. He also held that|. drivers of school busses are res quired fo take a physical examination.
MAYOR BEATEN |
ON ZONE RULING
Ordinance Banning Driving’
To Left Is Passed Over *~ His Veto. Lasage over the mayor's veto of
traffic ordinance banning driving || ae a ny downtown area highlighted last |] night's city council session which |} also saw enactment of a measure !|
prohibiting smoking in streetcars and’ trolley busses. The council approved. the trafic measure by 6 to 3, the necessary majority for ‘overriding a veto. Mayor Tyndall last week-had refused to sign the bill on grounds it would delay war workers and increase rubber consumption by chan-
neling traffic in single lanes at};
downtown intersections. - The ordinance, effective May 3, marks the first time in more than
five years that a council has over- ||
ridden a mayomlily veto. ” “
Another Rebuff
Mayor Tyndall received another council rebuff when his ordinance seeking a $500 office expense fund was voted “stricken from the files,” upon recommendation of Herman E. Bowers. 8.8 = Dr. Herman G, Morgan, health board secretary, introduced a meas-
ure seeking appropriation of an ad- |}
ditional $25,000 with which to pay expenses at the city venereal clinic. Dr. Morgan,told ‘the council, which voted an original $25,000" last January, that funds were urgently needed pending city acquisition of a federal venereal control grant of $147,000. Expansion of park recreation facilities has necessitated employment of an assistant recreation di-
rector, Park Board President Paul|{
Rathert explained in introducing
‘an ordinance appropriating $2000 as
annual salary for the new post. He
said six applicants are being consid- |{|
ered for the/job. . # w EJ
Campbell Aroused
Refusal of the council to immedi- :
ately authorize sale by the works board of two garbage driers to a war production plant, brought criticism from Works Board President Harmon Campbell who declared “by the time the council acts on this measure it may too late to make the transaction.” The ‘driers, unused at present, are valued at $20,000. : . ¥ ® »
Other ordinances passed provided |g |
for: Transfer of 20 taxi licenses to Negro-operated cab firths. Appropriation of $42,261 for pay-
ment of bills outstanding against
the city. Purchase of $18312 worth of street-repair materials by the works board. ; Cancellation of parking restric-
tions on Capitol ave. between Mary-
land and Washington sts.
Other measures introduced pro- {fi
vided for: Extension through the city of Ind. 431, which at present reaches
oniy to the north and south out- |
skirts of Indianapolis. Ratification of the Warren Township fire protection contract under
which the township pays $2500 ai
year, plus $100 for each fire “run” in excess of 25.
Communiques
3 NAVY COMMUNIQUE 350 (Issued Tuesday, April 20) SOUTH PACIFIC (all dates east longi-
£7 Bb & oa :night, Liverator (Con- |, bombers attacked
solidated B-24) heavy Japanese inst:
allations, at Munda, in the |
ap central Solomons. Hits were scored
on the Tunyay and and a large e: ted. Ry The
Sane 1igi, Gusdaicanar a ‘island | § Japiness ® planes, 5 Iesulting
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very slight damage Ns e the Japanese bombers was shot down. NORTH PACIFIC: 2. On April 18, Riska of sem attacked n Lightning fighters. Hits North ropped: Salmon Vagooh ms Te camp areas. Jires. were started in the orth Heat em is at the orthery tr a to Kiska harbor and lagoon. 1s did TR rg the of that. Tie A those places. were EISENHOWER COMMUNIQUE (Issued A 20, 1943)
In the central sector of the Tunisian |
front, an enemy counterattack launched against French forces on the night of April 18-19 was easily
te sectors, active Le lig con- (§ Fighters of the tactical air force Jesters |
day continued their offensive sweeps coast and destroyed 12
al rts of the sweep
Further repo: carried |}! - out on April 18 show that an additional destroyed on
‘three enemy fighters were that day. fi oushont yesterday re
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fighters main-
and patrols over the for- |}
Japanese Jostiions at
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the Tunisian Junkers, 52 transports and “eight. other |}
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