Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1943 — Page 2
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The Germans,
‘Junction.
From Key Axis Port.
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Saturday a number of German tanks also were destroyed in skirmishes over a six-mile square ‘field north of Sebkret El Kourzia, ‘which means “sugar lake.” Fighting was in the same area today. ~The Pont Du Fahs junction is one of the main keys to Tunis and an outstanding victory for the British in the Sebkret-El-Kourzia battle would probably advance. the allies far toward their goal. The British had smashed eastward from the ‘Medjez-Bou Arada road last week. for about seven miles on a line north of the salt lake, but encoun-
tered stiffer opposition south of the’
lake. (A German broadcast said that American troops were seen, moving into the front opposite Pont Du Fahs last week-end.) ‘Then the Nazi armor was thrown into a counter-attack. A greater weight of British tanks was sent into the battle and the French 19th corps, holding a hinge position where the front swings eastward to the coast, made a general advance,
~ forcing the enemy out of a salient
that endangered the British. . The French, aided by an Algerian and a Moroccan division, took five hills—Djebel Artoug EI Hanech,
= Mansour, Bou Kiril, Menassir and . Edjehaf.
Farther east, on the coastal front the British 8th army again was attacking north of Enfidaville on the
"toad to Bou Fiche and cleaning out
enemy positions on hills that had been by-passed. The British captured the strategic hill of Djebel Terhouna. about three miles from
. Enfidaville, on Friday night and ~~ took 50 prisoners.
Western Front Active
- (The German communique today reported that the allied attempts to break the Tunisian front had
. been stopped with heavy losses in _ violent fighting in which the 10th ~ panzer I Goering division and the grenadier - regiment 457 participated. - Italian communique said that heavy
division, the Hermann
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attacks in northern Tunisia had been “bravely repulsed.”) The western front was the most
‘active, with fighting in progress on almost every sector from the north "coast to Bou Arada, while allied
airplanes supported the onslaught. however, had a greater number of fighters in the
‘air on Sunday and destroyed 12
gllied planes. Seven axis planes were shot down. In the hills north of Medjez-El-Bab, the British 1st army cleaned out a stubborn enemy garrison in the village of Heidous, six miles north of Medjez. The garrison
“\fought on after the allied advanceisaid that 23,000.miners would leave ‘had swept past toward Tebourba (Radio Algiers said. thatig0, if ag: ‘all enemy opposition had been ‘cleared from Longstop hill, domi- |" ‘nating the road to Tebourba.)
‘Going Very Hard’ . Four miles northeast of Heidous,
‘British infantry took the important ‘hill called Djebel Tanngouche, a
1500-foot peak overlooking the road “Teboubra, in what a spokesman ‘called “a magnificent effort.” He|. added, however, that the going was ®yery hard” and that the enemy atill was fighting on the eastern dge of Longstop hill, which also commands the Tebourba road. North of the 1st army, the Amerfean 2d corps infantry after a ur-mile advance held a line starting three miles east of Sidi N’Sir ad running to a point four miles puth-southwest of the village. The merican advance was continuing and a dispatch from C. R. Cuningham, United Press correspondat with the 2d corps, said that the mans were falling back north‘gastward on the road from Beja to Mateur, which lies only 20 miles th of Bizerte. “There is no indication where the enemy will stand but the Amerips are advancing cautiously, alert igainst enemy traps,” Cunningjam’s dispatch said.
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LEWIS DEFIANT,
Miners’ Chief Ignores WLB Request to Name List
For Panel. | (Continued from Page One) would select a labor member of the
list. The labor member sitting with representatives of industry and the’
recommendations to the full board
tie up most of the nation’s soft coal mines at midnight Friday.
presumably to decide what the miners will do when a 30-day truce with the operators expires April 30. Lewis claims that the WLB's | adoption of its little steel wage | ceiling formula constitutes a violation of labor's no-strike pledge and contends that abandonment of contract negotiations by - the operators freed the miners from their pledge to keep working. First indication of a coal strike
nois president of the U. M. W., who
the Illinois pits-at midnight, April t hes: Tok: “been reached. RI Pledges Specs Action The WLB has promised speedy determination of the case in accordance with the Oct. 2, 1942, stabilization act and the president’s anti-inflation orders, but said .it would not work on the case if a strike is called. In such a case the board would turn the U. M. W. case over to the president. The president then probably would appeal to the miners over the head of Lewis to resume work before sending troops to the pits. In two recent strike cases concerning the U. M. W. Mr. Roosevelt’s personal intervention has been sufficient. Last Saturday, the U M. W's “catch-all” affiliate, District 50, ended. a 13-day strike at the Newark, N. J, plant of the Celanese corporation under a presidential threat of government intervention. Last January the president broke a three-week strike of U. M. W. anthracite miners in Pennsylvania in the same way.
T. V. CORBIN JOINS OCD ADVISORY STAFF
Theodore V. Corbin, 2157 Wilshire rd, civilian defense director for Washington township (outside), has been named a member of the advisory staff of the Marion county civilian defense council by William E. Munk, county director. Mr. Corbin is president of the Indiana Naval Stores Co. and has been active in civilian defense since its inception. -
Communiques
EISENHOWER COMMUNIQUE
{Released q Amn 26, 1943) FIGHTING CONTINUED yesterday over the whole unisian front with the ene strongly contesting every inch of ground. on ae Sees. our trops continue their y On Ba Sight of April 23-24, .the 8th army captured Djebel Terhouna, #8 strong enemy locality northwest of Enfidaville. About 50 prisoners were taken. On the 1st army front, French forces operating in conjunction ‘with the battle around Medjez El Bab advanced and captured important heights. The batt! east of Medjez continues in our favor, and severe tank casualties’ have Been inflicted on the enemy. On April 25 a enemy arHison oN iich had eh holding out in tions in Heidous village was analy Daiaated. The northern frat of Djebel Fannsouche, where the némy had also fought tenaciously, was
rison were capt he ORC the 2d (U. 8.) corps captured an important heignt after fighting in the Sisi N’Sir sector. e enemy was forced to withdraw and American oops continue to press on
(AIR YESTERDAY LIGHT and medium bombers and- fighter-bombers of the tac-
attacks on enemy transport and positions. A number of vehicles were left in flames, and many bombs yers seen to burst amang enemy 1 and on gun emplacements. ot JDombers attacked an enemy aL Tunisia and started hee Fighters Were BOUT the day escorting th e bombers and Saintaning sweeps ‘and patrols, tne So a 52 he day seven enemy aircra a Stroy From all these o rations 12 ‘of ‘eur aircraft are MiSSnE, Dut two of the pilots are known to be saf
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STRIKES SPREAD
panel if Lewis failed to submit a’
came from Ray Edmundson, Illi-|-
ST and the remnants of the gar-|
and Jewelry |
The monument was a big attraction on Easter for service men, their girl friends and service women. Here T. 5th Gr. Peder Terland of Reed Point, Mont. gets a shoe shine before the parade. Left to right are Pvt. Senwod Downes, Camden, N. J.; Joanne Grey, Anderson; Harold Rothwell, 525 Arbor. ave., the shiner; Terland; T. 5th Gr. Evan Herbert, Eunice, La.; Katherine Germano and Helen Nevin, both of Anderson,
public will hear evidence and make |
in the dispute which threatens. to!
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Lewis has summoned the U. M.!§ W.’s international policy committee § to meet in New York tomorrow,
Angelos, Chicago.
462 S. Lueit ave., and Seaman 2-c Melvin Bray, Sandborn, Ind.
McNair Struck
helmefy and inflicted a scalp wound,
and another caused a severe wound
on the shoulder. The steel helmet thatsige was wearing undoubtedly saved’his life.” MecNair's temporary absence will have no effect on the army’s program to train millions of men in the next few months for combat, it was said. His associates said he had organized the program so well that it will move . ahead’ on “its own ‘momentum. Army observers pointed out that Lear is in many respects similar to McNair--quiet but hardboiled.
Wounded Friday AC McNair, 59, was wounded last Friday morning during the American occupation of Djebel Ainchouna in northern Tunisia while on an inspection tour. His wound was described as serious, but a war department spokesman did not believe that his condition was grave. If such was the case, he said, the message from Africa probably would have said so. Shortly after the war department had announced that McNair had been wounded, Col. R. Ernest Dupuy, chief of the department's news bureau, revealed during his weekly radio review that it occurred during the fighting astride the Sedja-nane-Mateur road in the mountains of Tell, where McNair had gone to inspect, the men and equipment he had welded into a powerful striking force. Lear had been scheduled to relinquish his command of the 2d army on May 1. He is 63, and near the retirement age. In contrast to McNair, who essentially is a foot soldier, Lear is a cavalryman who in his younger days could ride and shoot with the best of them. He represented the United States cavalry in the Olympic games at Stockholm, but of late was known to the general public as the central figure in the “yoo-hoo” incident. He ordered soldiers who shouted “yoohoo” at shorts-clad girls playing golf with him to march 15 miles under a broiling sun. McNair has been the silent man
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of the greatest army the United States has ever produced. As chief of U. S. ground forces in all theas ters where Americans are stationed, he has been responsible for making them fit. for the toughest of all wars. He was placed in charge of all troops—except airmen and those in the services of supply—in March, 1942, when the war department streamlined its archaic general staff into three compact, co-ordinated divisions—ground forces, air forces and supply services, Although deliberately remaining in the background and -letting his work speak for itself, McNair on occasion has revealed his philosophy. His mild manner disappears when
The inevitable when there are gobs, a gal and a camera. The photographer is Seaman 2-¢ Michael Posing are (left to right) Séaman 2-c Charles Axtell, Mevlertnm, Iowa.; Darlene Allen,
commander of the 1st armored divi-
As commander of all ground forces, McNair is one of Gen. George C. Marshall's three top advisers on the general staff. Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold of the army air corps &nd ‘Lt. Gen. Brehon T. Somervell of ‘the servicés of supply are the rother:. two. © 7 McNair is “a” native of Verdale, Minn. graduated from West Point in ‘1904 -and spent most of his early days in’ the segvice with field artillery and ordnance units.
He is a veteran of two expeditions in Mexico and went overseas in world war I with the “fighting first” division. He later accompanied the 1st division to Germany with the army of occupation. He wears the distinguished service cross, awarded for ‘improving the accuracy .and efficiency of American artillery fire,
land: the French legion of honor.
in Africa. Maj. Gen. Orlando Ward,
sion, was slightly wounded recently.
A quartet of WAVES marched gayly In unison to join the Easter parade after a 'B visit to the famed old monument. Left to right are Isabell Trahan, Detroit Lakes, Minn.; | Virginia Woodson, Miami; Mae Mangun, Astoria, N. Y., and Frances Wilson, Brooklyn. | All are Seamen 2-c from Bloomington. It seems that a visit to Indianapolis is not § complete without a trip to the monument. 8
CAP PILOTS ‘BOMB’
SKY PATROL FIELD
Two Indianapolis squadrons of the Indiana wing, civil air aptrol, preparing for the “bombing” of all Marion county next Sunday, yes-'
terday converged on Sky Patrol |
field for practice. Fourteen planes under ‘command of Lt. John V. Heizer and Arno F. Seifker, participated in the practice which was observed by representatives of the Indiana department of the American Legion. Poor visibility and showers interferred, buf pilots and bombardiers «got. the feel” of the light “bombs” which they will use in next Sunday’s “raid.” Despite the handicaps, numerous “bombs” within a few feet of small targets placed on the ground.
‘CLAIM THIEF FORGOT ~ TO ‘LQOK AROUND’ §
of §
When Herman Peterson, 21, 1325 Roach st., allegedly crawled
through a window into the home :
of William McNeeley, 1261 Burd-
sall pkwy.; early last night he for- } got to look around to see if anyone =
was looking, I} James Underwood, id Burdsall, and Bd W. Yrick, 1 , re-| ported they saw the imtroder ‘and’ called police. | Police said they caught Peterson in the house with jewelry and other
loot piled on a table and just bows, =
ready to leave.
He was charged with vagrancy E
pending an investigation.
DENTAL AIDS TO MEET
Emmett Belzer of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., will speak ‘on
“Development of Communication” |& at a meeting of the Indianapolis |: Dental Assistants association to be |
held at 8 p. m. today at the, Hotel Lincoln,
confronted with “metallic generals— those with silver in their hair, gold in their teeth and lead in their pants”—and he is an arch enemy of sending troops into combat under inefficient officers. “It’s plain murder to send boys into battle under incompetent ‘ officers,” he has said. He also demands that his men have fighting spirit. In a recent radio address to all American soldiers, he said: “We must iust for battle: our object in life must be to kill . . . the sooner we get in the killing mood, the better and more skillful we shall be when the real test comes. : Favored Tank Buster
~ “The struggle is for survival—kill or be killed.” Although he professionally is a foot soldier, his associates credit
army’s development of mechanized forces during the. years preceding world war II. But he did not jump to the conclusion of some experts that tanks were the only answer to tanks. - He argued for the “tank buster,” the fast-charging highly-
him with a large share of the}
mobile platforms carrying anti-tank
ful in Africa in recent months. McNair is the highest ranking. officer of the army to become a! casualty of this war, although the!
guns which have proved so success-'
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| | President Roosevelt's wage and price
0) HEAD DEMANDS
LOS ANGELES, April 26 (U. P). «President Philip Murray of the C. I. O. today called upon C. I. O. locals throughout the country to demand. increased taxation of upper bracket incomes and restoration of the $25,000 income limitation.
Murray charged in a directive issued to all industrial uhion councils that “corporations are enjoying a Roman holiday from grossly inflated war profits,” and said profit increases in 1941 for individual corporations after taxes are deducted ranged from 11 to 955 per cent of the pre-war level.
The C. I. O. leader charged that
fender, and said profits for 1940, 1941 and 1942 exceeded those in 1939 by more than one-half billion dollars. Murray urged unionists to seek reduction of prices to levels which prevailed Sept. 15, 1942, and praised
stabilization order of April 8 as “an important step forward in establishing real stabilization of prices.” Murray said the C. I. O. would oppose any attempt by government to
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h Now a Genere DOG THAT he is, Gen, Pao rolled on the rug in Booth Tarkington’s living room and scratched for all he was worth, which fis plenty. Figaro, a handsome black spaniel, had just been commissioned an honorary general in the WAGS, The commission was pre sented to his master, the noted novelist, by Mayor Tyndall. Because Tarkington loves Figaro he loves all dogs, and the author's létter to the council was credited recently with adoption of an ordinance authorizing establishment of a pet shop to sell impounded dogs at $4 each. An eastern dog lover then sent Tarkington a $100 check with the understanding that the next 100 homeless dogs bought at the new shop be made honorary privates or seamen with $1 for each of them going to the dogs for defense fund. He also forwarded the honorary commission for Figaro.
POPE OBSERVES EASTER LONDON, April 26 (U. P.).—~The Vatican radio reported yesterday that Pope Pius XII ' celebrated Easter Sunday mass in the hall of the consistory before the entire
impose a national. wage incentive | diplomatic corps accredited to the system as a substitute for collective | Holy See, but omitted his custom lary sermon and Easter message.
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