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SCRIPPS — HOWARD
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 50
A Weekly Siteip by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, May 8-—When and where will we
invade?
Best informed sources all say soon.
As to where—
there are many guesses, may actually be many invasions at once, designed to confuse the enemy. Informed Britishers wouldn't be surprised if the major effort takes place through France and the low
countries. Unless Hitler is
‘possuming, the allies now
have air superiority, plus what it takes to put an aerial umbrella over the channel and the European brideghead.
Question: What will Hitler do? his best defense against European invasion?
2s = 8 Will he try to invade Britain as Has he been secrelly
hoarding air power for months for some such sudden move? Britain is the world’s biggest war base, ammunition dump, manpower reservoir and springboard of attack. Even if his effort failed, Hitler might reason he could throw allied plans off balance in that manner.
= = = On April 10 this column said: to beat Rommel in Tunisia? six.” It looks like a draw! = ® =
= = = “How long will it take the allies
Optimists say three weeks, pessimists,
Japs Could Bomb West Coast
The Pacific coast may be bombed any time. The Japs now have a bigger carrier-based bomber job than the Mitchell B-25. They would
gladly sacrifice a makeshift carrier or two with all planes and men aboard in order to bomb our coastal cities, airplane factories, ship-
yards,
Note: If it comes it will end efforts in some quarters, now agitating western congressmen, to release Japanese from internment camps,
let them return to Pacific coast. = = 2
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Other side of the picture is that you can look for our side to bomb Japan again soon. Japan fears it: is expected to launch a new offensive in China to deprive us of bombing bases on Chinese soil. Second purpose of such an attack would be to capture or destroy (Continued on Page Two)
Ernie Pyle's Cigaret Drive For May Closes Tuesday
(hist of Donors, Page 2)
| day One and three-guarter million!
present drive would be closed Tuesand resumed next month caused many additional donors to
cigarets—that's the number read- rush to beat the deadline. Heading
ers of The Indianapolis Times have contributed to the Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund in nine days. Announcement yesterday that the
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the list with the largest single donation were Richardson Co. emplovees. They bought 90,000 cigarets for fighting Yanks overseas
with $225.
Donors need not worry if the
Tuesday deadline is not met, for
The Times has acted to secure a continuous flow of cigarets to battle areas. Next month, and every month for the duration, the fund will be re-opened. The goal each month will be at least a million cigarets. Money contributed after Tuesday will be held until the June campaign is opened. Individuals collecting money will have the whole month to do it. This plan was adopted because of the readers’ enthusiastic response to the project. In addition to Richardson Co. employees, large donations listed today were 26,800 cigarets with $87, by R. C. A. plant No. ¢ employees, members of Local B-1048; 23,320
LEGION TO HOLD PARADE SUNDAY
Expect 25,000 Marchers to Take Part in Bond Drive Spectacle. V/
Veterans of the first world war, fighters of world war II, patriotic groups and war plant workers will unite tomorrow to march for war bonds in what is expected to be one of Indianapolis’ longest and most colorful parades. About 25000 are expected to be in the parade, sponsored by the American Legion as part of its campaign for $19,000,000 in war bond sales during May. Each of the Legion's 11 districts in the state will be represented by bands, drum and bugle corps and other marchers, and these will be supplemented with a complete armored battalion from Camp Atterbury, troops from Ft. Harrison, naval units, and contingents of WAVES and WAACs. First of the parades eight divi(Continued on Page Two)
YANKS CONTINUING ALEUTIAN ATTACKS
Airmen Believed ‘Softening
Up’ Jap Bases.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (U. P). —American airmen continued their offensive to “soften up” Japanese bases in the Aleutians, hitting Kiska five more times and Attu seven times on Thursday, the navy announced today. The almost non-stop assault, which has carried our fliers over Kiska alone 220 times since March 1, is believd to be prelimi. nary to American attempts to wrest the islands from the Japanese, It was the heaviest single day's aerial activity against Attu. The enemy toe-hold in the Aleutians has been under steady aerial hammering from a new American base only 63 nautical miles 72 land miles) away. That base was established on Amchitka, only 15 minutes flying time from Kiska, (Continued on Page Two)
On the War Fronts
TUNISIA—Both_ Tunis and Bizerte in allied hands after lightning offensive by American 2d corps «and British 1st army; axis troops believed ffeeing up Cap Bon peninsula for final stand in North Africa. LONDON—ALllied invasion of Europe expected before summer.
MOSCOW—Red army wipes out 1000 Germans in Caucasus fighting northeast of Novorossisk.
LONDON—London Ras daylight air alarm but no bombs.
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NEW GUINEA—Allied bombers give| Elizabeth B. Ward Madang heaviest raid. Collegian of
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1943
HARPER QUITS WMC POST AS MNUTT AID
Dispute Over ‘Matters of Policy’ Cited as Reason
For Resignation.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
Fowler V. Harper, former law professor at Indiana university when Paul V. McNutt was dean, has resigned as war manpower commission deputy chairman because he differs on “matters of policy” with Mr. MeNutt, WMC chairman. Until re-organization of the WMC several months ago, Mr. Harper was Mr. McNutt’s right hand man. With the re-organization came the appointment of Lawrence A. Appley, Vicks Chemical Co. president, as executive director. The result, according to Mr. Harper's friends, was a shift by WMC to. “right of center.” Since Mr. Appley's appointment, it is reported, Mr. Harper has been denied access to management-labor policy committee meetings and his office has been moved away from Mr. McNutt. Mr. Harper is expected to join the staff of director Milo Perkins of the Board of Economic Warfare. The BEW is world-wide in
potent of the New Deal agencies connected with the war. Vice President Wallace is chairman of BEW and Mr. Perkins and his staff are perhaps “left of center.” | Friends of Mr. Harper said he was motivated by a belief that the had given management a | dominant edge over labor. Mr. Harper would not comment on his | resignation, nor on his future plans. He first came to Washington as counsel of the Federal Security Agency. The $9000 post with WMC was created for him by McNutt,
‘CITY PLAYGROUNDS
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Coupled with the announcement {that 15 of the city’s 62 summer | playgrounds would be opened next week-end, the earliest in history, came a warning today from Frank Lugar, city recreation director, against vandalism. “If the public appreciates this service and co-operates with us in the prevention of vandalism, we may be able to open ahead of schedule again next year,” Mr. Luzar |said. “Any of our equipment which | may be destroyed cannot be re- | placed for the duration of the war {and every citizen should be on the lookout for vandals.”
THREE DIE, 7 HURT AS ‘DUD’ EXPLODES
OZARK, Ala, May 8 (U. P)— The detonation Tuesday of a dud shell on the Camp Rucker firing range resulting in the deaths of three enlisted men and injuries to six others and one officer has been announced by the Camp Rucker public relations office. The injured were still in the post hospital today where their condition was described as “not unfavorable.” Extent of their injuries was not revealed.
REPORT BEY HAS FLED NEW YORK, May 8 (U. P)— The London radio reported today that the bey of Tunis had fled to
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TUNISIAN GIRLS (ISS TOMMIES
Pelt Victors With Flowers; Germans Depart Without Real Fight.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Stal Correspondent TUNIS, May T (4:10 P. M)~(Delayed). —The British 1st army has just entered this capital of Tunisia
its operations and one of the most/ oc." joyous cheers of the
populace, Most of the German defenders had fled without putting up a real fight. The few who remain, some grimming, some disconsolate, are surrendering at almost every street corner, Singing and sobbing French men and women are pelting the warworn British soldiers with flowers and fresh-faced girls smack kisses on the cheeks of the proud victors who made this conquest just six (Continued on Page Two)
RUSS HAMMERING AXIS BRIDGEHEAD
Nazi Infantry Battalion Is Destroyed .
MOSCOW, May 8 (U. P.), — The | Soviet army, intensifying artillery land aerial hammering of the axis bridgehead in the Caucasus, have wiped out a German infantry battalion—about 1000 men—in its drive toward the Black sea port of Novorossisk, the Soviet mid-day communique announced today. Russian gunners, supporting infantry attacks that have been driving the enemy back northeast of Novorossisk, silenced 27 enemy artillery and mortar batteries and 60 {machine gun nests, destroyed 10 lorries carrying ammunition and dozens of carts carrying supplies, in addition to annihilating the infantry unit.
NOTE TO GARDENERS
Victory gardeners beware! “Cooler tonight with frost, continued cool tomorrow forenoon” was the official forecast of the weather bureau today. Got any old newspaper or paper
Italy.
sacks ready, you early tomato planters? LOCAL TEMPERATURES a.m ...53 10am ... 53 Tam ... 3% lam ...5 Sam ...5 12 (noon) . 54 Sam ... 51 1pm ... 58
Butler's Coeds
It's spring. The birds know it. The bees know it. And at Butler university, they're finding out all over again about what young men's fancies lightly turn to in the spring, whether theyre wearing uniforms or =oot suits. It seems there's been too much visiting between Butler coeds and army aviation cadets, and springtime or no springtime, it has to be
And in a by-line story of Dean
Restricted
In Lingering With Cadets
regulations for campus coeds were detailed. Dean Ward said: “Because of the excessive amount of “visiting” in and about the building between Butler women and army aviation cadets, a condition acceptable neither to the army nor to the university, a set of boundaries for women students has been defined.” The regulations to be enforced are: 1. No woman student except those attending classes in speech and home economics are permitted at any time in the west wing of the
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Thousands Of Prisoners Taken In Tunisia
BEATEN NAZIS ARE ISOLATED ON PENINSULA
French Take Pont Du Fahs In African Campaign’s
Grand Slam.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 8 (U. P.).—Allied armies hammered at retreating or isolated axis forces, rounded up thousands of prisoners and seized much booty in Tunisia today after the swift capture of Tunis and Bizerte had cleared the way for invasion of southern Europe. The once-vaunted German armies which failed to make the expected last-ditch battle for either Bizerte or Tunis fell back toward
Cap Bon or were trapped in their former mountain defenses by allied treops who were welcomed by the | residents with songs and shouts of joy and a rain of flowers as they entered the Tunisian capital.
Sea Lanes Attacked
Many Germans sought out the allied soldiers to surrender in the Tunis area. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower promised that the full weight of the British, American and French forces would be thrown against the enemy remnants on Cap Bon and elsewhere until they were destroyed. The French took Pont Du Fahs, on the southwestern front, and shoved on northward through the hills. (London radio said the French advanced 10 miles north of Pont Du Fahs.) Although unfavorable weather has sometimes interfered with allied air operations in the last 48 hours, fighters and bombers kept up a heavy attack on the beaten enemy's transports on land and sea. Eisenhower in Charge
Front dispatches indicated that some of the axis military leaders and perhaps a considerable number of troops had been able to escape to Sicily on recent dark nights, despite heavy losses, but it was not believed that many more would be able to leave Cap Bon. While the bulk of Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim's German forces raced for the rock-ribbed Bon peninsula under a terrific aerial onslaught for a “Bataan stand” French forces slashed into the enemy’s southwestern flank and captured the important road junction of Pont Du Fahs and high ground to the east. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander, and
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Hoosier Heroes Five Hoosiers Are Killed in African War
Killed NAMES OF FIVE Hoosier soldfers killed in action in the North African war area were announced this morning by the war department. They are: Maj. John J. Meaney, son of John P. Meaney, Mishawaka. S. Sgt. Robert A. Young, son of Mrs. Arnel A. Young, Frankfort. : Sgt. John A. Olds, son of Eligha E. Olds, Princeton. Cpl. William H. Hepfer, son of Mrs. Inna Hepfer, Anderson. Pvt. William S. Spilly, sen of Mrs. Maria Spilly, Whiting. se 8 = Otto Schultheis, Vincennes, has been notified by the navy department that his son, Ensign James (Continued on Page Two)
NOTE TO HOUSEWIVES—
A complete list of Indianapoliis price ceilings on food will be published in The Indianapolis Times
PRICE FOUR CENTS, |
CLEAN-UP OF AFRICA OPENS INVASION PATH
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HINT LANDINGS ON CONTINENT THIS SUMMER
Axis Concentrating Main Defenses in Group of Dodecanese Islands; Co-Ordination Brought Victory.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, May 8.—Allied landings on Europe before
summer and deep penetration
of Hitler's boasted continental
fortress before winter appeared virtually certain today, with the end—for all real military purposes—of the African
campaign.
Brilliant co-ordination of air and armored tactics brought about the capture of Tunis and Bizerte more than two weeks
before expectations and for ahead of their time-table.
the first time put the allies
It aroused the possibility that there has been a race
between the British 1st and 8th armies and the U. S. army,
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Africa.”
Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean theater, said today that there will be ne let-up in § the fury of the allied attack “so long as any Germans remain in
North Africa, May 8 (U. P.).=-
2d corps on one hand and allied Mediterranean invasion units on the other to get his job done first.
May Not Make Stand It is not believed that any attempt by German Col. Gen, Jurgen von Arnim to make a stand on the Bon peninsula will
affect allied plans to obtain
trans-Mediterranean stepping’
stones, which it is assumed already are far advanced. It is believed by some that the sudden fall of Tunis and
Bizerte may have resulted, at
least partially, from the neces«
sity for the axis to concentrate all available defense forces for expected attacks on the Dodecanese islands, Crete, Sicily
and Sardinia. The curtain is now ready
to go up on the big show.
The allies are in much the same position as were the Germans when they overran Greece and it is expected that the tempo of the next aattack will match the pattern estab
lished in the lightning assaults on Tunis and Bizerte rather than the long weeks
which preceded them. For the first time since the entry of Italy into the war three years ago, it now is possible for the allies to ram convoys through the length of the Mediterranean, cutting off about two-thirds of the present distance to Cairo and about onehalf the distance to India. The effect is the same as if the allies had suddenly been given several million tons of shipping. The convoys still will be forced to run the Sicily gantlet but will have protection of vast allied air superiority. The pattern of the allied attack against Europe will reveal itself
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Ernie Pyle in Africa—
quickly enough, but there are’ . cations that the steel finger nique will be employed. This means separate, slashing drives launched against Hitler from a number of points. It is believed the allied plans are most fluid, allowing for a quick switch of forces in order to exploi whatever advantages arise. It should be recalled that the allies have three armies available in the Medi terranean theater which are no§ engaged in Tunisia. These are the American 5th undes Lt. Gen. Mark Clark and the British 9th and 10th. Nazi propaganda frequently engaged in fishing expeditions, pute ting out reports that these forces;
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Yanks in Front Lines Say: ‘Brother, It's Getting Rugged’
By ERNIE PYLE
IN THE FRONT LINES NEAR MATEUR (By Wireless). — The day I'm writing about in this column is one of those days when you sit down on a rock about once an hour, put your chin in your hand, and think to yourself: “What the hell am I doing here, anyway?” On this unforgettable Tunisian day between three and four thousand shells have passed over our heads. True, most of them were in transit, en route to somewhere else, but el of them were intended for us make a fellow very somber before the day was over. And just as a sideline, a battle was going on a couple of hundred yards to one side, mines were blowing up jeeps on the other side, and German machinegun bullets were zinging past with annoying y. y
My outfit was in what was laughingly called “reserve” for the
Monday.
battles say with dead seriousness, “Brother, this is getting rugged!® you feel that you would rather be - in complete retirement than im reserve. All day we were a sort of cross roads for shells and bullets. All day guns roared in a complete circle around us. About threes
eighths of this circle was Gers A
man, and five-eighths of it Amere } oan. oy Our guns were blasting the Hun’s hill positions ahead of us, and the Germans were blasting our gun positions behind us Shells roared over us from every
point of the compass. I don't bes |
lieve there was a whole minute im 14 hours of daylight when the air above us was silent. x The guns themselves were 3 enough to be brutal in their noise, and between shots the air was filled with the in rustle and whine of shells. i! You can't see a shell,
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