Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1943 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 54
Invade France? It Might Be The Hardest Path
FOR EXAMPLE, it would deny to the enemy bases
By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
LONDON, May 13.—Final victory in Tunisia means that the allies, at long last, hold in undisputed possession
the whole south shore of the
Mediterranean lake—exclud-
ing a short, though strategically important stretch of
Spanish Morocco, which is p supervised neutrality. This goal, for which th
rudently preserving its well-
e allies have been forced to
struggle since the fall of France, marks the total defeat of the German aim, which before El Alamein, came very near to succeeding: namely, to establish axis control over
all Mediterranean sea routes.
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nis for invasions of Europe can be found along practically every coast of that embattled continent. Attacks on France and the low countries have come from both England and Norway, and Germany itself has been invaded from the sea. But never in history have the coasts of northern’ Europe
been as formidably defended as they are 5y the Narmis today,
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FORECAST": Slightly cooler late this afternoon and tonight and continued cool tomorrow morning,
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1943
SO LONG as strong enemy air forces remain based on Sardinia and Sicily, with a considerable axis submarine fleet operating from ports on the north Mediterranean shore, including Italy, Mediterranean sea lines canhot be regarded as 100 per cent secure against harassing attacks.
But with great allied air Tunisia and on Malta, the m the Sicilian narrows under should become feasible,
forces based in north Algeria, ovement of convoys through a shore-based air umbrella
For two years, victory in North Africa, from Cairo to Casablanca, has been seen as a necessary preliminary to allied offensives against Germany and its satellite states.
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COUNTY BOARDS FIGHTING AGAIN
Council Flatly Refuses to| Consider . Detention
Home Request.
By NOBLE REED
county council's “ecrack-| down” policy on county commis-| sioners’ expenditures flared anew! today when councilmen flatly re-| fused to even “consider the com-| missioners’ $27,000 request for a new| juvenile detention home.” | A few minutes after the commissioners’ letter requesting the! $27.000 was received by the council, Addison J. Parry, council president, went to the county auditor's office and asked that the request be] *tiricken from an ordinance being] prepared. This precipiated another heated clash between Mr. Parry and Fabian W. Biemer, chief deputy auditor. “My office is not taking orders from you and the commissioners’ prequest for the detention home money will be included in that ordinance whether you like it or not,” Mr. Biemer declared. “Advertising the commissioners’ request is a watse of county money because the council does not intend to give it any consideration,” Mr. Parry said. The council president also asked |
The
that a $4000 request made by Judge] W. D. Bain of criminal court be stricken from the ordinance and (Continued on Page Four)
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Hoosier Heroes (Monticello Officer Dies In
‘Hints Next Move Is Up to
War Area
Killed LT. ROBERT FISHER, Monti-
cello, was killed in an automobile accident while serving overseas, war department officials announced yesterday. Lt. Fisher is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marlyn McCool Fisher, and his parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Bert Fisher, | "8
SEAMAN DAVID LEVI JONES,
Logansport, has died of wounds prosecutor, according to police, had ander, wearing slacks and suede received in the Pacific war area. been in the establishment & few shoes and with sleeves rolled up for
= Prisoners
Vatican City officials have notified Mrs. Raymond Sanders, 318 N. Elder st, that her cousin, Pvt. Homer Hargis, is an Italian prisoner. First announcement was made by Indianapolis Catholic church officials. A telegram from the war department confirming the (Continued on Page Four)
ICKES DOUBTS COAL STRIKE RESUMPTION
War Labor Board.
WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P). —Coal Administrator Harold L Ickes said today that he did not expect the United Mine Workers to strike again when their 15-day truce expires next Tuesday midnight. He also said that the next move in the dispute seemed to be up to the government. He refused to specify what government agency should make the next move. He said, however, that “it's not up to me.” Presumably he referred to the war labor board. A special WLB three-man fact-finding panel is presently drafting its report to the board on the basis of hearings. it held last week and early this week. Ickes also revealed that he had summoned heads of 10 of the largest coal companies and officers in charge of their commissaries to a meeting here today to discuss
‘interruption of production, even for
RAID INVOLVES BLUE'S DEPUTY
Police Charge Blum Placed A Bet, Writing New Chapter in Feud.
Another chapter in the feud between Mayor Tyndall's police de-
| partment and Prosecutor Sherwood deep contrasts of stubborn Prussian
Blue's office broke out today follow-| ing a raid which involved a deputy, prosecutor. The raid was made at the offices,
bondsmen, Samuel Blum, deputy
minutes before the raid, allegedly placing a bet.
Harry Campbell, a member of the p
bond firm, was arrested and charged with keeping a gaming house. Police said they confiscated horse race betting equipment in the office, Police Chief Beeker said he will ask Prosecutor Sherwood Blue if Blum will be assigned to help in the (Continued on Page Four)
HILLMAN UPHOLDS NO STRIKE. PLEDGE
NEW YORK, May 13 (U. P). — Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Cloththg Workers of America (C. I. 0), Heclared today that labor's no-strike pledge was unconditional and no grievance — however urgent—could excuse the
one day. Hillman refused to mention John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, by name, but said, when questioned, that in his mind there could be “no exceptions for anybody.” :
MEANTIME, much has another second front against of northern France and the
Entered ax Second Class Matter at Portoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Tssued daily except Sunday.
been said and written about Germany, meaning invasion low countries from Britain,
Today, it is evident that the allies have a choice bhetween several different methods for launching a continental
offensive. Each possesses cer countervailing disadvantages aim; namely, to deprive the to continue the struggle.
tain inherent advantages and , each has the same common enemy at once of his ability
An operation for the liberation of Norway could hardly be classified under this heading although it could achieve
important limited results.
FINAL HOME
PRICE FOUR CENTS
where he has now assembled a sufficiently formidable naval force to immobilize comparable strength of the royal
navy. : It would deny him use
of airfields from which his
shore-based aircraft have taken a hsavy toll of anglo-
American shipping carrying mansk and Archangel, It might even assist Finl
supplies to Russia via Mure
and to disengage itself from
Russia on the front north of Leningrad, thus releasing Russian army divisions to recover the Baltic states and to menace East Prussia, Inevitably this allied northern (Continued on Page Four)
African Vic
13 GENERALS INCLUDED IN LAST MOP-UP
Loot Includes 1000 Guns, 250 Tanks.
(Stimson Report, Page 10)
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Stiff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 13 (U.P). Triumphant allied armies completed conquest of the Tunisian base for invasion of southern Europe today with the total seizure of 13 axis generals, more than 150,000 prisoners and vast booty that included more than 1000 guns and 250 tanks. A few stragglers were still to be rounded up or crushed but both! German Col. Gen, Jurgen von Ar-| nim, commander-in-chief of axis ground forces, and Italian Gen. Giovanni Meese, the Fascist commander, were in the. net along with their staffs, Attention shifted to the island stepping stones to Italy, where the Sicilian harbor of Marsala was heavily pounded again before dawn Wednesday in a growing aerial offensive, End a Strange One
The end was a strange one, with
resistance and wholesale surrender by demoralized axis troops. | But at allied headquarters there]
was a spirit of enthusiasm and con-| lof Campbell & Reeder, professional fidence as Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- | MS other hand, refused to accept way jn taxes as we go along while
hower and Gen. Sir Harold Alex-
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| business, explained what had hap. | ened. “The American divisions through experience became ga very fine! (Continued on Page Four)
HAROLD W. GEISEL
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Mayor Tyndall today announced the appointment of Harold W. Geisel, Indianapolis, to succeed Frank Luzar as city recreation director. Mr. Luzar, appointed last year under Mayor Sullivan, will ‘leave May 25 to enter the navy as an ensign. Mr. Geisel, who lives at 1503 N. Pennsylvania st, was organizer of
SUCCEEDS LUZAR
amateur baseball ‘and basketball in Indianapolis and participted in major sports at Technical high school and Butler university. Now employed at Curtiss-Wright, he once served as chairman of the Marion County Young Republicans and played an important role in the last G. O. P. primary and general election campaign.
Churchill, Roos New Campaig
WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today continued their White House conferences, believed to center on ans for a major fall offensive to rive the Japanese out of Burma and open the way to China, and then to Japan, Plans were disclosed for two speeches by Churchill while he is in Washington. Next Wednesday,
the White House revealed, he will |he
a joint session of congress.
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evelt Map n Against Japs
British home guards—he will broadcast to his homeland a speech designed almost entirely for British consumption, . Both Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill talked this morning with President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, who was an overnight White House guest,
The White House announced that
had | —Allied success in Tunisia “opened
Secret Move
Fooled Nazis
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 13 (U, P.) — Gen, Dwight D., Eisenhower today praised Gen, Sir Harold Alexander for a “marvelous job of fooling the German high. command” by delivering a knockout blow with the British 1st army against the enemy in Tunisia. A secret, mass movement of three divisions of the British 8th army from the South Tunisian front to the sector west of Tunis, where they joined the British 1st army, made it possible to strike the “coup de grace” against the axis, Eisen hower disclosed. Meantime, Alexander, praising his staff, described the Tunisian victory as one of the most impressive in military history. The three divisions got behind the German lines between Tunis and Enfidaville “before the enemy knew what hit him and the axis lines were smashed to smithereens.”
TERMS SPURNED BY VON ARNIM
Gives Up After Telling Hitler Tunisia Defended
tory
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y Complete
U. 5. TO SEEK 16 BILLIONS IN
Amount to Be in Addition to Pay-as-You-Go Yield,
Morgenthau Says.
WASHINGTON, May 18 (U. P). ~Treasury Secretary Henry Mors genthau Jr. today said he wants $16,000,000,000 more in taxes after
tion is passed by congress. Morgenthau said a treasury plan to raise the additional $16,000,000,000 in taxes would be submitted to congress when the pay-as-you-go probleth is out of the way. He added that the new tax plan would be recommended regardless of the kind of pay-as-you-go bill finally approved by congress. Asked if compulsory savings were necessary in view of the success of the second war loan drive, Morgenthau said they could be “postponed.”
Easier on Posterity
But no matter how much additional revenue the pending income tax bill yields, he emphasized, the additional $16,000,000,000 which President Roosevelt called for in his January budget message in “taxes, savings or both” must be raised.
To ‘Last Cartridge.’
WITH BRITISH 1ST ARMY, Tunisia, 8 P. M,, May 12 (U. BP.) Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim, angrily beating his fist into the palm of
Lt. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson's demand for “unconditional surrender” today, but nevertheless was captured without a struggle. Driven into the last axis toehold| in the mountains west of Hamma-| met, pounded by allied aerial fleets, | surrounded by British armor and] made helpless by the wholesale sur- |
the Prussian commander-in-chiéf in Tunisia finally asked Anderson for terms. “Unconditional surrender,” the Scotsman replied. “Also the handing over of all weapons and plans for mine fields and assistance in sweeping the mine fields.”
Trembles in Anger
His face turned purple. The iron cross over his heart trembled as his whole body shook in anger. He refused to sign such terms, But his axis soldiers had some time before realized the futility of their own and continued today to stream into allied barbed wire pris oners’' cages. Unguarded axis vehicles ran a “shuttle service” collecting prisoners, While all this was in progress, Von Arnim sent a final message to Hitler, who had commanded him to fight to the bitter end. ® “I report that the order to defend Tunisia to the last cartridge has been carried out,” his message said. His radio operator, who sent the final message to Hitler in reply to vain urgings by Hitler and Mussolini to fight to the end, apparently failed to agree with Von Arnim’s message. He added, apparently on his own initiative, a message to the homeland. “Everything has been destroyed,” it said. “We are closing down forever.”
“WAY OPEN TG ATTACK" WASHINGTON, May 13 (U. P).
render of axis troops on Cap Bon, |
“Speaking for myself,” Morgen [thau said, “I'd like to have $16,1 000,000,000 in taxes. “It's going to be that much easier on our children and our grandchildren if we can finance half the
we have this terrific income. There will never be a better {ime.”
Rum! Backers Confident
Morgenthau spoke as the sénate prepared for the second day of tax debate with backers of the Ruml plan for forgiveness of 1942 taxes confident of victory. It is estimated this plan would produce about $2,000,000,000 more revenue in the 1044 fiscal year than the present law. This is because it would tax this year's higher ine comes during this year instead of a | year later Morgenthau explained it always had been the treasury's desire to pay one-half the war bill in taxes.
RUMOR FACTORY BUSY
LONDON, May 13 (U. P). — A broadcast from Berlin said mysteriously today that “reports that Russia and Bulgaria had broken off diplomatic relations were not confirmed by the German foreign office.” Nothing had been heard in London of the supposed reports circulated
EXTRA TAXES |
the pending pay-as-you-go legisla-|
by the Nazi agency.
MOSCOW, May 13 (U, P.).—The Russian air force was reported on a non-stop offensive today to disrupt any Nazi plans for a new offensive, while fighting in the Lisichansk sector of the Donets basin grew more intense hourly. The Soviet mid-day communique said Russian troops had forced the Germans from one town in the Donets area and seizéd an important height after killing 400 of the enemy in heavy fighting. Large Soviet air forces, including dive bombers, hit German coms
munication centers .and railroad]
Uje Way 10 attack oh other 4
al
Dewy raids yesterday over
{GREATEST AIR RAID OF WAR
ROCKS NAZI STEEL CENTER
R. A. F. DROPS RECORD LOAD ON DUISBURG
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34 British Planes Lost in Concentrated Attack; Damage Admitted.
SOUTH ENGLISH PORT, May 13 (U, P.).~Three great waves of allied airplanes, flying high, raided France today. The formations apparently included a large number of bombers, Fighter squadrons returned over the Enge lish coast after about 45 mine utes,
LONDON, May 13 (U. P.). ~<Britain’s big bombers cele« brated the allied victory in Tunisia by heaping the heavi« est tonnage of explosives ever
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Joan Barry
HOLLYWOOD, May 13 (U, P). —Red-haired Joan Barry, 22, are rested after breaking into the home of Charlie Chaplin, was released from a 30-day jall sentence and sent to a sanitarium today because she expects a baby this summer, Miss Barry, former New York drama student, had been under contract to Chaplin, but the actor's press representative said she had terminated the contract in June, 1942, Miss Barry, however, claimed Chaplin “dropped” her in October or November, She was arrested last Friday after climbing through a window of Chaplin’s home, confronting the comedian in the kitchen and “upbraiding him.” “In spite of it all,” she said, “I still love Charles dearly.” Chaplin declined to comment,
YANKS BLAST KISKA HIT SOLOMON BASES
Navy Reveals Destroyer
Ward Sunk in April.
WASHINGTON, May 13 (U.P) — U. 8. forces Have resumed their air offensive dghinst Kiska in the Aleutians, the navy announced today. They also started several fires in
dropped in a single raid on thes important steel, railway and waterway center of Duisburg in western Germany last
night. The alr ministry announced that it was the heaviest raid of the war, The number of planes flown in the attack was fewer than the 1000 alreraft that raided Cologne on May 30, 1042, but the weight of bombs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 13 (U, P.) Naval sources announced today that more than 11,000,000 gross tons of allied merchant shipping. sailed to North Africa between Nov, 8 and May 8 with losses by enemy action of only 2.16 per cent,
exceeded the 1500 tons dropped in the Cologne attack, it was under« stood, The tonnage in the Duis burg raid probably approached 2000 tons, Duisburg is concentrated in an area five miles square, much smaller than Cologne, so it was assumed that the damage was greater. Key targets in the Duisburg were the main locks of the Rhine« Herne canal, the main line rail bridge over the Rhine, the do area, the industrial section include ing the vast Demhg iron and steel works which make submarine and plane engines, and the Hochfeldt railway junction, : Other targets included the copper and tin works, sulphur plants
three bombing raids and surface March 26
craft attack on Japanese bases
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