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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 55 FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1943

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Allied Bombers Blast Berlin, Ruhr, Warsaw, Italy

RAF, RUSSIANS, YANKS UNLEASH SHUTTLE RAIDS

Pre-Invasion Aerial Bombardment Sends Swarms of Planes From Britain, Russia

And Africa in Triple Squeeze. LONDON, May 14 (U. P.).—Nazi Europe rocked today under an allied pre-invasion aerial bombardment the like of which the world has never seen. The royal air force, the United States army air force and the Red air force shuttled over Europe in unbroken relays, smashing from a]l sides and unprecedented strength at Germany, Italy, occupied territory, and invasion islands of the Mediterranean. The raids are now past the 36-hour mark of a continuous

offensive. : oh The long awaited big push of the American and British air forces against Adolf Hitler's continental fortress was on.

A ceaseless, trip-hammer pounding shook the continental fortress and ripped into the enemy war bases, softening them up for the land assault which many quarters be-

lieved was near. Targets Blaze Under Attack

Berlin, the Ruhr, Czechoslovakia, Northwest Germany, Warsaw, Naples, France, Sicily, Sardinia—all of them and widely scattered intermediate targets had quaked and blazed under the full scale allied offensive gathering momentum like a downhill snowball. The attack reopened the questicn of how long a beleaguered target—even as big and strong a target as continental Europe—could withstand such a scourging from)| the air. None would say, but the allied command evidently was bent on finding out. By night British bombers “in very great, strength” swarmed over Berlin, the Ruhr and Czechoslovakia far to the east in a triple-pronged drive following its record assault on Duisburg 24 hours earlier.

Berlin Reports Attack

By day American heavy bombers, following up a recordbreaking attack on Nazi bases in North France, struck mightily at the north German coastal district, according te the Berlin radio with substantiating evidence that a “great force” of allied planes roared over the coast of England on

the shuttle route to Europe. The Russian air force, swinging away from its broadside offensive against German bases behind the eastern lines, pounded Warsaw in force Wednesday night in an attack

described as highly successful. American and British planes swarmed up from con-

quered Africa against Italy and the island stepping stones

to the mainland. British Wellingtons pounded Naples, Italy’s second port. American heavy bombers of the Middle East command plastered Augusta on the east coast of Sicily, raining bombs among 20 -axis vessels in the harbor. Strong forces of (Continued on Page Seven)

40,000 Warsaw Jews Killed: Dutch Revolt Nazi-Inspired?

today to have wiped out the last 40,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in a 10-day battle with tanks and guns against its feebly-armed defenders. Rabbi Irving Miller quoted reports from Polish sources as saying that “every living soul was either butchered or uprooted and moved to some other part of the country” in the battle of the War: saw ghetto. : : The report coincided with ads vices from the continent that rebellion against Nazi oppression was flaring throughout Holland and that Premier Benito Mussolini was preparing the Italjan people for an allied invasion. About 70 Dutch’ patriots were reported killed. i 27 Ration Dates. 9 The Warsaw ghetto liquidation | 16 ‘Mrs. Roosevelt 15 was brutal. It began last July . 97 Side Glances . 16 after the original Jewish population 25 Society ....18-20 of 450,000 had been reduced by mur9 Sports 01.2228 der and deportation to 40,000, acState Deaths. 12 cording to Rabbi Miller. The flare up came when the

LONDON, May 14 (U. P.).—German occupation forces, struggling to put down mounting unrest and disorder in Europe, were reported

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CITY GROCERS FLOUNDER IN OPA RED TAPE

Say It's ‘Impossible’ to Do Huge Re-marking Job By Monday.

By HELEN RUEGAMER

threatens to bury Indianapolis grocers. “Impossible” was the word passed along the grocery store front to | OPA today as the retailers were ordered to do huge bookkeeping jobs preparatory to listing maximum prices on eight canned fruits and vegetables for Monday. | One large dealer even threatened to ask stores to close “until OPA gets somebody in there who knows

what the groeery business is about.” Protest Methods

Already, a protest concerning OPA’s working methods is in the hands of OPA authorities from the Indiapa Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association.

not do. They cannot figure out the new ceiling prices according to a revised OPA formula, re-mark all the goods, keep their books straight and have everything in readiness for customers Monday morning. Although these foods have been under OPA regulations for some time, the regulations have been changed twice in the past week.

Have New Formiila

Under the new provision, prices of canned peaches, pears, pineapple, fruit cocktail, corn, beans, peas and tomatoes will be lowered. But all grocers must figure their own prices for these items under a new OPA formula. In the past each grocer’s price was determined by his price on the article in March of 1942. Beginning Monday, the price will be based on the cost of the article plus a certain percentage of mark up allowed by the OPA. ‘The chain stores were notified the first of the week of a new formula for figuring the ceiling prices on their goods, but the formula was (Continued on Page Seven)

On the War Fronts

(May 14, 1943)

EUROPE—Allied air forces press pre-invasion air offensive against the continent on a record scale; American bombers pounding northwest Germany after biggest attack on France; R.A. F. hammers Berlin, the Ruhr and Czechoslovakia; Russians raid Warsaw; African air forces smash at Naples, Sardinia and Sicily.

PACIFIC—Japanese report strong American units land on Attu island in Aleutians.

AFRICA—Last axis troops in Tunisia surrender..

RUSSIA—Soviets warn of major German armored attacks im-

pending. SAYS ALLIES READY TO MOVE IN PACIFIC

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 14 (U. P.).—Allied southwest and south Pacific forces can throw their combined strength against the Japas nese under closely-knit operating plans whenaver necessary, a spokesman said today as a communique

activity in the Australia war theater. The spokesman’s statement followed disclosure’ of a meeting between Gen. Douglas Arthur, southwest commander, and Admiral William FPF. Halsey, chief in the south Pacific, which produced speculation that an offensive is in pros-

‘pect.

HIT BY AUTOMOBILE Harry Tubbs, 83, of 620 N. Alabama st, received severe head injuries today when struck by an auto at Alabama and Michigan sts. | Mr. Tubbs was taken to City hos

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HEALTH CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED HERE

Wartime Nutrition.

By VIRGINIA HATFIELD A campaign to bring health inte the homes of every Indianapolis industrial worker was launched today by a group of business firms. Plans for ‘an intensive crusade which will in¢lude huge mass demonstration meetings and education on nutrition were mapped last night by leaders in the city’s industrial and mercantile houses. The - “Health-for-Victory” grain calls for: 1. A series of monthly. demonstration meetings conducted by qualified Indianapolis nutritionists. 2. Distribution of monthly meal planning guides by business firms who are members of the Indianapolis Health-for-Victory association. The first demonstration meeting (Continued on Page Seven)

U. S. AIRMEN DOWN 16 ZEROS IN BATTLE

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P). —U. 8. fliers have shot down 16 Zeros and probably destroyed two more in a furious air battle in the Solomons, the navy announced today. ' Five U. 8. planes were lost, bub

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battle took place near the Russell islands, just northwest of Guadalcanal, on May 13 (island time). American airmen took on about 25 eneiny fighters. Corsair fighter planes, whigh have been active in he Solomons for several weeks, ac-

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he Jap-held islands in the Aleutians, stepping stones to Japan itself, a strong American attack against Attu, the westernmost island.

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Churchill Assures China That Its ‘Day Is Coming’

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.) ~Prime Minister Winston Churchill today assured Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that “the day will come” when the “arms of the united nations ., . . will surely drive the Japanese invader from the soil of China.” ’ Churchill's message to Chiang supported the belief that the prime minister and President Roosevelt are plotting new and heavy blows : against the main force of Japan. The White House made public a message sent by Churchill to the generalissimo in reply to a message from Chiang congratulating the British leader on the allied victory in North Africa. Churchill received a message from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander in chief of allied forces in Africa, promising that “this army

Hoosier Heroes Indiana Men Reported on Missing List

Missing FIRST LT. Raymond K. Hine, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. 'E. Hine, 1124 N. New Jersey st., is missing in action in the South Pacific. Lt. Hine, a 22-year-old veteran of 18 months foreign service, was last seen after he had downed an enemy plane during a fighter flight. One engine of his plane was reported on fire. ‘He enlisted in the army air forces in March, 1940, after he had completed all but one term of his work at Purdue university. The war department notification received by the parents did not disclose date or locality of the action. » = ” MRS. ROBERT W. WELLS, 4937 Hillside ave., yesterday received word from the war department that her son, 1st Lt. John E. Wells, army air forces navigator, had been missing in North Africa since May 1.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.). — Prime Minister Winston Churchill came to the United States this time by ship, with the last leg of the trip to Washington being made by train, The White House permitted that disclosure late last _ night, two days after Churchill’s arrival. He apparently was on the high seas when the allied armies smashed through to victory last Friday at Bizerte and Tunis.

will continue to pound urtil Hitlerism has been exterminated from the earth.” Eisenhower's message replied to congratulations he had received from Churchill. The White House also disclosed that Churchill had conferred with Secretary of State Corde Hull, President Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong and Australian Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt. . ~ These conferences were. in

KEY ALEUTIANS BASE INVADED BY U.S. FORCES

U. S. Navy Confirms Attack but Gives No Details; Tokyo Reports Violent Fighting; Island Is 190 Miles West of Kiska.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. P.).—The United States has begun its long-awaited drive to oust the Japanese from the Aleutians and clear the northern route to Tokyo. This was revealed by the navy today in a brief communique which said simply that U. S. forces have landed on Attu, westernmost of the Aleutians, and are locked in battle with the Japanese there. Details will be released when the situation clarifies, it said. In another communique, the navy revealed that two more raids were made on Kiska, east of Attu, by heavy bombers and bomb-carrying Curtiss Warhawks, They were carried out yesterday, two days after the Attu landings. They brought the number of air attacks on Kiska since March 1

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The plan undoubtedly is to take Attu first and thus place American forces between the Japanese stronghold at Kiska in the Aleutians and Japan proper.

Endangers Jap Supplies Such a strategy would permit the Americans on Attu to break off the enemy supply lines to Kiska and intensify the already heavy air attacks in preparation for a landing on Kiska. Kiska is 172 nautical miles east of Attu. ; A Tokyo broadcast which preceded the navy’s announce-« ment by. about eight hours said “crack” American forces had landed on Attu, and that “severe fighting is now going on.” The enemy is believed to have an airfield and naval installations on Attu. At Kiska, they have developed air facilities, naval installations and a submarine base. Aleutian weather, always bad, “makes up” in the Attu area and normally moves eastward. The American possession of Attu would make it possible for U. S. sea and air forces based there to move on Kiska under the protection of eastward moving “weather fronts.”

Attu Is Mountainous Attu, a mountainous island 20 by 35 miles in extent, is about 1700 nautical miles from Tokyo, which places the Japanese capital outside effective bombing range from there. It is, however, only 630 miles from the Japanese base of Paramushiru in the Kurile island group. The navy’s communique was the first mention of Attu since announcement of seven bombing attacks on the island on May 6. This was the greatest number of raids thus far

made on Attu in one day. ; The navy communique and the Tokyo announcement

agreed that the initial landings occurred Tuesday. Tokyo set the date at May 12.—-Wednesday—but that would be

GIRAUD REL ATIVES Tuesday, American time.

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‘anese plan to gain control of the North Pacific from the Hawaiian islands to Alaska and. perhaps even to gain a foothold on the North American continent itself.

Daughter and Her Children

Taken From Tunis.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 14 (U.P.).—The daughter and four grandchildren of Gen. Henri Giraud were taken from Tunis to axis Europe #s hostages before allied troops reached the Tunisian ‘capital, Giraud was informed today. When Giraud arrived in Tunis he eagerly sought news of his relatives, but was informed that they had been taken away a month earlier, presumably to Italy or Germany, Giraud’s wife and three other daughters and a son-in-law are interned in France by the Germans. His two sons, both officers in the colonial army, have been fighting the axis in North Africa. Another son-in-law, the ‘husband of the daughter who lived in Tunis, also was taken to Europe. He was a colonel in the French colonial’ army.

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“Invasion of Italy Would Aid a:

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The initial success in defeating that plan occurred in the battle of Midway last June when U. 8. forces routed the huge enemy ars mada which was approaching Ha= wall. That invasion foray was timed with the first Japanese move Saingh

the Aleutians—a move which (Continued on Page Nine)

FINE ABSENTEE MINERS

WASHINGTON, May 14 (UO President Roosevelt said today had asked Secretary of Inte Harold L. Ickes, who has control the nation’s coal mines, to inves gate reports that some miners ha been fined for not returning to thel

jobs on Monday, May 3, as the p ros-