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Record Offensive Rocks Europe: France Raided Again. BULLETIN SOUTH ENGLISH PORT, May 15 (1. P.).—A strong force of airplanes, flying high, crossed the
channel foward France today and returned from the area southwest of Boulogne about an hour later. The force included bombers and a big fighter escort.
By UNITED PRESS American, British and Russian n rocking the axis with air 1 every side, with bombers i in North Africa hammering hard at shaken Italy's ports to] them for invasion. 1g over Sardinia, Sicily and as far north as Civitavecchia, big port 38 miles above Rome, the heavy planes battered axis shipping qn Friday sinking three vessels in the port of Olbia on Sardinia and] touching off explosions in vital}
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Four Ships Hit
The four-engined bombers scored! direct hits on several ships in the Civitavecchia harbor, on fuel storage | facilit and on an ammunition | dump which exploded. Medium bombers raided the Sar-| inian port of Olbia, sinking three | 0s and seriously damaging a| ker and other ships. The
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The nounced that British Intruder! Churchill conference: va a1 A the Bolter a - . . ’ : of panes of the jghier CominAnd ab- | Real significance is that it marks the shift from global ta icked air fields and communica- | tion lines in occupied countries dur- | ing the night. One Whirlwind Jess than in Atlantic and Europe.
hg damaged a 2000-ton ship | the French coast and two Gerplanes were shot down
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At a former meeting Churchill said united nations had come to the end of the beginning. This time they embark on the beginning of the end:
A Mi dle East communique Bt Except for Russia's two great counter-offensives, the united nations Cairo sald British heavy bombers) have heen on the defensive from the start, even in the Coral sea, at rcked } Messina at the Sicilian end | | Midway, Guadalcanal and New Guinea engagements. North Africa of the ferry service to Italy on|
was an offensive-defensive. So is the fighting in the Aleutians. From here on out, all that will change.
day night and that fighters | amaged an enemy minesweeper off
he west coast of Greece yesterday. | # 5-8 5 8 8 These were the latest develop-| Another thing: Look for that Réovsevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting ments in the American and British! gon.
cflensive that reached its peak yes-
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If there is no meeting, it will be a bad sign. will indicate clearly | that Russian definitely intends now and hereafter to play the lone wolf.
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8 Also on Roosevelt-Churchill Agenda: Ways and means of securing | real allied unity on war aims as set forth in the Atlantic charter. Small nations fear this great pronunciamento is being undermined.
" CONDEMNS LEWIS Note: Those who have seen Churchill say he is confident, in good humor, feels the war is really rolling at last.
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Strike Jeopardized| Watch for Those Casualties
But: Those who have reason to know warn that casualties may ‘ ’ J ust Demands. run into 100,000 a month when we start invading continent. 15 \U. P)— Ba 3 4 4%
» A good bet: That F. D R. will soon announce a new military rank above that of general. Why? Our chief of staff, Gen. Marshall, is outranked right here in Washington by two visiting British leaders, Field Marshals Dill and Wavell. Should an American ever be commander in chief of Europe, he would be outranked by sundry officers. ardized the just demands” of the Complication: Marshal or field marshal would be logical new United Mine Workers union. rank, but how about giving it to a man named Marshall?
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exccutive committee charged that] Keep your eves on Italy for internal, perhaps dynastic difficulties. Lewis had exploited “injustices in And, we repeat, watch Japan. Her general staff now knows the the mining Industry In furtherance gjjjes intend to strike directly at her soon. She's likely to try to of his personal and political ven-| gyjke at us first—in China, the South Pacific, the Aleutians, even
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CLEVELAND, May The congress of industrial organizations condemned John LL. Lewis personally today and said that in calling the recent general coal strike during wartime Lewis had *jeop-
chief.” The resolution said that during House drafters of anti-strike bill plan to eliminate provision for“times of emotional stress’ or-| bidding war labor board to issue maintenance-of- -union membership
orders. Sponsors say it got in by mistake. But they plan to retain
ganized labor must be particularly (Continued on Page Two)
wary of any person or element which seeks to substitute for sane and democratic processes willful and revengeful dictation.
Invasion Pattern— Swift Collapse in Africa Has Upset Axis Applecart
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{man high command that the allied counter-thrust in the Tebessa area
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RADAR IS VITAL | ALLIED WEAPON
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Development Will Have Many Uses After The Victory Is Won.
WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). | -—Radar, the new war weapon which |
defensive to global offensive, in Pacific and Far East no |detects enemy planes miles beyond Schultz, gestapo agent in Warsaw |
| the view of the most powerful bin(oculars, will be used to help pre- ! serve food, control machinery and, | fire, and regulate lightning when | the war is over. | Peacetime potentialities of Radar) | the weapon credited along with | | Spitfires and Hurricanes with sav-| ing Britain in 1940, were described | ltoday by Director Ray C. Ellis of | the war production board radio and { Radar division,
Radar Kept Secret
A closely-guarded military secret of the united nations, news of Radar was released three weeks ago when| it was considered that information! {of the development had fallen into! | the hands of the enemy. Details were made public only yesterday by the WPB who said it! locates swiftly and accurately, by means of radio waves, enemy ships| and planes beyond the range of telescopes. Planning for peacetime uses of the weapon are overshadowed, according to Ellis, by present difficulties in meeting navy and signal corps requirements,
EX-DEPUTIES' CASE HEARD IN COURT
Attorneys Ask Removal of Embezzlement Count.
Attorneys for four ex-deputy municipal court clerks charged with embezzlement of more than $45,000 argued before Judge William D. Bain in criminal court today that they should be freed of the charge because three terms of court have! passed without trial. The men were indicted in June, 1941, and on the following July 2 indictments of a broader scope were returned against them, Fae W. Patrick, who at one time was a special judge in the case, testified that he nolled the June indictments. Testimony this afternoon is to concern the status of the bonds of the accused and whether or not {each had been served with a capias. The defendants are Philip L. Early, William R. Beckwith, Frank Lyons and Thomas E. Ross.
CHICAGO FUGITIVE CAPTURED CHICAGO, May 15 (U.P,).—Stanley Kozielep, 20, Chicago, who escaped with 23 others from Tatnall
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SECRET RADIO URGES ITALY T0 QUST NAZIS
Meanwhile, Officers Warn That Allies Will Be Able
To Invade.
LONDON, May 15 (U. P), — A clandestine station calling itself Radio Milan asked the Italian people to throw out the Germans today and Radio Rome quoted high government officials as telling the sen-| ate that it was possible for allied | forces to make a landing on Italian soil.
Both war and navy officers in| Premier Benito Mussolini's cabinet | reported to the senate that vast! preparations were being made against invasion, but thé Italian] navy and armed forces were not | sufficient to guarantee that all allied thrusts would be repulsed. The Nazi-operated Paris radio, meanwhile, quoted the Fascist newspaper Cri Du Peuple as saying that| “France may now become the next battlefield.” The clandenstine Italian radio called for revolt against, the Nazis.
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MEDITERRANEAN IS OURS-TEDDER
Predicts the Early Smashup Of the Once Proud
“Here speaks the free Italian people,” said the station in its first broadcast heard here. “Throw the Germans out . , . away with agents! of foreigners.” | The call came amid new reports (of Italian preparations to.guard the | Shatirss long shoreline and ¥ill- | arrests, riots and Nazi reEE throughout occupied Europe. Indirect reports from Italy said | Premier Benito Mussolini, marshal- Nazi Air Force. ing his strength to defend the homeland and Italy's Mediterranean| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North islands, admitted the situation was Af ica, May 15 (U, P.).—Air Chief
| date Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder, {commander of allied air forces in the Polish |North Africa, said today that the said Polish | Mediterranean sea route was virtuColonel |2lly open again to allied shipping
Nazi Assassinated
A spokesman for refugee government {patriots assassinated a
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, England, May 15 (U. P.).—Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair said today that 1696 axis airplanes were destroyed between the time of the landings in North Africa
and one of 10 war criminals marked for death by the patriot underground. The outbreaks in Holland were reporting rising, with stringent Nazi measures to beat down mass strikes. German occupation authorities were | said to have suspended all gatherlings which might result in riots. and ‘the end of Iast week comThe Berlin radio, in a transocean| pared with allied losses of 657. | dispatch said four Bulgarian anti- om cE — Nazi espionage centers have been smashed, and many persons arrested.
first German military arm to crack up completely.” Factory Wrecked A total of 525 axis planes have The London Daily Telegraph sala | been captured in Tunisia and many | the Riffel syndicate at Copenhagen, |0f the captured planes were in ex[largest factory in Denmark, had cellent condition, he said. been wrecked by saboteurs. The Hultyifle Was Reports from Swedish sources said Rrphitedt . Sb an Noril | Prof. Kurt Huber, Munich univer- [oe oN pilots sity philosophy teacher, had been | hn Aer the Hun too much.” | executed for aiding in student riots |
(he said. “He uses the air badly. last February and that two Nor- |e doesn’t understand the air as a
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PREPARING FOR LOSS OF ISLAND
Washington Silent but Axis Broadcasts Stress Yanks ‘Outnumber’ Defenders;
Knox Says Action ‘Satisfactory.’
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P.).—All available information indicated today that U. S. army forces would win their battle to reconquer Attu from the Japanese,
By UNITED PRESS American success in heavy fighting on the westerly Aleutian island of Attu was indicated in axis broadcasts today. Both Tokyo and Berlin radio reports gave the impression that the Japanese were preparing to acknowledge the loss of Attu island, although there was still nothing from American official sources to confirm it, tadio Tokyo said the American troops greatly oute number the “small” number of Jap occupation forces om
| Attu and are engaged in fierce and heavy fighting,
Isles in Range The broadcast said it was difficult to understand why the Americans wanted Attu except for “prestige” purposes —although the island would blockade the Japanese base at Kiska, and put _hoxthern Japanese Jelsngs, wi Shin n bom
range of American planes.
Japanese would not be shaken if they suffered “setbacks” at the front. “The American landings at Attu will in no wise affect the will to victory and the certainty of victory of the Jape anese people,” the Nazi Trans-Ocean agency quoted Gen, Baron Sadao Araki, former war minister, as saying at Tokyo, “Our thoughts are always with our soldiers at the front. Setbacks there and at home will only increase our strength.” The reference to “setbacks there” —presumably at Atta —was not contained in an earlier translation of Araki’'s re Imarks by the German DNB
FLAT FOOD GEILINGS zen. ss qucted by Radia 10 BE POSTED HERE
Be soldiers, ferried to the | Scene of action by the U, 8. navy, landed on Attu four days ago and, ding to Secretary of Navy n accor Prices for This Area Set 0 Frank Knox, are “very satisface 500 Brands. torily” accomplishing what they set Flat, community - wide dollars «
out to do. : Knox, at a press conference late and-cents ceilings, covering approx- | ets out ial he imately 500 brands, sizes, grades and |) ot, once the westernmost island of varieties of canned vegetables and the Aleutians is rid of Japanese, the canned fruits and applying to all| [tide of offensive operations will
retail stores in Indianapolis, will be sweep on, announced tomorrow by the Indian- 1700 Miles From Tokyo apolis office of price administration.| Attu — a mountainous island
Products covered include canned roughly 35 miles long from east to
Berlin radio quoted dispatches ‘trol Tokyo saying that
seized by the Nazis. Radio Moscow said Italian sol- | diers in Jugoslavia were demanding | an immediate end of the war and | that one battalion killed its two |’ German officers and a second deserted to the guerrillas.
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REPORT BUCHAREST IS BEING EVACUATED
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Radio Moscow, in a broadcast resaid today that
peas, corn, tomatoes, green snap or wax beans, and tomato juice and canned peaches, pears, fruit cocktail and pineapple,
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These prices will be published Monday by The Indianapolis Times,
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south — is about 1700 nautical miles
(2040 land miles) from Tokyo, a distance too great for effective bombing now. It is, however, only 630 nautical miles (756 land miles) from the Japanese naval base of Paramushiru in the Kurile islands to the southwest, an easy bomber
Bucharest is being evacuated, its
LOCAL TEMPERATURES people going to south Transylvania.
Gam: ... 85 10am... 5 Nazis have shipped thousands of Tam ,..5 11a m ... 51 [Bucharest residents to Germany as 8am ...5 12 (noon).. 52 [workers after they arrived in TranSam... 51 1 p.m ... 52 Isylvania, it was added.
House Expected to Accept Senate-Approved Rum! Plan
(Table, Page Two) publicans for 100 per cent for-
| giveness. WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). 8 —House Republican leaders pre-| The administration's chance to
| defeat the Ruml plan will come Bitte, odey prod te Sofiate on when the house is asked next week giveness of 1042 taxes would be|!0 concur in the changes made” in adopted by the house without re-|the bill by the senate. The bill sort to a compromise senate-house/l€ft the house in the form of the conference. Robertson-Forand plan providing Democratic Leader John Me-| for only 75 per cent forgiveness, Cormack of Massachusetts said| Republicans will try to whip all that the bill probably would not Possible supporters into line to avoid bé brought up in the house until/sending the bill to a senate-house Tuesday. That appeared to be|conference from which they fear satisfactory to Republicans who would emerge another compromise have called a meeting of their lead- | hill. ers Monday to map parliamentary| Senate passage of the Ruml plan strategy. came at the end of eight hours’ deThe senate vote last night—49 bate during which Ruml supporters to 30 for the Ruml plan-—was a beat down five proposed amendmajor defeat for the administra-| ments which would have either retion. It had sought to rally full|duced or eliminated entirely the Democratic support for a 75 per | forgiveness of a year’s taxes. cent forgiveness plan by Finance| Sshator Frederick VanNuys (D.
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Waiter F. George (D./Ind.) voted for the Rumi plan while 3 but 18 fRalaE Jose Raymond Willis (R.
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The action will be the second step in the program launched last weekend with the issuance of commu-nity-wide top prices for staple dry groceries. Outside of Indianapolis; the only other areas in Indiana to be affected by the new ceilings are South Bend-Mishawaka, where prices will be announced by the South Bend OPA office, and New Albany-JefTer-sonville, where prices will be announced by the Louisville OPA office. OPA emphasized that retailers in nll other communities will continue ; to use their present prices.
FBI ROUNDS UP 552 DRAFT DELINQUENTS
WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P). ~FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said today that 562 men were arrested yesterday in a nation-wide roundup] of selective service delinquents, Although it is not unusual for large numbers to be arrested daily,| FBI officials said that was the larg est number to be taken into cus«| tody in any one day. Hoover said no mass raid
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