Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1943 — Page 2

AGE ALLIES BLAST | ITALIAN PORT

Three Ships Sunk in Harbor Only 30 Miles From

Rome. (Continued from Page One)

terday when the greatest number of American planes ever to attack from Great. Britain made a fourway raid on the German naval base at Kiel, war plants at Antwerp, Belgium, & power plant at Velsen, Holland, and an air field at Courtrai,

Belgium. This attack eclipsed the record of American planes that raided St. Omer and Meaulte in northern France the day before. The royal air force dropped 2a record bomb load—probably more than 2000 tons—in its assault on Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Bochum in the central Ruhr valley on Thursday night. During the last few days Ameriean, British and Russian air forces also struck at Duisburg, Germany; Warsaw, Naples, Cagliari on Sardinia and Augusta on Sicily. Allied bombers, it was estimated, dropped at least 400,000 tons of bombs in 14 large raids on Europe within 48 hours. The magnitude of this offensive is shown by a comparison with the estimated 750,000 tons that the Germans dropped on London over a period of 90 nights in the blitz of 1940. *° Four-engined Liberators and fiying fortresses carried out the attacks on Kiel, Antwerp and Courtrai and medium bombers attacked Velsen yesterday. The U-boat yards at Kiel, the General Motors works at Antwerp, industrial targets at Velsen and a large airfield and repair depot at Courtrai were the main targets.

Results Were Good The General Motors plant sup-

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Weather and

starboard as it makes its way among the Aleutian islands.

geography like this had to be overcome before our joint army-navy forces could attack Japan-held Attu. Here, rolling and rocking in a heavy sea, a U. S. coast guard eutter takes ‘em port and

ATTU ‘SETBACK

Pessimism Is Reflected by "Berlin Radio as Yanks Fight On.

(Continued from Page One)

after the Japanese Attu garrison is exterminated, would appear to be Kiska, 172 miles to the east, There the enemy has a fighter plane field, a submarine base, anti-aircraft and shore guns, and the best harbor in the Aleutians. . Some of the Kiska installations have been blasted out of the rock. Can Crack Kiska But American occupation of Attu where the westward-moving and always bad Aleutian weather “makes up”==will place U. 8. forces in a position to crack the Kiska nut at their leisure with attacks from Attu on the west and from Amchitka, 63 miles to the east. When that has been accom-

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plished, the Japanese Kurile islands may be next on the American offensive timetable with Tokyo the ultimate goal. With expulsion of the Japanese from Kiska--and no ore believes it will be easy-—the Americans will have completed forcible liquidation of the boldest Japanese offensive since Pearl Harbor, Last June, little less than a year ago, the Japanese undertook to

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS

smash American power in the Pa-

In 1947.

LOS ANGELES, May 15 (U. P). —A mammoth passenger airplane which will hold 400 passengers is under construction by the Consoli-dated-Vultee Aircraft Co., Harry Woodhead, president of the company, revealed last night. Disclosing plans for building the huge plane to a meeting of the Aviation Forum, Woodhead said he was not permitted to release details of

cific forever with a two-pronged thrust aimed at Midway and Hawaii in the mid-Pacific and at the Aleutians and the North American mainland in the North Pacific,

Stalled in North American air and naval strength smashed the Midway drive, crip pling a great enemy fleet in the process, And a relative handful of American airmen—flying without

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eather and Japs in Aleutians

WASHINGTON 2424

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

(Continued from Page One)

the clause forbidding WLB to require that an employee join a union as a condition of employment. 8 s ” ” ” ”

House leadership is stalling on bringing the bill up, probably will keep it off the floor another week at least, hoping for a coal settlement. They have the support of many house members who would rather sidestep the issue for the present, ” ” FJ

Coal Truce May Be Extended

Look for the coal truce to be extended. Hope of a settlement before May 18 seems slim, * ” . » ” » Employer members of WLB were ready to quit, as well as labor members, if OES Director Byrnes hadn't modified the hold-the-line order, And labor members are as determined as others to walk out if Lewis is given more for his miners than WLB awards him. They'd like to help the miners, but not John L. Meanwhile 1,200,000 railroad workers, 450,000 aircraft workers, 400,« 000 shipyard workers, and others, wait to see what the decision on coal will be. ” ” » » ” » Don’t expect more civilian goods as a result of WPB's announcement that we're tooled up, that no more war production plants will be built. Machine-tool shops will be put to war uses, some will be closed. Even if they could produce tools for civilian products, there are no materials, no manpower, for utilizing them. Look for a strong administration drive to halt the Maloney bill (office of civilian requirements) in the house. It has top leaders frightened; some think it could seriously cripple war effort, ” ” ” ” ” .

Entire war housing program will be re-examined by congress before it acts on president's request for an additional $400,000,000 for government construction--raising housing fund to $1,600,000,000. House publie buildings and grounds committee plans to: 1. Insist that agencies eligible to draw on fund be limited to one or two. (At the start, 31 agencies had a hand in housing.) 2. Investigate charges that public buildings administration pays exorbitant rents for office space, has spent unnecessarily large sums for remodeling, and that houses have been built at sites where war plants were planned, then abandoned, 3. Insist that national housing agency prove need for dwellings to house an additional 1,100,000 workers. 4. Investigate private builders’ complaints that they are being frozen out by public-financed program. Housing officials say private builders won't invest in type of homes to be built by government (mostly demountables renting for $20, $25).

Report Rommel Promised

Until Autumn. (Continued from Page One)

tentialities of overwhelming air ste periority employed against a limited battlefield and insecure supply lines, Earlier than anticipated, the Gers man high command is forced to reconsider the question of whether it can afford to leave Italy's defense to the Italians while the bulk of Germany's land forces are massed for a last desperate effort to cap= ture Moscow. It was an essential feature of this German plan that the allies should be denied free passage through the Mediterranean throughout the summer campaigning period.

Axis Disconcerted

It was the German calculation that the allies would not launch new offensives in Europe while their shipping resources were still subs jected to the additional strain of routing to the Middle East around Africa. Additional insurance against ale lied intervention in Europe was the intensive U-boat offensive. But the Tunisian collapse and, evident ominous threat to Sicily and other islands dominating the Mediterranean narrows, coupled with more effective allied anti-U= boat measures, have brought about a radical change of outlook favora= ble for the allies and disconcerting for the enemy. It is for President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to decide how best to take advantage of these felicitous developments.

Shipping Great Problem

They may consider that a knocks out blow can be delivered against the axis in Europe this year if maxe imum weight is applied to this the=

To Tie Up the Allies *»

AFRICA DEFEAT HITS AXIS PLANS

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plies enemy motor transport. The results of all four attacks were described as good. Eleven bombers

ater during the immediate coming

months. Always their problem will be

its design. He said, however, that a full-sized wooden replica had been made and pronounced satisfactory.

rest in the most hazardous weather on earth—stalled the northern cam-

A New Device in the Offing

and four fighters of the allies were

lost. American, British, Dominion and allied fighters accompanied the bombers that attacked Antwerp and Courtrai but those that flew to Kiel were unescorted. The new P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and British Spitfires shot down 12 enemy planes in dog fights. The Thunderbolts got four of the axis planes while losing three of their own. It was the first time American planes had raided Kiel. Col. Arman Peterson of Flagstaff, Ariz, who led one group of Thunderbolts over Antwerp, called it “the best show yet.”

Flew 460 Miles

he raid on Kiel was the deepest peneration of American bombers into Germany—about 460 miles from their bases. a

The prime objective of the medium bombers at Velsen was the thermal power plant supplying most of the electric power for northern Holland and serving blast and steel furnaces producing high grade pig iron. The medium bombers went in at roof-top height shortly before noon. The U. 8S. communique said it was the first time medium bombers had been used in a raid on Europe but it was recalled that they bombed France last July 4. None of the mediums was lost yesterday. Tail Gunner Sgt. Walter Perry of Burlington, N. C., observed that farmers halted their ploughing to wave at the bombers. Second Lt. Frank D. Slough of Cleveland, O., said that “we must have blown some of Kiel off the map.” The British air ministry announced that Typhoon bombers and fighters had attacked enemy air fields at Tricqueville, Spitfires raided enemy shipping near Guernsey, and that Mustdngs destroyed an enemy fighter yesterday. One Spitfire and one Mustang were lost. Red army planes, seeking to throw off apparent Nazi plans to renew the offensive in central Russia, heavily attacked railroads and communications over a wide ares, destroying 72 German planes in the operations and losing 23.

CALL MORE SEA-BEES Skilled construction workers interested in petty officer ratings with the Sea-Bees will be interviewed Monday at the navy recruiting station, All applicants should have three letters of reference from former employers and must be outside draft-age bracekts,

“I would like to tell a few fantastic facts which the engineers in charge of design have given me in connection with this airplane but the war department won't let me,” he said. The plane will not be in production for war, he said, until 1947. Turning to the post-war future of the aircraft industry, he asserted that a recession is inevitable unless the industry receives “fair and reasonable treatment.” “Otherwise,” he said, “technological advances will be lost and the production end will settle back into the doldrums of the past two decades.”

2 HOOSIER HEROES HELD BY GERMANS

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been awarded the distinguished flying cross for extarordinary achievement. Sgt. Dirr was a member of the crew of a flying fortress which drew the fire of Japanese antiaircraft batteries so other planes in his squadron could complete bombing runs. The plane returned to base with all motors damaged after nearly eight hours in the air. Sgt. Dirr enlisted in the army nearly four years ago. He is officially listed as an aerial engineer and is responsible for maintenance of his plane while in flight and repairing battle damage. He is 27. » » » 1ST LT. EDWIN B. CONNELL, Ft. Wayne, has been awarded the air medal for meritorious service in the South Pacific, # ® = MRS. LUCILLE LAYTON, Sum=mitville, yesterday received the distinguished service cross posthumously awarded her husband, Sgt. Billie S. Layton, for “extraordinary heroism” and “complete disregard for his own welfare” in leading his command off a burning ship last November. The presentation was made by Col. James M. Churchill, commandant of Ft. Harrison, at the fort. The ceremony was attended by close relatives of Sgt and Mrs. Layton. : Sgt. Layton had previously been awarded the purple heart posthumously. Mrs. Layton has enlisted in the WAVES and will report for active duty soon.

Loans FOR REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS

F H A loans are made to responsible persons owning dwelling or business property, for necessary improvements — for remodeling, roofing, painting, insulating, storm sash, install. ing stokers, converting heating plants, and other worthy purposes. Loans are repayable monthly. No mortgage is required. We invite discussion of your problem.

Pacific Oceon

American soldiers are waging a

for missions to Tokyo.

Fabien W. Biemer, chief deputy county auditor, submitted his formal resignation to Auditor Ralph Moore yesterday afternoon. The resignation climaxes three weeks of turmoil between the auditor's office; county commissioners and the county couneil ever government policies. Mr. Moore declined to comment on the resignation, explaining that he would “have something to say” Monday. The effective date of the

War Information

Tin Can Cars Parade Here On May 24

“I CREAK and squeak. I can't run. Bui soon I'll be a son of a

gun.” That is what Indianapolis residents will see when the school youthg of the city take over in a “Jalopies for Victory Parade” the evening of May 24.

The parade is being sponsored by the Automobile Trade Association of the city in co-operation with the Marion county salvage committee and the war production hoard to impress upon citizens that if a car is no longer transportation, it is junk. Entrants will vie for three war bond and stamp prizes of $50, $25 and $10 denominations. ® = =

INDIANA WAR production board officials today advised type. writer users to save their used ribbon spools and turn them in when buying replacements. ‘This action will delay the possible necessity of typists winding their own ribbons. ® ” 2 UNDER. TERMS of a new direc tive the OPA has authority to ration new domestic heating and cooking stoves, space heaters, combination heating and cooking stoves, laundry stoves, combination ranges and conversion burners, designed to burn oil, for domestic purposes. Also included are such items which have been sold to a consumer but have been used for not more than 60 days. » ®

Home Cans Are 8 Points

A DEFINITION of home-canned foods which are to be sold, as distinguished from commercially canned foods, has been made by the OPA. Home-canned foods have a “point price” of eight

Upper map shows location of Attu island in the Aleutians—where

with relation to the main Jap base at Kiska and our newly won

Amechitka base, Kiska being in between for a pincers attack. map indicates how Attu would put U. S. bombers in strategic position

Deputy Auditor Resigns After 3 Weeks of Turmoil

land offensive against the Japs

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resignation was not fixed in Mr. Biemer’s written resignation. Friction among county officials broke out into the open a week ago when Mr. Biemer tore up vouchers for county councilmen'’s salaries, following a heated argument with Addison Parry, presifient of the county council, over Mr. Biemer’s methods of handling county business. Mr, Biemer is a Democratic holdover, reappointed by Mr. Moore, who is a Republican.

U. §. POSTMASTER PLANS VISIT HERE

The Democratic state committee, meeting here next Saturday to discuss 1044 campaign plans, will have as a guest Postmaster General Frank ©. Walker, national chairman, making his first trip here since his election in Chicago Jan. 18. Governor Schricker will be one of the speakers at the meeting.

ILLNESS IS FATAL TO CHARLES SNIDER

Charles Snider, 620 Lexington ave, died early today in his home following an illness of seven weeks. He was 64. Mr. Snider was born in Ironton, O., Aug. 6, 1878, and moved to Indianapolis 28 years ago. He was employed as a carman at the Beech Grove shops of the New York Central railroad. Surviving him are three daughters, Mrs. Pauline Poland and Mrs. Blanche Woodrum, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Louise Dickens, Cleveland; two sons, Carl, U. 8. army, and Charles Jr, Indianapolis; one sister, Mrs. Maggie McComas, Huntington, W. Va, and four brothers, John, Milltown, W. Va.; George, Maryland; Jess, Huntington, W. Va., and Ernest, Ohio, and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Monday at the home. Burial will be in New Crown cemetery.

TWO CHINESE STUDY LOCAL GOVERNMENT

An interview with Mayor Tyndall this morning opened a three-day study of Indianapolis’ city depart ments being made by a Chinese official and his secretary. They are Yu-lin Hsi, counselor for the Shanghai Municipal council and a member of the People’s Political council, Republic of China, and Sy Wang, his aide. Indianapolis is one of the American cities selected by the men in their study of municipal administration. Tomorrow they will visit city parks, and on Monday will

troops.

paign until the events now unfold ing became possible. After bombing Dutch Harbor, U. S. naval and military base in the Aleutians 769 miles east of Attu, on June 3, 1042, the Japanese invaded Attu, nearby Agattu and Kiska. But what started out confidently as an offensive to take Dutch Harbor and establish footholds on the North American mainland turned into a hopeless effort to hang on to three desolate, soggy, utterly forsaken islands constantly afflicted by wind, rain, snow and fog.

Gave Up Agattu

The Japanese eventually gave up Agattu to the weather and sought to intrench themselves on Kiska and Attu. But Kiska, most favorably gituated of the Rat island group, became a “rat trap.” The Americans nipped the enemy’s northern pincers by: 1. Stepping up their air power a hundred-fold. 2. Occupying ¢t h e Andreanof islands last September, bringing bombers and fighters 200 to 400 miles closer to Kiska. 3. Occupying Amchitka last Jan. 12. Since March 1, American heavy, medium and light bombers have smashed the Japanese on Kiska 223 times, dropping more than 1,000,000 pounds of bombs. . Kill 600 Japs

In one strafing attack alone, they killed an estimated 600 enemy Since the Aleutian campaign started, American fliers and

island

naval craft have sunk 15 enemy ships, probably sunk six, and dam-

aged 36 for a total of 57. They have destroyed more than 70 enemy planes, The navy’'s 36-word communique yesterday disclosed only that troops had landed at Attu on Tuesday and, three days later, were still fighting for possession of the island. Late yesterday, Knox announced that the operations were “going very satisfactorily.” He added that

“the navy supplied the ships; the

attacking forces are army men.” Knox said the navy would reveal

no more information until the occupation is successfully completed. He agreed that the attack was of great strategic importance,

Part of a Plan Bight days ago, when the navy

announced American occupation of Amchitka, 223 nautical miles east of Attu, Knox said that operation was part of an “aggressive offensive war” in the Pacific. Seizure of Attu, he said yesterday, would be another part of the same broad plan,

The Americans sealed the ultimate fate of Kiska and Attu at Amchitka. By Feb. 15 they lad completed an airfield there which neutralized Kiska's fighter plane base. Gaught between Amchitka and Attu, Kiska is doomed. The Japanese, apparently striving to forestall the Americans, had started to build a bomber landing strip on Attu. It now appears that American rather than Japanese bombers will use it. In that respect, the. attack on Attu was similiar to the marine assault on Guadalcanal in the Solomons last Aug. 7. The enemy had

started an air base on Guadalcanal, too. But the Americans captured

and are now using it. Unlike Guadalcanal, bleak and

when peace comes, ” ”

000 to 88,000,000 deadweight tons, enough; if it's not, we'll be short.

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mail sacks without landing. It's Virginia,, Ohio, Kentucky. Pont, plans post-war extension to s ” ”

experience on wartime economics. » ” ”

be vetoed anyway.

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Recent anti-submarine successes have raised navy's opinion of new device about which you may hear later, Right now it’s hush-hush. And the radar principle, now used for war, will preserve food, control machinery, detect fires, regulate lightning and do similar chores

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Estimates of war shipping needs are conflicting; range from 35,000,If the first figure is right, we'll have

With allowance for sinkings, con-

struction program will bring’ total tonnage to about 55,000,000 by Jan, 1, Opening of Mediterranean expected to keep requirements down,

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Post-war project: Extension of air-mail service in which planes hook

been operating four years without

serious mishap, now serves 115 communities in Pennsylvania, West Its originator, glider expert Richard Du

1400 other cities.

Treasury program for new taxes, when it comes, will be tip-off on how badly administration wants to check inflation, stop present widespread spending for non-essentials. crumbling, despite hold-the-line order, drastic taxation of incomes or retail sales—or both-~is needed to dam the flood, many officials feel. And speaking of inflation: OPA Chief Prentiss Brown has never even talked with Bernard Baruch,

With anti-inflation barricades

or made use of his long-garnered

McKellar bill, requiring confirmation of all federal employees, will never become law. It may pass senate, is likely to stall in house, would

Trade-union officials have started organizing for 1944 elections. They'll see that all members register in their new homes. Most emphasis will be put on a friendly congress, friendly legislatures,

Senate Majority Leader Barkley is due for a long rest. Lister Hill, Democratic whip, will try to carry the load.

CHICAGO, May 15 (U. P.).—The Journal of the American Medical association reported today the first case of human pregnancy resulting from artificial insemination in which the sperm was transported by airplane. The impregnation was a success, the Journal said, adding that “after

SHRINE MEMBERS TO ATTEND PARLEY

Several officers and members of Tarum Court 14, Ladies Oriental Shrine, will leave today to attend the national convention Sunday through Wednesday at Cleveland, O. Mrs. Roy L. Craig of Indianapolis is grand recorder of ‘the national organization and heads the delegation. She is a past high prietess of the local chapter. Officers attending are Mrs. Audra Clinton, high priestess; Mrs. Harry Halter, princess; Mrs. B. F. Cromley, associate princess; Mrs. Cloe Mains, first ceremonial lady, and Mrs. O. L. Fevrier, marshal. Members making the trip include Mrs. L. G. Jones, Mrs. Jessie Oster, Mrs. Georgia Hergt and Mrs. O. Ray Albertson.

ANGST TO ADDRESS ROTARY CLUB HERE

“Fighting on Two Fronts” is the topic of a vocational service talk to be given at the Rotary club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool hotel. Carl N. Angst, president of Pit-man-Moore Co., will be the speaker. His talk will deal with the problems of supplying the armed forces and civilians with drugs and medicines. : Indianapolis representatives at

the national Rotary convention in St. Louis Tuesday through Thurs-

Report Successful Birth by Artificial Insemination

an uneventful nine-month gestation period a baby boy was born whose blond hair and physiogonomy becomes more like the patient’s husband daily.” . “This child is now over two years old,” the Journal reported. The history of the case was presented by Doctors Frances I. Seymour and Alfred Koerner of New York and David Costom of Montreal, who said that the couple in Montreal had been childless over a 10-year marital period. The wife first went to New York for artificial impregnation, which was not successful. She returned to Montreal, and physicians agreed to ship specimens to Montreal from New York by airplane. The donor was chosen with great deliberation, the A. M. A. Journal

said. The doctors selected a man | Ointment hel

whose eyes and hair coloring and common physical characteristics corresponded with those of the husband. They chose a married man who had children, the Journal added.

availability of shipping, which ale most wholly governs the transfer of men, materials and supplies to the fighting theaters. Inevitably, they will consider means to increase available shipping tonnage. One way is by reopening the Mediterranean. Another is by increasing the number of bases from which anti-U-boat patrols can operate. » The possibilities for the latter are by no means exhausted and it may be expected that new practical measures will be adopted and soon become apparent,

Shadows of Other Moves

itive moves against the axis in Eue rope can already be detected in ace cordance with plans prepared three months ago. , Among them is the meeting of the Middle East council in Cairo, under British Minister of State

all service and diplomatic ¢hiefs in the whole region. Once, that council was concerned with plans for defense against an axis thrust aimed at the Persian gulf. ' But today the allies have passed from the defensive to the offensive, The Middle Eastern bastion can become the jumping-off ground for a Balkan invasion of liberation.

Another article on Invasion

possibilities tomorrow,

WAR SPENDING HITS -$189,000,000 A DAY

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. P.) w= The government war spending rate today stands at more than $60,000,« 000,000 for the current fiscal year— more than $189,000,000 for each of the 317 days since last July 1. One year ago expenditures for war purposes were slightly more than $20,000,000,000 for the corre sponding period, a daily rate of about $64,000,000. The government's expenses for all purposes this year, including pube lic debt retirements, exceeds $65,» 000,000,000, against about $25,000, 000,000 a year ago,

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MRS. WKEE TO TALK TO METHODIST UNIT

Mrs. Karel McKee, director of Christian education for the Methodist district, will speak at the conference for intermediate boys and girls of district Methodist churches, tomorrow at 2:30 p. m.,

Japanese seeking to escape Amerjcan fire power. On Attu, enemy troops fleeing to the interior are courting a quick death from exposure and starvation.

day will be Mark Ferree, president; Howard N. Sweetman, first vice president; Harry S. Hanna, chairman of convention service, and Wilbur T. Gruber, assistant secretary.

—for Every Occasion . . .

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