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| Spain Reports Allied Invasion Fleet At Gibraltar
530,000 IGNORE U.S. AUTHORITY IN 2D WALKOUT
Operators Resume Negotiations;. F. D. R. May Appeal or Use Troops As ‘Truce’ BULLETIN
FOF EXPECTS
LAND ATTACK DURING JUNE
~ Hint Armada Numbers 104Ships; Italian Admits Bridgehead Likely.
LONDON, June 1 (U. P.). — The largest concentration of allied shipping at Gibraltar since the start of the war—104 transports, tankers and supply ships—was reported at anchor today as a German broadcast:speculated that the allies: may invade Europe this “month, perhaps Jon June 22. The bulk of the huge fleet was transports and tankers which arrived at Gibraltar yesterday, a dispatch from the Spanish border town of La Linea said. Taking cognizance of growing alled strength in the Mediterranean theater, the Rome radio told its listeners to take their cue from the way Britain, “beaten and abandoned and faced with: invasion amid ruins,” Tallied in 1940, and a responsible Italian spokesman acknowledged by implication that several Hundred thousands allied troops copld open a second front successfully in Italy.
. Allzed Troops May Exceed 1,000,000
4 The total number of allied troops fn North Africa and, the Middle East never has been disclosed, but probably . xveals 1,000,000. Prime Mig k 2 speech s00n
in ; in North Omi Then Africa during the first month alone. These were in adidtion to the
' British 8th army, then in Libya, and British armies in Egypt, Syria, Iran,
Iraq and Cyprus. The number since
has been swollen by the dispatch of ‘huge reinforcements to Africa. ‘Apart from allied invasion preparations in the ' southern theater, U. 8. army headquarters in London announced the appointment of Brig. Gen. Daniel Noce, one of the outstanding ‘: American specialists in landing operations, to the European general staff. Only last week Hie Gen. James C. Crockett, the U. 8 army's outstanding authority on the German army, joined the staff. June 22 the Date? A German transocean broadcast quoted Swedish reports that June was being mentioned as the month in. which- the allies will invade Furope. Neutral correspondents were reported to have written from London that the date heard most was June 22, third anniversary of the: signing of the Franco-German grmistice. The Italian spokesman’s remarks on the prospectsiof an invasion of Italy were made to neutral newsey in Rome, a Bern dispatch reported. To be successful, he said, the allies would have to use at least several hundred thousand seldiers. The British radio quoted the Rome corréspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter as writing that it is clear to all Italians that the allies are trying to break Jtalian resistance with air raids. The invasion itself will start with
: te a landing on -the island of Pantel-
leria in ‘the Sicilian narrows, - the
correspondent saidy ”
On the War Fronts
(June 1, 1943)
BUROPE~ British planes hit points in occupied countries. MEDITERRANEAN — Flying Fortresses attack Foggia, airbase on an mainland, in third raid in a days.
: BUSSIA— army repulses two i Ha ct te in Lisichansk
re tap five Japanese divisions near Yangtze river| * after turning back enemy offenSive.
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Sees Victory
Gen. Henry H. Arnold « » “Nazi morale is cracking.”
FORTS BATTER FOGGIA AGAIN
100 ‘Planes Blast Junction * 80 Miles From Port
of Naples.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 1 (U. P.).—More than 100 U. S. Flying Fortresses battered the Italian airdrome and railroad junction at Foggia, smashed a large number of axis planes aground-and shot down. four
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total of 337 enemy craft knocked out of the air in May. It was the third raid in four days on Foggia.
Islands Attacked
The total of 337 included only axis planes shot down by the northwest African air forces, which lost 108 craft in the same period for a ratio of about one to three. In addition, many enemy planes were destroyed on the ground or shot down by the allied Middle East planes for an unofficial grand total of 421. Establishing a strong mar-
| gin of air superiority over the axis
on the invasion route to Italy, The raid was accompanied by renewed atacks on the stepping stone (Continued on Page Six)
YANKS MOPPING UP LAST OF ATI ATTU JAPS
400 Killed 7 in Week-end
Operations.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.).— Three American trogp columns, moving swiftly to destroy the last vestiges of Japanese on Attu island, have united on the shores of Chichagof harbor affer killing 400 enemy soldiers in week-end mopping up operations, the navy announced today. The triumphant Yanks effected the juncture on Sunday after advancing in the face of weak resistance from small groups of Japanese. A navy spokesman, confirming previous disclosures, said Shere was no organized resistance anywhere on Attu. The three columns had pushed forward from the -west, the south and southwest and occupied ravaged Attu village at the head of Chichagof harbor. The column that came in from the south advanced down the floor of Chichagof valley, The southwestern force: had moved over Southwest peak on the eastern tip of Fish-Hook ridge. The western group came in from the eastern arm of Holtz bay and advanced over the northern flank of Fish-Hook ridge.
Hoosier Heroes Five Indiana Service. Men Diein Action FIVE INDIANA SOLDIERS have been killed in action in the ‘Asiatic and North African areas, the war department announced Pvt. Charles H. Harris of Vin-
BOMBS TO END WAR QUICKLY,
General Declares ‘Every’ Plane to Be Used
In Assault.
WEST POINT, N. Y, June 1 (U. P.).—Gen. Henry H. Arnold said
the war —‘“and end it soon” —by
bombing military objectives with every airpigne they can muster. “By such operations we will end it quicker, we will cut down the casualties, we will in the end save hundreds of thousands of lives,” the ‘commanding general of the,
class at the U. S. military academy. Remarking that the production of material and training of men in the last 18 months has been “staggering,” Arnold said he believed that “we are now ready for a decisive year.” The question no longer is who will win the war, he said, but how it will be won and how long it will take.
They Started It
Arnold said as many airplanes are manufactured in the United States in 150 days now as were built in the 36 years before the war, He reminded his audience that it was the Germans, Italians and Japanese who started the bombing of cities, at a time when they thought they had the world licked.
be aimed at military objectives by airmen who had demonstrated their accuracy, though there would be “shorts” and “overs.” “Our plans call for bombing to destruction their factories, their transportation and communication systaéms, their U-boat yards, the industries making their critical items —and they don’t like it. They can’t take such terrifying destructive day and night hammering. They are crying for us to stop—their morale is already beginning to crack,
Completed Tour
“But we are going to end it and end it soon—by bombing military objectives consistently and with the maximum destructive power we possess.” Arnold described the tremendous speeds and distances of modern warfare. Supply lines are measured in thousands instead of hundreds of miles—from San Francisco to Australia and from New York to Calcutta. Arnold himself . in. the past several months has been in Alaska, the Solomons, New Guinea, (Continued on Page Six)
PARADE AND RALLY TO OPEN BOND DRIVE
Gene Autry to Entertain
Youthful Canvassers.
A big downtown parade and a free rally, featuring cowboy star Gene Autry, for all boys and girls in Marion county will be highlights June 11 of a campaign for war bonds which may be used as a pattern for similar campaigns throughout the country. The county’s 10,000 Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls will take pledges for the bonds in a house-to-house canvass starting after the parade and rally. Start of the drive coincides with dismissal of public schools for the summer vacation, Gene Autry, now an air corps sergeant, will appear at the tabernacle with his singing trio “and
chairman of the rally, which will
Scouts and Camp Fire Girls through downtown Indianapolis,
Urge Thre | Extra Bonds
Each person pletiging to buy extra bonds will be given a window sticker by the young canvassers. These also will be issued at banks and other distributing agencies, so that everyone buying an extra bond during June will receive recognition, Theme of the campaign Marion county -is pioneering for the nation air is based upon purchase of at least|. three bonds during the month by each individual—one bond each for
| the army, She navy and the mia
ARNOLD STATES
army air forces told the graduating
He said bombs for the axis would]:
band. Fred F. Bays is program|’ follow the parade of ,uniformed|
today the allies are going to end |
[0 . 15 NEARING FULL WAR ROLE
Byrnes Serves Notice That|
“Ctitical-Petfod Has
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U.P).— James F. Byrnes, selected. by President Roosevelt to boss the American war effort and the civilian economy, served notice today that the critical period of war had arrived and that Americans henceforth must be prepared to assume a major role in military” operations against the axis. In a speech last night before a hometown audience at Spartanburg, 8S. C.,, Byrnes showed the full authority of his new post as director of the office of war mobilization by making disclosures about the war's progress which usually would have been reserved for an important “fireside chat” by Mr. Roosevelt,
“We Must Sacrifice”
He tempered his optimistic report on the progress of production, however, by warning that in the future production will be but one part of the broad picture, “We must keep up our all-out pro-
lions of our men are engaged in allout attacks,” he said. “This will put stresses and strains on our military machine, on our civilian economy, on eur private lives. . . , “We must act with greater dispatch and greater efficiency than ever before. We must learn to work, (Continued on Page Six)
Radar Gets Jap Ship 8 Miles Off
‘WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.). —James F. Byrnes told a story in his radio address last night which illustrates the important part be ing played in the war by radar, the new radio detection and ranging device. “On the night of Nov. 24, off Guadalcanal there lay a Japanese battleship,” Byrnes said. “It was a stormy night. Eight miles away was a ship of our fleet. With the use of the radar our ship with its second salvo, sank the Jap battleship in the blackness of night, eight miles away. “Is there any wonder that the Japanese admiral Yamamoto who boasted he would . dictate the peace to the U. 8. in the White House has quietly passed away?”
AXIS SAYS BOMBS DAMAGE CATHEDRAL
. By UNITED PRESS The German ‘Transocean news service reported today - that the Cathedral of Milan, Italy—one of
J3¢-find Tesh been; damaged. in..allied attacks.
Miss Charlotta Porter, City hospital nurse, reenacts her efforts to foil the escape of two prison ward patients by holding shut the barred door.
duction at the same time that mil-|
DUNWOODY'S THIRD
the world’s largest, dating back to|OP
City Nurse Threatened
Two Beat Guard, Flee Hospital
Patrolman Joseph Gibbons . . . when he reresponded to the call of one of the prisoners he was beaten with a “pop” bottle asd is now a patient.
In Trying to Foil Break
Two Negroes held in the prison
ward at City hospital were at large
today after a daring escape late last night during which they beat the
olicen
al a nurse and hospital attendant, he" ME enna ne ar ‘Harris, 20, under a 10-to-25-year
a Ch sentence for robbery, and” Robert Richardson, 21, ‘awaiting a federal
court trial on a charge of violating the Dyer act.
Four other patients in the ward remained asleep during the excitement and' were not aware- of the escape’ until police ‘squads ‘ arrived. ‘Harris was in a darkened room because of an eye injury he claimed he: received when he splashed lye on the eye while working at the county jail. Shortly before midnight he called to Patrolman Joseph Gibbons on guard duty, to open a windc
Nurse Threatened
When: the patrolman walked into the room, he was slapped on the back: of the head with a bottle wrapped in a towel. Police believe Richardson wielded the bottle. Both men were beating him when his screams attracted the attention of Miss Charlotte Porter; a nurse, and Lawrence Pennick, an attendant. Miss Porter reached. the room door first. Pennick immediately : (Continued on Page Six)
SMOKER FINED -$5
Reports - Latest Violator Laughed at Him.
Harry Shepard, Logansport railroad man, paid $5 in municipal court today for smokihg on a bus. He was arrested yesterday on a bus at Emerson and English aves. by Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody, nemesis of bus and, streetcar smokers. Dunwoody recently made the first arrést for violation of the new city law and two others. Patrolman. Dunwoody testified before Judge John Niblack that when he got on the bus Shepard was smoking. He ‘said that when Shepard saw him get on, he tossed his smoke out the window and then laughed. Shepard denied that he laughed at the officer. Judge Niblack suspended the $10 costs,
Henry Ford Again Heads Auto Empire
DETROIT, June’ 1 (U. P).— Henry Ford returned to the helm of the industrial empire he founded 40 years ago when'shareholders and directors of /the Ford Motor Co. elected him president today to succeed his son, Edsel Ford, who died Wednesday. Election of the 79-year-old industrialist ended speculation as to
who would succeed the younger:
Ford in the presidency he assumed in 1919, when his -father withdrew from ‘official activity in the firm and named Edsel his sole heir. ‘There was considerable belief that Ford, considering his age, would turn over: control of the company to Harry H. Bennett, Ford personne} director, and Charles E. Sorensen, vice president, until Edsel Ford's three sons—Benson, Henry II and William—were ready to assume the leadership. Today's action was taken by a meeting of shareholders and approved immediately by the board of directors, which also renamed Sorensen vice president, B. J. Craig vice president and treasurer, H. L. Moekle secretary and assistant treasurer and H. E. Schlupter assistant secretary and assistant treasurer.
COURT DOOMS ‘LEPKE’
. WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.).— The supreme court today affirmed the murder convictions and death sentences of three members of Brooklyn's “Murder, Inc.” — Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Emanuel Weiss and Louis Capone. The court also for the third time refused to intervene in the treason conviction of Max Stephan, Detroit restaurant keeper, and withdrew its stay which has held up his execu-
tion.
It's Ernie Pyle Time Again; June Cigaret Goal 1;000,000
It's Ernie Pyle cigaret time again.
, The June drive to keép a con-
tinuous supply of cigarets moving to the fighting Yanks abroad : The, wont 4-"one
by the United Press in New York, said that architects had found the cathedral’s sub-structure sinking beSHUas Nf explosions neutty: :
the cigarets for shipment overseas
'|ened with heavy bombing "| Berlin broadcast.
| STRIKE TIES UP TRAVEL
RICE FOUR CENTS
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Lewis,
WASHINGTON, June 1
up the nation’s hard and soft
resumed contract negotiations
coal fields.
HOUSE AGGEPTS PAY-AS-60 BILL
Vote Follows Roosevelt . Assurance He Will Sign It.
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 1 (U.P.). ~The house today adopted the compromise pay-as-you-go tax plan shortly after hearing that President Roosevelt-had given assurances that he would sign it.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.). —Only “token” resistance is expected today when the house votes on a compromise pay-as-you-go income tax plah devised by a committee of the senafe ‘and house and described as a “75 per cent Ruml plan.”
Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) of the house ways and means committee urged the house to adopt the plan but conceded the proposal is not “a perfect solution of the problem.”
For the first time in the long tax controversy, Republican and Democratic leaders joined in predicting house adoption of a proposal to (Continued on Page Six)
DAVIES IN ALASKA EN ROUTE TO U. S.
Ex-Ambassador to Russia Bringing Stalin’s Note.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U, P.). —White House Secretary Stephen I, Early said today that Joseph E. Davies, returning to this country from a special mission ‘to Moscow, has landed in Alaska.
Early did not know when Davies could be expected here. Davies, former U. S. ambassador to Moscow, was sent there with a sealed letter from the President to Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and is returning with the reply.
RAIDS MAY FORCE NAZI EVACUATIONS
By UNITED PRESS { Extensive evacuation of the population of heavily bombed areas of Germany probably will become necessary, the magazine, Das Reich; mouthpiece of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, said today. ‘The magazine said areas threatmight be evacuated, according el
LONG BEACH, Cal, June 1 (U. P.)~Union bus ‘drivers left ete
Expires.
(U. P.).—Chairman William
H. Davis and two other public members of the war labor : board conferred for more than two hours today with Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson as the United ° Mine Workers, in defiance of the government, again tied
coal fields.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U, P.).—Miners and operators
today without indicating what
they intend to do about the renewed strike which, in defiance of government requests, tied up most of the soft and hard
White House Secretary i Stephen T. Early said at his
regular morning press conference, however, that concerning the coal strike “there is nothing to be said at this time.” ; The war labor board convened in a regular meeting at which it was expected the situation would be dis cussed. The negotiators convened ' again ab 11:5 a. m. as.the bulk of the United Mine Workers’ 530,000 n bers left their jobs in the coal producing states. The wage-hour conference had - broken up late yesterday without a contract agreement, and the miners had started their walkout at mid night when a truce expired.
No Formal Call
Resumption of discussions between miners and operators was delayed by\ Vohn L. Lewis, U M. W. presi+ dent, who arrived at the conference: room 45 minutes late.
Meanwhile, a reliable source re~ a
ported that Solid Fuels Adminiss trator Harold L. Ickes—who yester< day urged the conferees to compose their differences immediately—and’ Undersecretary of Interior Abe Fortas conferred last night with = Lewis and Charles O'Neill, spokes« man for northern operators. It was understood that Lewis had proposed agreement on a tentative contract, presumably embodying: demand for $2 daily portal-to-portal pay. The operators were said: to have found the proposal unaccept able. Should no other solution be found, the government was expected to take immediate, perhaps drastic ace tion. "If appeals fail, troops may be sent to the coal fields, .
‘No Contract, No Work’
. President Roosevelt told the miners a month ago when the gov ernment seized the mines that the government would . not tolerate a work stoppage. Later he made clear that he expected no sec stoppage because the miners employees of the government - at he could recall no strike against the government. . The U. M. W. issued no fo strike call. But it failed to ren the working truce which has ki the mines going since April (Continued on Page Six)
STATE COAL MINERS
JOIN IN WALKOUT!
By UNITED - PRESS tween 8000 and 10,000 Indi n
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