Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1943 — Page 2

AIR ASSAULT ON SICILY LAUNCHED

Waves of Allied Planes Attack Airdromes in B Offensive Prelude.

| (Continued from Page One) and five German Messerchmitt 109s _;were shot down in aerial combat. _. Bomb hits en hangars indicated that other aircraft also may have . been destroyed.

Hangars Were Hit

At Catania, direct hits were re- _ ported on hangars and dense black | smoke was observed pouring from those on the western side of the | fleld. “Serious damage” was caused | to an undetermined number of air- | eraft on the ground and installa"tions, the communique said. | Bomb bursts were seen to tear up the main runway. | British heavy bombers from the Middle-Eastern command also con- . ‘eentrated on Catania Saturday | night, touching off fires that could ‘be seen for a “considerable distance,” the communique said. ~~ R. A. F. long-range fighters and medium bombers, likewise from the, middle-eastern command, set two vessels afire and damaged a third with machinegun fire in attacks on . enemy shipping in the Aegean sea and off the west coast of’ Greece. One plane was lost in all opera- | tions, the Cairo communique said.

Will Hit With Everything

With the clearing of the Sicilian © ‘parrows of all enemy bases, Sicily . itself, island strdhghold guarding the southern approaches to Italy, loomed as next target for allied - aerial might. ~ The heavy air raids on three . Sicilian airdromes Saturday indicated that American and British fliers soon will be hitting the 9936-square-mile island off the toe of the Italian boot around the clock with every type plane from four-engined Flying Fortresses to single-engined Spitfire fighter-bombers. The surrender yesterday of the tiny volcanic island of Linosa, 30 miles northeast of Lampedusa, marked the elimination of the last of the nuisance bases from which the axis might harry or spy on allied preparations for the next blows to the north. :

Waved White Flags

The air poundings that reduced Pantelleria and Lampedusa apparently convinced the garrison of Linosa that any attempt at resistance would be futile and the four square - mile island surrendered

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without a bomb being dropped or a shell being fired. A destroyer standing off Linosa early yesterday observed white flags flying and sent a landing party ashore. The garrison of 140 soldiers and sailors were rounded up quickly and evacuated by sea. 'The operation had been completed by noon. : The only island in the Sicilian straits still in Italian hands is Lampione, just west of Lempedusa, but it is smaller even than Linosa and has no military or naval value. Lampedusa capitulated at 7 p. m. Saturday after 30 hours of aerial and naval bombardment. The aer-

the surrender of Pantelleria, 90 miles to the northwest, shortly be-

fore noon Friday and continued |of almost ceaselessly until the garTi-|were lacking, for' example, if and son hoisted white flags.

Island Was Shelled Four cruisers and six destroyers

SPY AIDED JAPS IN SNEAK RAID

Nazi Built Dormer Window To Flash Signal at

Pearl Harbor.

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(Hangman) Heydrich “doublecrossed” him. One signal devised by Kuehn for the Japanese fleet was a light from a dormer window in his house at Kalama, a small community located at Kai Lua, Oahu, on the eastern side of the island. Another light was to be flashed from a Lanikai beach house owned by Kuehn. Kuehn was aided by his wife and his stepdaughter. The latter operated a beauty parlor for service-

ial attack began immediately after men’s wives near Pearl Harbor.

The OWI release was based on information from the federal bureau invest’‘gation. Many details

when the lights were actually flashed, and to whom. If they were flashed to units of the Japanese

shelled the island twice during Fri- fleet, as apparently intended, it inday night and at intervals through- |dicated that enemy vessels must out Saturday. Enemy batteries re- have been fairly close to the islands. plied, but ceased fire on being engaged.

Kuehn was first admitted to the United States at Honolulu on Aug.

The heavy raids on Sicily began |15, 1935, ostensibly to study the Jap-

Flying

for 25 miles. Martin Marauders simultaneously dumped heavy bombs among the hangars of the Milo airdrome, also

on Sicily. No enemy fighters were

encountered over any of the Sicilian airdromes.

YOUTH, 17, JAILED IN SHOOTING CASE

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plates that it was the property of Walter J. Flynn and that it had been stolen. About an hour and a half later, Pitts, driving another car owned by his brother, Paul, a soldier, appeared at his home and was arrested by patrolmen sent to wait at the house. Later in the morning, police arrested Paul Pitts and held him for

military authorities who reported

he had overstayed his furlough from the army 15 days.

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Saturday even before Lampedusa’s|anese language. He never returned surrender was received. fortresses dropped fragmentation Japan. Between then and 1941 only bombs that spread shrapnel among fragmentary knowledge of his acnearly 150 planes parked on the tivities is available, but in the early Castel-Vetrano and Bocca di Falco |f8ll of 1940 the now famous dormer airdromes and started fires visible [Windows in his home was coun-

to Germany but made two trips to

structed, and the FBI files show the following about his “work” just prior to the Pearl Harbor attack:

Received $14,000 in Cash

On or about Oct. 25, 1941, $14,000 in cash was delivered to Kuehn, at his residence with the dormer window, by Tadasi Morimura, fourth secretary of the Japanese consulate. In November, 1941, Kuehn went to Otojiro Okuda, Japanese viceconsul at Honolulu and offered to assist Japan in obtaining information about the national defense of

.|the United States. Kuehn told the

FBI that Okuda asked him to get information regarding the movement of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor and to devise a system of signals by which that informattion could be imparted to the Japanese fleet. Kuehn went to Pearl Harbor, accompanied by his 10-year-old son, Hans Joachim. A few days later he submitted a signal system to the Japanese consulate—a system which could be used by the consulate in furnishing information as to the number and types of American ships in the harbor, as well as data about the ships that had already left or were about to leave.

Furnished the Signals

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, special agents of the FBI learned that on Dec. 3, Nagao Kita, the Japanese -consul-general in Honolulu, had furnished his foreign office with the complete system of signals to be used in transmitting information about American leet movements at Pearl Harbor. : The Kuehns had previously been suspected of engaging in espionage activities, both he and his wife having been known as pro-Nazi in Honolulu, where they took part in the activities of various local German clubs. But FBI files showed that neither had a previous criminal record, although they had been investigated as suspected German and Japanese spies. Born in Berlin Kuehn was born in Berlin on July 25, 1895. He enlisted in the German navy and served as a midshipman aboard a German cruiser during world war I and was taken prisoner by the British when his ship was sunk in 1915. He returned to the German naval service after the armistice for three months and studied medicine briefly and engaged in various occupations in Germany. He married Friedel Birk in 1920. She had two children, Leopold and Ruth, by a previous marriage. According to Mrs. Kuehn, Leopold is an assistant to Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. During Kuehn’s first three years in Hawaii, more than $70,000 was deposited to his and his wife's credit in a Honolulu bank by ‘the Rotterdam bank association, supposedly from investments and business interests of his in Germany and Holland. Wife Went to Japan Near the end of 1939, however, Kuehn was reported to be in financial difficulties and his wife's daugh-

| [ter opened a beauty parlor which

Mrs. Kuehn is reported as having said was really opened to obtain navy business. Mrs. Kuehn went to Japan in 1940 and returned to Hawaii with a series of articles on “American Polynesia,” which contained descriptions of various British and American islands. She also is reported to have brought back $16,000 in cash. y In January, 1940, the same year Kuehn built the dormer window in his house, Mrs. Kuehn bought a pair of 18-power Bauch & Lomb binoculars. ; “This was an unusual purchase for a woman to make,” the OWI said, “for these field glasses are considered too high-powered for ordinary purposes. Because of their magnified vibrations, they cannot be used without a tripod or some other kind of rest.”

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for which the president's budget provided $58,764,000. : The bill carries $1,086,562,499 for the labor department, federal security agency and related agencies such as the war manpower commission. This is $124,093,524 less than their appropriations for fiscal 1943 and $127,468,611 less than the budget estimates for 1944. McNutt’s two agencies—the war manpower commission and the federal security agency—absorbed the bulk of the economy-minded committee’s cuts. From a $712,486,310 request for the security agency the committee chopped $39,743,930, and from a $181,830,000 request for the manpower commission — including the NYA—it cut $71,777,700,

Highlights of Testimony

Approval of the bill was accompanied by release of testimony before subcommittees, highlights of which were: 1. Selective service’s expectation to have to draft most physicallyfit fathers’ regardless of the number of children they support. That will be necessary to meet the 10,-900,000-man goal for early 1944 and monthly calls of 100,000 to 125,000 thereafter to provide replacements for casualties. 2. “Unofficial discussions” among

NYA Liquidation O e Group Denies Funds

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dered;

about 2,500,000 men “for a considerable time” after the war. 3. Statistics revealing that nearly 23 per cent of the army’s rejections of men are because of mental and nervous disorders. They led Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey to wonder whether “maybe we are all unfit for modern war.” Of 2,870,000 rejections, 657,200 were for. mental disease, neurological disorder or mental deficiency.

WMC Reports Criticized

In cutting McNutt's appropriations, the committee: * Sharply criticized WMC for submitting “voluminous and involved statements which were difficult to analyze and which required a great deal of time on the part of the committee.” The committee attached a proviso to the bill prohibiting the freezing of social security funds for states where merit systems have been adopted ‘in .accordance with the federal security act “because of any disapproval of their personnel or the manner of their selection.” This apparently was aimed at action of the social security board in withholding unemployment compensation administrative funds in states where federal-state differ-

government officials considering maintenance of an armed force of

This is the third of a series of five eye-witness articles describing the American victory on Attu island in the Aleutians. The writer, Sherman Montrose, is an Acme Newspicture cameraman whose photos are distributed through the wartime pool of the various photographic agencies.

By SHERMAN MONTROSE Times Special Writer HOLTZ BAY, Attu, June 14.—

for three days, the battle of

“Bloody Point” for control of Holtz bay was a scene of savage grandeur. The island’s snow-capped peaks and the nearby mountain looked forbidding enough to the invaders, but spitting death also seemed to lurk in every ravine and on the crest of every elevation.

The Japanese were everywhere in that wild region, and for a time it seemed almost impossible to locate them. Their machine guns were so placed that they controlled every area of the approaches to a commanding position on the mountain overlooking Holtz bay. Yet they were so cunningly concealed that it took hours of searching through field glasses to locate one. On the morhing of the third day, the enemy shot the works in an effort to dislodge the attacking American troops. Machine gunners and snipers threw down a continuous fire that must nearly have burned up their weapons. For an hour or . more their anti-aircraft batteries on Holtz bay's east and west arms furiously laced the air above the Americans slowly trying to work up the hill. Fuses were set so that the shell bursts came close to the ground.

Wounded Straggle In

They made ear-shattering cracks. « +» » It was more than men could stand. Troops retreated from high positions where they were fully exposed to ack-ack and dug in lower on the slope. Stretcher cases and the walking wounded came straggling into our command post, located 1000 yards behind the main line of fire, where we had a perfect view of hostilities. They had been under fire for 48 hours, crouched shivering in the snow wthout cover—and looked it. Almost to a man, however, they wanted most to get back into

battle. Injuries Light

Surprisingly, casualties were light in nature. Some suffered from shock of near anti-aircraft bursts. Others bore burns on their backs from the same source. Many carried “knee mortar” fragments in legs or superficial wounds from ricocheting bullets. A few were dazed. Almost all, however, asked treatment just to “get back there with my buddies.” Frost-bitten feet, or a form of trench foot widespread in the last war, was prevalent. It was responsible for a large percentage of the casualties—men who soon will be well and fight again. ‘Life-saving sulfa drugs and firstaid treatment were administered at the battle station, and the men were sent back to a permanent hospital established on the beach.

Supplies Pour In Ahead, the fight continued.

'For 3 Days Death Lurked In Every Ravine on Attu’

ences have arisen over civil service procedure.

quently into the camp area. Maj. Hartl, acting under orders from his commanding officer, “suggested” that observers and correspondents return to the beach to clear all possible deadwood from the area. It sounded like an order to us and we left. A steady stream of supplies was making its way to the front with several “cats” building roads and —wonder of wonders on Attu— four “Jeeps” carrying supplies up front, wounded to the rear. At the beach, a colonel had rigged an elevator from a crest overlooking the beach area to the supply dump 1000 feet below. A tractor hauled ammunition and food up, lowered the wounded by easy stages. It operated 24 hours a day without pause.

Japs Find Our Beach The Japs had found our landing beach and began lobbing over artillery and anti-aircraft shells. The A-A broke high overhead and the artillery, for the most part,

or in the water. Landing boats were under almost constant fire. From their positions across Holtz bay, the enemy opened up every time a landing ‘was in progress, but managed- to sink only one boat, and that from a near miss. No one was injured. Throughout the gunfire, the navy “carried the mail” ashore and the stream of supplies never ceased. Ammunition carried an “A” priority. Food came on a “B” rating, sleeping bags and changes of cloth-

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TWO LOGAL MEN ON MISSING LIST

Sgt. Paul Cribelar Served In England; Cpl. 0. R.

Neese in Pacific. (Continued from Page One)

Tex. He served at air fields at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Salina, Kas., and went overseas in April. His last letter was dated May 8. Before entering the army he worked at the Link-Belt plant. He is a graduate of Washington high school. ” EJ Killed THE ARMY air corps announced today that Sgt. Willet PF. Draker, Ft. Wayne, and Sgt. John F. Kennedy, Peru, were among the six men who were killed when an army bomber crashed in northern California near Dunsmuir last Thursday.

Wounded

ARMY RELEASES today naming wounded U. S. soldiers included the name of Pvt. Joseph F. Summers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Summers, 631 Perry st. However, a letter written by Pvt. Summers to his parents stated that he had been released from the hospital. Pvt. Summers was wounded in the Tunisia fighting. His uncle, Louis J. Summers, 523 Perry st. said the family had no other information. Others wounded in the North African fighting are, Pvt. John H. Czuk, son of Mrs. Josephine Czuk, South Bend; Pfc. Otis L. Hollingsworth Jr., son of Mrs. Mabel Hollingsworth, Terre Haute; 2d Lt. George E. Horn, son of Mrs. Myrtle E. Horn, Knightstown; T. 5th Gr. Carl A. Mundy, son of Mrs. Barbara Mundy, Jasper, and 1st Lt. Thomas J. Nugent, son of Thomas M. Nugent, Elnora. Pfc. Géne W. Brown, son of Mrs. Effie Brown, Muncie; Cpl. Burton A. Davis, son of Mrs. Nezza Davis, Frankfort; Sgt. Louis W. Greene, brother of Mrs. Mary Bundren, Jeffersonville, and Pfc. Everett T. Harrell, son of Mrs. Sarah E. Harrell, Madison. Indiana men wounded in action in the Pacific area are T. Sgt. Fred E. Gerkin, son of Harry H. Gerkin, Loogootee, and T. Sgt. Raphael F. Penzenik, son of Mrs. Pauline Penzenik, Mishawaka. » = ”

Prisoner

T. SGT. KENNETH BALDRIDGE of Bloomington is a prisoner of the Germans, the war department announced today. He had previously been reported missing following a raid over western Europe. He was a radio operator on a bomber, based in England.

transport and war industry center of Bochum Saturday night. The big four-engined Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the 8th U. 8. air force were credited with distributing a total of at least 1250 tons of bombs among four key German U-boat centers, Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven Friday and Kiel and Bremen yesterday.

The air ministry, in announcng the latest series of attacks, made it clear that the latest operations were on a far smaller scale than those of the 48 hours ended yesterday afternoon. The communique implied that the bomber command was engaged mainly in laying mines in enemy waters while small forces struck at Germany itself. Beaufighters raided the enemy convoy off the Dutch coast, sinking a supply ship and damaging five other vessels. . One of the five ships damaged, a large supply vessel, was hit by torpedoes. The ship| sent to the bottom was slightly smaller, the communique said, while the other four craft were escort vessels. One Beaufighter was lost in the attack, for which Spitfire fighters provided an escort. The communique also reported the destruction of an enemy flying boat off the Norwegian coast by coastal command aircraft yesterday. A German broadcast acknowledged that British planes caused “some damage” to a convoy off Holland, but said five bombers were (The German high command today acknowledged casualties and damage in allied air ds on the north German coastal area, especially at Bremen and | Kiel.) The record offensive cost the allies 101 heavy bombers, 34 of them American, but allied | commanders said they did not consider the loss excessive in the light of the damaging blows struck German industry at a time when the Nazi army and navy were demanding more and more weapons with which to meet the threat of an allied invasion.

London Gets

Germany’s once-vounted Luftwafie sent a few planes over Britain Saturday night and last night, but little damage and only a few casualties were reported. Alarms were sounded in London both nights, but only two planes dared the defensive barrage Saturday and just a single plane last night. Ome person was killed in London Saturday night, but no casualties were reported last night. | The American raids on Kiel and Bremen in daylinght yesterday cost 26 Flying Fortresses, the largest loss yet suffered by the 8th air force in a single day’s operations. Most of the bombers were shot down over the German naval base at Kiel during the biggest air battle ever touched off by an American raid. Brig. Gen. Fred L. Anderson Jr. of Kingston, N. Y.,, commander of the formation that attacked Kiel, said the loss was more than offset, however, by the damage inflicted on important submarine installations a Kiel and the drawing-off of the

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ing later. As the shells burst on nearby rocks and in the water beyond, a stream of men “daisy chained” boxes of ammunition and food ashore, carried stretchers of wound-

transports outside the firing area. Japs Bombarded

depth charges on a submarine contact.

to save time in unloading boats

on the long trek forward through the dimming twilight.

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bers meet periodically with the mayor to discuss recreation and: child problems. Attending today’s meeting were! Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin, Mrs. Carl J. Manthei, Mrs. Dorohty Buschmann, Mrs. Robert S. Wild, Mrs. Marvin Curle, Mrs. Charles G. Vawter and Mrs. Mortimer Furscott. All were offered places on

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main fighter strength to enable the other American formation to do a “splendid job” at Bremen with little opposition. "

Many Fighters Destroyed

Participating pilots said the Germans mustered nearly every type of plane in their arsenal, ranging from night fighters to Messerschmitt 110s, in a futile effort to prevent the bombing of their Uboat installations at Kiel, An American communique said the Fortresses destroyed “many” of the intercepting fighters and the crews of six different Fortresses alone reported shooting down 20 enemy fighters with two of the bombers accounting for five apiéce.

WLB VERDICT ON “COAL AWAITED

Decision Expected to Be Released Tomorrow or Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.). B —Appalachian coal operators and bituminous miners today awaited a war labor hoard decision in their three months wage dispute with little indication that, it would be sat isfactory to United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis. The board is: expected to hand down its decision tomorrow or Wednesday, about a week after Lewis’ greatest strategic triumph— one that for a while looked as though it might break the operators’ solid front. But five days after Lewis reached a tentative agreement with central Pennsylvania producers, who withdrew from the Appalachian conference, the other Appalachian operators, who have committed themselves to the WLB decision, are. still holding their lihes. Stampede Expected Some labor observers expected, and the U. M. W. hoped, that the agreement would lead to a stampede. Lewis said the proposed con tract would be the “basic agréement” for the industry. The WLB is expected to rule on the central Pennsylvania agreement in its decision affecting the other operators, but approval appears unlikely. Such stoppages, however, might be checked by final enactment of

the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, A :

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