Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1943 — Page 5
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Wael Tot 3 ‘a Blazing “+. ‘Mass by Heayy Air "Attack. (Continued from Page One) nearby Oberhausen as well as
well as Mulheim last night, causing |
“much devastation” in the “terror As fie London Daily Herald said the “battle of the Ruhr” was approaching a climax, the air ministry anhounced the Mulheim raid. It was described as “heavy,” with preliminary reports indicating the bombing was highly concentrated.
Drop Block-Busters
Thirty-five R. A. F'. bombers were. lost, as compared with the 44 missing in the near-record attack by more than 700 planes on Krefeld the night before. Thousands of incendiary and high-explosive bombs, including many four-ton super block busters, were dropped on Mulheim, site of the United Steel works and other arms plants, in what the air minis{ry described as a “heavy” raid. “Preliminary reports indicate the bombing was well concentrated,” the ministry said. Returning crews reported that large fires kindled by their bombs sent smoke rising to 8000 feet over the town. Some pilots returned by way of Krefeld and Huls, other Ruhr towns bombed sby British and American formation yesterday, and said fires still were burning there. It was the first raid of the war on a town of 136,000, situated just east of Duisburg. Its factories turn out railway cars nad repair locomotives, of which Germany is reported to be especially ‘short at present. The town is one of the principal railroad outlets from the Rhur to southern Germany. Called ‘Terror Raid’
- A German broadcast described last night's attack as a “British terror raid.” Participating R. A. F, crews said
good visibility favored the attack.
Though German anti-aircraft batteries put up a stubborn defense. Many night fighters were seen and a number of combats were reported. A German broadcast admitted #spectacular destruction” and “immense devastation” in Krefeld and said that nearly the entire residential district of the' city had been destroyed. “We have seen wounded trans-
ported to second and third hospitals|
when the first and second were aflame,” he said. “This is war, as well as on the front in the east and in Africa. . . . with the regularity of an alarm clock, the siren is sounded every night.” Funeral music was played following the broadcast.
DRAFT OF FATHERS "HELD UNCERTAIN
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where we are until we get through the non-fathers. Anything until
that ig guessing.” The Hoosler-born draft chief
‘said that it was a question as to
whether all the able-bodied men now deferred for various reasons
should be called before bona fide.
fathers. Paul Hoffman Speaks : “Personally,” he said, “I think
many of the 3,000,000 men now in 4-F should go. But I'm having a
terrible time selling them to the |
Amy, and navy.” He told -the governors that they nor no one else, including the president, could tell the local draft boards what to do. He said that they could make suggestions, of course, but that the final say-so
' rested in the local boards.
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- Paul G. Hoffman, South Bend, president of the Studebaker Corp. told the governors in a forum on post-war reconstruction and development that “we’ve got to get rewards for risk-taking backing in our economic picture.” He said that everything possible must be done to Sapouings small business.
Seek Corn Increase .
.. Governor Forrest Donnell of Mis-}
souri appealed to M. Clifford Towns= send, former Indiana governor and now federal deputy food administrator, who is attending the conference, to get the OPA price ceilngs on .corn either removed or raised substantially. Governor Donnell, speaking for a number of Midwestern governors, said that corn was being held in elevators and on farms because the
price was so low’and that as a re-}
sult of the mass liquidation of mildions of animals is looming. : Mr. Townsend said the price ceiling was set on corn as an anti-
inflation move and promised to take] the governors’ pleas back to Wash-
Angton. . “Maybe it was a mistake,” he said, |
“but the purpose was laudable.”
Congressmen Seek
Explanation on Calls = WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P.).
- «The house military affairs com-
mittee today ‘plans to ask the war power commission and selective ‘to clarify at once recent con-
Bicing statements on the drafting
of fathers for military service. NEW! “BACTERIOSTATIC"
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Wilson Nam
Charles M. Wilson, assistant national Americanism . director, has been appointed co-ordinator of world war II activities of the American
trans ferred from the Americanism division : at national headquarters to the administration division here to head a new world war II section in that division. He joined national headquarters staff in 1924, serving first as cashier, and since 1930 as assistant national Americanism direcs tor, spec in preparation of promotional literature and direction of youth activities.
SHOWDOWN ON MINES DELAYED
Lewis Orders Workers Back To the Pits Under U. S.
: Operation. (Continued from Page One)
a day or two before the larger ones are back in full production. A check at noon showed that the
were small but thousands were expected to report this afternoon and tonight. Meanwhile, Mr. Roosevelt still has a current coal problem to be ironed out. On his desk, in addition to the Connally-Smith bill, are communications from the national war labor board and from the bituminous operators, both asking that he take immediate action toward enforcing the board’s order that Mr. Lewis sign a new contract guaranteeing uninterrupted production of coal for a two-year period. Operators Are Critical
The labor as well as the management and public members of the board advised Mr. Roosevelt that in making their order effective “all the powers of government necessary for its enforcement should be exercised.” The coal operators requested the president “to promptly cause Mr. Lewis to accept the directive of the war labor board by signing an agreement incorporating its terms so that this dispute may be finally resolved.” Lewis followers hoped their leader had thrown an effective block against these requests through his direction to miners to go back to work under the Sireotion of Inter Secretary Ickes, as amines for the i until ‘midnight on Oct. 31, with the arrangement “predicated upon operation of the mines and their collateral production units ‘by the United States government,” and the stipulation . that the arrangement “will automatically terminate if governmental control is vacated” prior to Oct. 31.
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STRUCK BOSS Allison Guard Is Called ‘To Stand by the Prosecution. (Continued from Page One)
an effort to save himself from death | In the electric chair. ‘White is expected to repudiate his alleged “confession” in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife, Mary White, last Oct. 2 at their home, 605 N. Grant.
Brother Testifies - White said he remembers nothing about making a statement. to police the day after the slaying in preliminary testimony in’ the absence of the jury last Saturday. ; Defense attorneys have indicated that White will testify that he re-
members nothing of the death of his wife and will attempt to prove
ary insanity on the day of the murder. The defendant’s brother, James M. White, 34, of 1706 Lexington ave., testified last night that he went to see his brother at the jail the next morning after the slaying and asked him “whatever made you do a thing like that?” “My brother answered: ‘Do what? You've done the same thing many times.’” . . . Mr. White testified. “He then asked me to go to his home and tell Mary to get him out of jail.” Sane, Say Expe
Mr. White said he was convinced that on the day of the murder and the next morning his brother was of unsound mind. ; Previously, Dr. Max Bahr and Dr. Alberta Jones, expert psychiatrists, testified that their examinations of White revealed no evidence that White ever suffered from any mental ills and that, in their opinion, he was of sound mind on the day of the murder.
Vincent Jaskowvich, 1364 W. 26th st., who said he had been a friend of White since childhood testified that when he saw White a week before the murder and in jail a few days later “he appeared to be a man who didn't know what he was doing.”
Called Model Soldier
Several soldiers who had been in the army with White 10 years ago testified that White had been a model soldier and had a good reputation. Perry Shipman, 22 N. Denny st., captain of the guards at the Allison war plant, said White was one of the best patrolmen at the plant, but that a few days before he resigned last September “his mind appeared to be wandering and he was ot alert on his post.” - ‘Defense attorneys are complete their evidence by tonight} or tomorrow and the case may go to the jury tomorrow,
‘PLAN SKATING PARTY
Brightwood council 2, Daughters of America, will have a skating party at the Riverside roller rink
at 8 p. m. Friday.
witness stand himself later today in|
that he was suffering from tempor-|
‘cago was elected - president .of the Engineers yesterday at the society's
sas State college and W. D. Elli-
In Action ii in North ‘Atlantic,
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‘December. A sister, Mrs. Dorothy Pollard, lives in Bridgeport.
Staff Sgt. Robert. D. Kisling, son of Mrs. Abbie Wettig, Richmond, died in action in the European area; 1st Lt. William W. Carpenter, -son of Herbert B. Carpenter, Gary, in the North American area, and 2d Lt. William E. Ballas, son of William Ballas, East Chicago, and T. 5th: Gr. Samuel J. Elliott, son of Sylvester J. Elliott, Frankfort, both in the North African ‘ares. Among 29 navy and marine corps : casualties announced by the navy department today is Seaman 1-c Hollis Earland Herrin, son of John 'W. Herrin, Sheridan. » 8 ” ”
Wounded
NINE INDIANA men are listed by the war department today among the 305 U. 8. soldiers wounded in action in the Aleutian area. They are: Pfc. Clifford A+Ball, son of Orville H. Ball, Anderson; Pvt. Louis G, Becraft, husband of Mrs, Phyllis Becraft, Mishawaka; Pfc. Jessie (i. Foley, son of Mrs. Sye Foley, Rushville; Pvt. Eugene B.’ Imes, son of Mrs, May Imes,
GREENSBURG LARDER FILLED DESPITE OPA
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save their points to obtain food for home consumption, “It is an unfortunate situation,” the OPA director admitted, “but the district office can do nothing about it.” With that decision, the women of Greensburg decided they would donate their points. They tore them from books and then found that for that reason they were invalid. “Coupons must be torn from books by the grocer or butcher,” Mr. Strickland explained. One of the women working in the kitchen at the Greensburg church estimated that the women have sacrificed as many as 400 points. “But that’s all right,” she said. “We did it for a good cause. And there still will be plenty to eat. I've got to get back to my work, now.”
FARMING ENGINEERS ELECT PRESIDENT
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 23 (U. P.).—Arthur W. Turner of Chi-
American Society of Agricultural
36th annual convention, - Professor F. C, Fenton of Kan-
son of the soil conservation service, Coshocton, O. were elected councilors for three-year terms, Turner is education adviser for the International Harvester Co.
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Michigan City: Pfe. Watren Cc Kesler, husband of Mrs. Helen Kesler, New Albany. Others are Pvt. Leo M. Kramer, son of Mrs, Kramer, ‘South Bend; Pfc. J ‘A. Montoro, son of Ralph Montoro, Gary; Pfc. ‘Warren E. Phenis, husband of Mrs. Ruth A. Phenis, Richmond, and Pfe. George W. Siler, husband of Mrs. Helen Siler, Gary. ;
‘SELL. THE WOMEN’ ° IS NEW BOND MOTTO
_ Using the slogan, “If you sell the woman, you've got the man,” volunteers of the war finance committee are using high pressure salesmanship on ladies’ aid societies, social groups and parent-teacher associations.
In order to increase the war bond sales through the payroll savings plan, the film “Figure It Out Yourself” is being shown at women’s meetings throughout the state. “I know that when John comes home to Mary and says. there is a new payroll savings drive on at the plant—when he asks her to sit down and put war bonds in the No. 1 spot on the family budget, Mary must have been sold the need for increased savings, too,” said Mrs. Oscar ‘A. Ahlgren of ‘Whiting, state chairman of the women’s division of the war finance committee.
Salerno Taran Heavily “21° By Block-Buster Raid Monday. (Continued from Page One)
rect hits 30 miles off the Sardinian coast Monday night and later attacked escort vessels and six towed barges. ‘The results of. the last attack were not observed. Light bombers of the coval air force mi command accounted for a second vessel, a small sailing ship sent to the bottom off Scarpanto island in the Asgean ‘sea, Monday, a Cairo communique reported. Freight Cars Destroyed
No planes were. lost in the Middle East command's only one in the northwest African command’s flights. "Reconnaissance photographs disclosed that American Flying Fortresses in Monday's daylight raid on Naples destroyed approximately 40 per cent of ‘the royal arsenal, scored three direct hits on a torpedo factory and several hits among artillery emplacements, barracks and .a motor. transport depot, and
severely damaged an airplane plant.
At least 26 hits were counted on sidings at the central station, 10
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were destroyed. burning at Cancello 24 hours after the raid. Reconnaissance over Salerno and Battipaglia, both south of Naples, was said to have revealed that Mitchell Medium bombers on Monday destroyed or damaged at least 40 railway cars and halted all train movements at Battipaglia. Salvage works and railway sidings were damaged severely at Salerno, (An Italian communique said torpedo planes sank a 12,000-ton allied steamer, damaged another of
attack off North Africa.)
SPAIN RELEASES PRISONERS’ - LONDON, June 23 (U. P.).~The Spanish cabinet, meeting under Generalissimo Francisco Franco, has announced the conditional release of 9832 civil war political prisoners,
reported today in & Madrid dispatch broadcast by Berlin.
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