Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1943 — Page 1

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 97

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By HENRY KEYS London Daily Express War Correspondent

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WITH U. S. FLAGSHIP OF DESTROYER DIVISION, BETWEEN RENDOVA ISLAND AND MUNDA POINT, June 30 (Delaved).—An all out American assault on the Japanese stronghold of New Georgia island got away to a flying start at dawn this morning. The brilliantly conceived and daringly executed plan caught the Japanese flat footed and the landing of men and materials actually had begun before shore batteries opened

POINTS RAISED ON ALL MEATS EXCEPT PORK

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Beef Supplies in July to Be Rationing Began, OPA Says: Some Canned Goods Down, Others Up.

Smallest Since

(New point charts for meat and canned foods, Pages 4 and 35)

WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P.).—The office of price administration today brought the food shortage home to the public by increasing the point values of all meat except pork. Some canned vegetables also were increased. This means civilians will have to reduce their purchases of these rationed foods. Effective Sunday, point values of all beef, veal, lamb! and mutton will go up one or two points a pound. Values of canned fresh shelled beans and green or wax| beans will go down, but values of canned corn, peas and tomatoes and of five bottled fruits will go up. | Officials conceded that the new point value tables, to be effective through July, add up to one thing—Iless rationed | food for the civilian population. The changes come at a tile when many congressmen and food industry spokesmen |

GE LOCAL CONVICTS BEAT MARSHAL

supplies of many foodstuffs.

\ pees regarding meat, they are| Two Escape on Way to

Swplaming administration policies. i OPA said beef supplies available; Ohio Prison, Caught Later; Face New Charges.

serious shortages

to civilians during July are expected to be the “smallest since rationing began.” While there has been some swing away from beef toward- pork and other types of meats during the bn

N | day from injuries he received yes- |

| terday when he was attacked by | three federal prisoners while he] was taking them to the Chillicothe, 10, prison. ! Mr. Campbell left with the In-|

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BULLETIN WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today vetoed congress’ plan to outlaw food price cuts through subsidies,

ima ese dianapolis prisotters in a car early

thiee weeks, OPA explained that the!

dismal supply picture for 2 : aj “leaves no alternative but to dis-|¥rist over the deputy marshals

Courage beef consumption even! head while the two others beat | further.” ‘him over the head with their hand- |

The rise in meat ration values is) Cufls.

1.1 The officer finally

pne point for all cuts of beef, veal! got the car

FORECAS

T: Slightly warmer tonight

FRIDAY, JULY 2

IT WAR late afternoon before the Japanese hit us but

by then we were on the way

back to base, having landed

every man and all our supplies. It was a savage and persistent Japanese mass torpedo

and bomber attack. of the destroyer on which I and which I shall call in the

One torpedo crashed into the bow

was observing the operation future “The Can.”

The torpedo failed to explode or damage the desirover in any way, however, although the tiny vessel shuddered and reeled at the moment of impact and as the torpedo bumped along the side before falling harmlessly away.

Four “swimmandos” from Ft. Harrison jump from the high dive |

How '‘Swimmandos' Do It YA

and tomorrow forenoon.

, 1943

Indianapolis,

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tered as Second-Class Matter at Ind. Issued daily except Sunda)

IT WAS NOT until yesterday morning that the plan went into effect and orders, compiled in painstaking detail

over many months, were distributed. the beach was the busiest scene.

smaller converted destroyer

invasion ships began immediately.

the beach wag black with men

From that moment Loading of transports, transports and new type For most of the day and trucks and in the chan-

nel dozens of small landing boats frequently were hidden in

showers of spray as they plov

ved through a choppy sea.

We took off in mid-afternoon.

There were navigational

hazards a-plenty because of

the smaller ships which have limited navigational facilities.

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IN THE WELCOME rain of the pitchblack night some of these unavoidably kept nosing in among the main body of the ships. Some of them had the appearance of submarines, which required that all hands keep a sharp lookout. Away ahead the main convoy of destroyers landed troops on the tiny islands of Bau and Kokirana which guard the 100-yard-wide Renard entrance to (he equally small Rendova harbor. Their purpose was to knock out any likely Japanese parties, enabling the main landing {to go ahead. Four destroyers dropped astern and another (Continued on Page Eight) »

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IMMINENT, SAY RUSS AND NAZI

Jittery Berlin Fears Blow From Soviet Timed With Invasion in West.

Br UNITED PRESS Moscow reported today that big | battles were shaping up in Russia | and Berlin said Germany would not be surprised to see a Soviet] offensive in the. East co-ordinated ‘with an Anglo-American attack in i the West. The Soviet and Nazi pronounce-

at Ellenberger pool into Aaming gasoline in a demonstration of fune- yients capped a heap of European tional swimming today. By splashing the water into a fine spray they jj vasion” omens and predictions,

extinguished the flames,

M. Campbell, a deputy: marshal, was recovering to-|g

vesterday and near New Westville, o July: O. one of them threw his chained |

A wounded buddy is taken to

T |Allies had picked tomorrow for an

safely on a stretcher which has |

jamb and mutton, except blade rib Stobped and struggled free from peen bouyed up with duffle bags inflated with air. The bags are

the prisoner's chains. He j out of the car to draw his gun but one of the prisoners in the back! seat leaped out and tackled him, both falling to the ground, struggling for the gun. Mr. Campbell said while he was! wrestling with the prisoner on the! ground the other two roared away (Continued on Page Eight)

heef roasts (standing ten-inch cut) | and blade rib beef roast (standing seven -inch cut). These are increased by two points. The increases in beef point valyes, come on top of increases of from one to three points a pound in June, OPA estimated that 28 per; gent of all beef production will go (Continued on Page Eight)

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‘One World’

umped | prought down, mouth open, into the water in a sweeping motion from |

above the soldiers head. An air bubble is captured in this manner.

BABY STILL SOUGHT | BY HOOSIER COUPLE

Bullocks Advertise Again’

To Adopt Child.

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bullock

RAP KAISER'S SHIPS

PORTLAND, Ore, July 2 (U. P). —Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R. Pa) member of a congressional

investigating committee, said today |i,e Pederal Deposit Insurance Corp. | under grand

| the most definite of which was an axis propaganda claim that the

attack. Claim Palermo Raided

As the war of nerves continued. actual military operations in the European theater eased off. with the R. A. F. bombing fleet grounded by bad weather and the aerial assault from North Africa reduced | below average. British Wellington bombers of the Northwest African air forces hit

Wednesday night, Gen. Dwight D.| Eisenhower's headquarters announced. An Italian communique said allied planes raided Palermo, major | port on the northwest coast of) Sicily, last night, destroying a number of buildings. Flying fortresses had hit Palermo by daylight Wednes- | day. | American Thunderbolt fighters | destroyed four German fighters in {a sweep over the continent yester-! day. and Spitfires downed four | move. Almost daily thrusts and eounter(Continued on Page Eight)

BANK CALLS ISSUED BY U. S. AND STATE WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. BP) .—| { The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of national banks as of June

The Federal Reserve board and]

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Jones Still Pat On Probe Desire

WASHINGTON, July 2 (U. PP.) —Commerce Secretary Jesse H. Jones today reiterated his desire for a congressional investigation of the obstructionist charges brought against him by Vice President Henry A Wallace. He said he does not care whether the inquiry is made by the senate or the house. Jones attended a house rules committee hearing on proposed investigation of ioans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to the Aluminum Co. of Canada for development of the Shipsaw power project. He was asked if he still wanted an inquiry into Wallace's charges. “I have stated on two oceasions that I wanted congress to investigate these charges and 1 don’t care who does it,” he peplied.

COUNTY PROBES

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New Grand Jury to Start Tuesday; 2 Local Food Dealers Indicted.

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the big Sardinian base of Cagliari | A new grand jury will be iim |

paneled in criminal court next Tuesday to resume investigations

[Into county business transactions)

conducted by county commissioners, Continuation of the inquiry into publie contracts was recommended by the retiring grand jury which vesterday returned indictments charging two Indianapolis food dealers with filing alleged false and fraudulent claims against the county, Those indicted were Harold BE Vogel. produce dealer, on a charge of delivering inferior eggs Sunnyside sanitarium below the! grade specified in the contract, and Louis J Seyfert, operator of Kuhn's Market, charged with delivering an inferior grade of meat to the hospital. | New Julietta Probe Seen The retiring jury reported it didn't have time to complete in-| vestigation of all county business transactions and contracts. Other matters that jury

ingniry and

the "Kaiser company Oregon Ship- faq, jssyed bank condition calls as scheduled to be re-investigated by

building Corp. “stands out” among the nation’s yards for the number of ship failures. He claimed four liberty freighters built at the Oregon yard broke up at sea and

of the same date. |

Joe McCord, state bank super- | visor in the department of finan-

[the new jury include the five-year=|

old Julietta project. Four months ago it was disclosed

infirmary construction

to |

| received from the war department

had been |

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| Nips Lose 123 Planes as Fliers Co-operate in Squeeze on Enemy's Headquarters Already Under Attack.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, South Pacific, July 2 (U, PP.) .——American assault troops, supported by smashing aerial and artillery bombardment, closed in toward the Japanese jungle base at Munda on New Georgia island today after sapping enemy air strength in the Solomons by destruction of at least 123 enemy planes, | Lambeti plantation, fewer than five miles from the Munda airdrome and believed to be the site of Japanese mili« tary headquarters in that area, was pounded by dive bombs ers on Thursday (island time). Dive bombers and torpedo planes smashed at the enemy's defense installations and the camp area at Vila on nearby Kolombangara island. The allied onslaught under commander of Gen. Douglas MacArthur knocked out one enemy battery after another, according to dispatches from South Pacific headquarters, and so weakened the main Japanese aerial strength that the enemy must now draw on other areas if he hopes to mass effective defense of New Georgia.

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Japs Feel Strength The Japanese were feeling the force of American arms on New Georgia, a spokesman at headquarters of Adm. ‘William F. Halsey said. The American forces that quickly knocked out Jape anese opposition on Rendova were described by United Press Correspondent George E. Jones, who landed with the first wave on the beaches, as calin, sober and prepared to really |slug the enemy on New Georgia. Spokesmen at both MacArthur's headquarters and at Halsey's headquarters said American casualties so far had —e—=====|been comparatively light, als Hoosier Heroes though much harder fighting ‘was in prospect against the ‘Munda defenses, as well as

Lt. Spencer, lin the Salamaua area, where allied . | troops were pushing an attack on Bombardier,

the north coast of New Guinea. Is Wounded

The enemy air base at Munda was helieved already neutralized by around-the-clock bombardment, but 30 miles still lay between it and [American army combat units and Wounded [marines who seized Viru harbor, in FIRST LT. William B8pencer, flying fortress bombardier in gervice somewhere in England | since last April, was wounded in action May 20. according to word

hard fighting. Press Advantage

(Washington sources estimated [the strength of Japanese forces in the central Solomons at 30,000 troops with another 30,000 to 40,000 in the Salamaua-Lae area of New Guinea, where co-ordinated attacks are under way,

(The military correspondent of [the London Daily Mail said the (newly launched South Pacific of« of is the son of Mpg, |fensive confronted Japan with the Lt. Spencer Is |“possibility of large-scale fighting

Floy Spencer, 1435 N. New Jerca tt ad the husband of Mrs. |around her home island, which she

Helen Spencer, Springfield, 0. He has planned so carefully to avoid.”) is a graduate of Sheridan high American forces also were presse school, a former student of both [ing thelr advantage at other newly

by his family. I'he lieutenant has written several letters to his wife and mother since being hospitalized and it is believed that he was injured about the eyes. He writes that he is re covering and “not to worry.”

cial institutions, today issued a call that the county had paid out nears

Hy or nd Butler universities [Won positions along a front stretche for the condition of state banks iy $500,000 on the Julietta work and Indiana and t

of Brooklyn are still looking for a ing nearly 700 miles to the west in

nine others had to seek repairs else-

By Wendell L. Willkie

CHAPTER FIVE

IN MOSCOW I had two long talks with Josef Stalin, Baby.”

Much of what was said I am not at liberty to report. | But about the man himself there is no reason to be cautious. He is one of the significant men of this gen-

eration. At his invitation I called on him one evening at 7:30. He apparently has most of his conferences at night. His office was a fairsized room about 18 by 33 feet. Stalin and Molotov were standing to welcome me at the far end of a long oak conference table. They greeted me simply and we talked for some three hours— about the war, about what would come after, about Stalingrad and the front about America’s position, the relationship of Great Britain, the United States, and Russia, and about many other important and unimportant subjects. 5 4 §

A few days later I spent some Stalin's Face Hard

five hours sitting next to STALIN, I should judge, is about 5 feet 4 or 5, and gives the

Stalin, through the numerous courses of a appearance of slight stockiness. state d i nner I was surprised to find how short which he gave he is; but his head, his mustache, for me later and his eyes are big. while we all His face, in repose, is a hard drank coffee at face, and he looked tired in Seplittle tables in tember—inot sick, as is so often another room, reported, but desperately tired. and Anally He had a right to be. He talks quietly, readily, and at times with a simple, moving

howing of a motion picture

‘couple left Indianapolis about 10

They already

Hoosier baby to adopt. A new and different advertisement appears today on page 15 of The Times.

It states simply . . « “We Want a

Both natives of Hoosierland, the years ago to live in the East.

But the love of Indiana is strong. have one Hoosier

where.

as of June 30.

L. S. Ayres & Co. Employees

Give Fund 100,000 Cigarets

(List of Donors, Page Eight)

The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund

child by adoption and now want|Ctmpaign for another million elg-

through a pris and defense of Mos- eloquence. Wien he deseri to : (Continued on

la recording studio

another. Response to the advertisement of yesterday has been received, but at press time nothing definite had resulted. They prefer to deal directly with the parents of the child involved but the calls so far have been from persons knowing of others who might be in a position forcing them to give up their offspring. Then, too, Mr. ahd Mrs. Bullock have been flooded with calls from persons believing they had a child for another couple to adopt. “That is the farthest from our intentions,” Mr. Bullock said this morning. “We wouldn't give up our Billy for the world.” A former radio entertainer over WFBM with his brother Walter, the two formed the team of Jim and Walt. At present Mr. Bullock operates in Brooklyn. Though blind since birth. he de-) signed and constructed all the! ; hir studio,

arets in July got off with a good old-fashioned Fourth of July bang. The first day's score:

Three hundred and thirty-one dollars and six cents for 132424 cigarets. By arrangement with the major cigaret makers, the smokes are shipped for only five cents a package—four smokes for a penny so that every penny contributed means quite a few puffs for an appreciative fighting man. Employees of L. 8. Ayres & Co. copped donors’ honors on the first day of the drive. They tossed $25@ into the fund and that means 100,000 cigarets. Employees in the main office of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. sent $26 to provide 10,000 smokes.

Typical of the spirit of donors is! the letter which accompanied the and his swell wife, Norma, who live of operations from funds collected It at 860 E. 61st st. in your city. This by taxation under a new 1043 law.

check from these employees, said: “We fuel that there has been a more

spon

sored by an Indianapolis paper, especially since there is every indication that this is one activity where the boys in the armed forces really receive the things intended for them.” And they do get these cigarets, {and promptly, on even the most [remote battle fronts. The boys write back their thanks for cigarets provided in previous drives — nearly seven million of them, Here are two of then, not only expressing thanks, but sending greetings to folks right here in Indianapolis: “Thanks loads for a real gift, a very useful one. As this is going to Indianapolis please tell Opl. and

there are 14 of us here that wish them luck and are sorry Leo missed this trip we are taking. He was on furlough when we shipped. Murs ray (Cpl. Murray Medoin)."” “Say hello to Opl. Leo Wexler

comes from the famous 14 M, Ps.

pier Jr)

Mrs. Leo Walker of that city that |

{it still was not completed. Original estimates placed the probable cost at about $263,000 but additional ap-| propriations were made by ‘he council several times without ever {completing the work. | Recently the council had to appropriate another $42,000 to finish | the work. May Investigate Gambling | | Also Prosecutor Blue's office has) some evidence for jury consideration | ont gravel contracts let by comiia|sioners and data on the purchase nf | [road implements more than a year) | ago. | Other matters expected to be | probed by the new jury include the recently-exposed, wide-open gam-| bling in Marion county, and the cirteumstances surrounding the awarding of a contract by commissloners to a member of the previous grand jury while that body was probing county contracts. The former jury was dismissed by Judge W. D. Bain of eriminal court after disclosure that Charles Helfenberger, the jury foreman, had received a contract. 0. K'S KINDERGARTENS Attorney General James Emmett ‘ruled today that town and towns ship school corporations may organs ize kindergartens and pay the cost

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His opinion was issued to Dr. Clesuperintendent of |

| publie instruetion.

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On the War Fronts

(July 2, 1043)

an offensive designed to win bases for an allsout assault to capture’ ‘Rabaul, New Britain, kingpin base [in the enemy's South Pacific setup. | While forces landed at Nassau : bay, only 10 miles below the big PACIFIC==Americans push through | ya hanese base of Salamaua on the jungles of New Georgia island 10« y6uthern shore of New Guinea, exe ward Japanese base of Munda tended their beachhead, Australian while artillery on newly captured |iioois, long established inland, ate Rendova island joins planes 1b |q.oked enemy parties at Malolo and bombing enemy defenses; 101|Guadubi, only a few miles northwest Japanese planes shot down, 17|,¢ gsalamaua. allied planes lost; casualties re-| American reinforcements, means ported light. [time, continued their unopposed

MEDITERRANEAN=British bomb- | anus DOE Tivhriatd and ers pound Sardinian base of Cag- ? : , liari and Italians report new ats tack on Palermo, Sicily; planes from Middle East block Levkas channel off west coast of Greece by bombing transport.

AIR WAR-Royal air force bomb- | ers grounded by bad weather,

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Inside Indpls. 13 Jane Jordan ..18 13 | Kidney 22| Men in Service 7, 23 Millets .......14 . 14 Movies vissasealil ‘ 14] Pegler vessssns ii . 16] Pyle

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Amusements Ash ‘ Bal. Empire . Comics Crossword

RUSBIA-=Russ army captures strategic hill northwest of Moscow | and holds it against 23 counters attacks; Clermans report new | Editorials Soviet thrusts in several sectors |Bdson Nazis claim Soviet guerrilla re- | Fashions ..

sistance erusl i entra) Mrs. Ferguson 16 Radio TT ar Shed Delving. conve Financial . 43| Ration Dates.. 3

Fishing Col. . 10| Mrs, Roosevelt 13 Forum ........14 Bide Glances. }4 Freckles 21 8imms Health Column 3 Society ....18, 18 Hold Evything 13 Stokes 4 Homemaking. . 16 Sporta . .. In Indpls ..... 8!

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