Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1943 — Page 1

54—NUMBER 99

Jap Skull=War POUVERIE

VOLUME

HOLIDAY TOLL IS 2 FOR CITY, 34 FOR NATION

Little Noise Here but Busses And Trains Carry Peak Loads.

Two Indianapolis men were Killeg In week-end traffic accidents despite the gasoline-rationed Fourth of July. | Throughout the country only 3% traffic fatalities were reported as the third day of the holiday week-°na began. Last year more than 100 were Killed in the first two days. Over the nation, theaters, parks and country clubs were crowded. Railroads and bus lines reported the heaviest holiday trave! since Pearl Harbor. : The city’s war indust were at work as usual today but downtown stores, banks and offices were closed. | More than 8000 attended the program at Victory field last night, | sponsored by the 11th district of the American Legion. ‘

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Pedestrians Hit

The Indianapolis traffic victims were Fred W. Scherrer, 326 N, Ar-| senal ave., and Elmer Walton HopKins, 20’: S. Delaware st Another man, Ewing Carpenter, €9, of 805 W. Walnut st., who was| Injured June 27, died last night at] City hospital. He was struck at Indiana ave. and Douglas by | an automobile driven by Hosie| Chappel, 26, of 102 Douglas st. | Mr. Scherrer, who was 72, was! struck early today he inter-! section of S. Meridian and Ray sts. by an automobile police said was driven by Marion ab 1¢ of 133 W. AY St. Wir. Scherrer, who had been a merchant policeman in the district 16 years, died two hours later at City hospital. { He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Victor H. Roell, Mrs. Francis! Dichmann and Miss Lillian Scherrer. two brothers, George and Louis Scherrer; a sister, Miss Elizabeth Scherrer, and grandchildren, all f Indianapolis. His wife died two montis ago. Mr. Hopkins, who was 40, was struck by an eastbound Indianapolis Railways bus in the 400 block W. Washington st. and died in City| hospital yesterday mornin

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Mr. Hopkins, who was born in| Geniryvilie, had lived here 10 years and was a member of the Intermna- | tional Teamsters’ union. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Hop- | kins; two step-daughters, Marilyn | and Shirley Hopkins; four brothers, | Charles and John, both of Inc tan- | apolis, George of Evansville andj Ermest of Newton, Ia.; two sisters! Mrs. Frances Hall, Rockport, and Mrs. Ethel Phillips, Brocton, Mass, and his mother, Mrs. Emma Stevens| of Gentryville, State police also reported four] other traffic victims in Indiana and four drownings | Traffic victims were: Marvin McKim. 18, Tell ushed death by his cal overtumed m a machine. | Kokomo |

o to i griother John Clevenger Jr. 9, was struck and killed by a passin car when he stepped from behixd | 8 parked auto. | Pies in Traffic Maxine Martin, 15, Bloomington, was injured fatally when she was run over by a car driven by Sammy Bartlett, 18, Martinsville. She and & companion, Jean Young, 14, who was struck and hurt seriously, were reported to have been sleeping on| the highway. Joseph Stanley Ray, was Killed and persons were hurt, two when their car overturned Fremont. Drownings included: Gerald Triplett, 16, Sullivan, suffered cramps and drowned while swimming in Block pond near W est Terre Haute. Eugene E. Vanderford, 19, Loraine. | gank in 22 feet of water in Black] jake where he had been Swiraming | with his financee, seven miles west of Columbia Clty, Cliffora Mon 37, Muncie drowned in the Me uiice river near | Ft. Wayne swimming back] fromy a place where he set fishing] fines. Evelyn Humbert, 15, Ft. Wayne! drowned in Lake James when she fell into the water. She could not swim.

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Bearded Sgt. Donald A. Peters posed at his desk somewhere in the South Pacific is proud of his Jap skull souvenir,

When Japanese bombers destroyed the small mission on one of the islands visited By Set. Peters and his party, they found the statue of the Virgin Mary standing among the debris—untouched.

Army Experiences of Artist Will Live in Memory Forever

“Since I last wrote you I have {my memory forever,” wrote Sg and Mrs. Roy E. Peters, 227 EB Sgt. Peters,

of Shortridge, enlisted in the marine corps in April, San Diego and suds aiid gunnery

| boot training at air base, The sergeant, action so illustrated the manual and did

officers

to! it,

wanted paint

who could drawings for When Col kK from some drawings in his

SCNO0! nal, Donald made the colonel to use fares. His work as an attention of his offic was transferred Operations {intelligence in the marine air and sent overseas. As staff artist and his work takes him many remote places wherever Japanese aircraft are shot down. He had the honor of making a detailed sketch of the first Jap Zero brought down intact on the Aleutian islands. “I have for the first with the the sergeant writes

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. Donald A. Peters to his parents, 16th st. former Technical high school student and a graduate

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had experiences which will

1942. He took his

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I' formerly on the Jap Zero.

. +» + every minute of the trip 1s like a story book—the beautiful islands, the reefs, sharks, divebombers, and the eternal Jap. However, it wasn't so beautiful when were confronted with death. Beauty fades when death is several thousand yards behind you. “We went ashore at one point and was standing around a group of five Jap prisoners, They misera

were a most

I thought, the superior race we were fighting?’

“On the next leg of our trip we A New Zealand-

rode in a sail boat, er Was our scout. “About two hours out we _(Contintieg on Page Seven)

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MORE ISLANDS RE SEIZED IN PACIFIC DRIVE

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several of whom were wounded. pathetic sight— le looking human beings— none weighing much over 40 pounds. ‘Could they possibly be

In Push on Munda | Stronghold.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

moving swiftly to protect the flanks | of their newly-won positions in the | Solomons, have occupied islands ad-|

jacent to Rendova and seized the | Japanese-held village of Vura on Vanguna, just southeast of New| | Georgia, it was revealed today. | A dispatch from Frank Tremaine, | United Press correspondent at head- | quarters of the allied South Pacific forces, reported the occupation of) jslands fringing Rendova, from | whose northern coast allied | artillery was shelling the Japanese air base at Munda, five miles across | the Blanche channel and goal of oe invasion forces. The dispatch did not name the | islands involved, but Blanche island lies off the east coast of Rendova,! larger Tetipari is off the southern tip and several smaller islands dot the coastline,

300 Japs Killed

The capture of Vura village om | Vangunu island was reported in today's communique from allied headquarters in Australia, which said, that allied troops killed 300 of the) Japanese garrison and scattered he survivors. The allied force, which) swarmed ashore from nearby Wickham anchorage, suffered only] “relatively light” losses, The communique implied that the allies captured Wickham anchorage, | which yesterday was under bompardment from allied warships. Tremaine's dispatch said informed | sources at South Pacific headquarters regarded Munda's position as] “mot particularly healthy” as result of the allied invasion thrusts. On the other hand, the Amer a position was described as “very sat isfactory,” with allied progress on| New Georgia island, where U S.|

0 army troops and marines captur ed | Vira harbor, “proceeding according to schedule.”

Cargo Ship Sunk

American dive bombers were sredited with sinking a 2500-ton. heavily-camouflaged Japanese cargo ship in the Kula gulf between Kolombangara and the east coast of New Georgia, Friday. mformed sources at South Pacific headquarters said the Japanese had made no attempt to recapture Rendova and no troopships had pPeen seen at the time of the shelling of the island Saturday. Headquarters of allied amphibious forces in the Solomons revealed that thousands of troops with tons of cquipment have been put ashore in| the New Georgia group. i “Before the battle of the New Georgias is over, the Americans may have struck the Japanese the hard-| est blow yet in this Pacific wan,” Frank Hewlett, United Press correspondent at amphibious headquarters, wrote.

33 Men Lost

‘One World®

Wendell L. Willkie

CHAPTER SEVEN IF WE ARE to win a true victory in this world war in which we are now engaged, we must Haye a clear understanding of the people of the Far Eas

Most Americans

have come to ho that the war in

Asia is no sideshow to the war in Europe. Tt was because I felt deeply our new involvement with the Far East

that I made up my mind to go to Asia in Europe, or we I know there are many

They think of control of the world’s strategic military and trade points as an Anglo-Ameri-can trusteeship for the benefit of east and west alike, guaranteed by superior Anglo-American strength. It's a persuasive argument. It sounds good—

| Men in Service Millett i Movies Crossword Obituaries ..4, Denny Editorials .. Edson Fashions Mrs, Ferguson 13

“ Radio . \ 5 Ration Dates. Mrs. Roosevelt Side Glances "ek 13 BL ©

| ‘churchill — has | tended to the peoples of the Pa- | cific; 8 preachments of the Four Free

. provided you ignore the noble expressions of the Atlantic charter which President Prime Minister specifically ex-

Mr. Willkie Roosevell —- not

provided you ignore the

we have

China.

Either we win the war in full partnership with the Chinese in as with the British and the Russians and the occupied nations shall not really have won it. who believe that the future is largely through Anglo-American dominance.

wav to control the |

provided you forget the thinking of about two billion people. China is much larger than the United States, both in area and in population. It contains within its boundaries many rich resources. On the other hand, it is not self-sufficient — and neither are we, This fact does not disturb the Chinese or make them want te congqier the world, any more than it does wus. Self-sufficiency is a delusion of the totalitarians. n ” »

China, via Back Door

IN A TRULY democratic world, a nation would have no more

need of self-sufficiency than the the bate of New York hat of

On New Guinea island itself, | where the largest force probably | was landed, American soldiers and | marines were completing mopping-

{ up operations around Viru harbor |

{in the southeast preparatory to a| | concerted push toward the main enemy base at Munda, 30 miles away. Only 33 casualties were suf-| fered by the Americans in their) operations around Viru harbor, Dauntless dive bombers and {Avenger torpedo bombers, taking over the aerial softening of Munda’s defenses, dropped 1000 and 2000‘pound bombs on the Japanese bivouac area at Dambeti plantation, | (Continued on n Page Tw Two)

SEEK NYA BUILDING FOR JUVENILE HOME

End of Agency eney May Provide Answer to Problem.

County officials today renewed their hopes of obtaining use of the building at 2401 N. Keystone ave. for a county detention home, following announcement that it and six other national youth administration training centers in central Indiana are being closed permanently.

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| resistance since

{ Catania and

DESTROYED IN * TALIAN RAIDS

Bombers Fly Close to Rome In Attack on Coast Targets.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, July 3 (U. P.).—Allied airmen burst through intense op- | which cost the axis 45! yesterday to hammer five | Sicilian airdromes after night raid- | ers had plastered the Lido di Roma | seaplane base 15 miles south of Rome, | Overriding heaviest fighter] the peak of the] Tunisian campaign, American gunners shot down 38 axis planes over nearby Gerbini

the

| Tost only three.

KNEES KNOCK IN ~ 9-MINUTE RITE

She's as Nervous as Any Bride; James Train Late in Arriving. LAS VEGAS, Nev. July

5 UP)

|—With the celebrated knees knock-

(ing together Tike any other bride's {blue-eyed Betty Grable and Harry | James, her imarried here in a. quick ceremony

They then ducked out for one of the shortest filmland honeymoons on record. The Rev. C. 8S. Sloan, Baptist minister, read the five-minute cerefmony in the Little Church of the | West in the Hotel Last Frontier James gave his age as 27; Miss Grable hers as 26. Both must return to Hollywood early tomorrow morning for work in film musicals.

James Is Late

James arrived an hour an late on the train and was met at the station by his bride-to-be who had waited in a limousine parked by the platform. Flanked by two studio publicity nen who were there to see that she got as little publicity as possible, | and her mother, who went along toj hold her hand Miss Grable countless cigarets until James arrived while a crowd of ap‘proximately 150 swing fans, most of! them young women, gazed curiously at the nervous actress After stepping from

the train,

| James ran to the waiting automo- | {pile and the couple

was Whisked away to the preacher, Wearing her “something new” at a dangerous angle atop her best

{curly headed hair-do, and twisting!

YOontinity on Pare Two)

THE ‘BIG INCHER'

WILL OPEN TODAY:

Seymour Ready, Line Below Capacity. SEYMOUR, Ind.. July 5 (U. P.).— Seymour was ready today for the opening of the “big incher,” the 24-inch emergency pipeline which connects the oil fields of southern Texas with refineries in New Jersev. The line will be inaugurated below maximum capacity. Although many of the pumping stations along the way which will maintain a flowing speed of miles an hour sufficient pressure tained to carry the fuel.

incher,” started a few months ago. will not be finished before winter. Construction crews are laying in the 20-inch ‘conduit rapidly attempt to beat the ground freeze.

| striking at Catania

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Gunners aboard flying fortresses | 18 the gant-|

shot down enemy fighters and ran let of aerial bombs which the defense planes tried to - amidst Be 5 EE formation: A. B. Hughes of gs fo “erean of more than 40 raid on Hi and Mediterranean targets, i Wy “fellows were very sive. If they weren't picked fighters, they certainly were given a good pep talk before they took off,

Aim Wasn't Good

aggres-

cane at the rear echelon of the formation in a single line, dropping what looked like an aerial incendiary that exploded like firecrackers. They would have heen dangerous if they had made direct (hits, but the aim wasn't good. “Their cannon fire was fairly accurate, although it didnt do any] harm. I looked up from the in-| struments once and saw 20-milli-meter cannon puffs hop-hop-hop-ping along behind one of the forts

Tey

up with the plane, however.”

headed the attack on the seaplane base at the Lido di Roma, dropping many bombs of various sizes. Once | before Wellingstons had raided the base, then flew over Rome itself. This time they found no opposition. The raids served to emphasize

Eden that heavily

eign Secretary Anthony Rome would he bombed and frequently if it became able in pursuit of the allied wal effort Passed Over Suburbs

| The Italian radio said some of the { bombers passed over the suburbs of { Rome itself (A European underground radio | station reported that Premier Musisolini already was considering a separate peace proposal.) { Allied daylight raiders yesterday concentrated heavy loads of bombs on Sicilian airdromes, including | those at Catania, Gerbini, Sciacca, | Comiso and Milo. Fierce air battles were reported all over Sicily as at least 43 enemy {fighters were sent crashing into the sea or to the ground. Thirteen {allied planes were jost.

Hoosier Heroes ——

Sgt. Walker Is Killed in N. Africa

Killed

WORD HAS been the parents vf 8S. Sgt, win T. Walker that North Africa June 2. now awaiting a fetter war department for details. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Walker, live at 931 Massachusetts ave.

by Ed-

received Tech. he died In They are from the

and a half ago he was employed as a carpenter. The 28-year-old sergeant was born here and educated in the public school's,

| His wife, Mildied, lives in Aber= | | deen, Md, and is employed in war |

work. A foster brother, Robert, | (Continued on Page | Seven)

HOW EUROPE’S UNDERGROUND FIGHTS BACK

Barrows, starting tomorrow. Be sure to read how these

apoils Times and Chicago Daily News foreign observer,

; “Men Without Names” from within and how they plan to help the allies during invasion.

This Series Starts Tomorrow in The Indianapolis Times

The dramatic under cover story of Europe's native patriots and their death-defying resistance to the German order, from Norway to the Balkans, will :be told by The IndianNat A

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British Wellington bombers spear- |

the recent warning of British For- |

desir- |

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Leader Dies

EXILE LEADER HAD REVIEWE HIS IRAN ARM

Ship Crashes Soon After Leaving Gibraltar on Return Trip.

LONDON, July 5 (U.P.)== Gen. Wladislaw Sikorski, 62, prime minister of the Polish exile government and coms= mander-in-chief of its armed forces, was killed last night when a Liberator plane in which he was traveling [crashed soon after taking off from Gibraltar, the air mins istry announced today. Sikorski was returning to London (from the Middle East, where he in= spected the Polish army in training in Iran and presumably discussed allied high command » part his forces would play coming invasion of seuthern

Gen. Wiadislaw Sikorski , . .

killed in plane crash off Gibraltar. {Ie

with there in the Europe,

utilizing frying to

(German propagandists, their favorite theme of divide the allies, claimed that the

British assassinated Sikorski. A German D. N. B. dispatch quoted

Bri ings ‘Polish emigrant cireles in Stocks nolm” as saving that they were pos= itive Sikorski was assassinated and that the British would he forced to admit it) Among Allied Liberator

dependence Day Bombs to Targets Of the Axis.

LONDON, July 5 (U. P)

other passengers I the killed was Col. Vietor attacked western Germany ed Sai a ey. u ; ; parliament, who was understood te the Berlin radio sald t0- 0." (ving as liaison officer to Bis | day. after July's first big day and kerski. | night of pulverizing British and] | American raids piled ruin from the] | coast of France to Hamburg, Ger- | many. | Berlin described the raids nuisance” attacks, and they parently were too small for the air ministry to report. were: The series of week-end raids be-| Mrs, Sophia Lesniowska, 26, 8i= | gan with the 118th roval air force korski's daughter and a member of bomber attack Saturday night the Polish auxiliary territorial serva | against Cologne, Germany's most- ice serving Be a liaison officer with | bombed city. It was kept going] | British AT in the Middle Bast. | with an American Fourth of July | Her AY is a prisoner of war [ battering of French targets in day- in Germany. light yesterday and wound up with’ Maj. Gen. Thadeus Klimecki, 48, an attack on Amiens in the after- chief of staff of the Polish army. noon. Col. Andrez J. Marecki, chief of the operational section of the Polish staff, who visited the United States

planes last night,

Pilot Was Injured

ministry said the pilot was the only person on the plane as to survive the crash. He was hos= ap- pitalized with severe injuries Others listed among the

The air

dead

Raid on The Flying Fortress attacks came with Sikoiski Jast Vear on the anniversary of the first A Ku lakowski Sikor ¥ 4 a o 0) , Jl American raid on continental ob- SPCTOtarY. 4 oR - iW R.A F Colope atch i One unidentified passenger. ! ,O10R11€ aTlack - RUA . AW d rected at the thickly-populated in- Seven or eight crew members, dustrial Kalk and Deutz districts [on the east bank of the Rhine were The plane was reported to have believed to have used up 1500 tons i Alon | of explosives, Thirty-two of the big SH Ji Rr, Presb au; 0 i British bombers failed to return. na es oT & ew At the same time, other British HY aii aking off from Gis planes ranged northward over NAD bs 2 a Hamburg and over the Ruhr while The Polish cabinet here went inte fighter planes patrolled Holland (immediate session after being noti= Belgium and France loooking for| ed of Sikorski's death. Soon enemy defenders afterward. President Wiaidsiaw Raes The fortresses-—one group of | KieWicz announced the temporary lappointments of Deputy Prime Mins

which made a 1500-mile jaunt for ™ : ) the longest so far—smashed the lock) ister Stanislaw Mikolajezyk as aets

gates at the La Pallice-Rochelle U- | ing prime minister and War Minis boat pens on France's western coast, | [ter Gen. Marjan Kukiel as acting battered the German aircraft fac-| [commander in chief of the armed tory at Le Mans and hit repair forces, shops at Nantes. Eight bombers Sikorski's death was expected to | W ers lost. Several enemy fighters complicate the quiet efforts of Brits | were destroyed by the bombers and ish and American authorities to | two by the fighters which escorted, effect a rapprochement between the them home. Polish exile government and Russ

sia. Russia broke off relations with REPORT MUSSOLINI the exile government more than ‘CONSIDERS PEACE

two months ago after the Poles German Secret Radio Hints

asked the International Red Cross to investigate German propaganda Allied Overture. LONDON, July 3 (U. P). = A

Anniversary

ski's private

Crashed Inte Sea

charges that the Russians massas= cred several thousand Polish wae prisoners and buried them in a Hass grave near Smolensk. Polish-Russian affaits alse had been complicated by Russia's claim to post-war possession of the ters ritory she occupied in eastern Pos European underground radio sta- | YOUR oh Page Seven) tion said today that Premier Mus: a ‘solini Was considering a separate O FE {peace as the Tay of the allied | n the War ronts [aerial assault against Italy mounted | 1 | to a pitch that held threat of an! Hy. 1 early invasion. (PACIFIC: Alltes tighten elamp on Gustave Siegfried Eins, an un=| Japanese in central Solomons, |derground station that professes to] taking strategic islands off New be pro-German but anti-Nazi, as=| Georgia and Rendova. serted that Mussolini was consid: ering an “allied peace offer that MEDITERRANEAN: Allies destroy would return Ttaly its north African | 45 axis fighters in overriding possessions.” | fiercest resistance in recent w Though the allies repeatedly pave While raiding Sicilian airdromes, | warned Italy that only a bid for puroPE: Flying Foitresses pound peace can save the country from | thiee objectives in ocew destruction, there has been no indi=| goo oo by dani " Bes = ance by daylight and royal aie [cation that they will accept ahy:| pice makes new crusher yaid on thing less than the unconditional | Cologhe : surrender demanded by President] ’ {Roosevelt and Prime Minister RUSSIA: Nazis say Soviet offens iy Bein a sive preparations so far advanesd n isii hints that oie | that attack wm | ay ve homed by tive allies vere | time. Way ve expected aif A Ia NF \