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Men Without Names—The Story Of Europe's Underground

By NAT A.

LONDON, July 6.—Na

labor, sterilization and slow torture have inflicted terrible wounds on the hapless millions of continental Europe

during these 200-odd weeks

Each day adds new horror in countries overrun by the German hordes and the scars of malnutrition, broken homes, decreased birth rate and hatred will linger far into

another generation. But underneath this ma

; of the Nazi new order, there breathes a fierce, unquench-

WHEELBARROW SALE BRINGS FANCY PRICES

Buyers Rush to Gobble Up A Discarded Lot of WPA Equipment.

By SHERLEY UHL

Some 5000 cast-off wheelbarrows | today were finally made available to] victory gardeners here, but at costs considerably above the “bargain prices” originally asked by the WPA, their former owner Indianapolis’ saga of the abandoned wheelbarrows ended at the Cohn Brothers Auto Co, 608 N. Capitol ave, where according to firm officials the carriers were going “like hot cakes’ to buyers at prices ranging from $3.50 to $7.50. Treasury department officials here revealed that the auto company had purchased “nearly all” of the 5000 wheelbarrows on high bids ranging from $1.11 to $2.28 apiece, opened in Chicago last week 1200 Submitted Bids

Altogether, the treasurv department, whose job it was to dispose ot} the carriers, said about 1200 firms and individuals submitted bids on} 14 lots of wheelbarrows of various | sizes and qualities. Of approximately 300 individuals who doggedly scissored their way through red tape which figuratively | stiraveled the wheelbarrow situa- | tien from here to Chicago. only 20] were successful in obtaining equipnent under the bid system The idle carriers created quite a stir here two weeks ago when] treasury department authorities] halted their previous sale at prices ranging from $1 to $4 and offered them to the public only on triplicate bids. submitted with a cash deposit, to the treasury department in Chicago. Bought In Lots of 10 In all, there were 30 successiu bidders who purchased wheelbarrows in lots of 10 or more, They largely comprised hardware dealers sunk firms and other wholesalers located throughout Indiana. Ahout 380 of carriers went on high bids to H. A. Cohen of Indianapolis, who said he intended to ship them to Columbus, O. Mr Cohen was the second largest successful bidder, from the standpoint of quantity, Because it has priority over private firms and individuals, the state pbtained 500 wheelbarrows on a, straight negotiation basis. t At the WPA warehouse and vards,! 1741 S. West st., some confusion ex-| sted as to whether it would be; “fair” to reveal bid prices proffered | by successful purchasers. One of-| ficial there would say only that the] bids ranged “from $1.11 to $7.” the]

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wheelbarrow at any cost. Explains His Bid

Joseph Cohn of the Cohn Bros. | company said his firm bid on the; wheelbarrows “through the Aetna] Auto Parts Co. of Chicago,” in| whose name the bids were let. He added that the wholesale purchase and reselling of government equipment by the company “is nothing unusual, since we bid on this

discarded WPA stuff all over the |

country.” | R CC Conn a member Oof Cohn Bros, asserted that already about 300 of the carriers had been resold, some 200 of them to victory, gardeiters, who have been plagued bv a scarcity of the implements. | "HH. E. Bodine, treasury department | property agent, said all abandoned WPA equipment in Indiana had] now been disposed of. That in-| cludes not only wheelbarrows, but] hundreds of other sundry items ranging from concrete mixers to] cable sections.

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able spirit which nothing less than extermination can They have moved out s subdue. Each in his own way, depending on geography and on the varying pattern of oppression, the native patriot fights back through underground resistance movements— often passively with factory slowdowns, whispering canipaigns, anti-German posters, and often more actively with sabotage and attacks in the dark. The Germans have had time enough to cut deeply into the strength and lifeblood of many of their occupied countries such as Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, France and

Holland.

PROBES CLAIM THAT OFFICERS CLUBBED BOYS

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Effort to Oust McNutt Seen

WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P.) Congress may seek to oust War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt if it turns a friendly ear to renewed pressure for passage of the Wadsworth-Austin labor draft bill this fall, responsible congressional quarters believed today. The administration — and President Roosevelt in particular—was said to be looking more favorably on a labor draft, and one official said it had been decided to start pressing for passage of the

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Prosecutor Sherwood Blue today | | began an investigation into reports Wadsworth-Austin measure as | | of alleged police brutality in the ar-|

Ces Ss. 4 | He launched his inquiry after a, Russia reported today that ~~ gs McNutt has been under in- : ‘ . | witness circulated petitions in the the Russian army had today he was sharply criticised by Re lh ora * arresting officers. ‘strong German assault on a i 1 A dioabt A watitinn i - . ! acting | The instigator of the petitions, &11g5. mile southern front, be-| McNutt has persistently | | supervisor at the P. R, Mallory Co. {charged that the boys were beaten L6rs { entesent ely all voluntary methods of labor | with nightsticks. ua vg y Pepresen al 9 2 recruitment before attempting | | na chief petitioner, Edward fensive with limited objecone time that he believed 2 dents in the vicinity of the boys’ _ . i Wb : : draft was “inevitable.” home were aroused over the police with the big campaign of a plainants were war workers, Rolling with the first Nazi punch, | Asked for Warrant the Russians bounced back to wipe Huddleston, 17, and his brother, establish their lines curving around COUNTY JURY Willis, 15, of 641 S. Missouri st. the opposing salients anchored on | pened,” the elder boy said today, cig. | = inte ‘when interviewed in his cell on the, oy natent quarters in Moscow | | They ale pad i Day | tended primarily to reduce the Red | To Probe Violations in | They had left wor h © army's Rursk salient. They doubted . i | headquarters yesterday morning, |; . : | Public Offices. | but the detectives weren't there. jrensive comparable to that which | eo held that the Soviet position was much better now than it was a year |

soon as the congressional re- | {oct ast night of two ‘teen age boys. ! By UNITED PRESS cessant fire from congress, and | | | neighborhood protesting the actions ‘stopped the first phase of a {R. N. on the draft. | ‘lieved in many responsible! pleaded for the exhaustion of draft, though he stated af 'Beitz, 1120 Nelson st., said that resi- tives, not to be compared conduct and that most of the com- Veal ago. SELECTS NEW The boys involved were Robert out the German gains and “I don't know just what hap-'gie; ang Kursk, Soviet dispatches | Judge Bain Instructs Panel third floor of police headquarters. yojaveq the German attack wasin- | | wanted to see me and I went 10 4.0" 410 Nasis could mount an of“Then they came to the house reached Stalingrad last year, and (Photo, Page 3)

last night and I told them to com TTT . [on in. TI asked them if they had a} By NOBLE REED | warrant, and they said they did, but ago. A new Marion county grand jury] they didn't show it. One of the of-| was selected in criminal court today | ficers went out and called more po-| to resume investigations into coun- lice.” | ty business transactions that the | previous jury di hot have time to The boy exhibited marks above review. the left eye and on the back of his! Last week. the retiring grand jury head and said that he had been hit returned indictments chargiiig two with clubs and kicked. Indianapolis wholesale fcod dealers! The younger boy, Willis, sald that with alleged filing of false claims on in the home one policeman said that ooods delivered to Sunnyside Sana- Robert had been arrested at Merrill torium under contracts by county and West sts. He called him “a liar,” commissioners. saying that his brother wasn't arThose indicted were (Continued on Page Five)

Vogel, produce dealer, SeviTert, meat dealer.

10,000 Killed

| The Soviet announcement of the German offensive in the Orel-! Kursk-Belgorod sector conceded that the foremost Russian defenses had been penetrated. Today. how- | ever, the Russian army said it had! braced and rolled the Nazi wedges back. killing 10,000 men and destroying 738 tanks and 203 planes in 36 hours. The outbursts In Russia coincided with sighs that the long-simmering Mediterranean pot might be about to boil over. The allies stepped up their air assault on Italian outvosts to a new pitch, downing 43 more axis planes for a three-day total of more than 100 in battering down intensified opposition. Flying Fortresses again paced the trans-Mediterranean offensive, accounting for 30 axis fighters out of | a formation of 100 which tried to turn the American heavies away! from Gerbini, Sicily. Altogether, the allies hammered nine airdromes in Sicily and Sardinia. |

Lost Positions Taken

The Soviet high command, in its| Tuesday midday communique on] {the new German offensive, said that | by mid-morning today the Russians} had reclaimed all lost positions and Lawrence Price, 2828 N. New Jer-|; the cause of the incident. their lines were intact everywhere. | : | Deputy Sheriff C. S. Ricks sald] The Red army lines which had| Set. Freddie Blaly . . . an £8 Mrs. Alice C. Morris, 545 Middle | yractically the entire town was sagged under the first Nazi assault mm. shell whizzed between his dr, Woodruff Place, wife of Murray|asjeep when a plane droned over at| were said to have snapped back. The | 1°85 Morris, secretary of the Indianapolis yieh altitude. Then the four Bonibs main Gerinan penetration of nearly | Merchants association. [fell in ouick succession. No direct! one-third of a mile lad been sealed,’ Mis. Olive C. Foley, 310 Berkeley hit was made on either the Baptist and the Russians were waging & 1d., a housewife who has been active | church or the garage. battle of annihilation against the in civic affairs for many years. Damage to the two structures trapped Nazis. Judge Bain appointed Mr. Moore mostly was caused by concussion. However, battles were continuing as foreman and turiied the group Fairly large craters were left by at frenzied pitch as the Germans (Continued on Page Five) the bombs. threw tens of thousands of troops] pa ey ~ and hundreds of tanks against the | » i Soviet lies all the way from the The fifth hospital train to roll In Air, On Land and Sea=—All =i Just north of Orel, 200 miles’ hospital, Ft. Harrizon. arrived yester : | south-southwest of Moscow, to Bela ® gorod. 50 miles above Kharkov. Yanks Appreciate Cigarets (The Berlin radio still remained silent on the offensive, more than With the 13th armored regiment 124 hours after its forces attacked. he was in the original landing force 1A morning broadcast merely report- at Oran and fought his way to the ed “livelier activity” on the Rus-! outskirts of Bizerte. (Continued oh Page Fiva) Hit in Chest, Leg

: It was six months to the day TIMES FEATURES when he was wounded by artillery ON INSIDE PAGES

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OKLAHOMA CHURCH BONBED IN ERROR

Plane Drops Four ‘Eggs’

Moore Is Foreman

Members of the new jury who were instructed by Judge William | D. Bain of criminal court, to take! up matters of suspected law violations in public offices, are: Jesse C. Moore, 1821 N. Pennsvi-, vania st, retired businessman and chairman of rationing board 49-7. On Boise City. Mrs. Lydia I. MeKitrick, 58281 BOISE CITY. Okla. July 6 (U. Winthrop ave, wife of William H.ip | _A church and a garage were McKitrick, superintendent of the! saw | Indianapolis Belt railroad.

{damaged when four bombs were! | dropped accidentally from a plane, E. E. McMullen, 319 Gladstone ger this small Oklahoma Panhanave. assistant purchasing agent of| gle town about 1 a. m. today. There the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. | ere no casualties. Investigation Begun It could not be learned imime{diately from where the plane came

Those cigarets made possible for like a present from home.” fighting Yanks through The Times sender was Sgt. Charles J. Rosater, Overseas Cigaret Fund are going Danville, Ill. across the high seas, reaching battle] A «nall contribution buys a tot! stations and being placed in the cigarets. The major cigaret | hands of fighters. \ firms furnish then at only 5 cents’ That's certain. The recipients are package. And they're getting writing back expressing their thanks. aie ohh the boats and across, too. Soldiers can say something in the! Lt. Col. Richard 8 Soliman. spe- | i . . . :

fragments which caught him in the | chest, right leg and foot.

on reconnaissance,

Casualties From African Campaign Reach Ft. Harrison

It brought 118 more Yanks from the fighting fronts. the European theater of war this time Among them is a 30-year-old major, Wayne R. Cc

o many able-bodied men that

military help from within has been greatly minimized for

They have starved and tortured and murdered and

o forced labor so many thou-

sands upon thousands of the healthiest men that the

hould long ago have reached

has grown stronger. Children

and old men have joined in carrying out local underground tasks when leaders have been executed or spirited away into German factories or the labor army of the Todt

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Pfe. Morgan Yeary broken neck, spine and a fractured skull

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in on dav. It was from mostly Africa

Hoosier Heroes

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vthical giant that grew two ed off, the European unders

grounds somehow seem to gain added force with the ine

creasing inroads of the Ges against Germany's weak lin new tricks daily. The numbers of men in

tapo. Sabotage. particularly e of transportation, acquires

hiding—taking France as an

example—have reached such a point that secret camps for military training are now being set up.

Clandestine newspapers

are printed and distributed

under penalty of death; secret radios spread word of

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JAPS BATTERED IN SEA BATTLE; RUSS STALL NEW NAZI DRIVE

Enemy's Naval Force Damaged in Kula Gulf Clash.

WASHINGTON, July 6 (U, | American warghips have inflicted heavy damage fon the Japanese naval force | which they engaged in the

narrow confines of Kula gulf

Ma). Wayne R, Cook , , . six months to the day from the landing at Oran when he was wounded.

SUPPLY OF BEER DROPPING HERE

Demand for ‘Suds’ Goes Up 409% as Deliveries Are Cut 35%.

“Roll out the barrel Not any more The amber stuff with the suds on the top becoming more scarce than sugar and beefsteak There is a real beer drought Indianapolis A survey of taverns, hotels, and distributors. revealed (that the supply is only about 65 per cent of what it was a year ago land the demand is about 35 to 40 | per cent greater.

| | Reasons for Demand { The new demand is attributed to

“ |greater earnings by the majority a

lof people, stay-at-home vacations land the scareity of wines and | liquors. Beer drinkers felt the real acuteness for the shortage for the first

| time over the long week-end holi-

dav. Drugstores and beer-handling groceries for the first time were without anv supplies of bottled beer Taverns declined to sell bottled brew to take out or if they did. charged extra prices,

Shortage Factors

Harold C. Feightner, executive secretary of the Indiana Brewers’ association, said there were many | contributing factors to the shortage: A shortage of bottles and caps; a shortage of copperage for draught | beer, and curtailed transportation. | The North side experienced a real {drought yesterday. In the vicinity {of 38th st. and N. Illinois st. there wasn't any beer. The supply ran ‘out early Saturday night. | On the East and South sides tav-

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lin the central Solomons, the navy announced today. The navy also reported the los8 {of the U. 8. destroyer Strong in & {previous action i Our forces suffered “some dams lage” in the Kula gulf engagemeng which began early Tuesday morns ing (Solomons time), but “consid |erable damage” was done to the ens emy warships { Details were still lacking on the engagement, the navy said. The Kula gulf action followed by {24 hours an American naval boms | bardiment of Japanese positions at | vila and Bairoko on opposite sides of the Kula gulf It was during this bombardment | that the Strong, a modern 2100<ton |eraft, was torpedoed and sunk. Nora ‘mal complement of the Strong was | estimated to be about 260 men. The Strong was commanded by Cmdr, Joseph Harold Wellings of East Boss "s Mass.

The Strong, designed as an janswer to Japan's 2000-ton Kagero ‘class, was commissioned on Aug. 7 last year, The ship was armed with | eight five-inch guns. | Push Toward Munda U. 8. forces were reported to be in control of the western and southern approaches to the battle area in the Solomons, and were pushing toward Munda. The naval battle, which may des cide whether the enemy's majo# (supply base at Munda falls quickly and easily to American forces of {becomes the objective of a difficuls siege, was disclosed in a special 30-word communique last night, No details have been received, it said, and its announcement was based only on brief reports from the South Pacific. Munda is the major American objective in the central Solomons, Frank Tremaine, United Press correspondent at allied headquars ters of the South Pacific forces, ‘quoted informed sources there as declaring that the allies now cons trol the western and southern aps {proaches to the New Georgia area and that “United States infiltras tion forces are pushing toward | Munda,” presumably from the southeast where they have captured { Viru harbor. |

Control Vangunu Isle

| U. 8. forces have gained control of Vangunu island, off the southern tip of New Georgia, Tremaine res | ported, adding that an official ane nouncement said "American casuals ties in the New Georgia area have been light thus far and the offense sive continues according to plan.” The northern and eastern sea aps | proaches to New Georgia wers ‘described reliably as “the sea area in dispute,” Tremaine's dispatel added. (A Japanese imperial headquars ters communique, broadcast by Tokyo ‘radio and recorded by the United Press in San Francisco, said Japas {nese army and navy units sank five [allied transports and shot down 28 | planes at Rendova on July 4.

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| HALIFAX, July 6 (U. P). = A freighter rammed and cut a work

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lerns had supplies, but stores dis- boat in two in the harbor today |pensing bottled beer were drained and 18 men were missing and dry. {feared drowned.

In all cases, customers were re-

Mr. Bodine said additional data 1 OE one May oh 16 a teres Ang cs! BE a er ts pott| i Nas ve little shooting and \ ‘operty sold could “he . of embarkation writes that he has'Amusements . 16 EE a YY he SI er oir prices and property ‘short as Donald Mason's immortal, BS coco % 8 Ir ng 13 the enemy Was in retreat.

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Capt. Morse Receives Air

'sighiment of 100,000 cigarets.

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ury department in Chicago. Although some vouchers were inj Indiana branch files at 1741 S| West st, it was pointed out that the exact amount of the Colin Bros.’

’ kransaetian, or any other sale, would

be available only after “complete billings Nad been made out.” Joseph Cohn himself said he was a little vague &s to the exact number of Wheelbarrows his company had purehased, but he stated emphatically that what he now wants to do is “sell ‘em. I certainly cant sat em.”

{but it's typical—and from a Hoosier,

“We hasten to acknowledge re-

too ceipt of your contribution of con-

“A load of thanks from Sgt. Martin L. Miller, who hails from Lafayette, Ind. Just another damned good Hoosier.” Here's another: “Thanks for the smokes. Pfc. Toney Penzoil. I'm from Michigan City.” And Just ahother k the many notes: ; “Just received a ¢

which Ly § rd F.

material stimulant for the happiness of our overseas soldiers will be

North Africa.” The July drive goal is at least another million to add to the nearly seven million already sent over-

centrated contentment,” he says, Editorials (iil “At the earliest possible date your Edson

placed on board a vessel sailing for Finaveial

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TWENTY - TWO - YEAR - OLD

1g. Well, I got it." he said. { Capt. Elmer M. Morse of Indian-

| “The odd part is that most of the Way through the going was tough, | and I often wondered how I got out at all Its like swimming miles and then drowning three feet from shore.”

Respects Fighting of Foe

| Comics «ves 19 Movies [Crossword ... 19 Obituaries 12 One World 12:Pyié 0. | Fashions 15 Radio ’ ‘Mrs. Ferguson 14 Ration Dates. 3 8 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Forum 12 Service Cal. . 7, Freckles . 1B Side Glances . 12. Maj. Cook expressed great respect Health Col. .. 3 Society ....14, 15 for the fighting qualities of the Hold Evieyth'g 11 Sports... 8 9 German army. “And they returned Homemaking . 15 State Deaths 4 that respect of American guts” he fdpls. 3 War Liv. 3 said “They are beautifully trained! nl nied on Page Five)

‘ i the 10th army air force in India

to receive air medals, the war de= partment announced yesterday. Capt. Morse, the son of Mrs.

niission in 1941 at Randolph field, Tex. He is a graduate of Technical high se ool. Also honored . Bet. Brn: (Continued on )

Ail "ny

apolis is one of three Hoosiers in |

Annie Morse, 2217 Broadway, re- | ceived his pilot's wings and coms |

quired to turn in empty bottles for

‘filled ones. Deliveries are limited to one a day and because of driver shortages, distributors are unable to make the full rounds of all customers. Several distributors said (Continued oh Page Five)

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