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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 102 THURSDAY, JULY 8 1943

Every Jap Warship Sighted In Kula Gulf Hit Or Sunk

from Kula gulf at the northwestern end of New Georgia in the Solomon islands. The enemy was engaged immediately and within “a very few minutes” five Japanese ships, apparently all destroyers, were sunk or burning, it was stated here. In the second phase of fighting, the Americans made contact a short time later with three or four Japanese

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was later aided by navy and army airplanes, carried out the operation against the enemy warships in three phases. In the opening phase on July 6 the Americans surprised the enemy in a night attack. The whole operation lasted about two hours. The American light cruisers and destroyers intercepted a larger force of Japanese light cruisers and destrovers about 3 a. m. on Tuesday as the enemy steamed

in a few minutes after the American onslaught began. Conservative estimates were that the Japanese lost eight ships definitely destroyed and two others damaged. The damaged ships may have escaped. American forces lost the cruiser Helena. (A communique from the headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur said nine Japanese ships were sunk and two more were possibly sunk.) The numerically inferior American naval force, which

U. 8. NAVAL HEADQUARTERS, South Pacific, July 8 (U. P.).—Every Japanese warship sighted by American naval forces in the battle of Kula gulf was either damaged or destroyed, the first available description of the engagement disclosed today. Advices reaching headquarters of Adm. William F. Halsey said that during one phase of the battle five Japanese ships were seen exploding, burning or sinking with-

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YANKS’ TWIN DRIVES NEAR +2 MUNDA BASE

| Germans, hurling nearly a half-| 11, Enemy,

million men and thotisands of tanks in U.

NAZIS MAKING D0-OR-DIE BID AT BELGOROD

Gain Slightly at Expense Of 30,000 Men, 1539 Tanks.

41 RATIO FOR ALLIED OUTPUT SEEN BY 1944

‘Nelson Reveals Vast Gain In Arms and Ships:

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TORONTO, Ontario. July 8 (U. P)—A completed plane every four and two-thirds minutes around the clock every day of the month! That is a production record which the United States and Canada will set up before the end of 1943, WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson disclosed here today He also revealed that thus far in the war the two countries have produced enough small arms ammunition to per= { mit allied soldiers to fire more than 1500 bullets at every soldier in the axis armies

8 GHARGE POLIGE BEAT TWO B0YS

TORONTO, Ontario, July P.)--Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board dis- | closed today that the allied arms output in 1944 may be nearly four times as great as that of the axis He said in a speech before the Canadian ciub that the allies out- | produced the axis bv almost two to one in 1942, and that in 1943 the united nations output may “reliably” be expected to be nearly three timese axis preduction. The North American continent alone, he said. is producing this; { year twice as much in combat mu- | { nitions as the axis. “The trend is inexorable,” he said. “It points relentlessly to the just and terrible punishment which the Bight women {foday {outraged world will visit on the ments that they saw city policemen! Fascist aggressors.” { beating two boys, the other Reported a Slackening ‘15, while arresting Monday Nelson's remarks came less thah night. 48 hours after he had released in! The women, all of whom live in| Washington a progress report show- the neighborhood of 641 8. Missouri | ing a “serious” slackening in United st, home of the bovs involved. States arms production in May, and Robert Huddleston, 17 and his amid indications that the June rec-| brother, Willis, 15, appeared at the ord would also be disappointing | office of Prosecutor Sherwood Blue. The report did not explain the, “we wish to state that both boys May lag. but Nelson at a press coh- were beaten by the police, but that ference in Washington before de-|the boys did not fight the police nor parture for Toronto blamed it on! resist arrest.” manpower problems. floods. strikes and other developments, Both Nel-| son and Viee Chairman Charles E |

MacArthur Ships Were Sunk

land planes against Soviet defenses Reports 9, in a do-or-die bid for a breakthrough, inched eastward in the] Belgorod sector today as the blazing | battle of the southern front went | into its fourth day on a crescendo- | ing scale. (tA German communique broadcast by the Berlin radio said that

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Victory in Kula or

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, July 8 te 1 Tad broken ti | Us I.) .— American assault troops drove inland from new { t axis 'oeps 14 Droken 1rougil | , : Signed Statements Given deeply-fortided Russian positions bridgeheads less than six miles from the Japanese air base ‘near Belgorod and south of Orel of Munda on New Georgia island today following a shatters pre Segueved more wen 190 Soviet: ing nine-to-one United States naval victory in the Kula gulf,

To Sherwood Blue | tanks.) | 13d In Probe. Russian and German accounts| Munda and the Japanege supply port of Bairoko harbor,

made it evident that the Nazis were {() miles to the north, were the twin objectives of the Amergy saent, Toopitts den nto, icans following surprise landings on both sides of bombs their lines by attacking southeast- shattered Munda. The enemy forces on New Georgia appar« ward from Orel and northeastward ently were isolated from supplies or reinforcements and

from Belgorod. were being engaged hy the HINT GERMANS ‘Americans along the Barike

river east of Munda. Fifth Day of Allied Raids

Nine and perhaps 11 Japanese cruisers and destroyers were des Spurs Invasion Talk Again.

stroved by American warships in a ittle more than 20 minutes of ace tual fighting early Tuesday, a coms Bs UNITED PRESS Invasion talk fared up today, biggest new incentive

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Mrs. Barbara M. White, bacteriologist at the state board of health, Is shown making a microscopic examination of ham which was served vesterdav to war workers in the restaurant of Ft. Wayne's Gen- | eral Electric plant. The examination revealed that t he germ of staphylococcus is producing poison in the | ham. One worker is dead and 42 others are ill from eating the poisoned food.

GERM PRESENT ANTI-SUBSIDIES IN FATTY FOOD STAND DROPPED

FBI. Health Board Probes Senate Move Opens Way Poisoning of Ft. Wayne For Summer Recess War Workers. Of Congress.

HELEN RUEGAMER BULLETIN WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. PP). —The senate today receded from its attempt to outlaw the administration’s subsidized roll-back of food prices and perhaps opened the way for congress to start its | stmther vacation by nightfall, |

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Nazis Rush in Reserves - I — i -v a i ™ ¥ Wits If the trap could be sprung in ; time, a massive Red army force presumably would be doomed in the same manner as Marshal Friedrich von Paulus’ 6th German army at, Stalingrad when the Russians iso-| lated it and accounted for its 330,000 the statement said {troops to the last man. ETE Front dispatches said the Nazi Probe Is Pending {high command was rushing fresh The women, who appeared in a reserves into battle without pause)

ne i Wilson agreed that the June record group, told attaches of the prose- to replace the 30,000 men, 1530] will not show a substantial improve- | cutor's office. in the absence of the tanks and 649 planes lost in the iment over May, but expect a sharp prosecutor, that they were asked to Test 3 hours of assauly 3iohg 4/ upswing in late summer and fall, come there by the father of the 165-mile stretch of the front be:

munique from Gen, Douglas Mace which will enable the nation to boys. They added that the father| gf | helenrug oS field meet its 1943 arms goal told them that the bovs' attorney Of ‘he third siraisht day, he

Arthur, supreme commander of co= jordinated South and Bouthwest | Pacific offensives. announced, | Another Japanese warship was [damaged Lo complete a clean sweep for the American forces-~the sinks again ing or damaging of every Japanese ‘ ; Tm tly being the terrific nonBY 8 hi : reports disclosed, the Germans apparen I t r acs C $ ¢ ) dveiton Thiet Re i toda DAREA Fath vg send Sy yone Jo scored slight gains in the Belgorod stop allied aerial assault on the The biggest surface clash not to “take too much comfort from the prosecutor's office that he could i TRY : : area at terrific cost, but nowhere ftalian stepping stones to the con= since the battle of Lunga point in the so-called sagging of the homelfind who were at the scene of the ; ; Tori bn have they achieved a decisive! the southern Solomons more than front in the United States in recent | trouble. | tinent. days.” | The wonien who signed the state break-through. | seven months ago, cost the Ameria Figures oft Output | ment were Mis Ri th W ” : "aul Farther north they still weve cans only the 9700-ton light cruiser p 8 West st: Mrs Moke] Pavia 415 stymied by a stonewall defense in Helena sunk, and boosted the numeo. 3 Sty 1 3 3 : 3 x

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State board ¢ tions of the Warne war plant where one worker fs dead and 42 others ill from food poisoning revealed today that large numbers of staphylococel were present in ham which was eaten by the stricken persons Samples of the workers at the Co. for breakfast ing were brought the board of health technicians) were analyzing ham, sugar, milk tomato juice and drinking water today Symptoms Occur Quickly The microscopic siides showing the staphviococeus in the ham were] made in Ft. Wavne, but examined here, It was previously announced that the food poisoning was be- | lieved to be botulism i Dr. Thurman B. Rice, secretary of the state Board of health, stated that the germ of staphviococeus grows best in various oily or fatty foods, particulariv ham, Hollandaise galce, cream puffs, chocolate eclairs and products non-acid in reaction The symptoms of the poison occur within two to four hours—after enting ard mav be extremely severe, even leading to death. he said Elzo Mountz, 43 a press operator (Continved on Page Four)

WILL CONGRESS GO HOME TOMORROW?

WASHINGTON 8 (U. P.). fiots congressineny feel certain congress will quit for the summer tonight or tomorrow, But don't include Speaker Sam Ravburh in the eonfident bracket At his press conference today Ravburiy was asked when congress would recess “Ask me something easy,” he shot |

This is the germ off staphylococei which grows best in oily or

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A dispatch from allied headquars! ters reporting the fifth straight day of intense bombarding of Sicily and Sardinia, hinted that the hour for land attack was approgching, The Berlin radio, fumbling with invasion reports and trying to wins now the real from the red herring)

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food General vesterday mornhere and

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I wrote before, of the dam wele blown off. “The dam was 98 feet high or EE — deep in the water. Of this, 82 feet were knocked off, leaving |

$1940 WORTH OF | about 16 feet standing JEWELRY MISSING | “Water reached Neheim,

seven miles away, within and three nearly-completed ap-! Jewelry valued at $1940 was re: niinutes. ropriation bills now are the only ported to police today as missing

ship sighted in the battle, fatty foods, particularly ham, Hollandaise sauce, cream puffs, chocolate eclairs. Stressing the mutual understand- | i: : | the Orel-Rursk sector ber of Japanese warships destroyed ; : W. Norw ti: N 1 : : : ing and esteem between the United qq0 & W aN Mes, Maude Owens, Six tank, one motorized and eight since the start of the war to 146 States and Canada, Nelson revealed 625 8. Missouri st.: Mis. Grace Hil: infantry divisions—a total of at? and perhaps 148, and those dams failed to agree on anti-rollback since ie wae eg He caid the | tering futilely at Russian positions signs. said Geman troops were! With Japanese garrisons on New subsidy legislation and sent the Organized effort of the two coun-| along the northern arm of the pin-| oo. "eae on all European Georgia island apparently cut off, jessie back to the senate for another ‘ries has turned out 115000 planes, DD: D cers around Orel and Kursk. coasts fof any attempted penetra- ®t least temporarily, from supplies | Cc | bi c r C ‘t vote. more than 175000 large caliber dim one Air Fleets Active : : and reinforcements, U, 8, army | olumoia 0 p. an Chairman Robert F. Waener (p 2fubs of all kinds, nearly 1.500.000 : . : North troops and marines were believed | Nine tank and six infantry divi- . Be Stockholders. U : (c Continued on Page Six) | eensored Note Tells - RAS ioe he | a v ’ ! The | chamber to accept the house vey: (HS Bmhuritier, Lg 55.30 Of R.A. F's shore and the main enemy base in 4 ‘ bested siont of a resolution to extend the "205% 1.500 ucks and 79, « A g Good arm around Belgorod ALLIES ARE MASSING the central Solomons, and against sharing plan of the Columbia Con- life of the commodity credit corpo- scout cars. . Supporting the offensive were the supply port of Bairoko harbor, serve Corp, & nationally-known s0- yation until Jan. 1. | In addition, he said, combined Job. huge air fleets, including three 10 miles to the north, That would mean that the senate production of ocean-going meichant STOCKHOLM. July 8 (U.P) bomber and fighter squadrons MIGHT FOR INVASION MacArthur disclosed that ground dissolved today bv an order of Ment it wrote into the legisiation including mosauit aft and auxil i Tr y | Tuesday, by a 38-to-28 vote. which g quito cr Xil- | tore a hole 164 : , | Red air force fighters, including ; dova island before dawn Monday Judge Hezzie B. Pike of superior). iq outinw the administration's [2H total mote than 2,000,000 dis- | feet deep A he a | American=built Airacobrag, ripped North African Bases Seethe and seized a bridgehead at Zanana, urt 2 | acement tons. i ; S ; | ; ; a . | ' clu ‘ court rollback -subsidies prorgam. p “ within 20 minutes all the Water {apart the enemy air formations in| A Tension Mounts only six miles east of the Munda The court’s ruling dissolved 8 “Voice of Doom | had poured out, rushing in (the Belgorod sector while massed S . airdrome. Later American patrols trust agreement under which about “These figures speak to the world tt accounted for the contacted the Japanese along the This information was in an "\RERAPIP Al Fa eg Conte mon stock | house conferees on the grounds that not completely insane, they will | evewitness account in an uncens HIGH ‘WATER SLOWS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North : ; : In effect, the courts decision it was merely an invitation to a recognize that the voice is the voice | sored letter reaching Norwegian ‘Africa, July 8.-The gigantic chal- Pog Sinulangousy, Mac - x 18 A a 2 » a & 5 i W : 4 i r “ I " . . yas the company from its repetition of the White House veto of doom. circles here, ‘The letter said in RUBBER PRODUCTION lenge confronting the allies in as- ir Jeporiety Jdher ground employee-ownership status to anion a similar measure last week | He struck at isolationiste by de-| pat: forces were put ashore at Rice | ordinary priv ‘porati | p . ok 3 ! . : ; Sana) batt! AKRON, O. July 8 (U. P).— saulting Hitler's European fortress ajchorage, four mil ‘theast | orainaty private corporation | President Roosevelt insisted in his claring that the United States and : 8%, lour miles northeast of 3 y wp p A | Production at the Goodyear Air- slaps you in the face when you enter | Bairoko harbor, whieh lies’ on the pointment of a receiver for an ac-| yy outlawing the subsidy programm’ “The United States and Canada ES NgCline gam. Ye. ais i or counting, charging that William BP. wi : ap ; rob x in their] I Ste which belell Bu= | hours resulting from two feet of der way. along Kula gulf a few hours earlier : which is an integral part of the have a powerful weapon in theit! jgpe since time immemorial : : : Hapgood. president, other officer ; Bt ’ 4 ; : " a : , k | water in the big plant. | Back in Washington they talk of | with a bombardment 'S over-all to stabilize prices abilit d desire to work together ; ' nd dire 5 1 Lehi er-a program ‘ prices a V ana gesire oo wol oge y “There is no comparison with A i tely 30.000 OPK OTR | § fl iv B i “" nted.” Here ! : and directors had mismanaged the ,.4 wages and prevent runaway in- he said. “Within the axis, alliances geen, Cologne, Duisburg, Due Approximately ' workers an offensive being "mou Allied forces also were on (he ni air = ? ‘ , : : i ssen, Cx , Duisburg, ues- op wed i g ; 4 p ‘her company’s affairs. Ation. are built on a rotting edifice of fear were forced into idleness due to the you see it. You also realize Where ,maicive in New Guinea, 700 miles Aoodwaters. High water marooned your young men, gasoline, rubber uw... of New Georgia, With Ause affairs he " tehahe ; Fifty meters (164 feet), not 15 as ad Not been mismanaged yinjstrator Marvin Jones testified) ments between the axis are carved Goodyear plants, | tied on Page Sit) nis nl. 4: sab 0 | . ‘mile north of Mubo, 10 miles south- | west fo Salamaua, yesterday follow Lvien Without Names (Continued on Page Four) ” » Even the Children Give Aid On the War Fronts To France's Underground

\ « } “ » a 4 i i) he He employ ees Who | that some corn is reaching markets out with reluctance and suspi-| : (Continued 6 "Pa 3 he NOU BN- ynder the present ceiling and that ejon.” iHep i at oho] } Pa 3 oan) [12,000,000 to 13,000,000 bushels of back, “like when will the war end.”| nin substitute grain, such as wheat, barley, and oats will be imported

‘Hoosier Heroes— | from Canada this week. |

(CLARENCE BERRY JR, wists Simei” '

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a startling record of arms produc- lard, 615 8. West st.: Mis. Bernice least 208,500 men and 1300 tanks-- aged to 168. In addition, 36 probe tion of axis soil. N.Y) of the senate banking com- machine guns and 6.000.000 rifles, His ui preparing to strike a knockout blow sions—200,000 men an anks cial experiment in which the work-| | vessels has reached 20,000,000 dead- The R. A. F. blasting of the drawn from western Europe, Soviet forces swept across the five-miles an feoviet artillery ; engulfing torrent through , y y AILLIE ka Piver 200 employees of the corporation] The senate’s anti-subsidy proposal in a big voice,” he declared. “And! By HUGH BAILLIE Barike river. 1at “You will have got my letter in Originally, the employees-stock-: y ) & no i a b orki \ | veto message that congress should) Canada have been working out a craft Corp. was resumed today after [this war theater and become aware (eastern shores of Kula gulf. AmerJudge Pike refise ; seldorf. ete. There have been rung bo appoint a The house committee rejected the Beneath that fear crawl the mag-! . ' i i hundreds of employees’ cars at the tires and beef have gone, tralian troops capturing observa In 20 minutes all the (July 8, 1943)

PLAN DISSOLVED WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P.).House and senate conferees today (tion established bv the two nations (Continued on Page Six) were reported officially to be bat- ably have been sunk. Judge Rules Enioyees of French headquarters in ‘mittee said he would ask the about 25000000000 rounds of small against Munda, on the southern were attacking on the southern ers owned the majority of stock, wag would have to abandon the amensi-| ; : , weight tons and naval vessels, not! |g ‘ities sai i p - Moehne dain in the Ruhr valley (authorities said. wide Blanche channel from Reno the | bulk of the panzer forces. a vital industrial valley. X banurs s Unit Brass held B3 per cent of the firm's com-| was vigorously rejected by the if the Nazi and Jap warlords are (Copyright, 1943, by United Press) Base Bombarded : hich T wrote that Tommy hit holders brought suit for the ap- : , . i ati X : ; hot t strat $s hands fo 1 \ - tion. (hot tie the administration's hands formula of wartime co-operatic an interruption of more than 12 of the tremendous preparations un- jean wars ships softened enemy bases receiver. holding that ‘uita | three direct hits by mine bombs. gy olding that the company’s corn price bill after War Food Ad= gots of haste and distrust. Agree- i | 3 ; ! General Tire & Rubber Co. and! There is tension in the alr. There tio, hill, an enemy strong point a PACIFIC—Americans close against

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Reeecles to a start of congress’ de- irom the home of Mrs. J. M. Drake, | layed summer recess. If the sen- 5230 N. Meridian st. ate should accept Wagner's motion, Mrs, Drake said she first missed and agree to the house version of the jewelry Sunday night. She listed as missing one diamond ring valued at $1200, a dinner ring at | 3600 and a lady's Ss watch at $140.

a chance that the legislature might wind up its business tonight.

300,000 More Smokes Are J On Way to Fighting Yanks

, that's 338,948 cigarets because major | | cigaret firms are providing them for More than 300000 more cigarets only five cents a package. are on their way to fighting] The honor donor today is the In-| | Yankees stationed all over the diana Gear Works. Employees put | globe, (in 8135 and the firm matched the The Times Overseas Cigaret fund donation, making a total of $270 for July drive for at least another mil-' 108,000 cigarets, lion eigarets ie clicking. Cmdr. H. M. MeKinley, morale ot: The fund $847.37 now and| (Continued on Page Three)

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cadavers floated past. Neidern= gee, Himelpforten and Hachen disappeared from the earth, “Don't get shocked at many deaths. Three thousand reported so far. An entire camp with drowned within five minutes.

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By NAT A. BARROWS

ht, 1043, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

LONDON, July 8-=Thirty of them are in that hideout somes= where in France=young men,

| and some not so young-—banded

850 Russian prisoners |

“People climbed to the rooftops |

and into the trees. they would be safe there, but they collapsed with them. six big new buildings in Maheim and not one brick is left of them, “Beds, doors, corpses and animal cadavers can be seen hanging in the trees , .

They thought |

There were |

The letter was in faultless Ger- |

man but the clumsy indicated the writer belonged to

the working or peasant class,

grammar |

together until freedom or death, united by their common destiny as refugees from forced labor in side Germany. They have lost their identities purposely, Now they have only numbers for names. Risking everything, they have fled [rom what used to be civilization in France-to escape German labor conscription edicts which are now draining French manpower as never before. Guards cover every access to their remo

spend long days in the best approach to military training they are able to obtain without sufficient guns. They make up for lack of equipment with extra emphasis on military theory, especially tricks of sabotage and infiltration, and on gymnastics to keep them fit for guerrilla fight«

ing. Several times they have had to move camp since they banded together three months ago. Word had reached them through associates in the French underground that the gestapo or Laval militia

was getting too close. |

» ” MOST OF them and have families, For those left | behind, the resistance movement

RUSSIA-—-Germans

Munda after establishing nearby’ bridgeheads on New Georgia is. land in central Solomons: U, 8. naval victory in Kula gulf en hanced with disclosure that nine’ and possibly 11 Japanese wars ships were destroyed.

throw nearly 500,000 men into pincers attack on Red army's Kursk salient; Russians acknowledge slight Nazi gains in Belgorod sector, report enemy losses as 30,000 men killed.

'MEDITERRANEAN—American and

British air forces cary offensive against Italy's outposts through fifth day.

intense inland straight,

are married EUROPE--British parliament

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