Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1943 — Page 4

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ANKS NEARING

Visits Mother

BASE AT MUNDA

Allies Sink 9, Perhaps 11 Jap Warships in Kula Gulf.

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hg tire heaviest aerial assault of the war in the southwest Pacific against Mubo itself. More than 50 four-engined Liberators, Mitchell medium bombers and Douglas attack planes dropped 106 tons of high explosive and fragmentation bombs on enemy instal-

lations in and around Mubo in a

45-minute bombardment. Douglas attack planes also made 32 strafing runs over Bobdubi. four miles southwest of Salamaua, ves-! terday. At Lae, another Japanese) base 21 miles to the north, Mitchell medium bombers attacked enemy | installations and coastal barges in| Labu lagoon. Detailing the results of the battle! of Kula gulf, MacArthur reported that the American light cruisers) and destroyers “decisively defeated” the enemy naval force.

“In the first phase of the engage- |

ment,” his communique said, “four or five hostile destrovers were struck by smashing broadsides that within five minutes destroved or set fire to the entire group. “Three and possibly four enemy light cruisers then were taken under fire. All were either sunk or set afire within 15 minutes, One was beached “Later, during the rescue of survivors from the light cruiser Helena, our destrovers intercepted and sank two of three enemy ships attemptIng to escape from the gulf and damaged the third.” The Japanese struck back Americans with two heavy air attacks on American positions on Rendova island, just of Munda. The first was made by 18 bombers Monday against shipping, but nine of the bombers were shot down and the remainder scattered before they could inflict any damage.

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Rader Winget

Rader Winget, formerly an In-

dianapolis and New York newspaperman, is here visiting his

mother, Mrs. Lillian Geyer Win- |

get, 118 E. 9th st. He will Jeave tomorrow for New York to await orders to active duty as a captain in the military government branch of the army. He has moved his family to Goshen, Mr. Winget is on military leave of absence as New York correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. He is a former staff member of

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GERM PRESENT INFATTY FOODS

| | FBI, Health Board Probes Poisoning of Ft. Wayne War Workers.

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i i at the Broadway plant of the Ft.| Wayne company for the past 14] years, died shortly before noon yes. | terday. Forty-two other workers! were rushed to the company frie pensary and to the city hospitals. A special representative of the state board of health is in Ft] Wayne investigating the case, and) the FBI is checking the possibility,

21 Victims Detained |

Twenty-one of the victims are still being detained for observations | while 22 others were treated and re- | {leased. Two patients were consid-| ered in poor condition. Others were (said to be fair and improving. Dr. Rice urged that the utmost icare be taken in homes andgres|taurants to prevent such’outbreaks |of food infection. He pointed out | that food can very easily spoil dur{ing the summer months when the best refrigeration is difficult to get.

| confession

Youth Faces FBI On Train Charge

MENOMINEE, Mich, July 8 (U. P.).—Federal authorities were expected to question Frederick Lamprecht Jr, 17-year-old farm youth, today after he confessed to Sheriff Edward J. Reindl that he

| tried to derail a streamlined Chi-

cago train carrying 700 passengers including soldiers and sailors. Reind! said federal authorities were called into the case after it was ascertained that servicemen were aboard the train. He will be arraigned in ecireuit court if federal authorities do not enter the case. Lamphrect said in his reported to the Menominee county sheriff that on July 4 he placed two ties on the track, wedging an iron rail-plate against the first tie so the train would be lifted off the tracks.

CANADIAN HEADS SHRINE CHICAGO, July 8 (U. P.).—Morley E. Mackenzie, Toronto, Ontario, was named imperial potentate of the Ancient Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at the Shriners’

|grand council meeting.

' THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

POLICE, FIREMEN MAY GET $60 MORE

City police and firemen may re- | ceive a flat $60 annual allowance | in addition to regular pay under a | proposal being considered by the city council safety committee. The committee met with Otto K. Jensen, head of the state accounts board, who said he would consult Atty. Gen, James A. Emmert, as to ‘the legality of the measure. A state law now prohibits flat salary increases in cases not already | covered by budgeted funds. Consideration of the proposal was necessary after a previous ordinance allowing some 1200 police and firemen $60 allotments for clothing was deemed unsatisfactory because it failed to benefit plainclothesmen and police women.

STUDY NEW TAX PROGRAM WASHINGTON, July 8 (U. P.).—| | Secretary of the Treasury Henry) | Morgenthau Jr., announced today that treasury and congressional tax! experts have already started work upon a new tax program to be presented to congress after the summer

recess.

| The

Hoosier Heroes—

C. E. Berry Is Killed in Line Of Merchant Marine Duty

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| ten to his parents on April 10

when he was leaving New York.

Mr. ‘Berry thinks his son might have been on convoy duty.

Seaman Berry, a former

He enlisted last October. formerly lived in

was 22. family Crothersville, A brother, Melvin, serves as a gunner on a destroyer, and two sisters, Mrs. Geneva Copeland and Miss Marjorie Marie Berry, are employees of the Lukas-

Harold Corp.

Other sisters and brothers surviving are Mrs. Naomi Richey, Mrs. Laura McCloskey, Miss Alberta Berry, Emmet Berry and Glenn Marvin Berry, all of Indianapolis.

2 ” ” T. Sgt. Raymond Cathcart, Westville, is reported to have died in the European area as the re-

employee of the Climax Machine Co. |

sult of an accident, his parents have been notified.

a member of a bomber squadron. In a snowstorm last March, he and others of his crew narrowly escaped death when they were forced to abandon the plane and parachute to safety. ” ” ” Pfc. Robert J. Miller, South Bend, has died in a Japanese prison camp, according to word received from the Japanese government through the International Red Cross. He was reported missing after

Missing T. SGT. WALTER C. MILLER

JR. South Bend, and 2d Lt. Ro-

{ been reduced to the “bare minimum tery and food infections. As a rule,

| “It should be borne in mind by | the housewife or by the person frequenting a public eating place that food mav be very dangerously spoiled and yet give no sign whatever that it is not fit to eat,” he] said. He listed four important) groups of food intoxications and poisonings derived from bac-| terial sources as botulism, those) derived from staphylococcus, those related to the typhoid germ and those where the germ is in the {animal giving the food.

The Indianapolis Times:

CLAIM AXIS SHIP LOSSES MOUNT

British Official Upward to Million Tons

Reports

Explains Botulism

Affected . “Botulism,” he said, “develops {only when the food has been de-| LONDON, July 8 (U. P).—Up- teriorating over a considerable pewards of 1000000 tons of axis pjor of time, usually in a can or shipping has been sunk or dsm-|some other sealed container. The aged seriously since the allied oc-/ganger is usually to be found in cupation of North Africa, Dingle jose non-acid foods such as canned M. Foot, parliamentary secretary of | beans, peas, corn, vegetables and the ministry of economic Wartare,', eats, These foods can be ex(told commons today. | tremely poisonous but if thoroughly, | Opening a debate on the work of | soked before serving are made es- | the ministry, Foot placed tonnage! centially safe. {sunk at 700,000 and that damaged] “In the group related to the ty(severely at 300,000. Iphoid germ, the diseases are tyGermany's tonnage no doubt has| shoid fever, para-typhoid, dysen-

| needed to meet most essential mili- {1606 arise from contact with dirty tary and economic requirements,” f,gers flies, contaminated water, Foot said. {milk or other food and cause defi-| Traffic Stopped init disease over a period of weeks Though a certain number of rather than an acute poisoning. blockade runners passed between Germany and Japan in the spring . and summer of last year, he said, “Those that may be mentioned in ' this traffic has been brought virtual- which the germ is in the animal ly to a standstill. {giving the food are undulent fever He estimated that the axis has following the drinking of unpasteurlost at sea in the last 12 months ized milk, septic sore throat from not less than 30,000 tons of rubber, the same source or the use of the | 3000 tons of tin, 25.000 tons of edible} flesh of diseased animals, as is very, |oils and smaller but not less impor- liable to happen if people are so tant quantities of tungsten and foolish as to patronize black marquinine. |Kets.” | Japan lost heavy machinery, ma- | It was ascertained that approxichine tools and other essential in-/mately 300 persons had eaten at | dustrial equipment, he reported. | the Ft. Wayne company’s restauRecent information indicates that rant. However, not all ate the same | the Germans are moving all possible foods. It was expected the com- | equipment from the bomb-spattered pany would order all persons who Ruhr valley, which produced one-|ate at the restaurant to submit to third to two-fifths of all German blood tests.

arms, Foot said. Autopsy Performed

Germs From Animals

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Meanwhile, Dr. Edgar N. Mendenhall, Allen county coroner, said an autopsy was performed on Mountz and that food samples and vital | organs were under analysis at state | {board of health laboratories and lo- | {cal laboratories to determine the {exact cause of death. Results of the tests probably will be made | known late today or tomorrow. Dr. H. O. Bruggeman, chief of the civilian defense emergency medical service, ordered serum flown here from Chicago and New | York for treatment of patients. | In addition to the serum, which | arrived last night, physicians used ‘plasma from hospital blood banks, | intravenous injections, oxygen and anti-toxin to treat the victims. An {iron lung was set up for emergency use.

JUDGE DISSOLVES PROFIT-SHARE PLAN

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DETROIT, July 8 (U. P.).—Frank| Mikol, 44-year-old landlord who staged a two-week “reign of terror” against tenants in his four-unit apartment house, was turned over

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