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‘One World’
‘We Mus
About What We
CHAPTER NINE MONTHS have p the United States from my In these nine months of deal has happened. The climate in which m think and live and hope has the change from autumn to
We are on the offensive; we have won some important victories: more and more citizens of the united nations have learned that we
fact, live in one world. of the changes which
do, in very NMany
months have translated ideas which I reported on my return into speed with
hard. historical facts, and the changed has filled sone of us with
On the one hance. we now have concrete evidence that free men
can fight and win fascisn Now we know it On the other hand. the very fact «(2 winning brings us more and more inescapably up against the decisions we must make which I tried to describe in “One World.”
against
It Is Getting Late; America Should Make Up Its Mind
Willkie Concludes.
GOP QUARREL PUTS HEAT ON CHIEF BEEKER
Claims ‘Gamblers and Some | Politicians Are Out to | Get Me.’
t Decide’
Are Fighting For,
ELEVEN assed since | came back to flight around the world. foreshortened time, a great
en and women on our side changed more sharply than summer.
By NOBLE REED Bitter conflicts over law enforcement policies and Republican party factional strife appeared to racing toward a climax here today with Police Chief Beeker's ouster as the objective.
have taken piace in these nine
which our world has
a sense of desperate urgency.
1. We have always believed this.
have increased
FRIDAY, JULY 9,
1943
In
Entered as Second-Class Matter at
Postoilice dianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
PRICE FOUR CENTS
RUSS SMASH 2000 NAZI TANKS;
YANKS TWO MILES FROM MUND
Pegler’s Right, Mom and Pop Agree
be §
Rumors that Chief Beeker's term gs would be short-lived have persisted 3 in many quarters since he was ap- §
ONE WORLD by Wendell L. Wilkie is breaking all sales records as a book and more
pointed and they almos* daily as he stepped up his tempo on mass raiding tactics and wholesale arrests. “Yes. I know the gambling elements are out to get me removed from office and some politicians are ;
pressure to §
: Hundreds of 60-Ton ‘Tigers’ Are Ablaze in
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Belgorod Sector, Soviet Dispatches Say, In Record Armored Battle.
MOSCOW, July 9 (U. P.).—Southern front dispatches reported today that hundreds of 60-ton German “Tiger™ tanks were ablaze in the Belgorod sector, reflecting a grows, ing belief that the Russ army was gaining the upper hand
in the biggest armored battle that 2000 German tanks had
of all time. It was estimated been knocked out.
“We have tamed the terrible Tiger,” was the war cry,
ringing through the field reports which said Russian tanks had stormed into the titanic battle to reinforce Soviet artils lery, armor-busters and grenade throwers against the Nazis’
| steel monsters. | The great armored battle swirled through penetrated
adding weight to the | Soviet defenses in the Belgorod region at the southern end
While we were copies have already been
fighting a defensive -war, trying to hold our own and stop our e=nemies, we could perhaps afford §
sold than any book in history over a similar period of time.
In this exclusive final chapter, NINE MONTHS
oust me but I'm working for Mayor Tyndall—and no one else,” Chief Beeker said today. Pressure Grows i
“Frankly, I'm having more trouble with politicians than I am with
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of the thundering battle line, where the Russ army was throwing in every ounce of available strength to stem the Nazi onrush.
| dozens of miles of battlefront
studded with flaming German tanks, The Russian “Tiger-hunters” have averaged a daily bag of roughly [500 tanks so far in the battle, and “the Tiger is not as black as Hitler
| (The British radio said MOSCOW ,5inted him,” the dispatches said.
mh ' : 4 correspondents expected a climax = pegnite the mounting confidence The small grocer’s day is a long one as Mr. Spice, 2958 College ave., |. th : pile g _ p 9 3 lin the battle within 48 hours. A'p.. tho struggle was reported de=
knows well. Here the midnight oil burns as he pours uver government pH National ; . jorms, taxes, rationing and a plethora of problems. | Stockholm Teport of the ho “veloping at an unslackening pace, | Broadcasting Co. said the Germans gq some Soviet quarters predicted ‘admitted that “rivers of blood” bad oven more massive and intense
| | been drawn from both sides.) fighting. Russ Improve in North
The titanic tank battle followed As the Soviets threw in their
four days in which Soviet artillery, : anti-tank guns IAN BASES amore forces into a concerted ef-| armed with gasoline-filled pop fort to close the Belgorod breaches ities had knocked out nearly twos
and infantrymen in their positions and stop the long= | thirds of the Germans’ 3000 avails delayed German summer offensive, .jje tanks in bearing the brunt of Soviet army counter-attackersiy,e heaviest armored assault of all steadily improve the situation 10 (is gimed at either end of a 163 (the north in the Kursk-Belgorod jie sector of the southern front. region. | Russians claimed they had killed Opposition Light. | The fifth day of the offensive 35000 Nazi in four days. ‘brought a growing conviction in. Though Soviet forces at the ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Soviet quarters that the Russians | northern end of the sector held had mastered a technique for han-'firm and even gained ground in
LATER, Mr. Willkie discusses, in the light of his book, the changes in the world picture that have taken place since he returned to the United States.
POST-WAR PLAN GROUP CHOSEN
Co-operation to Be Keynote Of Peace-Time Work,
criminals in this job.” Pressure for the chief's removal also has cropped up in the last few days within the city administration itself despite Mayor Tyndall's constant efforts to keep his! official family at peace with his!
git 7 ay eu TO wor. Lights Are Burning Later In Apartment Above Store §|(IL
ents intend “to get” him, was hot | explained. It was pointed out that | the mayor is loyal to all the mem-| bers of his official family and] especially loyal to his police chief of | By WESTBROOK PEGLER whom he has a high regard. | NEW YORK. July 9.—You take my friend Joe, a member of the Blue Adds Fuel numerous Spelvin tribe of Americans and a first cousin of George | Spelvin, the all-American American. His little pitch is what the big Ine Buckie Was Foren 10 2 Hew Coit and certain government agencies call a or and pop store. climax today following a blistering He never had any formal training in bookkeeping and when he started up 20 vears ago he innocently figured that he would just sell groceries for a little more than the groceries cost him to buy and | handle and call the difference profit.
to postpone some of these decisions. Now that we : have taken the Mr. Willkie offensive. if we postpone them we are lost. Expediency at its best gives oniv a temporary advantage. At its worst, is a confession of bankruptcy. American soidiers now stand in England, in Africa, on the islands of the Mediterranean and in Asia, face to face with our enemies, side by side with men who can be our allies if we are prepared to stand up and be counted. From here cn in, we must decide, not on the basis of ex- |
A “mom and pop’ store, Mrs. J. W. Spice works seven days a week.
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Five Airdromes Bombed in Non-Stop Offensive;
tirade delivered against police department tactics by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue in a speech at the’
pediency, but on the basis of | what we want for the United States, for our children and for the one world in which, whether we like it or not, we now find ourselves,
Tyndall Says. (Photo, Page Eight) By SHERLEY UHL
Caravan club vesterday. | “The police department has vio- : lated the laws of Indiana 700 times | (illegal arrests) since last Jan. 1] and you cannot have respect for law,
It was fairly simple at the start . .. he is still getting by but the light burns later and later these nights in his apartment above the
store. «+ «+ +
” 3 na | PEG'S COLUMN, which vou will find complete on Page 14 today, enforcement when the law enforce-| o, jhtripyed The Times that we wondered how many Joe Spelvins
{ North Africa, July 8 (U. P.) —Sicily rocked under its sixth day of nonstop aerial bombardment yesterday
as ceaseless waves of allied bombers pounder its airdromes and communications in a pre-invasion often-
dling the 60-tonners spearheading the German armored onslaught.
ernment organ
| counter-attacks, those around Bel=
| gorod, to the south, gradually fell
“The Tigers are burning” was the back under the overwhelming weight caption over dispatches in the gov- | of the attack. Izvestia and the army organ Red Star telling of
When 60-ton Tiger tanks punched (Continued on Page Two)
Fuf the rst wmcun fis history. | ent officials themselves violate the| Traps io today had the nucleus) jaw.” said the prosecutor.
| probably are a lot of them Here is the story of at least one: {of a committee designed to fortify! This was a new chapter in an old} p y | the city against post-war unpre-| law enforcement feud between the]
{titi was composed of | en nara] | S Dawn-to- Du S k J 0 b N ow With Rationing and Points
f eight citizens appointed by Mayor;out of the wide open split in the { Tyndall last night. They will head | Republican party—the regular | sub-committees whose projects will| county G. O. P. machine vs. the city ibe pieced together in what the | hail Republicans. mayor termed “a long range at-| Probe Beating Charge By VICTOR PETERSON east coast port of Catania. A showdown battle for Munda, main Japanese base in the central The Sanitary Food Market at 2058 College ave. is the type of grocery| Heavy and medium bombers from Solomons, was believed imminent, if not under way, today as U. 8. | Westbrook Pegler kindly refers to today in his column in The Times the Northwest African air forces, jungle troops closed in for the kill after routing a Japanese patrol as a mom and pop store. { wrecked parked planes, hangars, | in a skirmish only two miles from the base. And the proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Spice, work seven days a runways. supply dumps and other! (A Japanese communique broadcast by the Tokyo radio said allied
| tempt to provide employment in the} Also crystallizing the pressure week from dawn ‘til after dark to keep operating under wartime and installations atthe Gerbini, Comiso, forces moving ihto Guibiana island, meemnemm——
in Indianapolis were having the same kind of difficulties. There sive against the outer defenses of
southern Europe, it was announced today. Striking simultaneously frem Northwest African and middleeastern bases, every type plane in the allies’ southern arsenal heaped new destruction on the five chief Sicilian airdromes and their satellite landing grounds and on the
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Needed Victories Won
CONSIDER WHAT has happened in these nine months. Both on the military fronts and on the political front, our side has won victories which we badly needed. We have won them it seems to me, in measure as we took the offensive and siruck out with confidence against our enemies. And we have won them, not by tricks or deals or political chicanery, but in measure as we enlisted on our side the great
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Yanks Now Within 2 Miles Of Japanese Base at Munda
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, July 9 (U. P.).—=
| city's excellent industrial and civic public criticisms this week against
potentialities.” Speaking briefly to an audience alleged brutal treatment of two teen age boys when they were ar-
of some 50 business, professional
| post-war era and materialize the against the police chief were the government restrictions. received some reinforcements from
masses of people for whom, about whom and by whom this war is being fought I was in North Africa in Sep(Continued on 2nd Section, Page 1)
and political leaders, Mayor Tyndall stressed the importance of comrounity co-operation, warning thot
“the city’s future course doesn't lie
(Continued on Page Two)
VanNuys Returning July 26;
Friends See Third-Term Try
By DANIEL
M. KIDNEY
Times Staff Writer
rested last Monday night. - —_— - Prosecutor Blue's blast followed ! several davs of investigations into FOR SAYS HE CAN 1 alleged police brutality in handling 3 MAKE LEWIS SIGN “I'm not condemning any in-| dividual police officer,” he explained. ! “The responsibility for these illegal —_— i
fe must be fixed upon the’ Knows of No Law by Which |
directing forces of the police de- ' He Can Take Ovef UMW. |
partment.” i WASHINGTON. July 9 (U, P)—
Safety Board Meets : ! Mr. Blue's tirade coupled with : " : ; that other outbreaks of pressure within | President Roosevelt said today that
Yesterday Mr. Spice looked over the advanced copy of Mr. Pegler’s column, rich in detail of the small grocer’s problems. To virtually every statement he nodded his head affirmatively or said emphatically, “That's right.”
In Business 20 Years Approximately 20 years ago Mr. Spice went into the grocery business. Ten years ago his wife pitched
in to help. Their idea was to make
WASHINGTON. July 9.—Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind) announced today that he will leave here for Indianapolis July 26 and
, the administration brought the ' safety board members into a special |
he has no authority to take over
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
open a suite at the Indianapolis At
He declined, however, to say that this will be his renomination | 4 headquarters, although close friends here believe that he will seek a ling back and forth between secret |
third term. In the closing hours of the ses- | gion, the senior senator from Indi- | ana switched his vote on subsidy payments by the commodity credit | corporation and so the house bill was approved 34 to 33 and recess) of congress until Sept. 14 made | possible | His Republican colleague, Senator Raymond E. Willis, continued to vote against subsidy payments as Senator VanNuys had heretofore. | Not given to tall talking from the | senate floor, Senator VanNuys, in! his role of chairman of the judi-! ciary committee, gave Sen. William Langer (R. N. D.) a severe, tongue lashing yesterday afternoon. He charged the freshman from North Dakota with conducting a filibuster to halt passage of a jus-| tice department bill which would | stop civil damage suits growing out of frauds against the federal government, i Senator VanNuys explained that |
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TIMES FEATURES | ON INSIDE PAGES |
Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan. Kidney Men in Service Millett Movies Obituaries Pegler Pyle Radio Ration Dates. Mrs. Roosevelt Side Glances Society ....16, 17] Hoid Ev'thing 13 Sports ....18, 19, Homemaking. 17 State Deaths. 8 In Indpls..... 3 Wartime Living 3
10, 18 13, . 22 oie 221 oes 14} 14]
Amusements . Ash Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials Edson Fashions 17 Mrs. Ferguson 16 Financial ... 23 Fishing 18 Forum 14 Freckles von Health Column 3
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hletic club.
Hoosier Heroes—
LT. GEORGE DAVIS KILLED IN PACIFIC
conference behind closed doors to- {Ca or to compel U. M. W. President
| Read the editorial, “Let's Look in the Mirror at Problem No. 1," on Page 14 today.
ay. Meanwhile, Chief Beeker was rac-
i conferences with Mayor Tyndall and the board members all morn-
| ing. { John L. Lewis to affix his signature | After meeting with Mayor Tyn-|to a contract with coal mine oper-| {dall and Chief Beeker for several ators. hours. the safety board issued the He made the comment when following statement: asked during a press conference “The attention of the board of about reports that the war labor safety has been called to certain | board wanted him to take action to criticism levelled at it by the prose-| force Lewis to comply with the cuting attorney, in which it was board's order that he sign a mine |
lan honest profit . . . to sell for a { little more than they bought and to line the proverbial nest for that day of retirement, Life wasn't too difficult and they were realizing their ambition to sell for a little more than the groceries cost them. And then came government forms; then war; then ceiling prices; then
rationing and points and more]
forms. Neither one had any particular (Continued on Page Two)
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
i musicians do not expect to resume | work for the transcription industry.
Former Shortridge Student
Was Bomber Pilot. Killed LT. GEORGE DAVIS JR.. son of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Davis, 426 Berkley rd., was killed in action in the South Pacific June 27. His parents were notified by the war department yesterday. He was 23. While a student at Shortridge Lt. Davis won a scholarship to Stanton Military academy, awarded by the Scripps-Howard newspapers. The scholarship was open (Continued on Page Two)
charged that the police were acting | |illegally and using brutal methods |
(Continued on Page Two)
By HELEN RUEGAMER ) Indianapolis housewives were warned today to refrigerate all food and leftovers properly and take precautions against outside con-
tamination in order to prevent food poisoning by the growth of the germ
SERVES NOTICE ON RECORD INDUSTRY tiie tah or.
WASHINGTON, July 9 (U.P.).— Thurman B. Rice. state health comJames C. Petrillo pounded a table missioner, after the lack of proper before the war labor board today, ' refrigeration and improper handling and told the board that radio of ham was established as the cause ““canned music” manufacturers of the death of one war worker and “don’t understand the party's over.” the illness of 47 others at the GenHe served blunt notice that union, eral Electric Co. at Ft. Wayne this week. Dr. J. W. Jackson, state epidemi-| — | ologist, returned today from an in-| NAZIS RAID ENGLISH TOWNS vestigation of the restaurant and
contract.
Mr. Roosevelt replied that he
| in making arrests. We do not be- knew of no law under which he]
could force Lewis to sign.
lococcus the “saboteur in the kitchen,” and stated that the poison can form in fatty foods such as ham, tongue, poultry, cheese or custard, even though they have been thoroughly cooked. Once the poison is formed, subsequent cooking does not destroy it, he writes. Mr. de Kruif offers the following
| warning to the housewives:
“Do not leave any food standing around the kitchen; play safe and keep it at the 40-degree temperature of the refrigerator, . . . “Remember that poultry, ham, tongue, cottage cheese, hollandaise sauce, and cream-filled baked goods are particularly suspect. Be sure that they have been refrigerated before you buy them; if you save them as leftovers, keep them refrigerated.
10a. m., Mam..... 12 (Noon) .. 1pm...
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Housewives Here Warned to Refrigerate Food as Safeguard Against Poisoning
promptly after eating, and may be extremely severe even leading to death, Dr, Rice said. Dr. Jackson pointed out that in Ft. Wayne all of the stricken persons had eaten the ham. The attacks varied in intensity, he said, although there were no mild cases and some of the patients had long periods of unconsciousness, The state board of health examined the restaurant in March and found it to be well-equipped, but with evidences of poor housekeeping and improper food handling. Recommendations were fnade at that time to correct the condi- | tions. Ft. Wayne physicians said the (crisis in the food poisoning episode
LONDON, July 8 (U. P).—Ger-| reported that the refrigerators have! “When food is warm, or when had passed and additional deaths
London, where anti-aircraft guns of further defects in sanitation. opened up. It was the first daylight, In an article in the July Reader's] alert in the London area since June Digest, Paul de Kruif, eminent bac27h. | teriologist-wrjter, called the staphy-
a
The paper
duce the poison.” The brought on by the
produces symptoms
22 man raiders today dropped high ex- been closed until they are thorough- frozen food has been defrosted, do, were not expected. 3: plosives on a southeast England ly cleaned. The state board of not wrap it in wax paper when you. 13 town and a southeast coast resort health will make recommendations put it in the icebox. 14 and caused a brief air alarm in to the company for the prevention may hold the heat inside the food neither the tests at Indianapolis nor {long enough for the microbe to pro- those made at local laboratories re-
The Allen county coroner belittled
|the theory of sabotage. He said
vealed traces of mineral poison— usually indicative of intentional
poisoning.
' Biscari, Catania and Sciacca nei- outh of Munda, were attacked by among troops believed to have beeg
work of airfields yesterday and the previous night. Fighter - bombers concentrated their bombs, shells and bullets on | trains, power plants, switches and other vital communications and transportation lines. Lightnings also strafed and sank a small schooner off Sicily. Four-engined American Liberators from the Middle Eastern command joined in the offensive with daylight raids on Catania Wednesday and yesterday, while R. A. F, heavy bombers took up the slack with a raid on the same port Wednesday night.
BILLION AND A HALF SPENT IN 1ST WEEK
' Approximately 50 Per Cent
More Than Last Year.
| WASHINGTON, July 9 (U. P.) — { The federal government spent $1.599,382,348 during the first week of
landed at Vila, on Kolombangara island northwest of New Georgia,
(Japanese planes that shot down 31 ‘allied planes supporting the opera- | tion. Another Japanese broadcast Monday night by the Japanese ‘acknowledged that the Americans cruisers and destroyers sunk or have won a foothold on New| damaged a few hours later by Georgia, but asserted that their| American naval forces in the battle casualties totaled “well over 11,000 of Kula gulf, a delayed front dise men.) patch said. Field reports indicated that the| Pushing four miles through the Japanese have all but abandoned | jungles along the south coast of their other positions on New |New Georgia from their new beach« Georgia island for a last stand at head at Zanana, American soldiers Munda, site of an airfield 150 miles|and marines engaged and dispersed
southeast of the enemy naval anchorage at Buin-Faisi in the north-
a Japanese patrol yesterday at Elelo, only two miles east of Munda,
ern Solomons. a communique from Gen, Douglas The Munda garrison may have MacArthur said.
Big RAF Attack Is Called Coup de Grace for Cologne
LONDON, July 6 (U. P.).—Strong formations of four-motored British { bombers, ending a four-night lull, heavily attacked Cologne last night lin what air experts believed may have been the coup de grace to that ine dustrial capital of the Rhineland.
Attacking in fewer numbers than on previous assaults on Cologne, the bombers apparently concentrated on a limited target area and had
[ the new fiscal year, treasury figures révealed today—approximately 50 per cent more than was spent dur-| ling the corresponding week a year!
ago.
only light losses. In the previous
| R. A. F. night bomber raids on Ger- |
many in the last 12 days, Cologne was the main objective. (A German communique broad-
The raid was the third on Cologiie {in 11 nights, upward of 1500 tons of {bombs having been dropped on the jeity on each of the two previous
| The treasury also revealed that cast said the Cologne cathedral, attacks. Bad weather has grounded
| during the first week of the fiscal | year 1944—July 1 through July T— | government receipts amounted to $546,202,283, more than two and a {half times the receipts of the cor- | responding week in the last fiscal | Year. | The sharp jump in receipts was believed to reflect higher tax rates enacted late last year and increased business activity and money movement rather than a start of collections under the new withholding tax.
TERROR!
The French underground has reached such a high point in sabotage, assassinafion and bombing that Puppet Premier Pierre Laval is now setting up a special "terror" in an attempt to crush resistance to the Nazis.
"Men Without Names" Page 9
which dates to the Middle Ages, had been hit again. A similar claim was made after the last raid July 3.) Only eight bombers were lost despite the weight of the assault, the 119th of the war on the third largest city in the Reich. Hardly had the four-engined Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters returned to their bases, than British fighters in strength swept across the channel for a breakfast time actack on northern France, apparently inland from Boulogne. The air ministry gave no details of the attack on Cologne, but its description of the raid as “heavy” indicated that hundreds of tons of bombs, many of them four-ton superblock-busters, were dropped on Cologne's sprawling war factories and network of railways. Cologne is one of the most-bombed cities in Germany and was the target of the R. A. F.’s first 1000-plane raid last year. :
(A German broadcast said British |
planes made “terror raids” on residential quarters in the Rhineland, particularly in Cologne. Bombs were dropped through thick clouds, the broadcast said, adding that “many
planes” were shot down.)
| the R.A. F. bomber command since { the last attack Saturday. i gy 8 8
On the War Fronts
(July 9, 1943)
PACIFIC— Showdown battle for key Japanese base of Munda in cens tral Solomons believed imminent or in progress as Americans close in after routing enemy patrol if skirmish two miles away.
RUSSIA—Soviet and German tanks fighting biggest armored battle in history in Belgorod sector, where Nazis score new advance as Russ army holds firm along rest of 166« mile line and regains some ground in northern area. :
MEDITERRANEAN — Allied planes carry intense assault on Italian outposts through sixth day, pounding five airfields on Sicily ang striking at axis communicas
.
| tions throughout island. ;
EUROPE—Royal air force back in action after four-day layoff ene forced by bad weather,
Sight bombers,
raids Cologne for 119th time, losing =