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IE 54—NUMBER 105

MONDAY, JULY 12, 1943

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MAYOR TO SKIP MEET ON LAW

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ENFORCEMENT

Declines Blue's Invitation; Miller to Represent City at Parley.

(Editorial, Page Ten)

Mayor Tyndall today declined an | fnvitation by Prosecutor Sherwood | Blue to attend a law enforcement | conference in Criminal court to- | hight. He said the citv would be repreSidney Miller and added | fhat neither Safety Board President Will H. Remy nor Chief Beeker would attend “this to

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be entirely a matter of legal technicalities.” Mr. said he “didn’t know’ | when asked if he would be there. | Chief Beeker sald he had a pre-viously-arranged meeting with | auxiliary police tonight, but “might| get there for a while.”

Remy

‘No Compromise’

As the time for the meeting neared the prosecutor insisted that | there will be no compromise in this gtand against what he terined illegal arrests by police. Mr. Remy said he had not vet received a formal invitation to the meeting Formal invitation was received at Mr. Remyv's office by mail last Friday morning and besides. he has beet informed of the invitation,” Mr. Biue Insi Youths Released

The G. O. P. factional dispute between Prosecutor Blue and Mayor Tyndall's city hall forces reached climax early last week. when charges were made that a 17 and 15-year-old boy were beaten when nine officers arrested them. The boys,,Robert Huddleston, 17, and his brother, Willis, 15. 631 S. Alissouri st, arrested for questionwere held in city jail two days, then reicased in juvenile court pending a ninvestigation. Mr. Biue called the conference fast Thursday after issuing a blistering attack against police meth- | ccs in making wholesale raids with- | out legal warrants.

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Insists on Warrants

at The a bee ash en has made eral. a brown leather jacket, a pair vessel with as gallant a crew and! least: 100 illegal arrests since oo dinary general issue pants and as proud a record as any ship in

an. 1, and this must be stopped because you can't expect any re. spect for law enforcement when | law enforcement officials themselves violate the law,” the prosecutor said. I will not accept any compromise on these illegal arrest methods and will insist at the conference tonight that legal warrants be used by po-

lice in making raids and arrests.” |

Lt. Gen. George S. Patton | : | textbooks as a classic.

| swinging [peared from the fighting command

PATTON LEADS YANKS IN SICILY

‘Old Blood and Guts’ of Six-Shooter Fame Is Back in Action. |

By UNITED PRESS A brief dispatch from allied headquarters in North Africa solved the mystery today of what happened to “Old Blood and Guts'—Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. He is in command of American forces invading | Sicily. The rip-roaring general, who often goes into battle with a pair of pearl-handled six shooters from his hips, disap-

in Tunisia on April 18 when Ma}. | Gen. Omar Bradley took command of American forces. It is clear now: that Patton was withdrawn (o start {raining troops for the assault on Sicily. Military men regard Patton 8s among the most aggressive «f allied commanders. He is an expert in armored warfare, and his general instructions to subordinates are: “Go forward! Alwavs go forward. Go forward until the last shot is firéd and the last drop of gasoline is gone and then go forward on

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Private Is Favorite His customary battle costume Is a steel helmet bearing on the front | the three stars of a lieutenant gen-

tank boots. The buck private .is his favorite soldier. “The private out there getting! shot at does the most work in this war.” he says, “and gets damned little credit for it. A man can be| ferocious as hell back home on three hot meals a day, but takes guts to live in a fox hole in the; rain eating cold canned rations.” Patton commanded the western |

Last Friday Mr. Blue made good|tank force in the landing in French |

his threat to refuse approval of any affidavit based on illegal arrests and as a result six men were released without trial after a raid

Advise By-Pass

Countering this, the city department to by-pass and obtain from municipal court judges. Saturday police obtained an affidavit from Ira Holmes, of the Beech Grove magistrate’s court. apainst one of the six men in the lottery case, charging him with operating the Printcraft pool which was raided by police last week, Prosecutor Blue said that the prosecutor's office is the only proper

the prosecutor's office approval of affidavits

! ganized. legal! advised Chief Beeker'

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‘Morocco last November. He was wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in world war I and re-| ceived the distinguished service

which had become badly

IS EXPECTED DAILY

Tons of Explosives Poured

On Jungle Base.

| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. July 12 (U. P.)—Thousands of

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'dving hulks all over Kolombangara

MUNDA SURRENDER |:

| Eyewitness—

SOUL SHAKING! THAT'S STORY OF KULA GULF

Our Victory Over Bigger Jap Fleet Was ‘Slaughter Perfection Itself.

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RACUSE, NINE OTHER TOWNS,

CAPTURED BY ALLIED TROOPS

By B. J. McQUAID

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. | |

ABOARD A LIGHT CRUISER, in New Georgia Waters, (Delayed) —It will go down in naval | It was the | most devastating, the most one-| sidedly murderous night sea battle of the Pacific war. It was a thing of utter and incredible perfection. It was a slaughter. It was an execution.

July 6—!:

American naval gunnery, long the : envy of all of the world's fleets, |:

proved itself again. | It proved beyond question that it] has solved difficult and uncertain | problems in these toe-to-toe slug-|

(fests in the darkness and has be- | {come as effective by night as ever

it was bv dav, if not a bit more so. Through all those tense 55 minutes. of the battle of Kula gulf, I stood on the bridge of the flagship, and I could not trust my own eyes, | nor the reports coming in over the! TBS (talk between ships) shortwave speaker. It seemed unbelievable that, outwe were, we could wipe this hig Japanese flotilla from the face of the sea without any of our own ships sustaining so much as a single shell hit Blew Them to Bits In the five-minute opening phase of the battle, we silenced. or sank, or blew to bits, three of the Japs’ destrovers and two of their light cruisers. In less than 10 minutes, in the second phase, we had crippled one of their two heavy cruisers and set the other afire. And for the rest of the hour-! long interlude in the hell of that shell-shattered midnight, we sat!

‘there coldly, calmly and almost]

leisurely and pasted away at their cripples and their wrecks, exploding them, pumping up their reging fires, and blowing fragments of their

island. We sustained a tragic loss—the sinking of the U. S. S, Helena, a

our history. Japs Face Hard Decision But by the cold mathematics of naval warfare, we paid a cheap, al-| most negligible price for the complete destruction of all those Jap-' anese men of war and the collapse of Japan's first desperate major effort to retain its faltering clutch on. the northern Solomons. At the moment, all of us are still elated and inspired, with the fever of battle raging in our veins, but it is possible aiready to reflect that this may well have been the turn- | ing point of this new war in the

on an alleged lottery headquarters. cross for rallving an infantry force | South Seas.

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At any rate, Japan is now confronted with a hard decision. We have shown it, as we showed it at Guadalcanal, that it cannot bring {down units of its fleet—not even heavy units—into the New Georgia, |

| area. | We demonstrated today that the {price of such an attempt is more It is 100

{than merely prohibitive, | per cent. We Pray for a Showdown | Japan's dilemma is simply this? We shall surely take New Georgia and Kolombangara, and after that ‘Bougainville (to the northwest) if |Japan does not support its troops land its faltering air power with

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WRIGHT STAFF

Secretary of War Confirms Some Charges Made by Truman Group.

WASHINGTON. July 12 (U. P). —Acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced today that the army's resident representative at the Wright Aeronautical Corpor ation's Lockland, O., plant has been removed because of the Truman committee's disclosures of the alleged sale of defective equipment to the government. Patterson said the officer in charge of the inspection section at the Wright Field, O., headquarters for air forces procurement, also was removed, and that army inspection personnel was substantially increased. The time for engine test runs at Lockland was lengthened. Patterson said that army investigation confirmed a greater part of the information furnished by the Truman committee, However, he said no instance had been found where any defective engines were

placed in service. Meanwhile the justice department

‘said officially that a federal grand

jury inquiry will be undertaken if its preliminary investigation of the Curtiss-Wright Corp. develops information warranting prosecution

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Syracuse, a key port of Sicily, was captured by allies today,

It Took Romans 3 Years to Capture Ancient Syracuse

By EARL RICHERT

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PLUNGE INLAND

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Rounded Up; Four Axis Attacks

Are Smashed.

BULLETIN MADRID, July 12 (U. P.).— German Marshal Erwin Rommel, commanding anti-invasion defenses in southern France, has ordered his forces to “stand to” on the alert against allied landings, reports reaching here from Vichy said today. Rommel also was said to have informed the Italian high command that he has sufficient troops to take over the protection of the Italian zone of the French Riviera and Corsica, but Rome failed to accept the offer.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY

United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 12. — Allied tank columns

‘plunged some 15 miles inland

against stiff axis opposition in Sicily today after capturing 10 major towns, including an-

cient Syracuse, along their 100-mile invasion front, smashing seven armored counter-attacks and seizing more than 4000 prisoners. Aided by [riendly Sicilians and supported by powerful air and naval bombardments, the American inva« sion forces repulsed counter-blows by the Italian 4th Livorno (Leghorn) division known as “Musso=

lini's finest,” while Canadians and British 8th army units fiercely engaged German shock troops rushed to the invasion front about eight miles inland from captured Syra« cuse.

Invasion pictures and other war news, Page One, Second Section,

(The German n:=ws agency D. N, B. claimed the Canadians advanced in the mountains northwest of their bridgehead at Syracuse and took two villages in a “temporary” gain while the Americans landed “fresh forces to replace those we had driven into the sea.”

Gains Are Steady

The sharpest fighting appeared to be near the town of Florida, west of Syracuse, where dispatches from Sicily said the Germans had been rushed in to oppose British and

: Canadian forces, but the advance in

that area was greater than the American advance from Gela and Licata on the south coast because it was easier for the enemy to move troops against the United States forces. Gains were steady on most sectors, and returning pilots reported huge forces concentrated on the beaches and moving inland behind tank spearheads that jammed the roads. Dispatches also told of friendly aid

Syracuse, Sicily, a city whose name is emblazoned across the pages of ancient history along with those of Athens, Rome and Carthage, has! fallen within three days to an invading army directed by a former Kansas farm boy, “Ike” Eisenhower, That fact, if it is possible for them to know about .%,

Fonte and amdavite He sid hi HE gina given by Sicilians including an instance in which the mayor of one town persuaded another town where there was stiff resistance to

surrender,

n : | American soldiers and marines; | h that the fi 1d defecr 1d affidavits. He s S| ; .{on charges that the firm so fat will hr cating to Ho. with | closed ih on Munda Joay and thet I a Japan ine the tive aerial equnipment to the govthe prosecution of cases in which | Japanese airbase, cut off from sup-| default. | ernment.

‘ ‘ Solomons go almost by . arrests were illegal. {plies and subjected to an 11-day | ry otis to bring down the main Jap] The Truman senate committee

Two Damaged Is Toll. |

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P.) —!

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CUT SEEN IN CIVILIAN DAIRY FOODS SUPPLY

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P). —The war food administration today announced a program for allocation of manufactured dairy products under which civilians will receive ccnsiderably smaller than normal supplies of butter, cheese and condensed and evaporated milk. LOCAL TEMPERATURES “wa V0 ou 1 veer 79 . 81

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| within the week. | The final battle may start at any moment. Ground troops waited in the jungles just outside the Munda | defense perimeter while allied airplanes dropped ton after ton of explosives on the major Japanese New Georgia island stronghold. | Dauntless dive - bombers and | Avenger torpedo planes, continuing the South Pacific's biggest con- | tinuous aerial assault on a single | objective, tore up the edge of the defenses Sunday when 52 tons of bombs were dropped on Bibelo hill. 360 yards north of the eastern end | of Munda airstrip. Some 378,000 pounds of explosives have hit the enemy base since { Friday.

2-POUND, 2-OUNCE

. GIRL’S CHANCE GOOD

| SEATTLE, July 12 (U. P.).—One of the tiniest babies ever born, a two-pound, two-ounce girl, has a | “good chance” to live, attending | physicians said today. | Dr. James H. Berge, who delivered (the child, said she was born only one month prematurely and had fingernails. Most babies so small, are born after six months and do not have fingernails, he said. The baby was born 15 days ago, ‘but the mother, who did not want ‘her name known, refused to per‘mit publication of the premature |birth. Oxygen now is being administered to the child in an incubator, Gerge sald.

fleet and force a showdown to de-|

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investigating the war effort charged |

tiss-Wright subsidiary, produced

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will not take any “forcing” so far|defective engines at its Lockland, gjtion, and damaged the other two,

as we are concerned. Our entire

navy is praying for it and all I| Civil suits already have been filed | ask, personally, is to be in on the in New Jersey and Ohio against) which presumably were attempting | Wright Aeronautical executives, but!

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INVASION

ALGIERS, July 12 (U. P.).—The French newspaper Depeche Algerienne reported today that French forces were not being used in the Sicilian campaign but were “being reserved for future engagements.”

OTTAWA, July 12 (U. P)— Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King told the house of commons today that “the first phase of the operations in Sicily have proceeded according to plan and the allies are now striking into the interior of the island.” “The first critical period is passed, but the period of heavy fighting lies ahead,” he said.

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull today described the invasion of Sicily as the second great historic step preliminary to invasion and occupation of continental

Enrol. Mie Til 4p MVISE Deen of the axis from Al

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BULLETINS

that success of the Scicilian operation thus far is a matter of the greatest gratification.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, July 12 (U. P.).—American forces repulsed a heavy counter-attack by Italians, who used 45 tanks, north of Gela and later held off the Italians’ 4th Liverne division during the heaviest of seven counter-attacks on Sicily.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 12 (U. P.).— Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. former commander of the 2d United States army corps in Tunisia, is commanding American forces in Sicily. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Ayrica, July 12 (U. P.).— Axis forces sank a fully loaded alNed hospital ship Saturday night during the Sicilian operations, it was disclosed today. Four hundred wounded were trans-

| the navy announced today. The attack on the enemy vessels,

to run the American blockade around the beleaguered Japanese base at Kiska, brought the number of enemy ships sunk or damaged in Aleutian waters to 58. Of these, 17 were sunk, seven probably sunk, and 34 damaged. The day after this aerial action, an American light surface unit—a destroyer and a cruiser—steamed close to Kiska and poured shells into enemy positions at Gertrude cove on Kiska and at Little Kiska. Japanese shore guns did not reply. It was the third bombardment of Kiska positions by U. S. sea forces in five days.

On the War Fronts

July 12, 1943

RUSSIA: Red army turns on Germans, recapturing two towns in fierce counter-attacks along OrelBelgorod front and showing signs of full-fledged counter-offensive.

EUROPE: Light allied air forces smash at German war plants and communications in occupied territory after powerful week-end attacks by American and British bombers,

PACIFIC: Americans close in on

nk one of four Japanese | CaUSing scores of Athenian,

Carthagian, Roman and Saracen generals

Hoosier Heroes

Lt. Plummer Lost During Patrol Duty

Killed

ARMY AUTHORITIES are conducting the search to recover the body of Lt. Hal Godfrey Plummer, Shortridge high school graduate and Butler student who was lost when his plane crashed July 6 while on patrol duty in San Francisco Bay. Lt. Plummer is the son of Lt. Col. and Mrs, Thomas H. Plummer, formerly of Indianapolis.

Missing THREE INDIANA men are ine

cluded in the list of casualties released for the European war theater Saturday. The men are: S. Sgt. Edward J. Kelso, St. Paul; T. Sgt. Robert P. Little, Vincennes, and 2d Lt. Sidney J. Loveless, Petelsburg. Howard F. Kirby, machinist mate 2-c¢, son of Mr, and Mrs. Omer Kirby of Orleans, is reported to be missing in action according to word received by his on Page Three)

The American forces in Sicily

to turn over in their graves.

The Athenians in 415 B. C. sent| two of the greatest invasion armadas | of ancient history against Syracuse. But the Athenians never achieved their goal and after years of fighting and one of the most spectacular naval battles in history, their forces were completely routed and their generals butchered by the Syra-| cusans, It took the Romans three years, with a well-equipped army under! one of their top generals, Marcellus, | to conquer the Sicilian city.

Easy for Normans

And it took the Saracens 47 years after capturing Palermo to take Syracuse, By the time the Normans came along about 1000 A. D., Sicily and its chief city of those ancient days, Syracuse, had degenerated and it was a simple matter for the Norman princes to extend their sway over the entire island with but a minimum of fighting. Some military experts believe that the allied invasion of Sicily may only be the first part of a pincer movement aimed at the Balkans and Greece with the other arm coming from Syria. If that should turn 10 be the scheme, it would be nothing new for Sicily. When the great Persian emperor, Xerxes, was planning his move against Greece around 500 B, C., he persuaded his friends, the Carthagians, to move against Sicily to keep (Continued on Page 3

centered at Licata under command of Lt. Gen, George S. Patton Jr, while Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery directed the British, who seized Syracuse.

Pattons Stands Pat

(A German news agency report said that the American troops par=ticipating in the invasion were the 1st, 3d and 45th American infantry divisions, parts of the 2d tank division, parts of the 82d air-borne division. It said the invasion forces included the 5th and 51st British infantry divisions, the 1st Canadian division, the 22d British tank brigade, parts of the 6th British tank division and several British para= troop battalions.) Patton's tough American units broke up a heavy Italian counter attack headed by 45 Fascist tanks just north of Gela and then repulsed the heaviest of seven enemy counter-attacks by turning back the Italian 4th Livorno division im hard fighting. “The advance continues,” today’s (Continued on Page Three)

AUTHORITY FOR WAR MEAT BOARD URGED

CHICAGO, July 12 (U, P.).~The livestock and meat council today urged President Roosevelt to give the war meat board the authority “to carry out the purposes for which it was created.”

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