Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1943 — Page 9

SECOND SECTION

AXIS GUNNERS ON SICILY GOT SILENT DEATH

Reports Show Parachutists Carried Out Tasks Efficiently.

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN

United Press Staff Correspondent U. 8S. ADVANCED COMMAND POST, North Africa, July 12.—Allied paratroops ranging the invasions marked coast of Sicily applied their tactics of silent death to axis gun érews and eased the way for the armies even then sailing against the island, Still incomplete but sufficiently indicative reports on the advanced elements of parachutists showed to= day that they carried out their ase signment on enemy soil with ree markable efficiency. Many of the axis coastal batteries which blazed away at the allied barges were silenced by the stalking paratroops trying out the silent death formula they learned in 1eecent training, Other guns were knocked out by the warships offe shore or allied bombers.

MONDAY, JULY 12, 1943

The Indianapolis Times

By Ernie Pyle FULL BLOW AT NAZIS DOUBTED BEFORE FALL

That's the Earliest Allies Can Complete Italian

Campaign. By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, July 12.—The uncondi-| tional surrender of Germany is unlikely before this winter or the spring of 1944 at the earliest, according to the best-informed sources here. This belief is predicated on the following factors: 1. The Sicilian campaign might easilv—thought it still is too soon to predict—require as long as the final, Tunisian drive, which would mean! it wouldn't be finished much before the end of July. 2. It is likely the allies will quire several weeks to rehabilitate Sicilian aidromes and ports before hopping off against Italy, in which case the Italian campaign presumably would not start much before the | end of August.

May Last Six Weeks

| 3. There is ne telling how long the Italian campaign might last, but six weeks might be a good guess for the time it will take to knock! out axis No. 2 partner, which would! carry the time-table well into Oe-|

Hoosier Vagabond

NORTH AFRICA Noth Africa say they Fane the army uses, ; has grown up.

thing soldiers

Paratroopers Pave Way for Invasion

Sergeant Bradley so definitely should be an officer that I asked her boss about it, and the reply was this: “She would be an officer now if she had staved in America, but she passed up that chance in order to get overseas, and we can't promote in the field the way the army does. If I could just put a second lieutenant’s bars on Bradley right now my worries would be over.” The sergeant is so photogenic that she is on some of the WAC recruiting posters. But she has never pretended to be a professional beauty. Actually she is a career woman. She is only 24 yet before enlisting she was personnel director of the Beechnut Packing Co. She runs her half of the company with gav-hearted quips that have a terrible firmness. When she walks s like an animated statue, she's so straight.

A WAC Named ‘Butch’ MARGARET MILLER of Stow, O. is what is known as company artificer. That means carpenter and jack of all trades. Margaret is short, dark and stubby, has a boyish bob, wears overalls, carries a hammer, and goes by the name of Butch. She does all the fixing around the joint, repairs the plumbing. moves furniture, patches holes in the floor, and puts up wooden crosses to hold mosquito nets over beds. Butch savs that for the two years previous to joining the WAC: she was a combination bartender and bouncer in a saloon. She gels her really heavy work done by saving it up till the garbage men come past. She gives them a bottle of wine and some fast talk, and presto! everything is moved. I asked the sergeant if Butch had any boy friends, and she said: “Does she! The first week we were here ohe G. I. wrote several times a day threatening to blow his brains out if she didn't tell him she loved him. And because she didn't.”

(By Wireless)—The WACs in use about the same military No battlefield language of their They grouse mostly about the do—their officers, their work. their food—yet actually they don't find any of these very bad. The WACs have not lived the rough-and-tumble life of army nurses. They don't have to wear G. I underwear nor heavy field shoes. They eat at tables, take regular baths, and alwavs look crisp and neat. The only real danger they have been in was air raids on their city, and now these seem to have stopped Now and then you officer or “Well, I always said blace was in the home, and I still think so.” But the bulk of the army which comes in contact with WACs doesn't feel that way at all. The army knows well the girls can work. and the enlisted men appreciate that it is not easy for a girl to leave d country and come far across the ocean They feel a sort of camaraderie with the

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Here are American paratroopers in their plane en route to Sicily. The men! ‘spent their time quietly sitting, or trying to sleep. Left to right: Pvts, Walter P, Leginski, Chicago, and Tony Ferrari, Somerville, Mass, and Cpl. Bernard A. Driscoll, Gary, Ind.

the WAC: I've seen is iladelphia. Furthermore she is makes you hurt. In addition she lity that breaks you down without re1 to top off the indignity of one small having all these blessings, she's got brains vell, she wouldn't,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

late getting back to school. As a penance, they. tober. each had to march six hours, 120 steps to the minute! 4. The allies may carry out other on their own time—4 to 10 p. m Saturday. That's!'landing operations in the Mediterng can they in olaving com- 43.200 wearisome steps each which the thief caused ranean theater and possibly elseleft it out in the rain one night and them. The car was found abandoned the next day. where. But as far as geography ther hung it up to dry. A ‘ goes, it is unlikely that any drive, dav and a haif later, she discov- 1 7e Gay Deceirvers for instance through the Balkans, CHES Rrehs heh built 3 pest in 1b ONE CF OUR agents phones to report an amus- ie Bh I nan Honhioss nd even laid a oss e of eges. ;,.¢ deception out at Haag's drug store at 38th and he a e winter freeze-up in the « + That | out 20 flinois. We told vou a while back about the side- yr t roads 431 and 31 is back in Work- ak gardens set out by the store emplovees, well, |, oo lk of the allied erack ing order again... . C. E. Shupb¥ gqk¢ passing the gardens the other day stared envi oh Moy ha upp Sor Naan) read about the odd ihguiries T= ously when they saw several large, ripe tomatoes on theater Onurations Cuter alican Be i Thy . the masors office. So the vines. Our agent, being of a curious turn, iN- they would not "be avai he asks us to notify the mayor yecgated and found the tomatoes had been tied spearhead anv rf in Ww that Murphy's five and ten on 4 the vines with string. Tsk, tsk. . . . Ollie Rasico, Soe Bro JEW AnL: in Weste [inois st. has plenty of ean manager of Haag's at Oriental and E. Washington, Even i continued allied sue openers and potato mashers. . , (No were not on Haag's publicity staff) reports a eess in the battle of the antic. Now that wire screening ‘for gonan customer visited the store and asked for the shipping strain of the Mediterporches) is almost impossible to obtain, ginynent, insisting that it smell like ham. “After Fanesn ot n e otad are featuring cloth screen. It quaning several jars” he reports, “we were able to allied ps the utmost. In eli 2 aime ns wel Ag ve Tart Mrs Satisfy her with the proper aroma. Could it be that addition there's the important facn Miner SK mr, i i Se ie ~ \ \ S11 bites \ i been promoted to first lieus prog hig saat some people are willing to settle tor of timing the final blow against “Kentucky

trans- | Germany. : “pt The allied air offensive against y Tax Paid” SOME OF THE home town beer drinkers have its crescendo by autumn,

| western Europe is expected to reach been a bit mystified lately to discover hottled beer

SBAuDs Th 1 Scag: a. 3 B. Tot paid” WAR PLANTS SEEKING e A er tax pai he fact there's no WOMEN INSPECTORS

mention of Indiana beer tax being paid has led many to suspect the beer had been “bootlegged” into Women inspectors in Indianapolis | war plants are urgently needed by |

Indiana from some other state and that the Hoosier state treasury is getting gvpped. Well, we checked the war and navy departments, the | Names of 13 campers u , . | E N civil service commission, 524 Federal woodsmen were announced at the « PJ~—Cieheral. Electric jabhora

into the situation and it seeras evervthing is on the up and up. Harold C. Feightner, executive secre- puilding, announced today. second camping session of Boy tory engineers. announced today tary of the brewers’ association, points out that In- Some of these positions require 10 Scouts at Camp Chank-tun-un-gi. they hig Geveloped § hew mighe qiana requires nc evidence of beer tax being paid— weeks’ training in Milwaukee, others | Campers earning the top rank Speed electronie Light GeVice Caps Hoosier brewers pay on the basis of their own records. require six weeks’ training in Indi- | Friday include: | able of making photographs with Imported beers carry the tax stamp on the barrel or anapolis and still others are for! Charles Erk. Lynne Hull. Gien| MM tXposure of but one-millionth immediate duty in the city. Women Clarkson, Forrest Keller, Roy An-| C. 8 Second—brief enough to

carton—not on the bottle. The “stamp paid” caps showing up here now, he said, ¥ndoubtedly are re- appointed will be paid at a rate of drews, Walter Cameron, Don Mur- | Oo flueless of the ing trial in federal court Oct. 18. $1440 per year, plus overtime, while ster, Jerry ot Sh wi n

claimed caps which cant be used in the state of 1 't , i | Federal Judge Robert ©. Baltzell " mn . : Blair, Neal Portmenter, usual type ordinarily ‘at t their origin, naturally, but can be used in Indiana in training. |Walter Blank, Andy Smith, Paul yp ihallly operate at ordered the trial held on that date

to help relieve the bottle cap shortage. Preference will be given to women | Chapman and Robert Mucho. | a minimum of 1300 of a second. [a4 New Albany after the men BY GROTTO P S 6 | Recent photographs of athletes BEd d B. Ti been between the ages of 18 and 45.| Those who attained the rank of = =“ 0o 8E0 0 AS ve |Plestied guilty hefe Saturday, oar : Son Other requirements are high school woodsmen are: n p pnowever, have | The accused are Lt. Col. Wayne elecied commander Sahara

By Raymond Clapper graduation with an aptitude for| Mark Ranson, Millard Morrison, | been made With 5 lamp giving 0. Hauck; Charles H. (Sam) Hicks, Grotto post 264.

mathematics or some inspectional Bob Stephens, Fred Hoerger, Dick | Sus of 1/3M0\% of § Secs Pies Clog, vii "ny ne Other officers are Loney Archey, (Rosner, Charles Love, Harmon “g';..rence Bellinger of Glens Roy L. Gorrell, Russellville, Ky. first vice commander; Robert Mane a or oes, hi Falls, N. Y. former war dspart- a ce ker, second vice commander; Lester ce? . : i oh ment photographer in the Canal | Holler, third vice commander; SE BL cite By Oh zone, who helped develop the new CAR USED BY PURSE | {Ralph Johns, adjutant; Edward . unit, said the small mercury lamp | Griebelbauer, finance officer; Are Diefenderfer and Bill Nay. used has a lifetime of only priv SNATCHERS SOUGH 'thur ©. Patrick, service officer; SEL second. But despite this, he ex- v are searchi Theodore Buehler, chaplain; the ganiaztions has begun a political OIL PROBERS TO MEET plained, it will last the ordinary siee loduy ire Searching Tors | Rev. R. M. Dodrill, chaplain emerie campaign to win congressmen to| WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P.).—| newspaper photographer 500 years ‘transporting young boys around the | tus; George Fuller, historian; Hare President Roosevelt's anti-inflation Rep. Fred A. Hartley (R. N. J.) an-| because it is good for one million lcity to snatch purses. old Spangler, sergeant-at-arms; program and to seek the election nounced today that his committee exposures, Jumping from a car parked on | Dr. V. F. Treamer, athletic officer, of a “more progressive” congress in investigating the east coast oil EE SS, ‘St. Clair st. last night, a boy about ‘and L. H. Faulconer, publicity 1944, shortage will hold a meeting soon APPROVE PETERS MARRIAGE 10 years old took the purse of Norma | officer. C. I. O. President Philip Murray, with President Roosevelt, Petroleum! LONDON, July 12 (U. P.).—The Souders. 831 Broadway, at St. Clair | The executive committee consists speaking on NBC's “labor for vic- Administrator Harold L. Ickes, Pro- | Jugoslay government-in-exile has and Broadway. The purse con- | of Roy Degischer, Verle G. Holland tory” program yesterday, said the duction Chairman Donald M. Nel- decided to give its official blessing tained $3 in money and identifica- | {and Clarence Scott, Delegates to C. I. O. has decided to call on the son, Price Administrator Prentiss to the marriage of 19-year-old King tion papers. | convention are Mr, Tillson, Mr, American Federation of Labor and|Brown, Mobilization Director James Peter and his 23-vear-old fiancee. | Clayton Graham. 2038 Langley | Johns and Mr. Archey with Dr, the railroad brotherhoods to join|F. Byrnes and Transportation Di-| Princess Alexandria of Greece, it ave. followed the automobile after Fred L. Hosman, Mr. Griebelbauer Sith | it in a program o joint action. | Bttion. | feclor Joseph B. Eastman. lit had picked up the boy. land Mr. Buehler, Alternates.

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Many Ports Battered

As the gun crews were destroyed or made prisoner, the initially heavy curtain of fire from the land became more and more feeble until finally axis air forces were called on to harass the landings. Reports coming in to this come mand post indicated that many parts of Sicily were being turned [inte crumbling, smoking ruins, Many ports appeared to have been blasted to shells, while almost all of the enemy air fields were hombh= ridcled and becoming progressively useless. Such was the picture of the Sicie lian battle ground as drawn by ale lied air spotters. They said the damage to such ports as Messina is “terrific” and it appeared that the enemy would not be able to use the Messina gateway (o Sicily except ab night and then only for the opera« tion of small boats.

Navy's Job Eased

As the battle line swayed inland,

paratroopers step from their planes into the darkness over Sicily, where |{De navy's part in convoying the ships to Sicily became easier and

paved the way for water-borne invasion 4 easier, The: farther away (he

Rouns is shown leading his men in the leap. | —. | enemy artillery was pushed, the

less damage it could do to the allied fleets, Air spotters reported that fires were to be seen some distance from

TRIAL SET FOR SIX AGGUSED OF FRAUD pre sores ve tne eroune sore

and five enemy lines. civilians accused of conspiring tol Although the fighting already was severe. the crucial stage was bedefraud the government of more | lieved still to come if and when axis ‘than $109,000 in construction of the storm troops tried to brace theme Charlestown ordnance plant, re-!gelves and block the allied progress mained at liberty today under bonds to higher ground inland, ‘ranging from $2000 to $10,000 pend- |

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In Africa

DVANCER BASE IN NORTH AFRICA, July 12 Bv Wir A new record in this theate: was set a few davs ago when one flying fortress brought down 13 Nazi planes. One gunner alone shot down seven. Such feats continued to increase the prestige of the fortress and cause its early champions to feel vindicated against the criticisms which were heard earlier in the war. On a recent raid a fortress which fell behind because of damage to one of its engines was pounced on by 15 German fighters. The fortress fought off the whole 15, knocked down five and escaped. The steady advance in air superiority by the allies probably is the result not only of the larger allied production but also of a damental mistake in the German conception of air war. While the Americans concentrated on the

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consider the German bombing of London was stupid. The target was too large and in spite of severe damage in spots there just was too much of London to destroy it from the air, The net effect of the destruction was minor and London was in no sense made uninhabitable. Neither did the Germans induce terror and panic but rather the reverse for the population of London steadily improved its methods of fire fighting and otherwise protecting the city. American airmen who are the developers of precision bombing believe that the Germans might have come close to knocking out England if they ignored London and concentrated on the aircraft factories making spitfires. As it was. the British were able to build up fighter forces that made it too costly for the Germans to persist in mass bombing. |

Must Destroy German Airforce

ALL OF THIS is considered bv airmen whom I talked with in England and here to carry a lesson for our side, namely, that we must destrov the Ger-|

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thoroughly armed fortress which has telling offensive power the Germans were putting their best efforts into fighters instead of bombers. The fighter is a hensive weapon. The bomber is what carries the war to the enemy. It can also become a powerful means of destroying an enemy fighter force, Evidently the Germans considered bombing more its effect on the morale of the enemy than as a military weapon. To the Germans the bomber was an instrument for terrorizing civilian populations vathar than, as the Americans conceive it, an instru-

ment for hitting a military target.

ILondon Bombing Stupid AGAINST HELPLESS people and helpless communities such as Warsaw and Rotterdam the GerA. were able to bomb the cities into a shambles and drive the people out in panic, But allied airmen

for

Axis Earthquake By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, July 12. ~The next 120 days are

expected to shake the axis powers to their very foun<

dations—perhaps even remove one or more of them

from the Hitlerian line-up. Since the landings in Siciliv I have talked with ’ some of the shrewdest diplomats here and the consensus was that if the island operations now in full swing are successful, an invasion of the Italian mainland will follow. And once southern Italy is occupied, these observers believe, contact will be made with the forces of Gen. Draja Mihailovich across the Adriatic in Yugoslavia. But much, it is admitted, depends upon what happens soon on the Russian front. News from that tsector is contradictory. For {1% moment the Nazi drive against the Reds looks Nevertheless, few believe the Germans will be able to break through. Should they do so, however, allied strategy probably would be changed. Invesion of Europe might be tried from a different direction

President Roosevelt's message to , Pope Pius XII

gerious,

man fighter force because it constitutes the first fea) hurdle to victory. Tunisia went fast when the Ger-| mans lost control of the air, The daily losses of | German fighters now probably will have the greatest bearing on the future course of the war. In raids over France and Germany the fortress is | becoming as important as a destroyer of German | fighters as for bombing and this use of fortresses may | well be exploited to hasten the end of the German air force. | Germany placed great faith in air warfare and the fact that she is losing is not because the air does not have value but because the Germans, in spite of pioneering, did not understand the use of it in the sense that the Americans and British do. Our use of bombers plus the overwhelming advantage in production on our side means most certainly that the day is to come when Germany is out of the air.

1 made a profound impression here—especially among! envoys representing the more Catholic countries, It) was interpreted as a friendly and respectful warning | that allied military operation may be expected soon in the vicinity of Rome and the Vatican City. The invasion of the Italian mainland would resolve a lively dispute among united nations leaders. Some of these contend that Italy is a liability to Hitler and) that we would be foolish to take it off his hare They say he is now obliged to supply Italy with food, coal, iron, oil and other things and help defend her | as well. Others argue that Hitler would do none of these things were it not greatly to his advantage to do so.| Were Italy to collapse it would deal a staggering blow | to the whole axis structure. Hungary, Rumania and Finland and Bulgaria would almost certainly follow suit. If psychologically the elimination of Italy from the axis line-up would be a serious blow to Hitler, | militarily it would be equally severe. Few competent, observers regard Italy as a good base from which to undertake a march on Berlin, but with Italy out, the Balkans would be \pen to easy allied invasion. And then Turkey might come in. That, quite literally, would mean the beginning of the end.

Mrs. Roosevelt did not write & ealumn today.

(Sixth of a Series)

By NAT A. BARROWS

1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News,

Ine.

LONDON, July 12.—If any one person besides Queen Wilhelmina symbolizes for the Dutch, the resolute courage and determination to carry on the fight for freedom, that person is Frans Tromp of the

Netherlands underground.

For six months, the German invaders of Holland tried to make Frans Tromp divulge his secrets about the Dutch underground. _They

tortured him quickly with beatings and slowly with methods better left to the imagination. Again and again they dragged him out of his dank, foul cell for another gestapo inquisition. Finally, they shot him. Never once did ‘this crippled schoolteacher reveal one word implicating his associates in the resistance movement—never one word about the clandestine paper in which he had so fearlessly attacked the Merrenvolk never one word about who had helped him liquidate the Germans or joined him in fostering industrial slowdowns and efficiently organized inefficiency. Today, the name of Frans Tromp, the crippled schoolmaster, gives new faith and strength to all Netherlanders who wait and scheme for deliverance from their Nazi bondage. Frans Tromp will live in Dutch hisiory as long as the men and women of Holland remember what the Germans have done to their country—which will be as long as a single Dutchman cherishes his liberty, ‘

Mr. Barrows

Never a nation of plotters, Dutch patriots had no background of intrigue on which to fortify their organized resistance after Holland was forced to capitulate in May, 1940. It cost lives for the Dutch to learn that organizing and running an underground movement without previous historical experience must be on lines even more shrewd, brutal and deadly than counter-resistance, Underground operatives quickly abandoned their use of identity cards. They learn the hard way. More than that of any other Nagzi-occupied country of Europe, the Dutch resistance movement was hampered always by the geographical limitations of Holland. Its lowlands make difficult the task of hiding, but even so, many thousands of Dutchmen today are finding secret refuge somehow in Holland as fugitives from enforced labor in Germany or the slave battalions of the organization Todt and are building fortifications in Holland. The Dutch realistically appreciate the disadvantages of trying to carry on over-zealous resistance without adequate strength behind them, and part of the underground energy as a conse quence is devoted to sometk

utterly foreign to Dutch mentality before the Herrenvolk arrived like a plague of mankilling locusts. That is the system of deliberate inefficiency cleverly managed and skillfully carried out. In fact, Dutch workers forced into German factories have caused so much disorder by their deliberate stupidity that the Germans have sent many home in disgust, In Amsterdam and elsewhere, mail directed to Germans gets mishandled; automobiles break down after repairs; public utili= ties fail—and always these things are done in such a way that they cannot be traced directly,

The Dutch underground program of sabotage must operate with greater restraint than in a less open country but it operates nonetheless. The brief revolt following orders from the Nazi

commander of occupaion forces,.

Maj. Gen. Friedrich Christiansen, that all 400,000 members of the Dutch armed forces must be returned to internment revealed what the Dutch population is capable of achieving and it also taught the underground leaders that passive resistance must remain foremost.

German control was so brutal as a result of the May revolt that the resistance leaders now appreciate the dangers of impa= tience and are cautioning their countrymen not to act foolishly or prematurely. Actua) sabotage is not as well organized as the paper chaos which was cleverly planned to up set the German organization within Holland. German soldiers are pushed into canals and sluices “al

are broken but these isolated acts have heen overemphasiz 4, As in Norway, the Dutch . 1derground confines its big jobs to experts and warns sympathizers against the open violence which can—and does--get them shot. Typical of this clear-headed and patient approach to temporary slavery is the presence of a special unit within the underground to preserve order among the members and sympathizers whose fury and hatred might bring down unnecessary reprisals. “It is no use playing soldiers without guns,” resistance leaders warn their people. Underground experts handled the job when Dr. Anton Mussert, leader of Dutch Nazi party appointed a “shadow cabinet” of Dutch Nazis wast February, Dr, H. Reydon was named puppet minister of information and Lt. Gen. Hendrik A. Seyffardt, repre« senting the Dutch Legion against Bolshevism, who was the only high Dutch military official to join the Nazis, both were killed by patriots soon after their selec tion. Dr. Folkert E. Posthuma, in the Nazi puppet cabinet as minister of agriculture, was shot and killed June 4.

The five remaining members constantly receive messages that they are marked for death, and the strain has so preyed upon one, Dr. R. Van Genechten, rep resentative for justice, that he has tried to commit suicide. The Dutch thus are slowly paying off their debt to the more than 200 patriots who had been executed up to the beginning of this year and ihe LL] gers killed by Naa

Men Without Names: Torture Fails fo Break Hollander’s Silence

May revolt and strike. The Ger mans broke that premature upe rising with machine guns and executions. The Dutch looked at the bodies of their friends dis played publicly and learned ane other lesson in how to bore from within and bide their time. Since May 3, an estimated 100,000 men have gone into hide ing. It is excellent proof of how patient, organized, inefficiency is working when they: say that the Germans have not yet been able to discover more than a small percentage of the identities of these fugitives. Paper chaos is paying its dividends for the Dutch,

HOLD EVERYTHING

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“Go to bed, Basil—your poste war plans can wait one more