Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1943 — Page 5

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With each night of the show i ed by a different community 1. Managerial jobs, covering such The kids in the neighborhood couns ’ EE & | ids are putting on their own fot P ht ti 1 t employees as the manager, chefs) ne ells, onigh ie young people o By B. J. McQU AID ! Copyright 1943. by The Indianapolis Times

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i i 2. “Those requiring special train-|ups in town are turning out to see performances under the Big Top OFF RICE ANCHORAGE, New Ruling puts | Employees n PH Eo 3 and take tickets for rides. Georgia, July 5, 1 a. m. (Delayed). —

5 rtp a ropa La | The show skarts at 7 p. m. and Job Stabilization; Aban- show starts at 7 p.m.

circus and proceeds will be used to buy athletia

TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1943

I'M GENERAL ~ EISENHOWER

What Allied Chief Said as He Stepped

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turrets are firing, you can see shells | moving out toward the horizon in the shape of small black dots which grow tinier and tinier and disappear] in a twinkling. But at night they |

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Ashore in Sicily.

BULLETIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 13 (U, P.).— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower refurned today from a front line inspection in Sicily and said that “allied co-ordination could net have been better if all the land, sca and air forces had been from single nation.”

By JOHN G v NTHER

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Lt. J. P. Ragsdale Jr.

Lt. Ragsdale Loses Life as Fortress Blows Up on European Mission.

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pl, in a letter from the her of the Bombardier of the Fyn 8 Fortress Lt. Ragsle he navigator and had heen listed as missing in, the European area since May 21, the date of heavy raids on Emden 1d Wilhelmshaven in Germany. The Snaba dier, Lt. David a prisoner in Germany

three other crew members

slates came headng us with ma- ) cannon ” stayed on till the ight back at them. (the pilot) rang the 1 a hero, as he kept lane in position for the crew to jump. “Black

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(the co-pilot), Ragsdale of the gunners never The tail gunner, engineer and ball turret gunner all landed with me. The ship went into a spin and blew up just sec-

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assistant engineer, Ensigh Bollinger is the hushand of Mis. Anfeta Bollinger, 2433 N Pierson st Seaman Teater is the son of Mrs. Helen M. Teater. 2943 Brookside ave. Mis. Bollinger was informed on June 1 that her husband was missing and presumed lost, and a later letter from the ship company said his ship had been sunk. Ensigh Bollinger was commissioned last September at Ft. Trumbull, New Dondon, Conn. and had been to England and South America on a voyage. He and his wife formerly lived in New York. A brother. Elmet or, lives at 3673 Washington bivd., and his mother, Mrs. E. C. Bollinger, lives at DLouisville, Kx Seaman Teater entered the merchant marine last fall He was 20 Other Hoosiers ing are Winston Pert, Muncie, a Ross, Aurora

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WASHINGTON, July 13 (U. B) — rationing at the consumer! level may Become nation-wide, but it won't be ordered by agency, it was reliably today. The office of price administration! is reported to have made no plans) for stich a program. and the war food administration, the agency

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Back on God's side of the international dateline, this is the glorious Fourth. Under the circumstances, we out here seem to have hit upon a fitting manner in which to cele-| brate. For a solid half hour, the ships of this small but mighty task force have been pouring red hot lead on Jap concentrations at Kolombangara and northern New Georgia. We have] dished it out as only light cruisers can dish it. We have fired oil caches, blown up ammunition dumps, silenced shore patteries and hurled heaven knows how many helpless Nips into the! arms of their waiting ancestors.

Main Show

All this, however, was merely incidental to the main show that is going on here in the shell-blitzed pitch-darkness of this murky mid-

Sees

The main show—and I was fortunate enough to be the only correspondent who witnessed both this and the landing on Rendova island on June 30—is the landing of American army and marine troops at Rice | Anchorage on New Georgia's northern shore The troops of the amphibious) force are here to begin an attack on| Munda airfield. Many hundreds of | these crack assault troops are scrambling ashore, as I write, fromj assault boats, lowered by a great) fleet of fast destroyer transports.

Nose Inte Kula Gulf

The transport fleet, protected tonight by its own screen of covering; destroyers, had nosed around the north shoulder of New Georgia and southeastward into Kula gulf before our supporting cruisers had finished their work of bombardment. Kula gulf is a cramped little duckpond—no more than five or six miles across at its widest and tapering| down at Hawthorne strait between | Arundel and Ambetikopi, to mere creek size. The thought of putting this num-| ber of cruisers plus their destroyer screen, into such a puddle, deep inj an enemy area would have caused | naval tacticians of a couple of] seasons ago to turn handsprings. But we not only ran iin down the Kolombangara side and waled hell out of Vila airfields and environs. we then made a complete turn in vicinity of tiny Sasamboki island and slipped up Slideback gulf past Bairoki harbor, Nogai inlet and Rice anchorage, pounding steadily as we swept the New Georgia shore at almost pointblank range. i

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We did not pull off this one without loss to ourselves. We had expected to meet Jap subs in the gulf. There was one there all right. It torpedoed and sank one of our destroyers, a veteran of many a gal-| lant South Pacific sortie and a killer in her day of more than one of the undersea assailants to which she] finally fell vietim. | Others of our destroyer screen! quickly went alongside and picked up nearly all her complement. Jap planes arrived overhead as the rescue work proceeded and let go with a few wildly aimed bombs which fell harmlessly inte the water. What an outfit! These destroyers consist mostly of ancient converted, four pipers and they always are up to one hazardous job or another. As’ our cruisers withdrew toward Visu Visu point, I took up my station on! the poop gun platform above the navigation bridge and watched the lively duel Between a battery of Jap shore guns and one of those destrovers. It lasted at least eight or fen minutes Japs Cease Firing The Jap had his guns—probably six-inch mortars—set upon the reverse of the slope and it was all but) impossible for the destroyer to tag) him. The long arch of the tracers,| shuttling back and forth between destrover and battery, interlaced in

crimson against the background of the cloudy night. As We rounded the New Georgia, shore, the Jap battery suddenly ceased firing. Our shelling of the Kolombangara Georgia installations was!

see. It was a thing of transcen-| dent but terrible beauty. In day-| time, if you watch closely when the

NINA B, CAMPBELL IS DEAD HERE AT 70

Mrs. Nina Bond Campbell died today at St. Vincent's hospital. | Mis, Campbell was a member of St. Catherine Merrill club, the Monday Conversation club and the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. At Indiana university where she was! graduated she belonged to Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was born Aug. 16, 1872, the daughter of Pleasant and Martha Wilson Bond, For many years she lived at 1662 Park ave. She at-| tended the May Wright Sewell Girls’ Classical school. | Mrs. Campbell was the widow of Judge Charles B. Campbell, Kankakee, Til, and returned here to live in 1914 after his death. Two sons, Charles Bond Campbell, a member, | of the armed forces and stationed | in Texas, and Pleasant Whipple, | Dallas, Tex, and a brother, Walter | Wilsoh Bond, Indianapolis, survive, | het Services will be at the Flanner &

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| the essence of i nautical trimness, but as I saw them |

are flaming ribbons

across the sky. Smoke Fills Air

With our cruisers all firing at] once, there were literally dozens of}

and their tra-| jectories are a brilliant arch of red

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these fiery wings leaping out into effort by Wilfred Bradshaw, direc- | the night and hanging together inter of the war manpower commis-

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targets. Frequently, followed their impact were visible.! Great showers of sparks filled the air all around the ships. smoke choked me and bits of burnt cork stung my eves. Looking aft as we changed our! we could see the other cruisers firing astern. No painter of sea actions ever lived who could do justice to that picture.

Appear to Explode With each salvo, cruisers appeared to explode in blinding electric flashes of white light—great sheets of flame hundreds of feet in breadth

land higher than the ship itself.

I khow these cruisers of old. Al-| ways before they had seemed to me slim and rakish

in their weird new light, they looked squat and low and mighty hike pocket battleships. One of the things for which we! | kept open a watchful eve was a) visitation by a Jap naval task force | such as had sneaked in and ineffec- | tually shelled our troops on Rendova | island several nights before. But except for submarines and shore | batteries, we saw no sign of the! enemy. Nor was there evidence as we withdrew, that our

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However, Mr. Bradshaw empha-| sized, this “locally needed” declara-, tion does not mean that workers in| Hotel service are automatically eligible for consideration for occupa-| tional deferment by the selective service system. In return for this designation, ho-| | tels affected by the order will eur- | other services|

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WIN—=PLACE=SHOW THERE IS NO SUCH FINISH IN A TOTAL WAR...

There can only be one winner and history and posterity will little reckon who finished second and third in this world-wide struggle for the survival of our democratic way of living. But “total war” is dif« ferent—it is not just a soldier against a soldier—a plane against a plane—a ship against a ship. It's a battle for freedom against slavery —a battle of right against evil—a ¢rusade for a better world.

We cannot all fly the planes, sail the ships or fire the guns—yet this war is just as much a part of every one of us as if we did. Everyone here on the home front has a job to do and if we relax our efforts for just an instant some one may pay with their life on the fighting front. Many of us have thought to ourselves and perhaps expressed ourselves to friends—"1 wish I could help in some way.” This person isn’t fighting on our side and until that time when we all shoulder our respon: sibilitv—we are not fighting a total war.

“What can 1 do?” vou ask. Every war plant in the country, and what plant isn’t a war plant today, is asking for workers, unskilled — the Red Cross needs volunteers to make bandages and donors for blood plasma—the Civilian Defense needs more workers— hospitals ave calling for nurses’ aids — farms are calling for crop workers to help with the harvests — canneries are calling for workers to process the crops! kitchen fate—by saving our tires and gasoline . . . eliminating uneces« gary travel . . . taking care of what we have . . . buying just what we need. These and dozens of other things are “musts” to every true

American.

Then and only then are we waging total war and then and only then, will we know who is coming into the winners’ circle,

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