Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1943 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Cooler tonight and tomorrow morning with thundershowers late this afternoon and evening.
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 107
Not Fair, but Cooler
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“How to escape the heat,” a sidewalk drama, was presented today |
by 35-year-old Rieva Lee Wires and
her dog Whitey. Rieva, who acci-
dentally had to share the ice cream cone with Whitey, is the daugh-
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CAPEHART HAT | IN SENATE RING
7th District GOP Chaitin s Statement Cheered by 150 at Fish Fry.
EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer BEDFORD, Ind, July 14.—Homer E. Capehart, Indianapolis manufac- | turer and seventh district G. O. P.} chairman, virtually announced hisj| candidacy for the Republican U. S.| senatorial nomination here last] night. “If I decide I want to be a candidate, which I am quite certain I} will, I will appreciat all the assistance you give me, sold 150 G. ©. P. leaders from nine southern Indiana counties who gathered here, upon invitation, to attend a fish fry in honor of Mr. Capehart. | His statement greeted by | eheers. | The fish fry was given by a group | of Bedford businessmen, headed by | Frank Sanders, president of the city} council and chamber of commerce.
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Come on Rationed Gas
“All these delegations coming over here on rationed gasoline shows how they think about you,” Mr.| Sanders told Mr. Capehart in closing the meeting. The appearance of 150 party leaders at the fish fry was entirely un-| expected by those planning the af-| fair. They had expected only be-! tween 75 and 90 and consequently there was scarcely enough fish or] beer to go around. Earl Wilson, ninth district con(ContnwE] on Pate Ten)
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FDR Thanked For Arab Gift
WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt has received a letter of gratitude from “an unlettered Arab who lives on a mountainside in Algeria.” The Arab, Zoucedraia Raha, didn't know much about the war aims of the conquering Yankees from agross the sea. But he understood the meaning of a package of clothing for his four children, delivered to his mountain home as a gift from the American people. Unable to write English, the Arab father sought the aid of a British sergeant, and in the dim light of his cabin dictated the following letter to the president: “I wish to thank you for the gifts which have been so kindly distributed to myself and family, It is good for our people to be so friendly and we all hope that when the war is over we shall know one another better.”
PROFESSOR QUITS OPA TEXTILE POST
‘Haley 1st Victim of Rule on
‘Business Experience.’
WASHINGTON, July 14 (U.P). — Reports that the long-pending is-| sue of appointment of a ‘general i manager” for the OPA may be settled quickly coincided today with resignation of Bernard F. Haley as of the agency's textile,
{ leather and apparel price division. Haley, a professor of economics at Stanford university before he joined!
TESTIFYING MINERS OPA last September, was the first
victim of the “no professors” clause y. 18 (U0, PP.) gh Og ve to guard! in the OPA section of the recently-
i : {enacted war ne D against possible reprisals, the gov- ar agencies aj propriation
ernment announced that the names) jell h DroY ided Jat the Bfenoy's of coal miners testifying before a! policy m rs must have had exfederal grand jury which today pe- | Perience in industry or commerce. gins an inquiry into current wild- Haley said he had had “no busicat coal strikes will be kept secret. (ness experience” and that he felt “We do not want the names of! he must resign under the appropriathese miners to appear in the news- tion rider. Leander B. Lovell, price papers,’ said U. S. Attorney Charles; ‘executive of the manufactured ar- ¥. Uhl, who is heading the investi- ticles branch of gation, which may lead to indict- ‘nated to assume Haley's duties unments under the new federal anti- til a successor is named. strike law. Belief that a settlement of the The names of any coal operators “general manager” question is imA and United Mine Workers officials minent was based largely on revelawho testify will be made public, Uhl tion that Lou Maxon, deputy OPA d {administrator in charge of informa- . tion who has openly sought the proposed post, plans to issue a state‘ment soon.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1943
TAXPAYERS IN FOR SHOCK ON COUNTY RATE
‘Property Levy May Be Highest on Record in "44,
Due to War.
By NOBLE REED Marion county taxpayers. who this {year enjoyed the lowest property tax rates in six years, are in for a shock when the local government {budgets and levies for 1944 are | made public next month. Preliminary studies of next year’s | financial picture indicate that prop{erty taxation may be the highest | rate in history. | | A series of financial complications, | | some caused by wartime conditions |and others resulting from buy-now- | and-pay-later spending policies of | the past, are putting a tight squeeze {on the public treasuries,
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Big Increases Probable
Although big increases are in-. levitable for both county and mu- { nicipal governments, the county’ ap- | pears in worse shape. | Tentative estimates indicate the |county’s general fund budget next year may be as much as $980,000 jmore than the present one. This would mean an increase of {about 15 cents on every $100 property valuation, raising the county] rate from the current 421: cents to | more than 57 cents, the highest a] more than 10 years. Some of the increases include the | 15300,000 debt the county will ows {the state for hospital fees on local [patients sent to state institutions: $180,000 for 1944 election expenses | (not in the 1943 budgets); $100,000 jor more for wage increases for county employees and probably an- | other extra $100,000 to meet the) {rising cost of materials and sup- | plies.
Silas Whitehead, 1905 Lockwood latest to
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Victory gardeners here today
Police to Guard V-Crops
Beeker, Petit Pledge Action In Outbreak of Vandalism
By SHERLEY UHL
st. « . « His victory garden is the be raided.
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were promised concerted city and
serious as the growing season progresses.
Payroll Big Ttem With nearly 50 complaints of
1 county council which must fix the men to intensify their vigilance over rates and budgets, said he and other | [00d-raising projects by lengthen-
‘councilmen will insist upon a pay- ng Jed patrol cycles in certain, as-you-go policy. | neighborhoods. | “We a let some of the debts! | Con Cay Pt hued den li CU = "costs Tater but thas 13 abe | chairman Harty re. pair that he. policy” he sid. “The wise thing ROLY 04 tho nove patrol cars to ito do is put the ‘current tax rate u | where it will take care of the — signed to outlying districts In a \sary expenses and not fool our- move to Stamp out vandalism in {selves with delayed payment plans.” the 4 tounty, especially | One big item that most county fleigh. : | officials are agreed must be in- Warfleigh Hard Hit | creased next year is the payroll. Hardest hit by { “We simply will have to raise {the wages in the lower income | brackets at least 10 per cent or (we'll be unable to keep any experienced workers at all,” Mr. Parry said. “Also budgets for materials must be increased . . . it stands to | plots. reason that when the cost of living] Mr. Peterson declared that the , for individuals goes up the cost of [problem seems to stem from two government also must rise.’ { principal sources: "#3 Rate Unprecedented 1, Juveniles who wreak | destruction on garden projects, another manifestation of the general delinquency problem. 2. Grown-ups and juveniles who!
who yesterday decided to take the] situation in hand by forming their | own vigilante patrol. Members, armed with shotguns, will stand guard day and night over. garden
wanton
Center township taxpayers living inside Indianapolis paid only $282 per 8100 valuation this year com- | pared to $3.25 last year. The unprecedented 43-cent cut in the rate last year was made pos;sible by a combination of taxation | phases. | First, the big poor relief levies, that had been the heaviest single tax burden for a decade, were elim- | inated entirely in some townships | last year. Then, no provisions had to be made for elections expenses. ‘But the principal reason for last | year's cuts was that wartime con-! |ditions had not struck their full
force on local government spending Flying Gross Is Bestowe
when the budgets were approved. Little is known now of the munic- | For Gallant Mission. Honored
pose of eating or selling them. (Ce ontinued on Pate Ten)
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HAROLD F. MARTING
ipal budgets for 1944, but officials | have conceded that the proposed | expenditures will be higher for the | same reasons that the county's rates |
must increase.
SICILIANS TOAST BRITISH MONARCH
ALLIED FORCE COMMAND POST, July 14 (U. P.).—Sicilians! in some villages have blotted or scrawled out the words “Eviva' Mussolini” in sign on walls and! buildings and substituted: Eviva! George VI,” British officers return-| irg from Sicily said today. i In other parts of the island the! population seems inert and apa-. thetic to the invasion and uninterested in the allied troops.
nounced today that the military cross has been awarded flying officer Harold Fesler Marting, former Indianapolis resident, whose parents live on a farm in the state. The award was made for “secret, gallant distinguished services.” A member of the Royal
Canadian air force. Officer Marting was a corporal in the U. S. marine corps from 1927 to 1931. He enlisted in the RCAF in 19540 and was commissioned in 1941. Flying Officer Marting is the author of “My Escape,” an article which appeared in the American
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Read "Our Town: The Tiger Lily," first of three articles by Anton Scherrer, on Page one, second section today,
‘would be expected then,
After another phony blackout on the far North side last night, caused | 9 by mechanical antics,
Indianapolis ‘and Marion county today still en-| igaged in the guessing contest as to’ what night the “surprise” blackout’
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OCD officials have said merely ‘that it would be on Monday,
day nights. The expert guessers never figured on the first night. They doubted a benefit game at Victory field would be blotted out last night. They don't figure the OCD will wait until tomorrow nigiit to stage it, because it inasmuch as if they waited until Friday night
|it would have to be then and would ' bg no surprise.
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‘3 AXIS SUBS SUNK BY ALLIED CONVOY
LISBON, July 14 (U. P.).—Maritime circles reported today that three axis submarines were sunk anda three others probably sunk when a pack of U-boats attacked a big allied convoy carrying troops and supplies from England
P-s-s-s-t. Think it'll be tonight? Two unscheduled blasts of the siren at No. 16 fire station at 5555 N. Illinois st. between 9:30 and 10 o'clock last night resulted in an entire area being plunged into darkness. “This is the surprise,” residents thought. Lt. Robert Newby, in charge of the station, in which many pedestrians sought safety, said the siren is a sensitive, wailing apparatus. It is vibrator-controlled and when | two short circuits come together, | the siren screems. That's what happened last night. The “blackout” lasted in some
tions. Two medium-sized allied ships tack on the Atlantic side of the | North African coast. .
SEN. JOHNSON RECOVERING
Sen. Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal), who is a patient in the naval hosneighborhoods for as long as 45 pital here, is convalescing rapidly, minutes until Battalion Chief Otto and will be back at his desk in the Petty cut wires to silence the ‘senate when congress convenes Sept.
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garden vandalism reported within |
Addison J. Parry, president of the | ‘the past month, Police Chief Clifford Beeker . said he had instructed his |
GASOLINE SETUP T0 BE ‘STUDIED’
Eastern Congressmen Urge Pleasure Ban Extension To Mid-West.
WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P).; | —War Mobilization Director James,
F. Byrnes announced today that he
had started an infuiry into the whole gasoline and fuel oil situation because of expanding military requirements. Byrnes’ announcement followed al conference with an Eastern congressional delegation which urged adoption of the Canadian system {of gasoline rationing under which each motorist would be given a vearly allotment of motor fuel and {be permitted to use it as he sees| fit. : The eastern congressmen also { asked that the pleasure driving ban inow in effect in the East be im-
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| states to increase stock piles in! that section for shipment to the] East when transportation facilities! permit, The congressmen pointed out that ‘the Canadian ration is 144 gallons)
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RAF BOMBERS | BLAST AACHEN, NORTH FRANCE
Steel and Chemical Plants, | Rail Yards Blasted; 20 Planes Lost.
LONDON, July 14 (U. P.).—British bombers struck heavily last night at the German industrial and | railway center of Aachen and other big formations and followed through | in daylight with strong attacks on’ objectives in northern France. American heavy bombers today attacked three German aircraft | installations in occupied France Twenty planes were lost in the raid on Aachen, which lies just across the northeastern border of Belgium. Though clouds obscured results, hundreds of tons of bombs ranging up to four-ton super block busters | were dropped on Aachen's steel works, chemical plants and vast net- | work of railway communications
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{county police profection against vandalism, following reports of an epi- | petween Germany, France, Belgium | demic of crop destruction and thefts which threatens to become more ang Holland. {
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Raid Is 15th
A German broadcast reported heavy damage to Aachen’s “many 'monuments,” public buildings and dwellings and said 21 planes were ‘shot down. It was the R. A. P's '15th raid on the city, which had a| pre-war population of 200,000. The daylight raiders, also heavy bombers, swept across the English | ' southeast coast in large, formations with fighter escorts stortly after dawn. They crossed into France just south of Boulogne. One formation, including four-engined bombers and escorting fighters, returned over Dungeness an hour later. German planes, including dive-| bombers, made a sharp raid on an England coastal town during the night and rescuers still were digging for bodies this morning. A bakery and a number of dwellings were wrecked. 3 Nazi Craft Downed
Anti-aircraft guns in London fired on a German plane which streaked across the city, but no alarm was sounded and no bombs dropped. Two German planes were shot down over Britain and a third was! destroyed over its base in Holland. British Mosquitoes, Beaufighters and Typhoons roamed over France, | { Belgium and Holland on intruder ' patrols during the night, SHaliing airfields, railroad targets and ground | | defenses. Some airfields were
German ground crews were forced | to douse flare path lights as gers) man aircraft were going in to land. | Reports from the raided British | east coast town said German planes dived on it, dropping explosive, in-|
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a vear as compared with 72 gallons cendiary and phosphorous bombs. | ‘a year for “A” card holders in the Two shelters were demolished and| |eastern U. S., despite the fact that | the wreckage of one was jacked up| {Canada imports most of her gaso-| to permit the recovery of bodies! | line from this country. and the rescue of injured. Numerous | (fires were started, At least 12 bes) i
U.S. TIGHTENS ING ON JAPS AT MUNDA
2 Strong Points Wiped Out; Resistance Stiffens.
By UNITED PRESS American soldiers and marines tightened the ring around Munda today, wiping out two enemy strong points in their slow advance through the jungles, but ran into stiffening resistance from the isolated Jap(Continued on Page Ten)
Conferences Begin
Byrnes said the purpose of his | | investigation was “to ascertain” the { demands at this time and the pros-; | pective demands, the available sup-| | ply, the possibility of additional sources of supply, and the question {of rationing the available supply for the civilian population.” In addition to seeing the con- | gressmen, Byrnes began conferences | with representatives of the military, ! services. He planned to confer later. | today with the heads of government jagencies involved in production, dis- | | tribution and transportation of gas'oline and fuel oil. The statement said Byrnes acted |on the request “of one of the agen- { cies charged with handling gasoline” {when he instituted the inquiry. Byrnes promised to keep the public fully informed of his investigation “insofar as this can be done without disclosing information which would be of aid to We enemy.” “The investigation will cover all.
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Worships Smash Tanks as Invasion Extends 30 Miles Inland; Key Port of Augusta Surrenders.
By UNITED PRESS Radio Rome reported today that the main axis forces in the Mount Etna region of Sicily had now begun to move south against the allied invaders. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 14 (UL P.).—American forces, supported by United States war | ship bombardments, smashed forward 6 to 10 miles in ‘south Sicily and captured the important axis base at Comiso today while British assault troops pressed up the eastern coast toward shell-pitted Cantania. Axis resistance appeared to be stiffening but the Amer jcans under Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., hammered their —|way into Naro, Palma and
1 | Ponte Olivo following a junce AL ‘tion with the Canadians at
captured Ragusa, and were reported about 30 miles ine ‘Martinique . Cus ut Vichy Ties, Joining United Nations
os at some points. { The American advance from Lie cata through Palma and to Naro {covered about 20 air line miles and | put the allies within 10 or 12 miles lof the important axis base at Agri« . gento. This gain, which was at the On Bastille Day. Esters end of the allied front, gave . the Americans command of roads WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.).— running northward to Canicatti. Bastille day brought to millions of} 4... capture of Ponte Olivo, near Frenchmen today a promise [rom Gela, was believed to have been dePresident Roosevelt of “the freedom signed to eliminate the immediate lof tomorrow.” coincident with a threat of strong axis counter- blows in that sector. (transfer of French colonial au- The Americans knocked out 10 | thority which brought the strategic nazi tanks in repulsing counter= Caribbean islands of Martinique and attacks by Italians and by the Her | Guadeloupe into the family of the mann Goering division northwest {united nations. {and northeast of Gela. Allied ware The French possessions, for the! ships were reported smashing axis last three years potential danger tank columns, spots to American security, were! The capture of Naro and Comiso
‘won over in a bloodless victory was believed to have greatly im-
when Adm. Georges Robert, Vichy- proved the Americans’ position in ite high commissioner, relinquished | the south, where the hardest fighthis command to the pro-allied ad-|ing so far had centered around ministration of Henri Etienne fe The Americans were thrown
Hoppenot. American relief ships are being| dispatched to Martinique with supplies for the suffering population, and the state department is reopening diplomatic relations by returning its consul general, Marcel] E. Malige, to Forte de France. Four French warships, including | the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Bearn| and tankers,! go into the service of the united nations as soon as they can be put into commission. » ” “
LONDON, July 14 (U. P.)= The German underground radio station Atlantic was auoled today as saying that German Marshal Erwin Rommel was killed while flying te Sicily to take over command of its defense. Swedish dispatches reported the breadcast said that British fighters penetrated the strong fighter formation escorting Rommel's plane and sent it crashing into the sea in flames. German Gen. Siegfried Westfal also was killed, the broadcast said. On the War Fronts The Scandinavian telegraph’ bu(July 14, 1943) reau quoted authoritative Berlin | quarters as denying emphatically British 8th army bursts: that Rommel had been killed.
out onto Catania plain in drive against key port of same name back there, but rallied te advance
oiean Tis army pushes \against Italian and German coun 8 [ter-attacks.
| EUROPE: Royal air force ham-! Their latest gains consolidated mers Aachen, German industrial their grip on the mountain roads and communications center near and provided bases for thrusts Belgian border, and big forma-| northward from the Comiso- -Ragusa tions, including four-motored area. bombers, fly against Europe by| On the east coast, where allied daylight. | warships and air squadrons battered 4 | Catania airport, the British had RUSSIA: Sovet army gaining initi- not yet reported big scale enemy ative on Orel-Belgorod front, counter-attacks. It was said there counter-attacking Germans in| was no fighting as yet in or imme= mounting strength. {diately around Catania, which has
not been captured b . PACIFIC: American jungle fight- | The town 2 Mellili yo es ers wipe out two Japanese strong!,. iq still in axis hands, although points outside Munda base, wedge |
{it was bypassed by the British defenses of that strong point on! New Georgia island. coastal forces that captured the
I big naval base at Augusta early {this morning. | While the Northwest African air command concentrated on Sicily, 'U. S. Liberators from the Middle {Bast swept across the Mediter= (Continued on Page Ten) - n
Axis May Be Unable to Make Evacuation Attempt in Sicily
By HARRISON SALISBURY Sicilian east coast and the allied United Press Staff Correspondent {air umbrella is in position to ate LONDON, July 14.--The chances | tack any evacuation craft attempte for a Sicilian Dunkirk are regarded | ing to put out from Messina.
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phases of the problem, production, supplies, transportation, ! essential military supplies and ra-| tioning of civilian supply,” he said.
PLAN CONTRACT LET Pierre & Wright, architects] have been awarded a contract by| county commissioners to prepare | specifications for the $35,000 re-| | pairs and remodeling work on Sunnyside sanatorium building. Pre-! viously it was erroneously reported that the architects had been award-| ed the contract to prepare plans for the completion of construction work | { at Julietta infirmary. This contract | | has Rot yet been awarded.
Ernie Pyle, who served with American ground forces in the desert and mountains of North Africa, chose to witness the invasion of Sicily from the deck | of a U. S. navy vessel. On page || today is the first of several dispatches which Ernie wrote while his ship was still at anchor in a North African harbor. Due to the need for secrecy, the dispatches were not cleared by wireless until the invasion , was actually under |
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as extremely slim by military ob- | servers, despite the fact that only two and a half miles of water sep-
arate the island from the Italian!
tip at the narrowest point. It is believed here that Italian
It is understood that the Italians already are maintaining contact between Messina and Reggio Cala« bria only with the greatest dife ficulty. Moreover, it is expected that the
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and German forces are fighting |decisive battle will be fought on under orders to resist to the end |the Catania or Licata plains, or on
and it is doubted whether an at- | the plateau connecting them. An
| tempt will be made for large-scale | allied victory on that terrain would | evacuation when and if the axis | split the axis forces, cuiting off
| loses the decisive battle for control those in the western and northern
‘of the island. It is emphasized | parts of the island from those on now that this battle may begin at the northwestern tip since it would give the allies control of the east= Even if a major evacuation were west railroad from Catania to Cale attempted by the axis command, tanissetta. It is reported that the allied op« be very small. Allied naval forces! erations so far are considerably , are ranging. northward ge the faiess o of schedule.
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