Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1943 — Page 10
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MRS. SCOTT TO SPEAK Mrs. Mary Scott of the Red Cross
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| State Chairman Ralph Gates Who jj. county chairman; Reul Steele,
Homer Capehart Throws Hat
In Senate Ring as 150 Cheer
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| | {gressman who himself has been|come too late because affairs of | mentioned as a senatorial candidate, | our country will be so balled up {attended and told newspaper men that no one can ever straighten | that he was interested only in be-| them out. If that happens, I being a candidate for congress again.|lieve we will then go into some Ivan Morgan, the ninth district|form of socialism or communism.” G. O. P. chairman, was invited but] Among those attending the Cape(he did not show up. Mr. Morgan hart rally were: has been very close to G. O. P.| j AWRENCE COUNTY—Ed Shir{in the past has engaged in several quntv clerk: Chester Davis, circuit | political battles with Mr. Capehart. | qge; State Senator James Arms | The large attendance at the fish| . : | fry en even the close sup- | STORE. Surrell Deitepdor!: Jormer joes county chairman, and Rolla Tindal, {porters of Mr. Capehart and thely qc er of the central committee.
sti f » eveni q “how question of the evening was ORANGE COUNTY—Paul Lind-
VICTORY CROPS T0 BE GUARDED
Authorities Act Quickly to
Stop Vandals’ Raids; Damage Is Heavy.
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He stated that he had received “an authoritative report” of cases in which stolen victory garden produce had found its way to the general market. “If this continues,” he jokingly remarked, “we may find ourselves
many of these county chairmen, }, . tv Chair CM Joh sheriffs, mayors and county clerks ey, county chairman; Manse Johnson, treasurer of the G. O. P. cen-
confronted with a doubly vicious black-market—one aggravated by
. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1943
Allies Capture
ranean and dropped nearly 425,000 pounds of bombs on the Cotrone and Vibo Valentia airdromes in southern Italy. Three hangars were wrecked at Vibo Valentia. Significantly, the Liberators met no fighter opposition over Cotrone, supposedly a fighter base. Late reports said that the British had occupied Priolo in connection with the capture of Augusta. Priolo lies south of the naval base, The latest information from the American sector said that the Americans had pushed on from Naro and apparently had established a barrier to any enemy efforts to cut behind our main lines,
Axis Base at
Comiso, Advance on Catania
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aerial attack was pressed, it was stated at headquarters. “The navy's main task of supporting the army by commanding the sea and disembarking troops and their supplies continues,” the communique from headquarters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said. “Throughout the operations American warships have rendered valuable support to the troops on shore by engaging surrounding formations and tank columns behind Gela and, among other targets, the airfield at Pone Olivo and enemy positions at Porto Empedocle. “A British and a Greek destroyer raided the port of Augusta at 4
p. m. July 12. These ships with lunits is of particular importanes the cruisers and monitors outside |in operations of this nature as \a assisted materially in the capture. {flow of vehicles, ammunition angl The naval bombardment was de- stores is being maintained through scribed by the army as both accu- | the ports and over the beaches.” rate and timely, (Axis broadcasts acknowledged “Catania airfield was bombarded [the fall of Augusta and told of raids from the sea in the early hours of jon allied shipping in Augusta harJuly 13, It is reported that the|bor. Madrid said British landing
| swell on some of the more exposed parties had appeared near Porto { beaches has subsided. There were |Empedocle, on
the Sicilian south some bombing attacks on certain | coast, 26 miles northwest of Am&rof the beaches and the vessels lying | ican-held Licata.) \ off shore. These did not interrupt| (A German broadcast quoted a the work in progress. The disem- Spanish dispatch as saying that 60 barkation proceeded smoothly, landing barges with an escort of de« “There are signs of increased stroyers steamed into the Mediter« U-boat activity throughout the (ranean from Gibraltar yesterday area but counter-measures have|and a convoy of nine vessels entered been highly successful and dis- | Gibraltar harbor shortly afterward.) heartening to the enemy. The allied planes wrecked or dame “The activity on the part of mine-|&ged two supply ships, two destroy= sweepers, and light coastal forces |ers, 320 trucks, six locomotives and continued and the efforts have been |45 freight cars in 24 hours of attacks designed to paralyze the axis
successful. “The work: of administrative defense of Sicily.
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here realiy are for Mr. Capehart?” The answer from the Capehart supporters was that the affair was clearly stated in the invitations to be in honor of Mr. Capehart and that the guests wouldn't have come had they not regarded him favor-
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the fact that the goods were stolen from patriotic citizens in the first place.” Ten instances of garden thefts occurred in Warfleigh recently, he stated, but other reports indicate that the vandalism wave is not isolated. Rather, police records show WASHINGTON COUNTY — Ar- that practically every neighborhood
| : : : / in the city has suffered. I Ayes, County Chairman Was Officials in the record bureau said
5 7" catia onion | contin” sem lo Seome "in . 0. P. e » LEO punches,” indicating that some of { Dennis, state representative, and the molestations may result from il Davis, former mayor of Salem. | j.);perately-planned vandalistic and theft schemes.
From Monroe County | MONROE COUNTY—Donald Bowen, county chairman; Blaine Brad{fute, publisher; State Senator Robert Miller; K. Austin East, Bloom{ington city attorney, and Earl Bax(ter, county clerk. | GREENE COUNTY-—Irvin Pryor, county chairman; Bud Lenning, county clerk; William Slough, mayor of Jasonville, and Parker Vosloh, circuit judge. | DAVIESS COUNTY—Arthur Rogers, county chairman; Sam Smith, Washington mayor; John S. Hast{ings, trustee of Indiana university; [William I. Vance, businessman; J. W. Clark, treasurer of the central committee; John Scheid, president ‘of the central labor union; and {George Hiatt, chamber of commerce (leader. | MARTIN COUNTY-—Jim Brown, {county chairman; James Gilkerson,
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JACKSON COUNTY — Hayden Green, county chairman; Travis Carter, manufacturer; Jess Combs, secretary of the central committee, and William Heigwig, Seymour city chairman.
Damage Runs High
Although no official damage estimate has been made, it is believed
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plot early this week. Most recent was perpetrated in the truck garden of Silas Whitehead, on Raymond st. nesr St. Paul st, where 20 muskmelon plants were uprooted. Mr. Whitehead blamed the havoc on “a couple of young kids.” Mr. Peterson said the half-dozen group gardening projects scattered throughout the Indianapolis metropolitan district probably would
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City OCD Director Harry Yockey | declared that he would enlist the {services of civil defense volunteers { if pelice find it impossible to devote jenough of their time to | problem. { Mayor Tyndall described garden destrovers and thieves as “the most insidious elements in Indianapolis.” He pointed out that besides hampering the “efforts of hard-working | E. Dye, Kokomo, governor of Rotary food-growers, vandals were in ef- | District 155, spoke at the district's fect, directly blockading the prog- | annual assembly here today. | ress of the war.” Clubs from 22 Indiana cities were; represented at the all-day meeting.| dening projects today were ponderThe address of welcome were given| ing whether to adopt the system by Mayor Clarence D. Rotuck, a formulated yesterday by “Warfleigh member of the Anderson club. neighbors who issue identification | Speakers included Arthur H. Sapp,! cards and windshield stickers to | Huntington, a past president of|each cultivator. Those not bearing | Rotary International, and Robert these credentials would automatiE. Haen, Richmond, past first vice | cally be barred from the garden | president of Rotary International. area.
party leader; Frank B. Gilkerson, circuit judge; Hugh Gray, county {welfare director, and Lew Harris, | publisher. SULLIVAN COUNTY — Knute ‘Ringer, county chairman, and Bill Mellott, treasurer of the central committee.
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that hundreds of dollars worth of beans, carrots, early potatoes and and other crops { have been wiped out by hoodlums or One Warfleigh gardener found himself short eight bushels of turnips when he turned up at his
which now extend across the entire southeastern corner of Sicily. The Americans who took Ponte Olivo pushed some 6 miles inland from Gela, while other units drove 10 miles inland to a point 2
miles south of Nuscemi, on the road | to Caltagirone, an important inland road junction. The situation! around Vittoria, which is just west| of Comiso, was obscure but allied units had reached the outskirts.
Airport Blasted
Catania airport was shelled from! the sea and smothered by many tons of aerial bombs, according to today's communique, which said | that disembarkation operations— which previously had been unoffi- | cially reported near Catania—‘pro-| ceded smoothly.” The points of dis- | embarkation were not given in the communique. While American warships smashed axis tank columns and airfields on
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the south coast of Sicily, the Britlish and Canadian drive up the east] (coast toward Catania smashed an] entire Italian division and boosted the estimated number of prisoners to around 8000, mostly Italians, (Axis broadcasts reported that big battles were developing in the mountains south of Catania, indicating that the Germans and Italians were making their most important stand so far.) Allied air fleets, including flying fortresses, provided a strong cover for the British advance up the east! coast and hammered with renewed | fury at enemy bases, including | gatania airdrome, communications, ines, gun emplacements and troop, reoniny » P| Spun Rayon
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U.S. TIGHTENS RING ON JAPS AT MUNDA
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Gen, Douglas MacArthur's spokes- | {man said the strongholds had been destroyed in what appeared to be the first direct contact with the] basic Japanese positions at Munda. ! Allied bombers yesterday unloaded | 32 tons of explosives on the base to carry a contindous air assault! through its 13th day. | More detailed reports on the! second naval battle in Kula gulf, fought Monday night and early) Tuesday morning by allied warships! against 10 Japanese cruisers and de- | j# stroyers, confirmed early indications of another allied triumph.
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GIRAUD APPEALS FOR ARMY EQUIPMENT
NEW YORK, July 14 (U. P.).—| Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, eommander of the French forces in North Africa. appealed to the | American public today for modern | armament to equip his army “for | the coming baitle of France.” Calling in the press after his Bastille day visit to the Brooklyn navy yard, Giraud said he wanted to express gratitude for the wel-| come he had received in America.
LOCKER CONTENTS DUMPED IN POOL
Vandals continued their forays against the city park system last night by breaking into the Willard park swimming shelterhouse and strewing locker contents over the pool waters, - Park Custodian Willard Fontaine reported that two benches also had been tossed into the park pool, along with shoes and clothing kept in locker baskets.
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