Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1943 — Page 17

THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943

#1, S, CAPTAIN GETS

ITALIAN GENERAL

WITH AMERICAN TROOPS, Sicilv (No Date Given). —Capt. James Bevemek of Albuquerque, N. M. captured an Italian general an a street corner in the town of Comiso "Tt 1sn'L every day in the week that a captain in the engineers, captures an Italian general” Bevemek said.

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“Apparently the general recog- | nized my captain's bars and de- F 0 PICTURE |

cided he didn’t want to surrender |

to a private” Bevemek said. “That | was okay with me. He had his] two sons with him. They were | about 12 to 13 vears eld and didn't SESE look very happy. We walked to headquarters together with the kics alongside.” ‘ Bevemek had his arm in a slin when the general gave up to him | but it was only a scratch suffered | when he fell out of a jeep. (The dispatch did not name the general)

Admiral Nimitz Says That New Planes, Ships Are | ‘Satisfying.’

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United Press Staff Correspondent

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ABOARD A SUBMARINE, PEARL HARBOR, July 14 (De-| layed) —(U. P.) —The arrival of new| planes, ships and fully equipped | troops “in satisfying numbers” and | the isolation and neutralization of] the Japanese base at Kiska, have brightened the outlook in the Pacific considerably, Adm. Chester w.| Nimitz said today. The Pacific fleet commander reviewed operations in this theater as he decorated 12 navy officers and | men. “Operations throughout the Pa-| cific have gained steadily since I) last presented awards to the fleet personnel here two months ago,” | Nimitz said. | “The army and navy have driven | the Japs out of Attu and have | neutralized and isolated Kiska. In| the south Pacific our forces from all services are co-ordinating their operations sucessfully in the New

Georgia occupation.” are

Reinforcements Arrive | Nimitz said the reinforcements nave “insured our retaining the initiative which veterans of this campaign so gallantly won.” In presenting the navy cross— highest fleet decoration—to two submarine commanders, he said U.| 8. subs are continuing their de- | struction of enemy shipping, ‘‘shipping the Japs can ill afford to lose! § —much of it within gun range of | { important Jap bases.” | Receiving the navy cross wer2 Lt. Cmdr. Albert C. Burrows of Wash-| | ington, D. C., and Lt. Cmdr. Thomas | L. Wogan of Coronado, Cal. | Burrows’ sub sank 33,500 tons of enemy shipping on one patrol, in-| cluding two transports. Wogan's | craft sank more than 20,000 tons of | freighter and transport shipping in| Jess than a week while patrolling off |

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First Indianapolis women marines lo be called to active duty for training at Camp Lejeune, River, N. C., are (left to right) Pvts Hazel Thomp son, Betty Leu Bennett

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and Lillian G. Lyster. They

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Two Local Women Marines To Join Brothers at Lejeune Base.

| In the first classes of women {marines to be trained at Camp Le-

| jeune, New River, N, C., are three

| Indianapolis recruits who will report |

[for active duty today. The local trainees are privates

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TRUCK TIRE OUTPUT HALTED BY STRIKE

AKRON, O., July 13 U. P)— Production in the truck tire department of the General Tire & Rubber Co. was halted today by a “wildcat” strike of 1200 workers. Emmett D. Harper, local president of the united rubber workers said the union would ‘not assume any responsibility for whatever happens in the strike.”

Cpl. Carey C. Bennett, brother of Pvt. Betty Lou Bennett. WARNNS OF MOTOR DANGER WASHINGTON, July 15 (U.P) .— Defense Transportation Director | Joseph B. Eastman today warned that shortage of replacement and ‘repair parts and of skilled me- | chanics and drivers is a grave threat to continuation of vital motor trans- | port in the United States,

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Pfc. Bill Lyster, brother of Pvt. Houston st.. Betty Lou Bennett,

Lillian G. Lyster. ni Bennett, 2019 E. Washington st., and

Lillian G. Lyster, daughter of Mr,

land Mrs. Herman Lyster, 1326 Naomi st.

Women marines formerly re-

i § ceived basic training at Hunter college in New York city. | Both Pvts, Bennett and Lyster

have brothers in the marine corps.

Pvt. Bennett's brother is Cpl. Carey |

C. Bennett, who is now on duty with

[Italians Fired Blindly Then Came Out With Wide Grins.

By DANA DAMS SCHMIDT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH| The Bennett brother and : land Pvt. Thompson all attended ; 1% ( red) .— ARMY. Sicily, July 1 Delaved | Technical high school. The Lysters A British captain said today that | ere students at Manual,

the invasion forces which landed at | — . ITALIAN TANKS

Cape Passero on the southeastern oLD

tip of Sicily met only light opposi- | PROVE EASY TARGETS

tion from the Italian defenders and | suffered few casualties last Satur-| ADVANCED BASE. North Africa. {July 14 (delayed) (U. P.) .—Italian

day. “The landing at Casablanca must tanks which attacked American have been lots tougher than this,” (troops landing on the beach near the captain told me shortly after I Gela were old and made easy tarhad stepped onto the beach from gets, but the German armor includa landing craft. led some new Mark IVs, the skipOver cups of tea, the officer re- per of one of the tank landing lated that two British landing par-|ships reported today. ties in less than half a day had | All. however, “had hell kicked out nipped off this tip of Sicily, had|of them” when American armor was taken the town of Pachino and had|rushed ashore to the attack, said captured 500 Italian and four Ger-|the skipper, Lt. H. R. Roberts of man prisoners who didn't show McKinney, Tex.

| Lejeune. He was formerly stationed lat the local marine corps recruiting station.

| pvt. Lillian Lyster. He enlisted in | Indianapolis on Dec. 11, 1941

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C.|

a machine gun battalion at Camp |

Pfc. Bill Lyster is the brother of|

sister |

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Comeback Trail

WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P.). —The lowly baked bean is scheduled to make something of a comeback on the canned goods market, but at a higher price

The office of price administration said today that a limited | number of glass containers, capes and rubbers now have been made available to processors. Beans were not canned early in 1942 under a war production board conservation order. The OPA announced new formulas for determining price ceilings on processed beans, macaroni products and noodle products which will result in a higher price to the consumer. The formulas take into aceccuit increased raw material costs, and that factor plus the fact that ceilings are based on a fixed pr fit margin means higher prices, hv OPA said.

WAR WIDOWS' | PENSION RAISED

F.D.R. Signs Bill Amending Veterans Act; $50 New Monthly Rate.

WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P). __President Roosevelt yesterday | signed into law a bill amending the |

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crease ‘widows' pensionz from the | present. $38 or $45 to $30 per month

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The bill applies to veterans of world war I, II, the Boxer rebel|lion, the Philippine insurrection, | and the Spanish-American war, Tt recognized service as a cadet at the 8. military academy or as a midshipman at the U. 8. naval academy or as a cadet at the U. 8S, coast guard academy on or before Dec. 7, 1941, and before termina-| tion of present hostilities as within | the scope of the law. The rate to a widow with one | child is increased to $65 with $13 allowed for each additional child. Under the old law the widow got | $10 for the first child up to 10 | years old and $15 for the first child | over 10. She received $8 for each! additional child under “10 anc $13 for each child over 10.

| Veterans Included |

WARNS OF POST-WAR MEDICAL PROBLEMS

DETROIT. July 15 (U. P).—Dr. A. G. Reed, Tulsa, Okla, warned today that medical and science in the United States must be prepared vo cope with new maladies brought to this country by American servicemen now stationed throughout the world. Here to take part in a war service conference of the American | Osteopathic association, which opens

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| tomorrow, Reed told a Kiwanis club gathering that in one way the war would provve a boom because returning servicemen “will come back more physically fit than when they left.” “On the other hand,” he said, | “many of our men and women now scattered to every corner of the | earth cannot help but bring back to | this country diseases peculiar to [other countries, especially those with which the tropics are infested.” He concluded, however, that American researchers and scientists will be equal to these “invasion dis- : leases.” you do

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JAP BASES DAMAGED NEW DELHI, July 15 (U. P.).— The 10th United States air force announced today that its Mitchell ‘medium bombers attacked Japanese | installations in the Meiktila and | Myingyan areas of Burma yesterday. | causing considerabl: damage and Fun Shop—Fourth Floor | suffering no loss. The airmen reported direct hits on Japanese ‘ | barracks.

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much fight, — East of the Cape

“One detachment landed just east] of Cape Passero and the other a few miles west of it beyond Amber bay,” he said. “We touched land only a few minutes after our zero hour of 2:15 a. m. although some craft shipped half full of water in the heavy) swell. There had been a crushing air raid by American bombers, I think, just a few minutes before and cruisers and destroyers were lobbing shells along the coast. “Possibly because this was an ob- | vious place to try an invasion. They thought we wouldn't try ft here or that it would be only a diversion. There were flashes and crashes all over the place—it was quite frightening—and we were prepared for bloody murder.” The captain added that after the action started everyone was too busy to be scared.

Landed on Rocks

“The detachment to the west landed on the rocks where the Italfans had figured it was impossible to land and had not even strung barbed wire. “The Italians tossed a hand grenade into one assault craft and killed a sergeant but most of the casualties were from mines. I saw one fellow go up with a mine and could distinctly see his body 300 feet in the air. “There were stacks of mines lying about which the Eyties planned to lay the following morning. They had lots of machine guns, some guns like our Oerlikon ack-ack guns, but they just shot blindly without aiming. | “I ran toward one pillbox waving my arms and it surrendered. The, Eyties began coming in with their | hands up and grins on their faces.” | He said that by dawn the air was | filled with allied planes and the sea | dotted with shipping. Enemy bomb- | ers stayed away. When one detachment walked | into Pachino. the mayor and a] priest came out to surrender the town formally in the early afternoon, the captain said. _ After talking with the officer, 1 drove forward with a British artil-| lery regiment. As we drove through the village of Porto Palo, the in- | habitants smiled and waved. A youngster on a street corner " sailed wl

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