Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1943 — Page 4
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YANKS CLOSE IN Lt. Ratti Pilots 'Jennie C' As She Downs Jap Bomber
ON MUNDA BASE
Attack From Two Sides As 8 More Jap Ships Reported Hit.
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the west coast of Relofuhengsra island, northwest of New Georg as they attempied to reach the beleaguered Munda garrison. Allied warships, probably destrovers, engaged three enemy destroyvers and scored hits on all three during the first engagement Saturday night. One enemy destrover was believed sunk Anti-aircraft fire
ia.
drove off atiacking planes and one;
was shot down. The allied forces escaped without damage. “In another action,” Gen. MacArthur's communique reported. “our light surface units intercepted and attacked six enemy destroyers going down the west coast. scor torpede hit on one. The enemy vessels turned back.”
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Planes Sink Four
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Four - engined Avengers and counted for the other early Sunday in the anchorage in the northern mons, where nearly 200 planes less than 24 hours earlier had sunk a light cruiser or destroyer, two destrovers, a submarine chaser, a tanker and two supply ships in the biggest raid of the war in the South Pacific. Attacking in numbers approaching Saturday's record force, the allied air fleet hammered the nearby Kahili airdrome and harbor thipping with 90 tons of explosives, ginking a cargo ship. damaging two destrovers and another carge ship. and shooting down 13 intercepting Japanese fighters, Four planes were lost. Reconnaissance reports indicated that the Japanese had largely emptied the harbor of shipping following the i
AKRON BUS STRIKE ENDS AFTER 5 DAYS
ARRON, O, July 19 (U. P.). Trai tation service was operat ing today for the first time since last Wednesday when 400 bus and street car operators struck in protest over a regional war labor board panel recommendation The strikers retur hed to yesterdav after vot to a walkout at a union meeti: liam H. Wright. local the Transport Workers the union would appeal gction.
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Two Indiana men “Jennie C.” a B-24 Liberator bomber which helped shoot down one Japanese medium bomber and damaged another in the Solomons. They are 1st Lt. Emilio Paul Ratti, pilot, son of Dr. Gino Ratti, dean of the college of liberal arts at Butler university, and Mrs. Ratti, 329 Buckingham dr, and 2d Lt George W. Moore, co-pilot, of Winchester. After the incident the members were sent to Hawaii a brief period and Li. Ratti told the story to his parents. His version, as reported by his mother, states that two planes were out patrolling a busy Jap cargo lane— ole of them the “Jennie C."” They saw what they thought were Japanese zeros approaching. The zeros, being much more maneuverable than the Liberators the “Jennie C’ and her sister ship, were undecided whether to stay when they discovered that the planes were Mitsubushi bombers. They remained and engaged the Jap fiyors, bringing down one and damaging another.
piloted the
crew for
Chase Damaged Plane
They chased the damaged plane until they realized that they were | dangerously near the enemy's base when they returned to finish off the downed plane which was still afloat. Lt. Ratti has been on three other missions since he went across about May 1. He was co-pilot on the first mission but has had his own ship since then, On the first two missions his erew “got a cargo ship.” On the third mission they bombed an island for three hours.” The, lieutenant was _ graduated
Lt. Emilio P. Ratti
from Shortridge high school and was in his third year at Purdue when he enlisted in the air corps, Aug. 31. 1941. While waiting to be called into service he attended Butler university for three months. He
is a member of Kappa Delta Rho
fraternity. Lt. Ratti for training Pearl Harbor. He received his wings and commission at Lubbock army air Tex., after training at Kelly field Chickasha field and Randolph field, and took further training in flying four-engined bombers at six additional training centers. The lieutenant’'s mother believes that hér son has left Hawaii and is again back | in the battle area.
was notified to the Saturday
report before
Ernie's Dad Helps Push July
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with party
relatives, attended the cigaret and made his own contribution. The total raised through the party was £35 which sends 14.000 cigarets across the seas to hghting Yankees. The goal in the drive was a million cigarets and donors put in 32470.34 to provide 1,118,136 cigarets. The major cigaret companies furnish them for only a nickel a package, { =
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The final list of donors is swell ene. For instance, den of Micklevville got
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| Field dispatches said that a much- { touted Hitler secret weapon—a mul-
'GRACKING UP"
Before General Advance, | Allies Say.
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stormed into Caltanissetta, seizing | the main axis communications to the west and advancing to within | a dozen miles of the enemy's main-mid-island concentration point at Enna. | The American operations, thrusting northward at a point about 55 miles west of Catania, appeared to be threatening the enemy's entire right flank in a splitting and turning movement, while other allied forces stabbed into the line nearer Catania in drives that threatened Gerbini airdrome and roads southwest of Mount Etna. | The enemy threw all possible weight, including Herman Goering tank units, into an eflort to protect these vital communications and airfields but the Canadians had | pushed more than 30 miles inland and the whole front was surging | forward. (Today's Italian communique said that repeated enemy attacks in Sicily were repulsed, with the Leg-!| horn division distinguishing itself. It claimed that axis aircraft had hit a 12.000-ton ammunition ship, a heavy cruiser. and a merchantman.) | (European reports said that axis headquarters for Sicily have been moved to Geggio Calabria on the mainland with Italian newspapers and radio commeniators acknowiedging that allied occupation of all | Sicily is only a matter of time.) Carlo Scorza, secretary of Italy's Fascist party, broadlast night that Italy was in danger than ever before in her history. | The battle for Catania, however, still overshadowed the other fronts.
tiple harrel mortar—had been used | against allied troops but that it was so unsuccessful that the troops called it “Hitler's secret flop.”
and contributed $57.10 which means|
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contributed $550 which will send! across 2200 smokes. And dettes the Y. M. C. A. service club who entertain service men at home, donated $25 for 10.000 crgiarets. : For the boys, a million thanks. =
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The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund
Donors acknowledged .. Major Cigaret Companies : Residents of Micklevville, Ind Allison Patrol Service, Plant No. 3 The Employees of Ertel Machine Co.
Cornelius Printing Co. and Employees. .
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MINERS MEETING | T0 DECIDE POLICY
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n Federation of Labor union convention last v lized
The author-
America ear officials thev
international to take
| Whatever action thought was | advisable. | Lewis meets with an A. F. of L. committee composed of | Daniel J. Tobin,
teamsters:
tomorrow
president of the M. Brotherhood of
jeorge | president of the | Railway Clerks, and Matthew Woll. | president of the Photo Engravers. t The committee | work out plans of (the U. M. W. and to report back to
the A. F. of L. executive council ‘meeting at Chicago next month. | There appeared little doubt that the committee would favor the miners’ return, inasmuch as both! ' Tobin and Woll are on record in support of the action. While the miners’ officials canvass the possibility of reaching a new wage agreement for the soft coal industry, negotiations for the anthracite industry will continue here I Union and operator representatives decided Friday to shift the conferences from New York to Washington.
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Prisoners PVT. DWAYNE D. FERRELL, formerly reported inission in North Africa since March 28. is being held prisoner in Italy with six other Indiana men, it was announced today. Pvt. Ferrell is the husband of Mrs. Jean Ferrell, 2136 Wheller st. and the son of Mrs. Pearl Ferrell, 2228 Wheel~r st. Mrs. Ferrell employed by P. R. Mallory & Co. Also held prisoner Pvt. Earl E. Lucas, son of Fred Lucas, 5225 W. 10th st. a former employee of the Basca Manufacand former night manager of a Wheeler restaurant. A native of Jordan Village, he attended school there and entered service Oct. 23, 1941. He was reported captured April 3. Other Indiana men held are Pfc. David A. Dennis, Terre Haute; Pvt. Leo M. Baton, Terre Haute; Pvt. Charles H. Ebright, South Bend; Pvt. J. Piotrowski, Michigan City, and Pvt. Theodore M. Stokich, East Chicago. = = =
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(A dispatch brosdeast from an| army command post said that allied | iroops were pushing into the suburbs of Catania as fires lighted the lowlands and heavy artillery shelled the sector from the River Simeto {to Catania.) Both warships in terrific Catania and nearby
and airplanes bombardment of | targets.
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the allied forces actually were in the outskirts of Catania, exact po-| sitions were unavailable in official sources and it merely was indicated that the battle was raging around and close to the city. The number of prisoners was! mounting rapidly and estimated at | 35.000. including about 23.000 taken by Americans. The only organized and strong resistance on the entire front appeared to be in the Catania sector.
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HINT ITALIANS Allied Airmen Bomb Rome; Holy ily Carefully Spared
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| both—bombs jectives and leaflets for the civilian following five | ment, specify | that Rome then had become a mili-
lof
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1943"
Sicily,
‘Whole Units’ Surrendering have been increasing signs that failing an Italian capitulation it would suffer the same fate as Rerlin.
A week" ago last Saturday. President Roosevelt promised Pope Pius XII that dur-
after the allied invasion of
said they saw the city approached.
CATRO, July 19 (U. P.).—Military targets in the city of Rome were “like 2a bombardier’'s dream” for American and R. A. F. airmen in the first raid in history on the Italian capital, because of the city's many unmistakable landmarks. The bomber crews from the Middle East, carefully instructed on how to avoid hitting religious or cuitural buildings in Rome, “spring up like a great picture” as they
ing the invasion of Italy churches and religious institutions
would tral status of Vatican City, “throughout Italy” would be
respected.”
Last Saturday
dropped
allied airplanes
millions of leaflets
“be spared the devastations of war”
over civilization.”
Rome urging the Italians to aban- |
don their Fascist leaders, implication then was that the planes which dropped the leaflets could return with blockbusters.
Today allied planes returned with of Italy ob- year ago with a diplomatic
for the military
population. The communique did not
the location of the marshaling yard, but persons familiar with Rome said where I was interned, I saw that there were several within the carrving German soldiers and parts are of submarines that had been made in’ in Germany were being transported
citv. The major two, however, San Lorenzo and Transpevere the northwest section of the Vatican City is across the Tiber on the opposite side of town. It
city. river the was believed that the nearest about 1': miles away. of the others from irom three to T7'-
the Termini, The distances St. Peters vary mi:es. The marshaling vard
which was
the objective was said to have been (ay Rome itself has had any of its]
near government buildings and presumably some of them were tar-
| gets of the mission.
The Roval Air has engaged in suburbs of Rome,
Force previously minor raids in the but no allied
| planes heretofore have set out with fully
| Rome proper as the objective. Morale Believed Crumbling
There was no indication of the size of the raid, but it probably was only a fraction of the size of the force of 500 bombers that attacked the port of Naples over the weekend in the largest aerial attack to date in the Italian war theater. The assumption here was that the raid on Rome was as much for the psychological effect upon the Italian people as for the destruction of military objectives. It is hoped here that the morale of the Italians, already believed near the rumbling point, will collapse under the stres incessant aerial poundings their cities. The bombing of Rome is expected to have an especially devastating effect on the Italian people who
The |
marshaling yard to the Vatican wes | African plans of the Germans were
| were virtually
|
{
and that the neu- | as well as of Papal domains
The virtual allies is—‘“die Hitler—or
ultimatum of for Mussolini live for Italy,
the | and | and for
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, July 19.—Coming out just a little move than a party months of internI know from my observation
Siena, trains
tary center. Coming from
on the railway line going through Rome. Mussolini was conferring constantly in Venice palace with German war leaders, and many of the
mapped right in Rome. American and British fliers have passed over Rome repeatedly going jand coming to and from other objectives, but this is the first time
objectives touched. relied almost exclu-! sively on the Holiness of Rome to protect it against air raids. The shelters in Rome when 1 passed through there a vear ago were woeinadequate. Bomb sheiters| unknown, At the outbreak of war, Mussolini | provided only some boards stuck against the side of stone walls like] lean-tos as shelters. These obvious- | Iv were ridiculous, however, and they scon were taken down. The Pope has a bomb sheiter in the Vatican. | Mussolini used to brag that hej didn't care for any bomb shelters for himself at his home, Villa Torlonia, or at his office in Venice palace, but later he admitted that | he had built bomb shelters for his guests.
military Mussolini
»: SERVICE MEN RATION
RULES LIBERALIZED
| WASHINGTON, July 19 (U, P.. | —8ervice men on leave or fur-]
always have looked upon it as the';,..4 may now present their spe-
seat of their religion, culture and glorious past history,
The allies. in their
propaganda hoard.
food ration conveniently
cial any
applications to
located rationing the office of price adminis- |
|
campaign, have repeatedly stressed tration announced today. Previous- |
the great cultural heritage of Italian people and have them a chance for
capitulation” if they will
ithe leaders | who have betrayed them.
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| ties the Russians cleared a wide area and established a firm bridgehead from which they were prepar‘ing to storm a key objective. Pravda reported air battles of { “unprecedented scale and intensity” Tt said the Germans had thrown in “thousands” of new planes { shifted from other sectors of the front, from Poland and from | France. The force, nevertheless, was reported firmly in control of the skies, as evidenced by the destruction of 58 German planes in aerial combat yesterday. (German broadcasts reported Russian attacks had spread from! | .he Orel area along a front reachling 600 miles to the south. ‘“Isolated penetrations” of German lines were admitted in the Kuban area of the northwest Caucasus, along the Mius river near Taganrog and along the Donets river, | (Another broadcast said that the {“greatest tank battle of all time" | was being fought near Belgorod, 1165 miles south of Orel) (Finnish and German sources re(ported other attacks, but on a smaller scale, on the Kerelian, Leningrad and Lake Ilmen fronts, pos1sibly as preludes to full-scale of- | fensives in those sectors.)
'MUNROS TO OBSERVE GOLDEN WEDDING
Mr. and Mrs. David Munro will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sunday in their home, 2437 N. Meridian, where they have fived for 49 years. Thev were residents of Davenport, Iowa, until their marriage when they came to Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Munro will be at home to their friends after 3 p. m.| Sunday. They will have as their ouests Lt. and Mrs. C. A. Lundy and son Robert of New York, and Mr.
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§ and Mrs. Robert Munro of Cynwyd,
| Pa. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Munro, 621 W, 44th st. will entertain with a dinner | Saturday evening in honor of their | parents.
MOTHER OF 10 TO BE | TRIED FOR MURDER
MUNCIE, Ind. July 19 (U. P).— Mis. Clara Sarah Edwards, 44, | mother of 10 children, was sched{uled to face trial today in Delaware | circuit court on a first degree mur- | der charge in connection with the | saying of her husband, Moyne | John Edwards.
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