Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1943 — Page 1
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FINAL HOME
VOLUME 54—NUMBER 113
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1943
GAS CUT SEEN
HERE WITHIN |
NEXT 60 DAYS
Completion of ‘Big Inch’ Pipeline to East Is Expected to Decrease Midwest Supply; Refineries Await Ickes’ Order.
By HELEN RUEGAMER A shortage of gasoline is developing in the Middlewest and within 60 days will be serious enough to necessitate a
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' cut in the gasoline rationing quotas of Midwest motorists, officials of local refineries and oil companies predicted today. | Meanwhile, ‘‘too liberal” gasoline allotments for Marion | county motorists was given 2: one reason for the lack of Ll PLAN UNIT response of the motorists in| renewing their A book ap-| With the last coupon, No. 6, in| the old A books expiring at mid- | i ——— night tonight and No. 7 in the new! books becoming valid tomorrow, Regular Commission to Get about half of the county's drivers) . . have applied for new A books. | Key Role in Setting Up Robert W. Fleischer, chairman of | : local rationing board 49-11 which | Post-War Outline. handles all gasoline applications, | y | said that only 50,000 of an antici-| By SHERLEY UHL ot pated 85,000 applications have peen| The mechanics of post-war plan- " received. In one large war plant ning here will be operated through a _Jraction over 50 per cent of the | the city Pian commission and | Decessary Blanks. | department, it was learned today. : Plan Commission President John Refiners’ Supply Dwindles |W. Atherton will consult tomorrow | Although gasoline wholesalers with Mayor Tyndall and budget and filling station operators are aides on the amount of the appronot yet feeling the shortage of priation to be included in the 1944 gasoline in this area, the refiners budget for planning purposes. are watching their supplies dwin-|
ling day by day. | expenses for next year probably | According to officials of local re-! would approximate $25,000, with the |
fineries, there is no overall short- | possibility that as much as $100,000 age of fuel, but the scarcity is be- might be sought soon for launching ing created by: lof a thoroughfare expansion pro- | 1. The completion of the pipe line gram. which will divert 300,000 barrels of | Under the new arrangement,| from the Midwest to the East planning expenses would be partly coast. borne by a special tax levy which 2. The government's plan to | | would fluctuate in accordance with equalize gas rationing by cutting | the ups-and-downs of appropriation | the quota in this territory and rais- machinery. However, Mr, Atherton | {iz it in the East. [pointed out that for immediate 3. A reduction in the run of crude | financing, the resulting increased | iC to local refineries. |tax rate would prove “negligible” | "AR executive of one refinery | 25 far as the average taxpayer is prophesied that the gasoline ration | concerned. for Indianapolis motorists would be | In announcing the key role of the; cut from four to two and one-half planning board. Mayor Tyndall and or three gallons per A book stamp. Date of Cut Unknown | As to when the cut would come, an OPA official stated that it depends on when Petroleum Admin-! istrator Harold L. Ickes “makes up | his mind.” while an oil man opined | that the middle of August or first of September would see motorists | with less gas. With the completion of the “big inch” oil pipeline, oil will flow from the Southwest and Midwest direct | to the East where that area's reserve | supply, now dangerously low, will WASHINGTON, be built up. At the same time the —ReD. Richard B. (Continued on Page Four) | (R. Mass.) | whether
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Japanese Report
All-Rubber Boat
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.). ~—Japan is reported to have accumulated so much surplus of
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no way would it detract from the! YCoittinuey on Rage Paw
ASKS IF ICKES QUIT AFTER GIVING TALK
Wigglesworth Sees Speech
As Challenge to F. D. R.
Wiggleswor thy wanted to know today! Secretary of the Interior! Ickes’ latest speech was accompanied by his resignation. | He referred to an address in New | | York yesterday in which Ickes de- | fended Washington “bureaucrats” but suggested that those who] {thought the war effort was being | {bungled should blame dollar-a-year \businessmen who, he said, were,
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rubber in her captured territories that she is using it for boots and ghoes, for rubber ships, and has now on hand a 1,000,000-ton stockpile promised to Germany and Italy—after the war. That part about Germany and
Italy being in a position to get |
supplies from Japan after the war came from German sources, and was reported here by the Netherlands information bureau. The Dutch agency quoted a Nazi-controlled Dutch newspaper
running the war. | Wigglesworth also referred to | President Roosevelt's reeent note to! |all department heads to refrain [from airing disputes in the ea] {but that if they felt that they must | [to send him resignations at the same time. “Mr. Ickes apparently lenging both the other bureau chiefs to new com[bat,” Wigglesworth said. “The {question arises whether his resig- | Fags accompanied his challenge. | as the president He instiuetea. »
is chal- | president and!
| the burning plane,
LE) TERMS OF
12 IN RICHMOND STRIKE TO1DAY
Better to Have Men on Jobs
Than in Prison, Says Schricker.
Governor Schricker today comtences of the 12 union members who were sentenced to prison terms on charges of resisting an officer following the strike battle at the International Harvester plant at Richmond in March, 1941. He ignored, however, the pleas of school fund officials of Wayne and Randolph counties that the $100 | fines of the 13 convicted strikers be remitted. One man, Clarance Mat[tix of Richmond, was given only a $100 fine by the court. Two of the 12 men with prison Cecil Appleby and John J. Semetulskis, both of Chicago, are lin the army and they will serve | their one-day after their return, unI further clemency is granted.
10 &t Putnamville
The other 10 reported at the state farm at Putnamville today. They were released immediately as it is prison custom to count the day of release as one day of the sentence. The governor said he was com-
| muting the sentences of the con- | victed strikers because they were all
engaged in essential war work and jobs.
the International Harvester Co. at | Richmond and two others are ‘working for other war plants. The governor said that the men were all reputable citizens with | families and that many of them had been with the International | | Harvester Co. for many years, some
It was understood that operating Of them being foremen.
“I've tried to exercise clemency not only in this case but in all cases where men are usefully em- | ployed,” he said. “The truth of the matter is that |the higher-ups who were responsible for inciting the trouble at Rich‘mond were never touched.” Pleas for clemency were sent to | the governor by the convicted men.
Prosecutor Objects The governor said that the In-
ternational Harvester Co. raised no | objection to the clemency action |
ut that the prosecuting attorney | of Wayne county did register his objection by letter. The 10 men who reported at Put-
Richmond; Robert Foley, Paul] |Chuey, Thomas Dublinski, Bruno | Gawalek, John Hull, Willard Klep- | ser, Allan Kryzwda. Edward Waz- | ‘niak and Stanley Wronski, | Chicago. Kerr, who was president of the Richman local of the farm imment workers’ union, and Foley WH 90-day sentences and $100! fines. The others received 69-day sentences and $100 fines. Another man who was convicted! in the lower court was acquitted |
|weeks ago.
Thought of Hubby,
She Saves Pilot |
WYANDANCH, N. Y., July 21 (U. P.).—An unknown pilot owed his life today to Mrs. J. B. Smith, who fought her way through the flames of his crashed plane to
| rescue him because she thought
he might be her husband. Mrs. Smith saw the plane crash near her home yesterday afternoon. Calling neighbors to help ner, and several axes and raced toward where the pilot was trapped in the cockpit. “I thought it was my husband in the plane—and I wasn't going to iet him burn to death,” she said. Her husband is a lieutenant in
muted to one day the prison sen-
of |
she collected a step-ladder |
‘Moscow Sou Believed to|
as saying that Japan has announced the construction in Java of a large freighter built entirely of rubber, which is scheduled to bring a cargo to Japan, and there be scrapped for rubber.
HE BOMBED TOKYO.
| ARLINGTON, Mass., | P.).—Capt. Howard A. Sessler) {bombed Tokyo with Maj.
URGES PERMANENT OCD
CLEVELAND, June 21 (U. P,).— Warning that the United States | may still be bombed, Civilian De- | fense Director James M. Landis said today he believed that civilian defense organization should be maintained after the war—just in case.
[10 gallons | asked for 40 gallons.
gasoline to visit friends and relatives while on furlough. His only comment was that he would “have to go by train, but it seems kind of slow traveling to me.”
EDITORS BLAME FOOD CRISIS ON CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P)). 12, —Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins (R. O.), ‘10| chairman of the Republican con10| gressional food study committee, . 9 Movies 13 said a poll of 1000 publishers and 17 Obituaries .... 8 editors showed that most of them ..17| Pegler ..10 blamed the food shortage on mis10 Pyle 9 management in Washington. Edson 10 Radio . _. 17, Jenkins placed Fashions ......11 Mrs. Roosevelt g sional Record the comments of edyFinancial _ 14 Service Page. .18 itors and publishers. Forum Side Glances. 10 Freckles | Society ....11, 12] Hold Evything 9 Sports ...... 6, 7| Homemaking 12 State Deaths. . 8 In Indpls . 2 War Living .. 3 Inside Indpls. | Weller ane dd 9am... B88 :
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10am 11am 12 (Noon)... 91 ipm...,.9»n”
BUT NOW RIDES TRAIN
July 21 (U.|
Gen, | | James Doolittle, has been allotted |
The ration board made the ruling | yesterday but Sessler appealed for|
in the Congres- |
| the air corps. Three men helped Mrs. Smith | chop off the door of the plane and cut away the seat to rescue the flier. All were burned. The name of the pilot was not released by army authorities, but they said he was not injured seriously.
of gasoline though he yRGE END TO STRIKE THREAT
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P). —The war labor board today urged employees ef the Bell Aircraft Corp., Buffalo, N. Y., to withdraw a strike threat.
Pedestrians' 'Go' Gets a Stretch
Now pedestrians will be able to walk, not run, across downtown intersections. Within the next few days Gamewell mechanics will lengthen the cycle on downtown stop and go signals to increase pedestrian crossing time from 17 to 21 seconds. City Traffic Engineer J. T. Hallett said the alteration will enable motorists traveling 14 miles an hour to make a succession of green lights. At present downtown signals are synchronized for 17% -mile-an-hour driving.
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PRICE FOUR CENTS
‘he wanted them to stay on their
Eight of the men are working for | Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr, commanding the U.
from Italians in Sicily.
Ernie Takes a Look at Enemy Dum Dums Allied C
S. "th army, shows Times Columnist Ernie Pyle (center) and United Press Correspondent Chris Cun ningham (right) a handful of dum dum bullets taken
Line Opposite (U. P.).—Allied troops seized
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Eisenhower
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apture of Enna Forces; Eisenhower Says Foe May Defend
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
ALLIES SLICE SICILY IN HALF; AXIS GETTING REINFORCEMENT
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Splits Enemy's
Italian Boot.
North Africa, July 21 control of central Sicily today
with the capture of the important junction of Enna and
announced that the axis ap-
parently is planning to make a stand in northeastern Sicily,
‘opposite, the toe of the Italian boot. With the enemy withdrawing its forces in all sectors
‘except on the east coast, the Algiers port of Catania is being at-~
‘tacked from all sides and is lexpected to fall “at any mo-
ment.” | “The enemy moving in some | reinforcements and apparently |plans to defend a line opposite the 'base of the Italian boot,” said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
The effect of the capture of Enna ‘was to split Sicily in half, with the allies controling all territory south {of a line running from Catania on the east coast to Enna and thence | southwestward to a point beyond | Agrigento, where the Americans | were still advancing. |
Canadians Closed In
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BOOST VALUES | ON 3 UTILITIES
$910,530 Over 1942, Tax Board Says.
By EARL RICHERT
| three Indianapolis utilities | been increased $910.530 over
ported today. Biggest increase was in the as-| sessed valuation of Indianapolis
Mr. Atherton emphasized that in!namville today were Clifford Kerr, | Railways, Inc, from $5.250.000 to]
$5,900,000. The appraised value of | the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. | for taxation purposes was increased
| $233,530, from $37,872,285 to $38,-|
105,815. {| The assessed valuation of the oh | dianapolis Water Co. was raised only $27,000 to $15,372,600.
Telephone Assessment Higher
| One of the biggest increases utility assessments in the state was! {that of the Indiana Bell Tele | Co. The company was assessed at) $43,669,000, an increase of $2,188, -
July 21 (U. P. bv the state supreme court a few 237 over the 1943 figure.
| The valuation of the Public Serv-
ice Co. of Indianapolis was
| is $56,947,000. |" The assessed valuations announced | {by the tax board include both the assessments made by the local as|sessors on the property and improvements of the utilities and the! (Continued on Page Four)
REFUGEES URGE FREE GERMANY
Reflect Soviet Idea.
MOSCOW, July 21 (U. P.).—A Committee to Free Germany today indicated that the Soviet
Union favors a free, independent,
in the reich after the war. The manifesto—signed by Ger-| man refugee leaders and addressed | to the German soldiers and people | —urged the Germans to turn their | guns against the Nazi leaders and set up a new regime to make peace with the allies. The manifesto op- | posed dismemberment of Germany | after the axis is liquidated. Observers said that the mani-|
7 declaration of Premier Josef v.! Stalin, which said the Nazi state and army must and can be de-| stroyed but the German people, the army and state are indestructible, no less than Russia, is indestructible. The newly formed committee represents war prisoners and refugee German writers, deputies and labor leaders.
SHIPS REACH TURKEY
By UNITED PRESS The first allied cargo ships to reach Turkey from America by way of the Mediterranean arrived without a scratch, the British radio said today.
States, carrying military and ecivilian supplies, mostly lend-leasc to Turkey. They had a formidable fighter cover Sheough ye Sicafan channel,
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BY MEDITERRANEAN
They were three freighters! from the east coast of the United
| Edward Moore,
Hoosier Heroes
S. Sgt. Moore| Killed in Raid|
Local Assesment Are Up In the Pacific
Killed THE DEATH of 8. Sgt. James
husband of Mrs.
| Jan Moore, Carmel, has been con-
The total assessed valuations of the | have | the |
| 1942 figures, the state tax board re- ’ . | | action in the South Pacific area
raised | C. B. | over $3,690,000. The 1943 valuation gecret
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manifesto published by the National!
democratic and anti-Fascist regime |
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festo was consistent with the Nov. [Slat
firmed by the war department in a letter received Monday. Sgt. Moore, a gunner on Liberator bomber was killed
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on June 28, His wife received the first notice of his death exactly a year from the date he entered service on July 7, 1942. The sergeant, who was also assistant aerial engineer. was at {GURAWER on Page Foy)
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VATICAN OFFICIAL RECEIVES U, 3. AIDE
phone Axis Assarts San Lorenzo
Damage Discussed.
BERN, July 21 (U. P.) Msgr. | Montini, Vatican ary of state, reportedly .con-| ferred for an hour and a half to{day at Rome with Harold S. Tittman, U. S. charge d’'-affaires at on the damage done ito the Basilica of San Lorenzo Duori Le Mura during the bomb- | ing of Rome, axis reports said. Osservagpre Romano, official Vatorgan, reported that Pope
assistant
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Solomons, ready numbers at last 5000 men.
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Immobilize
Throw in Fresh Divisions
The whole southern front, from Orel to the Sea of Azov, was ablaze a With Russian forces advancing at all key points after fording the northern Donets and Mius rivers. | Gains ranged up to seven and al in the Orel,
| being driven steadily
line for evacuation or
organ Red Star Orel in the near
radio said that the key
roads leading to all corners of the island. French Goumiers, native Moroctan troops, participated in the allied advance. The Canadians closed in on Enna from the southeast, breaking through stubborn enemy resistance, while the American Tth army reached the road junction from the southwest, after flanking operations that carried some units farther northward toward the coast, Of greatest importance, however, was the seizure of the road network centering at Enna. The axis, with mid-island defenses crumbling, was back toward northeast Sicily and its main com« munication lines are vanishing except on the north coast. The rearguard action fought by the enemy in the Enna sector as well as the fierce battle at Catania were regarded as designed to gain time while the main axis forces fall back toward Messina, only a few miles from the toe of the Italian boot. Two Divisions Retreat
Two axis armored divisions were among the enemy forces falling back from the Enna area. At Catania, however, enemy resistance continued strong against the 8th army of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. Field dispatches (Continued on Page Four)
Russians Drive Behind Orel.
Nazi Life Lines
MOSCOW, July 21 (U. P.).—Russian troops drove in behind Orel to
Bryansk railroad today, practically
reinforcement of the . editorially future,
predicted a
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so far futile attempt to stem Soviet advances from the south, east and north that threatened to cut off some 250,000 enemy troops in a new “Stalingrad.” Advances of 3% to 6'4 miles on Orel’'s defense perimeter, the cap=ture of at least 50 additional vil lages, the killing of 7500 enemy troops and the wrecking of 86 tanks on Orel's defense perimeter yestere
day alone were announced.
While armored spearheads deep= ened their penetrations on three sides, infantry mopped up the rear, widening the breaches. Soviet forces at one peint were less, than 12 miles east of Orel.
Counter-Attack Fiercely North of Orel, the Germans have
| nearest south coast port at Gela, tain roads. 3 JAP VESSELS of Sicily and a considerable number part of the island, especially along ‘on a high horseshoe-shaped hill in Thwarted. the allies control of a network of U. 3. bombers sank three and he | attempt yet to reinforce their base One light cruiser and two and| destroyer and a transpori were immobilizing the only out of the range of American | Yhe' official Soviet army start of the allied offensive that|Dad ordered his army to hold Orel ‘on the southeastern coast of Kolom- (Tiortuge of tanks and troops. The garrison there al- the Orel-Bryansk railway, the Munda Is Surrounded | ened German garrison to the east surrounded, Gen. Douglas Macof time, linforcement to the enemy danger- | — | terioration of his beleagured garri-| Rome indicated that none of | Night-prowling American CataMaj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, ei
Enna represented an advance of about 35 air line miles from the but the troops covered many more BOMBERS SINK miles in their offensive over mounThe allied forces now occupy onehalf of the 10,000-square mile island of axis troops, including Germans, were believed cut off in the western Attempt to Sunny Enemy the American 7th army front. : i | The fall of Enna, a town of 27,000 Big Base at Vila | mid-Sicily. cut off German and {Italian rear guard troops and gave ALLIED HEADQUARTERS | Southwest Pacific, July 21 (U, P.).— ably four warships yesterday smash the largest-scale Te at Vila in the central Solgpmons, a communique announced today.’ probably three destroyers were! ; blasted to the bottom, and another within less than five miles of the The surviving vessels of hard-pressed German base. the 11-ship convov fled northward bombers. victorious end of the battle of It was the first time since the! Other reports said Adolf Hitler the Japanese have used transports! {at all Sos: and gh rhe UeHnaD: in heir attempts to build up vila, Vere bee nning to suffer from a bangara island, to replace Munda | Striking on southward from capas their main base in the central|tured Studenkovo, five miles above | | Russians brought it within easy | gunshot, range and left the threatMunda. on New Georgia island Without a feeder line, field dissoutheast of Vila, virtually has been | patches revealed. Arthur's communique said, and its capture is believed only a matter “Tightening investment at Mund | now has rendered supply and reous and difficult,” the communique | “Slow, but constant, de-|half miles yesterday CAIRO, July 21 (U. P.).—Aerial | son can be expected unless our photographs of the bombing of | blockading ring can be broken.” “the religious and cultural- [lina flying boats spotted the Vilamonuments” were damaged, {Caitinged cn Page Faun American Middle East command, said ‘today.
U, S. SURFACE SHIPS SHELL KISKA JAPS
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Pius, after a visit to the Basilice, [spoke to the crowd that saw him leave Vatican City and am
| areas and scores of towns and vil-
Belgorod, Izyum and Taganrog
been ousted from all their main intermediary defenses and now are clinging desperately to high river banks and numerous ravines on the immediate approaches to the city, from which they counter-attack furiously and frequently, the army organ Red Star said. Overwhelming enemy opposition, (Continued on Page Four)
lages were recaptured. fLondon heard reports that Premier Josef Stalin had gone to the front to direct the offensives.) The Germans threw fresh divisions, including at least one that had been scheduled to leave for Sicily, into battle in a desperate but |
"Grim Fellow Death’ Was Third
‘war labor board.
approximately $2000 for reiief of persons suffering losses. (Berlin radio broadcast a DNB (agency Rome dispatch saying the pope was considering moving irom! [the Vatican to one of the Palaces | lin the center of Rome in event of further raids. According to this |aispatch, the pope, not only {head of the Catholic church but! las Bishop of Rome, wished .to| |share the “fate of the Roman pcp-
MINERS TO STUDY
OUTLOOK ON WAGES
| sonnel injuries were sustained.
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U.P). — John L. Lewis today summoned his United Mine Workers policy committee to another meeting tomorrow to discuss the outlook for a new wage agreement for coal miners under government imposed restrictions. | The meeting came amid evidence that coal operators were seeking the basis of an agreement which would satisfy both Lewis and .the
STASSEN TO GRADUATE NEW YORK, July 21 (U. P) -| Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, former | governor of Minnesota, will be graduated from the navy indoctri-
nation and advanced training school |
at Pt. Schuyler, Friday, the third |
naval district announced today.
Continue Attack Designed
To Soften Isle’s Defenses.
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P)). —Two light U. 8S. surface ships shelled Japanese positions on Kiska
2s | yesterday, continuing the series of| air and sea attacks designed to]
soften the island’s defenders. A navy communique also said that three Japanese hombers dropped several bombs on Americanheld Funafuti, one of the Ellice islands in the South Pacific. No damage was reported and no per-
Rick's Son Now A Leatherneck
NEW YORK, July 21 (U.P). —David Edward Rickenbacker, 18, son otf Eddie Rickenbacker, first world war ace, was sworn in as a marine corps private yesterday and will report in two weeks for basic training at Parris Island, N. C. The youth said he wanted to be an airplane mechanic, not a pilot like his father, and selected the marines because they “always are in action and in the thick of things.”
Figure at Hitler-Duce Confab
Scripps-Howard
and Benito Mussolini
| relations.
Then they were boastfully on the offensive. It was for the allies to | wonder and worry where the next! blow would fall. Today it is the bellowing broggarts themselves who are on tne) defensive. This time it is for them to worry and wonder where the scene of the next disaster will be. Seldom have the tables been so| completely tured. | On July 25, 1942, Rad'c Rome | was saying: “In Russia, Africa and | the Mediterranean—wherever they, are—the axis soldiers are winning. | The U-boats are so numerous and powerful that they have browght | about strategic paralvsis in London and Washington.” On July 26, the Frankfurter Zeitung said: “Today one does not talk about the conquest of Tripoli by the British, or of Anglo-Saxon landing and action in West Africa, of about Sicily or other such ob(Continued on Page Four)
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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON. July 21.-—-Monday’'s meeting between Adolf Hitler “somewhere in northern Italy,” the Berlin radio, is one of the most significant in all their personal
as reported b:
Heretofore these two warlords have met in their self-styled capacities of supermen, the masters of Etirope and eresiols o a ‘new order.”
On the War Fronts
(July 21, 1943)
SICILY—Americans and Canadians capture Enna, giving allies con= trol of heart of Sicily, and clear= ing way for drive to north coast to split axis defense armies; Brit= ish fight heavy battle on approaches to east coastal port of Catania.
RUSSIA-—Soviet army closes against Orel, capturing 50 villages and killing. 7500 Germans, and te the south crosses northern Donets and Mius rivers in attacks along 450-mile front.
PACIFIC—American bombers sink one Japanese cruiser and two, possibly three, destroyers, In wrecking enemy attempt to re= inforce Vila base in central Solomons.