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Enemy Attempt to Supply Base at Vila Is Thwarted.
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bound convoy early yesterday trying to sneak down the west coast] of Kolobangara under cover of darkness. Sprawled out on the inky sea below were three light cruisers, six destroyers and two trans-| ports. | An alarm was sent back to headQuarters and forces of four-engined! Liberators, Mitchell medium bomb-| ers and Avenger dive bombers re-| sponded. | As they approached, the two] transports with an escort of three | destroyers, separated and headed | for Vila while the other warships! stood off as protective cover. The bombers attacked both formations with bombs ranging up! to 500-pounders. When the smoke cleared, the surviving enemy ships had withdrawn without their objective. Two medium and! two dive bombers were lost. The latest successes boosted the number of Japanese ships sunk by! allied warships and planes in the first 21 days of the central Solomons campaign to 29, the number probably sunk to four and the number damaged to 11. Nearly all were hit while trying to push] through supplies or reinforcements to Vila or Munda. A strong force of Liberators early Wuesday pounded Kahili airdrome in the Buin-Faisi area of the northern Solomons, from which the Vapanese have been sending aerial] support and reinforcements to the! central Solomons, Forty-two tons of bombs were dropped starting fires and explosions. One unit bombed the adjacent Ballale airdrome and ran into night fighter opposition. One night fight- | er was shot down, but one Liberator was lost. Attack
Dive bombers also attacked Japnese gun positions in the Lambeti plantation area of Munda with 138 tons of bombs in direct support of | American ground forces, who at one point are at the outskirts of he Munda landing field. At the opposite end of the 750- | mile south-southwest Pacific front, | Douglas attack planes made nine strafing runs over Komiatum, six miles southwest of the big Japanese New Guinea base of Salamaua, rak- | ing bivouac areas and adjacent] trails. Australian and American] troops were closing in on Komiatum | from three sides. A strong force of Mitchell me- | dium bombers resumed large-scale | attacks on Madang, 150 miles north- | west of Salamaua, dropping 30 tons | of bombs on the base. Supply | dumps and installations also were} strafed heavily. Large, spreading fires were started.
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Covered by a heavy smoke screen, the first wave of American assault forces speed toward Rendova American marines and sol diers left Guadalcanal at dawn to keep a date with | the nearby Nipponese who soon succumbed to the U. S. callers.
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Eisenhower Says Axis Is Being Reinforced for Stand.
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said that the battlefields south of Catania were strewn with German dead and wrecked tanks of the
Hermann Goering division, while allied warships and airplanes hammered at the coastal road leading northward to Messina. Prisoners taken in Sicily were estimated to total around 40,000, more than half of them taken by the Americans. As usual, Italian prisoners complained that the Germans took their transport and fled, leaving the Italians to walk. They | also complained that the Italian government had given them little equipment with which to fight. Allied airplanes battered the enemy rear lines throughout Sicily yesterday as the Americans, Cana-
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Local Assessments Are Up, $910,530 Over 1942, Tax Board Says.
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and towns north of Orel and sliced across an important highway that linked the German garrison with
several fortified points and supply
bases in a fierce battle that lasted from dawn to dusk. East of Orel, the Russignhs cap{tured 20 additional villages, includthe railroad town of Voro“waterline.” |
Nearly 4300 German officers and |
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wrecked.
GOP Sees Record Vote by Women
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P)). —The Republicans are counting on a larger feminine vote next year to help them win the presidential election. Marion Martin, assistant chairman of the Republican national committee, predicted in an interview that many more women would vote in 1944 than ever before because of increased activities outside the home. “Women will carry the election next year,” she said, “and they will vote Republican. Women are conservative and want sound administration.” Miss Martin is executive director of the National Federation of Women's Republican clubs, which she says has grown by 10,000 members since January. The federation does not favor any one presidential candidate at this time, she said. “It is our job to elect—not seshe said.
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WASHINGTON, July 21 (U.P) .— Employment of civilians in the executive branch of the federal is still increasing, reaching a total of 3,029,000 in | May, but is beginning to taper off, | according to figures released today! by the civil service commission. About 23.000 persons were added to federal payrolls during May, in contrast to monthly jumps of as much as 140,000 during 1942. The navy and agriculture de-
present increase, and women are slipping into federal jobs than men with nearly [employed at the end of May.
“THREE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK, NAZIS’ CLAIM
LONDON, July 21 (U. P).—German speedboats sank two British and another 3000-ton ship and damaged an 8000-ton ves-
|sel in a raid on Syracuse harbor, a
| DNB (German) ‘news agency dispatch broadcast by Berlin radio said ; today. One destroyer was described as being of the Jervis class and the second as a medium-sized, one-fun-‘nel warship.
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Crude Oil Decreases
Already the run of crude oil to| local refineries has been cut 10 per) Another reduction is expected |
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the next few years, States will become an oil import nation. Storage facilities at the three local refineries—Shell, and Rock Island—come to more than 25,000,000 gallons. However, ‘the tanks are never filled to caRight now they are at the minimum low due to the increased traveling and farm needs in the [summer time.
'ASSURES COMMONS OF FASCIST OUSTING
LONDON, July 21 (U, P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and| | Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden | assured questioners in the house of commons today that the Fascist [regime and all Fascist appointees | will be eliminated in all occupied Italian territory. Laborite Ivor Thomas asked as- | surance that no collaborationist or
| Quisling regime would be established | here today with his bride, the for-| stands at $12,923,000,000.
{after the unconditional surrender |of the Italian armies. “One of the avowed aims of the British government,” Eden said, “is| the elimination of the Fascist regime, and you may be assured this aim will continue to be puisued.”
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fon the utilities themselves. The state tax board increased the assessed valuation of all utilities in the state $73,591,431 over the assessment of 1942. This figure does not
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local assessors of the utilities’ real estate and improvements. The total tax board asessment of 1843 of all utilities in the state is |$701,026,775. The utilities will pay taxes next year based on the assessed valuations fixed this year. The tax board now is in the process of allocating and certifying its assessments to the various taxing units of the state, The largest increase made by the tax board in any group of utilities Iwas in the electric railroads. was due to the increase in business the few remaining electric lines have enjoyed during 1942. Substantial increases in assessments, due to improved business | conditions, were made also on steam railroads, sleeping car companies, car equipment companies and ex- | press companies. The percentage of increase of the
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1043 assessment over 1942 was 11.72. |In 1942, the state board increased |
| the assessment of utilities a total {sum of $22,799,281 over the assessment of 1941.
'MAHARAJAH, BRIDE HONEYMOON IN EAST
PHILADELPHIA, July 21 (U.P). —The Maharajah of Indore, 33, | generally considered the world’s wealthiest man, was honeymooning
mer Mrs. Buphemia Watt Crane, 29. The couple, traveling as Mrs. Y. R. Holkar, were stopping at a local hotel although they were not | ‘registered. They were traveling without servants and requested no special facilities, hotel attendants | said.
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Figure at Hitler-Duce Confab
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determined to administer,the coup (de grace to Chungking.” Said radio Vichy on July 29: “The | Soviet army has suffered such a! Se Teas that it can be assumed that | t will soon cease to be a danger.” I That was a year ago. | Yet today it is the allies who are ‘winning everywhere—the |menace is less than at any time since the outbreak of the war. | Whole armies of our crossing the Atlantic without the loss of a single ship or a man. We no longer have to “talk about the conquest” of Tripoli or North { Africa because they are ours. Sicily is virtually in our hands. In Rus-
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Obviously it! was the disastrous turn of the tide | |that brought them together. What | (did they talk about? Some of the |shrewdest observers here think Hitler probably went to Italy for a personal appraisal of the situation! —much as a ruler might visit the {scene of an earthquake-—to see what could be salvaged. Italy presumably still has an} army and an air force, battered | though they are. And she still has a navy. It has been whittled down,
auxiliaries. They are doing no good in hiding—so, it is thought, Hitler may be taking stock for a do-or-die effort to stop or slow |down the relentless allied advance. | There is a question, however, | whether the Italians are in a mood | to be driven. It is recalled that the | kaiser tried to do the same thing with his fleet hiding in Kiel in 1918 and ran into a mutiny, The Ger[man crews refused to commit sui- | cide. It is also possible: that II Duce has come to realize that he and Fascist Italy are doomed. And Hitler, so informed, went to Italy to talk things over. In any event, whatever the two figures discussed, they almost certainly did so in the presence of a third—the grim fellow with the scythe—representing their ultimate defeat and their political, if not physical death. It probably was not a cheerful party.
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dians and Goumiers hacked their way over rough mountain terrain to Enna. Raddusa, midway between Enna and Catania, was hard Lit by Mitchell bombers which started big fires and caused explosions. The | allied planes encountered no axis | Ali opposition. Allied bombers also lol Valentia and other airfields in southern Italy, while heavy | bombers struck at rear bases ag far north as the Naples area. (Radio Cairo said the fall of Catania was imminent, A London broadcast reported that allied warships were shelling the coastal road from Catania to Messina, 58 miles to the north.)
DR. MOHLER, USDA OFFICIAL, RETIRES
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.. —The agriculture department today announced the retirement of Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the bureau of animal industry, one of the world's best-known veterinarians and animal pathologists, During 46 years of service with the animal bureau, Mohler sponsored many vital activities of the government, such as federal meat inspection and the suppression of | tuberculosis in cattle. Succeeding Mohler, ing at the age of 68, | W. Miller, assistant {bureau since 1928, years old.
JUNE LEND-LEASE EXCEEDS BILLION
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.). —The value of lend-lease aid to the allies increased during June to $1,030,000,0000—the first month it |has exceeded the billion-dollar mark, Lend-Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius Jr. announced today. Wi June total is an increase of 240,000,000 over May. The record Yunt total included $570,000,000 orth of munitions, $237,000,000 of | industrial items, $147,000,000 of | foodstuffs and $76,000,000 in services. Total lend-lease aid to date now
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‘WORKERS INCREASE BY 66,000 IN JUNE
{| WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P).— Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins | | reported today an increase during | (June of 66,000 workers in nonagricultural establishments, bringing the total in that field to 38,328,000, + 1,663,000 more than in June, (1042. SHe said the June gain reflected x addition of 100,000 workers to the manufacturing division and 62, 000 to the transportation and public utilities division, with “the only {sizable decline” being release of 99,000 employees brought about by the completion of several federal construction contracts.
‘PLAN G. 0. P. PARLEY ON POST-WAR POLICY
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P). |—Chairman Harrison E. Spangler of the Republican national come [mittee today invited Chairman {Deneen A. Watson of the Repub{lican Post-War Policy association to confer with him here next Monday or Tuesday. Watson's organization, a selfstyled “pressure group,’ is ate tempting to organize rank and file {party opinion in favor of United | States world collaboration to guarantee peace. The national committee has sponsored ils own study of post-war problems by a council of 49 recently named by Spangler.
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NAZIS CONTROL ALL NORWAY NEW YORK, July 21 (U, P).— Cato Hambro, 32, son of Dr. C. J. Hambro, former head of the Norwegian parliament, said today that after three years of occupation the Germans control every phase of civilian life in Norway.
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January. He is survived by his wife, an employee at P. R. Mallory Co, Inc, who is receiving training at Technical high school; two small daughters, Toni, who is 3, and Maxie, age 5; his mother, Mrs. Eva Moore, who lives in Oolitic; four sisters, and a brother Elbert, who is with the army overseas. Sgt. Moore was born at Flora, Ill, but spent most of his life near Bedford. He attended schools at Oolitic and Mitchell and was graduated from Oolitic high school in 1932. Employed at a Shelbyville dairy at one time he was a civilian worker on the Camp Atterbury project at the time of his enlistment. He had received training at Las Vegas, Nev.; Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; Tuscon, Ariz.; Topeka, Kas.; Alamagordo, N. M, and Hamilton field, Cal. ”
Honored
MR. AND MRS. HENRY E. MORGAN, 76 Whittier pl, received a letter this morning ade, vising them that the order of the purple heart had been awarded posthumously to their son, Pvt. Murray W. Morgan, who died of wounds received in action in North Africa on May 7. Pvt. Morgan enlisted in the army air corps on Aug. 24, 1942, and was trained at Camp Wheeler Ga, as a ranger. He went across the last of March this year. The parents received a letter written from him in April in which he said he had never gotten any mail. The next word they had was of his death. A graduate of Technical high school, Pvt. Morgan attended the Utah State Agricultural college at Logan, Utah, for two years. He was a member of Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity. ” ” ”
THE SILVER STAR for “gallantry and intrepidity in action” has been awarded posthumously to Robert Merrill Shockley, carpenter's mate 1-¢, son of Mrs. Mabel E. Shockley, 1234 Sterling st. When informed by The Indianapolis Times of the award, Mrs. Shockley said that her son, who enlisted nine years ago at the age of 17, had his “heart and soul” in the navy. He left high school for naval service. The citation accompanying the medal, given by the commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, is as follows: “For gallantry and intrepidity in action as a member of the boarding party from a United States warship when he endeavored to board an intercepted blockade runner in the face of grave danger from fire and the explosions of demolition charges. While he was in the act of boarding an explosion, which rocked the runner, blew him into the water, from whence he was recovered. “The bravery and resolute action displayed in the action described reflect great credit upon the naval service.” Robert Merril Shockley, who would have been 26 last May 14, was wounded on March 10. He died on March 16 and was buried on foreign soil on the next day. He was born at Jamestown. His mother, who was widowed Robert was 5 years of age, is the last of the family. ” ” ”
INDIANA MEN who were honored recently are Capt. Lawrence P. Dwyer, Michigan City; S. Sgt. Frank M. Ketron, Richmond; S. Sgt. Earl H. Rheinhardt, Evansville, and S. Sgt. Homer O. Sheetz, Shoals, all of whom received the distinguished flying cross, and Cpl. Rufus BE. Streicher, Jasper, who received the soldier's medal.
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Mr. Atherton explained that be= cause the mayor's post-war committee had no legal status within the governmental frame-work, it was decided to dovetail its functions
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