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FUND COERCION Palermo 7st F.D.R, WORKS ON Palermo Captured os Allies BROOKS POWERS Yanks Travel LAKE YIELDS ALL STATUTE CITED City in Sicily, NEW PRICE PLAN Chase Axis Fleeing fo Coast FE] JAP TRAP 2400 Miles VIGTIMS' BODIES

* * { (Continued from Page One) | T * o Hit Japs! Pressure Upon Employees 6th n Emp ire P

bmission forces in western Sicily had with- ; ‘ (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) Illegal. Council Says in GOP Inquiry.

drawn to new positions “after bitter (Continued from Page One)

Last Taken From Water This Morning; Family h Gets Cheery Postcard.

As the families today made fu-

for the two | Indianapolis women who five large fires sprang up, Docks, | P

ti ted “Dunkirk” retreat across : igor Bl wide Messina sivall Battled for 31 Days Behind Enemy Lines Before |

to the Italian mainland. (Radio Algiers said that Catania Reaching Safety. (Continued from Page One)

Developed for Su

To Congress; Labor | fighting” with powerful enemy

|armored forces.) American armored units entered Palermo, the sixth largest city in {the Italian empire, Wednesday and occupation was completed at 10 a. that if any bright persoh could tell m. vestérday—only 13 davs after ; the administration how this law allied forces first swarmed ashore |hower's

anti-aircraft batteries put up an intense barrage, but it dwindled as the raid progressed.

fertile plain filled with orange and lemon groves. #8 & = ORIGINALLY settled the Phoenicians, the city is rich in historical background as the seat of the kings of Sicily when the island wag independent and the scene of many shifts involving of power in southern

was under attack from the north, as well as from the west and south, but this was not confirmed.) | “Fierce fighting continued south| of Oatania” Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- «aq the element of surprise and the operational communique ,iethod of infiltration to blast the

oh the southern beaches of the reported. |Japs out of their installations, has : |were drowned Wednesday in Lake island, Russell's dispatch from the Oa- now received three blanket presi« Warehouses and railway targets also

tania front sald that a small 8th gona) citations for its achieve | Were hit heavily with explosives and | WAWasee, state police this morning Bison ~——————atmy formation which had driven |fire bombs. All planes returned recovered the last of the bodies of LONDON, July 23 (U. P.).—New | across the plain to an area just hed by Le tol Ua | safely. the six victims of the tragedy. large-scale allied operations | Dela Se Taothilis hee og Aa sed by Lb Col. Carlson | The round-trip flight of 2400 miles | pe body of Miss Billie Binkley, againet western Europe that [nal Ww es 504) Wes 0" AUANIA| 14 is led by Lt. Col. Evans Fordyce exceeded by some 200 miles the ay Goshen, was taken from the might make the current Russo. | he , pulicy bags Parton Carlson, a marine military observer Previous record Southwest Pacific| oye waters early this morning, German fighting look like a local ProI€CUnE IRE Westernmos: Britisl wii, the Chinese rout army before flight to Macassar and compared | . « five wer bridgehead across the Simeto river { | tavorabl Ath long-distance raid (after the other five were recovered action can be expected, the axis- | : ‘Pearl Harbor, and has had Lt. Col. |favora y with long-dis ance ra 8| Wednesday night and yesterday. controlled Vichy radio sald today. | Canadians Advance | James Roosevelt, son of the presi- bY /erjan Sa Pacing planes |. he six Jost their lives when a SiX- : " on ake isla an ritis anes ; . Further west, Russell said, Ca- dent, as its executive officer, on Poland Ya pt Bush 1 [foot wave capsized their motor nadian troops advanced under a : : . launch during a violent wind and

After the declaration of war the scorching sun, though their drive marine corps gave Col. Carlson per- [rain storm, Bight others in the was hampered by German demoli-

mission to pattern a battalion after Soerabaja has been converted by boat were rescued. tions of strategic bridges and roads

the Chinese army, and enlisted the! : and by the generally rugged ter- help of Col. Roosevelt. It was e Japanese into their main sup Victims Vacationing rain,

merely an experiment then, but its Ply and reinforcement base for the The two local victims, who had Eisenhower's communique said the Success has paved the way for the Area northwest of Australia and yeep vacationing at the lake, wo Canadians were making “steady formation of other marine raider java is the most important indus- Miss Dorothy E. Beckerich, 21-yeéar-progress against fierce resistance.”

Demands Rollback.

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Direct hits were scored with 500- oral 1era pound bombs on an old refinery and |

by arrangements

resolution adopted unanimously by the council vesterday following dis-| closure that nine county highway | department emplovees walked oft! their jobs recently after refusing, te donate part of their wages to a highway department fund for the |

. : | Europe. Republican county committee. In the center of the old city are

buildings dating back to the Norman kings who had palaces on the island and the major church, first built nearly 800 years ago, was once a Saracen mosque. Near Palermo were waged some of the fiercest battles of the first Punic war when Hamilcar tried vainly to conquer the Romans. Later it was colonized by Latins. When the Roman Empire broke up. it was conquered successively by the vandals and the Saracens,

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could be carried out the adminisrators would be very grateful. The president said labor ‘is in a predicament like everybody else. Everybody is feeling the squeeze except some who have gotten salary raises, he said.

changes

Cauneil Calls Emplovees Claim Some Prices Level

He declared main essential articles of fcodi had = — ani been kept fairiy level. Then he ‘The fully-equipped Italian garridisclosed that new plans were be- son offered virtually no resistance ing developed. even though the axis had built some Asked for a general description of of Sicily's best defenses around the new plans, Mr. Roosevelt de- Palermo in the belief that it would ciined except to say that he would be the first objective of any inva-

like a new term instead of the much sion army. used “roliback.” | This lack of resistance indicated installations,

emplovees have! keen asked to appear before the county council tomorrow ering} to give details why they quit, espe-| cially regarding indirect pressure, | if any, used on them to make dona-| tions to the G. O. P. fund. The council's resolution stated that reports and rumors have been circulatéd that county employees] have been notified to donate part of their pay to one political group

The ex-county the prices of the

Concentrate on Munda

groups. [trial island in the Bast Indies.

or another. being returned to Christian rule “Any such contribution made un-; by the Normans. der duress directly or indirectly are & & # of deep concern to the taxpavers,” pROM THE 11th century until the resolution stated : 1860, when Garibaldi made it part It demanded that a sweeping in- Gf the newly-united Italy, Palvestigation be made of all requests) erg was the focal point of nufor contributions from county em-' perous changes in government. at ployees, times becoming the capital of in‘We'll Use All Laws” dependent Sicily when Bourbon . | kings won and lost in Europe. Addison J. Parry, council presi-| zpano of the buildings used by dent, said councilmen Were not Bo-/ {ha civil government in Palermo Ing to stand for any tactics thal, s.ie pack to 12th century. The would divert the taxpavers’ money! pujaspq chiaramohte, begun in into political channels. 1307, has been used in recent “If any public officials are using yeqi< ac the chief court building. the power of their offices to build ° ye harbor is northeast of the up political funds from workers’ pay city. toward Monte Pellegrono, checks, we will use all the laws on largest of the mountains in the the books to see that they are prose- semi-circle about Palermo.

cuted.” Mr. Parry said. : : a — Henry E. Ostrom, county Republi- GROCER AT CORYDON GETS STIFF PENALTY

|istration's

Labor's new attack on the admin- that Palermo’s program like those in other harbors captured

came a month after Mr. Roosevelt BY the allies along the southern and

had successfully defended food price ®AStErn shores, may have been taken angles of the program against con- intact. If so, the allies can quickiy

gressional attempts to ban rollback COnVert the port into a major naval base for operations in the Tyrrhenian

But now he i& threatened with S€® and possibly against the Italian higher wage demands by labor un- Mainland.

anti-inflation

subsidies,

less more prices are actually rolled |

| back—and soon.

President Roosevelt's tilt with!

jcongress was at the other end of

the price-wage tug-of-war. Con-| gress had attached a rider to a! commodity credit corporation bill prohibiting the use of subsidies to roll back the retail prices of food. | The chief executive vetoed the ! bill and congress sustained it. but only after he had called it “an inflation *bill, a high cost of living bill, a food shortage bill."

Issues Are Clouded The issues of food price controversy

ean committee chairman, said he will welcome any investigation into any illegal activities in connection with collection of campaign funds. | The most severe penalty vet are clouded by the claims and handed down by Indiana's OPA law counter-claims of various pressure enforcement officials was imposed groups. But skeletonized. they are: on a Corvdon grocer today. Farmers, business and industry—

Ostrum Cites Instructions funds must be on a strictly volun-| Clyde J. Treece, proprietor of the handlers of food and other! doesn’t want to.” he said. failure to register with his local have not been stabilized. wages to campaign funds with | selling goods in excess of ceiling been stabilized. But labor save that! that it is stopped.” | board so far. | Caught in the middle are conformer county highway department second 30 days is a probationary are the war agencies—OPA. WLB,

port Meantime, bombers of the northwest African air forees concentrated their bombloads on railroad targets on the Italian mainland. Heavy bombers, presumably Flving Fortresses, raided railroad communications at Foggia in eastern Italy and medium bombers attacked similar targets at Salerno, south of Naples. and Battapaglia. “Many bombs fell on the railroad tracks and on adjacent industrial buildings,” the communique said.

Germans Desperate

The desperate German stand just south of Catania obviously was designed to cover the retreat of other forces on the island in the Light bombers also attacked Salnortheastern corner for a final de-'eérno and the airfield at Capo laying stand and perhaps an at-! Dechino.

Duce Reported [ITALIAN GARRISONS Thin Man Now MAY BE PUSHOVERS

LONDON, July 23 (U. P).— | Daily: Herald Cairo dispatch said today that an “unquestionable source” reported Benito Mussolini had changed remarkably in appearance recently and had lost go much weight that he now was a thin man compared to his proportions a year ago. The old swashbuckling Il Duce with the famous jutting jaw has changed into an elderly, mildmannered Italian, this report said. He was said to have Jost all his remaining hair,

| (UL P) —Famine and isolation have (cut so deeply into morale of Italian ‘garrisons that the Cvelades and Dodie-canese islands may be push- | | overs for allied invasion, the pro- | British newspaper La Turquie said today, La Turquie said sea communica{tions between the Greek islands and [the Grecian mainland have been | severed since the last convey left! Piraeus for Crete in June, escorted | by Italian naval units and German | planes, Only planes, reserved to the mili: tary exclusively, are able to reach | Crete due to difficulties of getting

ISTANBUL, July 22 (Delaved)—|

Cpl. Powers was 10 and a student | In the central Solomons, Dauntat I'ranklin college when he enlist-|less and Avenger bombers and sd in (he marines in November of | Wildcat fighters flew 250 sorties in 1941. He was selected for Carlson's | & shuttle bombing of New Georgia, squad while training at San Diego [concentrating the main weight of and sent to Hawaii for the final | their os tons of S¥Ploaiges on “aE : . enemy defenses in the Munda area, hardening process, The aerial assault was in direct First Test Came support of American ground forces The first test for the experimental | SEE Tou New Suicide On CR IE he south Pacific headquarters of Adm. . oe : | William F. Halsey Jr. reported that

hard with only canned pineapple | , iors and marines were battling

and crackers ta eat during the Yap iin the jungle only a few thousand bombings. yards from the Munda air field. After the battle for Makin island, | Ground fighting also flared on the raiders moved on to Guadal-|the jungle approaches to Salamaua, canal, As a part of the initial land-| big Japanese base in New Guinea,

img forces, they sneaked through as enemy troops were repulsed with |

the Jap lines and were trapped heavy casualties in a series | there for 31 days of their two-month sharp clashes near stay on the island. | Namling and Tambu bay.

Cpl. Powers said 200 natives

guided them along the native trails of the Guadalcanal jungles, carry- VILLE FLIER and

| bronze oak [tained combat flying with the army air forces.

(Dean Yoder, {Miss Binkley, and Lloyd Conklin,

ing their ammunition, food supplies, When the battalion's food ran out, the men ate green baranas, cocoanuts, taro root, papia (tree melons) and green pineapples. For drinking water, they had the river,

Sent Overseas

Last February, Cpl. Powers was gent to an overseas hospital where he contracted malaria nine times and lost 58 pounds. He reached Ban Diego hospital the last of May, and arrived home on July 1 for a 30-day rest. Cpl Powers knows the Japs well

“I have instructed all party workers that collection of campaign tary basis. and that no government | Treece’s market at Corydon, re- basic commodities—all want higher | employee has to give » dime if he ceived a 60-day suspension for prices. They claim that their costs “If any Republican appointee Is war price and rationing board,| Labor wants higher wages. claimcoerced into donating part of his| posting incorrect point values and ing that the cost of living has not | threats that he will lose his job, I|prices. The OPA said Mr. Treece!it Will settle for a roll-back of exwish he would see me and I will see | had not registered with his ration cessive prices. Mr. Ostrom said he will attend | The first 30 days of the penalty sumers who, ironically, are memthe council meeting tomorrow when | becomes effective Aug. 1, and the bers of both sides. Trying to referee workers are expected to testify. period.

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ROME WAS BOMBED 10 SAVE LIVES-oR

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aside pleas that it be made an open | city. Within Rome. he said. there | are munitions plants, airports and railroad faciilties which carry guns. | (troops, and ammunition to southern | | Italy. When the Sicilian campaign be- | gan, Mr. Roosevelt said, he had to |

‘think of American boys who were |

Destruction Necessary The president decalled that, with!

the aid of the Italians, Germany|

had destroyed 4000 churches, hospitals and libararies in Britain, (did not believe in destruction for

ing the lives of our men at war was an inevitable necessity. Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether the bombings of Rome was the fulfillment of the warning he and Prime Ministery Churchill made to the people of Italy to “surrender of die.” He replied that the two things should not be confused, because one was the problem of an entire nation rand the other the problem of a city {venerated all over the world, but (used for military purposes. | Observers recalled the flouting by |axis powers of Mr. Roosevelt's ef- | forts at the beginning of the war to {obtain an agreement outlawing the bombing of civilians.

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convoys through and telephone and| pe thinks they've been overrated as telegraph communications are con- fighters but not in their crueity.

LEGISLATURES ACTS NEAR PROMULGATION trotiee by the Germans, the news-| pe claims that their main ad- | paper said, quoting refugees from vantage is their numbers.

|the island. Athens reportedly has| «prhey're like a bunch of received no news from any of the guitoes,” he said. “You get islands since June 15. land another jumps on you.”

- Ee A graduate of Tech, where he| PROMOTE SCOUTS played varsity football, Cpl. Powers | worked at Eli Lilly & Co. before he T0 CAMPER RANK entered Franklin college. He was taking a medical course when he Twentv-five Boy Scouts at Camp | jeft school as the first Franklin Chank-tun-un-gi received the rank qgjjege student to enter service. of camper yesterday and five the| a a of the governor. rank of woodsmen during the third “Manpower shortages in the! camping period, printing firms doing the work And| Campers are R. Kazee. Amy | SW aw of Jer an the Scheet Larry Poe, Billy ov BEAT BLOCKADE supply houses have caused the Tom Walker, Charles Schmaltz, J . P)~i unprecedented delay in getting the | Billy Clemons, J. Hickey, Phil Cou- DY el bai acts promulgated,” Mr. Alexander gj), Douglas Howard, Richard being on lonely back roads in this| Dreier, William Bakes, Raymond! ,, § | rket poultry | As far as it is known, this will | ere Lyle York, Donald VanTyle, | 508 today as Nias Wi a army | be the latest date in the state’s| john Bob Foutty, William Miller, | oi thrown over principal highhistory for promulgation of laws Norman Gaunalsen, Leo Terry, Phil | ways to trap truckloads of illegally passed by the previous general Boyd, Robert Amos, Robert Gatto, iced fowl assembly. | Wilbur Owen, Forest Cullings and | ? Government Most important of the laws, the! Richard Davis. effectiveness of which is being held | Woodsmen are Charles Willough- terday but agents and Delaware |! up by the delay in promulgation, by, Fred Franklin, Robert Gatto, | state police lengthened their lines is the financial responsibility law | Joe Hickey and Joe Moran. | today in an effort to patrol all which requires every automobile . A owner to buy liability insurance. di The 1943 acts will make the fourth largest book on record. It

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The acts of the 1043 legislature one

will be received from the printers about Sept. 1 and should be promulgated before Sept. 15, Secretary of State Rue J. Alexander said today. i Except for those laws carrving emergency clauses, the new laws do not go into effect until they are promulgated by proclamation

POULTRY DEALERS

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COUNCIL TO ENTERTAIN Gold Mound council 445, Degree of | of Pocahontas, will entertain Marion County association Monday! chases to 94.700 pounds évening in Red Meén's hall, 137 W.| They were shipped to North st, |, plants,

chickens yesterday

SHANNON RITES SET

Funeral services will be ‘held tomorrow for John 8. Shannon, 77, Alexandria's first mayor and sec-retary-treasurer of the Decatur! county farm buréau for the last 20 years. Mr. Shannon, a retired attorney, died in Indianapolis yesterday. | LODGE TO MEET Olive Branch Rebékah lodge, 10, will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in Castle hall. The degree staff will | | practice.

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Army officers took six truckloads Albert to bring drowned in White river near Tunthe | their total requisitions and put- | nielton yesterday while on a fishing of poultry. | trip with several other vou'hs. He processing | was 'Heltonville.

IS KILLED IN CRASH

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Ludlow, Mass., were killed yesterday when their plane crashed near the field. The crash of his plane near Lane, 8. C.. Wednesday, resulted in the death of Cadet James H. Hornback, Springfield, Ill. Missing INDIANA MEN listed as missing today are: T. Sgt. Jack Davidson, South Bend, in the European area, and S. Sgt. Barry G.

Smith, Sullivan, in the Middle Eastern area.

Honored

THE DISTINGUISHED flying cross for “extraordinary achievement” while participating in 37 operational flights in the Solomon

islands has been awarded to Lt. |

Richard BE. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Scott, 3415 Broadway. The lieutenant, who had viously received the air medal and oakleaf cluster, had a total of 208 hours in the air during the flights. He arrived at Hickam field, Hawaii, his former station, five weeks before the Jap attack at Pearl harbor and has just completed a period of service at Tucson, Ariz, as a navigation officer training new bomber groups. Lt. and Mrs. Scott are now at the army air corps technical

| that 30 trucks evaded the net yes- School, Boca Raton, Fla, where he

s also an instructor,

BOY 1S DROWNED BEDFORD, July 23 (U. P.).— Bennett, 17 Heltonville,

the son of Fred Bennett of

pre- |

old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John J. Beckerich, 3319 College ave. and Miss Virginia Rush, 17, 4321 Park ave, and foster daughter of Mrs, Carl A. Rush, 16565 N, Temple. ayey Among the other vietims was T. Sgt. Lloyd G. Burkholder, 26, Goshen, who was vacationing at the lake resort after being on actiye duty in North Africa, He had - ceived the air medal and eight leaf clusters for sus-

Others who lost their lives were 22, Elkhart, fiance of Goshen, services for Miss Beck-

22, Funeral

| eS of | erich will be conducted at the home Komiatum,

at 8:30 a. m. tomorrow followed by requiem mass at 9 a, m. at St. Joan of Arce Catholic church, Burial will be in Calvary cemetery at Troy ave, and Bluff rd.

{taken to the Hunt funeral home i ( Kirklin. Mrs, Rush left for Kirklin this morning where she will complete arrangements with her uncle, M. R. Hunt, funeral director, Burial will be here.

Card

The Beckerich family yesterday received a post card mailed hy Miss Beckerich just a few hours beigh< the tragedy. She had writtem: “Dear Mother, Daddy, Clem and Pat: “I was in town so I thought I { would drop you a line. Everything [is fine. We went to the show last night. Saw the “Immortal Sergeant.” | It was very, very good. Keep everg[thing going. Have a good time.at the reunion. Love, Dot.” Clem and Pat are two sisters of { Miss BecKerich, and the family was to attend a reunion Sunday honoring Miss Beckerich's grandmothd, Mrs. Bridget McManamon of Indianapolis. oN

Family Gets Post

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ITALY CALLS AIR RESERVE By UNITED PRESS Gen. Rino Fougier, Italian air force chief of staff, has ordered | total mobilization of all Italy's air reserves, including civilian pilots [and old-type planes, the Swedish newspaper Eskilstuna-Kuriren, said [in a dispatch reported today by ny | office of war information.

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The body of Miss Rush is being