Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1943 — Page 1

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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 124

Johnson Pickets Tyndall's Office

Declares Ouster From Park Board Is lllegal; Believes Mayor Gives Him the Brushoff.

Ex-park Maintenance Superintendent Thomas Johnson doesn’t give up easily. For four days now he’s been picketing Mayor Tyndall's office in protest of his ouster from the $3200-a-year park maintenance position by the city hall patronage committee. : Mr. Johnson contends that his dismissal is not official until he receives word directly from Mayor Tyndall. : x His notification of release was signed only by a park board secretary, 2 Democrat at that too, and came, ®& = = Mr. Johnson charges, as a result of patronage committee criticism of his efforts in behalf of the senatorial campaign of Homer E. Capehart, Indianapolis industrialist. “Mayor Tyndall appointed me fo this job.” deciared Mr. Johnson, “and I don't intend to leave until he personally fires me.” Ng 5 & =» ALTHOUGH he's been taken off the payroll, the tenacious exofficial has refused to relinquish his keys and park maintenance equipment to his successor. He asserts that since Friday morning when his ouster was demanded, he's been reporting back to the park department garage and repair plant and checking out maintenance crews as usual. Mr. Johnson siad the park department notice instructed him to turn over his equipment to George Holmes, who he cays is a TLoldover Democrat. This, Mr. Johnson has refused to do, Today, after waiting for two hours to see Mayor Tyndall, Mr. Johnson was told by Harry Calkins, the mayor's secretary, that the mayor “will be busy all day.” At this, Mr. Johnson accused the mayor of “trying to give me the brushoff” and said he would return to Capehart’ headquaretrs here he would prepare a letler ¢ the mayor which he intends to made public.

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y ment trouble was reported with the announcement by Charles Neal, general park foreman, that he and two park department carpenters had resigned because the park board had declined to grant | them wage increases in compli- | ance with the union scale. Mr. Neal said that the carpenters, who had been receiving 85 cents an hour, had demanded $142 an hour upon instructions of the A. 'F. of L. carpenters | union. :

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1943

FATHER DRAFT LIKELY SOON

He's Mad at the Japs— They Sank His Warship

Eligibles Should Meet

Quotas to November.

Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers will not be drafted in Indiana before November, Draft Director Col. Robinson Hitchcock said today follow- | ing Washington authorization for, the calling of bona fide fathers after Oct. 1. i Col. Hitchcock said he hoped that no fathers*would have to be called until December. He said that the time when fathers would have to be called in this state would depend entirely upon the size of the coming calls. The September and October calls have not been received but draft officials believe that the available supply of non-fathers is large enough

Quota: 5000 to 6000

If, as reported, only 300,000) fathers with children and engaged in non-deferrable work will be inducted from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, Indiana will have to provide between 5000 and 6000 fathers, Col. Hitchcock said. Since Indianapolis’ part in the state quota is 10 per cent, only 500 or 600 of the qualified fathers would be taken from this area and less than 50 from each of the 15 draft boards. War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt's authorization fo the reclassification of 6,559,000 class throughout the country means that congress will have only 16 days after its recess ends to decide whether to block the! arafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fa-| thers before draft officials begin! calling them. Would Delay Call

Congress, which has been cool to

Signalman Martin , , , “All I saved was $102 and

ONS OF BOMBS Charles Martin

Quincy to

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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FINAL

PRICE FOUR CENTS

NAZI DEFENSES IN SICILY REEL ORE ALL-OUT ALLIED SMASH

‘End in Sight, London Experts Say, as Bombers Hammer Naples Again; General Strikes Spread in Italy.

By UNITED PRESS Allied armies rolled back the entire axis defense line across northeastern Sicily today in a general advance which promised to stamp out the last resistance on the island within a few days. The major successes were scored at the center of the Etna line, where concerted blows by American and Canadian troops threatehed to breach the axis defenses and force a withdrawal on either side to counter flanking threats. Air forces giving powerful support to the general offen sive hammered at the Italian ports on both sides of the straits of Messina, adding to the devastation of the ports through which the defenders presumably must try to scape when their last ditch stand is broken.

Resistance May Crack American, British and Canadian forces beat down stiff resistance to advance through rugged. roadless country in all sectors of the Sicilian front. In the center they seized a cluster of towns which were the pivots of the Etna line As the Sicilian campaign entered its final phase, promise ing early access to the Italian mainland across a two-mile strait, the resumed aerial pounding of Italy continued with “*|a new raid on Naples. : Prime Minister Winston Churchill was first with the news of allied successes pointing to the end of the Sicilian

CR 'campaign. Even as he told

Wants N » Blast the Japs

parliament of the gains in the general offensive, London ‘military sources said all axis resistance on the island might be

| crushed in a matter of days. Some l indications were seen that resistance 44

Meanwhile, more park depart-

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oard Refuses to Give Lowry 'Rubber Stamp’ O. K.

| the drafting of fathers, returns | from its recess Sept. 14&. Two bills {dealing with the drafting of fathers

{and Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. | Mont.)—were not in the capital for icomment. Kilday would place fathers at the

Park board officials. irked by reported political domination of de-ipsttom of state draft pools, pro-

Pementht personnel, yesterday balked at “rubber-stamping” James E. wry, the city patronage committee choice for the post of park

Sperinendent.

lin any state until all of the state's {local boards have exhausted their

Instead the park board withheld its approval of Mr. Lowry's appoint- jqunnly of other men. Wheeler

ment pending further investigation

Soap Next?

Old Coffee Worry Giving Way Now to New Shortage. NOW THAT coffee drinkers have forgotten their ration stamp worries about a second cup of coffee, housewives are beginning

to worr® about the second bar of soap or Box of soap chips for the

s of his qualifications, and named an] jacting superintendent tc fill tem- | pear pene oe rearang yy | porarily the vacancy left by resigna-| ou La | tion of Lloyd Pottenger, under pa-! Kilday's bill has passed the house | Bobage committee pressure, last o;4 js pending in the senate miliVine acting superintendent is vet ary aftais Ae hosiers jeran park horticuiturist, Andrew N.' fCuntinund 90 Pare NVY) i Miller, who has been posted for 31 {years at the Riverside park nur-| ARREST b5 DRIVERS i series, overseeing the cultivation of ‘plants and trees at city parks and boulevards.

is on the agenda, but their spon-. isors—Rep. Paul J. Kilday (D. Tex.) |

hibiting the drafting of any father)

By JOAN HIXON

Charles Edward Martin, signalman second class, spent his 18th and |

| Nazis Biggest Port Now : 18th birthdays at different ends of the war fronts, saw all of them

Virtually Destroyed by (in three years and is fighting mad to get revenge on the Japanese for sinking the cruiser Quinney. Air Power.

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Hoosier Heroes

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want to go to the Atlantic and get some Germans,” he said.

Every war front is on Signalman | { Martin's list—he was on Atlantic | patrol duty before the U. 8. entered {the war; he was on the Quincy, part

the Quincy was sunk’ at Hi ‘gun and the Russ arty was mopping

IN FINAL STAGE

Soviet Troops Mopping Up| Nazi Strong Points Qutside City.

MOSCOW, Aug. 3 (U. P).—Front © dispatches said today that the “Becisive” battle for Orel had be-

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up the last German strong points northeast and northwest of the city. Three weeks to the day after the Russians stormed the German salient around Orel in their first summer offensive of the war, military quarters said the capture of the keystone base now was a foregone conclusion. After a few days of relative relaxation for regrouping of forces, the fighting blazed up to a new peak of intensity as the slowly but steadily advancing Russ army shock units

might be cracking already.

American and Canadian troops knocking gaps in the middle of the

'Etna line took the key points of

Troina, Regalbuto, Centuripe, Cap= izzi and Ceraml. The advance carried within a few miles of the vital highway around the western slopes of Mt. Etna, If it is cut, the stubborn axis holdout at Catania apparently will be doomed, even if the inclosing British 8th army hds not overrun it before. then. . Churchill told commons & ~t the’ allies had moved up large reil, ces. ments during the lull last we = in preparation for the full scale o.fen= sive aimed at finishing the job fast,

Regime Wavering

With the allies pushing toward Italy propér and mauling it with bombs, the new Rome regime ap=" parently wavered between war and peace. Indirect reports told of rew peace demands inside the country,

It was reliably reported that both the park board and Mayor Tyndall rebelled at the prospect of sum‘marily approving patronage com‘mittee recommendations of Mr. i Lowry, in view of the fact that they

His 18th birthday was celebrated in the south Atlantic off South : wk America, and he spent his 10th birthday at a south Pacific naval base LONDON, Aug. 3 (U. P.) —British , oe bombers in great strength fought | When ne hi! | Guadalcanal. i * night to hurl 1500 more tons of ex- ac k Dav } S | youth has béen home on a five-day plosives. on smoldering Hamburg, furlough to see his mother, Mrs. . (So Lou Weber. 2.7 N. Gray st, of Germany's once-proud second Ri fes S ef at { Anxious to Get Back I city and pigges: port. . | “It's heaven to be home, but I : { | Wi to get on the new Quincy largest toll in nearly a month, over | S fout F | el d fant , / Hamburg and in subsidiary attacks! (ad g€t some miore Japs; then 1 Germany and in the Ruhr, the air > ministry announced, but the weath- FOLLOWING MILITARY fu- | neral services at 2:30 p. m. today WITHOUT $5 STAMP cirerart defenses, was believed to > ‘have accounted for the increased the ashes of Pfc. Jack William Gets Ninth Pasting® Beaufighters and Mosquitoes of

All Caught on Roads Lead: |

Davis, who was killed in the

| glider crash at St. Louis Sunday, { will be

scattered over the air (Continued on Page Five)

{of a task force protecting the landing of marines on Guadalcanal; he

|landed at Cape Town, Africa, with | the Quincy, where natives said it

was one of the first U. 8. ships to

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pulverized one German strong point y, the attitude of the Rome radio after another. still was belligerent. Russian columns were closing aAqvices through Madrid said Itale against Orel from three main direc- | jane were deserting war factories in tions—northwest, east and south—| wholesale lots as a result of the rea.

: <r recoverfng from wonnds received through fierce electrical storms last The 10+year-old Indianapolis virtually completing the destruction | Thirty bombers were lost, the on other targets in northwestern Killed er, rather than strengthe anti- | Be Sthefied an in the post chapel at Stout field, casualties, i 'the R. A. F. fighter command jo.ned

ing to Indianapolis. |

‘stop there since the early 1900's; and had narrowed considerably the

peated allied warning of destructive

JENNINGS 1S READY |stop there sie the cars 1000s: and had narrowed consider T0 TAKE OPA JOB sighted ASehe ShoNs. fvangan 9 ued on Page Five)

weekly laundry.

According to Indianapolis re ‘knew little or nothing of his {in the night's offensive with raids

| merits. | Sixty-five central Indiana motor- on German airfields on Sylt and rocers, coffee sales have ] brn Pg increase Since ration- | One park board member said “it ists today wished they had heeded Cuxhaven in northwest Germany : : » : th { Martin said . his most exciting |

c : ‘might be” that inward resentment warnings to buy the $5 federal use and other offensive sorties deep ing stopped, but the supply of | : S : i x | Times Special | : 5 | Jaundry soaps is definitely run- was felt at the fact that Mr. Potten- stamps for their automobiles yefite [iltto Holla. while Hampdens of | wASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—John | SNRHSIEN Wap Oh ANE 3 in. On the WwW ar Fronts {the coastal command torpedoed | jennings, Evansville Democrat and 8 Aug. 3, 1943 allied offensive

bombing attacks. The same sources’, said the Italian government met to discuss the desirability of seeking peace, but was unable to reach decision. : Wellington bombers blasted rail, road and sea communications at Naples with explosives and fire; bombs barely 12 hours after a Sune: day daylight raid on the port by American Flying Fortresses. (An Italian communique said six allied bombers were shot down over Naples and Sicily and 12 twoemotored planes were destroyed over - Sardinia yesterday.)

Six Planes Downed

Six enemy planes were shot down, | three of them by Lightnings escorts ! ing seaplanes on rescue missions,

OUR CIGARETS TOPS WITH NEN IN CHIN

* = = SOME GROCERS questioned said they believed that soap would $4 be one of the first items rationed " “when book IIT becomes effective. The retail supply of soap has | been cut down by OPA to 60 or 70 per cent of the amount of soap purchased during 1941 and the first eight months of 1942, x Grocery shelves, especiaily, show a shortage of large five-pound boxes of soap chips and soap pow- | ders, retailers said, and most

ning low. {ger was ousted last week in a rapid- July 1 deadline. | Although June, July and Au- fire park department shakeup which! That many drivers were arrested | Supply ship off the Norwegian coast. | former WPA director, arrived here - MSE ust are the poorest coffee sell- Borghi Mayor Tyndall and board by internal revenue department | Two fighter command aircraft were | tod2y ready to accept the new posi- = menths, grocers said they | Members nodding assent to moves agents and state police on roads lost. {tion of OPA director for region III! LEWIS PLEADS WITH | SICILY General believed that the chief reason |pogers prick they had not beenleading into Mdianapolis yesterday, Inaugurating the August alr of-| This would mean he succeeds | rolls back axis defense line, overthere is ho increase demand Now | we ind cerorehand. |the first day of the drive to force fensive, British four-engined Stir-|gjkett L. Williams, Cleveland Re- WiLB FOR PORTAL PAY runs key towns at center in fs that coffee users are consuming | © might as well make sure all motorists to buy new stamps. }lings, Halifaxes and Lancasters flew | pyplican, and would take over the | { flanking threat to Catania anchor the supply put away on pantry | that ee the right man this Uy. S District Attorney Howard | through thick clouds and lightning regional offices at Cleveland. Mr. | ee me | post on east coast; early end of shelves or the liberal quantity | (Continued on Page Five) | Caughran said the defaulting that blinded pilots to end a three-| jennings’ appointment was pre- campaign predicted. sllowed by the last two ration : ‘motorists were cited to appear be- | night respite for Hamburg and give | dicted some weeks ago. 'U. S. Only Country to Deny rraLy—Alies bomb Naples again stamps. fore the U. 8. commissioner here for | the city its ninth pounding in 10 senator Frederick VanNuys (D. implementing warning to Italy | criminal information proceedings in days. Ind), who is sponsoring him, said] A, He Tells Board. to get out of the war or face federal court later, The Stockholm newspaper Afton-| Mr, Jennings will see OPA Admin pulverizing assault by air; Rome | The 65 motorists were arrested in bladet quoted a seaman just re-|istrator Prentiss Brown today. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U.P).—| government wavers on peace the 26 central Indiana counties, | turned to Goteborg from Hamburg! “The appointment of Jennings President John L. Lewis of the jssue. comprising the local court district. | that the city had been “practically has been cleared by civil service and | United Mine Workers told the war, EUROPE—BI : In the northeastern Indiana fed- abandoned.” Business was paralyeed, (all other agencies and all that is labor board today that American | =Big force of Brikish And No Wonder—A Carton eral court district, 82 motorists were he said, and even the public food needed is for Mr. Brown to sign coal miners were the only miners in| pombers renew pounding of Ham-| gq seven allied planes were lost. arrested on the stamp charge yes- | Stations were unable to provide a on the dotted line,” Senator Van- any civilized nation who received | burg. Sn Hons Of eX“! padio Brazzaville quoted Euros Costs Them $20. Pa (“bite of food or a glass of water.” Nuys said. {no compensation for underground andl city 8 raish al but’ pean reports that 18 German divie travel time. | : {sions have taken up ‘defensive (List of Donors, Page Three) | | D ® Lewis, the board's most bitter RUSSIA—Soviet army tightens are positions” in TA Italy and The Times Overseas Cigaret Fund n ownfal | of Their E nemy, | | Duce ' critic, joined representatives of Illi-| asainst Orel, capturing 70 more Madrid heard that the Germans 1% tops over in China, where smokes Inois coal operators and attorneys Points in advances up to six miles; ' were increasing their control in the" lare $20 a carton. | for his union in urging board ap-| Nasis report Soviet forces inside Fiume and Trieste areas. ,

city. | Underground reports from France,

manufacturers are not quoting

i Five hundred cartons of cigarets, |

proval of an Illinois agreement that

ices on soap powders at all fo Indianapolis grocers’ opinons. the increased consumption of laundry soap is caused by the

load on home laundry and the |

high rate of employment chusing more clothes to become soiled.

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worth $10,000 if purchased there, re-! cently were sent to Maj. Gen. Claire | {Chennault for the U. 8. army forces | overseas. | { And, according to a letter from {2d Lt. Francis J. Vassett of the medical supply administration in China, the boys really appreciated them | Lt. Vassett wrote: “We received your cigarets here in China and both the patients and the enlisted men are very grateful for your contribution. Here in China,

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{ where the cigarets are $20 a carton if you buy them locally, you can well imagine how much they are appreciated.”

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Ethiopians See Justice Retur

By HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE

Emperor of Ethiopia (Copyright, 1943, NEA Service, Inc.)

ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 3 (U. P).—Here in Ethiopia the news of Benito Mussolini's resignation was received with very great satisfaction. It marks the complete collapse of all his hopes as the leader of

victorious fascism. Already it is raising men’s hopes in enemyoccupied territories and it may well be the first sign of a rapid deterioration in the morale of the axis forces everywhere, : The Duce’s crimes have been many and serious. Having been one of his victims, Ethiopia sees in Mussolini's passing the beginning of the vindication of those forces of justice and humanity he has so brutally defied for 21 years. He bears a heavy responsibility for the many crimes committed under his order both in Ethiopia and Italy and outside his own country,

Mussolini was the first to introduce banditry methods into pres

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ent day European politics. His crimes have been equally as heavy as those of Hitler. Mussolini, who did not hesitate to use poisonous

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ALGERIANS’ PAY RAISED | Pietro 3adoglio, leader of the

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conformity with of army reforms,

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would give the miners $1.75 a day PACIFIC—American jungle fighters said the Germans are sending re-

ning to World

. |in settlement of the travel pay dis-

' pute.

among the board members, said the attorneys had opened “an entire

was due as a just working condition

the wage-hour law.

METEOR SHOW BEST NIGHT OF AUG. 11-12

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.).— A shewer of meteors—of which 30 or more per hour can be seen on a clear, moonless night-will probably reach its maximum brilliance on the night of Aug. 11-12, the navy announced today. The display, known as the Perseid meteors and one of the oldest on record, occurs annually.

CHANGE BEER RULES WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U. P).— The office of price administration said today that effective Aug. 9

should certainly not be permitted to end his days in safe retirement. I have been asked if in the

beer and ale brewers who put new brands on the market must estabEn Vicks foe the Sew

Wayne L. Morse, public member,| yards. who has been Lewis’ principal critic

new vista” in claiming travel time

and not merely a legal claim under

reach edge of Munda airfield inforcements into Corsica by sea . after advances. of 500 to 1200 and air to take over defense of | (Continued on Page Five) :

Mounting Losses May Force = Nazis to Quit U-Boat Drive

: By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. LONDON, Aug. 3.—The U-boat, once one of Germany's most poten$ weapons and now one of its few remaining offensive arms, may have to be abandoned by the Nazis in the face of enormous wastage. 3 The axis, it is believed here, has been consistently losing 30 per cent of all U-boats which have put out to sea during the past few: months and loss rates still are rising as joint American-British bombers are intensifying the anti-U-boat * offensive patrols. ¥ Operations from the British Isles under the direction of Sir John Slessor, royal air force control com mand chief, are now being carried out over Biscayne bay and are proving outstandingly fruitful, That Germany is sericusly con-

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Those closest concerned with this = aspect of the war believe that now = is the moment to intensify the anti-U-boat’ campaign with every . available means. If allied bombing fleets {further increase the loss rate of. submarines, while carrying on their _

cerned about the vulnerahility of its U-boats to air atiacks is shown by the exceptionally large number of the undersea raiders now back in German yards, to be equipped, it

destruction of work in building yards such as those of Hamburg, Kiel and the Baltic yards, the Gere mans may conclude to give up the

is though, with stronger ack-ack

phils