Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1943 — Page 13

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IBOYLE TO SEEK U.S. W.V. OFFICE

Local Man Is Candidate ,#4 Far Commander-in-Chief Of Veterans’ Group.

Guy A. Boyle, 83, 3535 Birchwood | ave., national senior vice command- | er of the United Spanish War Veterans, is a candidate for election to LR the office of na- | tional command-er-in-chief at the | organization's; § ef 45th national enE* campment at Boston, Aug. 15-19. Mr. Boyle is among 50 Indiana veterans and their | wives who will] attend the United | Mr. Boyle Spanish War Vet- | . srans convention. Two Indianapolis men, Frank E.| Hanna, state commander, and Wilson G. Oren, department adjutant, fvill head the delegation. David W. Nation, Evansvile, state junior vice commander, also will attend.

This scene at Washington st. and Capitol ave. is being repeated scores of times in Indianapolis and other Indiana cities. where

U. S. internal revenue department agents and state police are arrest-

ing

WHITE'S PLEA FOR

War Veteran

Mr. Boyle, who is the son of a civil war veteran, entered the Span-$-Ish-American war as battalion ad- ' jutant of the 158th Indiana volunteer infantrv. He was commissioned | first lieutenant in the 30th U. S.| unteer infantry and went to the ay where he was wounded | in 1899. He won the purple heart when he was shot from his horse

Judge Edwin McClure.

T. Emest Maholm. attorney

White's purported confession

while leading his men into battle. A native of Indianapolis, Mr.| Bovle returned home and retired as a member of the Indiana National Guard with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was the first adjutant general of the United Spanish War Veterans, which was organized here in 1904. i Mr. Boyle ic a graduate of old Shortridge high school and at- %* ended Purdue University. He reJ tired three years ago as construction engineer for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co., where he was employd about 35 years.

juror from the panel.

supreme court. | script of the evidence.

state prison.

COCONUT WEALTH

wealth of the Solomon islands.

drivers who don't have the $5

for White, had contended in his motion that the judge erred in admitting into evidence and that the court erred in failure to remove a prospective

Mr. Maholm then filed a petition for permission to make a pauper appeal of the case to the Indiana Under a pauper appeal the state would be required

White has already begun serving his life sentence at Michigan City the big offensive in the Pacific for {this vear. But there is little chance

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Arrest Drivers Without $5 Stamps

federal use stamps pasted on their windshields. More than 100 motorists were arrested during the last two days in the Indianapelis area and were cited to appear in federal court where they may be assessed fines as much as $25 and 30 days im-

By SANDOR S. KLEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. ¢ (U. P).— The promised big offensive in the Pacific will be co-ordinated with a powerful allied drive on Burma,: military experts predicted today. They believe that Burma is_the key to the whole Pacific situation and that once it is regained by the allies the war against Japan can be carried forward to a victorious conclusion swiftly.

When the campaign will be undertaken is something that only

ithe master strategy planners know, to pay the costs of making a tran- but there is a strong likelihood ithat it may happen this year.

President Roosevelt has promised

that a drive will be undertaken

Experts Predict Offensive NEW TRIAL DENIED To Blast Japs Out of Burma

A motion seeking a new trial for Bernard L. White, sentenced to life imprisonment fof the “love affair” murder of his wife, was overruled in criminal court today by Special

dented by American submarines and | airplanes.

{throw “their strength against the!

SALAMAUA LIES | IN RUIN, BUT-

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'A Fight Will Be Needed to Rout Enemy Defenses, Writer Predicts.

By HAROLD GUARD | United Press Staff Correspondent

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Aug. 2 (Delayed). — Bomb craters pockmarking the air field, gutted | buildings and derelict bombers and | fighters bear testimony to the cease{less allied air bombardment of the

| enemy base at Salamaua on the!

|New Guinea northeast coast. I saw the evidence today while riding in a Liberator piloted by Lt. {John Mufich of Butte, Mont., dur-| |ing an attack in which more than | 180 tons of explosives were loosed on | {the harbor, buildings and air field. | | Binoculars also showed that the | {area still has strong ground de-|

prisonment or both. Arrest of motorists was started Monday all over the state following announcement by Will H. Smith, internal revenue collector, that drivers had been given enough notice to purchase the stamps since the deadline July 1. 'be needed to dislodge them finally. |

| 11 Planes Downed

| Preliminary reports of an air battle that werft on during this raid showed 11 enemy fighters were shot down to bring the tally of the American fighter unit that participated to 124 enemy aircraft brought down in the Southwest Pacific. Capt. James Watkins of Crystal Springs, Miss, got his 11th. | My view of Salamaua was obD-| tained while standing between wais®jgunners Sgt. William Ball of New {York City and Pvt. Jack Maynard of Marion, Tex.

It is very likely that the British will carry the major share of the drive on Burma with the Americans carrying the load in the Pacific. The latter probably would

Japanese both from the south and; the north. | ‘Roarin’ Rosie’ The military experts believe that| Tye 1000-pounders unloaded by the coming offensive against Burma pombardier Tech. Sgt. Robert BEdwill be an amphibious operation. minston of Cumberland. Md., made Previous efforts of the British im- our Liberator. named “Roarin’

‘periol forces to push through the Rosie“ and decorated with Rosie's

difficult, if not impossible, jungle- owr: pink nudity on either side of lands into Burma have proved the craft's nose, quiver like a leaf. unsuccessful. Capt. William Gentry of Dalton Waterways Vital City, Ill. a former airline pilot, ‘ai scored a direct hit on a fuel dump a sea-borne expeditionary force, | that blazed up and sent biack smoke based on India, probably would at- into the sky over Lae, above Sala-| tempt to establish beachheads at|, a... in a raid co-ordinated with the mouths of the Irrawady river, i,. salamaua attack. |

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ALLEGED DRAFT LAW VIOLATOR IS SEIZED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U, P).—= FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover toe day announced the arrest in New York City of Stephen Weinberg, 50, described as a notorious impers= sonator, on a charge of violating the | selective service act. 1 | In a complaint filed today, Hoover | charged that Weinberg, operating lin a suite of offices in a fashione able New York hotel, had been | teaching New York men ways of | evading the draft.

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! Would Open China |

The reconquest of Burma would open the road into China. It could serve as a base for operations against Malaya and the Japaneseheld Dutch East Indies. ! The purpose of a co-ordinated, offensive would be to force the Japanese to split their strength and impose burdensome loads on their supply system. which depends on sea-borne traffic. Japanese shipping strength already has been severely

PROBERS NAMED IN PETRILLO DISPUTE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P). —The war labor board today appointed a special three-man panel] to investigate the long-standing dispute between James C. Petrillo’s American Federation of Musicians | and electrical transcription man-. ufacturers for whom union musicians have refused to work since July 31, 1042. In formally announcing that it has taken jurisdiction in the case. ‘the WLB disclosed it issued an order July 20 denying the companies’, {demand that the union be ordered | | “to terminate its strike and to de-| |clare that its members are free to) {accept employment in the tran-| scription field pending the disposition on the merits of this dispute.” Arthur Meyer, chairman of the New York state mediation board! and vice chairman of the New York! (regional WLB, was designated as!

panel. Henry S. Woodbridge, as-! sistant to the president of the] American Optical Co, and Max Zaritsky, president of the United Hatter, Cap and Millinery Workers | (A. F. of L)) were appointed as industry and labor representative, | respectively. |

Got Rid of Bees, But Fired Home

ROCHESTER, Ind, Aug. 4 (U. P).—When a swarm of bees invaded Ed Shipp’s house he decided to apply gas warfare. | Backing his car up to the house | he sent deadly carbon monoxide exhaust fumes up under eves. a fire engine had to be called.

worry about is a rainstorm.

RAIL EMPLOYEES

| | WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P)— | Officials of 15 railroad unions met

| strike vote if necessary among one | million non-operating employees in |an effort to obtain reconsideration of demands for a general wage in- | crease. As the officials began a conference which may last several days, | there were reports that they had tentatively approved a plan for invoking the strike-ballot provision of the railway labor act.

| REPORT WALI'S KIN KILLED | LONDON. Aug. 4 (U. P). — The German transocean news service reported today that the daughter of the wali (governor) of Istanbul, Turkey, had been killed by a stray bullet while driving through the streets of Rome during a fight between Fascists and anti-Fascists,

ENGINEER ELECTROCUTED BRAZIL, Aug. & (U. P).—John

i Burma's main waterway, The coconut palm is the chief season In late fall. | y {

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Sparks ignited the roof and | 100K official.”

The roof was partly burned off | but in the excitement the bees | departed. Now all Ed has to |

CONSIDER STRIKE

| here today prepared to authorize a

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push up the streams. Since the Japanese have been supplying their troops in Burma by river boats and barges, loss of con- | trol of these streams would place them at a disadvantage. | American part in the offensive probably would include a sustained aerial offensive against Truk, Japan's “Gibraltar” of the South Pacific, and the important southwest Pacific base at Rabaul, New| Britain island. Other American forces would hit at Japan from the Aleutians. Furthermore, the greatly augmented American Pacific fleet may strike in the central Pacific against the Japancse-held Marshall and Gilbert islands,

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Munda Grows | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Aug. 4 (U. P.).— Japanese resistance at Munda has stiffened as American troops hammer at the enemy's last defenses, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said today, but a contin-! ued advance is closing a death trap on that New Georgia base. Covering action through Monday, the communique said Americans with flame-throwers and tanks had reached the eastern end of the Munda airfield and ocupied part of! Bibolo hill to the north of the land- | ing strip, adding: “The advance on| other parts of the front continues | against stiffening enemy resistance.” | Slashing at the enemy's sea routes, allied planes scored bomb hits on a warship believed to be a destroyer and destroyed 19 or more barges, raising

‘chairman and public member of the to nearly 200 the barges sunk in|

the last 10 days. Captain's Bride To Wear ‘Chute

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 4 (U. |

P).—When Lois Frommer, marches to the altar

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Graebner she will be wearing a gown fashioned from her bridegroom's parachute, resplendent with a “U. S. army” stencil and serial numbers.

The gown is the result of a gag | taken seriously when Lois decided | the cream silk chute contained | | “exquisite material.”

She said the indelible lettering “makes it

The chute, ruled unfit for further service because of long exposure to salt water, will provide the bride a bodice, neck yoke, three-quarter 1 en g t h sleeves, panel skirt and train.

yesterday

late next | month to wed Capt. Lawrence A. |

and the Some buildings at Lae were still

recognizable and one tail gunner, S. Sgt. Cliff Macarthy of Ft. Ddoge, | Ta. said “it is only a marvel they're still there.” |

REPORTS AIRCRAFT WORKERS DEFERRED

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 (U. P).—

' The Los Angeles Daily News re-|

ported today that all production | employees of major West coast aircraft plants are under a “selective service moratorium” until Oct. 1.} William J. Anderson, staff writer |

| for the newspaper, said in a signed | | story that orders have been issued

to all local draft boards putting the employees under a limited blanket draft deferment. 3 The order was issued by national selective service in Washington, the newspaper said, at the direct request of the war department and,

followed a survey of West coast air-

eraft production by Gen. Henry H.

Arnold, chief of the army air forces. | The deferment would affect an

| estimated 250,000 single and child-

less married men of draft age now employed in West coast factories.

Memorial Set

At 10 a. m. Sunday, a year to | the day after he was killed during the first landing or: Guadalcanal, memorial services will be held at the Zion Evangelical church, North and New Jersey j sts, for Fireman 3-c Robert Earl | Schenk, above. Fireman Schenk was a member of a transport crew. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. William G. Schenk, 620 | Worth ave.

Allies Roll On in Sicily

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American, Canadian and British armies (fags) are advancing all along the Sicily front, with each showing a profit in towns taken. The Americans in the north are aiming for San Fratello, while a iecond Yank spearhead has slashed onward to capture Capizzi in a gig i Taorlea, Synchronizing with this drive, the Canadians ir central sector are in possession of Regalbuto,

From snowy Finland to sandy Egypt stretches the 2500-mile alliedaxis front where war action is now under way or in the making. Russian armies are on the offensive all along the Leningrad-Rostov-Novorossisk front, with their heaviest attacks in the Orel region. New allied moves are expected in the eastern Mediterranean where large British forces are massed for one or more of the potential drives into’ the Balkans

shown on map.

LONDON, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—The

Badoglio government has clamped

an 8 p. m. curfew on peaceclamoring northern Italy, European

reports said today. as hopes for Italy's early capitulation faded and

the London Daily Express predicted | an allied ‘invasion of the Italian]

mainland “at any time.” A New York dispatch to the Express quoted “authoritative American quarters” as saying AngloAmerican forces may land on the Italian mainland before the mop-ping-up of Sicily is completed. Au-

thoritative quarters here declined

to comment.

The new curfew regulation was | reported to affect Milan, scene of

some of the biggest peace demon-

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Curfew in Northern Italy; : See Early Mainland Invasion

to attack Germany. The clandestine Leghorn radio was heard broadcasting that Italian crews “by an unmistakable show of force” frustrated three German at[tempts to take over Italian war-

ships at Bordeaux on the French |

Atlantic coast. There have been no previous reports that any Italian | warships, except possibly submarines, have been in French Atlantic

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Footlets . . . ists in Milan and Turin, largest industrial centers in northern Italy, have brought pressure to bear on the new government to make peace to save Italy from “complete bankruptey.” | British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last night in Commons | again made a friendly gesture toward Italy, asserting that he was | “only too ready . . . to aid her” | provided the allies can get bases on the Italian mainland from which

POSTAL RECEIPTS UP 11.5 PER CENT

Indianapolis postoffice receipts were 11.5 per cent higher last month than in July, 1942, according to the monthly report of Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker. July receipts were reported at $457,492.06 as compared with $410, 14958 a year ago. Stamp sales showed the largest gain, although all items of postal receipts showed some increase. Stamp sales advanced to $264,231.84 in July from $233,081.56 in 1942,

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Allied bombers, smashing subse marines in the North Atlantic, are being equipped with ammunition | and supplies delivered in Vietory | containers, made from used paper

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