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By ROY W. HOWARD BRITISH people desire an understanding, a political and economic tie-up, even a formal alliance, with the United States at the close of the war. So-long as the deal recognizes the realities of international relationships : which{ England has learned the hard way, and so long as it. safeguards the political and economic interests of both nations, America can just about write the ticket. Frank and extensive discussions with a broad cross-section of British leaders made this fact as plain as though it were being blazoned in every newspaper and on every billboard in the

United Kingdom.

FDR RETURNS | ¥ ROM CANADA AFTER A REST

.Takes Brief Vacation on North Shore of Lake “Huron. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P). «President Roosevelt has returned ko the capital from a brief vacation in Canada on the north shore of

7. Fake Huron, the White House announced today. It was his third

trip outside the country this year.|'

The exact spot where Mr. Roosevelt rested was not identified except as being “near MacGregor and White Fish bays,” in the Georgian y area of northern Lake Huron. Asked whether the president had i with Canadian Prime Minister 'W. L. MacKenzie King, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early told reporters “he didn’t see anybody to my knowledge.” The trip apparently was largely one of rest and relaxatfon,’ probably including fish- | Hog thrown in,

Hopkins Went Along Mr. Roosevelt was eccompinied

by six of his top White House staff Adm. William, D. ;

“retary; Rear Adm. Ross McIntyre, surgeon general of the navy, and Mr. Roosevelt's personal physician; War Mobilization Director - James F. Byrnes, and Harry L. Hopkins. It was the third time 9 the United States entered the war—and the third time in the last eight months—that Mr. Roosevelt had left Phi country. ‘He conferred with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Casablanca in January, and with Mexican President Manuel Avila Comadho at Monterrey, Mexico, in April, First Visit Since ’38

It was Mr. Roosevelt's first visit to Canada since August, 1938, when he participated in dedication ceremonies at the Thousand Islands international bridge spanning the St. Lawrence river, and received an honorary degree at Queen's university, Kingston, Ont. King had announced on May 24, }-after he returned to Ottawa from ! Washington—where he took part in the fifth allied strategy conference between Mr. Roosevelt, Prime MinAster Winston Churchill and members of their staffs—that Mr. Roosevelt would visit the dominion as goon as he could clear up some of the more pressing. problems engaging his attention. ~~ Late in January, Mr. Roosevelt returned to this country from his his-~tory-making trip to the Casablanca conference with Churchill—a journey that took him to French Morocco, Liheria, Brazil and Trinidad and added two more “firsts” to his record as a precedent-smashing chief executive. He flew to .and \ Arom Casablanca to become, the first “\ president ever to fly while in office and the trip was the first any president ever made to foreign soil in time of war.

SpAVIS BACK FROM "ENGLAND, AFRICA

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U.P.).— ‘Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information, returned today ‘after a three-week trip to-England ‘and North Africa. ~The OWI chief went into immediate conference with army and navy officials and announced later he would hold a press conference afternoon.

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Whether the American people can ever be sold on such a deal is obviously quite another matter. That some such

Hoosier Heroes

Lt. Ruth Gardiner; Army Air

Force Nurse,

THE SECOND army nurse from Indiangpolis to give her life in service, 2d Lt. Ruth M. Gardiner of the army air force service command, died on July 27 while serving somewhere in the North American area. Lt. Gardiner’s sister and only survivor, Mrs. Constance G. Smith, 25 N. Arsenal ave. received the notification from the war department Friday. Mrs. Mafelda Arney, a nurse at the veterans hospital here for nine years, became the first local woman to die in service when she was killed in a plane crash in Colorado this spring. Requiem high mass was conducted for Lt. Gardiner at 8 a. m.

today at Holy Cross Catholic .

church, of which she was a member. » » » THE 29-YEAR-OLD nurse enlisted in the army nurse corps in January at Stout field. Assigned to Bowman field, Ky., she left for overseas duty on April 23 from Seattle, Wash. From July, 1942, until her enlistment she had worked at the Indiana university medical center. Born in Cajgary, Alberta, Canada, Lt. Gardiner came to Indianapolis when she was three. She attended Holy Oross grade

training at. . aay’ sanatorium in Whitehaven, Pa, ‘She was the first and only graduate of Whitehaven to enter the service. Upon - becoming a graduate nurse, Lt. Gardiner worked at the Whitehaven sanatorium, then in surgery at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in New York city, and during the five years before she returned: to (Continued on Page Three)

OPA TO PERMIT LIQUOR MARKUP

Move Aimed at Stopping Racketeering and Bootlegging.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P.)— Americans were promised lower prices for their scotches and sodas, mint juleps, wines and other liquors today by the office of price administration in a change of policy on liquor ceiling prices. OPA spokesmen declined to estimate how much retail prices would be ‘reduced because of “wide price disparities” between stores and communities. They said, however, that reductions would be most ‘apparent in communities where military personnel and war industries are concentrated. The change involves a switch from the system of “frozen” prices in effect since March, 1942, to a fixed mark-up for wholesalers and retailers. It is aimed at eliminating “bootlegging” by liquor dealers who either openly or secretly have

_|avoided legal ceilings.

The new retailer's mark-up will be 33% per cent over the net cost for distilled spirits; 50 per cent for wine and 45 per cent for cordials, liqueurs and specialties. The wholesaler’s mark-up to retailers will be 15 per cent on distilled spirits, 25 per cent for wine and 20 per cent on cordials, liqueurs and specialties. The OPA made it clear that another source of evading price controls—the marketing of new brands at excessive prices on the basis of OPA’s “most closely comparable product” provision—would not be (Continued on Page Two)

"WEST POINT GOES TO WAR—

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MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1943

- possibilities.

This is the first of a short series of articles by Roy Wi Howard { written after returning from five weeks in England, where’ he talked with scores of newspapermen; political, business and military leaders. Included were the chief figures in the Tory and Labor parties, members. of the war cabinet including Antheny Eden, Oliver Littleton and Herbert Morrisson, as well as Primé& Minister Winston Churghill, who in a two-and-a-half hour off-the-record luncheon talk at 10 Downing Street, discussed war conditions and post-war

‘proposal will eventually come

virtual certainty.

up for consideration is a

Today, however, British people understand better

than they did in 1919, that in

the United States the power

to accept or reject a treaty lies with the Us. S. senate, and

Dies in Service

2d Lt. Ruth M. Gardiner

PICKETS MAYOR FOR 10TH DAY:

Johnson, Ex-Park Worker

Ex-park maintenario superintendent Thomas Johnson's one-man picketing of Mayor Tyndall in pro; test against his dismissal entered its 10th day today. The pugnacious Mr, Johnson, who refuses to admit that he has been officially discharged, is pacing up and down in front of the mayor's office, still carrying the keys to the park department's tool’ shed where he says he reports every morning. Meanwhile, park board officials today announced the appointment of William Fox, 2330 N. Pennsylvania st. to replace Mr. JehnFormerly in the advertisement business, Mr. Fox is a lifelong. Republican, having -worked in. the Tyndall primary and general election campaigns. Sicice receiving notification of his release July 30, Mr, Johnson has

Mayor Tyndall. Blames Capehart Tie “The state law says the mayor only has the right to hire and fire. I was appointed by the mayor, but fired by the city hall patronage committee,” said Mr, Johnson. ’ Mr. Johnson believes he was released because of his political stumping for Homer E. Capehart, Indianapolis candidate for U. S. senator. He added that administration officials . also informed him that he had been “fired” for holding two jobs at the same time, “That’s absolutely false,” said Mr. Johnson. “They found a Tom #ohnson on the payroll at the Packard Manufacturing Co. (Homer E. Capehart, president), but that’s my son. They really did me a favor by firing me, but it’s just the principle of the thing.”

DEGAULLE BIDS FOR FRENCH PEACE ROLE

Says His Nation | Belongs in

‘Ist Row of Champions.’

CASABLANCA, Aug. 9 (U. P.).— A strong bid for an important place for France at the peace conference) was ‘made here yesterday by Gen. Charles DeGaulle, in a speech to a cheering ' throng of 10,000 people assembled in Lyautey square. DeGaulle, who is president of the French Committee for National

ROUT AT KULA OF JAPS MINOR

NAVAL CLASSIC

Writer Tells How U.S. Force “Sank Cruiser and Seyeral

Destroyers.

By B. J. M'QUAID

ADVAN! CE AMPHIBIOUS FORCE HEADQUARTERS, in the Solomons, Aug. 7 (Delayed).—Here is

an exclusive eyewitness account of | our second battle of Kula gulf,

which took place last night (Friday), when-history repeated itself when our naval forces, with deadly accurate torpedo fire, again com-

! | pletely routed a Japanese force,

sinking a cruiser and several de-

stroyers without loss or a single

casualty to ourselves. = I got the story this while smoke of the battle: on the horizon, from the m

fod 1c nin nwa’s Tow barges”

or small cargo or troops ships. Hadi’t Dared to Do It But the Jap, Tor reasons of his

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that it will be as impossible for President Roosevelt to commit the nation to a foreign policy without senate approval, as it was impossible for President Wilson to do so. There is nothing devious about the British approach. They admit candidly that it is not a sentimental one and that they are motivated primarily by self-interest. They believe far-sighted American self-interest will furnish the soundest argument for the course they favor. It is argued that any such agreement would be non-

aggressive in character and that its purpose would be to

make permanent for defensive purposes, and to some extent for mutual economic advantages, the Anglo-American alliance developed during two wars ip this generation. The fact is stressed that both in 1917 and 1941 America joined England in war, but only after her government had ac-

Alfred's Garden Pays Off

own, chose Friday night to provide | Ji

naval surface protection for his

troop carriers—something he had

not dared to do for weeks. “We spotted the Jap ships yom ing down past Vella LaVella, 4 commanding officer related. AR we were almost abreast their leader, we let go with our torpedoes, made our going away turn and waited for our ‘fish’ to hit. “We got all three of them. There were two gigantic and almost simultaneous explosions—flames hundreds of feet into the air—followed closely by a third. “As soon as our torpedoes hit, we

opened up on the Japs with our

guns.. All of us got hits right from the start. One of the Jap ships started to burn and then, as we continued to shoot, it blazed up brilliantly. It was a three-stacker light cruiser.

Not Close Enough

“A Jap destroyer ran between us and the burning ship and silhouetted herself beautifully. We shot at her and sank her. 3 “The Japs did not get to do much shooting at all. “What little they did do, never

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FALL OF BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT SEEN

' By UNITED PRESS

‘The London radio said today that the fall of Premier Bogdan Filov’s Bulgarian government was believed imminent. ‘The broadcast, recorded by the United States foreign broadcast intelligence srevice, said King Boris had recalled former Premier George Kyuseivano from Switzerland and he was expected to be put at the head of the government “in a plan {to save the Bulgarian dynasty and make peace with the allies.”

Ten-year-old Alfred Green, 2323 Haynes ave., the. most ambitious of all ‘Indianapolis victory gardeners. grade schoolboy has brought to ‘full growth an acre of vegetables to help fill the family larder over the winter. Covetous neighbors buy

“from him at times.

rE rl as Encirclement

aad cepted the idea that an immediate threat to Britain's free-.’ dom was an ultimate threat to the United States. In both, instances, according to the British viewpoint, war might have been averted, had the kaiser first, and later Hitler,

It is the British idea that 1917 and 1941 have’ provell’ that any war which jeopardizes the democracy of either Britain or the United States will, in the future as certainly as in the past, bring the two nations together... They contend that due largely to the development of air power, all future wars between major powers must be total wars, and that once launched must inevitably become global in their scope, with the result that no nation with the world-wide (Continued on Page Three)

BOLD AMERICAN: LANDING ROU!

NAZIS IN SICIL

Disrupts Motor Transport as * More Cities Fall.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Aug. 9 (Us P.).—A spectacular American landing behind the German line on the north coast of Sicily unhinged the axis defenses and sent them rocking back today toward positions roughly

30 miles from the road’s end

at Messina.

Allied armies in general advances all around the totters ing defense arc across northeastern Sicily seized the towns of San Agata, San Fratello, Cesaro and Acireale, consolidated

RUSS BIG GUNS: BLAST KHARKOV

‘Continues.

SCOW, Aug. 9, (U.P) ~Russian, columns. converging on semi-

- | encircled Kharkov brought it within | range of their heavy guns today and

| military sources said the fall of the ~| great German defense bastion was

‘Probably isione of This fifth-

RUMOR HITLER ‘ON WAY 0UT’

Major Diplomatic Moves In Offing, Reports Insist.

LONDON, . Aug. 9 (U. P)~— Rumors that a military coup may soon dislodge - Adolf Hitler from power in Germany spread through Europe today and informed sources said major diplomatic moves probably will develop this week, possibly involving Italy's withdrawal from the *war. Allied observers discounted suggestions ’'that the sudden convening of German military leaders and high Nazi officials at Hitler's headquarters last week presaged Hitler's fall from power, but it generally was agreed that they dealt with the worsening situation on both the German home and military fronts. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were understood in London to be considering new

peace proposals from Italy and the|

possibility—remote though it appeared—that Hitler might be ousted (Continued - Page Te

Berlin. Could Be Destroyed

LONDON, Aug. 9 (U, P.).-=Ber-lin, expected to be target for concentrated air attack soon, could be destroyed as an effective military center by 35 major raids, observers Experiences in more than one year of heavy raids, have resulted in this equation for the destruction _|ot any city: ton of ‘bombs for

In 35 Raids, Experts Say

lyze production and: make life un-

Ten major raids concentrated in 15 or 16. nights—as the R. A. F.

Big Italian Train Caught in Tunnel

ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, North Africa, Aug. 9 <(U, P.).— American artillery has ’ a big Italian armored train and its crew

‘bottled up in a Sicilian railroad tannel and won't let them out. Reports: from the - northern. sector of the front said that the train was chased into the tunnel, cut off from behind and threatened with the ‘guns at the other end. Every time it sticks its nose into the open, the Yankee guns rake it a few times and it ducks back.’ Last reports. said the train was hiding with the: gunners. outside’ waiting ' patiently for the inevitable.

WARTHUR CERTAIN OF JAPAN'S DEFEAT

Allied Triumphs Put Enemy On Defensive Now.

By. UNITED PRESS Allied triumphs have broken the Japanese ability to attack, forced the enemy on the defensive and opened the road to ultimate victory in the Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today. Refusing to predict “as to time or detail,” MacArthur said the continual successes with limited resources against the Japanese “have been decisive of the final result in the Pacific.” A spokesman at MacArthur's headquarters said Satiy that the supreme commander ‘in the south and southwest Pacific meant that allied victory.is now assured. The statement came as allied forces moved to clean out ' the (Continued on Page Three) i —— me si

inevitable and perhaps imminent. While a motorized flying column rolled on beyond Kharkov toward the Dnieper at a 20-mile-a-day clip, two, other major forces converged on the city. One. force crossed the railroad northwest of Kharkov at Kupievakha, 65 miles southwest of the Soviet starting line at Belgorod. Another column wheeled southwestward in an encircling movement, advancing beyond Dolzhik, 16 miles northwest of Kharkov. Still a third, smashing along the Kharkov-Bry-ansk railroad, last was reported south of '‘Kolochev, a rail station northwest of the big city. Optimism Sweeps Russia Optimism swept the country as reports of Russian army victories were received. in the capital. The long range expectations of the Russians apparently were reflected in such newspaper comment as this in Pravda: . “The time for decisive battles has come. - The battles are growing and approaching the decisive moment heralding the full and final collapse of ‘Hitlerism.” Matching the success of the armies enveloping Kharkov were|© other Soviet forces driving toward Bryansk, 250 miles to the north, biggest axis base on the central front. Advancing 3% to 7! miles, these columns captured more than 130 towns and villages, including Budnyaty, 17% miles west of Orel on the main railroad to Bryansk.

“trom the {the north coast to Taormina on the

their hold on one-half of the base of Mt. Etna, and pursued German troops in headlong flight from the closing jaws o: a pincers aimed -at ‘Ramdazzo

were reported Struggling to orm _& new defense line Cape Orlando area on

southeast. ; Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton added a dash of ‘the sensational to the methodical crushing of the last axis resistance in Sicily by sending one of his 7th army units wheeling around the northeast of the Gere man line for a dawn landing.

Take 300 Prisoners

Small barges and other landing craft stole through the coastal was ters under cover of da swarmed ashore on a split schedule, rounded up 300 prisoners, and joined their comrades driving eastward along the coastal road through San Agata. The Sunday morning landing threw the whole German setup. behind the coastal flank into & state of confusion bordering on panic. Enemy reinforcements which were pushing cautiously down the highway were routed. As the motor= ized transports turned tail, confused knots of traffic, made easy pickings for the Americans gathering up prisoners.

Drive ‘on Randazzo

yOther 7th army units advanced seven miles as the crow flies bu actually 14 as the serpentine roads way * winds up from captured Troina to take the strategic town Cesaro, midway - between Troing and Randazzo. At Cesaro the Americans were only 12 miles from Randazzo—site of a narrow defile toward which the retreating Germans were scrame bling—and the British at Bronte were about eight miles distant. fi The British campaign, pushed ahead to take the port of Acireale, town of 29,000 which is the most. (Continued on Page Two) “ » »

Nazis Like Italian. Unrest

And Abet

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright ba, by The eh, Tes ALLIED FORCE: HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 9. —Germans are not only content

with the present unrest and disor-}

der in Italy, but actually are stirring them up to. their own advantage, according to several reports here. If the Badoglio government cannot exert control soon, it would not be surprising to see the Ger-

‘mans take over Italy completely,

| months to Nazi advantage.

| Italian unrest continues as Ee

It, Reports Say

Reports of what is going on Italy are difficult to confirm but it is certain that the weeks immediately following Sicily’s fall will see many changes. The length of time it will take wrest Italy from the war will des pend upon the nature of the

part of the Badoglio gove would put an end, at least tem arily, to disorders in Italy. But orderly population, backing up a