Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1943 — Page 23

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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 134

Caan in 4-Gallon Coupors ‘Before Cut to 3 Gallons At 12.01 A.M. Monday.

By MILDRED REIMER ‘The familiar call of “All ‘er up” sounded at Indianapolis gasoline service stations once again today as motorists filled the driveways to use their four-gallon ration coupons.- , With the announcement of the veut in Midwest gasoline rations from

four to three gallons,*business for Sling station’ operators has been].

greater than at any time since the| : when gasoline rationing first]

4 Although the cut doesn’t become effective until 12:01 a. m. Monday, some motorists thought the reduc- . tion began with the ‘official announcement yesterday.

Stations Have a Riish

All neighborhood stations have been rushed since yestérday afternoon and except a heavy lineup of cars [today and tomorrow. . There'll be few grease jobs, tire Sep and tire inspections until day, according to service station managers, because the tankX Sling business is all they can

“The driveway was just “chuck Sib of cars” at the Blue Point Automotive Supplies Co., 962 S. Delaware st, and “even the porter might have to work at the gasoline pumps,” employees said. An estimated 35 per cent increase in busi- | Delis already has. been seen, the anager said, ~ At the Irvington Texaco Service A "station, 5120 E. Washington st. more than 200 gallons of gas were sold in two hours after 5 p. m. yesterday and about 450 gallons during the whole day. The average business .- for the station is 50 to 75 gallons {ally Three more men haye already been hired to ;accommodate the

rush, : Fill Up Tanks

Opératars Fs a up the tanks hile théy did their shopping or took care of other business, Frazier's service station estimated ‘that business would increase at least

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Franco Asks Allies for

Arms Despite Early | |%

Sabotage Effort.

By WILLIAM H, STONEMAN The Indianapolis Times ¢ Chicago Daily News, Inc.

rota Aug. 14.—Tess than &

frontiers of = Spanish Mor0CC0. American diwisions, badly needed farther eastward, were deployed in ‘French Morocco “to meet the ’

because that threat to our rear prevented us from massing maximum forces against the axis perimeter around Tunis. Today, it is learned that Gen Franco has asked the United States and Great Britain to fur~ nish him with arms—presumably second-hand German and Italian arms which our troops took in battle, despite his attempt to sabotage us. Franco’s. request, it is understood here, is being given serious considefation in London and Washington.

LEGION HEARS

Fight in Jungle-on

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Tells Thrilling Story of ne act. th

Entered ss Second-Class Matter at Postoffice ‘Indianapolis, Ind. Issued.daily except Sunday

{Not in Bumper Class, but

we'll. Eat Well, Experts Predict. By EARL RICHERT

Hoosier crops, while ‘they do not approach the bumper class, are

taken for the SPmed services and lend-lease. ‘But enough will be left, accordifig to Purdue univer|

this hot, sticky weather which’ has| has been directly responsible for|

{bringing corn, the king of crops in|

Indiana, along at an almost unprecedented pace.

sity agricultural experts, to give us}

ee providence: in the form ot} caused us. all so much discomfort, |"

On July 1, Purdue university] | a |

dicted a corn yield of 42 bushels per But the favorable. weather of} :

ted persons who would like to occupy these beds at City hospital's attention. But the new ward must remain closed and the beds

shortage” of dent nurses.

Guadalcanal,

By JOAN HIXON World war: II ‘veterans took’ limelight today to swap tall with Legionnaires at the 25th’ raion in Ameria Legion yeution. ; ;

at the F tavpuet hotel to mayine Cpl. William L. Martin and marine Pvt. Fred L. Paine of: Billings. General hospital tell of the New ‘Guinea campaign. Other speakers included Maj.

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Seripps-Howard Newspaper

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Look for the little steel

formula to be quietly interred this fall.

Word here is that

top administration officials have agreed; that in return, labor leaders will keep John L. Lewis out of the A. F. of. L. and C. 1. O. will quiet all strike talk. Still to be decided: Amounts of wage increases, and whether

* theyll be in cash or postdated bonds. One group in administration | favors latter Blan, to > Ngep down infiatipnary Site.

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BEST BET on that. Quebec meeting: Ovirchil and Roosevelt will . | talk European: politics, prepare for any possibility that may follow | military foves. They don’t want to be caught unprepared again—and | on some points they need to have a meeting of minds. ‘Military cam-" paigns for rest of summer have already been charted, Washington believes, but alternative ones may be improvised, especially if the new Russian offensive should: show signs of defeating Germany

decisively,

» on

BETTING HERE is ‘about: 50-50 that Japan will. attack ‘Russia.

doubt she’s under heavy pressure to do so. from Germany.

' Question ‘is, can she? Some military men think Japan can be knocked

Gut of the wai ahead of

any if she does.

BILL SEFFERS 1s due for another eruption: It’s on that row over savon Va, Sutin erdsyior new. synthetic fires. Jeffers is on the

Hae Side ot rayon,

rayon, wants full steam ahead on that basis. WEB Nelson lus the, cotton bloc in congress. ;

Stn Worrying, Fathers, — ,. PRE-PEARL HARBOR. fathers can .

recent orders ant alk hou fathers have bee, for

goading 0 Shem nia

©, And don’t be 100 sure of congressional action on

essential industry, relieving acute es, ' Soule baat even threaten

change ; he subject;

- “| sToLew BY INDIANS

tales |e an-11

ever, for there are more hogs, 7.600. 000, on Indiana farms this year than ever before, More scientific - methods, and maybe a little luck, had something to do with this record number of hogs. For Indiana sows : farrowed 4,271,000 pigs this spring, an average of 6.19 pigs per litter. It used to be good for a farmer to be able to save four or five pigs per litter. As to: the. problem of getting the corn and other crops harvested in face of the labor and machinery shortage, Purdue officials say they aren't greatly worried. They point to the Way volunteers turned out recently for. the corn-detasseling job in numbers greater than needed and to the way volunteers are now turning out for tomato picking.

. Condition of Crops

The farmers’ wives too, they say, are really doing a magnificent job in helping in the fields. Conditions of other crops, as of Aug. 1, reported by the Purdue uni= versity. statistics department follow: WHEAT—An estimated crop of 15,872,000: bushels, 15 percent more than last year but 45 per cent less than average. OATS—An estimated erop of 35,574,000 bushels, 10 per cent less than average and 33 per cent less ‘than last year. The yield prospects dropped last month from 335 to 245 bushels. . Purdue officials. say (Continued on Page Two)

Nazi Gunner, 14, Picked Up at Sea

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. Aug. 14 (U. P.) —Seaman John S. Ben-

Reiterates

—President

crash of ‘a medium: bomber from MacDill] field ette, Fla., pm Buren Bree My _ Before enlisting In the army, Cpl. Russell ‘lived at the 20th st. address. - Mrs. Phillips is recovering from an operation. at the home of ‘her. mother in Anderson. Four officers and two enlisted men: were killed in the crash.

8B # FOUR HOOSIER SOLDIERS were reported, missing in action in. the European, “North African and Southwest Pacific areas by the war department today.

S. Sgt. Shannon B. Early, son of Mrs. Margaret Collings, Peters-

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ALLIES. NEAR WAR ACTION, F.D.R SAYS:

Determination . For. Total Victory.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (U. P), Roosevelt said today

son, home on leave after eight |Of ED

Jed 1 log wy off when the

Clty hospital,

erating with less than half 7%

normal” quota of graduate nurses, now threatens to.be further handicapped Jn sits: service to - ‘the city’s sick and injured by a shortage of student nurses. for. its .fall training class. : The desire to relieve wan and} suffering ‘which ‘in normal times drew young women to nurse's training is ‘being supressed by the lure of -the city’s bright lights and high paying defense jobs. And the present result is hat. the municipal ital’s- new psycopathic ward not be opened because there # no nurses, ‘either graduate or student, to care for tormented people, clamoring for attention,

Lack Promotion

While hospital officals hope to { have some 75 or 80 women enroll in_ the fall training class, applications so far number around 40. With 48 ‘of its o nal staff of 70 s leaving for the armed forces, try and positions with private | physicians “which pay ‘more, the local institution - is ‘further hampered By lack of church affiliation from which to draw recruits and no ' high powered promotion staff to glamourize its opportunities. The one bright spot in the future picture is the’ acceptance of the (Continued on. Page Two)

RELIEF NEAR FROM

SWELTERING HEAT LOCAL TEMPERATURES ‘Sam.....718 Wam.. 82 Tam. 71 lam... 8 Sam... 78 12 (noon).. 84 1p m ...86

£: | the long range American bombers

: {had been “accounted for’ —an ‘ap-

Bombers Make One of Longest Flights of

and south Europe yesterday plane plant 30 miles south of

Today’s accounts of the

was struck by the big fleet of Liberators at a vital factory believed to turn out about one-third of Germany’s entire

Messerschmitt production. A communique announcing that

had carried their war to Austria for the first time said all of them

parent indication of small losses. The Liberators planted their bombs. squarely amidst the factory buildings and hangars of the Messerschmitt plant at Wiener Neustadt, official = reports said.

War, Taking Off From Middle East Base; Opposition Was Weak

BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 14 (U. P.).—The Italian official news . agency Stefani reported by radio today that the governs y ment had declared Rome an open eye

CAIRQ, Aug. 14 (U. P.3 Sores of American’ Libera= tor bombers flew some 2600 miles across the Mediterranean

to drop more than 850,000

pounds of explosives on the big German Messerschmitt aire

Vienna, which the returning.

airmen said was left a flaming shambles.

record-breaking raid—it was

one of the longest of the entire war—said a telling blow

Scores of their heavy bombs were

LONDON, Aug. 14 (U.P.).~The Swiss radio said today that Brite ish planes flew over Sofia, drops ping. leaflets on the ‘Bulgarian. » capital.

seen bursting among 400 fighter planes parked in neat rows.on the grounds. i Indicating that the Nazis w caught flat-footed by the first mpl raid on greater Germany Dy ; bombers from North Ameri h fighter opposition and antifire were reported negligible, “The ack-ack burst a uhous ; (Continued on Page Two)

Beaten Germans in Wild Flight Te Allied Planes Batter Messina Bridgehea

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Aug. 14 (U, P.) —Axis evacuation of Sicily is in full swing across the Straits of Messina, it was announced today, as the beaten GerAD army raced to the coast, in an

by! captire vf “we | OWES in allied advances -of ‘from two to sévem miles. : ) German troops pulling out of the crumbling Messina bridgehead fled across-the narrow three to 10-mile wide straits to the Italian mainland under battering attack by allied planes despite: heavy. anti-aireraft fire, ‘Headquarters reports = said the trickle of escaping '‘enemy forces had. grown to a tide. Every type of boat was pressed into service. Sink Six Vessels Allied planes -sank six small

enemy. craft off the coast while|

British motor torpedo boats, slipping into Messina harbor Wednesday night, torpedoed three merchantmen, The allied armies squeezing relentlessly on the faltering axis lines now dominate all .of the Mt. Etna area, it was. announced, and may have’ cut. off many, enemy, troops in the mountdins. holding rear guard positions. The allies . speeded up their advance on all fronts, overwhelming the axis rear guard resistance at a pace limitéd largely by the rugged terrain, as the enemy write-off of ~ » »

Russians Swarm Into S treets of Kharkov

ports and bathing beaches after the: fall of Randazzo, the ‘key to the defense of ' the island tip, ar

the bridgehead hecame evident from the evacuation. The wholesale withdrawal under the telling blows of allied planes and warships collapsed the framework of the axis defenses every-}

Kittyhawk fighter bombers wreck at least six craft and damaged ‘1 more. : gy Wellingtons of the royal ale force taking. advantege of the | moonlight, went after the troops. : reaching debarkation points.on » they mainland beaches.

Town in Flames

American troops broke the. bone, of axis resistance when they charged into’ ‘mountain town pass of the same name between A Etna and the Caronian moun The Germans left the town a mas of flames. It was full of time bom which exploded intermi throughout the day and night Booby - traps of all kinds were lef in and around the town, . '. . Heavy attacks by the Ame Tth™ and British 8th armies driving despérately-tesisting | guards back along both the n ] and eastern cogsts within 3 mi of Messina and threatening to t thousands in the mountainous terior. One American column, after cone

On the War Fronts

(Aug. 14, 1943)

SICILY —Axis flight across Messina straits in‘ full swing; ‘American and British capture five more towns, advancing two to seven miles, to draw tighter the death trap on remaining German rearguards.

EUROPE—American Liberatoss make 2600-mile record flight to strike at Austria for first time, hitting German airplane plant near Vienna; pre reports indicate effectiveness of attack,

RUSSIA—Russ army troops storm through Kharkov streets and fall of Russia's fourth city expected soon; new drive in Bryansk séctor threatens:German Desna river line. .

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PACIFIC—Record air assault wrecks part of Saldmaua, New Guinea; Americans advance One mile against Bairoko harbor; 43 Japa-' nese planes wrecked on Bougain-

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ville in northern Solomons. ” ” »

"As Natis Leave City in Flaming Shamble

MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (U. P).— Russian troops Were reported storming ‘through ‘the streets of Kharkov - today, battering - down rear guard resistance of- Germans trying to cover the headlong flight of the garrison, Soviet front. dispatches ‘reported an enormous traffic jam in the narrowing escape corridor southwest of Kharkov as hundreds of ‘trucks

ter{and cars evacuating German troops

climbed to 95 at 4 p.m.

tried to get thro ugh, causing a state of confusion bordering on panic. Soviet army assault forces were storming into the the city through

y|ihe northern, northeastern and {eastern fringes, while "on the

wings other units were clashing into the flanks of the. menaced German

.{communications to the southwest in

attempts to complete the . encircle-

Smolensk and Bryansk on the tral front in the third Soviet fensive in less than a month. More than 100 towns andy have been liberated in adv up to 13 miles along a. front in the Spas in the initial thrust of" offensive, the Soviet nigh of said. The assault to break f ance: in Kharkov, R

ment of Kharkov and trap the enemy. rear guard. With the fall of Kharkov at hand, the Germans were devoting their main strength to an effort to halt the Red army onrush midway along the railroad to Poltava and northwest of the fallen Akhtyrka bases.

Several fresh German armored and infantry divisions, heavily supported by planes, began strong]: counter-thrusts northwest of Khar: kov. The Soviet drive toward the Dnieper on a broad front appeared to have been impeded somewhat by the Nazi action, but the Red air force still held- overwhelming mastery of the skies and there was no sign of a halt om the offensive. : Some 350 miles to the north, So viet columns drove through crum-

bling axis defenses half-way between he

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