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58 Planes Lost in Heaviest|s

Raid on German Capital.

(Continued from Page One)

fighters the Germans have yet sent into ‘the air to counter a night raid.

Many Shot Down

A number of night fighters were shot down by the bombers, both

S| over Berlin and on the way to and

from the target. Heavy anti-aircraft fire also was encountered in the early stages of the raid, but later formations reported the barrage wavered and

=| became ineffective as the tremen-

dous weight of explosives saturated

the .ground defenses.

The apparent damage to the

S| ground defenses augurs well for fu-| = [ture raids, observers said, and

should result in smaller losses if

| the offensive is put on a night-to-

night basis. German broadcasts acknowledged the raid was heavy and eoncentrated. “Enemy planes were engaged over the city itself by night fighters and searchlights and hindered in their deployment according to plan,” a

| Transocean ‘agency broadcast said,

“The enemy therefore dropped high explosives and incendiaries at ran-

= dom on residential quarters, where

damage to public and private buildings was caused. There were casu-

® = |alties, both dead and wounded.”

Newsman Hunts Shelter A Stockholm dispatch said re-

: ports reaching - Sweden from -cor-

respondents in Berlin described the damage to the capital as very extensive with inhabitants expecting more raids of "Hamburg propor-

tions.”

The cotrespondent of the Stock-

A dispatch from Copenhagen said

British fighter command Intrud-

At Parchim airfield, in, Mecklen-

: burg-Schwerin, a Canadian Mos-

quito bomber damaged a circling enemy aircraft. The Vendeville airfield at Lille and other targets were

(Continued from Page One) save the Reich fom destructive

the conference of the Nazi hier-

weeks ago. As far back as:

that time the proposal was understood to have been shelved because of the opposition to Himmler faction inside the party.

~ Long Hitler's Friend Prick is one of Hitler's oldest and

able administrator and theréby enjoying considerable prestige inside the country. ; Close followers of the Nazi situ-

parent that Frick was dropping deeper info the position of an old party wheelhorse and that his retirement regarded as a matter of time. - Some. quarters professed to see in- the appointment of Himmler a parallel to Benito Mussolini’s action’ in appointing Carlo Scorza as secretary of the Fascist party at a time when the regime was beginning its downhill slide.

Position Ornamental .

Von Neurath ceased to perform the active functions of “protector” of Bohemia and Moravia two years ago. He returned to his country estate \and in effect was replaced by the assassinated. Reinhard Heydrich acting as deputy protector. -Frick’s position as protector was expected to be largely ornamental, with the real power wielded by Karl Frank, himself a gestapo man and ruthless Nazi largely responsible for the destruction of Czechoslovakia. - ‘“Adolf Hitler relieved the reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath, of his post at his own wish,” the ‘broadcast DNB ‘dispatch said. ~ “The fuehrer appointed Minister of . Interior Wilhelm, Frick to the post. of reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and relieved him of the office of reich and Prussian minister of interior as well as that

ation said it long ago became ap-

been one of the major decisions at | archy at Hitler's headquarters three : 1941 rumors

cropped up that Prick might be retired in favor of Himmler. At

On Basis of Value to War Effort. (Continued from Page One) he said, “but whether, in the concall those men 1oasy valuable to the

war effort.” Hershey said * dil 966,000 men

{were requisitioned from selective

88 | service for July, August and Sep:

most faithful collaborators and one

of the few Nazis generally accepted as a more or less honest and cap-

of general plenipotentiary for the|! ‘Von -Neurath and Frick retain|lc

the titles of reich ministers. On Reserved List

“The leading state secretary in)

the reich ministry of interior; Hans Plundier; was pul: off the Teserved alist

reich’ and Prussian minister of interior and general plenipotentiary for the reich administration, “The reich labor service has been. excluded from the sphere of the interior. The reich labor leader being a chief of the high reich, the office is under Hitler's immediate orders. “Hitler gave the rank of reich minister to the reich labor leader, Konstantin Hierl,

‘Thanked’ for Service

“The appointment of a new reich protector involves the cancellation]all of an order commissioning S. 8. Col. Gruppenfuehrer and Col. Gen. of Police (Kurt) Daluege to deputies for the reich protector. “The state secretary to the reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Karl Hermann Frank, has been ap-4 pointed state minister by the fuehr-

‘er, equal in rank tq the reich min-

tember, and that 907,000 more would

Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt, thus far, has declined to comment on the situation. But he is scheduled to make his first radio address in two months tomorrow night, durig which he is expected to discuss manpower problems in detail, Hershey pointed out that 1,566,000 registrants, as of July 1, were awaiting classification and physical examinations and in class 1-A, but after physical rejections only 783,000 would be available for induction. An additional 644,000 from new 18-year-olds and reclassifications,

isteris.”

he said, made the total available

Boards Asked to Cull Lists|

sideration of the war effort, we willl

.|non-deferrable activities {called before those fathers who

crews returning from recent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (U. P.)~

bombing missions

‘ many reported attacks by what may be Adolf

est “secret” weapon—a new rocket-shooting, §

‘Nazi fighter plane.

Although 36 ying Fortresses were lost on the Regensburg, ‘Bavaria, mission in which the rocket fighters were first encountered, it is not known whether the rather high loss was directly attributable.

to the new type of fighter planes.

The United States army's 8th air force rounded out its first year of heavy bombardment missions over Germatiy and Nazi. occupied territory Aug. 17 with an approximate loss of 4 per cent. . Daylight high-altitude ‘precision bombing by these Fortress crews ee For a time Germany tried to down the.

headon fighter attacks on the nose of ~

the giant bomber. Next both Germany and Japgn tried dropping

fragmentation bombs

Simultaneous attacks by all types of fighter craft closing in upon : the Fortresses from all angles was the next. resistance strategy. Now x comes the report of the.rocket-shooting fighter.

Military men = doubted the claims that the Nazl rocketarmed craft can hit from a distance of 2500 yards. They said that a cannon cannot be shot accurately from a plane at a distance of more than 1000 yards. Furthermore, they added, the Fortress target is probably traveling at a minimum sped of 200 miles an hour. A rocket would have the twofold advantage of accommodating larger projectiles and lack of re-

for the six-month period 1,427,000 men, exclusive of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers,

Singlé Men First Under the pattern set by Her-

shey, "fathers in the designated will be

are in jobs that are not classified, or who are in essential work. It previously had been learned that the October call could be filled with single men, childless married men and fathers in nondererrable. activities, but there was no. estimate available as to how many would be available: for ‘the November and December calls, Hershey stressed that men not occupationally deferred will continue to be called in this, order; available single men without dependents; single men with collateral dependents such as parents; married men without children; men with children who remain in non-deferrable -aqtivities and occupations, and finally men with children.

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FLEETWOOD BOUGHT

Another airplane built in me of Ensign Robert L. Fleetwood

bearing the name “Spirit of Sey vn

mour” will soon be in action against the axis. Mrs. W. L. Layton, Seymour, sigs ter of Ensign Fleetwood, form

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sports writer for The Times who" 4

was killed. in the crash. of a navy dive bomber last February, said toe day at when the citizens of Seymour and Jackson county ine vested money ‘in war bonds to buy a plane in memory of Ensign Fleet» wood, enough was left ‘over to pure chase the second ship. we The new plane is a P-47 Republic Thunderbolt. The first ship to be

christened “Spirit of Seymour” was !

a Douglas Dauntless dive bomber, the same type ship Ensign Fleet

wood was flying when he was killed, |

PLAN CARD PARTY

The Fraternal Order of Police auxiliary will give a card party at

the Food Craft at 1:30 p. m. Thurse

day. Mrs. Ores Mangus is the chairman and Mrs. Marie Hayes is the co-chairman.

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| Local Girl Now Major in WACs

Miss Elizabeth C. Smith, who resided at 1320 N. Delaware st. before her enlistment, Khas been promoted to the rank of major in the WACs, the war department announced today, Until the WAC formally becomes a part of the army on Sept. 1 she will have the title of field director. Miss Smith, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Smith of . Washington, Ind, was a former music teacher at Washington high school. Last year she was supervisor of occupational analysis for the U. 8S. employment service here, Previously she was with the employment service at South Bend. :

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ELECTRIC LEAGUE GOLF CONTEST SET

The annual golf tournament of the Electric League of Indianapolis, Inc., will be held Thursday at the Highland country club. | Play will start at noon and a president's trophy will be awarded | the champion after dinner. A business meeting will be held at 8 p. m.

FRANTZ’ CONDITION SERIOUS

The condition of. Dr. George Arthur Frantz, pastor of the First Presbyterian ‘church, remained serious at Methodist hospital. There wis little change in his condition since he received internal injuries last Wednesday when his horse threw him ‘and fell on him, :

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