Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1943 — Page 1

FORECAST: Fair and eontiniied colder tonight followed by increasing cloudinéss and warmer tomorrow.

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i Tks FRANCIS McCARTHY

“ABOARD A US S. AIRCRAFT "CARRIER OFF RA'BAUL, Nov. 11 (Delayed) “feet “above our ships | watched an American Hellcat «fighter squadron stand off a desperate Japanese air attack against an aircraft carrier task group so successfully that the attackers failed to score a single direct hit on “their. targets. In this phase of the raid against combat shipping

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City Hospital Rehabilitate Many in Spite of Handicaps

By HELEN RUEGAMER A beautiful olive skinned young woman sits day in and day out In the hospital ward, staring nto. space, Shines Fafining a comb through,

——fger-eurly hair Nearby a former school “tesicher paces back and forth, disinterested

in her surroundings and herself, tormented by _vague A which flit

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= SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1943

Cyewitness: How lap Threat In S

in Rabaul harbor our fighter squadron shot down 54 enemy

~ planes to set a new record

for two Japanese planes.

“for the number of airveraft—

—From_ a torpedo plane 1000 “downed by a single group in one day. — Even the torpedo the plane from which 1 watched the mass air Fduer “accounted unit to join us

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

of f five air-sea battles | have watched in n the South Pacific. “fwent-up in a plane which had- started circling over.

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The first two waves were

task force waiting for other when the Japanese atfack” planes ~oated vil

King

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dive bombers, single-engined

_In fact, 1 do not believe that one of an tails 72. Aichi 99 carrier type planes with fixed landing gear, The next two waves were torpedo planes, single-engined Mit-

Japanese planes sent against us escaped the slaughter.

The. dog fighting over the

carrier force was part of the

Rabaul raid which was the most shattering to the Japanese

War Strain Brings Mental Crackups

al. slays. Chinese health aya, .

MMILLEN'S HAT POISED FOR Gl

Editor Ready. to Oppose “Willkie as Hoosier Favorite Son.

“By EARL RICHERT _ A concerted drive will be made: in Indiana for delegates to the G. O. P. "44 national convention who are favorable to Wheeler McMillen, farm magazine editor and former Hoosier, Paul Shoemaker, manager of the McMillen Chicago

". | headquarters,

announced today. - Mr. Shoemaker was here with Mr.

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|cOLD WEATHER TODAY,

WARMER TOMORROW

This will be a day, all day, to be colder

health control program until the _|police department gets full co-|

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IAP BOMBERS STRIKE | LLIGE ISLAND BASE

Kill One Man, We Wound Two;

subishi 97s and twin engined

A fifth wave of dive bombers never got in.

ORT ARABS IN A RUSS CUT LAST BIG NAZI RAL LINE

Mitsubishi. It was

LEGAL HEALTH

move Stigma of “Arrest’

Procedure.

By NOBLE REED First steps toward a co-ordinated, | legal program to curb the rapidly | rising venereal disease rate in In-| dianapolis were taken at a four-|

“i hour conference of city and county

officials, judges, civic and. labor

leaders last night. ‘ _A committee composed of Harold

hy -oouttol progra

city a t that the number of patients at the city's isolation hospital had dropped 75 per cent in the last month, due chiefly, it was salds to the police department's change In arrest methods

‘Procedure ‘Tiegal’

~The change in palice policy fol-

lowed disclosure ‘three weeks ago that scores of persons were being arrested illegally and held for confinement at the isolation hospital on a “vagrancy” charge. This procedure was. described at

W. D. Bain of criminal court as. “clearly illegal.” =

the. safety a nbutice that the police d t had stopped making arrests'in the health drive except on specific uidavits “We cannot get any place in this

operation of all other law enforceLment agengies,” Mr, Remy said. “If we are’ full co-operation by [other enforcement agencies we will keep the isolation hospital full of (patients at all times, “We have been doing our best to help check the spread of disease but all we have received for our efforts is alot of abuse.”

Mr. Remy complained that a

One Plane Downed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U, P.. —The navy announced today that a force of 12 Japanese bombers attacked the new American base at Nanomea In the northwestern

CONTROL HERE

Committee Seeks 40->Re-~ -surprists; “probably pleasant. But-there may be tinplensant-——Fhe-Russian-army has-eap-. LAR taymed- revolution’. has to [tured the vital junction city broken out It's no of Zhitomir on the Ukraine French authorities

|B. West; president-of the Indian +obapolis Social Hygiene _associaiion... ~_|Henry E. Ostrom, chairman of the | [Marion county Republican commit- | ~“ltee, and Harvey A. Grabill, presi-| f ldent of the Indianapolis Bar #sso-. ciation, aa Dpmed to work: out a

on 8 Tegal basi

i conférence cal Mr. 1 The rh cats ae cae 0 Araby coy BND NOOK OUT for a dnp. blow in. ihe. Pegific. in spife of our

William" H. Remy, president. of |

A Weekly: Sizeup- by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.: Last week we Ci of war

surprises, too.

Look out for a sudden Nazi blow at England. | secret that Britain is a colossal allied base—military, And it's the jumping-off place for any cross-

naval, air. | channel offensive, So, before Hitler surrenders,

attack against the British capital, British ports, British war industries, communications centers, troop. concentrations, |

he may launch a do-or-die aerial

embarkation points,

shipping pools, railways, to forestall or cripple invasion of the continent. The Nazis are known to possess more bombers, for example, than

they are using—perhaps 2000 more.

for some purpose. ‘But. what? Ar reli: A

rns

‘Meeting "between British and ‘was highly important. sidé of allies, Axis, therefore, may

they can "t

[ "Watch i Tap Blow

about going on the offensi

Mystery

Mayor’s Office Jim - mied; No City Job

Request Found. SOMEBODY WANTED, some-

the conference by Judge Judson) thing at the mayor's office and it Stark of superior court 1 and Judge | couldn't have been a¥job, for the |

“I mayor wasn't there.

When Watchman Jacob Lenz made his rounds at 3 a. m. today all outer and inner City Hall |

doors, including that of the mayor's office, were securely

On. his 4:30 trip he found the rear door to the hall jimmied and standing open. He called the police. ‘A quick check ‘showed that no office except the mayor's had been hroken into. The police could find nothing disturbed,” but Mayor Tyndall if taking a thorough inventory today. * Leaving the hall, the police found a man standing in a doorway in nearby Hudson st. Questioned, he said he ‘was waiting for a streetcar. There are no streetcars on Hudson st. He was arrested on a vagrancy charge and held under $2000 bond for questioning.

‘CAPITAL CAPERS’ . SUSPECT IS JAILED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P), —Director J. Edgar Hoover of the F.' B. 1. announced today that Washington's mysterious “Mr. Smith”—alleged to have defrauded and hoodwinked some of the capital's gullible of more than $1000 during a few days’ visit—has been arrested by F. B. I. agents in Chi-

ver said the arrested man, known in Washington as L. Foster Smith, Hollywood talent scout, Was| Arnold Lester, 43. ‘Lester posed here as a talent scout for Warner Brothers, Hoover said, and convinced actors and nu-

s| merous others that he was making

sttangements for & new. produetion,

in|“Capital Capers,” and

Jtained funds from them,

st 621 of automo-

"win hat

et, 0 wont my when 1 ex

pects to make a report. 2 "Xena ica osbonmlc 3 holding hearings in Den- |

TURKEY'S. ALIKELY olla ge spot, pr

SERRE

These are being kept in reserve

— Turkish foreign BinGsters at “Catto

counter by trying to occupy’ Turkey

up to the Dardanelles. If they don’t it will almost. certainly be because

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NAZIS POUR INTO ISLE OFF TURKEY

'British Defenders | Italians Fall Back in Lero Invasion.

and

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> 1 Leningind-Odessa, : -epilrond ‘resull_ of. the capture of Zhitomir, sponsibility - Bertin’ fears it will bring Turkey into war on |

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PRICE FOUR 1 ns

intercepted and destroyed by our fliers 25 miles out fram the task force. Everywhere T fooked there seemed to be a’ Japanese

plane, but. nol a dive bomber or-torpedo plane scored. a

“hit: Only three- torpedoes penetrated the screen of de- SE

stroyers around the carfiers.

All were wide of the mark.

Dive bombers, plunging 12,000 to 15,000: feet, scored.

near misses with their explosives on twe carriers,

The

carrier on which 1 had been riding had two bombs land off : 5 (Cantiiund wn on Page ?—Column 3)

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Ukraine, Falls to Sovietz,

LONDON; Nov. 13 (U. P).

(front, severing the most im-|clared a state of siege and portant German-held railroad thrown a cordon of troops = splitting the around the Lebanese capital,

land virtually

(Nazi armies in half.

v { . ' . Zhitomir, Key City of Cairo Newspaper Says

pi e———

The smashing vietory—seored last: ported today,

{night as the result. of “an _impetu- |

{ous blow: of cavalry and infantry” ~ Was announced Today in an order

of-the.day by Marshal Jose! Stalin, sist in Lebanon,”

Arabs- N

French Failing to Keep Order.

CAl RO, Nov.

Beirut and have de~

{the newspaper Al Misri re

18 (U, Py

(In London, British official ireles :

sald Britain could not permit “a state of disorder tq develop or pers

_ Bovikt-arriry. troops severed the am “aren of “trategls importance

Meanwhile,” Russinn treops blast-

dispatches said today.

The Germays and..<umaniens whe -had-barricaged. had. fired and dynsnuted Kerch's|the Moslem quarter. The

ag. ~gdnr. shdch. British. forces have. 5s .

The British 9th and

because It Iny In E

[10th armies and possibly American : jed a wedge In the northeastern forces are stationed in the Middle - | defenses and were battling thelr way East.) {through the suburbs toward blazing,

French - troops, mainly Senegalese

3500-year-old Kerch in a furious | and mmed with “Inght for the eastern Crimes; front patrolled the tfty nd’

[radic, engapemente with Levanta themselves

iv,

principal utilities and public build«|used a number of tanks and Ame

ings in city’s ultimate fall, but were re-

Adolf Hitler's order: hat

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aliglers, Nov. 13 {U, P.),~Allied war|ships swinging behind German lines!

P CAIRO: Nov. 13 (U. P).—German. io gig the embattied Angio-Ameri=-

invasion forces still are pouring into |can 5th army bombarded enemy po- |

{four beachheads on Lero, a com-| {sitions in the Gulf of Gaeta, it was

munique announced today,

{toward —the namesake capitat of + the tiny Dodecanese island.

“Pighting continues and casual- | ties are being inflicted on the] enemy,” the British Middle Eastern| command said in a brief communique. Lero lies off the southwest Turkish coast-60 miles northwest of the German bastion of Rhodes. Barring the unlikely arrival of}

a matter of time. With no royal air force fighters available to beat off viclous German dive-bombers, the Anglo-Italian defenders were virtually at the mercy of the invaders. Loss of Lero would leave the allies with only one of the three Aegean islands they seized at the time of the Italian surrender, Samos, 35 miles north of Lero. The Germans captured Cos last month, depriving the allies of their only fighter airdrome in the Aegean.

Hoosier Heroes—

AWARDED AIR MEDAL

Also Gets Cluster for 400 Hours in Action. .

Tfront—reports-—said-they were drive ing the British and Italians back low Rome, . Striking withthe Asslstance- of; {Continued on—Page #—Column- 3

15 Jap ‘Ships and 88 Planes

cupation of the island seemed only|

WILLIAM GATHERIDGE

{trols forced the [probe The Nazi winter defenses be- |

tacit” recognition of thejored cars.

Al Misri sald revolutionists were

“sisting savagely in compliance with|firing on all Frenchmen who ®- the proached the Moslem quarter Pub.

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Allied Warships Bombard . Port Behind Nazis’ Italy Lined 3

(allied bombers and aerial flares, the British destroyers ' Tyrian, Tumult and Grenville and the Polish- de sttoyer Piorun sent shells into the ‘enemy's rear lines less than eight | miles above the Sth army in threes

and Announced today, while British pa-| separate assaults Monday and T Sangro river to day.

On land, elements of the 5th

Smashed in Solomons Batt fo

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS moves the Japanese naval threat 0

and shot down 88 enemy planes) most of them in a bitter air battle

announced today, “This, for the

United States 8th air force struck ‘another blow .at one of the most important shipping. apd. industsigl iO

around a U. 8. naval force, it was the *

time being, 76] (Continued on Fn 3—Column §)

Yank Foriresses Blast Big: Se Garman Industrial Cente

LONDON, Nov. 13 (U. 'P).~Fly- man defense on thee way - a ing Fortresses and Liberators of the | target.

allied reinforcements, German oc- | Southwest Pacific, No. 13 (U. P.).— our operations in the Solomons,” Joining forces for another devastat-| Gen. Douglas MacArthur's pokes ing attack on Rabaul, more than man reported. 2 200 American carrier-borne air-| craft and land-based bombers sank | correspondent who rode in a tors or damaged 15 Japanese warships pedo plane on the raid and wits

Francis McCarthy, United Press

nessed the fight over the American vessels, sald the enemy defeat was "most shattering” of the five

Eaker’s airforce escorted targets in northwest, Germany to- four-motored bombers on their day, Car American heavy bombers thun- launching. Cierman, dered out from their British bases er planes attacked the in ihe smurk of erly morning And dusting in ceusiderably cious § of cloud