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final 16 TWO CENTS THE COURIER ESTABLISHED 1831' THE JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1829 No453 VoL 23 100000 NAZIS HAMMERING KHARKOV MjA The Weather court for iced beer chairman Two of them One of their this profession that field in NORTHWESTERN INDIANA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER LAAYETTE WEDNESDAY EVENING JtftJE 24 1942 a bottle in placed dry ice to 1 see what Hoosier Soldier Booked as Rapist HATTIESBURG 'Miss June 24 A soldier booked as Wilbur Thomas ry of Peru: Ind faces a charge of rape here today fol lowing investigation of a reported assault on a 17 year old girl Sat urday night Prosecutor Homer Pittman ask ed military authorities to release rywho has been held In the guardhouse at' Camp Shelby since his arrest Saturday night for civil action Police Chief Little said ry a member of an engineers company at Camp Shelby had confessed the assault and had been identified by the girt orecast for Indiana: Continued cool this afternoon through Thurs day forenoon Local temperature from 7 a Tuesday to 7 a nv Wednesday: High 71: low 51 rainfall Sun rises 8:22 Women of the World Unite! Two women found abil ity to do physical work in creased 34 per cent by swal lowing small drinks of sodium citrate' seven times a dayplus a little aspirin to stop the pain The idea was described at Cin cinnati meet of the American Chemical Society So now the poor tired jjnan in the house need not be called on to lift a finger If the wife is tired more' citrate! Seashore vaca tion Nonsense Get the ci trate bottle And if you like the taste get help through a Journal and Courier Want Ad Just phone 4011 to start your ad at once ALL CAUSES DEATH A VINCENNES June Miss 5 Cora May Warner 75 died last' night after falling down the basement stairway in the home of Mr and Marshall Rogers at Monroe City 1 Pelletfs Appeal Is Rejected by Court RALEIGH June The North' Carolina su preme court today rejected the appeal' sof William Dudley Pelley one time" leader of the 'ascist Sil ver'1 Shirts of America from a state prison term 'Imposed forvio lating conditions jOfi a prior sus pended sentence Two Rent Control Directors Chosen CLEVELAND June Birkett Williams regional OPA administrator has announced the appointment of rent directors for two areas of Indiana recently designated as rent control centers Reade was named di rector of the: Indianapolis area and Audley Mitchell of the La Porte Michigan City area rent control dates are April 1 194t for City and July 1 1941 for Indianapolis Iced Beer Law Will Be Enforced Until Court Acts INDIANAPOLIS Ind: June 24 (INS) In spite of an appeal to to uie supreme a ruling on the Indiana law Bernard Doyle of the state alcoholic beverages commission had1 declared today that law will be enforced throughout Indiana until the highcourt acts Attorneys for 21 Indianapolis grocers and who are fighting the law had expressed the opinion yesterday that iced beer could be sold by drug stores" groceries and" delicatessens pend ing a decision by? the supremecourt The law 'which prevents 'iced beer being sold taverns was first declared to be uncon stitutional in Marion superior court but this decision later was reversed by the supreme court of the state The druggists then ap pealed the case to the high court Doyle's announcement followed consultation with Assistant Attor ney James Northam The ABC head pointed out that since the 20 day period for a re hearing before the state supreme court had expired the high court's ruling is now effective He also pointed out that the tS court had issued no ruling or injunction to stay the decision of the Indiana group mean 61 no 5:18 sun sets Appoint Hampton School Principal RANKORT June Claude Hampton history and social science instructor In rankfort high school for 15 years was named principal of Woodside school to succeed Lee Ziegre signedThe appointment was made Tuesday night at a meeting of the school board of which Lance Har land is president Reds Turn Selves Into Human Bombs' To Halt Germans NEW YORK June With' utter disregard of their own lives soviet sailors "of the Black Sea fleet turned themselves into human bombs at Sevastopol The British radio reported today ac cording to CBS The sailors brought German troops which had penetrated the northern" positions of the Crimartn base a by tying land mines to their bodies and throwing themselves the treads of attacking nasi tanks the broad cast said ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL ARE EIGHTH COUSINS NEW YORK June Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt are cous 1ns "Conklin Mann of the New York Genealogical Biographical so ciety announced that he had dis covered after four months of por ing familiy histories that they are eighth cousins once re moved The relationship involving the Jerome and Delano "families goes back to three common ancestors who came to America on the Mayflower They were rancis Cooke his son John and Richard Warren Churchill is a son of Jennie Je rome of Brooklyn and Lord Ran dolph 'Churchill Mr mother Sarah Delano was" the seventh cousin once removed of Jennie Jerome i ACCUSED TIRE VIOLATOR REE ON $2000 BOND HAMMOND 5 Ind June 24 Sam J'1 Abrahamson 38 Hammond Ind automobile dealer accused of violation of price fix ing regulations today was free on $2000 bond' A'Ulowing his arrest yesterday by federal authorities Abrahamson named an a three count federal grand jury indict ment will be arraigned tomorrow before Judge Slick At South Bend He faces a maximum penalty of $10000 fine and 10 years imprisonment on each count of the indictmet i Abrahamson' was seized by federal officials jvho 'claimed he had unlawfully concealed new tires and had sold the new tires as used ones by having themdriven a few miles District AttorneW Alex Campbell said 1500 new tires were found in possession although the Hammond auto deal er had reported only 284 Brother and Sister Meet After 32 Yrs SOUTH BEND (UP) Claude Roberts and Sey mour Gibson1 brother and sister separated for the past 32 years were "reunited today following a war department announcement that son was reported lost in action Mrs Roberts read the announcement in an Elkhart newspaper and from it was able to locate her brother lines and German Italian forces engaged British mobile units west of Salum apparently as a mask for German Marshal Erwin Rom flanking scheme The British were making final dispositions in their plan to the invaders back however 'and there was every indication that if the axis armies should lunge into Egypt one" of the desperate and decisive battles of the war would ensue 'V' SMASH AT AXIS LINES Smashing at supply lines by land and sea 'British and South African bomber? and fight er planes were in operation day and night in an attempt to impede the reorganization and massing of axis assault forces Extending their operations to the supply lanes across the central Mediterranean British torpedo Australia Builds Gigantic Defense Against Enemies MELBOURNE June At least 100 military airdromes have been built in Australia 4 thou sands of miles of 1 strategic roads have been built or improved and 11500 separate projects are now under way in agiganti program of construction by the allied works council and the United States army engineer corps It was announced today' Negro troops of the engineer corps have proved stars in an ur gent task which requires mastery of doing much with little of building up the allied war organ ization for defense and offense de spite shortage of essential machin ery One giant airdrome costing nearly $10000000 was built in 71 days i Brig Gen Hugh Casey of the engineer corps revealed the vast program today Gen said that the work was well in hand despite shortage of labor "plants and machinery because the defense organization was using such bare essentials as it had to deal with the immediate situation The? face of Australia is being changed in the unceasing work which entails overcoming the dif ficulty caused by variations in the width of railroad guages and the lack of roads through the interior IND BODY IN RIVER TERRE HAUTE Ind June 24 (AP) Missing from his home since Sunday night the body of red Jackson 69 was recovered from the Wabash river last night Deputy Coroner Robert Oli phant returned a verdict of sui clde PRICE CEILINGS OR SERVICES STARTS JULY 1 Program to Include Every thing rom Shoe Shining and Laundry and Dry Cleaning to Organ Tuning WASHINGTON June 24 (INS) The over all price control program initiated? at the time of President Roose anti inflation message to congress was completed todaywith the application of ceilings to consumer services for the nation expends upwards of $5000000000 annually Price Administrator Leon Hehi derson transferred consumer serv everything from shoe shin ing and laundry to dry cleaning and the' tuning of a church or from the general maximum price regulation and placed them under a separate oqier The regulation effective one week from today sets the highest prices charged last March by each individual seller as a war time ceiling over the consumer services offered by 'nearly 1000000 establishments' COVERS VITAL SERVICES Other services vital to the every American family which are covered by the regula tion iftciude: Pressing alteration andVrepaif of "garments hat cleaning and blocking charges of parking lots automobile service repair and storage repair of electrical ap plianccs including radios uphol stcr and furniture repair fur re pair and storage film developing and printing storage of furni ture 'clock and watch repair floor waxing and sanding mor tician services hosiery bicycle and tire repair reweaving and mending and lawn mower sharp ening A great number of 'services that are clea'rly not rendered in con nection with? a commodity are excluded from price control This category includes such services as barber shops beauty parlors clinics camps doctors and sur geons chiropractors dentists and sanitoria WASHINGTON June (INS)' experts maintained today that the supply of sugar on hand in the United States the present time is actually below nor mal' despite the phenomena of bulging warehouses in some sec tions of the country" The stockpile was esti mated at a "little 1883000 tons which has been the average tonnage available on June 1 the past six years Normal annual sugar consumption the coun try is approximately 7000000 tons The fact that some warehouses are heavily stocked with sugar Is traceable tp transportation dif ficulties 'And does not imply a In addition refineries have been unable to dispose of their output in the normal man ner because of ationing re strictions Sugar has been piling up in large quantities in southern ware houses particularly in the Gulf area 'because 'of war imposed changes in shipping schedules Sugar that once moved up the At lantic coast from Cuba and Puerto Rico has been re routed over the shorter distance to Gulf ports Similarly heavy' supplies' are stocked in California the largest beet sugar producing state where the1 domestic crop is just begining to come in Hawaiian sugar' now is shipped directly to west coast5 ports Instead of being hauled through the Panama canal and up to' New York Boston and other eastern centers SENATE GROUP VOTES 1 5 9 TO ABANDON CCD Appropriation CommitteeHowever in Agreement to 7 Continued National 'Youth Administrati6n A WASHINGTON" (INS) senate appropriations com ml tee today voted 15 to 9 to ablish the civilian conservation corps one of President Roose vel first "relief agencies but agrjed to continuation of the Na? ional Youth administration nator McCarran (D) Nev whe led the fight "in the commit tee the CCG said that he may cany battle to save the agency to the senate floor Tie committee action was taken in reporting the labor federal se curi ies 'appropriation bill carry ing ipproximately $1075 000000 Se lator McKellar (D) Tenn was said to have led' the success ful Jght against' the CCC on the ground that the nation must eliminate all unnecessary expen ditures during the war He is author of a bill to 'abolish both the CCC and NYA The committee approved action already taken by' the house ip abolishing the CCG It allowed $500000 to liquidate the agency The committee allowed approxi mately the $58049000 voted by the house to finance the National Youth administration which is concentrating on training for war industry Kokomo Is Clearing Up Tornado Debris KOKOMO Ind June (AP) Work of clearing away the debris of tornado went ahead steadily today after the Red Cross had Refused an offer of aid from the conscientious ob camp at Lagro 17 Miss Marguerite Potts of "Wash ington representing national Red Cross headquarters here said yes terday the Red does not recognize' such outside aid and Legionnaires who have been po licing the i area threatened to withdraw if a group were sent from Lagro I' i 1 in Storesto Devote Enhrejtiiergyto Bond Stamp Sale Wednesday July 1 from 12:00 to 12:15 all retailer in Lafayette and West Lafayette at the request of the retail advisory committee of the treasury department will sell no other merchandise but war savings stamps and bonds across their counters' This word was announced Wed nesday by Henry Rosenthal chair man of the trade promotion com mittee of the retail division Greater Lafayette of Commerce following a wire from Benjamin Namm chairman of the retail advisory committee in Washington 5 Lafayette retailers will join 1000000 merchants throughout the United States who have pledged themselves to sell $1000 000000 worth of stamps and bonds during the month of July The treasury department has printed 10000000 additional stamp albums to be given to customers free of charge The slogan is "Carry a Stamp Your Passport 1 to Shoppers are urged to purchase stamps and bonds In the nearest store to them during the special fifteen minute period 4 which is known as the "Whiteout for Vic Retail establishments have ing food counters will continue to serve the public but patrons will be asked to take 'their xhange in stamps or buy them while wait Ing to be served Youth Playing Withy 1 Dry Ice Loses Eye SOUTH BEND Ind June A surgeon removed 13 year old Erwin SobeckVs left eye after1 it injured last night by flying glass from which the lad had and 'water just would happen Rue Alexander etes Losers at GARY Ind June (UP) Rue Alexander of Pine Village republican nominee for secretary of state headed the group of candidates which last night feted defeated nomination hopefuls at a dinner" at Marquette park' Explaining the platform State Committee Chairman Ralph Gates told the gathering: republican patty has ded icated Jitself to the winning of the war It proposes AS a part of it program to win the war eliminate non essential spending and to end social Others attending the dinner were James A Emmert of Shelbyville nominee attorney general Martin O'Malley of Huntington for the supreme court and loyd Draper of Gary nominee for appellate court here Key Workers in War Plants May Get Exemptions WASHINGTON June (INS) manpower authorities today placed 13 wartime industries on a list which 4will virtually exempt key1 workers 'in them from the draft ormal announcement of the ac tion was expected to be made within the next 24 hours by Paul McNutt chairman of President war manpower com mission The industries are Aircraft ordnance ammunition fire arms scientific instruments wood distillation na val stores iron and steel and non ferrous foundry production poul try and dairy farming explosives food processing and sugar beet production More industries may be added 7 Manpower? officials made it clear however that draft ex emptions will be extended only to key workers in the industries such as die makers job setters ma chinists tool makers ship fitters ship carpenter ship electricians sheet metal workers surface grinder operators tool grinder op erators boring mill operators en gine lathe operators and turret lathe operators A1 list qfspecific occupations will accompany the list of industries While the selective service law prohibits group deferments" Maj Gen Lewis Hershey national draft director already has issued an announcement that draft boards will be directed to use the manpower list as yardstick for "measuring applica tions for occupational SERVIOEN'S PAY MEASURE SIGNED BYE Measure Has Double Bar Teled purpose of Caring for Dependents and Deferment of Married Men WASHINGTON June 24 (INS) President Roosevelt today signed the service allotment bill which has the double barreled pur pose of caring for dependents and paving the way Xor deferment of married men the draft until the roll of single men is exhausted The bill contains the first major amendment of the draft act ex cepting for A age limit 'changes since its enactment Presidential approval Is expected to be follow ed by a sweeping draft reclassifi cation order Under terms of the measure de pendents of enlisted men of the first four grades in army and navy will re ceivcfr om $50 a month depending on the num ber and kind of dependents TABLE BENEITS The table of benefits follow: Class A $22 deducted from sol pay Government contributes $28 to wife with no child $40 to wife and one child $50 to wife and two children Additional $10 contributed for each child over twoj Class $22 deducted from sol pay Government contributes additional $15 if one dependent parent $25 if two parents $20 if one parents and one sister $25 if one parent and two sisters Benefits to class dependents ar? increased if the soldier has a class A dependent or example if soldier has a dependent wife and 1 also one dependent parent the would contribute an additional $15 monthly and the soldier would contribute $5 addi tional In the "case of two depend ent the government con tribution would be $25' ATTENDS DRAT ACT i The measure amends the draft act by authorizing the president to defer men because of family status as for financial de pendency Congressional leaders In charge of the unanimously said i theMntention was to provide for deferment of married men un til after single men are called Maj Gen Lewis Hershey di rector of selective service was reported to have already prepared new I regulations to be sent to draft boards based upon the al lotment bill regulations are expected to follow the congressional pur pose I of deferring married men 7 7v' Girl Accidentally Killed by Bullet INDIANAPOLIS June 24 (AP) A pistol wound while she was 1 cleaning an upstairs room was 1 the cause of 'the death yes terday of 12 year old Joann Browne Georgia Swanford 13 a friend of the girl and who lived In the same house told deputy sheriffs Joanh found the pistol and hand ed it to her 1 As she handed it back' the pistol discharged with the bullet striking the girl in the chest Joann died' a short time after being taken to a hospitaL Dep uty' 1 Coroner Hubert Collins said the shooting was accidentaL SCRAP RUBBER DRIVE SO AR DISAPPOINTS i Ickes Warns Americans to Step Up Contributions if They Still Want to Drive Their Autos WASHINGTON June (INS)Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes following a preliminary re port to 'President" Roosevelt on the scrp rubber collection drive to day warned the "American people to step up rubber contributions "if they still want to drive their a The dbvering the first "six days collection was described by IckeS as in some states but very disappointing in fmost 1 populated the secretary declared "are the worst and the eastern and south era states are worst of all The zfar western States have given thebest PUTS IT UP TO PEOPLE drive is putting it up to the people to determine by burn ing in scrap rubber whether theytill 1 want to drive their cars" IckeS warned rubber is not turned in large amounts' that" is Unless' we 'get enough to fulfill military needs and to'some ex tent' civilian needs we will hfve to getit Mn some other Accompanying in present ing the preliminary report to President Roosevelt were Deputy Petroleum Coordinator William Davies and Boyd jr chairman of the petroleum indus war council Expressing a more optimistic view than Ickes Boyd revealed that on a 1 per capita basis Ne vpda was leading the nation in scrap rubber contributions Mon tana and Arixonawere next in that order "Strangely enough" Boyd stated is at the very 1 bottom of the list and New York1 state is In next to Importance of Using Ads During War Is Stressed NEW YORKc June 24 The importance during war times was asserted byCharles Carr director of ad vertising of the Aluminum Co of America expressing impatience with people who hold meetingsforTthe purpose of adver as a great American need sav Carr told a meeting of the Advertising ederation of Amer ica 'v' (Thev real 1 job of advertising now Carr said is to direct the pent up purchasing power into securities so as build up ability to buy after the war is over Other objectives of advertising Carr suggested should be to ex plain' to customers present short asrea of some kinds of good and to1 satisfy their curiosity as to the' future by picturing the goods which 'will be available after the i war to those who have saved sys tematically and built up their pur chasing power Brig Gen Doolittle To Be Kokomo Guest 1 KOKOMO June (UP) Brig Gen James Doolittle hero of the Uited State air corps who sled the bombing attack against Tokyo several weeks ago will be guest' of honor at a din ner of the Kokomo voiture 40 and 8' was announced today A i definite date for the dinner "has jnot1 been set Gen? Doolittle was inducted Into' the local voiture in 1932 and is a member of the local American Le gion post all Proves atal 'f To Sleep WalkerKLXaKRTA June "Willard Howard Losee 18 Nap panee died yesterday of injuries received June when he fell through a two story window while walking in his sleep He suffered a dislocated neck causing com had 'a similar accident earlier in June but escaped with only minor injuries 1 Meeting Will Be' Attended by Churchill and Canadian Prime Minister President Ex spected to Explain Decisions Reached in Connection With ar Eastern Conflict WASHINGTON The white? liouse today an nounced that President Roosevelt has summoned a special meeting of the Pacific war council for tomorrow The council meeting wiU be attended by Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Prime Minister MacKenzie King or vuruiua Turein pwLiiusier van Kief fans of the NetherlandsJwho has arrived in Washington also is expected to represent his country at the session President Roosevelt and Church ill are expected to explain to the Pacific war council 1 the decisions which have been reached in con nection with the far eastern phase of the war SOONG TO BE PRESENT It is anticipated that" the spe cial council meeting also will give the 'representatives of some of the Pacific powers an opportunity to express their views concerning the far eastern situation V' Soong the Chinese foreign minister who also will be present at the meet ing expected to emphasize the Chinese view that the united na tions must not lose sight of the importance of Pacific war in their desire to crush Hitler first The president and Churchill to day are believed to have drafted a tentative plan for making avail able before the end of this year sufficient shipping transport and supply an Anglo American expeditionary in Europe OUR CHIE ACTORS The plan Js reported in diplo matic circles upon the following developments: 1 Ability of the American navy toXovercome by mid summer the axis submarine campaign on this side of the "Atlantic 2 Increased production of American shipping 1 including new types 1 3 Drastic curtailment of the use of united nations shipping sfor any thing hut actual 4 Stabilization of the British position along the Egyptian bor der to prevent the axis forces of German General Erwin Rommel from dashing through to the Suez canaL The question'of when and where an attempt should be made to have American and British troops (Turn to Page 10 Col 3) Dr Adah McMahan Dies After Long and Successful Career Won Renown in Medical Profession Served Country Overseas in irst World War Noted as Civic Leader Club Worker Quiet Philanthropist Over Period 7 of Many Years in Community' j'1 Dr Adah 'McMahan highly esteemed Lafayette practicing physi cian civic leader club worker and quiet philanthropist died Wednes day morning at at St Elizabeth hospital the news of her death causing profound sorrow: throughout" the community or more than 40 years she had carried on her profession lie re making carrying1 planes were said to have scored 'several hits on two me dium sized merchant ships as well as a tilt causing" an explosion bn one of four escorting 'destroyers powerful enemy 'force of all arms was on? the march south of Gambut a desert 'town midway between axis occupied Tobruk and Bardia and a military commenta tor declared major actioji for Egypt was imminent? INVASION EXPECTED Hour by hour the opening of a mighty Invasion attempt wasexpc £ed as a sequel to the whirl wind German Italian campaign that wrested eastern Libya1 from British hands British forces engaged small axis parties all day yesterday (Turn to Page 10 Col 6) a namefor herself' as one 01 tne leading 'woman doctors 1 of the state She probably was the first of sex to undertake the practice of medicine In this section of Indiana 1 Dr McMahan 73 years old had been ill for about two weeks but up to that time continued in her profession her home being at 2 Owen street and her office in the McMahan building "the former Lafayette club Relatives were at her bedside 1 when she passed away" COLLEGE' TRAINING Born at Huntingburg Jan 12 1869 she was a daughter of Wil liam Reed McMahan also a phy sician and a veteran of the Civil war 'All six children of the family were graduated from In diana: university became physiciansaunts also followed as a pioneer in TTJ'vn A r1 After attending school in her native comipunity Dr McMahan received "an A Bdegree in 1889 and then an rA 5 degree in 1893 from Indiana 1 and then an D1 degree from the medical school 1 of Northwestern university 1897 Meanwhile she had taught in the classical school at Evansville and in a high school at Duluth Minn (Turi to Page 10 CoL 3) SITUATION AT SEVASTOPOL IS REGARDED AS MORE SERIOUS Moscow Admits That Reckless Charges of 1 Hundreds of Tanks ollowed Infantry "Have Driven Wedges Into Russian De fenses on Two Important War ronts MOSCOW The nazi drive on the Kharkov front developed into a major offensive today as German ield Mar shal edor Von Bock threw in 400000 men in a supreme effort to gain control bf a portion of the vital Kharkov Rostov railway Von immediate objective appeared to be seizure of a vital stretch of the rail line near Kup yansk'65 miles southeast of Khar kov industrial capital of the Ukraine The situation at Sevastopol grew more serious by the hour The entire front? surrounding the beleaguered Black sea naval base raged with intense fighting as German siege forces1 intensified their attacks As the Germans tightened their ring of steel around Sevastopol Russian fighters fell back to defenses bn the southern sector of the fortress where they were prepared to make a final stand The newspaper Red Star organ of the soviet army sounded an ominous note when It said that of the nazi attacks on Sevastopol had been repulsed SPECIAL MEETING PACIIC WAR COUNCIL CALLED BY Is Undr Normal UNITS MOVE SOUTH IN ATTEMPT TO CRASH EGYPT British rm ri South African Bombers'" Operat ing Day and Night in Effort to Impede Re organization arid Massing of Axis Assault orces After all of Tobruk 'CAIRO June (AP) Axis armored forces moved on the Libyan side of the Egyptian frontier today apparently in tending to wheel eastward and crash into Egypt many miles below the coast in the hope of outflanking the British defenses the coastal zone German cannons sent shells over the British MASSED TANK ATTACKS MOSCOW June (API Reckless charges by hundreds of nazi tanks followed by infantry have a wedge into the red army defenses on the Kharkov front the Ukraine and are bringing overpowering strength to bear against the far outnumbered defenders of besieged Sevastopol in the Crimea the Russians con ceded today At a single point on the Khar kov front: the massed 200 tanks in an onslaught which began on June 22 first anniver sary of the German invasion and has been increasing constantly in fury and force said Russian dis patches from the battlefront At Sevastopol the overwhelming force of the German offensive was indicated by a report 'that the nazi sent two infan try (up to 30000 men) and tanks into the attapif in a narrow strip 1 The infantry crept forward un der camouflage and through ditches and shell craters behind the tanks 1 but the Sevastopol gar? rison managed to establish a (Turn to Page 10 Col 6) IX 7 "11 11 XJ 4 i I.