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STRIKE ENDS Bloomington—A three-day walk--out by 900 employes of the Show- j ers Brothers Furniture Factory ; was scheduled to end today after they were informed that their request for a wage increase would be reviewed by the War Labor Board in the near future. The employes, members of the United Furniture Workers, struck Tuesday protesting failure of the WLB to acknowledge a telegram requesting immediate action on their petition for a, general 5-cent an hour wage increase placed before the board in August. Union officials said the WLB assured the workers yesterday that their petition would be reviewed shortly. o FORM CLAPPER MEMORIAL Washington. — Friends and colleagues of the late Raymond Clapper, newspaper columnist who was killed in a plane crash in the Marshall Islands, have formed the Raymond Clapper Memorial Association to cemmemorate his journalistic achievement “and all he did to justify a free press.” The association, incorporated here yesterday, will present an annual award for reporting to a Washington newspaper writer. The award will be a gold medal and, if funds permit, a sum of cash. SPUDS NOT FATTENING. Washington—The department of agriculture decided today that it is now time to let the people in on one the best kept secrets of the century—potatoes are not fattening. With a heavy crop coming up and plenty of last year’s spuds still around, the department wants is known that: The caloric content of a “fairsized Irish potato is about the same as a large orange; a large apple; four verage size prunes; a thick slice of bread; or 2-3 of a cup of whole milk. 100,000 MINERS °STRIKE London—More than 100,000 miners were on strike in the United Kingdom today as six more anthracite collieries closed to make the South Wales Coal stoppage virtually complete. Reports from Cardiff said the miners showed no inclination to return to the pits until they learn what the government’s 11th hour concessions-promised for tomorrow mean. It was estimated that if they remaip idle until Monday, the coal loss will total 330,000 tons while the miners give up $1,600,000 in wages. o REVEALS AGREEMENT Washington. — President Roosevelt today revealed an army-navy agreement prohibiting members of the armed forces from participating in political campaigns, but allowing them to become candidates for public office. The agreement permits a regular member of the armed forc^f to accept a nomination for public office “provided it is tendered without any solicitation or direct or indirect activity on his part.” That restriction, however, does not apply to reserve officers on active duty. oAUTHOR DIES Chatham, Mass.—Joseph C. Lincoln, 74, famous author of Cape Cod stories, died in his hotel suite at Winter Park, Fla., today according to word received at his home here. He was the second noted author to die during the day. The other was Irvin S. Cobb.

Spring Bonqnet For Demo Editors Set For April 15th Editors Will Hear Senator Sam Jackson and LACKOF FUNDS

NULLIFY PLANS

BLOWS STAGGER NAZI LUFTWAFFE

IRVIN COBB DIES New York.—Irvin S. Cobb, famous humorist, newspaperman and author, died in his New York apartment today, unable to keep his promise to “keep friendly newspapers advised, if, as and when I get ready to depart elsewhere.” i Cobb, who was 67, was in a coma for 24 hours before his death at the Hotel Sheraton at 10:15 a. m. His wife, the former Laura Spencer Baker, of Savannah, Ga., whom he married in 1900, was with him when he died. He had been ill for several months. o HOUSING UNITS NEEDED Chicago. — One million housing units annually during the decade following the war will be needed if housing is to hold its own with the balance of our living economy, Irving W. Clark, Pittsburgh, today told the concluding sessions of the naional conference of postwar housing. Irving, manager of Westinghouse Electic & Manufacuring Company’s better homes department, cited the need also for modernization and repairs for a high percentage of America's 32,000,000 residential units.

Public Money For Postwar Plans Wasted Un-

less Session Aids

Under Burma law, a wife may become head of the household il the husband drinks too freely.

Gov. Henry F. Schricker-Will Be Held at Claypool Hotel and Will Launch Coming Political Campaign — Committees Named To Arrange for Luncheon and

Banquet. V

Saturday, April 15, has been set as the date for the annual spring banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association in the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, Ray E. Smith, association presdent, announced yesterday. It is the first Saturday after Easter. United States Senator Samuel D. Jackson and Gov. Henry F. Schricker will share the speaking program, Mr. Smith said. “The I.D.E.A. officers decided that it was unnecessary to go outside the state to obtain speakers for the meeting/’ Mr. Smith explained. “Senator Jackson and Governor Schricker

are both excellent orators, and will deliver inspiring , messages to the politically-minded audience of that tion to know that our state i S so night.” ^ well intrenched for the post-war ” ’ j era, it only amphasizes the lack

been announced by Ray Smith: |Of such security on the part of our

Arrangements. j cities and towns. j Realizing, as we do, the necesot vin-igj^y for a sca ] e program of j rehabilitation and reconstruction

Berlin Left In Flames Is Being Evacuated By Thousands

So For Nine Candidates File For County Sherifi

CHAIRMAN

I London, March 10. — The Red v j [Army pounded at the Germans in the Ukraine today at both ends of |a long line arching southeastward j from Poland to the lower reaches

of the Dnieper.

In the west the German Luftwaffe staggered against the ropes under the unremitting pounding of the American and British air forces. The RAF kept the offensive

on an around the clock basis durc . , . .. , , — 1 ing the night by striking into . pea mg recently at the annual j France to bomb the Marignane

conference of the State Board of i aircraft plant 12 miles northwest

Tax Commissioners and Township Assessors, Governor Schricker declared, “Government must recognize the uncertainty of the days ahead,” and expressed pride and satisfaction that the financial condition of the State of Indiana is the best in the State’s history with a balance of more than $30,000,000 in the State’s general fund. This balance he said, “could he used to help meet State obligations in the eVfent of a sharp decline in receipts or for any emergencies which may arise in the

post-war period.”

Mr. Jackson, who was appointed Senator by Governor Schricker upon the death of Senator Fred-ex-ick Van Nuys, is expected to talk on nationad issues, giving members of his party a report of the political situation at Washington. It will be his first appearance before a political meeting in Indiana since his appoint-

ment in late January.

The meeting, as all others of the editorial association, will be a state-wide Democratic rally. Coming less than a month before the primary election, and two months before the state convention, the banquet will be a high point of the spring political calendar, and will undoubtedly attract a capacity crowd. It will afford an opportunity for candidates for state and congressional office to sounid

out sentiment.

Tickets for the banquet will be $2.50 each, and will he placed on sale in every county within the near future. They will be sold by county chairmen and at Democratic newspaper offices. At noon on April 15 the members of the editorial assopiation will hold a luncheon in Parlor B of the Claypool. Resolutions will be dopted, officers elected, and a general discussion of newspaper topics. This meeting will be open to I.D.E.A members only. A social affair for ladies, previously held in the afternoon, will be omitted this year. Committees to arrange for the luncheon and banquet were announced by Mr. Smith. Fred F. Bays, chairman, has pledged the co-operation of the Democraitc State Central Committee in making plans for the meeting. The following committees have

Howard N. Greenlee

cennes, chairman.

A. R. Holthouse of Decatur. Herbert Harris of Greenwood. Mrs. Lena P. Dale of Muncie. Fred F. Bays of Indianapolis.

Resolutions.

Walter S. Chambers of New Castle, Chairman. William A. Kunkel, Jr. of Fort

Wayne.

Harry Strange of Shoals. W. M. Wells of Scottsburg. William B. Carelton of Boon-

ville.

Business Sessions. John F. Mitchell, Jr. of Greenfield, Chairman. B. R. Matteson of Albion., E. C. Gorrell of Winamac. Curtis Hostetter of Rockville. Mrs. Eleanor Jamison of Sulli-

van.

Nominations. George D. Crittenberger of Anderson, Chairman. A. H. Flanigan of English. A. G. McQuire of Sullivan. Harold F. Miller of Jamestown. Wray E. Fleming of Indianapo-

lis.

Editor Reservations. Paul L. Feltus of Bloomington, (Jhairman. Thomas J. Langdon of Aurora. Harry R. Diel of Brazil. B. A. Morley of Ligonier. Lawrence Cory of Monticello. Publicity. J. Clayton Hughes of Indianapolis, Chairman. Bert Enos of Plymouth. Toney E. Flack of Indianapolis. A. J. Huering of Winslow. Mrs. Edna Bingham of Indian(Continued On Page Four)

* STRONG PRESIDENT AND A WEAK CONGRESS i Let’s keep the conflict between President Roosevelt and Congress on a level of sanity. The conflict is not a revolution, as some editors scream. It is not a death struggle of representative government, as others declare. Nor is it an “irreparable breach in relations” of the Chief Executive and the legislators. It is ‘not even a new phenomenon' in American politics: it has occurred whenever the nation has had a strong President and a weak Congress. It is no reflection upon the honesty or integrity of the members of the present Congress to say that the body as it stands today is one of the weakest in American history. It is weak not only in its lack of great statesmen; it is weak in its own leadership, vacillating in all directions, flabby in its purposes. That is why a legislative inferiority complex has asserted itself in the passion to obstruct the positive, clearly directed and purposeful leadership of the President. On issue after issue it has been not a case of Congress wanting its way, but of not wanting the President to have his; of doing nothing as against doing something. Senator Barkley’s impassioned resignation was only the climax of the emotion engendered by this situation, just as the tax bill was but the casus belli which sparkled the resentment into flame. Many could see what was coming. They could see it in Congress’s obstinacy on the soldier vote, in its offhand rejection of a national service act, in its attempt to block consumer subsidies — never once offering any constructive substitutes. That is why it is a mistake to regard the issue as involving constitutional rights of Congress. The issue involves one factor: the record of Congress. In his concilatory letter to Senator Barkley, the President holds out an olive branch to all the legislators. Mr.* Roosevelt realizes, as all of us must, that a prolonged break between the White House and Congress would endanger our hopes for post-war peace even if it would not injure the war effort itself. So it is for Congress now to decide whether it will start co-op-erating, or go on obstructing. It is for Congress to say whether its own record—its very shabby record on home front problems—is to be the major campaign issue for 1944. Even though the cleavage runs deep, and despite the overriding of the President’s tax bill veto by the House and similar action by the Senate— We still cannot believe that Capitol Hill will refuse to come to its senses in the midst of this nation’s most terrible war. The tax bill is an incidental; co-operation for victory is an essential if this nation is to carry on its leadership in the post-war world. ■ ^ The great majority of the people of the United States will give their support to the President— Today, tomorrow and on Election Day.—Philadelphia Record.

of the physical properties of our cities and towns to overcome deterioration 'hnd to achieve a living and working environment worthy of a victorious democracy, and to assure communities worthy of our returning heroes, we are obstructed by lack of means for the reali-

zation of our problem.

This problem was recognized by the 1943 session of the Indiana Legislature since they created the Indiana Economic Council—a statewide planning organization whose representative is now urging our towns and cities to make post-war

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plans and file them with their com- fenemy afThe front and maintained

mittee.

WIe of the Indiana Municipal League have been in the forefront in the matter of post-war planning. We recognize our obligation to the returning service men and women and to our community, hut we who are actually making the plans have encountered an obstruction which tends to nullify our efforts. The best post-war plans in Indiana are worthless unless the financial means for their execution is provided. The time, the effort, and the public money which have gone into the formation of these plans will be wasted unless legislation is immediately adopted that permits the creation of funds with which .to ibegin the prosecution of these plans. We are now prevented from setting aside reserve funds. If we are to be prepared to carry forward any plans that will assist in absorbing the manpower which will be released with the demobilization of the armed forces and employees from our war industries during the period of conversion to the manufacture of domestic goods, action is necessary in the proposed special session of the Indiana Leg-

islature.

This session is being called for the primary purpose of making it possible for our young men and women in the armed forces to cast a ballot in the coming election. This must be the first order of business at the special session. The members of the session must speedily and successfully pass a bill that will assure the legal casting and counting of the vote of our men and women who are fighting so valiantly and sacrificing so wil-

lingly.

The Legislature has an equally gret responsibility, however, is seeing to it that those of us who remains at home will be prepared to welcome them to communities able to provide good and useful employment on .projects that are immediately needed, projects that afford practicable means of generating useful jobs at the proper

time.

Twenty-one other States have already adopted legislation which permits their cities and towns to establish such reserves for the solution of their post-war community problems. Indiana cannot afford to postpone further recognition of its responsibilities. DOG’S LONELY VIGIL

Indianapolis, Mar. IQ.—A lonely vigil was reported by firemen at Station 26, today, who destroyed a run-over dog yesterday. The body was put behind the station awaiting the dog pound truck, unable to arrive for 24 hours. During that time, enduring the cold and ignoring the firemen who tried to entice him away with a hot meal, the playmate of the dead one, lay beside his friend’s corpse. When’the truck arrived tne dog o There are aibout fifteen species o.f rattlesnakes.

of Marseille on the Mediterranean. Berlin still was burning and was being deserted by thousands of its inhabitants after the third massed daylight attack in four days by heavy American bombers, almost unopposed by the German fighter force. The Americans lost only seven bombers and one fighter to antiaircraft fire, contrasted with 68 and 11 on Monday and 38 and 15 on Wednesday. The fighting in the flkraine developed in to the most important and largest operation of the year, designed to clear Soviet soil of an estimated 500,000 Germans and Squeeze them across the Dnieper against the Carpathian monutains. At the northwestern end of the line the Russians were fighting in the streets of Tarnopol, five way junction within Poland on the Lwow-Odessa railway. As they closed in on Proskurov, farther south on the line, they were on the verge of severing the last supply link of the Germans except the inadequate single-track lines into

Rumania.

Unless the Germans can stem the Russian tide, a retreat from their southernmost salient reaching to the Dnieper to avoid annihilation appeared inevitable. On the front in southern Italy, strong patrol action was in progress as continued activity behind the German’s lines indicated they were still preparing for a fourth attempt to storm the Anzio beachhead. Allied aviation attacked the

attacks on the supply lines around Rome. Negotiations for a Finnish-Rus-sian armistice apparently were in a delicate balance as Helsinki hesitated over full acceptance of the Russian terms. Field Marshal Carl Mannerheim, Finnish commander-in-chief, was reported to have telegraphed Hitler that the fall of Narva on the Estonian front would make their position in Finland untenable. It was interpreted as a bid to encourage voluntary German withdrawal from Finland, thus side-stepping Russia’s demand for internment of the Germans by Finland. In the Pacific war, the American forces on New Britain had closed to within two miles of Talasea against stubborn Japanese resistance. The Americans also improved their position in the Admiralty Islands and maintained their air attacks over most of the central and southwest Pacific area against negligible Japanese opposi-

tion.

131 Candidates File Intentions Indianapolis, March io.—A total of 131 candidates had filed declarations with secretary of state Rue Alexander today for the primary election and among these was Rep. Ray J. Madden of Gary, Democrat, of the 1st district. The other Democratic member of the Indiana congressional delegation is Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis. Late filings yesterday included: State Representative — Don Money, R., Indianapolis, Marion county; Wallace Fuller, D., Terre Haute, Vigo; .James S. Hunter, D„ East Chicago, Lake. State Senator — Charles Hammond, D., Fort Wayne, joint from Allen and Noble counties, and Elgar I. Higgs, R., Connersville, joint from Fayette, Shelby and Rush counties. Judge—Joseph A. Dickey., D., Anderson, 50th judicial circuit; Henry S. Bailey, R., Peru, 51st judicial circuit; William J. Murray, D., East Chicago, Lake county criminal; John W. Hitch, D., Plymouth, 72nd Judicial circuit; Don N. Laramore, R., Knox, 44th judicial circuit, and O. F. Rhodes, R., Peru, 51st judicial circuit. Prosecuting attorney — D. Russell Bontrager, R., Elkhart, 34th judicial circuit; Lynn O'Neill, D* Logansport, 29th judicial circuit; Horace M. Kean, D., Jasper, 57th judicial circlit; Oscar R. Brown, R., Denver, 51st judicial circuit, and John E. Ocheltree, D., Covington, 61st judicial circuit. —, o “PINEAPPLES” FOR THE AXIS.

Six Republicans and Three Democrats Seek Nomination In Primary Election; G. 0. P. Precinct Committeemen Among Early Declarations Although First Week Roster Is Light; Harry McClain of Shelbyville Mentioned for Congress by Democrats in Tenth District.

Westerville, O.—More than 13 million “pineapple” hand grenades have been produced by the Kilgore Manufacturing Co. here. The grenades are about the size of a tennis ball.

HOWARD N. GREENLEE General chairman for the spring meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association meeting at Indianapolis, April 15, will be Howard N. Greenlee, of Vincennes. He was named to the pest by Ray E. Smith, president of the I.D.E.A. smallbuMess RIDES TO FALL

Can Be Saved By Postwar Planning, Says . Maverick

The first week for primary election candidates ihas^passed and the majority of names appearing on the list to date have been for Republican precinct committeemen and the G.O.P. nomination for sheriff of Delaware county. The sheriff’s office has attracted six Republican candidates and three Democrats during the past week. The county treasurer’s office is so far sought by one, candidate from each party, both Republican state representatives have filed, one for the state senate, one for prosecutor, one for coroner, and one for county commissioner in the third district.

Washington, March 1q —Little business in America is “riding toward a fall” but it can be saved if it is not treated as a stepchild in postwar planning, Chairman Maury Maverick of the small war plants corporation said today. Among minimum requirements necessary to help small enterprise, he said in an interview, are easy access to loans to finance the changeover from war to peacetime production; preferential treatment in adjustment to the output of civilian goods, and first call on war surpluses. And, he said, there must he a stricter enforcement against monopolies or cartels. “Little business and free enterprise can be preserved—must be preserved if we save the United States,” Maverick declared. “Germany first got saddled with cartels. Then little business was crushed, and the government took over management of business and industry. “When that occurred, no one who disagreed with Hitler could get a job, and little ' business starved. “This country can’t afford to have monopolies or cartels. The little manufacturer and business man must be assured of full freedom in selling his goods anywhere in this world where we compete for business. And, that ought to be everywhere in the world.” Maverick was in accord with the Baruch proposal that the lending powers of the smaller war plants corporations, now restricted to loans for production purposes, be broadened to authorize changeover loans. He emphasized however, that his agency would work as much as possible with the small banks throughout the country to encourage them to make the necessary loans. He said it was obvious that local financial institutions know more aibout the operations of enterprises in their localities and he felt that they should be given the first opportunity to advance changeover funds.

Thirty-one Republicans have entered their names for precinct committeemen while only seven Democrats have declared their candidacies for these organization berths. Six Republicans have so far chosen to go to the party state convention as delegates from this county and one Democrat has filed as a delegate. The sheriff candidates to date include Sam Gray, former sheriff, Fred DeElliott, j former traffic department head of Muncie, and Ray V. Babbitt, local labor leader among the Democrats. Charles Snodgrass, present sheriff, is a candidate for re-nomina-Ition as a Republican and is opposed by Lavan White, Roy L. Jordan, Verlin E. Brower, Daniel Watkins, and Parker Lacy. Hubert L. Parkinson, former city controller, is a Democratic candidate for county treasurer and Herbert Blake has filed for this office on the Republican ticket. Joseph T. Meredith seeks the G. O. P. nomination for state senator and Marker Sunderland, present incumbent, will run on the Democratic ticket. Both Earl Randolph and J. Walter Claspell, present state representatives, have filed for re-nom-ination as Republicans while no Democratic candidates have announced their intentions to seek these jobs to date. Raymond Springer, present Congressman, will be the Republican candidate again for a fourth term as National Representative from the Tenth District. The name of Harry McClain of Shelbyville has been mentioned as a possible Democra tic candidate for Congress to oppose Springer. McClain was a former state insurance commissioner under the McNutt administration and was the Democratic candidate for state treasurer in 1942. He is also being talked about as a potential candidate for secretary of state this year. To lead the state tickets in 1944 appears to date as being Governor Schricker for the U. S. Senate and Senator Samuel Jackson for governor for the Democrats. Ralph Gates, G. O. P. state chairman, seems to hold an edge for the Re-

Jap Major Navy Units Impossible Washington, March lo—Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, said today that the U. S. Submarine Fleet has sunk “so many Japanese tankers and supply ships that I believe they probably could not maintain major navy units at Truk.” At a press conference with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Nimitz said: “We were not surprised but were disappointed not to find major units of the Jap fleet in Truk when we hit it. “I believe the Japs are beginning to find maintenance of a fleet at Truk very difficult and perhaps they had decided to withdraw their major units long before we attacked.” Nimitz also revealed that U. S. forces occupied Majuro Atoll in the Marshalls without opposition early in the Marshall Island campaign.

publican gubernatorial nomination while James Tucker, former secretary of state and recently released from military service, opposes Homer Capehart for the U. S. Senate post. These nominations will be made by party delegates at the state conventions held at Indianapolis next June. Although a large number of candidates have filed for Republican precinct committeemen, there does not appear to be many oppositions among them to date. This would indicate that an organization fight may be averted over the county chairmanship although it is known that considerable dissatisfaction exists among the G. O. P. Earl Parsons is the present Republican county chairman and is expected to seek the coroner’s nomination in the primary. Harry Potter, local mortician, has filed for coroner as a Republican. Neither party to date has exercised much interest in the registration of voters for the primary election with supplies for such clerk’s office. It is anticipated that a last minute rush will be made to file candidacies and registrations as per usual. The primary election will be held May 2, at which time party nominees for public office, party organization leaders, and delegates will be chosen by the voters. o GRANDMOTHER OF 8 A WAC. Seattle—Pvt. Nellie A. Edwards of Omak, Wash., is believed to be the holder of some kind of WAC record. Army recruiting district officers reported that Pvt. Edwards was not only a grandmother, but eight times a grandmother. The grandchildren are the offspring of her two sons, two daughters and a step-son. o COW MOTHERS PIGS

Luverne, Minn.—Thre will be no milk shortage for the nine motherless pigs at the Ran Branderburg farm. The porkers are being fed by one of the cows.

THE CHAPUNS’CORPS H. I. Phillips, that typical American columnist, who can turn a quip with the best of them, and make you laugh with his home-style humor, can with equal skill touch your heartstrings with his sincere devotion to the ideals that are American. Recently Mr. Phillips wrote a fine tribute to the Chaplains’ Corps— that unselfish, whole-souled body of men, who, owning allegiance to the spirit of the working democracy that is the United States, own a still higher allegiance to that God in whom our nation trusts. They may be Catholic, Protestant or Jew—they may differ in creed—but they are alike in their devotion, and in their faith that to God all things are possible. Their’s is a fine tradition, to which they are adding greater laurels on battle fronts all over the world. “The priest who puts the water on dry lips. The rector leading tired men in prayer— The rabbi with the word of Abraham, Each doing quietly his holy share These are the men who ease the weary path, Who touch the heart and heal the harassed soul, Who keep the vision of the boyhood day, Preserving things learned at a mother’s knee.” Anyone with a man at the front—and what family today hasn’t a man there?—feels better because of these men. They are the unarmed soldiers, going without weapons into the battle. They face, unafraid because of their faith, the same dangers that confront the men who turn to them for comfort. Never faltering in their duty, they are, at all times, ministers unto men, teachers of the truth, preachers of the way, consolers of the dying. “The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew— As one they give the all sustaining grace To those who die to keep our way of life Without regard to color, faith or race; Their’s is the symbol of a nation strong, The force that makes a country’s shield so fright;. The Chaplains’ Corps of gallant Godlike men. Who blazes the way with the Eternal Light.” All honor unto the chaplains of our armed forces! They, too, are heroes, of whom the whole nation is proud and to whom we each owe a debt of gratitude!