Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1943 — Page 1
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Emer: “ronann) VOLUME 54—NUMBER 2
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1943
Entered ‘ax Second-Class Matter at. Pastottice, Tndianapolls, Ind Issued daily except Sunday.
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Eisenhower Indicates Offensive Is Near In
BRIEF CRUSADE
CLANPS LID ON RACKETS HERE
Tyndall Promise Achieved In Six Short Weeks,
Survey - Shows.
By SHERLEY UHL A few weeks before he took office Jan. 1, Mayor Robert H., Tyndall
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confided to a few close associates
that gambling of all kinds was going ‘to stop in Indianapolis. It was to be .,a quiet campaign with no fanfare. The general wasn’t interested in the ballyhoo; | . he only wanted to stop gambling
that he thought hampered the war effort. Well, there's been’ a lot of ballyhoo, and the mayor got some help from County Prosecutor Sherwood Blue. 80 Per Cent. ‘Clean’
But the fact remains that today, two and a half months. after Mayor Tyndall took office, Indianapolis is “clean” of the rackets. You can still buy a pool ticket, place g bet on a horse race, engage in a poker game or play the numbers game on Indiana ave, if you know where to go, but that is only what the boys _ call “cheating.” ; ‘The big, organized, well-regulated stuff is closed down. You don't] . ever. figure that a city is 100 per cent clean. If its. 80 per cent, it's Indianapolis is today- per cent clean, according to a survey. : Investigation revealed that three} pools are still running in Indianpolis, two of them having “takes” of about $5000 a week each. Draw-} . ings for the two richer stakes, however, are held outside the: city— one of them in Ft. Wayne.
Bockies in Bankruptcy
Agents of the .pools circulate tickets throughout Indianapolis, but the ente es are outside jurisdiction of the locai police. ‘Whether more former pool operators plan to go back into business ‘through this loop-hole evasion, seemed to depend largely on, whether state police authorities would be called in on the Indianapolis anti-gaming drive. Race information is still being _ Wired into Inaianapolis, one informant stated, but most of the (Continued. on Page Three)
BARBERS SPLIT ON 65-CENT HAIRCUT:
Local members of the Indiana Independent Barbers’ association) have not agreed to raise their price for haircuts and shaves, according to a statement issued today by the] association. The Barber Union locals this week agreed to fix a price of 65 cents for a haircut and 35 cents for a shave, effective Monday. The statement said that the members of the association “will continue to charge whatever prices they feel best serve the customers.”
DR. MALAN TO BEGIN 2D TERM ON. MONDAY
Dr. Clement T. Malan, superintendent of public instruction, will be inducted into office at 11 a. m. . Monday in the office of the state department of education in the statehouse. Dr. Malan was' reelected in the November election. Ralph PF. Gates, chairmah of the Republican state committee, will ister the oath, :
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WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, March 13.—A good four-way Saturday parlay: 1. President Roosevelt will yet confer with Premier Stalin—somewhere. Odds seem to be against Stalin coming to Washington, or Roosevelt going to Moscow, but the stakes are too high to overlook any bets leading to improved understanding. » #” ” ® » i 2. ADMIRAL STANDLEY, our ambassador to Russia, will come
home soon. He was not as blunt as Stalin, nor any more so than Soviet Ambassador Maisky in London. But criticism in the U. S. 8S. R.
. is taboo. Russians who criticize are purged; foreigners eventually
get their passports. # ® » » # » 3. A SECOND FRONT in Europe—perhaps within the next 90 days—will come. We'll learn of it after it happens, just as we did the North African landing. ® ” s 8 » 4. FINLAND WILL SOON get a peace offer. As long as everything was going Russia’s way, Moscow was not inclined to hold out her hand. And Finland was in no position to ask for and obtain a reasonable settlement. Anything like a stalemate on the eastern front, or an allied landing in Norway, might change the picture. # x = ® 8 =
Canning to Be Expedited
VICTORY GARDENERS may do their spring planting with assurance. Canning equipment will be available when the time comes. WPB will make it official! shortly. Meanwhile steps have been taken to assure manufacture of enough metal tops and sealing rings to allow 40 to 50 per cent more canning than last year. Glass jars are plentiful. ‘'WPB has agreed to manufacture of 150,000 pressure cookers (compared with 70,000 last year); may increase this. 8 6 ® # &
Deferment Machinery ‘May Change : LOOK FOR constructive changes in'¢ diate appeal machitiery. War | vet by-mos e
Hhanpower 18 SHhdyHig 4 plan; treads appro
to let those asking “necessary man”. deferment transfer ther
from the draft, board in whose district they live to the board inswhoss.
district they work. . It would concentrate all “necessaty man’ cases from the large war’ > (Continued on Page Three)
U. S. Security Board Speaks
Editor’s Note: One of the great’ post-war issues in America will be social security—its: extent, its. administration, . its. financing. Here is the third of a searching series, which is the product of long investigation.
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By NORMAN E. ISAACS
In: the offices of the federal social security board in :
Washington are maps showing the United States—anc the division of the nation’s 12 social. security areas with the
headquarters of each. Congressmen checking into President Roosevelt's social security 1 “blueprint of the future” will not find on these maps the fact that in each of those regional offices is a representative of the federal office of education. They can, however, check into the “Educational Finance Act of 1943” introduced one month ago by Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah and Senator Lister Hill of Alabama. It calls for $200,000,000—
/| the city was in German hands, but
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FIGHT TO END’ AT | Eos sed bo oe KHARKOV ORDERED
for paying additional salaries to Nazis Report Street Battles
teachers. Teachers in kindergartens, in nursery schools, in public Inside Ukraine City. By UNITED PRESS
schools and in junior high schools. . And part of the funds are to be used to place full-time members The Communist’ party today exhorted the Red army to resist to “the last drop of blood at Khar-
of the office of education on duty kov” as the German high command
in each of the regional headquarters of the social security board reported bitter street. fighting in progress in the “Russian Pitts-
—to advise the schoel authorities burgh.”
In each region. An Odd Alliance The Nazi communique did not repeat the claim of the DNB news
It is an odd legislative alliance. It may or may not mean that agency that. the central square of
plans exist eventually to set up an “educational division” of the already powerful security board. If it does, the nation’s’ schools
of “advice” which the various state departments of public welfare have been receiving. In this field, Indiana's Togis lative inquiry committee established to investigate this state's public welfare agency, will dis-
asserted that the main railway station had been captured. Moscow has not admitted any German entry into the -city, but
36 hours that the Russians had given ground to the west of Khar-
ing what amounts to a delaying
sp operations: | ide. . | : i By elie Sido, action against the always
Eight railroads and a trunk high< way radiate from Kharkov, which just before the war was the fourth largest city of the U. 8. 8. R, Whether the Russians can put up another back-to-the-wall stand at Kharkov such as that at Stalingrad and Leningrad was doubtful. The Germans apparently caught the Soviets off balance and Kharkov strategically is not well situated for a lengthy defense due to the com-| :
security board. The social security board maintains a staff of auditors in Indiana constantly. These . auditors move from county to county, checking the various county wel-
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|. P. MORGAN,
NOTED BANKER
1S DEAD AT hn.
Financier Once Headed Corporations Controlling 20 Billion Dollars.
(Photo and life story of J. P. Morgan, Page Five)
BOCA GRANDE, Fla., March 13 {U. P).—John Pierpont Morgan, called “the younger” though 75 years old, international financier, head of a famous financial dynasty, and one of the world’s wealthiest men, died at 3:15 a. m. today. The president of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., a name prominent in the financing of empires through the life-times of two John Pierpont Morgans and creator of such industrial giants as United States Steel Corp., succumbed to a heart ailment aggravated by a cerebral stroke in a small cottage on the grounds of the exclusive Gasperilla Inn where he had been ill since Feb. 25. Because ‘of his advanced age, Morgan had divested himself of many of his responsibilities in the world of industry and finance, and at his death he held few corporate offices, notably chairman of the poard of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc, and director of United States Steel, the Pullman Co. and the: Discount
Corp. of New York.
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3 ‘pervous breakdgwn. “I don't know,” he. replied. “He cil 4 a to be suffering
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Mr. Morgan’s son, Liout. Comm., Henry S. Morgan of the navy, and a
{daughter, Mrs. Paul 'C. Peumover,
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~at his bedside. A second son, eut. Comm. Junius Spencer Mor1, and another daughter, "Mrs.
George Nichols of New York, -were:
not in attendance. Morgan was . stricken Feb. 235 when he arrived here by train from] his: princely estate at: Glen. Cove, Long Island, by a cerebral stroke, followed soon by a heart attack, the third in the past two years. The first the public knew of: his illness was March 9 when his New York office announced that he was seriously ill and his associates, because of his age, were anxious over his condition.
Dies in a Coma
On March 10, Morgan rallied and the three doctors in constant attendance in the cottage, were encouraged, but soon he suffered a relapse and lapsed into the coma from which he never emerged. Boca Grande is an island community of about 700 and is six miles from the mainland, 40 miles northwest of Ft. Myers. Dr. H. S. Patterson, Morgan's New York physician, a heart specialist, was in attendance at his death. Morgan was one of the world’s wealthiest men. The total of his wealth was, of course, unknown, but in 1929 estimates were that it ranged from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000. In 1933, a senate committee heard testimony that his firm, holding directorships in 89 corporations, at one time controlled assets valued at $20,000,000,000.
SAY HITLER ADMITS DANGER IN RUSSIA
‘Ought to Have Breakdown,’ Eden Concedes.
LONDON, March 13 . P)— Adolf Hitler was reported today to have told his envoys that the German position on the Russian front
WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. P.)~British Foreign Secretary Eden was asked today whether | he had any definite knowledge that Adolf Hitler Bait suffered
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Poet Dead
Stephen Vincent Benet | Was 44, Pulitzer Prize Winner. | NEW YORK, March 13 (U.P.). —Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, poe’ and author, died at his home here eagly today of a heart attack afte:
two days illness, Private fu-
will be Monday . at St. James Episcopal church. Benet, whose “John Brown's Body” won the Pulitzer verse 2 prize in 1928; oe had stopped Mr. Benet the past year fo devote all his time to war work. He is survived by a brother, william Rose, and a sister, Laura, both noted critics and poets; his wife, Rosemary Carr Benet and three children. One of the most accomplished poets and short story writers of his time, Benet during the pasi year had been doing voluntee: and unpaid creative work for the
programs and the “Prayer for United Nations,” which President Roosevelt delivered at the con: clusion of his flag day address.
NEW WELFARE
control of the Marion county welfare department, center of contro-
appointed today By Judge Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court. The new members are: "Arthur L. Gilliom, former attorney general of Indiana and prominent in legal circles here for many years. Harper J. Ransburg, head of the Harper ‘J. Ransburg Co., manufacturers, and leader of the Indianapolis council of Boy Scouts for 25 years. Mrs. Mary F. Parry, a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten society, former chairman of the Maternal Health league of Indiana and a member of the Junior league. She is the wife of Addison Parry, president of the county council.
Terms Are Staggered
Mrs. Nettie L. Ransom, personnel chairman of the Puylls Wheatley branch of the Y. W. C. A, chair-
the Service Men’s club and a member of the board of directors of the Service Men's Centers, Inc. She is
Manufacturing Co., and. president of the board of Flanner House. Roy Salim, secretary of Bessive (Continued on Page Thyee)
HUGE CROWD JAMS
A line as long as the equivalent of three city blocks jammed the ‘corridors of the federal building today as thousands of persons paid their income taxes. It was the heaviest day so far at
yifice as millions of dollars passed
through the windows. mn through the mails.
day at midnight.
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URGES ARMIES DRIVE AXIS TO
Tunis and Sousse Bombed: More Motor Barges Are Destroyed.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Stall Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Match 13.--The big allied push in Tunisia appeared im-
‘DESTRUCTION
U. S. BOMBER! (ROSS CHANNEL
Krupp Works Chief Target of Night Attac
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Whole Sky Lit Up as Smoke Soars. 15,000 Feet Into Air, |
Eisenhower, suprere commander in the North African theater, made public an order of the day in which he told his troops that they would drive the Germans and Italians “to destruction.” The order, dated March 9, welcomed the inclusion of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s British eighth army in the Tunisian command, and predicted that the combined weight of the allied, land, ‘naval and air forces would push the edemy “back into the sea and to destruction.” ‘- As the order wus issued, reports said a French force commanded by |Z Brig. Gea. Jacques Leclerc had - | broken out of a German trap southwest. ‘of the Mareth line and was ‘ {pursuing the enemy northward. . A headquarters communique said today that there was’ little ground. activity | yesterday although air forces were_ active. Allied ‘planes started fires at the docks in Tunis and left fires. burning at Sousse,
is Three ‘enemy motor barges en route b to Tunis were ‘sutik-and-six' enemy
ed giroved. Te , F fed ‘One i Gen. ‘Eisenhower's order of the
; day indicated that the allies, after -A whole new board to take over
weeks of bad wether, finally had mustered their strength and were about ready for an all-out assault. “During the last three weeks,” the Order ‘read, “the enemy has- been attacking us in Tunisia in the center, in the north and in the south. Some of the fighting has been bitter and we have suffered. losses; but the enemy has been once frustrated and ‘twice .defeated in his attempts to break -the allied ring encircling him. “Possibly he will make further and desperate efforts, but I know that the troops of the ‘field armies will, with the coritinued and effective support. of ¢ur naval and air forces, inevitably push them back into the sea and to destruction.”
Run Into Ksar Rhilane ‘Stone Wall’
. The German forces that were being pursued by fhe French forces were said to have lost half of their armor in a futile attempt to crack the British eighth army’s.lines. The Germans were those who ran into a stone-wall British defense Wednesday at Ksar Rhilane, 40 miles southwest of the Mareth line. British artillery and Anglo-Amer-ican planes put the enemy to rout with’ axis losses of 21 vehicles and
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On the War Fronts
(March 13, 1943)
AIR WAR—Roy! al air force delivers one of wars heaviest blows against Essen, home of Krupp arms works. = American planes made day raic, target unrevealed.
TUNISIA=Gen. Dwight I. Eisenhower, in order of the day, callsi- . for “destruction” of axis" armies; big push appears imminent.
RUSSIA-—Red army told to defend Kharkov “to ‘last drop of blcod” after Nazis claim to have reached center of clty,
(Ww. Ss. Commniques, Page 11)
All Is Quiet on Meat Front But Fresh Cuts Move Fast
“Too fast,” sild one of the butchthe counter, as he pre-
minent today as Gen.. Dwight H.|
BROWN PLEADS FOR
ers behind i ‘dicted that the afternoon would, fina Bim, lsckng a supply. of ens- “RB
LONDON, March 13 (U. P.).—Royal air force r naissance today showed large fires were still burning a p. m. in the center of the Krupp arms works at Essen, : i lowing perhaps the heaviest air attack in history. Hundreds of Britain's biggest bombers last nigh dropped 1000 to 3000 tons of bombs and all but comple! destruction of the city. Today a strong force of American four-engined bomber flew across the channel in the direction of Boulogne. The air ministry announced that the Essen attack “very heavy and concentrated.” Preliminary reports indie ed that the weight of bombs dropped may have equalled not exceed the 3000 tons unloaded during last year’s 100 plane raid on Cologne. 3 Twenty-three bombers were lost in last night's. attacke an indication that the raiding force numbered close to —and allied observers said the loss could be consider “light” in view of the weight of the attack.
Planes’ Bomb Load Doubled ¢ British commentators recently pointed out that 500 Britain's present four-engined bombers could carry a weigt of ‘bombs--equal- to that of any of last summer's 1000forces, which were largely two-engined aircraft. At the end of last night's raid on Eden, the ai istry said, a huge rectangular mass of fire was observed: an enormous cloud of smoke swirling to a height of 15, feet covered the target. At least two big explosions occurred 10 minutes | the start of the raid. One pilot making a bombing run a time of the second blast said the meron i
VICTORY LONG [-o3%.. 3 WAY OFF-EDEN
British. Foreign Secretary In U. S. for Talks Aimed
At Collaboration.
- WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.P). —British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, here to begin historic
conferences with President Roosevelt tonight, said today that the united nations must collaborate to the fullest on the assumption that they still have a long way to go to defeat Germany. The handsome Capt. Eden, showing a boyish good humor which delighted some 150 correspondents at a press interview at the British embassy, said’ the allies had achieved notable victories recently. But to count on a quick conclusion of the war would be “only to get ourselves into trouble,” he said. “The only possible assumption,” he declared, “is that we have a long way to go.” Eden said he could not discuss the detailed plans for his conferences (Continued pn Page Three)
fires,” the pilot of a Sti
bomber said. “Suddenly th a huge explosion and a sheet flame shot up to about 1000 feet.
Flanies Visible 100 Miles
Despite the smoke rising from target, he said, he still could the glow of flames in the sky wi he crossed the Dutch coas than 160 miles away--on the r journey. “Reports indicate that the KE plant réceived serious damage, British announcement said. “The RAF encountered notices stronger defenses, including inter accurate flak and numerous ses lights, but pressed home the a with the greatest determination. The assault, described as “ver heavy,” came exactly one week another force of British bombers devastated 450 acres of Essen raid officially described as the concentrated: air attack of the w Official estimates disclosed ti 1500 tons of demolition and bombs were cascaded on Essen week, including nearly 1000 tons the Krupp plant alone. Thirteen the - plant's ‘main buildings ;
. Nazis Feebly Retaliate ‘German planes ater another series of feeble retaliat raids last night, dropping high yDlusives and fire bombs at scath
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SANE MEAT BUYING Avoid Rush, He Warns _ Wives and Stores. - WASHINGTON, March 13 (U.
P.)—Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown today directed an urgent |