Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1943 — Page 1
FORBCAST: Rain tonight and tomorrow forenoon, attended by occasional thunderstorms; little change in temperature.
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VOLUME 54 NUMBER 3
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| Sabotage —
By MICHAEL SAYRES and ALBERT E. KAHN I-THE GHOSTS THAT WALK AGAIN IT WAS 9:15 p. m.,, March 16, 1941; - The ClevelandPittsburgh Express was thundering across the snow- . blanketed Pennsylvania countryside. the Ohio river, the train neared the little town of Baden. Suddenly, the giant engine swayed violently, leaped from the tracks and hurtled down the river bank. The passenger cars were catapulted one after another into the dark icy water, crumpling like toys. .. : Five persons were killed, One hundred and twenty-
one were injured.
500 HOURLY PAY,
U. S. TAX HERE
Rush to Beat Deadline at Midnight; Office Open Until 9 P. M..
There was one-way trafic in the|
Federal building today for, the some 500 persons an‘ hour - who - flocked there to beat the deadline in paying
their income tax. The office will Yomain open until 9 o'clock tonight-for those who want | . to file in person. Returns sent by
mail will meet the deadline if they|
are postmarked oh or before 12 p. m. tonight. At 8 a. m. today, several hundred persons waiting to file were held at the Pennsylvania st. door to allow the 150 deputy collectors. and . other employees to prepare for the rush. The crowd spilled ouf in a line to Ohio st. .. But the rush wasn’t comparable to the crowds that turned out the last few days last week, according ino Will H. Smith, collector, On Baturday, he said, from 4000 to 5000
Foresees. Quiet Night
"Deputies sald it took an average “of six minutes or so for those filing the simplified forms, and 15 minutes for 1040. “It ‘took a person roughly a half hour to work his way from the end of the waiting line through
More than one million Hoosiers expected to Alle Last year, about 767,000 filed. Jou Were Raving their, sume
said. Very tax b ut were paying a fourth of it. A AA
’ : the wreck. Rushing alongside
aboard the Manhattan, and
having caused the wreck...
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1043
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD officials. said, nitely caused by sabotage!”
commission reported the results of its investigation - on May 8: “Malicious tampering with the track” had caused
“DefiThe interstate commerce
Experts - expressed the belief, that the derailment plot was aimed at the Manhattan limited, which had passed. over the same tracks 18 minutes before the disaster occurred. A group of United States army men were
the train carried 44 Soviet
engineers and diplomats who had arrived at San Pedro,’ Cal., from Vladivostok on March 12. Saboteurs, working for the Nazis, were suspected of
1.5. OFFICIALS IGNORE IOWA FARM PARLEY
Executive There, Doubts Value of Talks.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stalf Writer. DES MOINES, March 15.—When Governor Henry F. Schricker learned on his arrival here that he was the only Democrat chief executive attending the corn belt
". | conference on ‘farm and food prob-
7 Teepe bs
U. S. Security Board Ignores
County Financial Problems
Editor’s Note: Social security will be one of the great post-war issues of America. Here is the fourth of a searching sevles, which is the product of $-long investigation, .
By NORMAN E. ISAACS
The federal government took just short of $325,000,000 out of Indi‘ana by taxation last year—$324,470.281, to be exact. *+ It put: directly back into Indiana something like $22,000,000 in federal grants. The total spent by the federal government in the whole broad field of social security exceeded $78,000,000, but many of these programs: like WPA, NYA and CCC were completely federally operated.
|EDEN, HULL ST ART yon PLANS FOR PEACE
ment has béen seeking the full control of Indiana’s vast program, : ly 4 Senators Get FDR 0. K. On Allied Parley.
ranging all the way from assis‘tance to the aged, the blind, to WASHINGTON, March 15 (U. P.) —Secretary of State Cordell
dependent. children, to public Hull, after an hour's talk with Brit-
health and to direct relief. For its contribution of $11,500,000 ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, said today that complete un-
to the state's $26,500,000 public welfare program, it asks only the derstanding among allied governments is essential to every stage of.
right to determine personnel _standards, policy standards, philosophy standards—and Who shall thre ‘war and the post-war period. ~ Eden, and Lord Halifax, the British ‘ambassador, attended Hull's reg-
get what when. / Placed Responsibility Indiana’s welfare program, the one originally approved by the {ular press conference. Secretary Hull reported that the conversations. with Eden had begun auspiciously, and Eden told the
federal government, places the responsibility in determining what newsmen that he already had be- ~ (Continued on Page Two) :
on the county welfare boards. It was, and it is, a program based on the keystone theory that where you live in Indiana must be the factor which determines what you receive in the way of public. assistance—that the local
this year, hel ash
‘econdmy, and the local viewpoint, must be the vital factor.
pensioners and the recipients of all sorts of aid received, directly TIMES - FEATURES . ‘ON INSIDE PAGES
public welfare has taken the position ‘that this
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Amusements .. much to give is inextricably tied
in ‘with the Indiana method of financing sll assistance. ;
30 Per Cent From State.
Of the. total ‘amount used for: 9! public welfare work, 20 per cent
Books | Clapper wean 91Obituaries- ... D! nase 1B peskins
property tax. Of the remaining 80 per cent, 50 per cent comes from the federal government, the from the
|lems called by the govetuior of of much of the dea :
When told that ‘Washington of-
ficials—McNutt, Wickard and Nelson
had declined to attend, he offered
E {the opinion that Governor B. B.
Hickenlooper: should -have called off the meeting. “What is the use of our talking of there is nobody present who can do anything about the problems discussed?” the Hoosier governor asked. ; One of his first callers was the Iowa governor, who explained that the other Democrat, Governor Robert Moses of North Dakota, had planned on attending but he had to leave for Arizona for his health.
Stassen Too Busy Governor Schricker was accompanied here by the Republican Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson; Prof. Harry Reed of the Purdue extension service; Larry Brandon, secretary of the Indiana Farm Bureau, and Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana selective service director. Mr.. Dawson wanted to know how many G. O. P. presidential booms would be launched. “That humor nad some significance, for at that very moment several of the visiting Republican governors were having dinner as the guest of ‘Harrison Spangler, Republican national chairman. Mr. Spangler -had made such a strong partisan and anti-adminis-trative statement on Saturday that some credited it with keeping Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota
Governor Hickenlooper explained that he had a telegram from Governor Stassen expressing regrets and pleading press of business with his legislature. He had just returned to Si. Paul and had many {Continued on Page Two)
CHARGE. VIOLATION
Printing Co. Claims Police Raid Was lliegal.
financial ' problems, the = local . The Indiana department or |
county method of deciding how |
is placed directly on the county |
The police department and the
- board of safety were accused of vio(lating a 1935 injunction court order
TO FREN
Schricker, Lone Democrat!
away from the conference. Andj|
OF COURT'S ORDER
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Entered as Becond-Clasi Matter at'Fostoffice, Indianapslis, Ind. Issued daily excep: Sunday.
ains
AN ANTI-FASCIST newsletter published in New York
~ City, The Hour, alleged that the Pittsburgh industrial area
was infested with cells of a Fascist terrorist organization operating under the intelligence service of the German
war office.
On April 24, a shabbily-dressed, gaunt-faced man ) with long white mustache and short-cropped hair strode into
the office of The Hour. He “You write about ime gutteral, foreign accent.
was admitted to the editor. in Hour,” he said, with a
There was something hauntingly familiar about the
face of this strange visitor.
Composer Mixes Tunes With Tax|
Fabien Seviizky, Indianapolis symphony orchestra con--ductor, asked David Van Vactor, the Chicago composer, to send program notes on his new composition, “Music’ for the Marines,” which the orchestra will premiere March 27 and 28. A bulky envelope from Mr. Van Vactor reached the orchestra’s Murat theater offices today. It contained the composer’s income tax return and a check made out ‘to Uncle Sam. ; Mr. Sevitzky' is forwarding the tax return and check ‘to the collector of internal revenue‘at Chicago. He hopes the collector ‘will oblige him by forwarding Mr. Van Vactor’s program notes to Indianapolis.
IN CHINA FAIL Yangtze Drive “Collapses Completely’ After Week Of Heavy Fighting.
CHUNGKING, March 15 (U. P) —The Japanese drive between the
Yangtze river and Tung-ting lake] has “completely collapsed” after one
week of heavy fighting, a. Chinese war communique announced today. Chinese forces launched a sounterattack Saturday night and by Sunday the enemy was on the run toward the Yangtze, from which eight Japanese columns had started the campaign last Monday, it was said, Gen Chiang Kai-shek’s army had halted, at least temporariy, the enemy's threat to the rich rice-pro-ducing lands along the river and the shores of the lake. This area controls important communications and supply lines in the vichity of
Changteh and Ghangsha.
The special communique reported that the enemy was fleeing: northward from Minshantou.
WHITE HOUSE BUTTER AT BREAKFAST ONLY
WASHINGTON, March 1§ (U. P.). ~No one at the White House skips breakfast these days, Mrs. franklin D. Roosevelt revealed at Her press conference today, because treakfast is the only meal at which butter is served. “We have not had more than four ounces of butter a person per week for months, ” she said. NAZIS THREATEN PRISONERS : By UNITED PRESS The Nazi-influenced Paris radio today broadcast a warning that the
lives of American and British war}
prisoners would be taken ir retaliation for allied air raids on the European continent.
PRICE FOUR CED
“WHAT'S YOUR NAME?” the editor asked. The visitor shook his head, without replying. _ editor named various individuals who had been men
in The Hour’s recent exposes.
unblinkingly.
The visitor just sf
“Are you Fiodore Wozniak ”
“Yah,” said the visitor,
“Me Wozniak. »
As he spoke, he stretched out his arm, and someth
slipped from his sleeve and
dropped with a faint cla
to the floor. Quickly, he picked it up. It was the se
blade of a hack saw.
WITH EMBARRASSMENT, Wozniak tucked blade. in the newspaper he was carrying. Backing a (Continued on Page One, Second Sestion)
KHARKOV FALL NOT ADMITTED FROM MOSCOW
Soviets Suffer Setback in - Ukraine But Continue Drive on Smolensk. By HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 15.—The war in
-| Russia. reached another crisis today with the apparent German recccu-|
pation of Kharkov, main base of the eastern Ukraine which /should be mast useful £0 il e Nazis in oon-| any plans for a no spring offensive, The Russians have not yet admitted the fall of Kharkov, and the | Soviet press still was issuing stir;ring calls for a last ditch stand | similar to that at Stalingrad, indi‘cating the Red army still has a foothold in the outskirts of the city. But it was quite apparent that the Nazis had succeeded in mustering ‘superior strangth and catching
front, and they were expected to
.1be able to hang on to Kharkov for
the present.
Donets Line Is Strong On the other band it was believed the Russians should be able
the line of the east bank of the!.
Donets river §§duth east of Kharkov. The importance of Kharkov lies not in the fact that the Russians have suffered a temporary setback, but in its advantages as a position of a springboard for a new Nazi offensive along the pattern of that last year. Despite their apparent success at Kharhov, the Germans &till have their hands full in Russia. In the Vyazma secter west of Moscow, the Russians still wire advancing steadily and powerfully toward Smolensk, Yartsevo ‘and Velnya. The air war over western Europe fell into another lull, presumably because of : weather conditions. However, the 1oyal air force carried out low igvel attacks on the tkey German aidromes at Abbeville and Maupertus, and American Liberators made a new raid on Naples from African bises.
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HOOSIER FLIER LATE: HE HAD A JOB TO DO
CAIRO, March 15 (U. P.) —Maj.|p Archie J. Knight of Fountain City, Ind., had been given up for lost vesterday when he failed to return on time from an offensive sweep over ‘the southern Tunisia battle area.’ Before the day was over, however, he returiied to bas: and reported destruction of @& Messerschmitt and damage to tvo gthers.
the Russians oI balance on: thisj’
to maintain their defenses along
Vincennes Hero
TOURS INDIANA
Asks Hoosiers for for Funds to Build Namesake for Gallant Ship.
By ROSEMARY REDDING
“You give us .another Vincennes and we'll give you Japan.” That's the fighting promise of a fighting man for his fighting comrades from a fighting: ship. The Vincennes went down fighting Aug. 9 off Guadalcanal. Some of her. personnel went down fighting, too. And some lived to fight again. Now that’s needed is another i fare And Warrant Officer Frederick A, Moody will tour Indiana during ‘the next few weeks to challenge Hoosiers to provide another, ® new Vincennes to carry on the tradition of the old. Tomorrow night in Vincennes, (Continued on Page Two)
RAIN FORECAST FOR TONIGHT, TOMORROW
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Rain is due here tonight and tomorrow forenoon and there will be occasional thunderstorms, too, the weather bureau forecast. But there will be little change in the temperature. The warmest yesterday was at 4 . m. when the mercury reached 64. The average for the.day was 52, degrees, 13 above the normal average. ‘Despite the balmy weather ‘and sunshine, there was no more than normal trafic on highways, state police said, because motorists apparently did not have or did not want to consume their gasoline supplies.
Time Now Favors Germany and Japan,
U.P. Sree Back From War Zones Say, a
By FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW
3 Se Dell um
Dose
Here is an authoritative sizeJ uP of the allied position. and : prospects for victory i in the two
United Preis executives ‘who.
rit in Now, York this mask afer fine : The final victory cannot be exe lur:
‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS x United Press Foreign Editor £3
NEW YORK, March 15~The|
united nations will have their op-
| portunity to break the back of the|
jaxis In Europe before Christmas,
Se”
IN BOND DRIVE,
ALLIED PLANES CARRY GUNS CH FORCES IN AL
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NAZI DEADLIN FOR GIVING ENDS TONIG
In Savoi Region. LONDON, March 15
|P.).—Allied planes were
ported today to be dro] arms and munitions French patriot armies hi in the French Alps and a | |scale battle after a Nazi wth
night. ‘Martial law already has hb clared at Thonon on the. shore of Lake Geneva as preliminary clashes between triot ‘bands on one side an mobile police units and gestapo agents on the other, reports said. 5 The Germans sere said to ha used tear gas and hand g in several skirmishes.
Alpine Regiments Joins
The German-Vichy ultin which expired at 7 p. m. (1 Indianapolis Time) called for surrender of Gen. Cartier, mander of the patriot armies, officers of the crack French Alpine regiment who joined hin well as the men serving them. : Reinforcements of French guards were reported pouring. the Savoi area and schools movie theaters in the 1t¢ Evian, Thonon, Annemasse, and Ai Les Baines were tioned to house them. Allied planes are flying ¢ Alps in daylight in bold def
chute, a Zurich dispatch said.
apened fire on several Dl there were no reports of any
.| shot down.
~ May Total 50,000 Some .1500 of. the patric reported last week to be al American machin~- -guns, even '75-millime cr ‘ the constant influx of recruits as far away as Paris and
vital. : The patriot armies were to number more than 500 in the Haute-Savoie border of eastern France -alone