Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1943 — Page 5

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Duce and Ciano Seek Only |

A Generous. Conqueror, 3 Writer Says.

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Hitler is keenly alive to the new sit~ uation which will confront him in Italy. Undoubtedly, his plans are already made. AegDoes he hope to stabilize the Ruseast front with much fewer ‘troops and dispatch a large force . across the Alps or will he cut his loss and hold a shorter Alpine front? If the latter, he will allow the alligs to establish bomber bases within the _ easiest range from the Balkans and his sole source of natural oil sup-

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LEPT: Pfc. Robert F. Jacobs, son of Mr. and Mrs. William ©.

ing overseas with the marines. He enlisted Dec. 26, 1941, RIGHT: Charles Leroy Mahurin, seaman second class, is spending a nine-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Mahurin, 2555 N. Butler ave. He is sjationed at the Great Lakes naval Yaining station.

plies. Aid to Our Landings Such a situation would most certainly aid the allied landings which have been frequently officially’ foreshadowed as the next sequel to allied victory in Tunisia. Certainly, the Germans could no detach sufficient forces to man all Italy’s long coastline nor muster enough German soldiers and police , to drive the luckless Italians forward into battle. Evidently, Mussolini and Ciano care nothing for Hitler's troubles. They are at last persuaded that it would appear that the axis cannot win the war and therefore they are eager to seek the easiest way out t the allies will give them. In Ciano’s mind that always was e calculation—namely, if the axis won Italy would share the spoils and if the allies won, they would deal gently with the gentle Italians and later give them back their junior place in the sun. From here it looks as if that is stage now approaching. It adds iterest to talk from the United fire States that New York's mayor, Fiorella La Guardia, will be the allied custodian for Italy soon. If provides the most practical basis for planning discussions between British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull

KNOX HINTS PACIFIC LULL BEFORE STORM

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U. ~ P.).—Secretary of the Navy Knox said today that while the Pacific combat area seems very quiet at present “it may be the calm before the storm.” He had nothing new to offer on the ‘situation in the Atlantic or in the North African campaign. He said that judging by what Prime Minister Churchill has said, “we are now on the move” in the latter sector. ~His comment on the Atlantic situation was that “we've still got war on out there but there’s thing striking or sensational.”

ARTHUR P. TIERNAN HEADS PRESS*CLUB

Arthur P. Tiernan, a reporter for the Star, was elected president of {the Indianapolis Press club in the "annual election. He succeeds Vern Boxell. Other officers named were Earl H. Richert of The Times, vice president, and Ralph Brooks of the Star, secretary-treasurer. Additional members of the board of governors elected were Joseph

_ Cravens and Jack Forcum of the

Star, Bennett Wolfe, Associated Press, findley Dunham and Blodgett Brennan :

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ST. NAZAIRE, SUB BASE, BLASTED

RAF Resumes Offensive as “Yanks Concentrate on

Wilheimshaven (Continued from Page One)

north France without loss to themselves. The St. Nazaire raid was a blow at Germany's boat campaign at a time when it a pair in intensity the submarine offensive of 1917, which almost cost the allies world war. I. The raid was ‘the first on St. Nazaire since /British bombers unloaded 1000 of demolition and fire bombs on its submarine pens and repair shops the night of Feb. 28. ; Only yesterday, the Vichy radio reported that Anglo - American bombs had razed 60 per cent of the city. Last night's raid put the AngloAmerican aerial offensive back on an around-the-clock basis. ~ Target Plastered The eighth U. 8. air force reported that “good results” were achieved in its heavy attack yesterday on Wilhelmshaven. By the time the last squadron reached the target, there was so much smoke that bombardiers were unable to tell what lay below. Maj. Clemens K, Wurzbach, 29, of San Antonio, Tex. said the American planes “plastered - the devil out of the target.” Three bombers were lost, atleast two of them crashing in the North Sea, but many of the interceptifig German fighters were destroyed. Enemy aircraft appeared over coastal districts of northeast England before midnight last night, dropping bombs at several points. A communique said there was some damage and a few casualties. The DNB news agency admitted in a Berlin broadcast that: three German raiders failed to return last night after “heavy bombers attacked a harbor town on the English southern coast.”

CIVILIAN AIR MAIL FACES CURTAILMENT

LOS ANGELES, March 23 (U. P.) -—Postmaster General Frank C. Walker said today that air mail may be limited to government and military ‘business ‘because. of a shortage of mail planes. As a possible alternative, Walker said civilian air mail might be restricted to a 500-mile radius. The army took half the nation’s mail Pi six months ago, Walker disclosed, and since then air mail ‘volume has increased “tremendously.” . “We hope to get priority for our planes,” he said, “but if we can’t, the answer is clear; drastic curtailmen > .

FATHER CHARGED " WITH BINDING BOYS

LAWTON, Okla., March 23 (U. P.).—Sheriff George Myers took custody today of twin four-year-old poys whom he said he found bound

a {by cords in their: home in such a

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manner that one of the boys was unable to sit down. The father of the twins, a Ft. Sill soldier, was arrested by military authorities. County authorities filed a petition for temporary custody of the twins. They were placed on the city mission house pending outcome of the case.

|HOOSIER CITED FOR

‘COURAGE’ IN RAID LONDON, ‘March 23 (U. P).— Flight Sergt. Ralph E. Taylor of Boonville, Ind, has received the ed service medal and a citation which said he “displayed great courage and devotion to duty,”

| Fesais milaistsy, anuionnéad (oday.

- Taylor participated in night attacks on Wilhelmshaven, Germany, last month. He reached the target despite engine trouble, attacked, and brought the plane home after the port engine had tailed.

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Jacobs, 35 N. Temple ave., is sary

they enjoy.

FOF LASOR UNITY

ishness Follows Dis-

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into "by representatives of the two warring bodies recently at Wash-

ington. The public agreemeént for unity in the war effort provided for setting up of a joint committee of the two groups to hear and decide jurisdictional disputes, and for the appoifstsgent of an arbiter whose decisions would be binding, in event the joint committee would fail to agree. . . Then the “secret clause” came to light. In effect it said:

cepted agreement will conflict with either party’s legal rights.” “3 The under-the-table labor deal immediately accounted for the continuation of jurisdictional disputes in Pacific coast shipyards, particularly those of the Henry Kaiser Co. This was the legal excuse of the C. 1. O. for continuation of its raids in the A. F. of L. shipyard unions, ‘Tobin ‘Weary’ Mr, Tobin is weary te at attempts bring peace of fori labo A A wstveonthe committee in the first place, and served only “after a personal appeal from President Roosevelt over the

in Indianapolis. . . .”" “Membership on this committee has been nothing but a lot of headaches for me, sitting for hours, discussing points and questions which were both irritating and tiresome and which required Patience beyond explanation. “1 will be happy if someone else is appointed in my place on this

cause I am losing all hope of an understanding or agreement being reached. . . “Some men on both sides are so hungry for officership and so timid ‘about hurting the feelings of some other leaders whom they know-are in the wrong—that they will not help to bring about an agreement.” “Stop John Green” He said if the “C. I. O. leadership in the conferences before Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes were to advise Mr. Green (John Green, C. I. O. shipyards organizer) that his claims should be stopped in the Kaiser plant, there would be no question about the so-called secret agreement, which only legitimately protected the legal rights of member: Nid Mr. Tobin continued: “Now is the time to look ahead and try and reach a unified agreement to protect the membership so that we may able to hold and to maintain the wages and hours that

“But I repeat I am not hopeful. I am jhoroughly disappointed and somewhat discouraged about unification and solidarity within the labor movement. “We have just enough men on both sides who, look at today and fail to look for tomorrow, and who are anxious to make a mountain out of a molehill. “Law makers and politicians and other enemies are most certainly taking every advantage of us, because and ‘only because of the division of labor—a division that should never have been, and a division that now should and could be eliminated if leaders of labor sincerely and unselfishly desired it.”

AIDS AIRPORT DRIVE TERRE HAUTE, March 23 (U.P.). —Anton Hulman Jr. civic leader and industrialist, presented a check for $100,000 yesterday to Harry E. Fitch, board of aviation commissioners president, to be used toward acquiring land for a new municipal

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Semen, 0 2.80 Bese | sommwrmR ov EUROPE: gestapo of a well-organized spying net in favor of the | Soviets, in no less a place than ‘| the Berlin Wilhelmstrasse, has just been disclosed by an un‘usually well-informed source | ‘who is in a good position to According to this source, a group of © Wilhelmstrasse officials has been providing political information to the Soviets during the whole: winter and only recently has their activity been stopped. Two executions of German diplomats have already taken place — Secretary of Embassy Schelia, former member of the German embassy in Warsaw, and Harnack, an official in the Wilhelmstrasse.”

FEAR SPOILAGE IN DRIED FRUITS

Grocers Hope Point Values Will Be Cut for Upper

“Bracket Items.. (Continued from Page One)

housewives who were unable to make their points stretch far enough. A list of wore than 200 point values of meat, canned meats and fish, butter, cheese, cooking fats and cooking oils will be. published tomorrow in preparation for rationing of those items March 29. All stocks of butter, lard, margarine, shortening, cooking and salad oils, canned meats and canned

shelves until March 29. . . But OPA authorized district offices to grant exceptions in the case of butter, fats and edible ‘oils for “hardship” cases. | OPA -described “hardships” as, for example, “local institutions where butter is being produced so fast that it would spoil if not disposed of locally at retail, and an individual case where a consumer is in serious need of butter.

THOMAS BACKS WAR MOBILIZATION BILL

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U.P.). —R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile. Workers (C. I. 0.), opposed the Austin-Wadsworth compulsory civilian service bill today, and suggested that a more effective solution of the manpower problem is provided in the Kilgore-Pepper-Tolan “war mobilization”

Testifying before the senate military affairs committee, Thomas said that “total war demands total planning and mobilization of our resources as envisaged in the war mobilization bill introduced jointly by Senators Kilgore, Pepper, Murray, Thomas of Utah, Johnson of Colorado, Capper, Green, Ball and La Follette.”

FUNERAL THURSDAY FOR ROLLIE JAMES

Funeral services for Rollie Edward James, 56, of 455 Harding st. will be at 10 a. m, Thursday at the residence, Burial will be in Tanglewood, Ind. Mr. James died Sunday at City hospital. He was born in Osgood and was employed at Kingan & Co. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Jeannette Foster, and two sisters, Mrs. Winnie Coup of this city and

airport.

NEW YORK, March 23 (U. PJ). —Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were jerked out of their sleep by wailing air raid - sirens early today, leaped out of bed onto chilled floors, ran to their radios and heard: “Do not be alarmed. This is a test blackout drill.” It was fulfillment of Mayor PF. H. La Guardia’s promise of something . “unusual” in the way of blackout and air raid drills. All previous ones had been in the evening while residents were up to turn, out house lights and rush to shelters if in the streets. This one started at 4:55 a. m. when the sirens shrieked the “blue” signal, notifying the public that “enemy planes were approaching.”

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New Yorkers Awakened in ~ Early Morning Blackout Test

.|Mrs. Taura Brower of Holton, Ind.

Instantly, lights snapped on in apartment houses and hotels which had been utterly blacked-out because their residents ‘were in bed. The , whistles of air raid wardens shrilled up and down every block and in every areaway and the lights quickly went out again. The wardens, together with police, had rushed into deserted streets when they were notified just before the “blue.” Aside from tooting at the lights and shooing an occasional burgher in pajamas and dressing gown wanting to know what it was all about, back indoors, they had noth-

the streets and only an occasional

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fish are “frozen” on grocery-store|

100-Mile Stretch of - North Coast.

‘MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR-| TERS, Australia, March 23. (U. P.).}

| —Allled forces clamped a tight hold] -] Jon a long strétch of New Guinea's/{lil ‘|north coast and river valleys to.{day, after cleaning out Japanese

nests that could have been used in an effort to renew a southward offensive. A communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Headquarters said

1700 Japanese soldiers were killed

and 100 others captured in occupying the Mambare area, 40 to 50 miles north of Buna. Valleys of the Ambasi, Kumus and Opi rivers also were infiltrated by allied troops—ending any chance the Japanese had had to use the area and coast to land reinforcements and amass materials for a

{new drive.

Military quarters here have expected a new move from the Japanese that might strain limited allied resources. The allied successes in New Guinea, coupled with continued air attacks on Japanese bases, were calculated to frustrate such a move. Disease and. starvation were working. for the allies. “Many other hundreds” of = Japanese besides those killed and made prisoner have “undoubtedly died of starvation and disease In swamps where they endeavored to find refuge from our attacks,” the communique said,

Iturbi Adamant In Custody Fight

HOLLYWOOD, March 23 (U. PJ) .—Pianist Jose Iturbi, contending that his daughter is “not the proper pe ” to care for his grandchildren, refused today to drop a custody suit which his attorney warned would “mean the washing out of linen that is not clean.” A lengthy conference between the noted musician and his daughter Maria Iturbi Hero, 25, failed to produce a settlement in: private conversations in the chambers of Superior Judge Edward R. Brand. Iturbi wiped lipstick from his cheek. : “We both love each other very much,” the dapper musician said. “Nothing is changed between us.” There was no elaboration of Iturbi’s charge that his vivacious daughter was “not a proper person” to care for Maria Theresa, 6, and Maria Antonia, 5. It would be in their best interests for him to have custody, he said.

ASK CONDEMNATION OF ‘BUMS’’ HAVEN

The safety board today was asked to condemn an ‘émpty one-story structure at 3602 Roosevelt ave. as a safety menace by a delegation of about 30 Brightwood residents. Spokesmen for the group said the frame building had become a “hang-out for drunks and bums.” They further contended that it was a breeding place for rodents and also constituted a serious fire hazard. Bullding commissioner Ray M. Howard was ordered by the board to meet with representatives of the delegation in order to determine whether or not the structure should be wrecked.

POPE’S TEMPERATURE IS REPORTED LOWER

LONDON, March 23 (U. P).— Pope Pius’ temperature went down during the night and for the time being there is no reason for anxiety, although he is suffering from bronchitis affecting one lung, a Vatican City report of the German radio said today. The pontiff was réported to have conferred for half an hour today with Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Vatican secretary of state, but received no other visitors. Stockholm dispatches said the pope was seriously ill with influenza and doctors feared it might develop into lung inflammation. .

SPEAKER TO TELL OF LONDON BOMBINGS

Emanuel Barling will relate his experiences during the bombings of London at a meeting of District 15 A, Center township outside, at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in the William Evans school 2, 2800 S. Pennsylvania st. G. H. Hermann, district warden, is in charge of the program which also will include motion pictures. Additional auxiliary police and

firemen are needed in the district.

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