Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1943 — Page 1

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SARDINIA

| Nazis Make New S tand After Slipping PAY-AS GO BY DRAFT STATUS JULY 115 AM OF HUSBANDS OF MCORMACK T0 BE REVISED

Democratic Leader. On Fathers May End.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P.). —House Democratic Leader John W. McCorinack of Massachusetts said teday that some kind of pay-

Gabes Trap :

17S BIGGEST ATTACK OF WARS ROCKS CAGLIARE

Ground, 44 More Damaged; Major British ) Offensive in Bizerte e Area Is Reported. b

Battered, but Smiling

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Soda Jerking Heiress Hides From Reporters

She's Supposed to Be in Washington Signing Up for That Million Left by Titled Aunt, Lady Chumley.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P.).—Betty Louise Taylor, 19-year-old million dollar soda jerker whose only wish was to . gontinue dishing out milk shakes at a Marion, Ill, soda fountain, today “played hide-and-seek with reporters seeking an interview. The reporters haven't seen or talked with Betty Louise, although she is supposed to be here to sign papers that will make her the heiress to a British fortune estimated at $1,000,000.

"RULES SETUP [BEER FOR BONDSMEN

telephcne at the apartment hous: where Betty is reported living refused to talk, too, although an unidentified woman late last night finally admitted. that Betty and Court Moves to Prevent ‘Victimizing’ of Defendants. By EDWIN C. HEINKE “Bondsmen’s Row,” that gaudy

Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Taylor, with section of S. Alabama st., frequented

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 1% An unprecedented raid by about 100 flying fortresses dramgs' tized an all-out allied aerial offensive against axis front nd lines today as ground fighting in Tunisia slowed dows"

into operation by July 1. § “A majority of the members of the house {eel that the Ruml plan went too far in tax forgiveness,”

whom she is staying, had “gone out for the evening.” It was believed: that Betty had been here for perhaps a week. Her father, Selvin Taylor, died in Caljfornia recently and was buried last week in Rock Creek cemetery beside his sister, Lady Chumley.

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The Secret Gets Out

rear momentarily. The flying fortress raid, carried out by nearly 100 gre four-motored planes, swept over southern Sardinia and basis ed the important axis port of Cagliari as well as axis aie dromes from which the enemy has tried to dominate th

by professional bondsmen, had a new set of rules to hang up on their office walls today. Aimed at tightening up gener«ally the always more or less loose bond procedure at police head-

THE ESTATE to which Betty is now reported to be the heiress was

left by the late Lady .Chumley to

Betty's father) Until yesterday, Betty planned to

Mediterranean narrows. The

bombers shot down 14 enemy

quarters, the rules seek to— ~ 1. Make bond forfeitures stick. - 2. Keep unscrupulous bondsmen from victimizing the public. 3. Keep the professional bondsmen from setting up their offices in the corridors of the police station.

Axis Reported Making Plans |- For Tunisian "Dunkirk Soon

, April 1 (U. P).—Germany has commandeered the Italian

sneak into Washington, -sign the necessary papers which will make her an heiress and then go back to Marion and continue her work in the bus station's soda fountain.

declared today that they will “resist any efiort to delay or ignore”

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Teported here today. “(London sources, however, believed that any by the axis in the Mediterranean was intended to combat a prospec-

‘massing of ses ‘power

the municipal court judges, for the| rl § first time in many years. The order states: *

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“The court recognizes that the professional bondsman is the only source of providing bail that many residents of the city ,can obtain when arrested and it is not the intention of the order to do away with their services if same are rendered for a reasonable chrarge and without victimizing people who have been arrested or their relatives.” For example, Police Chief Beeker is investigating reports that some professional bondsmen accost citizens who have been released on their “own recognizance” (personal

signature), telling them they (the!

bondsmen) were responsible for (Continued on Page Five)

‘PLANES AGAIN RAID JAPS IN ALEUTIANS

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P).|

—Three more air attacks on Jap-< anese bases in the ARutians and ancther on Munda in the Solomons

. were announced today by the mavy.|

Two of the Aleutian attacks were made on Kiska and the third on Holtz bay, Attu island. These attacks, all on Tuesday, increased to 32 the number of raids made on Kiska during March. The Aleutian operations ost us one heavy bomber, shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Kiska. Fires

and all our planes returned. REPORTS CONVOYS LEAVE GIBRALTAR

LONDON, April 1 (U.P).—The

broadcast said. It added that a| including

strong naval . squadron, three battleships, remained at Gibraltar, where “important activity” was reported. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...45 10am ... 4 7am ... 4 Nam... 5 Sam ... 4 12 (neem) .. 5 Sam ...4¥ 1pm... &

porters ean find her. : Betty has lived with her grand mother and mother, Mrs. Lorna Barth Taylor, ever since’ her parents were divorced. Her father sent her to private schools and to: a finishing school in St. Louis. But

about not using make-up; she was quick on the comeback. But the boys didn’t know they

The estate left by Lady Chumley consists of family jewels, real estate, and binds and cash—all of reputedly is worth $1,000.000.| a long time before Betiy can use it. She must wait until she is 21, before the first part—the fam-

Found Peace

On ‘Frontier’

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Kidney ...... 16 Men in Serv.. 10

Millett saascsaes 16 Movies sscanan 12 Obituaries’ eas 1 Pyle sassassas 15

Amusements . 12 Ash “hsasseee 20 Clapper ...... 15

‘Edson ....... 16 Fashions ..18 19 Mrs, Ferguson 18 Pinancial .... Forum sasrans JO Freckles ..... 38 T—. Ev'thing 15

triumph of demagogy over reason.”

ference thal; he was glad the Ruml-

Tuesday's defeat of the measure in the house by “the slim margin of 215 to 198 ‘was merely a temporary

Defeat Pleases Morgenthau Morgenthau said at a press con-

tive allied invasion of southern Eu-

rope - rather than fo undertake a

evacuation attempt.)

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Italian fleet is believed to ineight battleships, at

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Local Street, Road Repair Allotment Cut by State

By EARL RICHERT

City and county

officials, who have been’ confronted by many perplexing financial problems of late, got their worst jolt of all today when i share of the stgfe motor vehicle fund

means that the city and county will each than

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