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A Hoosier—Col. Raymond R. Brown of Martinsville—now commands the Storage depot.
APPEAL ISSUED | BY NEW LEADER
Equipment Now Now Piling Up May Delay Victory, Says | Col. Brown.
Approximately 500 workers are needed at the army air forces stor-
to help ship equipment to our fighting air forces overseas. Several hundred laborers, men skilled in handling mechanical equipment, and office workers are needed immediately, according to Col. Raymond R. Brown, new commanding officer of the depot. The other 300 workers will be needed in the next few weeks when Lt. Col. Walter S. Stapler, depot suppiy officer, opens night shift operation to put the depot on 24-hour-a-day basis. Col. Stapler urged laborers and other workers to apply immediately at the United States employment | service office for the jobs. “We need help badly to handle incoming and outgoing shipments,” Col. Stapler said. “Delay in getting this equipment to our fighting men will delay victory.” Gives Reporters a Look
To illustrate the seriousness of the help shortage, Col. Brown| opened the fairgrounds today for an inspection by press and radio representatives. Almost every building on the grounds is jammed with supplies, with some equipment overflowing on the outside. In one building alone, more than 107,000 different kinds of supplies are stored. Col. Brown has just taken over control of the depot. A native of Martinsville, he returned to this country recently from China where he served under Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, who headed the Flying Tigers.
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Tech Foacher Dies After Wrestling Class in Gym
Faculty members and pupils at Technical high school today prepared a tribute to Mac C. Twine-| ham, teacher and counsellor, who was fatally stricken in the school gymnasium late yesterday while en- | gaging in his favorite sport, wrestling. Hanson H. Anderson, Tech principal, said that “Mr. Twineham was one of the most effective and wholesome workers among students I have ever known.” Mr. Twineham, a graduate of In-
diana university and holder of a
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Amusements... 4 Jane Jordan . 13
iv. 194 Pegler ....... 10 . 10! Politics ....... 7 6 Fyle 9 10 Radio .
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Alma Ruth, Indiana university stu-
Schleicher ave. The body was taken
on the Dortmund hub of the Ger-
them. About 500 additional laborers and office workers arg needed.
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DAYLIGHT RAID
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U. S. A. A. F. Attacks Ant. werp; British Lose 30
Planes.
LONDON, May 5 (U. P.).— The biggest force of four-motored Brit-|
ish bombers ever in action dropped
nearly 1500 tons of explosives on
the German coal and steel center of Dortmund last night, a royal air|
| Makers Warn Castoria
Users, Recall Stocks
MANUFACTURERS of Fletcher's widely used for small children, today issued a warning to
laxative local
Castoria, the mild
druggists and mothers to discontinue the sale and use of the medicine
immediately.
According to a nation-wide announcément carried over the radio and in newspapers, the bottles of Fletcher's Castoria shipped since
March 1 contain a foreign ingredient which causes nausea and vomiting. Retailers are being urged to remove the medicine from their shelves and return it to the manufacturer or wholesale drug gists. Parents’ who have bought the medicine since March i are asked to take their purchases to their druggist for refund. The announcement stated that it was “urgently necessary for health protection” that everyone follow these instructions faithfully. Wholesale druggists in Indianapolis who are distributors of Fletcher's Castoria stated that no cases of sickness resulting from the medicine had been reported here. One wholesaler pointed out that there was a possibility that one of the faulty packages was in Indiana, and the recall of all supplies was merely a A safeguard.
F. D. R. ADVISES IN
LONDON, May 5 (U. P.).—There has been an exchange of personal letters regarding the Russian-Polish dispute between President Roosevelt and Premier Wladislaw Sikorski of Poland's refugee government, Polish sources revealed today.
The exact nature of the message was not disclosed. Sikorsky last
night urged Russia to release thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians as a step toward re-es-tablishment of ruptured diplomatic relations between the two govern- | ments.
master’s degree, joined the Tech faculty in 1920 and became head of the Latin department in 1928. From boyhood he was a wrestling enthusiast. In earlier years he wrestled in local rings as a professional, but never made a business of the sport. After school hours yesterday he was in the gym teaching a group of boys several holds. “I'll have to rest a bit after that,” he smiled. He sat in a chair and within five minutes was dead. A robust man of 53, weighing about 175 pounds, he was a picturesque figure on the East side campus. He frequently roamed the campus, advising and counseling pupils. His death was the second in the family recently. An infant child of his son, Capt. Walter Twineham of the army medical corps, died recent-
assigned to a unit on maneuvers. Mr. Twineham’s wife, Nannie, is now somewhere in the south with the captain. Others survivors are a daughter,
dent; another son, James Richard, a Tech freshman, and & sister, Effie, of Bennington, Ind. Mr. Twineham lived at 1206
to Shirley Bros. Irving Hill Chapel. Funeral arrangements are incom-
Hoosier Heroes
Kills Flier in South Pacific Killed LT. FREDERICK H. ENSMINGER, Osgood, Ind. Lt. Ensminger and all other members of the crew of an army medium bomber were killed recently when the plane crashed at the end of a short routine flight, war department officials revealed today. The crew was commanded by Maj. Edward F. Langer, 26-year-old hero of numerous attacks on Japanese installations and naval
units in the South Pacific. Lt. Ensminger is believed to
have taken part in the Bismark
RUSS-POLISH BREAK
sea battle as well as operations against land objectives. # # #
Missing WAR DEPARTMENT officials have notified Mrs. Jean Ferrell, 2136 Wheeler st., that her husband, Pvt. Dwayne Ferrell has been missing in North Africa since March 28. Pvt. Ferrell, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Ferrell 2228 Wheeler st., has been in the army nearly two years. He attended Technical high school and worked at the Bowers Envelope & Lithograph Co. before entering the service. Mrs. Ferrell is employed by P. R. Mallory & Co., Inc. # # # Arthur Lewis Billman, seaman 1-c, was reported missing in action in a navy department an(Continued on Page Seven)
House Adopts Measure Which Would Put 90% On Pay-as-Go.
(How Tax Would Be Collected, Page 20)
» WASHINGTON, May 5 (U. P). —The months-long tax battle shifted today to the senate, where a United Press poll showed almost all the 96 members in favor of some of kind of pay-as-you-go plan and at least 44 of them willing to “forgive” part of 1942 levies to do it. Backers of the Ruml plan to skip all of 1942 taxes planned a vigorous new fight in the senate. They were licked by an eye-lash roll call of 206 to 202 in yesterday's hectic voting in the house, after first winning a preliminary victory. The Ruml plan is the only one that would achieve a complete pay-as-you-go program now.
Indicate Close Race
Senate comment indicated it would be a close race there between the Ruml plan and a compromise along the lines of the ForandRobertson bill that the house finally passed by a vote of 313 to 95. In passing the Forand-Robertson bill, the house gave another kick to its ways and means committee and the treasury. They had backed another plan that provided less forgiveness, and less pay-as-you-go, than the Forand-Robertson plan. Although the Ruml plan failed to win a house majority either yesterday or on March 30, the house on both occasions rejected the committee bills. Eight Indiana Republican representatives voted for the Ruml-Carl-son bill, while Republican Charles LaFollette joined Democrats Louis Ludlow and Ray Madden in opposing the measure. The Forand-Robertson plan would forgive 1942 taxes equal to the normal six per cent tax income tax and the first bracket surtax of 13 per cent. It would inaugurate a 20 per cent withholding tax July 1 and, according to the treasury, would put 90 per cent of the country’s taxpayers on a completely current pay-as-you-go basis by wiping out all of their 1942 taxes. The proportion of taxes forgiven (Continued on Page Seven)
force spokesman announced today.
The tonnage of bombs dumped
man war machine was “not very
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BILL FORGIVES PART OF TAXES
Cologne in the 1000-plane raid last
May 30, the spokesman said in re-| vealing that the R. A. F. again had |
hit a new high in the aerial offensive against the continent. The raid followed by a few hours a powerful attack by American heavy bombers on Nazi industrial targets at Antwerp by daylight.
30 Planes Lost
The R. A. F. lost 30 bombers in the Dortmund raid, labeled as “very | heavy” by a communique and revealed later as a record undertaking by the giant four-motored planes—Stirlings, Lancasters and Halifaxes laden with blockbusters. The R. A. F. commentator said the proportion of losses in the Dortmund raid were not far from the losses in the famous 1000-plane raid on Cologne. when 44 were lost. (This would indicate that 700 or 800 planes participated.) “The damage done at Essen has no doubt thrown a greater strain on Dortmund,” the commentator said. The raid was the heaviest of 25 on the city since the start of the war. In addition, the DortmundEms canal has been raided 15 times. The last RAF raid on Dortmund) itself was on April 14, 1942.
12,000 MAY SEE TRIBE TONIGHT
Opening Clash of
Home Season.
By EDDIE ASH
Performing under the guidance of | Owen Joseph Bush, the peppery pilot from Indianapolis’ east side, the Ihdians are booked to lift the lid on their home season under the lights at Victory field tonight. The part owner, president and manager of the Tribesters is to lead off against the Toledo Mud Hens with Lefty Eob Logan on the mound and Stewart Hofferth behind the bat. Skipper Jack Fournier of the visitors said he would call on the veteran Bill Cox, righthander, with Red Hayworth receiving. Cox is former Indianapolis pitcher. The tremendous advance seat sale! indicates an attendance of approximately 12,000 if the weather is right. It is the first time the Indians ever tried a night home opener. This is the American association's second season in world war II and lineups of all member teams are far (Continued on Page 14)
ly in the south where the captain is
Denies New Deal Influenced Text Book
By THEO WILSON “My Part in This War—Helping on the Home Front,” a new booklet
issued by the Consumer Education Study of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals, which
is on order in several Indianapolis’
schools, is receiving criticism as new deal propaganda written to influence students politically. Assistant director of the Consumer Education Study, a National Association group, is Dr. Fred T. Wilhelms, Washington, D. C., who was in Indianapolis today. Dr. Wilhelms refuted several of the charges made against the book. He is named as one of the two men who
organized the book, re-writing it
after the original manuscript was reviewed by other educators. Dr. Wilhelms will visit local high schools in connection with his consumer education work. The page booklet, which afte critic said “allows
AL SH OPagands to invade the
on war).
helms, “to help. American schools do a job they all want to do... to teach their students to understand this nation’s wartime needs and cooperate patriotically in helping to win the war on the home front.” - Critics of the booklet state that New Dealers and “radical minded educators” have put something over on the N. E. A, using that organe ization “as the medium for extolling the philosophy of an . . . all-wise state,” with the sponsorship of seve eral agencies, including the OPA. “The technical assistance of seve eral government agencies was se= cured in writing this booklet,” Dr. Wilhelms said today. “It does lay emphasis on the duty of every citizen to understand what his gove ernment is doing, obey its laws and | regulations and co-operate in get tihg the job done. Apparently our "critics feel this makes it New Deal «| propaganda. But of course he wouldn't want school children taught to oppose this government While. we are fighting a war.” the mein criticisms made (Continued on Pag
Dr. Fred T. Wilhelms . . . he denies that a recently published N.
of. a the bases under his command
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Groups Also Consider Jobs
E. A. textbook is New Deal propa-
Key Succeeds Andrews
Maj. Gen. William S, Key . . takes over command,
Lt. Gen. Frank Andrews . . . piloted his own plane,
Andrews, Killed in Iceland
Crash, Is Succeeded by Key
LONDON, May 3 (U. P.).—The deaths of Lt. Gen. Frank M. An-
drews, commander-in-chief of American forces in the European theater
tions for an invasion of western Eu
1 and possibly a number of high-ranking members of his staff in an airplane crash in Iceland, were regarded today as a blow to allied prepara-
ropean.
2D CORPS NOW ONLY 10 MILES FROM HARBOR
Capture Eddekhila on Front West of Tunis; 14 More Tanks Destroyed.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 5, —American infantry and armor closed to within 10 miles of Bizerte naval base and captured Eddekhila on the north central Tunisian front today in drives that threatened to isolate the ens tire axis garrison at Bizerte from main enemy defense lines before Tunis. Two desperate German counters
' attacks were turned back yesterday
| by the Americans in the north and the British 1st army in thé& center,
Maj. Gen. William 8. Key took over Andrews’ command pending the | Dispatches indicated fighting gens
appointment of a successor, which military sources said might come within 24 hours. (The U. 8. war department dis- | closed that Bishop Adna Wright Leonard, 69, resident bishop of the Methodist church for the Washington, D. C..area and chairman of the general commission on army and navy chaplains, also was killed in the crash. h (The only survivor was believed to
have been an unidentified private, |
the war department sald. The names of the other persons aboard
‘A Fighter’
Bishop Leonard, Dead In Crash, Praised By Lowe.
BISHOP TITUS LOWE of. the Indianapolis Methodist church area today characterized Method-
the plane were not available in Washington, the war department said. Leonard arrived in London April 17 for a tour of army posts in the European zone.)
Crashed on Monday
The 59-year-old Andrews was on | the final leg of an inspection tour
n his plane crashed in an iso- | rien section of Iceland late Mon-
ist Resident Bishop Adna Wright Leonard of Washington as a “born crusader who had been loving and fighting for 40 years.” Bishop Leonard was killed Monday in the same plane crash in Iceland in which Lt, Gen. Frank M. Andrews, flying general commanding the
'day, his headquarters announced early this morning. Only meager reports of the acci-| dent have reached London. Though several bodies were recovered, only that of Andrews was identified immediately, it was said. The crash came as allied offensive reparations were in full swing and | authorities acknowledged that there! was bound to be an interlude before any new commander can familiarize himself with the multitudinous details of the vast American military operations in this theater. Andrews is the highest ranking U.S. general killed in World War II and is the eighth officer of star rank dead or missing since Pearl Harbor. | Associates said he had just finished whipping his huge organization into shape for its expected expansion preparatory to the invasion of western Europe. He came here in February from Cairo, where he had commanded American forces in the middle-eastern theater, to succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower; to supreme allied (Continued on Page Seven)
LEGION DISCUSSING PLANS FOR PILOTS
For War Veterans.
How civilian pilots may be used for the war effort by the civil aeronautics authority was discussed today by R. M. Stewart, Washington, D. C.,, CAA director of training, at the American Legion's national aeronautics commission meeting in the World War Memgrial. The Legion last year sponsored civilian pilot training but confusion has been caused by the fact that civilians who took training at their own expense did not receive commissions as was originally planned, officials explained. How this is being worked out, and CAA plans for utilizing such training was to be discussed in detail today. Among guests at the session were John Rogers, Los Angeles, Cal., vice president of Douglas Aircraft, and E. F. Burton, chief engineer. This afternoon Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada will meet with the commission. ‘He is a member (Continued on Page Three)
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U. 8. forces in
| the European
war theater lost his life.
‘‘Bishop
Leonard was wi not the silk Bishop Leonard glove or silk stocking type of man,” Bishop Lowe said. “He was brilliantly educated and had traveled all over the world. He was a powerful personality and was always crusading for something that had to do with civilian morale.” Bishop Leonard was a guest at the Indiana Methodist conference six or seven years ago. » » »
BISHOP LOWE last saw Bishop Leonard in Washington in February when, with a group of clergymen, they called on President Roosevelt. Bishop Lowe said that the president at that time remarked “It would look to me like one of you gentlemen might be fortunate enough to go overseas.” Bishop Leonard had been inspecting the work of army and navy chaplains in the war theaters and had been asked by President Roosevelt to represent the Protestant church to soldiers overseas when he was killed. As a member of an executive committee of five bishops of the Methodist church, Bishop Lowe will probably go to Washington when memorial (Continued on Page Seven)
erally was more in the nature of & rear-guard delaying action, espe= | cially in the Mateur-Bizerte sector,
Dominate Junction
The American and French patrols north of Mateur gained control of & key road. junction west of Lake
of Djebel Chemti and = Djebel Achkel on the south side of Lake Achkel. These gains dominated the road junction northwest of Lake. Bizerte and threatened the Ferryville junction southwest of the same lake, on the main road to Tunis. The enemy, however, still has & secondary road from Bizerte to Tunis, running east of the lake, Advances on all important sec tors of the last enemy-held moun= tain barriers west of Tunis were reported, with the French gaining two miles in the area southeast of Pont Du Fahs,
Driving Northward
But the swiftest gains again (were on the northernmost sector {near Bizerte, where the United, | States 2d corps and French forces |were fanning out from captured |Mateur in drives northward toward [the naval base and southeastward toward Tebourba and Tunis. On the road southeast of Mateur —where the American trust threatens to flank the main axis hill de« fenses west of Tunis—the 2d corps (Continued on Page Seven) » ”
On the War Fronts
May 5, 1943
AFRICA—Americans drive within easy 10-mile artillery range of Bizerte.
EUROPE-—Royal air force makes blockbuster raid on Dortmund after American heavy bombers stage daylight attack on Ant werp.
RUSSIA—Heavy fighting rages in northwest Caucasus as Red army batters axis Kuban bridgehead; Germans admit loss of Krymskaya, rail junction northeast of Novorossisk.
AUSTRALIA—Heavy bombers raid Japanese positions in New Guinea, knock out two enemy planes.
(Communiques, Page 20)
Ernie Pyle Fund Doubled; Million Cigarets in Sight
(List of Donations, Page 7)
Overnight, the total for The Indianapolis Times-Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund has been more than doubled. Contributions reached $2174.96 today. That sum will buy 869,984 cigarets for the fighting Yanks overseas. Within less than a week, Times readers have boosted the fund to near the one million cigaret mark. When the cigaret total hits one million—perhaps tomorrow— a surprise will be announced. While contributions pouted into The Times office today, major cig-
trek to fronts scattered throughout
. {the world. The second shipment, like the first, is designated for four
Africa; submarine chaser forces in the Mediterranean, army forces on Guadalcanal and the army air corps in Tunisia. > Topping the donors’ list today are. departments TA - TE - TM - TS-TX and BC at Prest-O-Lite Co., Ine. The $252.82 contributed by "these departments will buy 101,138 cig~
Herff-Jones Co. donated $153 for 61,300 cigarets. Liberty Bell Management and customers raised $101.86 for 40,744 cigarets; Love Machine & Tool Co. and employees, $75 for 30,000; EM Lilly Co. shops, $68.50 for 27400; Allison’s plant No. 5, day employees, $55.12 for 22,048, and the army map. office, $54.10 for 21640 cigarets. Typical of donors’ comments was
a i | 24,000 ci : A.
Bizerte, pushing up the west re nS
arets for service men. Employees of