Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1943 — Page 1
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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 53
WEDNESDAY, MAY
Cooler late this afternoon, becoming unseasonably cool tonight and tomorrow morning.
12, 1943
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~NEW ALLIED BLOWS AT JAPS HINTED
Rabbit, Skunk and ‘Dollie’ Rescued From Flood Waters of Big Eagle Creek
State policeman takes aboard a rabbit marooned in a cherry tree
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RISE CONTINUES Officers Kind to Animals,
IN WHITE RIVER
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Boy Drowns in Fly Creek; End of Rain Eases Fears | Of Floods. |
LOCAL TEMPERATURES «Mh ... 30 10a -m.... 62 « ...31. ll acm . 64 I LB 12 (noon) , 66 Hh i 38 lpm ...68
The White river continued its rise to near-flood stage here today while smaller streams were stationary or receding. While the end of almost a week of rain removed fears of serious floods, the lower Wabash and White | river valleys still face high water | and flooded lowlands. As the threat was minimized 14] families evacuated in the west side of the city and from an inundated] area west of Speedway City ea) mained homeless, the state counted |
at least one fatality and unestimated | I
damage to farm and garden crops. | The victim was 8-year-old Freddie | Reno, Lagrange. He fell into the swollen waters of Fly creek. His body has not been recovered. For the first time in four years,| White river overflowed the Ravens-| wood levee and still was rising. There were 17 inches of water in several buildings in the area. The river in that section rose 18 {Continue on Page Five
LEWIS SILENT ON MINE DISPUTE!
WASHINGTON, May 12 (U. P).| ~John L. Lewis was at the United | Mine Workers headquarters here today but a spokesman said he had "no conferences scheduled” with government officials to discuss the] coal dispute. Lewis’ presence in Washington was disclosed shortly after his office in New York announced that a statement scheduled for press reJease at 4 p. m. had been postponed. No explanation was given. The war labor board panel which has been hearing evidence in the bituminous coal case has adjourned its hearing.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
4 Inside Indpls. 9 Ash 6|/ Jane Jordan. 13 Clapper ..... 8) Men in Service 8 Comics ...... 16] Millett Crossword ... 14 Movies Editorials : 10 Obituaries .. Edson 10 Pegler Fashions . 13| Perkins Forum 10; Pyle Financial .... 17 Radio Funny Bus. . 17! Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Freckles 15 Side Glances 10 Gardens 3 Society ...12, 13 Health Column 3| Sports Hold Evthing iL | State Deaths.
Amusements,
assistance, | unteers heeded the call.
| when water washed away pasture i fences,
! ling chickens by the score were
But Skunk Is Ungrateful
IT WAS “Be Kind to Animals Day” when raging waters of Big Eagle creek spilled over a four-square-mile area west of Speedway City. Some wild animals, rabbits, groundhogs, even snakes of the harm less species, swam (0 a safe perch on the lone high spot in the flooded section. Others, along with the domestic variety, rei. tate police and vol —
_— overboard. Mason and State Policemen Lawrence Broderick and Walter Schofield, who were in another boat, tried to trap it but were outmaneuvered. A skunk was found on a ledge of a dwelling. Over the vigorous protests of Broderick and Schofield, Mason took it aboard and started for shore. Thirty curious onlookers had gathered at the landing point. Mason placed the skunk on the side of a state police car and began debating with his fellow officers whether to take it to a veterinarian for care. Then— (The End)
Twenty cows visioned freedom
but they were corralled and escorted to dry land. Cack-
carried from coops. A groundhog was rescued from its perch atop a tree. Rabbits that reached the high spot were so frightened that they ventured within a foot of spectators. Not this one. It was brought down from refuge in a cherry tree, two feet above water, by State Policeman Bob Mason, who placed it in his boat and started rowing for shore. The ungrateful bunny promptly
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Seer’ Learns It Doesn't Always Pay to Advertise
IT WAS AN unfortunate day for Madame Lena, the fortune teller, when one of her advertising cards found its way to the desk of Mayor Tyndall, who is no prospective customer of anybody in the fortune-
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The card was relayed by “A Citizen,” who wrote on the back of it: “Mayor Tyndall—-Why not clean out this nest?”
So to the “nest,” which was a tent on Massachusetts ave, near 25th st. went Patrolman George Connell yesterday, acting as & client, and after the Madame told him to expect good fortune soon, she charged him $1. He charged her with breaking the law, which was something the Madame's “second sight” failed to warn her about. In Judge John MecNelis' court this morning, Madame Lena turned out to be Mrs. Evelyn Smith, who came here with her
husband and three children from Dayton, O, several months ago. The judge suspended a fine of $1 and costs because of the three children after she promised to give up the fortune-telling. She told the judge her husband was a vegetable peddler. “If you really wanted to make money telling fortunes,” the judge said, “tell the gamblers here when Mayor Tyndall is going to let them open again.”
Homemaking. 3| War Living .. In.Indpls. , 3{Joe Williams.
was made to effectuate the presi-
Suspends. Fine in 1st Arrest For Smoking on Streetcar
The first violator of the new ordinance prohibiting smoking on Indianapolis streetcars and busses won't have to pay for the smoke. And the officer who arrested him won't get a promotion, which prediction by the accused induced his arrest more than his violation of the ordinance. The accused was Robert Ribble, 68, of 1051 Hervey st. The officer was Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody. The arrest was yesterday on a Shelby st. car. Patrolman Dunwoody testified before Judge John L. McNelis that he merely warned Ribble, but when the latter said: “Suppose Chief Beeker will promote you for this,” it was too much for him and he retorted with . the usual: “You're under arrest.” Judge McNelis commented that
then levied $1 and costs and followed with “suspended.” “Definitely no,” said Chief Beeker when asked about the promotion. “Promotions are on the merit system. Not on an arrest here and there, but for a record of arrests for what and how.” But he admitted that Mr. Ribbles Streetcar smoke could even.
: the law has been in effect ly have something to do wi
This skunk awaited help. Onte rescued, he proved himself just a skunk.
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MEAT PRICES “GUT SLIGHTLY
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New Cents-per-Pound Ceilings to Be Effective Here Monday.
(Official Price Table on Page 3)
Revised cents-per-pound ceiling prices for specific cuts of beef, veal, lamb and mutton, effective May 17, were announced today by the In. dianapolis district OPA, Th prices will remain in effect until June 1; when they will be rolled back about 10 per cent as previously announced by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown. The new prices represent a reduction in most cases of from 1 to 3! cents from ceilings originally scheduled to go into effect April 15. The new prices will be only slightly below retail prices as shown in the February cos'-of-living index. Revision of the April 15 prices
dent's “hold-the-line” order.
Ham Prices Lowered In another order, also effective May 17, OPA reduced the maximum retail prices for all parts of processed hams (bone in) from 1 to 3 cents a pound. It increased the portion of ham which may be sold in slices from one-fifth to onethird. The increase was ordered to accommodate customers who have enough ration points to buy slices ef ham but not enough to purchase the shank or round half. Prices of veal cuts and of. beef hamburger are unchanged by the new order but prices of all beef steaks and roasts and several types of beef stew meat are reduced from those established in the original reduction. Lamb and mutton prices are reduced in some instances.
Prices for the smaller volume stores,” which have higher operating | costs, are slightly higher than those’ for the large volume stores.
WARNS U. S. MUST SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES
Chicago Pastor Speaks to
Federated Women.
By LOUISE FLETCHER Times Women's Editor Failure to seize the post-war opportunity of creating a world of comity and understanding will set us back a thousand years in human history, members of the Indiana Federation of Clubs were told this afternoon by Dr. Preston Bradley, pastor of the People's Unitarian church of Chicago.
Dr. Bradley addressed the dele-|
gates attending the federation’s 54th annual convention in the Claypool hotel. Convention opened yesterday afternoon and will end at noon tomorrow. “The anticipated depression which may result in She post-war period,
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and about hi ch there has been so
Photos by Victor Peterson, Times staff photographer, Duane Deyo carried “Dollie” to safety from the Frank Donney home,
| Ernie Pyle in Africa—
Yanks Collect Souvenirs—
Ernie Gets Nazi Automobile of Hitler's most famous ex- blita- |
By ERNIE PYLE NORTHERN TUNISIA (By Wireless).—Before the first day of the great surrender on the Bizerte-Tunis front was over, I believe half the Americans in the area had German souvenirs of some sort. There was very little of what one would call looting of German supply dumps. The Germans gave away helmets, goggles and map cases, which they will not be needing any more. The spoils of war which the average doughboy has on him are legitimate, and little enough recompense for his fighting. Practically every American truck has a German or Italian helmet fastened to its radiator. Our motorcycles are decorated like a carnival, with French flags and the colorful little black-and-yvellow death’'s-head pennants the Germans use for marking their own mine fields. Ad » " . » » MANY SOLDIERS have new lugers in their holsters. Lots of our men clowningly wear German field caps. German goggles are frequently seen on American heads. I got in on the souvenirs, too. I got one memento that is a little gem. It's an automobile—yep, a real automobile that runs. I drove back to camp that first evening in my German “volkswagen,” the bantam car the Nazis use as we use our jeep. It is a topless two-seater with a rear motor, camouflaged a dirty brown. Mine was given me by our first armored division for— (Continued on Page 1, 2d Section)
Pyle Fund Closes for May; 5,008,168 Cigarets Donated
Donations of more than two million cigarets poured into The Indianapolis Times Ernie Pyle Cigaret Fund as the May drive ended yesterday. So in 12 days, Times’ readers contributed a grand total of 5,008,168 cigarets, or $11305.42 to the fund. Major cigaret companies are shipping the five million cigarets to Yanks on battle fronts scattered, throughout the world. ling the deadline yesterday were the Funds recelved after 5:30 p. m.|y, g Machine Corp. and employees yesterday are being held over to be of Lebanon, Ind. Their contribu. listed when the June drive opens tion of 260,040 cigarets, or $672.60, on June 1. Response to the May was the largest single donation campaign was so great that The made by an out-of-town group durTimes decided to re-open the fund ing the campaign and the third each month for the duration to in-|jargest of any, single contribution. sure soldiers of a continuous flow| Other large donors were Bridgeof smokes when the going gets the |port Brass ordnance plant emtoughest. |ployees, 110,400 cigarets or $276; Topping the list of donors meet- | (Continued on#Page Five)
Dear Ernie: 'We Earned $1.30'
(Editor's note: This letter speaks for itself)
“Dear Ernie Pyle: “We are doing all we can to help our soldiers to win the war sooner and get rid of Hitler and the Japs. Mother and daddy say that cigarets are real important to them. “We have earned $1.80 drying dishes and helping mother, We want our soldiers to have it for cigarets. I'm 8 years old, J. D. is 6 and Jean is 3. RALPH, J. D. AND JEAN URICK.
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ONE POCKET OF 30,000 TROOPS LEFT FIGHTING
100, 000 Prisoners 20,000 Are Killed.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 12 (U, P.).—AlHed armies thrust from all sides into
the lest 15-mile-wide circle of resistance by perhaps 30,000 axis |troops In the Tunisian hills near | Bou Ficha today after encircling
‘About Taken,
‘and crushing all organized opposi-|
tion on Cap Bon peninsula, The remnants of the once power- | ful German and Italian army of Africa were doomed to death or capture within comparatively few how, but they fought on in the hills southwest of the base of Cap Bon peninsula as many thousands
Krieg troops surrendered groups and small driblets, Unofficial but reliable sources es-| | timated today that from 20,000 to | 30,000 axis troops were killed or | wounded or managed to escape from Tunisia in the final phase of the| allied offensive, The number who! escaped was said to be very small. On the basis of best information, the axis started the final campaign | with about 180,000 troops. About 100,000 have been taken | prisoner. About 30,000 were believed | trapped in the small pocket still resisting west of Bou Ficha, About
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20,000 to 30,000 others scattered on | Cap Bon are surrendering or being mopped up rapidly, “Are there any De Gaullists with you?" some of the Nazis asked anxjously as they gave themselves up to the British. Ten thousand enemy soldiers, mostly Italians from the once{proud Superba division, surrendered unconditionally in line with the Casablanca policy five miles south (Continued on Page Five)
TUNISIA PRISONERS T0 WORK IN U, S.
Germans Willing,
Are Raring to Go.
By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, May 12.—Most of the 150 000 prisoners who will be in allied hands in a few days are likely to find themselves working in the farmlands of the United States and Canada within two months. Final plans for moving them out of this theater of war are not com plete, according to well informed sources, but some German prisoners already have been sent to the United States and Canada, The Germans appear willing to go and the Italians are eager. As the 1talians pace back and forth behind the barbed wire of the prisoner cages, they grin at Americans, hold their fingers aloft in the V-for-vic-tory sign and ask: ‘When do we go to America?” You never hear talk of prisoners wanting to get back to Berlin or Rome. They all want to go to New York, which they regard as a fabled city with buildings towering into the clouds.
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Italians
FDR, CHURCHILL MEETING WITH INDIA EXPERTS
rime Minister Brings Gen. Wavell to Conference.
WASHINGTON, May 12 U. P.).=-New allied blows |against Japan were believed ‘to be foreshadowed by dis« ‘closure today that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill brought to Wash« ington his top military an?’ | net ‘al experts on India, There was no doubt ths
Churchill and President Roosevelt, master strategists of allied arms, will review plang for all fronts, ine cluding the invasion of Europes They also face several knotty polite {ical problems such as the Polishe Russian relations and the Giraudse
De Gaulle friction. But the apparent emphasis on (the war against Japan in this fifth | Roosevelt-Churchill conference tens (der to confirm belief of many obe servers here that the plang for
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Allied ' refugee government sources reported today that an army of more than 500,000 guers rilla fighters could be rallied to strike at the Nazi rear and out | important communications lines if the united nations invade southern Europe.
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| direct blows against the European continent have been pretty well | perfected before this. With the prime minister were {Feld Marshal Sir Archibald P, |Wavell, commander-in-chief of | British forces in India and former commander of their army in the Middle East; Adm. 8ir James ‘Somerville, commander-in-chief of [the eastern fleet, and Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, commanding British air officer in India. Other. members of Churchill's party included Gen. Sir. Alan Brooke, chief of the imperial gens eral staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, 1st sea lord; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, chief of the British air staff,
Hold Conferences
Also Lord Leathers, minister of war transportation; Lord Cherwell, the prime minister's statistical offie cer; Lt. Gen. Sir Hastings L. I8« may, chief staff officer to the mine ister of defense, and Brig. E. I. O, Jacob, assistant secretary (military) of the British War cabinet. White House Press Secretary Stephen T, Early said the war eX perts who accompanied the prime minister would meet with the American staff chiefs, while Mr, Roosevelt and Churchill hold & series of intensive conferences. From time to time, Mr. Roosg« velt and Churchill probably will (Continued on Page Five)
Hoosier Heroes
Air Crashes Kill Two Men
From State
Killed
AVIATION Radioman 3-¢ Phils lip C. Rowe, Union City, was killed Monday in a collision ' between two navy land planes over Fens tress, Va., the navy reportd today, Three others died in the crash,
” ” » A SCOTTSBURG marine pris vate was killed and an Indians apolis private injured in the’crash of a consolidated experimental bomber into buildings at the mas rine base at San Diego, Monday. Pvt. Oral Meranda Bo and Pvt. Leland J. Ellis we J
An incident that occurred here recently illustrates how the warweary Italians long to get to the Unted States. A group of them were being herded into a prison’ cage when an American soldier passed by and grinned at them. One of the prisoners shouted: “What are you lsughing at us for? You fre going 10 Italy hut we
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among the 60 injured. All were in the buildings struck when the plane faltered in a take-off, = ” » .
Missing
MAJ. JOHN RAY, son of Col Martin H. Ray, liasion officer Tudiaiiepoys for the con general of the Sth service