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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 59
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1943
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
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Churchill, FDR Hope For
RISING WABASH TRAPS THOUSANDS
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| ‘Rains Continue, More Due: 3000 Homeless Here
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‘FIGHT TO END AGAINST JAPS IS PROMISED
Sub Menace Being Licked, British Prime Minister |
Tells Congress.
WASHINGTON, May 19 (U. P.).—| British Prime Minister Winston | Churchill told congress today that he and President Roosevelt hoped to have an early meeting with | Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and, if | possible, Chinese Generalissimo| Chiang Kai-shek. He said he has sought such a conference for a long time, but that he was unable to say when or where it would take place. Churchill also told congress that his country will wage war against | Japan, “side by side” with the
WASHINGTON, May 19 (U. P.). ~—Prime Minister Churchill revealed today that there were enly 19 bembers in the raid which resulted in destruction of three huge German dams and the con-
fe (6) subme rail sidi sequent flooding of thousands ‘of ged ngs.
RAF Bombs Turn Ruhr Into Lake
A vast region of Hitler's Ruhr valley was a great lake today as the result of the bombing of the Mohne and Ruhr river dams by the R. A. F. At Froendengergboesperde, 13 miles from the Mohne dam, this reconnaissance photo taken yesterday shows the following: works; (3) a destroyed railroad bridge;
(1) a submerged road; (2) isolated electric (4) another destroyed railroad bridge; (5) wrecked raiload cas;
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WATER SEEPS ‘THROUGH DAM
'Smith’s Woods, Sunshine Gardens, Ravenswood | Hardest Hit.
4 BULLETIN Police this afternoon summoned city street department
river levee at Beauty ave. 1500 west, as water began to seep through. They said a break would release water into cotton mills and other industries immediately west of there.
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By LEO DAUGHERTY
Northern and southwestern seec-! tions of greater Indianapolis re-| mained inundated today and an estimated 3000 persons had evacuated | stricken areas while streams were! reported to be receding slowly sat other points. | As new rains began and were pre-| dicted to continue through to.~~= row morning, U. S. weather bureau | officials would not yet estimate what
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square miles of the Reich's industrial areas.
United States, “while there is
breath in our bodies.” He expressed confidence that the submarine menace will be overcome, and said the tremendous U. 8S. ship production now far surpasses the losses of both Britain and the United States. Furthergore, he added, the last three months have yielded record results in sinkings of axis submarines.
Aid fo China ‘Urgent’
Claim Sufficient Votes in House to Block Any Other Plan.
RUML BACKERS (Joseph S. Fay,
STILL HOPEFULA. FL. Leader, vo lIndictedinN.Y.
NEW YORK, May 19 (U. P).—
Joseph S. Fay, international vice president of the Union of Operating Engineers (A. F. of L.), and James
WASHINGTON, May 19 (U. P.).— Bove, international vice president
'Super-Plane Seen as First
crest the White river will reach at! the official 10th st. gauge, where it| showed a slow decline today. | ' | Meteorologist J. H. Armington| 2 |awaited early effects of the renewed | 2 {general rain before predicting a! crest. He said there were indica- | - tions that some of the overflow up-
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stream was being diverted and might not surge through the city.
Of Type With Liquid- A Resorq at Ravenswood |
The river reached 17 feet late yes-| Cooled Motors. vy it dav
terday and the last reading today | was 168 feet, 4.8 feet above flood. “Super-bombers” which soon may
Hardest hit today were Ravens-!
Answering suggestions that the House Republican leaders, defeated of the Hod Carriers and Common | be called upon to pace the allied wood, Smith's Woods, Terrace Beach |
British are more interested in the for the third time on the Ruml | Laborers Union of America, have invasion of Eurdpe, probably will be and Lagoon park in the north, Sun- | war in Europe, Churchill declared cu; » vear tax plan, nevertheless been indicted on charges of ex- Propelled with the new 2000 horse- Shine Gardens in the southwest and
they were equally concerned with
the war against Japan. (were confident today that no other
“And I am here to tell you that pay-as-you-go plan could garner a | $703,000 from contractors’ firms, the | | district attorney's office announced understood to be in the designing Official measurements, but rivermen | stage and ready for adoption by thg |said the depth ranged from inches| ‘air force, will be able to carry in the higher spots to as much as | bombs and cover greater distances 10 feet or more in the low sections.
we will wage that war,” he said, majority house vote.
to do it. i “An important part of the war 202 to 194, against accepting the
against Japan must be played by Senate's 100 per cent forgiveness those armies marshaled in India. |version of pay-as-you-go legislation, oe regard NE Sethe 8 of a Republican leader said: China a ane of the most UIEEnt of} 1" gony know whether. we He called attention to the pres-| eventually can pass the Ruml plan. ence in Washington of his Indian, But I do know ‘hat they can’t pass and Far East commanders. |any other plan. “They have not traveled all the| There was no agreement in most (Continued on Page Five) |circles on what the outcome of the
bore ei | present tax muddle would be. Some CI0-USWA OFFICIALS radio that the senate-house conBACK 48-HOUR WEEK|
| ference committee to which the (Continued on Page Five) PITTSBURGH, May 19 (U. P).! —QOfficials of the C. I. O-U. S. W. A | HELD FOR 2D THREAT met in Pittsburgh today to prevent
AGAINST STAR'S LIFE
the steel industry from scrapping | an order for a 48-hour work week| effective June 1. {Russell Alexanderson, 18-year-old The .two-day conference will be Omaha, Neb, youth who is on fivepresided over by C. I. O. President| year probation for sending an exPhilip Murray, also head of U. S./tortion letter to screen star Betty W. A. Approximately 50 men—| Grable, was arrested today for sendmembers of the executive board— ing her another threatening letter. will b= on hand for the meetings,! “I just couldnt overcome the deincluding Clinton Golden, Murray'sisire to try to see her again,” he assistant; Lee Pressman, general said. counsel for the union, and Van A. Alexanderson admitted he sent Bittner, war labor board member the blond actress a letter demandand union officer. jing $500 on threat of death.
Seek Farm Jobs for Italian War Prisoners at Atterbury
talian prisoners of war have been] They will be made available for interned at Camp Atterbury, it was am labor in ve Santis: witha b a 25-mile area o e camp, fevenlet feday by OO Welles M1. requests for the workers to be made Modisette, post commander, to the agricultural agents in } icounty. These requests will be forwarded to the internment camp
- TIMES FEATURES commander, Lt. Col. J. L. Gammell.
It is limited to . ON INSIDE PAGES |. = being limited to thes coun|portation element involved, Col. Modisette announced.
Amusements. 4 Inside Indpls. 91" po ei this week with county Ash ......... 6 Jane Jordan. 13/ggents and with Lt. Col. Grammell to lapper. ...... 9 Kidney ....... 10] Sutline details of the arrangements Comics ...... 16 Millett ....... 10/45 pe made for use of the war prisCrossword .... 17 Movies ....... ' oners on farms. Editorials .... 10 Obitvaries ... 8; Edson ........ 10 Pegler ....... 10° Fashions ..... 13 Pyle ......... 9 to a minimum of 10 prisoners Mrs. Ferguson 13 Radio ........ 18 possible. Contracts will define oe Financial .... 17 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 a,4 amount of work, location, num. | Forum ....... 10 Side Glances. 10 por of working hours, amount of, Freckles ..... 15 Society ....12, 13 pay and workmen's compensation Health ....... 3 Sports ...... 6, 7 insurance.
Holi Evthing 9 Homemaking. "13 Veice in Bal. . In Indpls, ,,.. 3; War Living...
4 ment, tools and materials from 3l (Continued on Page Twe)
HOLLYWOOD, May 19 (U. P) —
State Deaths.. 8 Italians will receive their equip-|use of thelr | MIEERIL SUBS hich Ehey had cap-
tortion and conspiracy to extort
“while there is breath in our bodies] A few hours after the house voted, | today.
The indictment, which covered six counts of extortion and one of con-
spiracy in conection with contractors working on the New York City $300,000,000 Delaware aqueduct water project, was returned on Monday. Fay, who also is president of Local 825 of the Engineers Union, and Bove, who also is an organizer and eastern representative of his union, surrendered today to Assistant District Attorney Aaron Beneson. District Attorney Frank Hogan charged that the total “take” in the alleged extortions actually would amount to much more than the amount mentioned in the indictment. The additional sums were outside New York jurisdiction, he said. Assistant District Attorney Thomas F. Moore, who conducted the investigations, estimated the total would “run into millions.” The firm which the indictment {Continued on Page Five)
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Join, Navy Reports.
WASHINGTON, Msy 18 (U. P). —Japanese forces on Attu island are retreating under pressure of steatly advances by two American forces which are executing a pincers movement, the navy revealed today. It said advance patrols of the two American columns finally have Joined. The Japanese, a communique said, have been cleared from a vital pass through a rocky ridge where entrenched enemy had held up the American forces for several days. “Only snipers” were left behind to harass the advancing U. S. troops. The navy revealed yesterday that the Japanese had finally been
On any one project, requests for, driven from the rocky ridge, as the prisoner of war labor will be limited battle for possessfon of the westernmost of the Aleutian islands went’
into its second week. Today's communique said the enemy were withdrawing toward Chichagof harbor, and that the American attackers were making “several” three-inch anti-
Flood Present Crest 1913 WABASH RIVER Stage Stage Forecast Stage BIR coccciiccoociciciveciccl 14.7 rising 16 20 WOBASE icici 12 226 falling, 27 ‘i LOBANSPOMt <.ucociciciciasinsiis 1? 21.2 falling 22 325 LAMapeEte .oiiocioooqiilaa 28.3 rising 20 329 OBvington «.ocoicioiiiiieiiii 18 30.8 rising 32 35.3 Terre Hambe «..c.ococoiiiciii co 26.8 rising 30 313 VINCENNES «i. ccociivaiiirincesi Mi 22 4 rising 25 4 MU Carmel (o.oo 17 24 rising 28 31 New Harmony .........cei0000e. 18 19 rising 25 “ WHITE RIVER ANGErson. .:.iciciciividaiiiieis 10 15.7 stationary 20 22.1 Noblesville ..:ccicoiiiiiiiiinin: 4 20.1 rising 21 23.8 Indianapolis sbtasissctecnacveeisl2 16.7 falling 20 205 Elleston Usaaisc iiiieiae18 : 28 31.3 Edwardsport ,.... sovasss idl 23 24
| power, liquid-cooled type motor de- farmlands below it. |
veloped here at Allison's. | Ravenswood had the highest water The high-powered bombers, now mark in its history. There were no
than any existing model. Military police from Ft. Harrison! Chief innovation in the use of the Were stationed in the area. They! new Allison motor is the fact that permitted only persons with creden- | it is liquid-cooled. All U. S. bomb- tials to go into the flooded zones| ers now are powered by air-cooled |and discouraged curious sightseers. ! engines, although most of our present fighter planes are of the liquid- 1500 Leave Homes cooled variety. It was estimated that about 1500 It is generally understood that Persons in the district had left their the air forces commander, Gen. H.| homes for safety, taking shelter H. Arnold was referring to the pro-| With friends or relatives or relief posed Allison-powered “super- | Stations established by the Red bomber” when he remarked earlier] Cross. this year that “Liberators and fly-| Water poured through and under ing fortresses are the last of the!the levee in Warfleigh. Water as small bombers.” (Continued on Page Five) These are the planes which, ac-| ~~
cording to Maj. Gen. Eaker of the! 8th air force, will play a majoriole ALLIES CONTINUE in “softening up” Europe for She,
invasion thrust. Only one RAIDS ON EUROPE
now in actual use contains a
horse-power, liquid-cooled engine. That's the British Hawker-Typhoon. | Overheating of air-cooled motors, and resultant fires, are said to have encouraged favoritism for the liquid- | cooled method.
Pound France in Daylight; Russ-Nazi Armies Mass. |
By UNITED PRESS
Powerful fleets of allied bombers and fighters struck at Europe again today, rounding out a week of non-| stop attacks to soften up Adolf Hit-' ler’s continental fortress for a land! invasion. The. daylight raiding forces flew at great height over the channel toward northern France and returned half an hour later. The weather was ideal for offensive operations. Royal air force long range night ters damaged 20 trains in a broadside blast against German (Continued on Page Two)
Visitors’ Day af Jail Is Washout
THE MARTON COUNTY jail, far, far away from water, today was affected by the flood. This ordinarily would have been visitors’ day. But a sign posted at the door said: “No Visitors Because of Flood.” Most deputies are on duty in flooded areas and only a skeleton staff is on duty at the jail.
River Stages in State
crews to strengthen the White | |
dozen cities.
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Indiana Death Toll 5; Work Frantically To Bolster Dikes.
By NOBLE REED
Emergency calls for help were received by state officials today as five feet of water surged through the streets of West Terre Haute and Vincennes, reported Wabash river flood levels reaching near the all-time high
marks of 1913.
Terre Haute authorities appealed to state police for as many boats as could be rushed to. their stricken
{city where thousands were rescued
from their homes last night. Vincennes telephoned Indian apolis shortly before noon for 10,«
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The power dam five miles north of Noblesville on White river was
holding safely today and engineers estimated that there was little danger of it breaking. Even if it should break, the weather bureau here explained the extra surge of water would not affect the river levels here much. The water already is flowing three or four feet over the top of the dam and any extra water released by breaking would be dissipated and spread out before reaching Indianapolis, the weather bureau said.
{000 sandbags to reinforce their new {Brevort dikes, which were reported [near breaking in several places.
Two companies of the state guard
This map shows the flood paths of the White river and other streams Were rushed to Terre Haute about . through the Greater Indianapolis district.
Deluges Cause Huge Loss
Throughout Middle Wes
By UNITED PRESS
| Peoria, Beardstown, Vandalia, Flor-
| Princeton | backing up into the city.
{ midnight last night by Governor -| Schricker after the mile-long levee
west and south of the city collapsed. The Indianapolis Red Cross sent 50 tents, 100 cots and blankets to where the Wabash is
Arrangements were being made to
[transport small coast guard cutters from the Indianapolis naval armory
Four other Midwestern states in|ence, Carmi and Granite City areas. to Terre Haute this afternoon for The Wabash railroad was under siX| emergency use in rescuing trapped
addition to Indiana were swept by flood waters today from rampaging rivers and creeks across large areas of Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and mited a channel across a road to| | relieve pressure on levees protecting | At least a million] and one-half acres of rich farmland | feet between Logansport, Lafayette, | Covington and Terre Haute during |the night, trapping thousands in | their homes as they slept. .
Kansas. ILLINOIS: The rampaging I= | nois, Sangamon and Mississippi} rivers approached record levels in a | Lowland wheat crops
were washed out and hundreds of| families w= re made homeless in the Ozarks rose four feet above capac-
Hoosier Heroes
Return Body Of Instructor From South
Killed THE BODY of Lt. Lloyd Van Druver, La Porte, 26-year-old
flight instructor at the Columbus, Miss, army air field, who was killed in a crash Sunday night, has been returned to his home with a military escort. He was flying a twin-engine AT-9 trainer on a routine night formation flight. } ® = =» MRS. ESTHER E. HAYNES, Kokomo, has been advised that her son, Sgt. Mark H. Briggs, (Continued on Page Five)
SAY FRENCH DERAIL TRAIN By UNITED PRESS
A Moscow broadcast recorded by OBS said today that French patriots derailed a German troop train near Paris and 130 Nazis were killed or injured.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Gam ...88 10am ...867 Tam. ...68 1llam... 87 8am ... 68 12 (moon) ,. 68 Sam ... 70
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feet of water north of Edwardsville, At Springfield,
| the city sewage.
were reported under water in Illinois. MISSOURI—The Lake of the
lity level at Bagnell dam, and the overflow poured into the |Osage river which empties into the | Missouri. Two" 12-year-old boys (were drowned in a creek at Maplewood, and Jess Wilson, 47, was believed drowned when his car was swept away in Shoal creek near Joplin. OKLAHOMA—Red Cross and state officials mobilized forces to aid flood victims of the raging Arkansas and Muskogee rivers, repeating floods of last week. KANSAS-—The Osage and Arkansas rivers rose above flood levels in the southeastern portion of the state and “several towns were threatened with isolation.
Tornado Preceded '1
‘families from their homes, many of authorities dyna-| which were in 10 to 15 feet of water,
Thousands Trapped The Wabash rose as much as five
An army of volunteers has been
| working 24 hours without rest at flooding | West Terre Haute to evacuate fami[lies after the entire suburban town of Taylorville, across the river west
of the main city, was completely inundated.
Water Works Down
The water works plant in West Terre Haute wént out of commission last night and the city was forced to use its emergency reserve supply of drinking water, The peril of disease from con= taminated wells was menacing thousands of refugees in the subur~
ban areas and warnings were issued
to boil all drinking water. : The death toll in the rampaging (Continued on Page Two)
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