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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 62
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SATURDAY, MAY
22, 1943
Entered as Second-Class
Indianapolis, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday.
RUSSIANS DISSOLVE INTERNATIONAL
Auto Hits Crowd, Kills Soldier’s Wife,
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* DRIVER IS HELD
IN TRAGEDY AT : TROLLEY 70NE Walker, Hers for
Mrs. Marie Hawkins Pinned
Between Car and Pole; Legs Broken.
One woman was injured fatally tend a meeting of the Democratic
and two other persons
ave.
The dead woman was Mrs. Marie
M. Hawkins, 25, of 7381; Buchanan st, the wife of a Ft. Harrison soldier. She was struck shortly after 4 p. m. yesterday. She died a few minutes after midnight at City hospital. The injured were Mrs. Mayme P. Sipe, 42, of 715 Russell st., who was| treated at City hospital, and Simon| W. Gary, 24, of 2725 N. Meridian st. | who was given first aid and then! went to his duties at Allison's.
were hurt heard “a lot of nice things about when an alleged drunken driver! Governor Schricker.” ploughed into a crowd of defense] C ! H r workers at Michigan st. and Luett|0t entering into senatorial politics
| ‘Heard Some Nice Things
About Schricker,’ Says
By EARL RICHERT
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, Democratic national chairman, today declined to discuss the § possibility of a fourth term for fh {President Roosevelt, saying, “It's ‘much too early to talk about can- | didates.” | Mr. Walker, who was here to. at-
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state committee, said he had
He said, however, that he was
jwhen asked if he had heard any nice things about Senator Frederick VanNuys, incumbent, who may bejcome involved in a party fight for [the senate nomination with the {governor at next year’s Democratic | state convention. { The Democratic national chair{man also said that he had heard none of the talk current in Hoosier circles about Mr. Schricker’s being a vice presidential candidate. The state committee, however, indicated its approval of the sug-
Frank C. Walker
No mention was made in the j resolution of any other Democrat. Concerning next year's election,
gested Roosevelt-Schricker Driver Flees
The three persons struck and six
: : for their records in public office. others were standing at the inter-
ticket {by adopting a resolution praising | highly the governor and president
Mr. Walker said that he thought that the party in power should stand or fall on its record and that (Continued on Page Two)
section awaiting a feeder bus to]
Allison's when pit -_ “New Wabash Threat Faced
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Police said backed out of Luett ave. th automobile driver, apparently seeking to avoid a crash with the bus, drove to its right. Mrs. Hawkins was pinned between the car and a utility pole and both arms and legs were broken.
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At Vincennes
VINCENNES, Ind, May 22 (U.
to safety.
The two other injured were brushed by the car and the six other persons on the corner leaped
The alleged car driver, Erwin Lanouette, 40, of 614 Moreland ave, was charged with being drunk, driving while drunk. reckless driv-
P).—A new crest on the Wabash river flood renewed its threat to Vincennes today when the rushing water lappea within a few
inches of the worst stage reached before a levee broke and gave temporary relief to the city yes-
terday. At 7 a. m. the stream climbed slowly to 26.3 feet and maintained its rise to spur the efforts of hundreds of civilians and soldiers to Sailer Is Detained strengthen the dike protecting this Charles Silvers, Somerset, Ky. a|City of 18000 persons, many of sailor from the Great Lakes naval] VNOM were prepared to leave their station, who was in the automobile, | ROMeS. was held on charges of drunkenness and vagrancy.
ing, failure to have adequate brakes, failure to have a driver's license and with leaving the scene of an accident.
Farmer Is Drowned
The Wabash had reached
The driver's wife, Marian, also record high of 26.75 feet when the!
(Continued on Page Two) |levee near the Memorial bridge
| broke yesterday on the Illinois side [of the river and flooded 44.000 (acres of fertile farmlands between
BACK-TO-WORK WAVE
COUNTY HEADS SEEK HARMONY
Start Secret Negotiations For an Agreement in
Spending Row.
By NOBLE REED Secret negotiations are under way to line up a majority of county councilmen to “work in harmony” with county commissioners on spending policies, it was learned today. The offer for a harmony agree{ment between the two units of
BERLIN GETS JD RAID IN
Piles Up as Drive Continues.
By UNITED PRESS
to crush the first line of axis Buropean defense surged on today with
up on Italian bases. The 67th raid of the war on Berlin was made by the R. A. F. A British war leader said the site of the next blow at Italy and Germany had been chosen and that it might not be the Mediterranean. Allied bombers and fighters slamming into Europe's Mediterranean “under-belly” shot down or destroyed 96 enemy planes, bringing their three-day total to 272—a 22-to-1 rate of destruction which the luftwaffe and the Italian airforce together probably cannot stand for long. Sicily Battered
The planes based on Africa and
fields and bases again yesterday, destroying 67 planes on the ground and knocking down 29 interceptors. The attack on Berlin last night was the third straight in three days and the sixth in nine days aimed squarely at the heart of the Nazi war machine. It followed battering attacks by American planes against German U-boat ports and factories.
Allies Have Choice
British Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton said that the scene of the next big thrust at the axis had been set down. The allies have the choice, he said, of aiming it anywhere on the long line of coast which Germany and Italy must defend. British planes sank two ships of &n axis convoy in the English chan-
| government was reliably reported | to have been made by two com-| missioners to five of the seven! i members of the council. | The move ciimaxed six months of friction between the commis-/ [sioners and the council which has! adopted a severe “crack down” | | policy against the commissioners’
SWEEPS COAL FIELDS
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Vincennes and Lawrenceville, Ill
Another victim was added to the PITTSBURGH, May 22 (U. P). death toll! when Joseph Prather, 52,
«~The ranks of striking miners in! Mlinois farmer, was swept away by!
the western Pennsylvania soft coalthe boiling water six miles north | }
spending plans, ‘Get-Together’ Set
Deciding to do something about | it, Commissioners Ray Mendenhall!
and William T. Ayres, who have!
fields dwindled to little more than!of here. 1000 men today following a wave of {from a school by an amphibian back-to-work sentiment induced by| jeep, said Prather and his team the pleas of government and union | were caught in the swirling water. officials. {near his home. His body has not At the height of the walkouts, | been recovered. nearly 6000 men were idle. The| The Indiana deaths from the strikes began Wednesday in protest| floods. which have ravaged the ento cormtract negotiation develop- | tire valleys of the Wabash and the M frents. ‘ (Continued on Page Two)
‘WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, May 22.—There will be a stepping
up of the Pacific and Far Eastern war. Whatever else toosevelt and Churchill are planning, that is on the agenda. Don’t be fooled by those who say we should go all out against Japan; or by those who argue that we can forget Japan until we lick Hitler. It’s all a question of proportion. For one reason and another, not enough pressure has been brought against Japan so far. But
His wife, herself rescued |
been voting together on most of! | the board's business, issued per{sonal invitations to five councilmen to meet them in a “little get- | together” conference at the Lin-| coln hotel Thursday afternoon. No invitations to the conference!
council president or Councilman Shirley Deming, who have been out in front on most of the council's numerous procedures to slice down appropriations requested by com-! missioners. | William Bosson, the third com-| (Continued on Page Two)
NAVY REPORTS ATTU BATTLE NEARS END
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Jap Forces, Split in Three Groups, Under Fire. WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P).|
were received by Addison J. Parry, EUROPE—British bombers hit Ber-
PACIFIC—Axis reports say British
nel and damaged another while continuing forays against enemy
THREE DAYS
Wrecked Enemy Aircraft
The allied air offensive designed
wreckage of enemy aircraft piling
the British Mediterranean islands! battered Sicily and Sardinia air-
his landing will be anything but s
Oscar's Ready for Jump
Oscar does most of the parachute jumping at Stout field. The 170pound dummy is shown being loaded into a C-47 transport plane for a drop test. If the ’chute is O. K., Oscar will float to earth; if not,
oft. Oscar waits for the go sign from
Pvt. James Schacte of Superior, Wis.
Tests Chutes at Stout Field:
Matter at Postoffice
PRICE FOUR CENTS .
Injures Two
SEEN AS MOVE 10 STRENGTHEN ALLIED NATIONS
Leaders Instruct Followers to Join Hands In the Common Fight Against The Hitler Coalition. !
MOSCOW, May 22 (U. P.).—The Communist third ine ternational was dissolved by its own leaders today in a move to strengthen the common battle against Hitlerism, eliminate factional labor strife everywhere—including America—and foster closer war and post-war co-operation among the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States. The extinction of the third international, which had as a basic principle the fomenting of world revolution, was regarded broadly as an attempt to eliminate an element of misunderstanding in allied relations and to help pave the way toward intimate post-war relations based on some form of collective security of nations. But the resolution of the comintern presidium, dissolve ing the international, made clear that there was an elemene tary need to eliminate factional strife among labor groups in the interest of all out support of the allied governments’ war effort. The reports of strikes and stoppages in American industry have had a bewildering effect upon many Russians, who fail to comprehend why there are strikes in war time. In this connection, it should be pointed out that in Russia any
The German Transocean news service said in a Berlin broade cast today that the first Nazi reaction to dissolution of Com-} munist International was that ié constituted “a gigantic bluff of allied wire-pullers.”
HOME |
They Must Be Right First Time
By HELEN RUEGAMER
There's an old saying among fliers that “all parachutes are good to the last drop.” "And although an airman’s drop may be his first one,
form of unjustified absenteeism is severely punished. Penalties range up to stiff -prison sentences after the second offense.
other countries regarding Russia's post-war aims. (These sources pointed out that it might pave the way for a cone
it's up to the parachute rigger whether or not it’s his last one. Today, no pilot, bombardier, navigator or passenger leaves the ground in a military plane without a parachute. And all of these have been inspected and tested by the army and navy’s parachute riggers.
RULES RELAXED
transport over France during the) night, The air ministry's announcement said that Mosquitoes also attacked railway targets at Orleans, France! and mined enemy waters. | Five bombers and one lost in the operations. ! In twin daylight raids yesterday, four-engined flying fortresses bombed the submarine yards at) Wilhelmshaven for the fourth time |
jand the yards at Emden for the sec-
ond time. Wilhelmshaven was the | (Continued on Page Two) = 2 = On the War Fronts
May 22, 1943
lin third straight night in follow up to American raids on U-boat bases; allied fliers destroy 96 more axis planes in raids on Italian bases for a three-day total of 282.
evacuate Indian border city in apparent preparation for battle against Japanese forces crossing | from Burma; Japanese claim! fighting still in progress on Attu; allied fliers take toll of 22 enemy
special occasions.
against reporters visiting the Home-
AT HOT SPRINGS
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aghter were F00d Conference Officials
Now Allow Press in
Swimming Pool.
HOT SPRINGS, Va, May 22 (U. P.).—Press restrictions at the international food conference . were partialiy relaxed. today as two Republican congressmen announced they would demand a congressional investigation of the proceedings here, Judge Marvin Jones, president of the conference, announced that henceforth reporters would be admitted to the Homestead hotel, where the conference is being held, between the hours of 6 p. m, and 9 p. m,, daily.
Limited Relaxation
Hitherto the reporters had been barred from the hotel except on
The limited relaxation of the ban
planes and eight barges north of
Australia. .
RUSSIA—Communist International step; Soviet reports mass Luftwaffe!
disbanded in diplomatic
raids on Russian cities; bridge- | head south of Lisichansk deep-
ened.
stead was a partial victory for newsmen who have been asking for freer access to the delegates. Jones said that the hours of executive sessions had been so ar-| ranged that none would be occur- | (Continued on Page Two)
{1st troop carrier command.
| These men all went through a since the presidium merely pub-seven-week parachute rigger course lished its resolution providing for Chanute field, Ill, and now in- | dissolution, pect, ‘pack and repack, drop test|a formality,
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and issue the ’chutes daily.
of Huron, O.; Pfc. Gabriel Kovacs of Coplay, Pa, and. Cpl. Howard Oglesby of Laurel, Ind. Two sizes of the “seat type” parjachutes are used at Stout field. A ‘chute with a 24-foot canopy is is-
pounds, and a 28-foot-canopy ‘chute to those over 180 pounds. The “seat type” is one which has a rubber cushion attached so that the parachuter may float down in comfort. The parachute riggers check the ‘chutes every 10 days for loose stitching on the harness, broken (Continued on Page Three)
WAR OUTPUT AT ARSENAL CRIPPLED
Only 2400 Heed WLB Order In Chrysler Walkout.
DETROIT, May 22 (U. P.).~The assembly line at the Chrysler-oper-
{ated tank arsenal was forced down
by a shortage of materials today as only about 2400 of 14.000 day-shift
—The navy, reporting that the bat- |
that lack will be remedied—in fact is now being remedied. And this does not mean a letdown in Europe. Our greatly increased output of munitions makes this possible, But don’t look for any real drive to open the Burma road before October. It's not merely a question of the monsoon season. Lack of shipping and lack of naval power in the Indian ocean are in the picture, too. s = » ® = = ABOUT GERMANY: President Benes of Czechoslovakia is cone vinced Germany will cave in “about the end of the third month of \ next winter” (Jan. 31, 1944, as we figure it.) And he means a military collapse, not a faltering on home front. Reason: Nazis were banking on a short war; will have insoluble equipment problems by next winter. The end may resemble Tunisia —men and supplies still available, but not enough in the right places at the right times. » = ”
¢_Russ Want Second Front in France
tle for Attu is now in its final phase, |
announced today that the trapped) Japanese garrison has been split up| into three groups which are being harassed by low-flying American fighter planes. Attu village at the head of Chi-| chagof harbor has been virtua'ly! wiped off the map by bombing and! strafing planes. Oniy the church! and one other building have been! left standing, Tokyo radio reported today American troops driving forward on Attu island have reached a point, only one-fourth of a mile from the last Japanese positions. Kiska logically would be the next stop on the schedule of American reconquest in the Aleutians. The re-
SECOND FRONT: Russia wants it in France or the Netherlands, and nowhere else. ! Balkans seem to offer the best chance from our point of view, but | success there wouid bring the allies quickly to the Danube valley. | And the U. 8S. S. R. regards both the Balkans and the Danube valley as her sphere of influence; doesn't want us to intrude. Since Churchili's appearance at the capiici, some cchgressmen feel that the British will be “practical” about Russia's post- terri,
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‘conquest of Attu leaves the enemy's
{when they will be liquidated or will /have to surrender,” said Secretary |of the Navy Frank
garrison on Kiska without an ad-| vance supply base. { “It is only a question of time
Knox, who re-
Hoosier Heroes =
War Wounds
Are Fatal to Sgt. Knigh
SGT. IRVING W. KNIGHT has died of wounds received in air
action in the Mediterranean war
area. His wife, Mrs. Georgia
Knight, 2216 E. 10th st, received word of his death just one day after he was reported improving. He was the son of Mrs. William Knight, 820 N. Keystone ave.
STATE HIGH SCHOOL
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TRACK MEET OPENS
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1500 Throng Tech Field To Watch Qualifiers.
By DICK WYATT
Approximately 1500 track fans thronged Tech high school's field this morning as preliminaries for the annual state high school track and field championships got under way.
Howe of Indianapolis had its] chances dimmeg when its star
United Automobile Workers (C.1.0.) to meet tomorrow to decide
been taking part in the “skip bombing” raids on axis shipping. His name
ries of
Sgt. Knight was believed to have
was mentioned in sto-
workers at six of the corporation's plants heeded the back-to-work order of the regional war labor board. A Chrysler spokesman said about 1500 employees, two-thirds of the first shift, reported at the De Soto bomber plant at 7 a. m. today, enabling resumption of “fair production.” An additional 700 returned at the Jefferson-Kercheval plants employing about 4000. However, at the Dodge main plant employing 7500, only about 200 workers filtered through the gates. The spokesman said a sound truck “is going up and down the street” urging members of the
“whether or not to go to work.”
In the base parachute department at Stout field, four men take care of the parachutes for the field's
Pvt. James Schacte of Superior, is, is the chief parachute rigger and his aids are Pfc. Elmer Knupke | simply:
ference of President Roosevelt, Premier Josef Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill under the friendliest conditions. It was not known at once whether there was any connection between the president's personal letter to Stalin and today's action,
Davies to Meet Stalin {| Joseph E. Davies said today he hat -approval is merely | «pects to have a second meeting ! : ” : . : 3 hi The action was embodied in a With Premier Josef Stalin wit na (few days to get his reaction to resolution adopted by the comintern| J id . ¢. Roosevelt's loug personal | executive committee which stated 0 el
+ The Russians see this struggle as meaning imminent life or death decisions for them and they fail to understand the idea of striking in the midst of the struggle.
The third international, technically, has not yest been dissolved
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“In countries against the Hitlerite coalition, the sacred duty of all the masses and primarily that of the vanguard of workers con-
Mr, Davies, former U. 8. ambassa= jdor to Russia, handed the presie dent's message to Premier Stalin at the Kremlin Thursday night. An
sists in all-out support of their|interpreter read the letter and
sued to men weighing up to 180
government's war efforts in order to rout the Hitlerites as quickly as possible and secure friendly cooperation of nations on a basis of equality.”
Pravda Announces Action
The dissolution was announced by the official Communist party newspaper Pravda. (Allied sources in London greeted the Russian announcement as a
Premier Stalin told Mr. Davies that he would be glad to take the letter under advisement, During their two-and-a-half-houg talk, Premier Stalin asked Mr, Davies about conditions in the United States. (It was pointed out that dissoe lution of the comintern did no$ break up Communist party organie zations outside Russia but cut them
major Soviet gesture toward united nations solidarity and one which paved the way for clearing up misunderstandings that have devel-
loose from guidance and direction of Moscow.) (A special meeting of the central committee of the British Commue nist party was called today for
joped in the United States and »
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mmunists
Action by U.S. Co Awaited After Moscow Edict
WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P). to a Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin —Americans generally were ex- meeting. They, like their London | pected today to reserve judgment colleagues, saw it as an important fon the dissolution of the Com- Soviet attempt to improve united | munist International until the nations unity and to clear up mise Communist party in the United understandings among the allies. States discloses its future aims and| A large part of auti-Communist policies. feeling in the United States in the Observers pointed out that most past has been a result of the avers anti-Russian feeling in this coun-'age American's distate for the try stems from the policies of the|Communist international's basie Communist party here which, in| principle of fomenting world revo the past, have followed .closely the!jytion. so-called Moscow line. ‘ It was believed that little head-| way in dispelling that feeling would be made in this country until the American Communist party reveals by action its intention to give “all-out support” to the American government instead of looking to Moscow for guidance and direction,
Earl Browder, general secretary
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