Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1943 — Page 1

FORECAST: Little change | in {emperatiire tonight and tomorrow morning; likelihood of local. ihadeishovers this afternoon and evening.

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GOVERNORS AT ~ PARLEY BOOST WILLKIE STOCK

G. 0. P. Executives Agree Hoosier Has Retained

Large Following.

By EARL RICHERT Times Political Writer

COLUMBUS, O., June 22.—While Various recent polls have been unfavorable, questioning of Republican governors here today revealed that ere is little for the followers of Wendell Willkie to be gloomy about concerning the Hoosier's 44 prospects. All governors questioned, none of whom are prospective candidates themselves, said that the 1940 standard-bearer had great followings in their home states and none of them had a word to say against him themselves although they were * eareful to be individually non-com-mittal about next year. Out of gubernatorial courtesy most of the 'governors questioned refused to give their opinions on the rankings in their home bailiwicks of Willkie, Governor Dewey and Governor Bricker. But one of them, Governor Ed“ard J. Thye of Minnesota, declared flatly that Willkie was the No. 1 candidate as far as his state was concerned and two others said the same thing, but refused to be quoted. ) Here's What They Said Here's what the governors who are here attending the annual governor's ¢éonference had to say: Gov. Thye of Minnesota: “Willkie is the No. 1 candidate. There is not much interest in Dewey or Bricker. The people in our state are interested vitally in Gov. Stassen, but he's now in the navy.” Gov. Schoephel of Kansas: flikie is very popular in Kansas. “"He got his biggest majority in our state in 1940. Dewey and ‘Bricker also have strength, Our people ‘want more than any thing else to

select a candidate who! dati” best]

Roosevelt.” sat «Gov. Baldwin Connecticut: “Willkie is oe Gmectiont:

He spoke recently at Hartford and

made a good impression. Bricker also has considerable strength and there are a lot of friends of Gov. Stassen. No one thinks Dewey is running.” Popular in Vermont

Gov. Wills of Vermont: “Willkie, very popular; Bricker has a lot of friends; people are taking Dewey at his word that he will not be a candidate.” : Gov. Langlie of Washington: “There is no crystallization of opinfon yet. Willkie, Bricker and Dewey are being talked about.” Gov. Blood of New Hampshire: “Waiting to see how things develop. Willkie has a big following in the state and is much better known than is Gov. Bricker. Dewey is be‘ing taken at his word.” " Gov. Donnell of Missouri: “Bricker made a good impression recently when he visited the state. Willkie has a big following, and Dewey has influential friends.”

View of a Democrat

Governor Hunt of Wyoming, a Democrat, had this to say about the Republican situation in his state: “Willkie is out in the lead in our state on the Republican.side Qf* the fence. He is more popular than Mr. Dewey. The people don’t Vknow Governor Bricker.” The question of whether Mr. Dewey will be a candidate despite what he has said, was the chief luncheon table topic among Republican governors and theis aids at the conference here. The general consensus at the opening of the session ‘was that he

P). Soviet 1,” Josbassador as Gen.

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 88

Summer officially betas at 2313 a. m. today. And at that time it made its entrance with a bang. Remember, that was just about the time you were dashing around the house in your pajamas closing the windows. But that all leads up to the reason for the picture. Cool water is one of the best ways to beat the heat as mother nature opens her summer offensive. Here 14-year-old Glen Smith, 82 N. Irvington ave, ‘got the old pump going to give Douglass Shortridge, 12, of 52 N. Irvington ave, a real dunking.

Curtailment Looms.

WASHINGTON, June 22 (U. P.). —The nation’s great steel mills, feeding every vital war industry,

that prolongation of the nationwide coal strike, now in its second day, either would cripple their production or force them to close. As Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, met here again in an effort to end the strike of 530,000 hard and soft coal miners, the steel centers reported dwindling supplies of coal. Ickes and members of his stbif conferred with U. M. W. officials for nearly two hours. Ickes then issued a statement which said only that the conference had been held and that “there will be no further comment today from the secretary of interior.” Unlike a similar announcement yesterday it did not say that another conference was scheduled. A spokesman for Ickes said he did not know. whether another meeting was planned.

Alabama Hard Hit

At Pittsburgh, a spokesman for United States Steel Corp. said the strike will force it to bank more than half of its 37 blast furnaces by Thursday. Six will bé down by totomorrow, the spokesman added, and the result will be the. loss of thousands of tons of steel for war. E. I. Evans, Alabama manager for Republic: Steel; reported from -Gadsden that unless the coal strike is

{ended immediately, the company’s

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George C. Marshall, ‘army chief of staff, pointed to a clear pattern for triumph which would not be easy, Jostey’ heavy, but victory certain. Marshall told .the ‘85th annual

[governors conference that the last

two years had been a trying. period isparation, but “we have. seized

Some Furnaces to Close, | ; Tomorrow; Drastic Gary |

warned in increasing numbers today}

Hoosier Heroes

» of oo I a iil . “3 D ye in Texc as Killed "AVIATION CADET Jack Warren Spencer, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Forest H. Spencer, 5331 "Central ave, was killed early yesterday afternoon in a plane crash near Corpus Christi, Tex. ; The. plane was based at the ndval air station at Waldren field, Tex. No details of the crash were given. Friday * would have marked Cadet Spencer's first anniversary as a member of the naval air: corps, and he expected to complete his advanced training and receive. his ensign’s - commission early in July. Cadet Spencer went through his flight training with honors. After ‘taking his civilian pilot training at the University of Notre Dame, he entered pre-flight instruction at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Towa. There he

was graduated with high honors (Continued on Page Ten)

TROOPS END RIOTING; DETROIT OUTPUT DIPS

Many Workers Remain Home; Death Toll Is 25.

DETROIT, June 22 (U. ‘P).— Steel-helmeted motorized U. 8. army troops restored law and order to Detroit today after violent race riots, but production slumped in war plants because of an excessive rate of absenteeism among Negro workers. Army detachments in full battle dress bivouacked at intervals along a . two-mile ' stretch of Woodward ave., the city’s: main thoroughfare, and mobile units—light tanks, jeeps|: and armored cars—rolled through

= WHITE WAS SANE,

of | Any mental shock that might

TUESDAY, JUNE 22,1943

Temperature : Drops After Downpour Causes: Damage.

TEMPERATURES

m ...68 10am... .»09 .m. ... 69 11a. m. ... 81 « Maou NS:--12 fag) . 86 a, ... 14 lpm ... 87 Additional thundershowers were forecast for this:afternoon and tonight after: ah early morning thunder, lightning and heavy rainstorm ‘which - caused considerable damage and a fraffic accident in which two were hurt. .- After threatening for several hours, the storm struck the . city and surrounding district at 1 a. m. Lightning struck two homes, :levelled utility wires at at least’ five places and the do r, which measured .80 of an inch, flooded all underpasses in the East end section. The storm was_a noisy, soaking greeting to summer which arrived officially at 2:13 a.m.

Temperature Dips

‘It dipped the temperatiire rapidly to a low of 66. It had reached a high of 93- shortly after 3 p. m. yesterday. The weather bureau said there would be little change in temperature ‘tonight and tomorrow morning. _As the torrential downpour was heaviest, Mrs. Beulah Potter, Russellville, ~Ind., driving at ‘Missouri and. Washington sts, was unable to see as the windshield wiper on her "car was incapable of- carrying off the water. The car rammed into a concrete safety .2one post. She and: her daughter, Dorothy Jane, 10, were hurt slightly and taken to City hospital. Her husband, Forrest, who also was in the car, escaped injury A lightning bolt. —— haut 15 (Continued on Page Ten)

EXPERTS TESTIFY

say Shock Would Not Cause Mental Derangement.

have been induced by his wife's alleged ession of unfaithfulness would not have caused Bernard L.

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Bids -Must Be Submitted Through Chicago Office, Scores Told Here.

By noon today the WPA wheelbarrow situation here was close to utter confusioh as scores of eager victory gardeners unsuccessfully sought to purchase some 6000 unused wheelbarrows at the city. yards,

11741 8. West st.

City and federal officials were trying to unravel a: misunderstanding which - led to an erroneous .announcement, yesterday by City Purchasing Agent Edward G. Hereth that the wheelbarrows would be. sold by the treasury department,to, persons calling oh the S. West. Jt, storehouse. However, H. E: . Bodine, ny department, property officer, and

1 other authorities were kept busy to-

day telling those who besieged the gates that the wheelbarrows will be sold only on. bids to be submitted by 11 a. m. Thursday to the treasury department regional procurement office in Chicago.

Criticism Mounting

Thus, it now appears that the wheelbarrows are for sale to anyone wishing to buy them, but only through the Chicago federal channels. Meanwhile public criticism of “government red tape” and “WPA boondoggling” fanned the flame of controversy over the wheelbarrows, which ‘also saw the Republican city administration at odds with treasury department officials here. Members of the administration were reported to have stirred up the wheelbarrow situation by protesting to Washington that the carriers, some of which had been rusting in the WPA storehouse for as long as three years, might be put to work in the emergency.

Sought by the City

After treasury department authorities had undertaken to dispose of the carriers, the city launched a move to purchase them: in large klots. The treasury authorities

i turned dowi ‘these offers, ‘however,

4. { too yy Sa : 1 “Some city’ ofticialy” cousitaien hat

it appeared that the ‘government “wasn’t too .interested in ‘an equal distribution of bids.” )! Mr. Bodine said invitations to bid on the 6000 wheelbarrows had been sent to hardware and wholesale dealers throughout the state. He added. that many individuals who had reported to his office yesterday and today also had been tendered bid invitations, but that because of the rush he was “running short of invitation blanks.”

350 Sold to Gardeners

He stated that previous to June 19, the U. S. treasury department, had sold about 350 wheelbarrows to victory gardeners on a straight non-bid negotiation basis, and some 350 more to Indianapolis firms under the same policy. Late last week, he pointed out the Chicago procurement officé re-

quested that the remainder he disposed of under the bid system. Bidders may submit purchase offers on either single wheelbarrows or on large lots. ‘In. either case, Mr. Bodine said, the unit price of each barrow is considered, so that “persons wishing to buy only one wheelbarrow will have an equal chance to compete with large wholesale bidders.” Under the previous outright sale plan, the treasury department had been getting “three and four dollars apiece” for the carriers depending on their size and quality, Mr. Bodine said. He added that the city purchasing department had tried to buy 500 of the choice barrows at “one dollar apiece. hee ~ “This was ridiculously low,” Mr Bodine said.

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»Ftacked the same targets

Mr. Hereth issued a prepared : statement to all three Indianapolis| newspapers yesterday ‘announcing! irons would, Be sold “one. a ue at atime fo velar |

Entered as Becond-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

LYING FORTS JOIN 700 RAF BOMBERS

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IN BLASTING RUHR

Big American Planes Lead Attack on Naples.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, June 22 (U. P.).—Allied bomber fleets led by about 100 Flying Fortresses started more than 25 big fires, caused a mile-wide flash’ of burning oil, and wrecked ‘many targets in a series of day and night attacks on Naples, Reggio Calabria and the entire Italian

supply center for Sicily. Twenty-three axis fighters were shot down, including 20 by American bombers from the Middle East command. In a 30-minute running battle over Cancello, near Naples, Fortress gunners knocked down three of about 40 axis fighters attacking them. Two allied planes were lost in all operations since Sunday night. - The Naples area was given a heavy pasting. About 50 per cent of the railway tracks were destroyed at Cancello airport and several buildings were blown up. Railroad areas, gasoline dumps’ and industrial buildings were destroyed. (At Cairo, a 9th U. S. air force communique disclosed that large formations of Liberators Monday night dropped almost 275,000 pounds of bombs on Reggio Calabria and San Giovanni, key bases for supplies to Sicily.) (An Italian communique acknowledged “considerable damage” from allied bombs in the centers of Naples, Reggio Calabria and the Sicilian towns of Messina and Papr “ox, Bw heal Xpeea Claim 13 Planes (Thirteen allied planes were claimed shot down and 11 crew men were made prisoner.) Twenty-five fires were started at Naples and at nearby Cancello by Flying Fortresses which hit the royal arsenal, a torpedo and oil dumps while Mitchell medium bombers attacked Salerno and Battipaglia, south of Naples. The daylight attack yesterday by U. S. heavy bombers of the 9th air force on Reggio Calabria, at the toe of Italy, plastered a ferry in the Straits of Messina, blanketed a railroad siding and demolished a large area in the harbor, The ferry was seen capsized later.

Attack Schooners

Bombs also: fell on targets in the town of Reggio Calabria. R.A. PF. heavy bombers also atSunday night, causing fires but visibility was poor and results were not fully observed. Two schooners and two sailing vessels anchored at Kyllene harbor off the west coast of Greece were attacked by long-range fighters June 20th and burst into smoke. From these operations all allied planes returned. British Wellingtons of the Northwest African air forces opened the around - the - clock assault Sunday] night and American Flying Fortresses followed through. “Considerable damage was done (Continued on Page Ten)

7 ARE CHARGED WITH WARTIME SABOTAGE WASHINGTON, June 22 (U.P). —Director J. Edgar H of the federal bureau of inve tion toof ‘seven | The . Y. under laws in connection with faulty manufacture of Inctridiry bofibs and hand gre-

He said the seven persons—all officials or émployees of tlie Astonelt

Y.—were with Rm failing to load properly the powder charge in ihe bombs and grenades which were being manufac tured for the armed forces and for

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On the War Fronts

(June 22, 1943)

EUROPE — Allied air offensive mounts to new pitch with American bombing raids on German Ruhr and Belgium after royal air force makes one of the biggest raids of the war on Krefeld at western edge of Ruhr.

MEDITERRANEAN—American and British bombers blast Naples day and night and smash at widely scaltered targets in Italy and island outposts.

RUSSIA—Red air force pounds German bases behind eastern front; Soviet proclamation on second anniversary of war with Germany calls for second front this year.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Allies shoot down 14 to 23 planes from Japanese fleet of 36 in dogfight over New Guinea base of Lae,

(Communiques and other war news, Page 13)

NAZIS BOLSTER ITALY DEFENSE

Send Troops, Planes to Sicily and Mainland as

Invasion Nears. LONDON, June 22 (U. P.).—Ger-

to Italy the past few weeks and formations of Nazi troops are stationed not only on the mainland but} on Sicily and Sardinia, it was learned today. The forces were in addition to Luftwaffe units already operating from various points in Italy and her adjacent Mediterranean island. Military circles believed the total strength of axis forces in Italy was between 300,000 and 460,000 men; including 15 to 20 Italian divisions and five or six German divisions. There was little indication that the Italians had yet called home some 30 divisions from the Balkans to defend the motherland.

Claims Exaggerated

Reports that the Nazis speedily were bolstering the invasion defenses of the southern axis partner came as a German dispatch promised aid to Italy “in case of decisive battles on European soil.” “Germany has not squandered her manpower in offensive thrusts,” a D. N. B. (German) news agency

|krefeld Hit Heavily in

Night Attack; 44 Planes Lost.

LONDON, June 22 (U. P.): -—A big force of four-engined = American bombers heavily at

tacked targets in Germany's,” |

Ruhr and in occupied Bel. gium today only a few hours:

| after British bombers hams

mered the Nazi war produc tion center of Krefeld with possibly 2000. tons of ‘bombs in one of the Heavies), raids of the war. J More than 700 British ‘bombers’ were engaged in the night operae tions centered mainly in the heavsh raid on Krefeld. The daylight attack on the Rubs; main arsenal -for Hitler's armies, was the second by the 8th U. 8, air force. On March 4, the Amerie

cans attacked the communications center of Hamm.

Damage Is Admitted

Only yesterday the British radio broadcast a warning {o the populas+ tion of Belgium to leave the vicinity: of military objectives in anticipa+ tion of heavy allied raids. American, British, Dominion and allied fighters supported the twin American raids, the first by the 8th air force since it sustained a record loss of 26 aircraft in attacks on Kiel and Bremen ¢n June 13. A German communique, broad« cast by the Berlin radio, said the British night raiders caused heavy damage in Krefeld, “particularly i residential quarters’ Num pitals were reported destroyed. ‘Héavy Assault’ J

Forty-four bombers were lost in what the air ministry called a “very heavy and concentrated” assault on Krefeld, on the western rim Germany's bomb - scarred Ruhr valley. 5 The loss equalled that suffered in the 1000-plane raid on Cologne last year. However, most of the force which attacked Krefeld was believed = to be four-engined Stirlings, Hali= faxes and Lancasters, whereas the Cologne formations included a large proportion of two-engined planes. Every type bomb from two-po fire bombs to 8000-pound super block busters was unloaded on Kre< feld, which was one. of the first cities in Germany to feel the ims pact of the four-ton missiles. Ree connaissance photographs showed that one of the four-ton super block-busters devastated six acres in the center of Krefeld on Oct. 3 1942, in what was regarded as an “operational test” since the blast was so “terrific that this type

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dispatch from Rome broadcast by Berlin said. “Fresh divisions are (Continued on Page Ten)

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ALLIES SUPERIOR IN AIR, SPAATZ SAYS

General Claims Could Win War.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ADVANCED AIRBASE, Northwest Bisiea, June 12 (Delayed).— have won air superiority Tne the axis and can bring it to bear as the supreme factor for victory in any theater they desire, Lt. Gen. Carl A. BSpaatz, deputy commander of the African air forces, said today. : Air power alone, in fact, could knock out a nation, Spaatz said. If such strength were thrown heavily enough against the nation’s heart. Spaatz’ statements were based partly on his observation of the Pantelleria victory, which he (Continued on Page Ten)

k k of Railroads,

a Is Praised Here

,,| techniques made since the last war,

user of the railroads now, the general shippers, through their organized advisory boards, are part of this effective teamwork, he explained. The other two reasons railroads are able to handle the demands are their physical readiness, due to the improvements in machinery and

and the mental readiness of the government agencies, the shippers and the railroaders.

“Military passenger and freight dtiaidy’ nov £18 saclt' wart’ than in ; ,

Bombing

bomb could not be tested in Eng land.

Clouds Cleared Away .

Only a few hours after the big force of night raiders returned to its bases, two waves of bombers | tentatively identified by ground watchers as Flying Fortresses sweph across the English channel at ex= ! treme height, unescorted, : fram time today.

Poix, near Abbeville in no France, were attacked and enemy plane was destroyed. fighter was lost. An air ministry communique ¢ scribed as “untrue and absurd™ German propaganda assertions that the Schneider arms works at Le

‘Creuisot, 170. miles south of

were not damaged seriously in 8 urday night's R. A. F. raid.

PRINCE BERNHARD FLIES TO CANA

MONTREAL, June 22 (U. P) Prince Bernhard, husband Crown Princess Juliana of Netherlands, arrived at’ Doi airport by plane from over today. He was met by the prin with their two oldest children. = The prince was scheduled 0 3 to Ottawa where he will be present at the christening of his inf daughter Princess Margriet cisca.

PREDICTS MORE TIRES WASHINGTON, June 22 (U.P. Rubber Director William M. J announced today that approxi ly 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 used which are unfit for reca which can be made limited emergency use will be | available -for rationing as and to low willeage pa drivers.