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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
MARSALA FALLS Allies Force AXis Into Northeast Coast BLUE, BEEKER
IN SICILY MOPUP
Yanks Take 60,000 Axis Prisoners as Ships shed Catania.
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said thai all airfields in Sicily now had been captured or neutralized with enemy air resistance now ‘ineffective.” Allied torpedo bombers joined in the parade of successes, sinking one enemy merchant ship, heavily damaging two others and leaving A destroyer in flames. Two allied destroyers, ane of them Greek, damaged three German torpedo boats Tuesday night. (British planes wiped out apn entire convey of small barges ferrying supplies to Sicily, radio London zald today.) (British military observers in London said that military operations in western Sicily could be considered at an end and indicated that an all-out assault on axis positions in eastern Sicily was imminent.) British warships steamed up the east coast of Sicily and their big guns on German troops holding off Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British 8th army on the approaches to Catania. Sicily's second largest port, where the bloodiest fighting of the entire campaign was under way. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's communique spoke of fierce resistance below Catania, (An Ttalian communique broadcast by Rome radio acknowledged the fall of Palermo. ®aptured by the Americans Thursday. and said that enemy pressure other retreats.)
‘SLAIN’ WIFE. CHILD ARE FOUND ALIVE
JOLIET, Il. July 24 (U. PP). Police skepticism at Harold Webb's “confession” that he murdered his wife and 2-year-old son turned out to be justified last night when the two were found at Linton, Ind. alive and well. Arrested for vagrancy last Tuesday, Webb, 24, told police he had killed his wife, Rosemary, 20. and son, Harold Jr. after bringing them here by bus from East Chicago. Ind. Having received no report of the deaths, the police held Webb while they instituted a two-state search. Sheriff Hubert Servier of Sullivan. Ind, who found the mother and | baby, said Mrs. Webb's suitcase | contained letters from her husband! accusing her of romances with | other men.
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tur has been agreed to by concerned. My. Blue said the agreement was reached at a conference attended Police Chief Clifford Beeker, Sheriff Otto Petit and himself at the prosecutor's office. For many months friction has, existed between the police depart.’ ment and the prosecutor's office over methods of making raids and arrests and the prosecution of the cases in court. The conflict, which has a backface
| tionalism between the city admin-
inte the northeast corner of Sicily hy the allies, who after capturing Palermo
_ and Marsala, are busy mopping "w the ‘enemy in the western section. ine
Harsh Words,
But Lewis Is
RUSS CLOSING
Ready to Eat 'Em for WLE TRAP ON OREL
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“I'd hate to have his standard of living fixed by this man Davis and
the men who do his dirty work for him—Davis, a corporation lawyer,
a millionaire practitioner who js on!
the make in a business way.” The time for softer talking in the row thus is officially because board was made into a statutory agency by the Connallv-Smith law; perhaps because Mr. Lewis is anxious to get the essential board okay for the proposed Illinois contract and thus force the other bituminous operators into line, On June 4, addressing the union's policy committee, Mr. Lewis’ remarked that “this jealous and (the board) has again demonstrated that its members place their own vanity above This piously
their earlier unlawful directives for- | bidding collective bargaining negoti- | ation except under their pompous
and capricious auspices.” Board Also Speaks
At that time, and for many months before, the United Mine | Workers had been a litigant befoie WLB-—but though its district 50. What was repugnant to the coal
miners apparently was aeceptable to heterogenuous membership of |
the |district 50. Recently Yelverton Cow‘herd. counsel for district 50, sug-
gested to the board that its orders
are no good unless they are enforced. He was asking for enforce-! ment in a case in which district 50
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had won a decision. The nonjcompliance of Mr. Lewis with
board directive still constitutes the
board's biggest problem. While the mine worker chieftain was building up his beligerency against WLB with three mine strikes, the board also was express ing itself. On May 17 it stated: “The issue now confronting the
nation in this dispute is whether |
Mr. Lewis is above and beyond the laws which apply to all other citizens. . . . This defiance challenges the sovereignty of the United States in time of war and gives aid and
comfort to our enemies.”
CAPACITY OF CITY DOG POUND TAXED
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; she has sold approximately 1000
homeless pups,
BUT IN the past few weeks the sales have been falling off and the pound’s population has been increasing. To aid In the sale, a pet shop | has been proposed which will open in about two weeks in the entrance to Tomlinson hall. The dogs will sell for $4 apiece regardi less of size or breeding.
doubtful value. 20 have been given to the army for training as war dogs and some have been taken by war plants to be trained as guards, Soldiers seeking mascots can have a dog for nothing, and many men are availing themselves of the opportunity. Two of these pets are ready to go overseas with their masters , . . one will go by plane for his owner is a pilot.
5» » AND WHILE the animals are well treated and fed at the pound, ! it is a pathetic sight to see them
| crowd around a visitor, pleading | tails |
| with their eves . , . their wagging. Since Jan. 1 more than 3358 | dogs have been impounded. A few hundred have been sold, others claimed by their owners, The | fate of others has been death. ! Red ration points notwithstanding . . . a dog loves a home and will not turn up his nose at scraps.
What's a Word For ‘Rollback?’
WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P.).—Both President Roosevelt and Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown are looking for A new word. At his press conference today, Mr, Roosevelt said he did not like the word “rollback,” as in rollback of food prices. Brown said last week that he disliked the word, too. but couldn't think of a better one.
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” Are R Reported Fight. ing in the City; Battle Is Bloody.
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| [ported since the Red army began
its offensive 11 days ago. However, the Russians already | were through the last defenses out. | side Orel and were attacking the! city itself from the east and north. ! east, front dispatches said.
Axis Dead Now 6Y,000
More than 8800 German officers and men were killed in bloody ght | ing around Orel yesterday, boosting the 11-day toll of axis dead to nearly 60,000. Tank losses for the period jumped to 1249 and aireraft | losses to 1012.
Most of the German dead worel
istration and the regular G. O. P. organization, reached a climax two weeks ago when Prosecutor Blue charged that police had made more than 700 illegal arrests since Jan. 1.
Involve Vice Raids
He subsequently refused Mave any more affidavits lice cases where he considered the | arrests illegal. Most of the alleged
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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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making 20 per cent of the peacetime output, nearly half the machine tool industry, 8 per cent of the magnesium industry, Will the government stay in business, operate these plants? Or
| scrap them to remove competition? Or sell them cheap to private
to ap-| in po-|
illegal are
rests involved the police depart- |
| ment's vice raids over a period of five months, Police made many of the raids) | Without search warrants which the | | prosecutor said should be stopped. | On July 12, Mr. conference with city officials and
an agrecment on policies, Mayor Robert Tyndall and Police | Chief Beeker refused to attend and!
| instead sent Sidney Miller, city
{corporation counsel, Deals Directly With Beeker Mr. Miller let it be known that | the police department would not be told by the prosecutor how to run | ite affairs. Mr. Blues then dealt directly with |
Mr. Beeker in a series of private] conferences and the agreement last | {night was the result.
Blue called a
| other enforcement agencies, Sesaing
Mr. Beeker |
made no public comment follow. |
ing the meeting, apparently agree. | ing to permit the prosecutor to announce the agreement, “We have received assurance of | the police department that every effort will
be made to eliminate]
sacrificed in futile counter-attacks,|!llegal arrests and illegal searches |
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Nearly 3000 fell in a vain attempt) | to re-capture Bolkhov, a stronghold! | 35 miles north of Orel. Forty-three ‘German tanks were knocked out in this engagement, The German counter-attacks ap-! peared to be without a co-ordinated general plan and consequently were being crushed systematically. The axis reverses also were attributed to| failure to anticipate with sufficient! forces the points from which the! Red army next would attack,
| Slowed by Mud
The muddy terrain also slowed the Russian advance in the Belgorod area, 165 miles south of Orel, though gains of four to five miles | vesterday were announced. One unit captured several towns and | villages, killing 1000 enemy troops, 'and destroying 10 tanks and eight self-propelled guns. Other advances were reported in| smaller-scale Russian offensive | [south of Izyum and southwest of | Voroshilovgrad in the Ukraine. | ‘South of Izyum, a range of hills was captured by Soviet troops en-| larging their bridgehead on the] west bank of the northern Donets. | A German infantry regiment of| 3000 men, supported by 80 tanks! counter-attacked in another sector south of Izyum, only to be thrown [back with a loss of 600 men and) 118 tanks, including some 60-ton [en
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MURRAY TO SPEAK 10 STEEL WORKERS
| Philip Murray, president of the CIO, who arrived here last night from Pittsburgh, will speak twice today before the convention of district 30 of the United Steel Work- | ers’ union in the Claypool hotel. | The recent threats by labor to reopen wage contracts unless the administration orders a rollback of | | prices will be discussed in his ad-| | dress, a spokesman for Mr, Murray | | indicated. | Approximately 600 delegates, rep- | resenting the 20000 members of [the USA-CIO in eastern Indiana | and northern Kentucky, were wel- | | comed by Mayor Tyndall and Gov-
a ernor Schricker at the opening
session at 10 a. m. today. Other speakers today will include] David J. McDonald, secretary- -treas- | urer of the USA-CIO, Mr. Murray will speak at 3 p. m.| today and again at a dinner at 6 p. m in the Riley room of the Claypool.
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co-operate with police in the prep- |
aration of affidavits and
warrants.”
Set Memorial Services for
Lt. W.H.Carr
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Richard Goldbach and Thomas W. King of Indianapolis. ” ” » TWO INDIANA MEN, both formerly reported prisoners of war, have been reported dead today | by the war department. They are Raymond Anthony | Dierking, chief electrician’'s mate, son of Mrs. Eva Dierking of New Albany, and Gilbert E. Palmer, seaman 2-c¢, ron of Mrs. Christella Palmer, Evansville, ” » »
Wounded
JOHN E. WRIGHT, aerial engineer and crew chief on a four-motored bomber, has been wounded in the North American area, | telegram received by lis mother, Mrs. H. Russell Eby, 1447 Montcalm st, hom the war de partment, A resident of Indianapolis five vears before he entered the service, Sgt. Wright is a graduate of Arsenal Technical high schoci and was employed hy the Roecoe Turner Aeronautical Corp. wher, he enlisted in the army air forces on Jan, 22 1942. His wife, Mrs. Doris Wilson Wright, is a civil service em - ployee at McCord field, Tacoma, Wash,
T. SGT.
Honored
AWARDS TO personnel of the army air forces in North Africa recently included several cases of eighth and ninth oak leaf clusters to the air medal.
according to a |
| Josephine Borcharding; brothers, John R.
| son; | Mrs. Mary Knox.
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| Surviovrs:
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| Husband,
| Mrs | Calvin Griffin.
Among those honored were the
| following men from Indiana:
Ninth bronze oak leaf cluster to
air medal to Capt. James E. Pate, Terre Haute, and 1st Lt. Walter J. Eisenbrown, Lawrence; fifth oak leaf, 1st Lt. Richard E. Hougham, Franklin; first oak leaf to 2d Lt. Fred J. Wolfe, Hammond: Sgt. Carl W. Toole, Evansville, and Sgt. Robert William Brink, Michigan City, reported as missing in
action since Feb. 8.
M. Sgt. Alfred E. Sexton, Crawfordsville, has been awarded the air medal. alr forces in the Southwest Pacific area. »
He is with the army |
WITH 12 OTHER members of his group, somewhere in the South |
| Pacific, T. Sgt. Carl M. Amsden
Jr, Goshen, was awarded the air |
medal for meritorious achieve ments, He participated in 25 operational flight missions, including bombing of enemy airdromes, installations, naval vessels and shipping, and armed reconnaissance flights, ————— LEAH BARNES TO PRESIDE Leah Barnes of Lafayette, depart. ment auxiliary president, will pre- | side at the quarterly council of
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operators? Jesse Jofines, whose RFC owns the 1500 odd war plants, warns they mustn't be used to destroy private inititative. Others worry about latest German home-front propaganda telling mothers to produce babies for soldiers 20 years from now, urge necessity of keeping plants ready for national defense. ” » ” » " n
BALANCING OF GASOLINE rations is likely to stabilize A, B and C coupon values at three gallons each in all states east of the Rockies. This would mean 25 per cent cut, or one gallon on each coupon, to motorists in states outside the eastern shortage area. For easterners it would mean doubling the present allowance on A coupons (1! gallons) and adding half-a-gallon to value of B and C coupons (now worth 2'% gallons). Note: Many tongressmen drove home in their own cars when congress recessed, OPA, following general appeasement policy, gave them all the coupons they wanted, even, in some cases. enough for return trip. Question is what constituents, unable to drive on vacations, will think about it, ” » ” ” »
LOOK FOR an armistice in that Nelson-Wilson-Land row over types of ships, engines. They've reached the amicable discussion stage. » ” » ” » ” NRA LIVES again—after a fashion. Its files constitute one of the best sources of industrial and business data for OPA and WPB officials, struggling with price and production control. Files were transferred to national archives three years ago, take up 13,000 linear feet. Archivists say they probably are the largest collection of industrial data ever gathered, wn a
CURRENT LEVELING off of industrial production is described officially as “only temporary,” with manufacturing change-overs | necessitated by new weapons partly blame, Commerce department says wartime peak is still to be reached,
though rise will be at slower rate. Civilian economy, it adds, will |
be ‘deeply affected” by transfers of workers War manpower commission estimates its requirements for fiscal year just begun at 3,800,000 persons, including 2,000,000 more for armed forces. Other estimates: Munitions factories, 1,600,000; government war agencies, 200,000; food processing industry, 100,000. WMC says it must have 1300.0000 new recruits to help make up the pool, must draw 2,600,000 from less essential occupations. It counts on getting 600,000 from construction and building materials industry, 700,000 from trade and service occupations; 1,300,000 from other activities. » ” ”
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Portal-to-Portal Again
LOOK FOR the war labor board to refuse approval for the portal-to-portal settlement reached by John L. Lewis with the Illinois coal operators. Also look for a blow-up from the board if the president doesn't move soon to enforce some of its orders against disobedient unions and corporations.
ARMY DOESN'T want to be responsible for government of occupied areas for more than four months. This means, in Sicily, that our civilian agencies, headed by the new OFEC, wili soon be in operation; that United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration, still the subject of a senate controversy, might be functioning by Christmas. It also means that by the first of the year Sicilians who have been screened by AMGOT, should be running their own local governments, under direction of one of the other agencies. » » » ” OLD-LINE Republicans spread a report that the record-breaking sales of Wendell Willkie's book are due to mass purchases by corporations interested in his candidacy—despite contrary statements from
STATE DEATHS
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1948
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OPA HAS FAITH IN PRICE PLANS”
It's Confident That FDR's Substitute Program Is Not Necessary.
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bureau of labor statistics showed that drops in fresh vegetable and
BLOOMINGTON-—Charles Lincoln White,, M'NATT-Lawson J. Beavans, 73 Survivors: Daughters, Mrs, Thomas | vivors: Wife, Laura Alice Beavans: . Cookson and Hays Burkirk; J. A. Beavans and Jesse Beavans: dau TN furs Ry Ellen Burkirk, ter, Mrs, Carl Perdue and Miss Pazil] uth Cookson. Louise Cookson and! Beavans,
| Katherine Cookson Mrs, Mary E. Pavia, 11. MADISON-Mrs. Viola Sparks. Son, Loney Blake: daughter, ors: Husband, Walter Sparks. William Elsworth Johnson, Clifford and Clayton Sparks: | vivors: Wife, Mrs. Elsie Johnson; Santon Kimmell; Mrs, C ers.
| Wayne, Pane, Jerry and Robert; . MARION-—Benton Bone, 69.
| ters, Joan and Mary Jo; Wife, Rowena: daughters, Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Mary Kromer.
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Survivors: Surv Lula Blake.
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Johnson, Fred sisters,
vivors: Wife, Edna; sisters, Mrs, Shultz and Miss Edith Humes; Walter and Marion, SHELBURN-Mrs. Eliza C. Fusher, Survivors: Daughters, Mrs. James Mrs. Flora Fisher and Mrs. son; sons, Lewis and Clyde Frisher. SHELBYVILLE—John R. Eck, 57. vivors: Wife, Myrtle; son, Wayne | sister, Mrs. Nellie Hickman; and Raymond } Eck.
TECH CHOIR T0 SING
COLUMBUS-~Mrs. Nancy L. Meyers, 75. brot Husband, Frank Meyers; daughter, Ruth: brother, Albert Ormsby; sisters, Mrs, Della Guldin and Mrs, Nel-
lie Hall,
EVANSVILLE--Charles Edgar Anderson, | Survivors: Wife, Lottie; gon, Charles! Meredith Anderson; daughter, Mrs, Mary Margaret McCullough Clyde Johnson, 65. Survivors: Wife, Berry: brother, D, Johnson; sister, Mrs. ! Mina Perry. Margaret Derson, 62. No survivors. Mrs. Blanche Gartner, 44, Survivors: Andrew J, Gartner; mothe: Mrs, Ida Rosecrans; 35S, Albert and school will give a program at 8 p. m, Donald Gartner; brother, J. Rosecrans. FT. WAYNE Mrs, Beitr, 61. Burvivors: Husband, Samuel Seitz: daughter, U&N church, hems 8nell: stepson, Harry: step-| J, Russell \ t s Ss. daughter, Mrs. Ina Mae Johns; brother. .irector.
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Survivors: Harriett
RICHMOND--Elwood C. Humes, 45. Sur-| others, | son bin Morgan county, will be at 2 ers
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(butter prices cut the cost of living for city workers by 0.2 per cent (from May 15 to June 15. It was the first time the bureau's cost of
[living index has dropped since Cd year before Pearl Harbor,
Believe Spiral Halted
OPA officials believe they have halted the upward spiral in food [prices and that the downward trend will continue. { But labor apparently will be satise fied only if the cost of living is fcut back to last September's levels. [The overall cost of living index of [the bureau of labor statistics now [stands at 124.8 per cent—seven per= centage points above the 117.8 of | Sept. 15, 1042. | But virtually &ll of that change (has been a result of rising food costs. Other cost of living items have remained almost stable, while [the labor department's food index |has risen from 126.6 last September . (to 1419 on June 15. The 1935-39 average was 100, President Roosevelt revealed ne {details of his substitute stabilization [plan other than to say that it wou (require money from congress. That | suggested a new subsidy plan, However, some sources said he might be thinking about a plan te stabilize prices at the present level, rather than hold the line as of Sept. 15. 1042, and adjust upward the [little steel” formula to meet the {higher cost of living,
Will ‘Hold the Line’
The latter course would require a change of mind among war labor board members. Only yesterday they reiterated firm intention to fight any attempt to break the “little steel” ceiling in a case deny ling Los Angeles transit workers |a wage increase. The board said it did not plan to retreat from its anti-inflation line even though “other divisions of the anti-inflae tion army may weaken.” Points on which OPA spokesmen | based their optimism that a ree | convened congress would see the | cost of living greatly reduced in | elude: 1. The recent substantial rolle\ [back in cabbage and lettuce prices not reflected in the latest cost-of« Jiving index. 2. The roll-back of fish prices, estimated at approximately 100 | per cent in some instances. Alsou {not apparent in the June index and which will not be fully evident until Sept. 15, 3. The projected subsidized roll-
“I back of canned vegetables.
4. Reductions in butter and meaj prices which will not be fully reflected in statistics before anothey. | month. 5. Early roll-back of the remaine
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