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NUMBER 120 THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943

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WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P.).—Secretary of State AND GANG FOR diplomaue chRInels. Tells Italy Fascist Gang, Reveals Stimson Has Stop Aiding Germans, Pay Compromise.

Cordell Hull, expressing confidence in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, indicated today that this government expects RAISE FRONT RIAL-F. Gal TRO, I IAL - D. R. Patterson— 'Eisenhower— Report City E Employees i igre oy 23 Left Britain for General Tells New By SHERLEY UHL Ses fmm. N. Africa. Rome Regime. Yesterday's stormy atmosphere | 5 Ls A oN SE b 3

pL QUIET ON i IL DUCE iy 20 (L.1 Italy’s surrender to be through military rather than wardly Rejoicing Over (Text of President Speech, surrounding the police and firemen | [ju a RT ] | July

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Capt. H. A. Stiller Josephine Kane Page 9) |

WASHINGTON, July 20 «vu p>). WASHINGTON, 29 ALLIED HEADQUAR-

PLANE FALLS IN

KENTUCKY HILLS

Plunges Quarter of Mile After Pilot's Desperate ‘Belly Landing.’

BOWLING GREEN. Kv. (YU. P day at the American crashed and burned ing 20 persons, in to have been

wreckage of Airlines plane last night, killwhat happened a desperate effort by

the pilot to make a forced landing

during unfavorable weather in remote hill country. Two occupants survived

A mother and her baby were among the dead. There were no Indiana aboard the plane.

The plane, flying from Louisville

passengers

July 29: —Rescue crews arrived to-: a big? which |

Capt. B. A. Carpenter

pay raise ordinance today had subsided to a serene calm, with every- | one viewing the compromise as| “better than nothing at all.” Police and fire department rep- | resentatives, who yesterday had waged a strenuous word-war with Chamber of Commerce officials and Mayor Tyndall, reported that “line” members of the protective forces were inwardly rejoicing that they had gotten any salary increase and that the issue, which at one time seemed to have reached an unpasse, had not been scrapped altogether.

9 Cent Tax Boost

raise, if granted. would boost the . 0 Mrs. Phil Wilk

tax rate by 2 cents. Mother-in-Law of Willkie

Today, they were estimating the effect on the tax rate of the compromise $275 a vear flat raise agreed upon yesterday. Under the compromise, salaries of patrolmen and

| written—that the first Italian peace

igovernment were en route to Wash-

| Mr. | White House last night.

iof the war

! abandoned,

| —The new Italian government was (U, P.).—Acting Secretary of | TERS, North Africa, July 29 be Tojjce today to hold Benito War Robert P. Patterson de-| (U. P.).--Gen. Dwight D. ussolini and his gang for trial and |clared today that no formal | | Eisenhower, supreme allied

| punishment by the united nations | , s ‘or informal peace overtures commander in the Mediter-

las a part of unconditional surrender. | In a broadcast beamed through- },ve heen made to the allies ranean, formally offered to-

{out the world, President Roosevelt . : | last night reiterated the Casablanca (by the new Italian regime, so (day to make an immediate and honorable peace with Italy

unconditional surrender terms that! far as is known here. are offered to all axis members and | yo) hile he revealed that Sec-|and implied that negotiations

said the united nations now were! of War Henry L. Stimson|already may be in progress.

substantially agreed on general] retary post-war plans. ‘had gone from Britain to North] Cease at once all assistance to {German armed forces in Italy, he

It appeared that Italian accept-' Africa. ance of those erms was of almost! pi iercon also said the Sicilian said in a special message to the hourly expectation since ecclesiastileal sources in Madrid reported—| lcampaign is in its final phase and Italian people. and the allies will after Mr. Roosevelt's speech was the island should be completely . iq you of the Germans and de‘conquered in “not more than a . " " {liver you from the horrors of war. matter of days. Gu «Until the Italians offer to sur- The only remaining obstacle to | render. the allies will continue to'peace is the “German aggressor who press the war on Italy with all the'is still on Italian soil,” he said in vigor with which we are capable,” hinting that the allies were willing the Patterson told a press conference. [to recognize Marshal Pietro BadogHe com- He said no doubt this policy lio, the new Italian chief of governmight accelerate the speed with ment, and King Victor Emanuel (Continued on Page Four) | (Continued on Page Four)

feelers of Marshal Pietro Badoglios|

(ington and London.

Praises Other Leaders

Roosevelt spoke from {bined a vigorously hopeful review fronts with announcement that coffee rationing had been that more generous! 4 " 4.8 2 sugar rations could be expected soon, and revelation that the 1944!

fire privates are slevated from $2100 |

and $2125 respectively to $2400. All

Was Native of Rushville

Democratic platform plank on war | veterans benefits already has been |

Several Important Fascist

other ranks receive the outright 8275 yearly increase. | Police and fire officials, however,’ . RUSHVILLE, Ind. July 20.-Mus. Phil Wilk, said men in the ranks were some-| Wendell L. Willkie, died of a heart attack at 4 a. m. what disappointed that the council, ! here. She was £1. pressed by the Chamber of Com-| Mrs. Wilk awakened her housekeeper at 3 a. m.. saying that she merce, had consented to withdraw was ill. Her daughter, Mrs. Miller Hamilton, 1236 N. New Jersey st. the protective forces’ $60 annual Indianapouls, who was visiting her Hiciner, summoned Dr. R. 0. Kennedy clothing allowance after this year. ‘but Mrs. Wilk died a few minute

Police Inspector Donald Tooley, after the physician arrived. She who had argued that “low salaried had been in good health. AERIAL ASSAULT ON tele-

(officers are sometimes forced to “g0| pnfys. Hamilton immediately on the take.” reported that most {phoned her sister, Mrs. Wendell | police looked upon the compromise 'yyijlkie, in New York, notifying her Bombers Roar Over Dover En Route to Targets. The Willkies had been scheduled [ONDON. July 20 (U. P.)—-Allied

as a “fair deal.” lof their mother’s death. No funeral arrangements are scheduled to be made until the Willkies arrive nere. spend their vacation at MIS. gepja] squadrons resumed attacks in Wilk's home around the first of the considerable strength against axis month. Mr. Willkie made his head- targets in Europe today following quarters at Mrs. Wilk’s home when yp a record-breaking offensive in here. which British and American bombMis. Wilk was a lifelong resident op gropped some 9500 tons of exof Rushville. She was born here in plosives in five days and nights. 1862, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs., Ppighters and bombers roared Ben L. Smith. Her father was a8 jc10ss the Dover straits in sunny cities in the captain in the civil war and was One weather and R. A. F. fighters deof the most prominent lawyers i stroyed three enemy fighters in pre“We dont want to seem con- southeastern Indiana for many liminary skirmishes without loss to enacted by trary.” he said, “but we fee] that we years. He died in 1915. Her moth- themselves. The air ministry said next election. The program, other | deserve the wages of a metropolitan er before marriage was Miss Lawa 5 Canadian Beaufighter squadron than as it is related to disabled | fire department.” Reynolds of Columbus, Ind. vesterday shot down two enemy veterans, would facilitate and in | Chamber of Commerce officials: Mrs. Wilk attended the Rushville planes. ‘large measure underwrite the costs this morning were still reserved,'schools and DePauw university, (Continued « on mM Page | iv

commenting that they “might have where she was a member of Kappa “ something more to say about it,” Alpha Theta sorority. On the Wer Fronts SUPPORT SEEN FOR er VETERAN PROGRA

The storm injured included a but the general attitude was that] , . Tied A woman who rescued two children any further attempted savings in, Migiper of 1B, 4 I | the plane crashed, and a groud of from a lightning-struck home and the police and firemen budget She married Phil Wilk, a re Trammel residents. including J. H. another struck by an auto while “wouldn't be worth while.” contractor, and spent the rest of ner life in Rushville except for FDR Reasonably Sure of Congressional Action. WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P).

lavpool. reas hed ti 1e plane's wreck- shielding herself from the driving — — Continued on Page Four) rain. Hoosier Heroe short periods when her husband! § was engaged in out-of-town con—President Roosevelt was reasonably assured today of strong bi-

A few minutes before lightning INJURED AS AUTO. struck the chimney on the home] P | Fi Id struction work. Mr. Wilk died in 1939. STREETCAR CRASH qui rrieias, Seaman 1-C, partisan congressional support for | his six-point post-war program for

of Lawrence Sufficool at 3225 N.} She was a member of the First to were Dies at S Xt the home, and Linda Brown ies ar dea navy and Lt. James Wilk Hamilton, g ; war veterans. Germans withdrawing from secemphasized formulation of a vet-

written. The

Chiefs Arrested, Rome Says

LONDQN, July 29 (U. P.).—The Italian cabinet of Premier Marshal lissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Pre- Pietro Badoglio has arrested several important Fascist leaders, ordered mier Josef Stalin. And for Russia,| the liberation of all political prisoners seized by the deposed Mussolini especially, he bespoke the constant regime and promised that a chamber of deputies would be elected four friendship of the United States in | months after the cessation of hostilities, Radio Rome said today.

‘the world of the future. The broadcast said that “several important persons who were mili-

The United Nations are substan- tants of the dissolved Fascist party - tially agreed on general post-war | have been arrested as a precaution- 3 . objectives, he Re but te is re fw measure to preserve order,” but| LURDON, July 29 (U. P).—An early to attempt to discuss all peace it did not clarify the mystery sur-| indistinct broadcast today was be‘terms and all future details. {rounding the present whereabouts| lieved responsible for an erroneous “We must not relax our pressure |of deposed Benito Mussolini. report that Radio Rome had said on the enemy,” he continued, “by| The cabinet decision to dissolve| that Italy “has only one goal— taking time out to define every the chamber of Fascist corporations,| peace.” boundary and settle every political | which was originated by Mussolini, | The first broadcasi was undercontroversy in every part of the and to hold elections followed a stood to make that statement, but world. The all-important thing decree yesterday dissolving the later repetitions of the same now is to get on with the war.” Fascist emblems was banned and| broadcast said that the new political movement in Italy “has been

[only the Italian tri-color may be] | worn, Radio Rome said. determined by the war and its conduct, but not in view of peace.”

to Nashville, Tenn.,, came down for a belly landing in a tree-studded field. It plunged nearly a quarter| mile, slashing down saplings and | shearing its wings and engines} from the fuselage, then burst into; flames. !

Both

i Ebuek : | ¥imes Serial president spoke warmly of | his major associates—Prime Min-

ister Winston Churchill, General-|

MORE SHOWERS ARE FORECAST

Heavy Downpour Knocks Out Heat Wave; Light-

ning Fires Home.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10a. m..... 77 ila m 80 12 (Neon) . 83 Mr. Tooley had previously stated 1 p.m. 8% that “several vears ago” low-salaried police had fallen into corrupt practices as a result of insufficient pay. He stumped fer the pay bill on the to grounds that “a higher paid department insures an honest depaitment.” Battalion Chief Orville Marshall today said that prior to the increase agreement, at least, Indianapelis firemen were paid less than frefighters in “at least seven other Indiana cities, and 17 U. S. of its own population class.”

moeiker-in-lawv ol today at her hone

Engines Fall Off

Rescue squads directed by state police and FBI agents sought to] remove the charred bodies. | Sherif L. A. Williams of Allen county said the pilot evidently had; not lowered his landing gear in hope he could skid to a quick stop. > He made a perfect crash land- . ok ing.” Williams said, “but the wings 1 were torn off by a clump of cedar trees about 300 yards after the ghip hit the ground. Both engines dr opped off. “The plane kept belly until it hit stumps. Two men way, with the plane still upright, but fire broke out almost immediately, trapping the passengers inside.” Williams said that 14 bodies “were in sight” but no accurate check could be made until the wreckage cooled The pilot, Capt. H. A. Stiller, among those killed.

Fire Pay Too Low

Born in Rushville

Expect more thundershowers this afternoon and tonight That's the word fiom tie weather bureau after the storm and deluge of late yesterday and early today which resulted In Injury to two persons, caused slight damage and terminated the heat wave. The bureau said there will be little change In temperature through tomorrow morning. Temperatwres today were in the 83s. Nothing like the 94 reached vesterday afternoon The storm toppled it 24 degrees in four hours. Rainfall during the 24 hours ended at 7 a. m. today measured .96 of an inch.

Ki i Scores ‘Politics’ skidding on Its two big red oak out some

early | Liberation of the many political “serious and constructive plans” on prisoners seized during Mussolini's the home front dealing with food.!21 years in power may take some, manpower and other domestic prob- {ime in view of the large number | The reference to “cessation of hos« lems. He did not go into detail. of cases to be examined, Radio tilities” was not clarified but the But for war veterans he proposed | Rome said. but the work will be|cabinet’s action appeared to be & a detailed program of benefits which | speeded as nich as possible. (Continued on Page Four) undoubtedly will figure in the 1944 | presidential campaign unless it is| congress prior to the)

Mr. Roosevelt promised

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Brlkans Brow Axis Trouble: Rommel Hurries to Greece

LONDON. July 29 (U. P.).—Nazi Athens because of “events the past Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has|few days” and indirect reports told of a Greek general strike protestarrived in Greece, the Berlin radio! ling extension of Bulgarian occus ‘said today as disorders were re-| | pation. ‘ported in that occupied country| peanwhile, Hungary has offered coincident with a peace movement gy, ther concessions in an effort to jamong Hitler's Balkan satellites. find a way out of the war and an (The British radio, in a broad-!sjjjed invasion might find not only cast recorded in New York by CBS, that country but Bulgaria and Rue said German and Italian occupa- mania seeking early peace, author= tion troops in Greece had fired on tative sources said today. each other and that patriots took | Hungary was reported to have advantage of the situation to seize | guogested through Turkey that she several districts and sabotage com- would renounce all claims to Czech munications.) |oslovak territory along with those Berlin said morning papers car- | to Jugoslav lands, but was said to ried pictures of Rommel reaching have refused to relinquish any terSalonika. Purpose of his trip was|ritory acquired from Rumania and ‘not revealed but the Budapest to have told the British government

Was

Stewardess Kilied Other crew members dead were R. H. McClure. co-pilot; Capt. B. A. Carpenter, an airlines employee, and Stewardess Josephine Kane Preston Howell. on whose farm

Rescues Two Children

SICILY: Americans and Canadians | occupy four towns in steady ad-| vance through central and northern Sicily, driving axis troops back against their Etna line mn new outburst of fighting.

t was Wash-

for at ior a

Arsenal ave. while he was at work. his wife, Nadine, ran to a second- Presbyterian church, the Daughters ITALY: New government orders 26 floor room to rescue two children. of the American Revolution and of | divisions home from Balkans and several local social clubs. France; sends 75000 troops to Continued on Page Four) Dead — ea a pilot in the army air force; a sis- tor tl { Orel: isewhere Republicans DE SEAMAN 1-C PAUL VINCENT ter, Mrs. Jesse Slaughter, Denver,| or Sou: © rel; elsewhere some time have advocated “Plan-|,aqio reported a strict curfew in [she was entitled to Transylvania. FIELDS, fireman on the U.8.S. and a brother. Donald L. Smitia. In- around rim of Orel arc Nazis ning now” for the return of those : : fight bitter delaying actions.

She carried the children, Mary In addition to her two daughters,, Brenner pass to stop influx of DEATH TOLL 13 FOR Helena, died of wounds following gjanapolis lawyer. in the armed services to civilian! » Yanks, Canadians Smash On

Lee Hamilton, 2, who is being cared the home B56 Lanseia Brown, sie is survived by two grandchil-' Germans, Spanish sources report. dren, Lt. (j.g.) Philip Willkie in the ‘Ch ‘ 8 P RUSSIA: Russian army pounds action in the service of his coun- —— life. iry, according to a telegram re- Whereas congressional plans have ceived by his sister, Mrs. Harold

'PACIFIC: Allied planes set fire to Japanese destroyer and cargo ves-

kdward sel and wreck seven barges and

Wilcox. 2638 English ave., told police he apparently not appiy the brakes in time to avoid hi g the rear of the auto, light.

stopped by a red,

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Dozens Injured, Damage Is $9,000,000.

HOUSTON, Tex. July 29 (U. P.. —Thirteen persons were dead, at, ‘least two were missing, dozens were |

injured and property damage was |

estimated at $9,000,000 today in the

‘wake of the worst storm to strike]

Walters, 1926 N. New Jersey st. The telegram said that he was buried at sea. Seaman Fields would have been 37 on Aug. 3. Born in Washington, educated at Carlisle. He worked as a coal miner in Carlisle and

tablished residence in 1926. He

enlisted in the navy last August | and received his training at Great |

FALL AT FIRE SENDS

FIREMAN TO HOSPITAL

he was |

‘Blinded by Smoke Drops

in West Virginia, where he es- |

Into Greasing Pit. Lt. William Miller, 2147 Boulevard

two launches in New Britain area.

Tarkington, 74, 'Outlasts Duce’

KENNEBUNKPORT, Me., July 29 (U. P.).—Booth Tarkington observed his 74th birthday at his

erans job pregram, Mr. Roosevelt | emphasized help for those unable | {to find jobs and outlined his plan] | specifically. It is bound to be a, big issue in the 1944 election unless| A L L I ED HEADQUARTERS, congress enacts it this winter. | North Africa, July 29 (U. P).— Sandwiched into his radio address | Americans and Canadians smashed ‘on the war last night, President forward through strongly-defended FR DO am German positions and over heavily- | 116 Besert mined roads toward the Messina

8 “the least so which Whey are.en- corner of Sicily today, capturing an

Through Nazi's Sicilian Line

LONDON, July 29 (U. P.).—The official German news agency DNB reported today that Nicosia, communications hub at the center of the axis defense line in Sicily, had been evacuated.

| place, acting fireman, was injured | seriously early today while fighting | 'a fire at 2929 Northwestern ave. Lt. Miller, attached to Truck Cog 14, Kenwood ave. and 30th st, was | combatting flames in a one-story {frame structure, which had been converted from a garage to a gro‘cery by George Shuck. Blinded by smoke, he fell eight feet into a pit which had been used for greasing cars. He rectived deep cuts and was

| Lakes naval training station. He later served at Pearl Harbor before being assigned to the Southwest Pacific. Survivors besides Mrs. Walters | (Continued on Page Six)

ed in tie Mast: Web port: important highway network and| (An Italian communique broad= {members of the iy Yo and | linejcast by Rome radio said the 8% |the merchant marine—enough to | along the Dittaino river. tacks on the north and central The Americans raced southward fronts — the American-Canadian |S the time belween discharge p..., the coastal road along an im-|areas—were made with “great vios jand the finding of a new job. | portant highway leading to central|lence and massed air support.” It was | 2 Unemployment insurance if nO | gyly occupying Pollina, Castel-|added that hard fighting was in (Continued on Page Four) ‘buono and Gangi and heading for progress but the German coms Sr fe ' Nicosia, key point on the last axis|munique issued by Ber radio "ALLIED CONVOY PASSES ‘ROCK’ gefense jine in the central part of said the tron stats wo were sage concerned Benito Musso- LONDON, July 29 (U.P.).-~The the island. os 3 lini, who was observing his 60th German official news agency DNB' The Canaclians occupied Leon taken to Methodist hospital where birthday today. reported from La Linea today thai forte, eight miles nosteast of ¥ alo found that he had; ° .pyeeoing appears to have re- | 75 allied ships, including tankers, in their advance but " ~~ |merchantmen and transports, had D. tired,” Tarkington said, “but I'm passed through the Straits of Gi- fierce still at it” 'braltar into the * Mage raneah 4

jthe Texas gulf coast since 1915. Amusements . 22; Inside Indpls. 13] U. S. army engineers at Galves- | 20 In the Service 12 ton reported that the bodies of 10 Clapper 15 Jane Jordan.. 18 crew members of the dredge hopper | Comics 2 Millett ...... 18 Galveston were recovered from the Crossword ... 26! Movies .... 22 city’s north jetty last night. The Denny ....... 18 Obituaries ... 8 dredge went down Tuesday with 55 Editorials .... 16 r 16 crewmen aboard. Forty-three were Boson . 18! Py 15 ‘rescued yesterday, leaving tw) un-| Fa: hions is io . ...... 27 accounted for. Financial .... 27 Ration Dates. 3 Two pertons were found dead here Forum ....... 16 Mrs. Rooseve.l 13 and one at Port Arthur yesterday amid debris.

Freckles ..... 23 Side Glances 16 Health Column 3 Society ... 13, 19 Hospitals in the storm area re- yfacturers and distributors, with. .it was Sports .... 20, 21 ported that 38 persons were under price discriminations among cus- breathed considerable smoke.

id Ev'thing 15 Homemaking. 10 State Deaths 8 treatment for injuries inflicted by |otusse through use of a trade dis- The fire cause was not determined Ln Tndpis 0 3 BL Wue LIVE 3 Oh a, “aor the damage estinpted,

summer home here today. The Hoosier author planned no special observance but put in his usual three-hour daily stint on his new short story. His latest novel, “Kate Fennigate,” published last week. Tarkington's only birthday mes-

an| FROTE the enemy's defense

ACCUSE ROOFING CO. WASHINGTON, July 29 (U. P) — —The federal trade commission in a complaint today charged the Ruberoid Co. of New York, one of’ ithe country’s largest roofing man-

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