Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1943 — Page 1
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THURSDAY, "AUGUST 26, 1043
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[Rose Miller, Told She'll Be Blind, Cries: 7 is ;
‘THE IMMEDIATE effect Was a nightmare of ping bets
: By JOHN L. BOWEN THE VERDICT is against Rose Marie Miller.
Medical science says she never
will see again.
The doctor told her so last night, with poignant frankness, in ‘the
_ flower-scented room at St. Francis hospital where Rose Marie has lain Uatters.
in silent torment since shortly after 8:30 o'clock last Friday night. This writer was at the door of Rose Marie’s room when she re-
ceived the. dreadful verdict. In ‘our lifetime,
we have never witnessed
a scene of greater pathos nor have we ‘ever seen spiritual courage more sharply silhouetted against despair. Searing, scalding acid has closed the eyes of Rose Marie Miller but in no sense has it corroded her faith. She’s not ‘a quitter, as you'll learn later on in this story.
Let’s go back to last Friday
night when Rose Marie and. her
mbther, Mrs; Dora Hicks, drove up to a neighborhood drug store at
SS, NAZI TANKS. 2D IN BATTLE
Control of Uktaine May Hinge on Outcome of Two Fierce Conflicts Near Pol-
tova and
. MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (U. P.)—Massed Russian and German tanks were reported locked in’ a crucial battle today “along the right bank of the Vorskla river less than 20 miles north of Poltava, Urkainian bastion guarding the approaches to the Dnieper river.
Northwest of by-passed
twaen Kharkov and the Dnieper, another armored struggle “was in progress. Field dispatches reporting the battles indicated their outcome might determine control of the Ukraine °o 5st. of the Dnieper bend. _""An’ imminent threat to the German: position was posed bya Russian push through Zenkov to within 25 miles of the
Poltava-Kiev railroad. Ad
vanced. elements of the Soviet :
et of Poltava as parallel
jet advances averaging 35 miles thwest of the Sumy-Kharkov d.
i The column which occupied Opo- |
nya on the right bank of ‘the he appeared to have ‘been
‘ {slowed down by counter-blows, but
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pri westernmost penetration of “ Ukeaine since 1941 with the capture
4 the one northwest of Poltava made ¥ a rapid break-through, crossing two : waterlines. The Germans were
Ol nter-attacking viciously in an efort to block the thrust at the Pol-ava-KieV railroad.
1 1000 Germans Killed
The Russian army achieved its the
¢ flour milling center of Zenthe. Kharkov-Konotop highes west northwest of i 101 miles: west south=
43 ‘miles away, or continue t due west toward Kiev. More than 1000" Germans were killed and 17 tanks wrecked in the fighting for 2Zenkov. ‘Altogether, more than 60 towns -and ages were captured by the broad advances northwest : of Kharkov, while new gains #also were reported west of Kharkov, southwest: of Izyum and west of Mius river, all in the Ukraine. Some 4500 Germans were killed and 98 tanks wrecked in the past'24 hours.
MNUTT SAYS FATHER DRAFT IS NECESSARY
‘WASHINGTON, Aug, 26 (U. P)— The. prepared today for comIng ‘congressional attacks with ‘the declaration of its chairman, Pail
Fn ‘southward against Polt
Fo Vv. ‘McNutt ‘that drafting of fathers
Is a move dictated: by “stern; logic”
. to prevent’ “a paralyzing blow at our
whole war production program.” “We are making sure that: the war
will riot be prolonged for even one hour . .. that not one
unnecessary single life'1s 10st’ which it would be address: inst, nigh.
Wo sae nt
suggested that some day there
{TOMMY FLEES WIFE,
‘the corner of Laurel and Prospect
sts. Leaving her own son, Buddy,
and her young brother, Jimmy, in the car, Mrs. Miller and her mother
entered the store and purchased two bottles of cold pop for the boys.
As they recrossed the sidewalk in returning to the car, a youth feaped out of the darkness, accosted Mrs. Miller gruffly and flung the contents of a small container in her face.
sive of all acids.
Kharkov.
Poltava, key stronghold be-
REPORT DUCE'S BLUFF FAILED
Dino Grandi Called the Turn “In Hectic Session of
Grand Council.
LONDON, Aug. 26 (U. P)— Benitb Mussolini tried to bluff his Fascist grand council with false assurances that Adolf Hitler had promised Italy unlimited aid, but Dino Grandi called the turn on I1 Duce by reading the record and precipitated his overthrow, it was reported today. Advices from a reliable neutral source sketched a new version -of the 10-hour session of the grand council before the outsing of ‘the Fascist dictator on July 25. The meeting followed Mussolini's conference with Hitler, according to the latest account, at which the Nazi fuehrer had told Mussolini bluntly that Germany could give Italy no further military assistance. Mussolints rh gg was’ of his making, Hitler was, old to], partner,
SER en ol oi
Say U. S.S. R. to Have Leading ‘Role.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P.). —The Soviet Union's ‘denunciation of proposals for an -east European federation of small ‘states was interpreted here: today as: sharp, Af indirect, answer to" Prime: Minister Winston Churchill’s recent espousal of regional federation as a possible solution of Europes Post-war problems. The Russians, through a statement circulated by their embassy here yesterday, made it plain that they would have no regional federations in eastern Europe—or any part of Europe; that they considered such “fantastic plans” as “hostile to the U, 8. 8. R.”
Similar Plans Scored
The statement emphatically stated’ that the Soviet Union planned to play a leading role in not. only the reorganization of Europe, but of the whole. world. On March 21, in a radio speech on the post-war world, Churchill
should come into being: a couneil of Europe and a -council of Asia under a world organization embodying or. representing: the united nations. Then: he added: “It would therefore seem to me, at any rate, worthy of patient study that side by side with the great powers ‘there should be #& (Continued on Page Six)
PLANS RENO VISIT
Bride - of 12 Hours Spends Night * Chasing Him.
NEW YORK; Aug. 26 (U. PJ Tommy Manville, who fled through the kitchen of the El Morocco night club last night to get away
1 pr ne; 4 | to have brushed aside na
! aiRap “European Federation:
grand council complaints with the blustering word that German help, plenty of it, was coming and everything would: be all right. But like Banquo’s ghost, the min-
lites ‘of the ‘conference with Hitler
rose up to plague Mussolini.:Grandi,
don who now is reported.to be in Lisbon on a peace mission, broke in on :Mussolini’s speech and read the minutes wihch he had taken. Cries ‘of “high treason” were heard and recriminations flew thick and fast. The verbal imbroglio
use. Mussolini was through. . Mussolini had arranged the last meeting with Hitler at a villa near Feltre in northern Italy, it was said. This, however, was at odds (Continued on Page Seven)
MANY HOMES. OPEN TO ABANDONED BOY
Photos .of Baby Billy Bring In a Flood of Offers.
William Patrick Franklin has the choice of hundreds of homies, but “Billy” can't make the decision because he’s only a little more than five months old and his future rests with the Marion County Welfare | department. He's the smiling, healthy little lad who Tuesday night was left on the back ‘porch of the. W. C. Richter home at 432 Buckingham drive, . He was taken to the Children’s Guardian home in Irvington. His picture was in the papers. When - the people ‘saw Billy's picture he won their admiration. The Guardian home has been swamped with = calls: of persons eager to adopt -him. All of them necessarily “must be transferred to the welfare department for in tion. Meanwhile, y "is having a dandy time.
Moving to quell s series of autotheft escapades perpetrated by
former Italian ambassador to: Lon-|’
went on: for hours, but it was no’ (standards to be maintained,” Mr.
Rhoads Proposes Ordinance To Force Locking of Autos
Mrs. Miller’s face, neck and:
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Her eyes
instantly. Livid furrows appeared in great patches of outlined with a greenish-yellow cast. The acid burned a : Mrs. Miller's blouse and the blouse fell away from her shoulders in
Mrs. Hicks, fighting
Wa ALT
her arms, managed to get her daughter in the car and the two drove to the home of the family’s minister. ‘He escorted the women to the
hospital where it was found that the acid had made dangerous ingress :
into the tender tissues of Mrs. Miller's eyes. : While reagents were being applied to Mrs. Miller's burns; her hus- : estranged, arrived at the hospital;
band, Joseph, from Whom she was
demanded entrance to her room and there sought to kiss her swollen
lips.
He was restrained by detectives. ‘who hustled him to city prison and booked him under charges of vagranty.
Miller, in June, 1939, had staged
a phony holdup " which % bandit
accomplice had blown away Mrs. Miller's ‘left forearm with a sawed-
> off shotgun.
‘For his part in this crime, Miller was sentenced to. Pendleton Re-
formatory for 2 to 14 years.
Mts. ‘Miller's stanch efforts to win her husband's parole attracted Actually, the fluid that splashed into Mrs, Miller's face and across sationswide attention and it was common knowledge among friends
the upper part of her body was sulphuric acid, one of the most corro- that she visited her husband weekly at the prison and frequently took : (Continued: on Page Seven)
Labor Leader Offers fo Help Health Board Clean Up Cafes
James A. Guichard, ‘business agent of Local 437 of the Bartenders, Culinary Workers and Hotel Service Employees, today offered his services
and others of his organization free
maintaining proper. sanitary standards” in’ the city’s eating establish-
ments.
In an open letter to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city
board of health, Mr. Guichard said: “Must we have an epidemic at a time when the hospitals are.crowded and a great number of doctors in the city are in the army or shall we profit by the U. 8. public health survey and clean up the deplorable conditions that you and I know exist? Grade of 41.6 Per Cent
The survey, released last Saturday, gave Indianapolis restaurants, collectively, a grade of only 41.6 per cent where 75 per. cent is Yegarded
as necessary. “The general public has been very| tolerant in face of the high prices and small portions but I can’t help but ‘feel that their patience will be exhausted if they continue to get putrid . food poorly served,” Mr. 'Guichard wrote Dr. Morgan. “The only things that the rests
Mr. Guichard asserted that the restaurants seek inexperienced help and pay them such low wages that “it is humanly impossible for the help ‘themselves to live under sanitary conditions.” He said the entire problem could be solved by hiring experienced people .and paying . them “a lving wage.” “If you need: some inspectors to help you, I personally will offer my time free of charge and also the time of others in this organization that are familiar with the proper
Guichard said.
Husband Dead, Bette Davis ll
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26 (U. P.). Bette Davis was placed ‘under a physician’s care today, suffering near-hysteria at the death of her husband, Arthur Farnsworth. Farnsworth, an aircraft technical expert employed by the Min-neapolis-Honeywell Co.,. of Minneapolis, Minn., died last night in a hospital with the film star at his bedside. ; Farnsworth did not regain consciousness after a fall Monday on Hollywood boulavard. No witnesses saw the accident, and police were unable. to determine the circumstances. He suffered a basal skull fracture. Farnsworth, a former commercial airline’ ‘pilot, married Miss Davis at Rimrock, Ariz. in January, 1940.
MYSTERY PLANE CRASHES STOCKHOLM, Aug. 26 (U. P.).— Reports from Malmo said today that a pilotless German -“mystery plane” crashed on the Danish island of Bornholm Yesierday and
was steered by adie fiom, the ground.
stand that these children are undergoing terrible stress and strain on account of war psychology. . They|-
have nothing to look forward to but|
getting into the armed service, and the live, red-blooded ones. don’t
Mr, |county public records commission
document books and files sent in|:
to the city health board “to aid in
——Hoosier Heroe
South Bend Man Dies in Middle East
Killed T. SGT. WAUN D. WENRICK, son of Mrs, Goldie Wenrick of South Bend, was reported “killed in action in the Middle East by the war department
today. “ * x»
SAYS ow RECORDS SHOULD BE JUNKED
Petitioner Asserts Weight Is Menace fo Courthouse.
.A petition to destroy certain Indiana public records in the court house was submitted fo the Marion
today by Jesse C. Moore, foreman of the Marion county grand jury. ‘Petitioning as a taxpayer, Mr. Moore pointed out that there are scores of tons of ‘old papers and records in the county court house which are no. longer of official and
historical - value, and said that the|
weight of these records: on certain
parts of the ‘fourth floor of the]
building is so. great that the lives of persons working on lower floors are endangered. Mr. Moore stated that the erection of an additional building to -house these records, now under consideration of county officers, would be a “waste of the taxpayers’ money.”
Holds Them Valueless
He listed as valueless the county
treasurer's tax returns, the asses-
sor’s files of individual tax returns, |’ the auditor’s voucher books, vouch- |;
er receipts and bills payable and the auditor's poor reljef records, all of these prior to 1936, and many files of papers: in the clerk’s office. ‘Of no. historical - or official - value also, according to the petition, are
by justices of the peace who have long since gone out of office, and document books and papers of small value: but copsued and ‘used so infrequently that they are no 1 valuable to th ee Jonger they are required to be filed.
DANISH SITUATION GROWS. MORE TENSE
General Strikes Break out} In 2 More Cities.
tion of the committee :
the knifing pain caused by acid splashes on
Strike With Precision in Devastating ' Italy’s Rail Hub.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Aug. 26 (U. P)~— American Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, striking .in three waves with watch-like precision, devastated the Italian ‘rail
.| hub and air ‘base of Foggia yester-
day, burning scores of parked axis planes and machine gunniwg troops and ground ‘personnel. ' British and Canadian Wellingtons joined in the intense air assault to paralyzze south Italy with a block-bustér bombardment of the
big Taranto naval base at dawn|’
today. The -all:American attacks on Foggia, carried out at heights ranging. from tree top to 25,000 Sask. were pronounced one of the
American. fighters which sought to" intércept them. ‘The toll included 16 downed by the Fortresses and 10 by their Lightning escorts in breaking up the attacking forée of nearly 100
planes. Lt. Col. : George McNicholl of Memphis, Tenn., personally led the attack in one ‘of the twin-tailed Lightning fighter-bomibers which swept so low over the cluster ; of Foggia airfields ‘that terrified : personnel “aground : tried to throw stones at them. Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaata, commander of the Northwest African air forces, regarded the mission so highly that he pe ally pinned a (Continued on Page Six)
BULLETIN
JOHNSVILLE, Pa, Aug. 26 (U. ‘P.) ~Facing a threat: of drastic action by the War, Labor board | strikers at the Brewster Aero- : nautical corporation ‘plant here ‘today voted to return to work . immediately under a 30-day truce In compliance with ‘the SmithConnally anti-strike bill. Sete ———
FRENCH COMMITTEE CALLS PRESS MEET
ALGIERS, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—The French: committee of national: liberation scheduled an “important” press conference for late today and said the. British and American envoys in North ‘Africa, Harold McMillan and Robert Murphy, would attend. ’ Cie Announcement of the conference
closely followed a meeting of ‘the
committee under the presidency of Gen. Charles De Gaulle, and came amid speculation over the recogni-
by united nations. . aE co volt. bo. enor. age “with its patronage the constitution of the national association for French Indo-Ohina.”
LONDON, Aug. 26 (U.P.
under the impact of British bonibs for the third a row last night as twin-engined Mosquito bombers heaped new destruction. on the capital in the developing “Ham
burg” offensive.
its heaviest bombardment of
was lost,
its heaviest bombardment of
REPORT GRANDI ON PEACE VISIT
Swiss Say Italian Leader In Lisbon to Talk
Terms.
LONDON, Aug. 26 (U.P)—A Swiss dispatch said today that an
| 1talian commission headed by Count ; 0, Grandi hag arrived in Lishon|
rodetial ol th the reported start| ns an ‘armistice and}
separate peace for Ttaly,
newspaper Die Tat, said the partieipants in the peace discussions
Grandi’s arrival pointed ‘to contact with British diplomats. He served
Jas foreign minister and ambassador
to- London in various Mussolini governments. The Grandi group was the second Italian mission to reach Lisbon within a: month, the dispatch said. Peace discussions also were rumored following the arrival there of a mission headed by Armando de Angelis, but informed sources in the Portuguese capital insisted De ‘Angelis merely was awaiting the arrival of Italian diplomats from Chile,Other Swiss reports said the Vatican is exerting pressure on the allies to accept Italy’s designation (Continued on Page Seven)
RATION BOOK' DELAY SEEN IN HELP LACK
{Urgent Call Is Made for 200
‘More Volunteers. A lot of Hoosiers -are going to
canned‘ fruit and vegetables unless at least 200 volunteers & day help out at the ration book mailing cenJer here. H, Burch Nunley, manager of the center, said the volunteer. list has “collapsed” and that a number of late applicants for war ration book 3 will not receive their books by Sept. 8 if mailing valunteers, are not increased. The mailing centers onthe. third floor of the Century building is open from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m, Saturday. Any group of persons, organization or individual may help out.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES h.voo 74 10 2. m....
Tag I mam, .'75 12 (Noon)..
80 u
L151 pm...
Lord Mountbatten Named
Southeast Asia Commander ps.
fal to drive the. Jpansse out. of |
OTTAWA, Aug. 26 (U. P) —Creation of an allied Southeast Asia(E
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3. (U. P)—|,
have to do without meat and|
Mosquitoes Dart Over Sleepless Nazi Capital When Weather Grounds Allies’ FourEngine Giants.
gue Jets nightin
Once again, the swift, plywood Mosquitoes darted n through clouds of smoke rising from fires that have burned
the war Monday night, was
{and incendiary bombs on Adolf Hitler" 8 capital. Only one
Need Better Weather
Inclement weather was believed to have grounded. the : royal air force’s big four-engined bombers so the Mosquitoes took over the assault for the third straight night, scattering their bombs over a wide area of Berlin and giving the inhabitants another sleepless night. The night-after-night pounding of Berlin, opening with
the war Monday night, was taken as an indication that the allied high command: intends to devastate the city just as it all but blasted Hamburg off the map’ with nine straight raids three weeks ago, : Only clearing skies are needed, air experts believed, for a resumption of raids by four-engined bombers on the. scale of the 1700~ ton raid Monday, night. A Daily Mail dispatch ‘from Mas drid said unrest in the heavilybombed workers’ suburbs already had reached a Bich where
The dispatch, quoting the Zurich Viehy.
were. not known, but added that|. et
‘quoted Stockholm reports that hundreds of fires still were smoldering Faster. day. No section of Berlin escaped, ane other Stockholm dispatch said. Other aircraft of the bomber cde mand laid mines in enemy. waters,”
'At{ack Power Station
Last evening American Mauraud= ers attacked ‘an enemy airfield in Tricqueville, northern France, and a power station near Rouen, while British and American Mitchells joined in an attack on the St. Mar~ tin airfield at Bernay, bo miles seuth of Le Havre.
bombs bursting across the Tricques ville dispersal area “like mushreoi composed’ of « pieces of: pleces of aircraft and
. plete week: oft intensive air. bom~ bardment of southern Italy with heavy attack on Foggia sir fields and railways; Taranto and Crotone also raided. EUROPE — British ‘planes: bomb Berlin for third night in a row.