Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1943 — Page 1

tieth Century fund counted 137 “important” government and agencies engaged on a national scale in research or public eduont problems that will face the United States when the war ends, : nearly two-thirds of them giving major attention i to domestic problems. There are more now. Their efforts, the Twentieth Century Fund said, far exceed anything done in world war I (when, in fact, there was mighty little planning for peace), it added that this time, in sharp contrast to last, “all interests in the nation—capital, labor, agriculture, the consumer——seem to agree on a constructive peacetime goal.”

FORECAST: Warmer tonight; continued warm tomorrow forenoon. =

VOLUME 54-—NUMBER 148

Tomorrow's Job

t's No

ar Employment Gigantic Task but There Are. "Hopeful Signs Developing, Particularly At the Grassroots. By E. A. EVANS

jobs.

Busy at the

BUT PERHAPS the most hopeful planning for _ jobs is being done on the reverse of a national scale, not by federal agencies or big foundations, but

at the ‘grassroots by the owners and managers of individual business and industries’ in local com-

all ‘over the country.

# motive is self-interest. They want to survive and they want

They are convinced that

dod of mass unemployment when the soldiers and sailors ng home and the huge production of war materials stops. ‘enterprise doesn’t provide enough jobs, government cerundertake to provide them. , or if government has to provide too many jobs, private ‘sannot grow and may not survive.

BUSINESSMEN are a little apologetic about their’ post-war and some seem reluctant to admit thinking about such a

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S RUSSIA

“at the Quebec conferlargely to plotting the apan, but made it clear stern allies desired every

g in London with “former Soviet am-

d States ambassador, ng the plans’for the

3D TRAINS WILL WAR WORKERS

od fcr by DNB as saying that the land-

¢ 2 Report: ‘Few’ Invaders Still

oF about 400 oan laned on the foe

{designed as the prelude: to estab-

Cinch!

That goal is plenty of

# # »

Grassroots

the American peoplé won’t tolerate

And if there is mass unem-

On the War Fronts

(Aug. 31, 1943)

LONDON-—German official news agency reports that British raid- . ing party landed Sunday on Italian mainland, northwest of Reggio ‘Calabria,

RUSSIA—Russian army, drives deep into Ukraine; thousands of German troops trapped by Russian forces that captured Taganrog;

‘attack -air fields and railways in Naples and Rome areas; 17 enemy planes shot down,

SOUTH PACIFIC—Allies crush Japanese counter-attacks near Salamaua, destroy 37 to 49 enemy planes at Wewak.

have rushed armored division from Norway to put: down. Danish uprisings. -

AIR ‘WAR--British heavy bombers drop 1500 tons of explosives on Rhineland cities of MunchenGladbach and Rheydt while Mosquito bombers raid Duisburg; August bomb tonnage near record.

Other war news, Pages 4 and 7.

400 BRITISH LAND IN ITALY, NAZIS CLAIM

‘At Large.

LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P.) ~The official German DNB news agency reported today that a British force

of the Italian boot Sunday and * few” still. were at large two Er later, The report was not confirmed by official London quarters, Nazi military quarters were quoted

ing from warships was “completely frustrated” and predicting that the remainder of the amphibious force would be dealt with in’ a short e, "A broadcast dispatch of the German enews agency described the landing as a “small maneuver,” but added that it appeared to have been

isting a major bridgehead. Maneuver ‘Discovered’

The landing was made on the extremity ‘of the Italian mainland,

DENMARK—Germang reported to

RAT

SMASHING INTO NORTH UKRAINE

| Smolensk Lines Also Crack “In Simultaneous

Victories. : BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P.)~— Premier Mdrshal Josef V. Stalin,

in two separate orders of the day,

announced today that Russian forces had broken into the northern Ukraine in the Sevsk area and in a simultaneous offensive further south had captured the communications center of Yelnya in the Smolensk area. : The second order, coming soon after announcement of the fall of Yelnya, said hard-driving

of Glukhov and Rilsk, respectively, 105 and 65 miles west of Kursk.

LONDON, Aug. 31 (U, P))— Marshal Josef V. Stalin, in an order

German defenses before Smolensk and had captured VYelnya, important communications center 45 miles to the southeast. Stalin’s order said that the Soviets had broken through a strongly fortified axis line yesterday to capture the rail and road operational junction which he described as “the most important center of defense in the Smolensk direction.” The Russian capture of Yelnya was believed here to represent an advance of some 28 miles from the last established forward positions east of Smolensk, hub of the Nazi defenses. to the southwest of MosCOW. Divisions Honored

Stalin’s order revealed that the 20th guards regiment, the 26th tank brigade, the 176th infantry division, the 23d guards independent tank brigade and the 119th independent tank regiment which dis-

Red | army troops had taken the towns |

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1048

room in 729.

tinguished themselves in the fight-|§

ing had been named the “Yelnya units.” He announced that 12 artillery

Fa wi

hours. after Stalin

another great Red army ~—the capture of Taganrog which had anchored the southern end of (Continued on Page Four)

Woman Plunges 20 Feet to Death

MRS. HELEN LOUISE WOLF died at City hospital last -night after fracturing her skull in a plunge from an upstairs window at her apartment, 2932 Central ave. According to police, Mrs. Wolf jumped after her husband, George Wolf, refused to allow her to go downtown after supper. Mrs. Maud Richardson, owner of the house, and her daughter, Edith, witnessed the 20-foot fall after they were attracted to the room by the argument. They told police Mr. Wolf tried to stop her, bus could not. Two step-children, Joan, age 7, and George, age 6, besides the husband, survive. The body was taken to the Montgomery funeral home,

JAPS ADMIT KILLING DESCENDING CHUTISTS

By UNITED PRESS Radio Tokyo inadvertently has admitted that Japanese pilots have machine-gunned - American ‘airmen seeking to parachute to safety from planes disabled in combat, the office of war information said today. In an attempt to belittle the quality &1.. American parachutes, - the station said that when American pilots attempted to bail out, their parachutes on many occasions “burned ' ‘immediately from one

shot.”

Lt Noel Jones, Head the 10

6 Bottles, 3. Glasses = i i

Detective Clears: Up Mystery.

Police today furnished the cor=

rect - answer to the number of “coke” bottles and glasses in WAC

Cpl. Naoma Rirings’ room when

she was found dead. Mrs, Alfred Bayne Jr., wife of the bellboy who answered the- first call

to the WAC's room after she registered, said yesterday that while listening to detectives question her husband Sunday, she thought he said . he delivered six “cokes” and six glasses. ; Last night Bayne sald he delivered six bottles, ice and no Robert Wolfington, a bellboy who answered a second call to the room, said Bayne told him that he had taken up . six bottles and three| glasses. Mrs, Lillian McNemar, house~ keeper who found the body, sald Wolfingtoni told her that when he went, to the room to deliver ice he saw two glasses and no bottles. Last. night Wolfington said his recollection was vague of what he saw in the room. . Mrs, McNemar said yesterday that when she entered the room after finding the body she didn’t see any “bottles or glasses, except a broken bottle on. ihe floor.

.A detective said today, that when]

he entered the room to begin the investigation, ‘there: were six bottles and three glasses there.

Congressman Louis ‘Ludlow re-

talking with the home folks.

Congressman Ludlow Back Home for Two Weeks Stay.

turned to Indianapolis from Washington today to spend two weeks |

| “I want to see.” he said, “what I can do to improve upon the service

Under examination at the police laboratory Is fhis jagged glass of a broken Calvert whisky bottle. The: pieces are blood encrusted. At 3he upper Hght is the blond-stained quarter found py: the:bedy. : :

BE = ; { he Times clock of the WAC murder. 430.4. 420, mn. Sarda.

Hoesier Hera I.E. Boyers Loses Life in

Plane Crash

{HEAD BLOW CAUSED

; Coroner Expresses Doubt

1 “A biow on the head. was the chief leause of the death of , WAC. Cpl

were:

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GPL. RIDINGS’ DEATH

Whisky Bottle Used.

persons | black,” but they led to nothing.

“| Billings General hospital still were ‘ lawaited to determine definitely if}

lof an 18-year-old New Castle, Ind.

Woman Give Up and Lift

mained a mystery.

lish her identity. to fall into the pool of blood

did it belong were what investigators ‘sought to establish

first. Tips Fail Police

Police had countless calls from who had seen “women in

Outcome of’ laboratory tests at the slain woman had been crimi-

Meanwhile, other developments

* Investigators discredited the story

in Black Urged by Authorities: 0

Curtain on What

Happened in Room 729.

The “mystery of room 729” at the Claypool was no nearer a solution today than it was shortly after 8 p. m. Satu day when the mutilated, haif-clad body of WAC Cpl. 1

|L. Ridings was found. The “black-haired woman in black” held the key 4

possible clues and her whereabouts and identity still ‘re‘Hotel employees were being questioned again regarding. 4 persons they remember seeing entering or leaving the hotel A late Saturday afternoon and evening in an attempt to ests

‘Who and where she is and how a 25-cent coin hapyp ene ed

youth ‘that he knew “lots ‘about.

near the body and to whom|ying»

They did not believe that a WAC skirt found in the 1900. block: of 1 Tibbs ave. was Cpl. said it would not enter, Wty; case. They discredited as “fag ) one theory that the “woman black” was not a woman, but female impersonator,

soldiers. at Atterbury rev Ridings as a woman of high = character and failed to furnish, leads as to who might have been in the death roem : with her: “Why doesn’. she appear. 1.¢ see why she doesn’t come forwa and help,” said Coroner Roy . Storms , of the black-clad

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Hotel Employes Provides Ho Details on Mystery: Wome

Autred Bayne. or, 718 E. 10th st, war-worker by y day leh 0p: whe as fon’ in ‘regard to thet

any glasses to the room as. previously reported.

ing back on the pillow a bit. “1 delivered the ice and ‘cokes’

tipped.” ¥ was séen no more.

terious woman, ‘Bayne ' said, was. average in height, about 5

An Attractive Woman “She was an attractive woman In

| but’ not out of the ordinary. fact, her features were very ordi-|\ nary. She had a round face and i

her features pretty "well followed the same general pattern. “This woman was smoking when I came in the room,” he said, “She

her left was in her lap. _ “She was wearing a black dress or suit with a white collar, 2 small black hat with a veil which swelled out above it. It was not over her

in a turn-up curl at the neckline| and her face and lips were modestly rouged.” Asked about the deportment of the two women, Bayne said, “Neither of them .seemed nervous or dis-

Trying hard to recall the mys-|: “She

feet 3 or 4 inches, between 35 and) 40 years old and I should judge| ‘|around 135° pounds £

had a cigaret in her right hand and

face. She had black hair that was|:

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Is’ this what the “woman in black” looks like? Following the:

features which: followed the, general pattern, the

traught) Everything seemed very peaceful.” ’

Room—TVoice

Bellboy | Knocked of Murder

Said Come

‘Heavy-lidded from lack of sleep in the last three’

olfington, | “but. e| when he delivered ice to the room of slain WAO Opl. | »- | Ridings, today told a simple story. Xi . Befieen 8:15 dnd 6:30 p. Im. he delivery was made.