Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1943 — Page 1

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Detention Obviously Illegal, Blue Says; Vietims Pay With ‘Savings. By NOBLE REED

‘The story of how two employed girls of respectable Indianapolis

to get out of jail after they had been arrested illegally, was disclosed in an investigation completed by The Times today. The investigation also revealed that the police records of hall a dozen other persons arrested under similar circumstances in the last six months were stricken from the police files at the insistence of

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*The arrest of these persons was | obviously illegal and they were not

Blue explained: One of the girls whose arrest was Indiana university student. Turned Over Savings In a signed statement, one of the to get out of jail, said she and her

girl friend, both of whom are employed in war industries, were ar-

families paid $250 of their savings|

guilty of any law violations,” Mr. |

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rested last July 16 while in the ’ company of two soldiers, one of

sevice fsked’ the officers to permit us to call our homes but they refused. choly The she } : wel it of 2 |! stake ol for n oy sticated ing us 'wé } they could an officer or anything they wan re to charge us with. of “All they said was that we would oe be held to take a health test. Amer and the next day my brother came bbr.) . to the police station looking for me and then we learned that we — had been charged with vagrancy mo and that police had placed us under ” $1000 bonds, each.”

whom was a friend of long standing. |

Monument Circle - about, midnight July 16,” the statement said. “We were kept there in the car

charge. “We were ordered to report In municipal court 3 for a hearing on

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Willkie Believes He'll Win * Republican Nomination in '44

VOLUME 54—NUMBER 191 . °°

With one finger on Indianapolis and another. on: Cairo, Walter G. *We were ordered by two officers| Gingery, Washington high school principal, looks at his revolutionary to get into a police car parked on jnvention, the “most accurate map in the world.”

W. 6. GINGERY | “ADS. AVIATION

Washington High Principal

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the world. And it all started when Mr. Gingery began corresponding with Washington. high school boys who

map in

had entered the armed forces. He wanted to make a map with Wash-

tacks at various cities, designating

Weeks of Work Develop

From this desire, the idea developed into weeks of work and soon | the West side principal had 50 or 60 pages of mathematical calculations for his new map. ~ However, when the map was completed, the boys In service couldn't tell where they were and the tack-location idea was out. At the same time, Mr. Gingery with his new invention is satisfying hundreds of requests from school teachers that an accurate map be manufactured. Since the 16th century school children have been finding Europe, South America, Australia and other countries on the Mercator projection map, a flat map showing the various countries in distortion. -Gingery Map Is Ideal According to specifications set by Charles H. Deetz and Oscar 8S. Adams in their book “Elements of Map Projections,” published by the department of commerce, Mr. Gingery's map is ideal. It represents the countries

The countries represented retain their relative size.

is, the shortest distances joining various places, are represented by straight lines which are the shorf-

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Hoosier Heroes Two Missing | Hoosiers in Nazi Prison

iri PISOMER dob 8 | 8. SOT. FRANKLIN ‘G. BAR- | RET. JARVEX. R.,

WIEGAND, who were both reported missing in action recently, An air corps gunner, 8. Sgt. Barrett is the son of Mrs. Roqua Barrett, 1435 Fruitdale ave. He

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TEACHERS HOLD MANY SESSIONS

Preliminaries Called Expedite Conference

Work Tomorrow.

PROGRAM TOMORROW Cadle Tabernacle, 7:30 p. m,

Musie. Call te Order—Sara C. Ewing, Indian apeolis, ng Invocation, Inaugural Address—H. B. Allen, Muncie, Presentation of Past President Award, “How te Win the Peace” —C. J. Hambro, Norwegian statesman, . Statehousc 10 p. m.

Receplion and ball.

With the formal opening of another state teachers convefition only orie day away, city, town and county school superintendents and

Boy, 16, Shot; Stolen Car

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DECISIONS OF MOSCOW MEET

Light on Proceedings to ‘Be Withheld Until | Parley Ends.

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Stall Correspondent |

MOSCOW, Oct. 20.—Official si-

. lence surrounded the progress of the . tri-partite conferences today, as the, American, British- and Russian for- + {eign ministers, joined by allied mill. itary and diplomatic experts, pre-| Ipared for their second formal { meeting. ! { U. 8. Secretary of State Cordell {Hull and British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden conferred with Soviet! | Foreign Commissor Vyacheslav M.| _| Molotov in the Spiridonovka palace, guest house of the foreign commis- | sariat, from 4 until 6:30 p. m, yes-

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7IS ‘SCORCH EARTH IN ITALY; * MARSHALL ‘OPTIMISTIC

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Still a Big Job Ahead,

| Army Chief Tells |

Congress.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U.| P.). — Army talent ranging from the top four-star gen-| eral to a fighting private gave

100 house members the low-! # civilians and “scorching” the:

down on the war today. Members were generous in praise of the presentation, Chairman Clarlence Cannon (D. Mo.) of the house {appropriations committee, said it was “verw convincing.” Rep, Harold | Knutson _(R. Minn.) sald the “tone | was optimistic, but it clearly showed { we still have a hell of a job to do.” As an added attraction al an unprecedented closed meeting in the library of congress, the war | department tossed in four or five {official action films, including one [showing the Sicillan Invasion and {another the capture of Rendova in

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vealed that no announcement will be made on the proceedings, or on the decisions reached until the conferences have been concluded. At the same time, it was emphasized that no other allied governments were represented at the threepower meeting, either formally or through the medium of ohservers.

Consultation Alds

Accompanying the foreign ministers at their initial . meeting with Molotov were the American and British ambassadors to Russia, William Averell Harriman and Sir

now head of a permanent U.S. military mission to Moscow; Charles E. Bohlen, assistant chief of the U. S. state department's European affairs division; British Lt. Gen, Sir Henry Ismay, and Wililam Strang of the British diplomatic service. Hull again dined at the Spasso hotise last night with Harriman and the embassy staff and retired early.

Failure Will Mean Chaos, Simms Says

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Meward Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — Unless Britain and the United States reach an agreement at Moscow, Europe is alniost certiinly headed into a period of bloody and chaotic post-war strife. Developments in Jugoslavia, Poland and other quarters reveal that only through agreement among these three powers can Europe be saved from becoming a sort of second Spain, This means a war within a war, Under cover of the great conflict, various political groups are busily muddying *he waters in the hope of better fishing therein. Efforts are under way to overthrow legitimate governments in exile and these efforts are seriously interfering with the progress of the war.

Jugosiav Plight Typical

What is happening in Jugoslavia is typical, Young King Peter II land his government. are in exile, {in Cairo. In Jugoslavia, his minister of war, Gen, Draja Mihalilovich, is

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‘MAESTRO’ BERNIE

BEVERLY "HILLS, Cal, Oct. 20 (U. P.).—Ben Bernie, “old Maestro” of the band leaders, died at his

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Ensign Howard D, Miner

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make the good luck charms, each sewing two stitches and making two wishes, Ensign Miner, a naval pilot, has been in the South Pacific since March. Letters home refer to his combat experiences only as “fireworks” and “big night.” w . » WHILE A STUDENT at Wabash college in January, 1942, he enlisted In the naval air corps, He received his wings at Corpus Christi, Tex., list October, and in December went to Hawall for advanced training. From there it was on to the South Pacific, He was graduated from Park school, where his father teaches, and attended Williams college in Masachusetts two years, He is 24. A younger brother, Macartan Miner, is enrolled in the. army specialized training program at Lake Forest college, Ill,

HALLOWEEN TAKES JULY 4 COMPLEXION

Autos Dodge Fire Crackers; Revival Tent Damaged.

Pre-Halloween vandalism continued to spread here last night as city and county law enforcing officials redoubled their efforts to eliminate the acts of teen-age

the 1900 block of Columbia ave, and complaints of “Fourth of July” celebrations flowed into the police de-

partment, A 15-year-old ‘boy was picked up by police on Arsenal ave, near 19th st., questioned and searched, A label

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Thousand Stitches ‘Save Nip Flier

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INDIANA'S. DRAFT CALLS HEAVIER

December Quotas Exceed Summer Lull; Dads Face Induction.

By EARL RICHERT

Continuing the trend of the last three months, Indiana's draft call for December is slightly larger than that for November, Col, Robinson Hitchcock, state draft director, announced today. The upward swing in draft calls for Indiana started again In September after dropping off during the summer ‘Months. October's call was larger tnan September's, and November's is higher than October's. (Exact figures are a military secret.) The result of the steady increase in drift calls is that some local boards are now finding their quotas nearly as big as during the “heavy” months last spring: Marion county boards are getting into the. task of reclassifying fathers and a cross-section survey showed today that next month will be the real “clean-up” month for the local draft boards, ; Most draft boards expect to have

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500,000 WILL GET RATION BOOKS HERE

City Schools to Distribute, Starting Monday.

Issuance of approximately 500, 000 ration books No. 4 will be made next week beginning Monday through the public grade schools of Marion county. Applicants should go to the nearest school in their district, or” Persons whose last names begin with the letters A through C must

{the Pacific. The house members for {two hours heard Secretary of War Harold L. Stimson, Gen, George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and others present what an army {spokesman ealled “a frank state- | ment of facts.”

| Spoke 40 Minutes

HN | Marshall: spoke for 40 minutes,

| principally about the strength of [Germany, House members were close-mouthed about what he revealed, but some were disappointed that they had no chance to question the top army officer. Yo Lt. Col. Larry MacPhail of army

public reiations, former general manager of the Brooklyn baseball team, said-the is “along

the lines” of a recent war departs ment sym for industrialists

spokesmen “went even farther.” “They felt the members should have as clear a picture as possible In order that they may deal better with legislative problems effecting the war effort,” he sald, Discussed Strategy Marshall, he sald, discussed overall strategy and “outlined the problems that have faced and are facing Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Elsenhower.” MacPhail said that Brig. Gen. F. A. Armstrong Jr. discussed the bombing of Germany and covered individual raids including the recent operation in which 80 Flying Fortresses were lost, In order to give house members an overall picture, the top army leaders brought to the meeting Sgt. PF, C. Kristmann- and Pvt, J. O, logan who participated in the Sicilian campaign,

TIME BOMB KILLS NAPLES CIVILIANS

NAPLES, Oct. 20 (U, P.) —A German time bomb exploded today in an office building in the heart of Naples, killing an unknown number of civilians, Ten bodies were recovered from the ruins soon after the blast, and several passers-by were killed, The building in which the bomb exploded 20 days after the fall of Naples had been gutted by fire before the Germans evacuated. It was next to the United States consulate, which had suffered a similar fate.

JAPAN FORECASTS REVOLT IN INDIA

By UNITED PRESS The Tokyo radio said today that Japan has set up a “provisional government of India” that will declare war upon the United States and Great Britain “immediately upon its formation.” The new government has been formed under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose, -

LClermans could not take with them

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5th Army—

Allies Gain Steadily ® As 17 More Towns * 1 Are Seized.

ALLIED HEADQUAR. TERS, Algiers, Oct. 20 (U, P), — Battered German armies were falling back 5 across Italy today, murdering =

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countryside in their path, and allied forces pounding at their heels captured 17 towns in gains up-to seven miles, ‘The 5th army already was chargs ing the coastal end of a new defense line on which the ‘Germans were struggling to dig in after their beats

ing along the Volturno, Anchored lon the 2500-foot sugar loaf Massich ridge, the line lay before Garigs liano river, 18 miles above the Vole turno and 85 miles from Rome, Despite unremitting allied press sure, the German retreat was orders = ly. In its wake was a maze of minds, demolitions, booby traps and rear guard positions through which the American and British units were cutting their way. Te

Burn Haystacks

The Italian terrain which the Nazis left was bleak with burning haystacks, the ashes of farmhouses and the bodies of civilians falling victim to a scorthed “earth policy combined with an apparent ‘desire for revenge on their former axis partners who gave up. Everything of value ' which the

Mark W. Olark's men of the 5th army occupied the important of Bragoni, Rocco Romano : Pignataro, Sth Pushes On In the Adriatic coastal Gen, Bir Bernard L. tRo British 8th army forged ahead miles to seize Pettaciato, nine miles abi va while scoring gains of five to seven miles inland. Pettaciato fell after heavy fight ing in which the British used tanks and artillery to biast out the stube borg, German, garrison. ie Among the newly éaptured towns were Guardialfiera, seven miles west of Larino; Lupara, six miles west of Casacalenda; Peterella and Me lino, both west of Morrone; Guars diregia, five miles southwest of Vinchiaturo; Pletraroia, four miles northwest of Cerreto; San Potilo, three miles northwest of Oerreto; Sart Potilo, three miles northwest of Glola; Villa Volturno, six miles northwest of Capua; Comigliane, four miles northwest of Capua, and Formicola, two miles northwest of Pontelatone, i

Send Reinforcements

While Kesselring tried to set up a new line above the Volturno, thers were indications that the Germans were sending reinforcements to the hard pressed divisions facing the Sth army. i Rall and highway traffic on the east coast has béen heavy recently. Along the Adriatic the British were meeting the stiffest resistance they had encountered for some time as the Germans struggled to hold the ridges between the” Biferno and Trigno rivers. :

The heaviest fighting was going on “around Baranello, where the Germans put up furious resistance with artillery and multiple mortars.

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