Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1943 — Page 1

)

0]

+ cel draft deferments-or employment} privileges, or both, of non-complying

. of the board.”

THIEVES LOOT ROOMS

FORECAST: Slightly colder tonight; little change in temperature tomorrow monting.

President Gives Strikers Until Monday to Get On Jobs.

By FRED W, PERKINS |

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. ®decisive action to see that thal is mined,” threatened by President Roosevelt if the United Mine Workers, in their policy committee meeting Monday, refuse to accept the wage contract offered them by the war labor board, might be so severe it would wreck this big} . sand powerful union. It might go to the extreme of army occupation and operation of! the mines, with troops protecting’ the men who want to work. This would mean a fight to the finish between government authority and union leaders bold enough to try to organize resistance, in defiance of the criminal penalties of the war labor disputes act,

Last Chance Offered

This kind of government action would not be expected to produce full result immediately, and would be entered into with the knowledge that weeks might pass before enough skilled men would return to their jobs to get production approaching normal. Other steps that can be taken under the war labor disputes act were spelled out by Mr. Roosevelt in a letter of Aug. 16 to William H. Davis, WLB chairman: “. . « The government agency, at the time of. taking over, shall ask the board to modify its order. so as to withhold from the union (by escrow in the case. of checked-off funds) the benefits, privileges or rights accruing to it under the agreement or proposed agreement with the employer until the union demonstrates its willingness and capacity to abide by the obligations thereof.” ‘The president's letter, also set forth the power of the war manpower commission to modify or can-

individuals. Board Conflict Hinted

In his statement last night, the president indicated a reluctance to take any of these steps against the mine workers, and if he is forced to act after Monday's meeting he may defer the use of troops until the last |! extremity. But doubt as to whether he will use the previous method of ordering Interior Secretary Ickes to take over the coal mines was strengthened- “by the president's complete backing of WLB, with which Mr, Ickes has been in disagreement as to methods of handling the coal case. Overshadowed by the ‘president's promise of decisive action, and by the increasing ominous signs of wildcat coal strikes approaching a national shut down, was the evidence of a sharp conflict within WLB. This was produced by a statement of the American Federation of Labor members of that body that the decision of the majority in the Illinols contract case “adds another to the list of decisions of this board which have been determined not on the basis of merit, but rather by the attitude of the individuals and government agencies who dominate the actions of the public members

“4. The reference obviously was to (Continued on Page 3—Column 3)

AT DOWNTOWN HOTEL

The looting of three unlocked rooms at the Hotel Severin while guests were absent was reported to police today. A — Suet took $38 from a room ed by Capt. J. E. Campbell, an Meld; $16 from a room occupied by Louis Craile, Evansville, and $3 from that of Warren Stanwood, Solumbus, 0. Eugene :Bdgut, mahager, reported the theft of more than 2000 gasoline coupons from the filling station

At 34th st. and Capitol ave, of fre

Which he is manager,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

1

ON INSIDE PAGES

Amusements. . 12)Inside Indpls. 3 Vandals who have been staging Ash ......... 6 Kidney ...... a series of automobile tire cutting ~ Business ..... 4|Lucey ....... 7|last night issued a direct challenge Clapper ..... a Movies nae 12! They slashed the two rear tires Comies ...... Obituaries .,. 2 official car while = Crossword ... a 8 ie hie wie 9 Sava 7 8/Radio ....... 1)

Cena

30. — The

|

i

Bring Giant,

should say there's another half| bushel on it.” And that’s the tomato to top all others.

Born and reared on a farm, Mr. Renshaw has-a natural bent toward gardening. - But then his work lends an added impetus for he has been associated with the Prairie Farmer for the last 22 years. “Sort of get a few ideas from all the farmers I come in contact with,” he said. The giant plant is of the Oxheart variety and is not a particularly tall vine according to most standards. Mr. Renshaw attributes the height to proper fertilization and runing. “I had six of them this season and ‘they averaged 16 feet. Of course I had other plants but these were my pride and joy. All together Mrs, Renshaw has put up 100 quarts in juice and fruit and we have given away well over 25 bushels.” But the garden doesn’t end there for it has just ‘about everything one would find at an experimental station, That is, everything except beans. The Renshaws don't like them.

TRAIN JUMPS TRACK, SETS HOMES AFIRE

oil,

Gasoline Tank Cars

Smash Into Houses.

HIGHLAND, N.Y, Oct. 30 (U.P). —A train of oil and gasoline tank cars jumped the tracks at Black creek, near Highland today, smashed into a group of houses and caugh®

First reports were four houses and three cars were destroyed. Authorities ordered all other homes in the vicinity evacuated

W. E. Renshaw. 173 W. Westfield bivd., and his 20-foot tomato plant . . . “it's all in the fertilizer and the pruning,” he says.

Fertilizer, Proper Pruning

TS

SATURDAY, OCTOBE

R 30, 1943 -

ea a

YANKS INVADE CHOISEUL ALLIES SET

NAZI AT LOSS

T0 ‘EXPLAIN ALLIED D ACCORD

German Press . Reflects Chagrin Over Mostow Show of Unity.

"By PAUL GHALI

| Gopy righ! 1943. by The Indianapolis Times | and The Chicage Daily News, Inc

| BERNE, Oct. 30—President Roosevelt’s announcement that the Mos-] cow conference has been a tre-! mendous success has rendered Ger. {man leaders practically speechjess.!

+ | There is a notable increase in the

{general tone of uneasiness in Nazi

Own wher £X

This i= the story of a tomato plant to tcp all ollters., It's a 20-footer, and that should just about take care of another shown reluctance to accept Russian’ season's crop of victory garden blisters and callouses, W. E. Renshaw, 173 W. Westfield bivd., climbed to the seventh rung cause the United States -eontrols of his stepladder, looked down at us and said: “Kind of (all, isn't it?” | |important oil wells in this district. “Course it has shrunk and sagged a bit now, but it still is bearing. |

MATURE-SHIRLEY ROMANCE’ ENDS

‘’‘m - Not Going. to Marry Him,” Says Movie Redhead.

HOLLYWOOD; Oct. 30 (U. P.).— Coast Guardsman Victor Mature, whose engagement to Rita Hayworth was sawed off by Orson Welles, today lost another movie redhead, blue-eyed Anne Shirley, this time by a lovers’ quarrel. Miss Shirley, wooed, won and lost by the curly haired “Hunk of Man” on a two weeks’ leave, was definite about the parting. “I am not going to marry Mr. Mature,” she said. “Just say I am not going to marry him.”

WAR II BONUS. BILL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. P.).— The question of bonuses for veterans of the second world war will get’ first consideration in the senate finance committee after the tax bill is disposed of, Chairman Walter George (D. Ga.) promised today. He said prompt attention would be given to a bill introduced yesterday by Senators Burnet Maybank (D, B.C) and Ernest McFarland (D. Ariz.) proposing a broad assistance program with provisions for applying bonus money to finance education, housing and farming and business opportunities for returning servicemen.

JAPS INTERNE PRIESTS CHUNGKING, Oct, 30 (U. P)— All Italian Catholic priests in occupied China were interned by the Japanese and all Italian property

Sam.....5 10am... 54 [against the danger.of explosion or was confiscated when Italy surrenTam... 58 11am... 56 [further fires. No person yet is/dered to the allies, dispatches said Sam... 55 12 (Neon).. 61 [reported injured. today. fam... 1 pm... 61 : -rmes raarures | Y@ndals Challenge Police,

Slash Chief Beeker's Tires

PROMISES ACTION ON

lofficialdom today. on the delicate subject of the allied discussions at| | Moscow, The Nazis know full well that the {successful termination of the con[ference cheats Hitler of his last hope—that the allies should waste time in internal quarrels.

5 Vague ‘Hints’ of Split

. Berlin correspondents today stress the extreme reticence of Nazi circles who prefer to refrain from making any statements at this stage. There are vague hints, however, that Berlin has private information that deep divergence ohviews cropped up during the talks. Despite this alleged knowledge of the-inner workings of the Kremlin discussions, the Germans do not wish to draw hasty conclusions from them. The Nazis content themselves to- | day with repetition of the enormous moral predominance of Russia over its Anglo-American . allies .at the | conference. Furthermore, “instinet” thas convinced the Germans that

| { { i

ben {ar more. Te8 [the British. ! For example, well-informed Ger- | mans say that the Americans” Have

an

{influence in the Persian. gulf be.”

Originated in Hungary |

i i Germans alsp cite news, allegedly mansting from Washington, ac-| which the Russians are Sording on a corridor across Bulgaria to the Aegean. Such news, | however, originated not from Wash{ington but from a German satellite, Hungary—a fact which the Germans today prefer to ignore. Another morsel of poor argumentation played up by the Nazi press today is a reprint of an article from the British Communist newspaper,

eight-point proclamation “favoring the Soviet's interests more than the British.” The Nazis hold that it would be impossible for such an article de-

(Continued on Page 3—Colémn 4)

Hoosier Heroes—

EIGHT ARE WOUNDED INN. AFRICAN AREA

They Are Among 289 U. S. Casualties Revealed.

‘Wounded

- EIGHT HOOSIERS are among _the 289 U. 8. soldiers wounded in action in the European, North African, Pacific and southwest Pacific areas. : ‘All wounded in the North African theater, the Indiana men are Pfc. Norman N. Anderson, brother of Mrs. Dale Cotton, Muncie; Pvt. Lester G. Dingeldine, son of Mrs, Anna M. Dingeldine, Royal Center; Pvt. Charles R. Horn, brother of Mrs. Cleo Hinkle, Camden: Pfc. Lloyd Lennen, brother of Charles Lennen, Lafayette; 1st Lt. Roger W. Middleton, husband of Mrs. Irene Middleton, South Bend; 1st Lt. Donald T. Nelson, son of Mrs. Helen Nelson, Gary; Pvt. John E. Seamihorn, son of Mrs. Lelah Scamihorn, Lewis, and Pvt. James W. Smith, son of Walter Smith, Logansport. » . . THE NAVY DEPARTMENT today confirmed the previous report that Seaman Is¢ Ernest F. Lee, 1302 8. Belmont ave., was wounded

{| be what he's doing now.

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper

8

WA ASHING TON, Oct. 30.—Look for the big parade

the march on Berlin—to start in about five months, (Une less Der Fuehrer is liquidated meanwhile, and someone in Germany does a Badoglio.) With all the good-will in the world, the weather Is against a second

front in western Europe this winter. Von Hindenburg's big push in 1918 started on March 21. That's about the earliest troops can manewsver in northern France and the Low Countries, Hitler knows what's coming and is trying desperately to counter it Months ago this column said he would probably pull back In Russia to approximately the line from Odessa to the Baltic, That seems (to 1

THE ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILL-STALIN. meeting will. probably |

take place within two months, It will arrange final details of the big parade—{rom western Europe, eastern Europe, the Balkans, - Meantime, British and Americans will continue the alr war (no soften Germany up, lay waste her industry. And continue thelr inva. sion preparations. ~ » ” ” ” . HEADLINES SPEAK of “enormous losses” in Russia; but text does not always bear this out. We hear of a Russian advance along a 180. mile’ front with 3000 Germans killed. Our own 5th army lost mote than twice that on the narrow Salerno front. : s' » = so» ALSO KEEP an eye on the Pacific and Far East. Actions likely before Christmas. Navy thinking concentrates on that area now the Mediterranean Is cledned up, submarine menace nearly licked. It's one branch of the service that's not waiting for German surrender. Announcement of (Continued on Page 3 —Column n

Germans i in Headlong Flight Under Deluge of Russ Bombs

MOSCOW, Oct, 30 (U. P) German troops in headlong flight from Soviet armored and motorized columns sweeping over the Nogaisk steppes were replried struggling today to escape across the lower Driers ier a deluge of bombs dropped by the Soviet air force,

, Soviet » journal, said the Germans were streaming |

8a of Awov toward clogged rive; crossings, * evidently vielding the steppeland to the onrushing army ol Gen, Fedor I, Tolbukhin, Russian assault planes pounded the overtaxed crossings without!

Reich Plot

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postotfice ! Indianapolis, ‘Ind., Tsuea daily except Bunday

FOR DRIVE

| 80.«~American parachute troops, transported by barges | rather than by airplanes, landed on Japanese-held Choiseul | island Thursday in a thrust intended to outflank the enemy's

“gles,

. [Ing completed the occupation of the fanned out into the mountains and

a orm 1 the Rostiak orridor betwsen the Jower Dnleper and the]

"ee

SLAND: ; ON RO

EE

Paratroopers Lead Invasion, Transported By Barges Instead of Planes: Threaten Japs in North Solomons tg]

By DON CASWELL United Press Mal Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Oct,

last stronghold in the northern Solomons, army and .navy spokesmen disclosed today, Paratroopers A presumably were used in the barge landings bee une of ther special training for the type of fighting

STH CAPTURES“: ce NAZI ‘ANCHOR

T he American forces landed with little opposition on the sovtheastern coast of the island M hours after American and New Zealand amphibious forces had swarmed ashore on the Treasury

islands, more than 100 miles to the Allies Set for Assault Co or to es a ‘Littl y Rougainville 3 On ‘Little Rommel Oo "Douglas MacArthur’ ‘toms - Defense Line. ‘nunique announced snly that “our

parachute roups made a success« [ ful, unopposed landing™%on “helseul; | Later, a spokesman at Adm. WilALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al liam IF. Halsey's South Pacific head Oct, 30 (U. P).—American | quarters revealed that the force and British: forces In Italy moved lunded from barges. [up today to the jump-off positions Opposition Light ‘tor a full-scale attack on the “Lit | The attacking troops met only’ ‘Le Rommel” line after capturing ita ineffectual light bombing by Japs [western anchor of Mondragone in 'anese reconnissance planes ‘while galing ranging up to five miles {on the beaches, the navy spokesman [The Bth and 8th armies were de- iq

[seribed officially as virtually hav: Arter the landings, the Americans

(Nee Map. Page Seven)

[springboards necessary, to the as along the beach, encountering no (sault on the German defense line, opposition from the Japanese gars the most formidable barricade across | pison estimated at 2000 men, bes {the road to Rome, lieved retreating to the northern Bracketed with the seisure of lgnd of the island, : Mondragone waa the capture hy | The surprise blow sealed off the American troops of Pletravalrand in southern flanks of Bougainville is= A Avesmile advaned northwest of land, the last major base hing IRocearomana, The vielory stralght- [the road to Rabaul, New ened the line and gave the Ameri: 0) cant control of high ground. threat. ning the German positions to the (west an Well an a control point of ern end of Bougainville (traffle radiating from the junction, 300 miles north) anh of the

Pour Towns Nelsed- [Islands Moir other towns encompassed by |

the Daily Worker, containing an|

Dutch Report Army's Plan to Overthrow Hitler.

LONDON, Oct. 30 Dutch authorities today + made public documents smuggled out of Germany which purported to show that German military Jeaders were planning to oust Hitler and start peace negotiations with the allles, The documents, which “Dutelt spokesmen said were believed to be authentic, indicated that Field Marshal Wilhelin Keitel, com-mander-in-chief of all German armed forces, was heading the conspiracy which intends to set up a military dictatorship - and take Germany out of the war immediately, The Dutch spokesman turned

| over to the press copies of a letter i supposed to have been written by

Eric Koch, gauleiter and ober. president of Koenigsberg, Prussia, in which the army men were ace cused of conspiring aguinst Hit. ler and the Nazi regime.

NOTRE DAME CONFERS DEGREE - UPON NIMITZ

SOUTH BEND, Oct. 30 (U. P.).—~ Adm, Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, was awarded an honorary, doctorate degree in absentia yesterday at the 100th commencement exercise of the University of Notre Dame,

RAF HITS CHERBOURG LONDON, Oct. 30 (U. P).— Whirlwind and Typhoon light bombers of the Royal Air Force attacked the docks at Cherbourg today and Bostons bombed the Maupertus air fleld. Spitfires escorted the bombers, and no planes were

lost,

TAX OFFICE TO STAY OPEN The offices of the county treas-

pause. Red Star said, while the vans ihe Sth army advance were Pletres

(U. Paid {ported that a defensive battle of gan Felice, hamlets In the, same

guard of Tolbukhin's army gave the! malara, twe miles west of Rocoaros Nazis no peace aground. {mana; Oalvia Risorta, two north(The German high command re- eqet of Sparanise, and Amana and

‘undiminished ferocity” continued |, aq between the Dnieper and the Sea ofl “a pushed wp Azov, Inside the Dnieper bend, It against the shoulder of the “Little sald, fighting was particularly pommel line along Massico ridge severe in the Krivol Rog arén. yd the 8th army closed In on the Adriatic side of the line, vapturing | Montemitro in the Trigno valley,

(Continued on Page Y=Column 1 |

BADOGLIO TO RESIGN WHEN ITALY. IS FREE

‘Full Italian Development

Awaits Rome's Fall’

NAPLES, Oct. 30 (U, P.o.~Mars| shal Pietro Badoglio declared today

Ar the . 8th army

Too Pa MU, Pe= The Gerd radio, backing inte an acknowledgment of threatened disaster in Russia, said today that the Soviet army had "nol yet sueceeded” in cutting off the Gers mans in the Crimea, but held the initiative on the Nogaisk steppes above the $ Biak y puninsain.

-

where attempts by numerically sus perior Soviet forces to break through were checked. The Russian army launched a new offensive yesterday west of Smolensk, the Nazi communique said, with massed in= fantey supported by many tanks and | planes.) “The Russians-already had driven half way across the steppes to within 40 miles of the last land exil from the Crimea, isthmus,

resigit AS 800n a8 the Germans have! been cleared out of Iwly, Padoglio, arriving here ta confer

the allied

were scattering in disorder verging| SWAIY occupation on panic before the Russian army sweep. Tolbukhin's right wing was| “It would not be fair for oneonly seven miles south of the|third of the country 0 decide for| Zaporozhe bend of the Dnieper and the other two-thirds, which is unhis left only £2 miles above Une Able 10 express: itself because "ls dominated by Whe Germans, the, (Continued on “Page 3=Column 6) | Halian premier said. X | He said he came to Naples to con, ALTER EXCISE RATE fer with a Cen. Map » Oarts WASHINGTON, Oct, 30 (U, Poe ‘commander a The house ways and means com- and then political leaders, Frat} mittee today reconsidered its de- |purpose of forming a broader cision to raise the excise tax on over. whisky to-$10 a gallon and agreed on an $8 a gallon tax—$2 above the a Alli M Be . ies on ove

SINKS AXIS U-BOAT

{that he has premised the allies to)

{with military and political agers] the PErekon said ful development of Italy's po-|

Front reports siad the Germans, lca program of government. "a offensive which axis sources

straits, - The communique revealed | the Americans and New et

on the Treasury m

drome north of that island, It indicated that several hundi enemy troops remairiing on Aon island, the larger of yr Treasury islands, had fled to northeastern end. in an effort to withdraw to or Shortland island, 18 miles k 'the north. Allied forces “are taking steps impede a possible evacuation” & | spokesman sald.

On the War Fronts

Oct. 30, 1943

ITALY Allies captured Mondras | gone, western anchor of the Rommel" line, and in advances to five miles prepare for

i,

port already in progress.

' RUSSIA—Russian army drives’ way across Nogalisk sueppes. within 40 miles of Pe isthmus, last land bridge with Crimea,

PACIFIC—Parachute troops o ing ‘their

FL

ein Pacific

urer at the court house will be open until 4 p. m. today and until 5 p. m. Monday for’ last minute

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 30 (U.

stallment Monday,

charges as a result of raids on seven alleged gambling establishments! address. late aay and ig surly today. Beeker personally

taxpayers paying the fall tax inbefore the deadline

Twenty-seven men faced gaming

coast of Rio de Janeiro state, the

Agencia Nacional, a domestic hews

27 Nabbed in Gaming Raids As Police Hit Seven Places

agency, reported.