Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1943 — Page 1

WASHINGTON. —Miss

Malvina Thompson, who is

Ms. Roosevelt's personal secretary, called up at 8:30 and said could le come over at five and have tea with Mrs, Roose- . velt. “Being a man of few words, I'said “Sure

1 did add, however, that the only coat 1 had was an old

gray one with the elbows out, and 1 meant out.

‘Thompson said they didn't care, if I didn’t. ‘So | washed my face and at 4:40 put on my army mackinaw and walked around Lafayette park for 20 min-

Ie G G. 1. or chloracetophenone blues are "and Set. Amelia

Tear Gas Gives Gay WAGs G. I. Blues

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“Miss

“Thalasines (left to right} “have just emerged from the base gas chamber at Stout -

In Coat Oo At El 00S,

By ERNIE PYLE

"FORECAST: Fair and colder tonight; slowly rising temperature tomorrow,

utes to get up my courage, and then plunged into the White

House. : ” 8 =

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A BUTLER TOOK my coat, and an usher stood wait-

~ ing to escort me into the waiting room. I shook hands

with him out of excitement, have done. -

which 1 suppose 1 shouldn't

1 sat in a small vol velvet oom of the. ground floor,

with a big painting of President Taft on one wall and one of Teddy Roosevelt on the other. Down the hall I could

is all in a WAC's life for

Named on Draft Teviow Group to Appease Angry Boards.

Col. Robinson . Hitchcock, state

draft director, today added Harold

Beanblossom, Draft Board 12 chairman, to the replacement schedule

Get Their

Colo. Nov. 161 | {freshman

PT: COLLINS, ©. P.).~<~Seversl man: girls at Colorado State college | recovering today from jor injuries suffered in a | brawl with older giris as a direct result of the shortage of men, | E In years custom at the sollege was fof senior mel to kidnap the freshmen and leave them stranded: in the

{War Correspondent Expects

At Least Four More

Years of War.

By HELEN RUEGAMER > Two hundred Legionnaires. got

country so they couldn't att the:annual harvest dance. But with coeds outnumber:

ond day of their conference here,

review committee, thus placing on the committee a man thoroughly conversant with problems of the

- Jocal boards. Mr. Beanblossom ‘resigned to take

the new post. His resignation is the first of any member of Board 12 since the board's creation in the fall of 1040. “Mr. Beanblossom's appointment,” Col. Hitchcock said, “is in line with

4 ing boys about 10 to 1, the girls decided such procedure was foolish. So the older girls decided to take over the custom themselves, despite the bitter protests of the freshmen coeds. Several tried to escape the “kidnaping” party, but most were caught and’ left on the | plains while the older women enjoyed the dance,

. the desire of state hendguarters soli = ©

have on the committee, a member

thoroughly conversant with ‘local draft board problems and procedures.” Members of & majority of the county's }5 local draft boards had criticized severely ‘in two meetings recently the deferment of single men and non-fathers nex: ithe ge t schedules ou piscemen plant personnel directors by the replacement -commitiee. One ~poard member even went so far as to charge the replacement commit with either being “not capable not sincere.” : : Beanblossom Present. As chairman of Board 12, Mr. Beanblossom was present at both

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meetings. Other members of the replacement schedule review committee, acts as an advisory board to state director, are Capt. 8. Selective

EE ee *_ member of ‘Board 12 will be appointed shortly by the president S nohinaion, submited "TIMES FEATURES © ON INSIDE PAGES

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NEW DEVICE SAVES

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TORPEDOED T TANKERS

Compressed Air Air Prevents Loss of Many Ships.

LONDON, Nov. 16 (U. P.).—British- tankers now are fitted with a new compressed air device for use when torpedoed, and “tanker ‘after tanker has been brought to port after receiving torpedo damage

which would have been fatal” the revealed |

OF N. W. INDIANA,

Samim Arma Tam... N 1s. m.. “> am, mn

| dicted * another year of fighting

with discussions in rapid fire order on world war II activities, membership, Americanism and rehabilitation. ~The department commanders and adjutants from every state opened their conference on “arms to fight with and jobs to live for” yesterday at national Legion headquarters. - J. Norman Lodge, war correspondent recently returned from the South Pacific, in his address, pre-

against Germany, and at least “four solid years of bloody warfare in the Pacific against the Japs.” “It will probably be a long struggle, but when we take Bougainville, Rabaul in New Britain and Kavieng jon New Ireland, then we'll begin the Pacific war,” he stated. “We've been jockeying for position until now.” A world war I veteran and cor< respondent in Europe during the invasion of Norway and the Lon-

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Hoosier Hefoes—

4 HOOSIER SOLDIERS, |

rp te ke a TES Judges

ON REMEDY HR

Remy Favors “Severe Pun-. |

ishment’; Courts Pre-

fer Reform.

By SHERLEY UHL Should Wayward youth be severely

| punished?

“Definitely yes,” say Safety Board President Will H, Remy, Police

* | Chief Clifford Beeker and other ad-

ministration law Splofcement oficials. Criminal ahd ‘Javentie court

ment." } | ‘This strategic question has occas joned. re dissension ‘hetween

philosphic jor threat to the ‘co-operative functioning of the city's police and judicial authorities,

Fear Fight te Finish

Hitherto unpublicized because parties to the wrangle fear the consequences of any fight to the finish

ifications of the problem have fermented into the open in public “off the record” addresses on both sides

down to business today in the sec-|or the fence,

‘Safely Board President Remy and other police officials long have conténded that juvenile and criminal courts in Indianapolis have dis-

‘played inordinate léniency toward

teen-age felons with long criminal records. Their chronic complaint is that police expend much time and energy tracking down wayward adolescents, but that the: courts “turn them right out on the streets again” On the surface, court records tend to support this ‘theory. A cursory

provides’ this: striking example: ‘Shows 14 Arrests

A boy, 17 years old, was arrested in Janupry, 1943, while trying to break into a filling station. No disposition of this case has been recorded, but, his previous slate shows 14 arrests, “The first occurred in 1939 after he had run away from home and was returned to his parents by police. The second arrest was for

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No Henie Double

To Appear Here

SAILOR WOUNDED

All on Latest Casualty List

From Europe. Wounded

Everyone who goes to the Sonja Henie Jee’ show will see Sonja Henie—not a reasonable e facsimile. Rumors have been floating

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pear only Thursday, Friday and Saturday in her ice revue, with someone else filling in for the rest of the shows. But Dick Miller, Coliseum manager, assured Miss Henie's fans today that she had made reservations at the Marott hotel until the last of the month at each performance. And there are of tickets

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1943

rnie

Entered as! Becond-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind. Issued.

1 waited about a minute, and could sense by the movement of the voices that the First Lady was showing her

other guests to the front door. - door, with te aBeF introducing. us.

MRS. ROOSEVELT is very, very

And then she was at my

happy- like. She

said she wanted to see my coat because Miss Thompson’ had told her 1 would be ragged. So 1 showed her my elbows

and said 1 sure wasn't ooking,

Japs Rely Upon U.S. for Truth

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 16 (U. P.).—~Many Japanese listen to. American broadcasts to find out how the war really is going 1.1. for thelr.couptry, -formep in-. ternees returning home aboard |

“Aid county probation off 1" cers advocate “réform, not’ “punish= F

over juvenile crime policies, ram- |

$800,000 Rental Contract

glance at juvenile files, for Jastance,

the exchange Hiner Qripsholm, . sald today: oe The’ vast malority of the people, however, live under a delusion that Japan has won nothing but victories since the surprise assault upon Pearl Harbor. Spd The Japanese propagandists have even found “victory” in such crushing American triumphs as the battle of the Coral sea and the recapture of Attu. The Domel (Japanese official news agency) account of the loss of Attu - described the hee stand of the Japanese

I told her 1 thought it

EXPLOSION AT

VA.NAVY DEPOT

Tramadol Blast Hear For 60 Miles: 3G Are Injured. An—explosion atthe naval mine |

depot, early today, resulted in at least six deaths and injuries to 20

“{ingly small amount’ of damage to

thé rest of this historic James river, town. “The explosives warehouse which: blew up at 12:56 a.m. a blast

Hi wi how “i

repatriates said, gave the im- | pression that the _Nipponese, had won an outstanding success,

ws Fm. CHARGE IS BARED

Details Revealed to U. S. Jury.

Details of negotiations that led * an $800,000 contract for rental of equipment to build the Charlestown ordnance plant were outlined in testimony before a federal court jury hege today. The testimony was given in the | cise of six men, including an army ‘leutenant-colonel, charged - witn conspiracy to overcharge the government $190,000, _ Willilam_.J. Rohan. vice president} lot Winston Bros, general contractors for the Charlestown project, testified at léngth concerning his negotiations with government representatives and Kentucky contractors regarding rental of equipment at the government's expense. The government's - fraud charge was based upon a rental contract for machinery from Corum Bros, Madisonville, Ky. U. 8. attorneys charge that overpayments totaling i were made to Corum Bros.

their associates with ap(Continued on Page §—Column 1)

ALLIES HALT NAZI

Yank - Bombers Score Hit On German Warship.

LONDON. Nov-“1§ (U. P.).—Brit-

: FI TAt Wad heard ia is were taken.” The account, the

| wallis’ surrender to American revolutionary forces in 1781,

ADVANCE ON LERO|

| Lee Hall—were reported in serious ‘condition.

isolated from the main section . x the town made famous by Corn-

Damage outside the depot area was reported to have been confined to broken windows. Oapt. R. B. Kirkpatrick, the depot | ~ commanding officer, reported timt damage at the depot was “extensive,” but that no estimate could be given immediately. Even officers at the depot were being kept miles away from the area at dawn, lest additional explosions occur while fire fighting crews continued checking the ruins,

- Flames Rise 250 Feet

Eyé-witnesses sald that flames shot 250 feet into the air when the

what looked like balls of fire-shoot-ing in all directions. Persons at Littie Creek, Va. 60 miles away, reported hearinig the blast and seeing a glare of light in the sky, The Gloucester-Yorktown ferry was docking about three miles down the river from the depot when the explosion came. Passengers said ‘it felt as though the 400-ton boat had been lifted three or four feet, and then let down on the water with a hard smack. L. XK. Shackleford, the ferry engineer, was doused with bilge oil which was forced into the engine room, but suffered no injury. All of the dead and injured were civilians. Naval officials here originally reported the death . toll. at} eight. but subsequently revised it “from six to eight.” Two were reriously injured but latest reports said their condition was “favorable.”

Lighting Is Wrecked

The blast, sharply felt here in system at the Yorktown depot out of order, but fire crews nevertheless succeeded in extinguishing or controlling all the blazes within two hours. All persons not directly connected with rescue activities were ordered out of the area. ‘The press relations office here listed the following identified dead: J. F. Remind, leading man, whose wife, Lucretia, resides on Route No. 4, Limestone, Tenn. and Robert A. Taliaferro, Malachi Taliaferro, Leonard C., Brown, Harold Washington and Charlie Lucas, all Negroes residing at Lee Hall, Va. Two of the injured—Lewis Prince and Boswell J. Seawell, Negroes of

ANTONESCUE SEES HITLER By UNITED PRESS The London radio said today that

REAL PERSON— Dr. H . .e

daily exept Sunday.

ips Tea With

“hear Mrs. Roosevelt laughing and talking with people.

“ithe objectives. YORKTOWN, Va. Nov. 16 (U.P).| hour-long air alarm around noon, and gunfire “from far was heard in the capital. : Flying the hundreds of miles from British bases, the 43

[explosions occurred, followed by|

. | Dnepropetrovsk;

ONBENGA |

1S.

— ridiculous to buy new clothes only a few weeks, and she said, “Perfectly ridiculous. 1

agree with you.” We went up to the secon she operated herself, and into

had bookcases and several small desk pictures of the Presi~

dent scattered around.

There was a low tea table loaded down with shining silver samovars and teapots and white linen and cups-and..

Mrs, Roosevelt said (Continued on Page

things.

N ORWEGIAN RAMPARTS BLASTED BYW

LEADERS SPLIT 5 OE WN GIANT Greek Botts Reided-a as , Attacks

. Are Speeded Up on Enemy

Bases 1 In

LONDON, Nov. 16 tw, 7.

{ican flying fortresses and a third of Liberators smashed tod day at vital ‘military targets in Norway, and returning crewmen reported that the resuits were “excellent.” First reports of the assault in force on the Norwegian 1

ramparts of Nazi Europe did 1 The Berlin ra

distant?”

$0 30 others, but caused. 4 Surpris- { American alrmen found conditions good over the target areas

‘GOMEL UNDER . “SIEGE BY

|New Soviet Drive Toward Poland. Threatens to Split Nazis.

MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (U. P)) ~Russian armies rolled westward today on a 200-mile line, laying siege to Gomel and Rechitsa in a White Russian drive which threatened to split the German forces by unhing-

-}ing-the central and southern. fronts

on both sides of the Pripet marshes, —Pront-reports-indicated-the fall of Gomel, key German base In lower White Russia, was imminent, and Rechitia, across the Dnieper 25 miles to the west, was equally insecure. Both bad _been by-passed and now are under direct assault. (The German radio reported that well over 32 Russian divisions totaling some 500000 men were attacking in five closely synchronized sectors of a 500-mile front—six to seven - in the Dnieper bend near “strong forces" Krivol Rog; 10 divisions in the Cherkassy area; “strong™ forces in a direct attack on Rechitsa; and 16 divisions along the SmolenskOrsha highway. Den Dents or penetra-

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YANKS MEET NAZI

5th Forced to Yield Small. Area Near Mt: Croce.

ALLTED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov, 16 (U. P.).-Strong German counter-attacks aimed at stalling an allied threat to the western end of the trans-Italy Naz winter defense line have forced American troops to yield a small area of Mt. Croce near Venafro, it was disclosed today. While the remainder of the Ital. ian battlefront remained quiet, American forces of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's 5th army, fighting in severe weather, were forced to yield

‘ground before two Nazi thrusts in

+| the rugged terrain, They lost only one feature of the

{hil dng Hrly held other heights

above Venafro.

THRUSTS IN ITALY

when 1 was out of uniform

d floor in an elevaior which a pleasant west room which

why didn’t +1-sit-on-the end 1, Second Section)

Balkans.

y. Ty Wo- o formations of Amen

— wn

wot permit the identification of dio reported that Oslo had an

and visibility ideal, They met comparatively [light anti-aircraft and. figh

“The ‘8th Eo ——— it powerful blow at Norway sen one formation of Flying Fo seeking out a target of eto

Joranes. Even to a. ihe ta pricing? of AVIgALIOY, ANd. “servers. believed it would have been impossible by night or in poor visis bility. i Thé crewmen said they were posts tive they dumped their explosives “right on the nose.” A second Fortress formation cons centrated on another target some miles distant, while the Liberators bombed military installations at still another - point. The heavyweight bombers flew. unescorted. ‘Direct Hits Scored Men aboard the Fortresses attack ing the prime target agreed that five bombs from the lead plane plunked squarely in the middle of the target area and caused so much damage that the objective would have been well messed up even if no more explosives had. been dropped. But many other direct hits were scored, sending smoke billowing from the heart of the . target. Then, the crewmen said, the most terrific explosion many of then had ever seen sent the whole ares spouting like a voleano. © =~ One man- swore he could hear the blast even at the height of his Fortress and gbove the roar of the four great engines. Others agreed that their planes were lifted suddenly as if a giant force were pulls ing them upward, Jugosiavs Join Fight > In the Mediterranean theater,

them by President Roosevelt at Bowling field, Washington, on their