Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1943 — Page 1

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Price Finds Unauthorized Persons Hampering Free Press.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P). ~The office of censorship today acted to encourage freer presenta-

tion of war news in newspapers and} &

and broadcasters introducing Tevisions effective immediately, it “You are reminded that whenever

but from now on the office of censorship constitutes itself an “appropriate authority” for clearing “maall

power as an appropriate authority “the standing invitation to appeal doubtful cases to this office.” ' : “We Will Try” “This doesn’t mean that the office | jn of censorship is a news releasing agency,” . he added, “but it is an encouragément to come to us when . you have some news you think ought to be published and can't find an

ingness anybody's say-so for fear a violat- | ing the code. even chambers of com-

nts in others, for: Fxampie, ~ had been. able to. persuade news: papers to withhold ren Be do legitimate news.

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By HENRY J. TAYLOR Times Special Writer MADRID, Dec. 10.—I called at the German embassy today to get the reaction of Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, German ambassador to Spain, to the progress of the war. Such visits not being ertirely . » within the tradition of current German journal-

Amy call was jinteresting, to say the least. In fact, the impact was such as to super-

ft ism, the impact of |

'How're We Doing?’ American Writer Asks at Nazi Embassy

ler's last ambassador to the United States, and I wanted to check up on his current views. Alighting from a charcoal-burning Spanish taxi of Amos-'n'Andy vinte age, I paid the driver off in front

massive door. A scrubwoman who was mopping the vestibule let me in, and the next thing I knew a reception clerk was saying “heil Hitler." When I started to speak in English, this man’s interest was prompt. I got his undivided attention. “lI am an American newspaperman,” I said, to see the ambassador.” : He jumped to his fect like a man out of a box, and I found myself alone. I sat down and waited. Quick action appeared in the form

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“his AND STREETCAR

LOADS DECREASING

Charts Show Passenger

Totals Dropping.

For the first time since before the war started, the lines on Indianapolis Railways’ charts showing passenger totals are dropping

{downward and company officials}

frankly are puzzled. “We don’t know why,” said Even B. Walker, public relations director. “Anyone’s guess is as good as ours. “It may be that we are over the hump. . It may be the flu. Or it may be that the canceled war contracts around town have resulted in decreaseed employment.” The downward trend started last Thursday when passenger traffic dropped 2.14 per cent, from 351,842 a year ago to 344,327. Friday showed a decrease of 5.17 per cent; Saturday a slight gain of 85 per cent! Sunday a gain of 1.24 per cent; Monday a decrease of 12.38 per cent; Tuesday a decrease of 7.16 per cent and Wednesday a decrease of 563 per cent. “We'll be able to tell more what it’s all about by the end of the month,” said Mr. Walker,

Hoosier Heroes—

MITCHELL JOHNSON

tended Ben. Davis.

Wounded PFC. MITCHELL C. JOHNSON JR., fighting with the marines on the Gilbert islands, has been wounded, according to a letter dated Dec. 4 to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Johnson, 3249 W. Morris st. Serving with ‘an amphibious

wounds were. not serious and thought he would be home soon. The 19-year-old marine has been overseas a year and was in New Zealand before moving to the Gilberts. He attended Ben

McNutt Stripped Of Draft Power WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P.). ~The White House announced

today that President Roosevelt

has signed legislation which gives sole authority over the selective service system to Director Lewis B. Hershey, taking from War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt all control of the system. The new law. also prohibits induction of so-called administra tive fathers—those with children born before Sept. 15, 1042, who maintain bona fide family relationships with their wives and children—until ail non-deferred eligible non-fathers and single men throughout the nationhave been taken. Selective service spokesmen, however, have said this clause will have virtually no effect inasmuch as that policy has been followed now without legislative direction.

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Buying Up Large Per Cent Of Smaller Companies,

VanNuys Says.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U.P), —A senate subcommittee launched an investigation of the liquor shortage today with members suggesting that four big distillers are seeking to “corner” all available whisky and that the industry is withholding

whisky from the market to make bigger profits at the expense of the public and government.

_ |buying “a large per cent of the ° small distilleries and their stocks.”

of the great festooned gates and walked up the gravel concourse to a!

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Chairman Frederick VanNuys (D Ind.) opened the hearing by com{menting that the four distillers— whom he did not identify—were

He added that the investigating group—a senate judiciary subcommittee—will seek to determine whether the liquor shortage is “real. or artificially created.” |

Sees Hoarding Evidence

VanNuys said there was evidence | of “hoarding for higher prices.” “It looks to me like there is hoarding by the distillers, the wholesalers, retailer and some individuals who bought hundreds and!

investment—all with the idea getting higher prices,” VanNuys told reporters. The matter of withholding {whisky from markets by keeping it in bonded warehouses was brougnt in by Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Mich), who demonstrated in ques~ tioning that the longer whisky is kept in storage, the less taxes are paid on it-—because of evaporation —and the higher eventual prices ‘o The law requires that whisky be aged four years in order to be bonded, but does not require that it be stored longer than that. Commissioner Testifies

The first witness was Stewart Berkshire, deputy internal revenue commissioner in charge of alcohol a. who agreed readily with Per's suggestion that when whis. | ey 1s hela in storage, “the government stands the loss incurred through evaporation.” Berkshire also agreed that . office of price administration allows higher prices for aged whisky, Berkshire estimated that there are about 400,000,000 gallons of whisky now stored in bonded warehouses, 117,000,000 gallons of it between four and eight years old. Questioning elicited testimony

Lt. Cmdr, Edward H. O'Hare

PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec. 10. (U. | P). — Lt. Omdr. Edward H. | “Butch” O'Hare, naval air hero, | is missing in action, a member of | the family said today. O'Hare was | awarded the congressional medal last year for shooting down. five | Japanese bombers and damaging a sixth in a single action in the Pacific when they attacked the aircraft carrier on which he was Stationed.

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LIQUOR REFILLS REVEALED HERE

hundreds of cases of whisky as a Four Tavern Ke Keepers Fined; historic -cdnferences at Cairo and | [

7 Others in State Found Guilty.

Eléven tavern operators, four In Indianapolis, were fined today by

/the state alcoholic beverages com-

mission for refilling bottles with alcoholic beverages. The fines were issued on the basis of evidence obtained by the federal alcohol tax unit, The A B. C. subpenaed the federal records in the cases which ran over a period of several months. John Noonan, secretary of the A. B. C, said none of the evidence showed malicious intent on the part

refilling but in most cases the whisky used was of a lower proof than the brand which the bottle originally contained.

Chemical Tests Given

Alcohol tax unit officials said that chemical analysis is used to deter-

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LONDON SPECULATES ON VISIT FROM FDR

LONDON, Dec. 10 (U-—P.).—The| ' London Daily Mail said today that |Z President Roosevelt “possibly wil | ® bui probably not” visit London on his way home from North Africa. Should the visit occur, the dispatch | said, the President presumably would stay at Buckingham palace

would address a joint session of lords and commons.

Officers Co-operate With Times to Give Wounded Soldiers Best Possible Christmas

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WHEN WOUNDED fighting men are returned from the battlefronts to Billings general hospital, they find themselves under the command of two army doctors who do their utmost to see that the soldiers receive the care and treatment they need.

Col. Guy Owsley, executive officer, who are co-operating with The In-

mine whether a bottle had been refilled. A junior inspector visits a | tavern, obtains a test sample from a bottle and the =ample is then analyzed by a chemist, The officials said that they had found no great increase in bottle! refilling since the whisky shortage They said some sort of a compromise settlement is usually worked out with the tavern opera~tors found to be refilling bottles and the cases do not reach federal court. Indianapolis

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{of the human race,” {revealed today. >|

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FOR FLIES TO MALTA, LAUDS ISLE'S VALOR

Scroll Memorializes Rock’s Resistance in Face Of Bombs.

BY FREDERICK HUDSON United Press Stall Correspondent

VALLETTA, Malta, Dec. 10-

President Roosevelt paid a fying

visit to this most-bombed island in the world Wednesday and told its! people that he and Pritne Minister | Churchill believed they had just

“struck strong blows for the future it can

The President presented to Malta, on the behalf of the people of the]

NAZIS SOON

Mobilization Reported Under Way as Cabinet

Is Reshuffled; Cla Exchange

LONDON, Dec. 10 (U. P. eral mobilization and is shak tempt to quit the axis orbit

im German-Turk of Shots.

) —Bulgaria has ordered gening up her cabinet in an-at-despite a German threat of

{United States, an illuminated scroll | counter-measures, European dispatches said today, and one

vontaining a presidential citation | for wvalorous service “under repeated fire from the skies . far| above and beyond the call of duty.” Mr. Roosevelt, accompanied by an | impressive array of high American naval officers, arrived four-engined Douglas |

aboard a transport escorted by 14 Lightning and Wo Spitfire fighters and at the island's heaviestbombed airfield. i

" Ends Cairo Conferences

| Only two days earlier, he had completed the third of a round of

Tehran involving; besides Churchill, Premier Stalin of Russia, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China and President Ismet Inonu of Turkey. ~ A British delegation headed by | Marshal Lord Gort, governor of Malta, greeted the guests at the airfield. Mr. Roosevelt inspected the {guard of honor in a jeép while the | Stars and Stripes were unfurled land the Royal Malta artillery band played the Star-Spangled - Banner. Addressing a welcoming crowd at the airfield, the President sald he had told Churchill at Casablanca that he intended to visit Malta as soon as “we would ‘once more control the Mediterranean.” “For many months,” he said, “1 bave wanted, on If of the American people,-to Jay some little tribute to Malta. béen able to see

; sh 1 could stay, but 1 have many [hings to do.

Talks of Blows”

“In the past thres weeks, the premier and I feel we two have struck strong blows for the future of the human race” The President then proadced the scroll, which was illuminated beau-

| report predicted a showdown Balkan sources in Cairo

within 48 hours. said the closing of Turkish

| Bulgarian border was accomplished by an exchange of shots

| between Turkish and German troops, - {elaboration that “there was

NAZI N. DNIEPER!

LINE UNHINGED

Russ Capture Znamenka, Railway Hub, After Bloody Battle.

LONDON, Dec. 10 (U sian assault- forces captured strategic Ukrainian railroad junction of Znamenka today affer a violent, three-day battle, scoring the | Russian army's first major victory since- the fall of CGomel two weeks | ago. The loss of Znamenka unhinged | the German defenses of the entire | northern Aector of the Dnieper river bend and opened the way to the nearby stronghold of Kirovograd and the Bug river line beyond. Premier-Marshall Josef Stalin is-

of major scope in the Ukrainé since the Clermans massed their tanks and troops for heavy counter-at-tacks which all but stalled the Russ offensive. Military observers believed the fall of Znamenka would result in the quick disintegration of the Ger« man positions between Krivol Rog and Nikopol, central and southern

tifully with the American and Brit-! ish flags and the Malta urms, and | {read the citation. “In the name of the peoples of | ithe United States of America, 1 salute the island of Malta, its people and its defenders, who, in the | cause of freedom, justice and decency for the whole world, have rendered valorous service far above and beyond the call of duty,” the citation said. “Under repeated fire from the Jakies, Malta stood alone but unafraid in the center of the sea, one

and British circles were hopeful hein; .q° yore Harley Underwood, 2432 tiny, bright flame in the darkness—

a beacon of hope for clearer days which have come, “Malta's bright story of human fortitude and courage will be read by posterity with wonder through all the ages. What was done in this island - maintains ‘all the highest tradition of gallant men and. women who from the beginning of .time have lived and died to preserve ¢iv{lization for all mankind.” It was Signed “Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 7, 1043” ’

Ser in Party

The scroll was placed In a wooden case and handed to Lord Gort by Maj. John Boettiger, the president's son-in-law. Members of the President's party, in addition to Boettiger, included} Adm. William D. Leahy, chief-of-

E [staff to Mr. Roosevelt; Gen. Dwight

D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean; Lt.

Dale, commanding officer, and Lt.

the Northwest African air forces; Maj. Walter Smith, Eisenhower's chief-of-staff; Rear Adm. Wilson Brown, naval aid to Mr, Roosevelt; Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, milltary nid to Mr. Roosevelt; Rear Adm. Ross T. Mcintyre, surgeon general of the navy and personal physician to the President, and

: |Harry Hopkins, spect Sasisialt

the President.

WALTER BRADFORD

ON DRAFT BOARD 5

Succeeds " Roscoe Conkle Who Has Resigned.

* Walter Bradford, Wayne town-

anchors of the Dnieper bend de- | fenses.

Rome Road,

United Press Si

| of heights north of the main road

tattered winter line...

forces of Lt. Gen.

Camino-Maggiore summits, Thousands of shells from quickfiring U. ‘8. artillery battered the | heights before they were stormed | by infantry. Reynolds Packard,

| watched the assault from dn eob{servation post, said smoke and] dust from the huge barrage enveloped the entire mountain within 15 minutes after the firing began.

PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 10 (U. P.). — American domination of broad mid-Pacific sealanes, nced

P.) —~Rus- | the |

sued a special order of the day an-| nouncing the capture of Znamerrka,

& last, 1 have

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers,

but added without

no confirmation of a number lof casualties on both filed

1 f- LONDON, Dec. 10.—~The Ger n Transocean Agency said to- | that the United States and Britain have concentrated at | least 50 infantry, tank and aire borne divisions—750,000 men--in the British Isles for an invasion of Western Europe (his winter or spring.

A Bwedish press report from | Bucharest said Marshal Fevel Chak« | mak, Turkish chief of staff, who { accompanied President Ismet Inonu lt the conference at Cairo with | President Roosevelt and Prime Min« {ister Churchill, had offered to re. stgn because. of his opposi Turkey's éntry into the war on the side of the allies.

Nigis Warn Bulgaria A Nasi warning to Bulgaria hat to

bert von Richtofen, ‘German f ister at Sofia, presented 8 note Premier Dobri Bojllov at & twoe hour yesterday. “In case tunism, should change without consulting her German ally, this would be considered an une friendly step which would cause counter-acts,” the note was quoted as saying. Allied sources in Cairo said that

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Yanks Fake Heights Above

Germans Tiring

By C. R. CUNNINGHAM

aff Correspondent

Dec. 10.—American capture to Rome and a successful storming

of the Moro river by Canadian troops accelerated the allied offensive in Italy today amid signs the Germans may be abandoning thelr

Smashing German piliboxes with bazooka rocket guns, American Mark W. Clark's 5th army swept the Germans from|to dominate the road from Mignano 3000-foot peeks on Mt. San Nucro/into the Liri river valley, while across the road from the conquered Clark's British troops, moving into

{the flat plains, cleared the south | bank of the Garigliano river near its junction with the Lirl, Pighting hand-to-hand amid | cloud -covered rock masses, the

Venafro to win heights overlooking {thé villages of San Pietro and San | Vittore along Mignano gap.. They firmly controlled Mignano, although

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Daring U. S. Fleet Smushes ~ Jap Stronghold of Maura

"| situation now is indeed grave for us” and urged them tu step up the production of planes and war. . ete passes beyond range of possible Japanese retaliation. : But there was | enemy interference which was made Wednesday four days after

;and shells