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6.0.P. CONTEST A GAINS IMPETUS
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85 File for Com Committeemen In Fight to, Control |
County Machine.
The rush of Republican regular organization committeemen to file declarations of .candidacles continyed today in a mass effort to pre-
ganization candidates seeking to gain control of the party machinery. | A total ‘of 85 filings for Republican precinct committeemen were Sneed esterday Jud oan, a recfor the first two days a only four precinct offices
organization under the banner of the city ball
tee. Walker Opposes Bosson
Samuel C. Walker, who filed for!|
Republican . committeeman yesterday, withdrew that declaration to-1 day and filed his candidacy for the | Republican nomination for county ¢ommissioner, second district, opposing William (Bud) Bosson Jr. Incumbent candidate. Paul Brown, Republican surveyor, filed his dec- | laration for re-election. The Democrats were running far. .behind. in. their filing: -eight candidates listing tions, Five of these were for pre-. cinct ° committeemen, indicating there will be few, if any, | for precinct offices. At the secretary of state office George E. Kincaid, former Marion |
county council member, and Her- | bert E. Hill, filed declarations of |
their candidacies for Republican | state representatives from Marion! county. Mansiel Hagerty, South Bend, | filed for the Democratic nomination for SoRgTes; from the third, district.
CLERIC OFFERS T0 WED QUADS’ MOTHER
DENVER, March 4 Archbishop Preston H. Powers of | Denver, spiritual leader of the Church of America, Inc. said today he had proposed to Norah Carpenter, unwed English mother of the now-famous quadruplets, and was “sincerely hoping and praying” she would accept.
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ap IRC TON, March 4 (U. P.) —Frankljn D. Roosevelt began his 2th year as President today by attending divine services at which eo were voiced that the nations of the world soon would be guided into the ways of justice, truth and peace: Eleven years ago, the President stood at the Capitol, his head bared to March winds, and solemnly assured a nation that was reeling from
a devastating depression, that it Seeks News
had “nothing to fear but fear itWife Told Flier ‘Lost’
self.” i, Today, dressed in a dark gray Seven Days Before Promotion.
business suit, his head bowed, he sat in the East room of the White House—surrounded by members of By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stam Writer WASHINGTON, March 4—
his family, - military and civilian
WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P.) ~The 11th anniversary of her move into the White House thday
The exact moment of her departure has net been officially disclosed, but it is believed she has alrgady packed her 45 pounds of luggage for an early takeoff.
personal, secretary to Senator Willis, beseiged the war department for information concerning him. ° The department previously had reported that he had been promoted from second to first lieutentn “in the field” on Feb. 13. Last night she received that dreaded telegram from Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio, the adjutant general. It read: “With deep regret I must inform you that 2d Lt. Willlam
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{aldes, cabinet members, supreme court justices and congressional lleaders—and sought guidance in overcoming his greatest challenge, the winning of the war. The Rev. Endicott Peabody, headmaster emeritus of Groton school, Groton, Mass., which the President attended, read the prayers as he has
each year since 1933. The prayer for the President and those in civilian authority said: “Oh Lord, our heavenly father, the high and mighty ruler of the universe, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon eaith;
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Hoosier Heroes—
LT, ROSEN MISSING IN RAID ON REICH
Plc. R. L. Howard Dies,
From Wounds in Italy.
An Indianapolis soldier is listed as killed in Italy and a local air-
'man is missing over Germany. | Killed: Pfc. Ronald L. Howard, 1414 N. King ave. Missing: Lt. Leonard Rosen, hus-
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Forecast Blots LIE J . Visions of Spring ONE OF THE GIRLS at the weather bureau saw a fine wriggling night crawler this morning as she stepped outside her home, She had visions of going fishing, but it didn't mean a thing. When she got to work she found a forecast calling for heavy snow this afternoon and evening.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m..... 435 10am... 45 Tam... 46 11am... 45 | with snow flurries tonight. To 8am... 47 12 (Noon).. 44 cinch the matter, the temperature 9am..... 47 1p. m..... 39 will hit 20 degrees by morning.
Powers said he sent his proposal |
to Miss Carpenter by mail along with his photograph, his genealogy | and his life history, “I am sure that you will make A most desirable wife and mother,” he wrote. “I think that we are an ideal couple to promote international solidarity and good will between the United States and the British empire.”
RANDOLPH SCOTT WEDS RIVERSIDE, Cal, March 4 (U. P.).—Tall, lanky film actor Ran-
+ dolph Scott, who recently returned
from an overseas trip entertaining servicemen, was married today to Marie Pat Stillman in the chambers of Judge Roy A. Moore in the county courthouse. :
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, March 4. — Cingresdions] sources close to navy give this as their best guess on what the Japs plan to do in the face of our Pacific push: Eventually the Nips will have to pull into the “inner ring.” This includes East China sea, but not Formosa. The “inner ring” might extend as much as 300 to 450 miles : from the main Jap islands. “»
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Inevitable battle between Jap navy and ours will be delayed till we cross this ring. Japs won't risk an all-out naval battle till they have adequate air cover. Other sources think Japan will try to gb on the offensive when we invade western Europe. Their dope is that Nazis have sent a last call
for Jap help; have explained ‘that gr only chance is when we're busy in western Europe. . . » » " . DON'T COUNT Turkey out, despite her present coolness. . Unless
Turkey contributes to the victory, she can expect little post-war consideration. And she knows it. .
She's vulnerable in peace or war; needs powerful allies. Russia 38d Beilain will dominate Europe after vietory. Q. ED, eT a a SIE \ SIMILAR CONSIDERATIONS apply to Spain. Washington reEL a a Si Hl ua Spanish factions,
done at. such anniversary. .services-
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RT CLASS OF FARMERS T0 BE RECHECKED
All ‘State Boards Told To Reclassify Men in ‘2C and 3C.
Indiana's local draft boards to-
1day were instructed by Col. Robin-
son Hitchcock, stale director; to begin immediate reclassification in sequence of their ordgr numbers of
{all farmers deferred in classes 2-C land 3-C.
“It is imperative,” he said in his letter, “that.these cases take pri-
jority over all other - local board
functions except the filling of calls as it is most necessary for persons responsible for farm production to know at the earliest possible moment what manpower will be available for 1944 production.”
Start With Single Men
The draft boards ‘will start first with the single men in 2-C. After reclassification, all farmers deferred will be placed in 2-C with six months the maximum deferment period. In following the President's recent order for reclassification of farmers, Col. Hitchcock instructed the draft boards to review “critically” all the deferred farm registrants under the age of 26. He said that the local boards should give preference to pre-Pearl Harbor farm fathers when it could be done without harming production. In several counties, draft officials said, many boards already have started reclassification of farmers.
16 Units Is Minimum’
Col. Hitchcock tcld the beards that henceforth 16 war units are the minimum on which a farmer can be considered for deferment. Last year, eight war units were the minimum for deferment but most draft boards voluntarily set up 16 units as the minimum. (A war unit is one milk cow or the equivalent amount of work.) The boards also were instructed to arange as soon as possible for conferences with the local war boards io Jecdnmend Lio swe
minimums of war units for their areas, It is hoped that most of the boards can agree to scale the minimum requirements upward from | the nationally prescribed 16 units, State headquarters, acting on information provided by the state {war board and the Purdue university deparmtent of agriculture, will approve the minimums agreed upon or will fix other minimums.
Provides ‘Home Rule’
“This system,” said Col. Hitchcock, “will provide for the maxi-
area. The draft boards and county war boards can decide just what the “minimum war unit require= ments should be in their respective areas.” The war boards will furnish to the draft boards as they review the 2-C and 3-C 'deferments the 1943 production records and the 1944 production plans of the respective farmers who are in draft age. Col. Hitchcock said that 6.35 per {cent of all Hoosier draft registrants {between the ages of 18 and 37 were iin classes 2-C and 3-C on Feb. 1. The state director's letter to draft boards was issued following conferences with Marshall Vogler, chairman of the state war board.
HOWE CLASHES WITH FAVORED. ANDERSON
Amo Meets - Greenfield
Sectional Battle.
By FRANK WIDNER Totdl strangers on the hardwood —Howe and Anderson—clashed here ithis afternoon in the first game of 'the Indianapolis regional tournament as 64 teams throughout Indi18 began to fight it out for the right of becoming the “Sweet Six-
. |teen” of the 1944 I.H.S.A A. classic.
The Howe-Anderson game in the Tech gym got under way at 1:30 p.m, and one hour later Greenfield
E | will face little Amo. The victors in
the two contests will meet at 8 o'clock tonight to determine the local champion. Throughout Indiana, more than 700 eager players and close to 70,000 spectators joined 3,000,000 fans at tk- halfway mark of the state’s biggest sports tournament competition, : Of the original 778 squads which started firing in the sectionals a week ago, only 16 will remain in the running tonight. The field will be further reduced to four after next
coliseum March 18. The fact that the Hornets and
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mum amount of home rule in each{ Mr. Tilson has estimated
APORBCASY: Moderate to heavy snow this afternoon and evening. Snow flurries tonight. Colder tonight and tomorrow with temperature about 20 tomorrow,
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued | daly except Sunday
FLYING FORTS MAKE ATTACK OF WAR
1 $976 New,
By EARL RICHERT
THE THREAT OF OPA | price ceilings has halted, temporarily at least, the runaway trend in used car prices here.
It has made the dealers reluctant to buy any but quickturnover cars, the sellers anxious to sell right now and the buyers disposed to wait for possible lower prices. But the prices are still high enough to make these the “Miami boom” days of the used car industry, especially for the so-called “clean,” late-model cars, I can testify to that after offering my 1941 Pontiac club coupe for sale on N. Meridian's automobile row yesterday. . All Offers Above Cost
I paid $976 for the car in October, 1940, and no-one, as I shopped | along, even thought of “insulting” me by offering less than I paid. At the first place I stopped, I was tipped by a salesman to go to another dealer who specializes in Pontiacs. This “specialist” offered me $1000 cash on the spot. But after I told him I was as shopping around
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YOTE REGISTRATION
Eight Branch Offices Open;
Longer Hours Set.
of eight branch offices over the county to accommodate voters who
today by County Clerk A. Jack Tilson. The registration office in the courthouse will be kept open until 6 p. m. all week days, starting Mon- | day and from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.| on Sundays, starting March 12, until} the deadline April 2.
more than 50000 voters must reregister and that thousands more new votérs must file their registra=|
Reporter Finds Prices of Prices of Old Cars Still High But Threat of OPA Ceilings Has Halted Runaway Trend.
SCHEDULE EXPANDED
can’t get downtown were announced |
that |
lew, $1160 Used |
ONLY 1 HURDLE
‘Claims Allies | Failed to Deliver Tanks and . Aircraft.
ANKARA, March 3 (Delayed) (U. |P.) —Authoritative Turkish sources said today that Turkey asked the | | alles at the Cairo conference for 500 tanks and 300 planes as the! | sole condition of her entry into the war, and that failure to deliver | {them is the only reason the Turks | {are not now fighting. | Turkey has maintained a consist{ent policy throughout the war, and | {her attitude remains unchanged, | though she has been subjected toc | | considerable unofficial prossars; re- | | sponsible quarters reporte They said the Turks A con-
| vinced that the present deadlock lover the British delivery of war | | materials to Turkey is surmount- | able. The non-delivery of the requested {tanks and planes is the immediate faire of the deadlock, informants]
d, adding that Turkey considered |
oh a price small for throwing in her lot with the allies.
Asked at Cairo
The request was made at the | conference among President {Ismet Inou, Prime Minister Wins-| | ton Churchill and President Roose-
Extension of the hours for regis- | veIt the authoritative sources re- base is now practically defenseless.)
tration of voters and establishment | Ported. B- on. At the tifie Turkey was sald to
{have informed. Britain that she! would enter the war actively when | ithe deliveries of the 500 tanks and| : 300 planes were made, regardless of other requests for materials which, if delay were unavoidable, could be ‘ delivered after the war. |x Turkey enters the war at all, {informants said, she wants to do so basis. They, added that British insist{ence on Turkish bases from which
the royal air force could operate
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T0 WAR-TURKEY
an offensive—not defensive—
tions if they are eligible to vote in| ! was tantamount to offering Turkey the May 2 primary. jan “unconditional condition™ which Voters who have moved out of! | Turkey feels should not be the at-| their old precincts or failed to vote titude of an ally. : in either of the 1942 elections must “Not Artificial” re-register to be eligible to vote in| | Behind an apparent Turkish con-|
the primary. . { ———————————————————————— viction that the deadlock over the
WOODRING PREDICTS | cclivery of war materials is sur
| mountable was an attitude that the é 9 | Anglo-Turkish alliance is the fruit THIRD CANDIDATE of natural, political and strategical NEW YORK, March 4 (U. Pp.) — | factors, and not of an artificial Former Secretary of War Harry situation. Woodring, chairman of the Ameri-| Informants said the Turkish govcan Democratic party, predicted | ernment had not received a single without qualification today that his| official communication from Britorganization would have a third|ain stating that the shipment of | candidate in the field in the coming | supplies had been halted. The only | national election if President Roose-| indication of such a suspension, velt is nominated for a fourth term.|they said, was information given Woodring, who is en route to Bos-| Turkish supply representatives ton where he will meet with anti-| Cairo by a British shipping omein
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{New Deal Democrats tomorrow, | that cargo was being unloaded at!
p ruled out the possibility that his{an Egyptian port and no planes
| ing both men and equipment out
PRICE FOUR CENTS
FIRST BERLIN
Believe Americans to Precision Raid Targets Which Were Not Wiped Out by Saturation Methods.
LONDON, March 4 (U. P.),—American Flying Fore
tresses bombed Berlin by daylight today in the first attack
(of the war on the German capital by United States bombers, | A United States army headquarters communique ane ‘nounced that American heavy hombers attacked targets ‘in eastern Germany, and one formation struck at a Berlin target. The Nazi radio acknowledged the attack on Berlin—e ‘the first daylight raid on the capital by -allied heavy bombe ers—even before it was announced officially, admitting that some raiders reached the city and claiming that several crashed in the immediate environs.
Flying Difficult
Soon thereafter United States army headquarters ise sued a communique which said:
“Formations of American heavy bombers attacked tars gets in eastern Germany. One formation reported attacking a target in the Berlin district. The flight was made through (difficult flying conditions, with clouds often as high as 30,000 feet.” The American formations swept in against Berlin from the west with strong fighter protection, a German broads |cast said, but only a small BELIEVE RABAUL fo reached the “built up | area” of the city. Meanwhile the first squadWILL FALL SOON returning from Germany re= | ported that no German fighters 'rose to challenge their bomber ‘Navy. Planes es Bord Two formations and fighter escort. Crewmen of the forces returning Islands 1000 Miles | early said they flew five miles higiy F T k [ove solid cloud banks. The 60 ! rom 1oKkYyo. {below zero temperatures caused | WASHINGTON, March 4 (U. P). {numerous cases of frostbite and | —American seizure of Rabaul was severe oh gondiiors. ned te | e rtresses, however, believed close at hand today in he gitle heavy anti-aircraft fire whigh light of evidence indicating that| jaid a black carpet atop the billow= | this vitally important Japanese ing white clouds. At 27,000 Feet Meanwhile, U. S. troops have T. Sgt. Thomas S. Dugan of News {pushed their lines forward in all ton Mass, radio man on his 25th | directions on Los Negros in the mission, said: | Admiralty islands and navy Ven-| ~The German fighters probably tura bombers made a daring raid had trouble trying to get through ‘on Paramushiro and Shimushu in| the clouds and icing. We were at the Kurile islands only about 1000 27,000 feet and the clouds were right miles north of Tokyo. below us, Flak was very heavy Rabaul, on the northern tip of! where we dropped out pombe: uk New Britain island, has been sub-| that was the only trouble—that | jected to one of the most intensive, |the Trostpite Which # ot. of the buyy d. prolonged aerial assaults of any! suff kre . A | “We had a Thunderboit escort Snes base in the Southwest | most of the way into the target, bus cific, There it rezson. to befleve apparently we did not need it.” +that the Japanese, realizing the, The. Berlin radio_indicated that
hopelessness of their position now! conditions were ideal for American
(that Rabaul is virtually ringed > overcast bombing which kept down
(American airfields, have been pull-| ppp of the German fighter | force. } DNB said the raiders took advan | tage of the weather to attempt the attack on Berlin, adding: “Although seriously impeded by | weather conditions, German air defenses immediately went into ac« tion, dispersing the majority of the approaching American formations before they reached the target.
Claims Ne Damage
“Only a small number of American bombers advanced as far as the area of Berlin. Not a single bomb fell in Berlin itself, but some bombs were dropped on scattered targets in the outskirts.” The newest attack indicated that the Americans apparently had launched a campaign against pre=
{of there. i It is apparent to naval authori- | ties here that the Japanese are trying desperately to offset their! inability to use Rabaul by develop-! ing a major base at Kavieng, on {the northwestern end of New Ireland island, which lies athwart the northern extremity of New Britain.
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RUSS DRIVE WITHIN 9 MILES OF PSKOV
Nazi Garrison Left With
Saturday for the state finals in the |
with the Republican party.
following Democratic , leaders “possibly available”—Senators Hafry PF. Byrd of Virginia, Walter George cf Georgia, Millard Tydings of
and Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky; former Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey; former Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, and James A. Farley.
BOB HOPE TO PRESIDE HOLLYWOOD, March 4 (U. P). —Comedian Bob Hope was. en route to Washington today to serve as master of ceremonies at tonight's: annual gridiron banquet.
TOKYO AMUSEMENT CUT By UNITED PRESS The Japanese government has ordered the closifig for one year of 9800 “high-class entertainment” places in Tokyo, Yopuining tomorrow.
nN organization might form a coalition | Asked ‘who might be the organiza- |
tion's nominee, Woodring named the| as
Maryland, Guy M. Gillette of Iowa.
were being sent to Turkey.
REPORT FINLAND REBUFFS RUSSIA
‘Believe Nation Refuses to Disband Army.
STOCKHOLM, March 4
(U. P).
have completed her reply to Russia’s proposals for an armistice and the newspaper Dagens Nyheter said it rejected Soviet demands for in{ternment of German troops and withdrawal of Finnish forces within their 1940 borders. Former Premier Juho K. Paasikivi of Finland, who initiated the peace talks, probably will leave for Stockholm within the next few days to deliver the Finnish reply to
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—Finland was reported today to
{cision targets within the capital whieh R. A. F. saturation bombers | cannot search out by night. Twin-engined British Mosquitoes <hit Berlin last night only a few {hours after Lightning fighters of the 9th air force made the first American flight over the bombe battered Nazi capital since the start of the war. All ‘Mosquitoes returned safely .| from Berlin and from undisclosed | objectives in western Germany. The American Lightning pilots reported {and supplies. | Rn men hurdled the Jast | they flew around the city’ limits of water barrier east of Pskov in a|the German capital yesterday withe frontal attack that léd to the cap-|Out seeing a single enemy fighter ture of Bolshoye Fomkino, on theyor susouniering a single burst of west bank of the Kep river only |anti-aircra five miles from the Coir of Pskov | The American raids today carried The Russians also seized Mark- (forward an offensive begun Thurse ovo, eight miles northwest of Pskov, | day with attacks on southwess placing ‘the six-way railway aa Germany and. the fighter training highway junction under artillery airfield at Chartres, 50 miles south® fire from six directions. west of Paris, France.
Supreme Court Unanimous: Buchalter May Die Tonight
|die "in Sing Sing’s electric chair tonight. The high ‘court's decision was ane
Only One Escape Route.
MOSCOW, March 4 .(U. P.).— | Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's forces pleted three-quarters encircle- _ of Pskov, gateway to Latvia] and southern Estonia, today and) virtually halted all traffic over the | next-to-the-last escape railroad out| of the strategic junction. The Russians left the threatened | garrison only the secondary line west to Riga over which to move troops |
OSSINING, N. Y.. March 4 (U. P.).— Louis (Lepke) = Buchalter, notorfous gang leader scheduled to be electrocuted for murder tonight, denied in a statement today | | that he lag ade 3 deal $6 Give ‘information to y public officials.
WASHINGTON, M March 4 (u. Pad