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Humorist Unable 'To Inform Newspapers of Departure’

~Irvin 8. Cobb, famous humorist, and suthor, died in his New York apartment Iotay: Wh

NEW YORK, March 10 (U. P) newspaperman a able to keep his promise to “keep

and when I get ready to depart elsewhere.” Cobb, who was 67, was in a coma for 24 hours before his death at

the Hotel Sheraton at 11:15 a. m, His wife, the former Laura Spencer

Baker, of Savannah, Ga, whom he

he died. He had been ill for several months, Just threéd months ago today, after stories had appeared reporting that the humorist was dangerously iil, Cobb chided his friends

calling him “collect” to “ask for the details.” Symbel of Good Humor

In his letter he promised to give advance notice of his death whenever it should impend. At that time he was seriously ill of dropsy. Over the years, Cobb, who was known at the most famous citizen of PasuCM Ky. had become a of good humor and generous living. He bad achieved this through his" prodigious outpue of humorous short stories and his frequently-quoted witticisms, many of them directed at his ‘own bejowled face and corpuience: Many of Cobb's comments on human vagaries have since become fixtures in the common language.

Noted for Remarks

- Perhaps the most famous remark attributed to him was made while he .was a reporter working for the late city editor of the old New York] World—Charles Chapin. { Informed that Chapin was ill. Cobb is said to have remarked, “I hope it's nothing trivial.” He was born in Paducah, Ky, on June 23, 1876 the son of Joshua Clark Cobb and Mannie Saunders Cobb. Paducah in the land of fine horses and beautiful women acclaimed Cobb as its first citizen. His private school education was terminated by his teachers when he was 16. His subsequent education, he said, was obtained by looking at things, listening to things, asking questions and trying to remember answers,

Became Columnist

After working on several Kentucky newspapers Cobb moved to New York in 1804, becoming editor of the humor section of the New York Sun. A year later he joined the staff of the Evening World as a correspondent and cglumnist and remained there until 1911. He then served for 11 years as a staff contributor for the Saturday Evening Post. During this period Cobb developed the famous, quaint character of “Judge Priest,” who became the central figure in many of his short stories. During the last war, Cobb was sent to Europe by the Saturday Evening Post and was one of the

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Cobb ‘Dies Famous author, “first citizen” of Paducah, had been iil for several months. He was in a coma 24 hours before death came today in a New York hotel apartment.

friendly newspapers advised if

SUPPORT F.D.R. SCHRICKER ASKS

Governor Urges 4th Term In Speech Before

‘Women’s Club. Photos on Page 17

By EARL RICHERT

In a speech of campaign-like intensity, Governor Schricker declared here last night that. the Democratic party must renominate President Roosevelt. “While I've never been one to advocate a third term or a fourth term,” the governor said, “I do say this—that at this hour, the Democratic party dare not and must not turn its back on the greatest leader in the world who is in the White House today.” This statement brought an ova‘tion from the several hundred peo-! Iple e‘tending the banquet of the! {Indiana Democratic Women's club {which the governor was addressing. “Only he alone can make a decision for us to the contrary,” the governor added.

Always FDR Supporter

The governor said that if the people render a verdict against the Democrats this fall “then I want every Democrat in the U. 8. to stand up and say, ‘Mr, President, I'm for you and for what you think should be done.” While never a New Dealer, the governor has always been a supporter of President Roosevelt. His

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ARGENTINA'S CHIEF

BUENOS AIRES, March 10 (U. P.).—President Pedro P. Ramirez, who delegated his powers to Vice President Edelmiro J. Farrell Feb. 25, resigned the office last night, it was announced officially today. He sent formal notification of his action to the Argentine supreme court.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Campaign Against Illegally Parked City Cars Fizzles Out

The city’s bold experiment in tagging trafic stickers on a half-

dozen of its own automobiles parked illegally in the rear of city hall appeared today to have fiagled out. Street Commissioner Luther Tex wo-aald he. didn't intend to do any“tung about stickers turned over to

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him by departmental {inspectors whose city-owned cars had been tagged. Mr. Tex sad he had paid one. fine on a personally-owned automobile that had been trapped in the city hall traffic dragnet, but that he didn't. “know: why the city should pay fines to- itself.” The street commissioner declared that he wanted to correct a *‘misimpression” that he had six unpaid stickers in his possession, saying that he had received only two and that he had not yet taken care

Movies ...... 20 Obituaries ...'10 Ernje Pyle ... 15 Radio ....... 25 Ration "Dates. 21 1 Richert.. 17 Mrs, Roosevelt 15 Side Glances. 16 Simms “...... 16 Sports ....... 22

Amusements . 20 Eddie Ash ... 22 Comics ...... 25 Crossword .... 21 Ludwell Denny 15 Editorials. .... 1 Financial ....: Forum ...... 16 Gardening ... 21 Meta Given . 19 J. W. Hillman 16 aed Sal Soka. 15 app 15 r Living .. 21| council 15|Al 18

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of them. “I don’t believe in fixing parking stickers,” said Mr, Tex, City Prosecutor Henry Coombs,

which city employees were responsible for illegal parking of city-

“virtually ineffectual.”

RAMIREZ RESIGNS AS

| Local Bombardier Was on

forced to admit that it would be practically impossible to determine

owned cars, said it appeared that efforts to collect fines would prove

“We'd probably have to enact an appropriation ordinance in city

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FORECAST: Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature alii 26 to 28, : .

SEEK TO OUST BEEKER'S ACES IN VICE FIGHT

Mysterious ‘Reorganization’ List Latest Thrust; Action Doubtful.

By SHERLEY UHL Latest of a series of thrusts at Chief Clifford Beeker’s vice-chasing police department has developed in the form of a mysterious “reorganization list,” recommending 2 wholesale replacement of present top-ranking officers. Although the list was turned over to the chief reportedly by Mayor Tyndall, who, it is rumored, received it from certain anti-Beeker elements within the administration, it is highly questionable whether the mayor intends for him to do anything about it.

No Action Anticipated

That Chief Beeker will not do anything about it, at least not as long as he heads the police department, is almost a certainty, it was learned. The recommendation includes the names of 20 policemen who under the revised personnel setup would

chief's faithful followers. The would-be “reorganizers,” it appears, would like to reassign these top-commanders to relatively insignificant posts. On the other hand, members of a sizable police department clique who have been sniping away at the chiet ever since he took over, would be reslated, according to the list, to top-ranking jobs where they would be in constant touch with the public. Hickman Denies Knowledge This recent anti-Beeker move is another development in a raging city hall feud which threatens to disrupt administration campaign machinery pieced together by the policy-making victory committee. City Controller Roy E. Hickman has generally been considered city hall's No. 1 Beeker foe, but Mr. Hickman today flatly denied that he had anything to do with composition of the “reorganization list.” However, Chief Beeker and Controller Hickman have been af swords-point over police department personnel ‘and policy matters and at present neither is speaking to the other. Intensification of the BeekerHickman battle has stimulated the current circulation of two conflicting reports. Shewdown Seems Near One is that certain elements i within the Victory committee have demanded Chief Beeker's ouster in return for their-unqualified support o Mayor Tyndall's gubernatorial id. Another is that other city hall factionalists are just as determined in requesting Mr. Hickman's dismissal before .pledging support of the Tyndall primary race. The latter clique is also reported to. be frowning on proposed Victory committee backing of Judge John Niblack for the nomination for county prosecutor. A showdown between Chief Beeker’s friends and foes in the city administration appears to be nearing Several Victory committeemen have sought to pass a resolution to {the effect that the committee will not lend its support to the cam{paign of anyone not approved by a majority of the committee in secret balloting. Meanwhile, regular county organization Republicans are sitting back pleased by the inner-factional strife that appears to be blocking a “full steam ahead” program on the part of the city hall crowd with whom they parted company early last Year.

Hoosier Heroes—

LT. JOHN E. MAGUIRE LOST OVER DENMARK

10th Aerial Mission.

LT. JOHN E. MAGUIRE JR. bombarier on the Flying Fortress, “Liberty Run,” was reported missing over Denmark Feb. 22 on his 10th mission, The local airman, who already has had four narrow escapes in combat, is the husband of Mrs. Dorothy #anHorn Maguire and

guire Sr, all of 903 N. Oxford st. In recent letters to his wife, Lt. Maguire said that after his ninth mission it was a “miracle” he was alive. Mrs, Maguire was notified yesterday that her husband was missing.

school, he was employed at Inter-| national Harvester Co. before enlisting in the army air forces, Dec. 22, 1941, just four months after he

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DS FLER BERLIN BLAZE; GERMANS LOSE BIG UKRAINE BASE

F.D. R. DEFENDS

Says People ‘Overlooked’ ‘Key Words’ in Mention Of Soviets. WASHINGTON, March 10 (U, P.). — President Roosevelt today reiterated that discussions are in prégress on the matter of giving Russia part of the Italian fleet or its equivalent, and asserted that there is no controversy whatever between himself

and Prime Minister Winston

Churchill on the subject. The ®resident told a news conference his statement of March 3 was correct; what Churchill said yesterday was correct, and there was no controversy. Mr. Roosevelt said that in reporting his original statement some people left out key words. Under questioning, he agreed that the “key” words in his statement were where he said. that consideration was being given to putting roughly one-third of the Italian fleet or its equivalent at the wartime use of the Soviet Union. Churchill said yesterday in the house of commons that arrangements for wartime use of the Italian fleet were being discussed, but

of that fleet might await disposition until after the war, Mr. Roosevelt's news conferénce remarks semed to bear out the belief of observers that the clue to interpretation of his original comments lay in the words “or its equivalent”—presumably in tonnage from the Anglo-American fleets. ’

SEEKS GOLD STARS FOR HEROES’ PARENTS

WASHINGTON, March 10 (U. P.).—Parents of servicemen Killed in the war would be awarded gold star medals under legislation introduced by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.). The measure would affect parents of ‘any member of the armed forces dying from injury or disease caused by military service at any time be. tween Aug. 27, 1940, and six months

HIS FLEET STORY|

after the end of hostilities.

Leaders Give inpates to Traffic Safety Drive

Capt. Thomas Schlottman (left) of the police department’s traffic division and Wallace 0. Lee, chairman of the C. of C. safety council . ... they hope the safety posters will be seen by the 17,000 law violators.

Posters and Pamphlets Direct Warnings to

Pedestrians.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE safety council and local police today launched a pamphlet and poster campaign designed to curb violations of pedestrian laws. Posters telling pedestrians to walk with the green light were put up on light posts at corners, and posters warning persons to cross at intersections only were erected between blocks. 2 8 '@n Tomorrow and during the next two weeks 5000 pamphlets with the slogan “to live and work tomorrow obey the law today” will be handed out by police and sent to clubs, war plants and officers. They remind pedestrians to cross at intersections only, to walk with the green light and warn drivers turning right or left to give pedestrians the right of way. ~ Later, other types of pamphlets will be handed out. During a Boy Scout canvass several weeks ago 12,847 persons were reported crossing against the red lights, 3237 crossing between intersections and 982 motorists turning into pedestrian lines.

U. S. TANKS PAGE NEW BRITAIN DRIVE

NAZIS HOARDING FIGHTER PLANES

Crippled Production Keeps Available Strength on The Ground.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspendent LONDON, March 10.—The allied alr campaign against German aircraft factories has been so successful that the Nazi high command yesterday decided not to risk losing more fighters. The result was that American bombers and fighters, in their third daylight raid on important aviation factories in the Berlin area, enjoyed a field day with virtually no opposition and with the loss of only seven bombers and one fighter. The failure of the Luftwaffe to give battle cannot be laid to the cloudy ‘weather, although it was uncdoubtedly the reason which the German high command gave for the decision to ground ‘Germany's fighter defense. It may be reasonably concluded that our air offensive is making important inroads into German aircraft production and that, while the Luftwaffe undoubtedly has a fair number of fighters, its reserves are virtually nonexistent. The decline of the Luftwaffe’ |

Offensive Against Jap Bases Gains Momentum.

By UNITED PRESS U. S. marines, paced by Gen. Sherman medium tanks, have driven to within two miles of Talasea, and American planes have opened heavy attacks on the Japanese base on Willaumez peninsula in New Britain, it was disclosed today. The tanks, mounting 75-mm guns protected the flanks of the American forces and knocked out several enemy pillboxes in the drive down the eastern side of the peninsula, only 170 miles west of the big enemy bastion of Rabaul, at the northeastern tip of the island. Americans on Los Negros in the Admiralty islands also were

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Helen Traubel, the all-American opera star, arriv and used soap and water on the jano-in her hotel room sq she could

symphony orchestra. Miss Traubel will sing arias from the role of Bruennhilde in Wag-

made her a famous Metropolitan ra star.

certs will be the world premiere of a composition by Actor Lionel Barrymore, who for two years has been Director Fabien Sevitzky’s “pen pal.” The jolly, red-haired soprano is

ican-trained singer to hold the great soprano role of Isolde in the Met's presentation of" Wagner's “Tristan

in Indianapolis :

nerian operas, the part that has

the first American-born and Amer-

Helen Traubel Here to Sing With Symphony Orchestra

pga gio a

fighting ability is graphically por{trayed by the decrease in American {losses: Monday, 68 bombers and 11

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Capital Is Still Aflame Rie Four

Air Raids; e Hit.

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United Press War Editor

The Russian army pound

ed at the Germans in the

Ukraine today at both ends of a long line arching southeastward from Poland to the lower reaches of the Dnieper. s

In the west the German Luftwaffe staggered aguitist the

The R. A.

Berlin still was burning

Swiss reports said that ev

Seven Bombers Lost

‘ropes under the unremitting pounding of the American and | British air forces. around the clock basis during the night by striking into | France to bomb the Marignane aircraft plant 12 miles northwest of Marseille on the Mediterranean.

F. kept the offensive on an

and was being deserted by

thousands of its inhabitants after the third massed daylight attack in four days by heavy American bombers, almogt unopposed by the German fighter force.

ery fireman avaflable within

a radius of almost 200 miles of Berlin had been called to the capital to help fight fires caused by the air raids of the last few days.

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The Americans lost only seven bombers and one fighter

to anti-aircraft fire, contrasted with 68 and 11 on Monday and 38 afd 15 on Wednesday.

The fighting in the Ukraine developed into the most im-

portant and largest operation of the year, designed to clear Soviet soil of an estimated 500,000 Germans and squeeze them across the Dnieper against the Carpathian mountains.

The German high command acknowledged the loss of

Uman, railroad town midway between Vinnitga and Kirovograd on the northern rim of the Nazi salienfin the Dnieper bend.

At the northwestern end of the line the Russians were

fighting in the streets of Tarnopol, five way-junction within Poland on the Lwow-Odessa railway. As they closed in on

Proskurov, farther south on

verge of severing the last supply link of the Germans except the inadequate single-track lines into Rumania.

500,000 Germans

Squeezed in Trap

LONDON, March 10 (U. P.).— The Ankara radio reported today without naming its source that the Russian army had captured Tarnopol.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, March 10.—Soviet armies tightened their trap around 500,000 Germans in the southern Ukraine today, battling their way through the streets of the key junction of Tarnopol in the west and surging through a 106-mile gap in the Nazi defenses in the east to within 42 miles of the Black sea port of Nikolaev. The big squeeze designed to clear up the Ukraine of the enemy was on. The 3d Ukrainian army gained up to 37 miles in a new offensive which threatened to isolate both Nikolaev and its companion port of Kherson, while the 1st army paralyzed the {last roundabout supply railroad north of Rumania reaching into the Ukraine with its thrust into Tarnopol. Two other Ukrainian armies, the 2d and 4th, were poised northeast

fighters; Wednesday, 38 bombers and 16 fighters; vesterday, seven| bombers and one fighter, Our]

forces were roughly the same all} three days. Our program has been most care- | fully worked out, with two overall objectives: First, to deprive the Germans of weapons which they] need to fight in the air, on sea and}

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PLAYGROUND TRACT | INDICATED AS GIF

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City Expects to Develop West Side Recreation.

Hopes ran high in the park de- | partment today over the possibility of obtaining a two-acre tract at New York and Patterson sts. for conversion into a playground this ‘summer, The park board has been virtually assured that three plots in the area, formerly the site of a mill race, will be donated by the Indianapolis Brewing Co. Park . Superintendent Paul V. Brown said the board hoped to be ab purchase six other lots to complete the acquisition. The particular’ West side neighborhood, said Mr. Brown, “needs additional .recreation sapce more than any other district in the city.”

Appointments Approved

The park board yesterday approved the appointment of two new high-ranking staff members, both of them former employes of the National Park Service. They are Edward P. Lacy, who will supervise

sion at a $4000 a year salary, and

.|the German-Finnish military posi-

and southeast of the shrinking Ger- | man salient stretching roughly from {the Dnieper estuary 400 miles north- | westward to Tarnopol, ready to strike at the proper moment for the i finad kill.

‘On the War Fronts

~March 10, 1944—

JSSIA—Soviet armies in pincers BR clear 500,000 Germans from southern Ukraine, break into Tarnopol junction; 100 to 150 Russian planes blast Talinn,

AIR WAR — R. A. P. Lancasters bomb Naz aircraft plant near Marseille without loss; Berliners reported fleeing by thousands after fourth American. raid in six days. .

ITALY—Fierce patrol fighting continues on all fronts.

STOCKHOLM, March 10 (U. PJ). —Usually reliable sources reported today that Field Marshal Carl Man-| 2 nerheim, Finnish commander-in-

chief, had telegraphed Adolf Hitler that the fall of Narva would make

tion in Finland untenable. The message was interpreted as a step by which the Finns hope to persuade the Germans to evacuafe Finland voluntarily in order to conclude a separate peate with Russia.

Report Finns Urge Germans To Withdraw Their Troops

Finnish military leaders resigned =

(The Soviet-sponsored Free Ger-: many: committee, in a Moscowia

the line, they were on the

Yank Raids ‘Too Terrible to Talk About’

LONDON, Marsh 10 (U..P).— Germans were reported fleeing blasted and burning Berlin hy the

thousands today and a near-hys-

terical eyewitness of yesterday's American raid said on his arrival in Sweden that it was “too terrible to talk about.” : The German capital was hit by strong forces of Flying Fortreésses and Liberators yesterday for the fourth time in six days despite thick clouds. Another formation also ate tacked a city in central Germany, identified by the Nazi DNB agency as Hannover. Only seven bombers and one fighter were lost in the two attacks.

Nazi Bosses ‘Absent’

The only Swedish traveler to reach Malmo from Berlin last night bordered on hysteria as result of his experience and refused to go into details, a United Press dispatch from Stockholm said. German passengers on the Berlin plane acknowledged that the raid lasted from 1 to 3 p. m. and admitted that both civilians and government officials were evacuating the city in increasing numbers. Nazi party bosses were said to be “conspicuous by their absence.” Government offices were being moved to southern and southeastern Germany, one traveler admitted. Transportation Slowed The London Daily Mail reported from Stockholm that the series of

daylight raids, coming on top of the R. A. F.s night offensive, had

thrown Berlin's communications fn

chaos. Trains carry‘ng supplies from the Ruhr to the central and northern Russian fronts had to be detoured and some were delayed indefinitely, the dispatch quoted one “highlyplaced” eyewitness as saying. Food trains for Berlin itself were held up outside the city. Motor transportation also was slowed. All traffic came to a stand-

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themselves some time ago, it was

said, to the fact that the military

situation would become hopeless with the Soviet advance into the, Baltic states but it was regarded as

record formally in a telegram Hitler in his capacity as comma! er-in-chief. . Mannerheim’s message repo was sent about nine days ago. Russia has demanded

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