Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1944 — Page 1
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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 314
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SATURDAY, MARCH
11, 1944
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POST-WAR ROLE OF PAPERS TOLD
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By NOBLE REED The role of newspapers in shaping the post-war world of thought and action and their responsibility to the people were outlined by speakers at the 11th annual convention of the Hoosier State Press association yesterday and today. Indiana's editors and publishers were urged to begin now to revital4ze their policies in order that the people will have all the facts avail. able to find their own solutions to ‘many complications of the reconstruction days after the war. Asking editors to co-operate with industry in a broad plan for “de“mobilization” day, Paul Garrett of {New York, vice president of General Motors Corp. said, merely planing the world of tomorrow is not enough. “It is your responsibility in journalism and our responsibility in industry to have beliefs on right and wrong and to stand on those beliefs and fight for them,” he said. Mr. Garrett urged editors to begin now to help the people from
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BOMB ROME AGAIN, AXIS RADIO REPORTS
LONDON, March 11 (U. P).— The. Rome radio said allied planes attacked Rome today. The enemy report of a raid on Rome lacked immediate confirmation. If it is borne out, it will mean the second attack on the capital ‘in two days. American medium bombers raided Rome Tail yards yesterday. - Radio Rome said the city was *heavily bombed” and that bombs [fell on the districts of Porto NacE cion and Montesacco, +,
PILOT, 38, YOUNGEST U. S. MAJOR GENERAL
3 "BOMBER DIVISION HEAD- ~ QUARTERS, England, March . 11 (U. P.).~Curtis Lemay, small, cleanshaven, keen-eyed former -Fortress pilot, received notice today of his promotion to major general, becoming at 38 years the youngest officer to reach that rank in the United States army. Lemay, who is from Lakewood, O., commands this division of Fortresses. He came to England a year and a half ago as a colonel.
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Amusements... 10|Ruth Millett . 6 aes . 8 Movies ......10 Churches «sss 9 Obituaries ... 8 “Comics ...... 9! Ernie Pyle ... 17 Crossword: ... 9 Radio ....... 9 Editorials .... 6|Ration Dates. 3 Financial .... 4) Mrs. Roosevelt 17 SPORE esr 6 Side Glances. 6 Freckles ..... 9 Sports ....... 8 .«s .3|State Deaths. 3 6 Thos. L. Stokes 6 3| War Living .. 3 7| George Weller - 7
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Officers Elected as 24 Members Unite on 3-Point Program.
By MILDRED REIMER Favorite pictures and packets of letters passed from person to person yesterday as Indianapolis | mothers and wives of American boys in war prison camps organized the American Prisoner of War society. “Whenever it comes to our kids,” one mother said, “we are all in there pitching.” And so 24 women met to try to make their sons or husbands more at ease in Nazi prison camps. They plan to raise the morale of war prisoners’ families, learn how their boys are getting along through chats with each other and begin a drive for a service bar recognition for men captured in combat.
. . . Mrs. Lester Moreland Sr, 42 8S. Ritter ave. got the idea for the club after her son, 2d Lt. Lester Moreland Jr, was taken prisoner July 28, 1843. “So many people called me up when Lester was reported missing and were so grateful when we learned he was a prisoner that I thought we mothers and wives should get together and talk about our sons and husbands,” she said. And now Mrs. Moreland is president of the society. Mrs. Bernice Bracken, 515 N. Linwood ave, is
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INDIANS FAVORITES IN ANDERSON MEET
One of 3 Other Teams May Spring an Upset.
By FRANK WIDNER Times Staff Writer ANDERSON, Ind, March 11.— Basketball was the chief topic of conversation in this Madison county town of 40,000 people today as the semi-final tournament got under way to determine which team will take part in the finals at Indianapolis next week. Whiteland Waynetown in the first game at 1:30 p. m. while Anderson tackles Aurora in the 2:30 p. m. contest. The two
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NO ‘FLIPPERY’ IN COBB RITES
Respect Humorist’s Wishes; Paducah Negro Choir Sings for Him.
BRICKER SEEN AS BEST BET BY SEN. TAFT
Ronresens Rank and File, Says Dinner Speaker For Editors.
By EARL RICHERT Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, long an open Bricker-for-president supporter, said here today that he believed the three-time Ohio governor has a very good chance of winning the G.O.P. presidential nomthation this year. “I think Governor John W. Bricker represents the general rank-and-file of the Republican party better than any other man,” said the senator who will head the Ohio delegation of 50 to the national convention. Senator Taft was here to address the banquet of the Indiana Republican Editorial association tonight at the Claypool
G. O.P. Hopefuls Astir
The editorial meeting furnished the excuse for scores of G. O. P. hopefuls to visit state headquarters to advance their own causes and many were circulting about with announcéments of candidacy in their pockets, awaiting only the proper moment to release them. Capehart-for-senator headquarters was a bee-hive of activity and a couple of floors down friends were flocking into ninth district headquarters to shake the hand of Lt. James Tucker who will become an open candidate for senator when he doffs his navy uniform the last of this month. A Bricker-for-president delegation from Ohio, headed by State Treasurer Don Ebright, was. very active, causing many Republican's to term this “Bricker day.”
Claims Bricker Gaining
Senator Taft, in an interview, said he believed Governor Bricker was gaining steadily. (He declined to discuss in any manner any of the other candidates.) He said he felt Bricker had one handicap—starting so late. He said that when he started running for President himself four years ago
he went through the West he found
in completing memorial services.
were at the bedside. will be sent to Paducah.
charge of the memorial services to be conducted today in Paducah. She was asked in a letter Cobb wrote before his death to gather some of her choir friends from Burke's Chapel African Methodist church to sing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Deep River.”
Carries Out Request When she heard of Cobb's death,
Mattie made the rounds, ordered
the choir to report today and returned home last night, weary but contented that she was carrying out “Mistuh Cobb's” request. “Some of them just sit right down and cried,” she said. . } Cobb wouldn't have liked that. The “Prophet of Paducah,” where parks and public works have been named after him, three months ago, when illness pressed heavily, wrote his old friend, Edwin J. Paxton Sr, local editor and publisher, and asked that the letter be opened after his death. “In death I desire,” the letter said, “that no one shall look upon ! my face and once more 1 charge my family, as already and repeatedly I have done, that they shall put on none of the bogus habiliments of the so-called mourning. Folds of black crepe never minis tered to the memory of the departed. They only make the wearer unhappy and self-conscious.” Cobb sald that he wanted no frills attached to his final rites. “If anybody tries to insert one of
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PADUCAH, Ky., March 11 (U. ~Irvin 8S. Cobb, famed. who died yesterday at New York, asked in a final request that his body be cremated and the only monument left to him be a dogwood tree—nourished by his ashes. In a letter released posthumously by the Paducah library board, Cobb directed that his ashes be taken to Paducah and “at the proper planting season, a hole shall be dug in our family lot, or elsewhere at Oak Grove and a dogwood tree planted there with the ashes strewn in the hole to fertilize the tree roots. Should the tree live that will be monument enough for me”
'Prophet of Paducah’ Asked Dogwood Marker Over Ashes
.;shall look upon my face, and once inning as already and repeatedly I have done, that
habiliments of so-called mourning. “Folds of black crepe never ministered into the memory of the departed; they only made the wearer unhappy and self-conscious. “I ask that my body be wrapped in a plain sheet of cloth and placed in an inexpensive - container and immediately cremated-—without any special formality or ceremonies. If anybody tries to insert me into one of thése numbers run by the undertakers’ dressmaking pactment, Il come back and ha'nt
PADDCAH, Ky., March 11 (U, P). —Friends of Irvin S. Cobb today carried out the humorist’s request tioned possibility. that the conventhat there be no “funeral fiippery” | tion will deadlock and nominate arrangements for | him, Senator Taft said that any-
Cobb, 67, who had been ailing forilock but that a deadlock doesn't many years, died in New York yesterday after being in a coma for 24 hours. Mrs. Cobb and his nurse Private services will be held there Monday, followed by cremation, and the ashes]:
Mattie Copeland, former Negro| & cook in the Cobb home here, was in
Dewey had been there ahead of him iby three or four months. Asked about the frequently men-
{one might be nominated in a dead-
happen more than once in §0 years. On the recent Barkley blow-up in congress, the Ohio senator said
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Van Loon, 62, Author, Dies From Stroke
GREENWICH, Conn, March 11 (U, P.).—Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 62, dutch-born historian, boigrapher, teacher and editor, died at his home, “New Veere,”
today after a heart attack. He died at 9:45 a. m. only a short while after he had commented to his wife that the death while in a coma of his colleague, Irvin S. Cobb, in New York yesterday was “a wonderful way to go.” Van Loon’s death halted his work on an autobiography to be entitled, “Report to St. Peter.”
Van Loon, who had been suffering from a heart ailment for some time, enjoyed a hearty breakfast this morning and was in ‘excellent spirits when the fatal attack came. Just prior to the attack, his publisher, Richard Simon said, Van Loon commented upon Cobb's passing, and had written to his son, 2d Lt. Gerard Willem, who is with the U. S. army in Britain, about it. Van Loon went to bed immediately after the heart attack and died shortly thereafter. Funeral services will be held
TYNDALL DENIES POLICE SHAKEUP
No Officers to Be Demoted, Says Mayor; ‘Satisfied’ With the Setup.
By SHERLEY UHL Reports of an impending shakeup in the police department high command were denied today by Mayor
Tyndall, who stated that no topranking officers, particularly those in the.vice squad, were to be demoted. The mayor, through his secretary, Harry Calkins, announced that he was “entirely satisfied” with the present setup. His statement followed disclosure that Police Chief Clifford Beeker has been given a “reorganization plan,” recommending the replacement of 20 key men known to be the chief's most faithful followers. In their place would go police who have displayed an anti-Beeker attitude and have chosen to side with City Controller Roy E. Hickman, generally conceded to be Chief Beeker’s arch political enemy. Among those slated for demotion under the ill-fated “reorganization plan” were Capts. Thomas Schlottman, Alfred Schultz, Jack Small and John Ambuhl, all devout Beeker supporters. The recommendations would elevate Lt. John Stutesman, Lt. Claude Kinder, Sgt. Albert Magenheimer, and would reassign Capt. Audrey
Senator Robert A. Taft
it had thrown a “monkey wrench” into the whole fourth term strategy: “In, my opinion,”
he said, “the
whole strategy, believing that they
couldn't destroy the unpopularity
of the regulatory measures, was to
work around so that everything would be blamed on congress. “During the last three months there has been an absolute refusal to compromise. Either the President or congress wins, I think the
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Hoosier Heroes—
TWO OFFICERS LOST ‘IN RAIDS ON NAZIS
G. E. Dopp, J. E. Maguire Reported Missing.
LT. GEORGE E. DOPP, son of Mr, and Mrs. E. M. Dopp, 4224 E.
13th st. co-pilot of a Flying. For-
tress, has been missing over’ France
since Feb. 8. In a lettes to his ‘parents dated
said he had re-
from a
tion.
Lt. Dopp later.
graduate.
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w=. the day before he
cently recovered sore j throat and was to go back into ac-
He entered the service in June, 1941, and transferred to thel . army air forces He received his wings last July -at Luke field, Phoenix, Ariz. He is a Cathedral high school His brother, Robert K,,
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ACCUSES JUDGE (OF BEING ‘PROSECUTOR
Blue
Curb Tag Arrests.
Municipal Judge John Niblack was charged with being “both a judge and a prosecutor” and Police Chief Clifford Beeker was “advised”
‘Advises’ Beeker to;
| sell the cargo vessels was not related
Hendrick Willem Van Loon
some time Tuesday at the Congregational church in Old Greenwich, and burial will be in the graveyard of that church, Mrs. Van Loon, who was with him when he died; said that the
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Mrs. Stewart, 110, Oldest in
Indiana, Dies
BRAZIL, Ind, March 11 (U. P.) —Mrs. Mary Ann Stewart, 110, Indiana's oldest resident, died
today in her home at Harmony. Mrs. Stewart would have celebrated her 111th birthday next Sept. 17. She had been in good health until a few days ago. Recently, her family took her on a taxicab tour of this area where she had lived most of her life. She was a native of Morgan county, about 35 miles East of here, but came to Clay county when ‘she was a young woman. She was the widow of three Civil war veterans, Survivors include a son, Charles Burch of Brazil, and a daughter, Mrs. Bessie Skelton, Harmony. Funeral arrangemeénts were pending.
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YANK BOMBERS RAID GERMANY
R. A. F. Attacks Aircraft!s Plants in France; Hit
Florence, Italy.
BULLETIN
LONDON, March 11 (U. P.).— Munster was the target of the
today, U. S. army headquarters announced.
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LONDON, March 11 (U. P.)— American Flying Fortresses struck into Germany beyond the Rhine today, Liberators smashed at the French invasion coast, and Itfalybased marauder medium bombers attacked Florence for the first time. The United States 8th air force heavy bombers, pressing the campaign against German war cogs at home and in occupied territory, did not run into a single Nazi fighter
daylight thrust.
U.S. REJECTS EIRE'S PLEA FOR TWO SHIPS
Nazi, Jap Agents.
WASHINGTON, March 11 (U, P.). —The United States refused Eire's request to be allcwed to purchase two badly needed merchant vessels as a result of Eire's refusal to cooperate with the allies, it was learned today. The United States’ refusal was conveyed to Irish Minister Robert Brennan before Irish Prime Minister Eamon DeValera rejected the United States’ request that axis representatives in Eire be expelled and, if possible, diplomatic relations broken with the axis to “save American lives.” It was maintained that refusal to
to the other request. But it is believed that the Irish government would consider the actions connected. The two vessels are sought to replace two of the Irish fleet which
to stop arresting persons whose parked vehicles do not carry 1944 license plates, in a statement teday | by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue. The statement, in a letter to! Chief Beeker, charged Judge Niblack, who was not mentioned by name, with helping to draw up affidavits against these motorists, “mounting the bench and finding them guilty.” Mr. Blue charged Chief Beeker still was making “indiscriminate and illegal arrests” following the {deadline on March 1. “You were informed that the offense provided by law is committed by operating a motor vehicle after March 1 without new tags and that it is only a moving violation. Then on Thursday you ordered indiscriminate arrests.” he said. Mr. Blue said that after the first “illegal” arrests were made, a meeting was held Thursday between himself and the chief and that it was agreed that such-arvesis would cease. : On Friday, five defendants ap-
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have been sunk during the war and are said to be urgently needed to
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REPORT NAZIS READY,
WASHINGTON, March 11 (U. P.).—~The Royal ‘News service said today that the Germans apparently are making preparations to receive troops: from Finland in northern Norway. “There are as yet no indications that the Germans have begun to evacuate troops from Finland or that such a move is imminent,” it said. But it added that extra barracks have been constructed in northern Norway by the Germans and that much work has been done in the maintenance and improvement of the Norway-Finland highway.
DIVORCE JUDGE SUED.
RENO, Nev. March 11 (U. P.).— Former Divorce Judge Benjamin PF. Curler was sued for a divorce to-
day himself.
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The first attack on Florence was announced in an allied headquarters statement which said the Gerpens there, as in Rome, “made [deliberate use of our obvious reiuctance to risk incidental damage ‘to artistic, historic and religious ob|jects in the city.”
Hit Rail Yards
Reconnaissance showed heavy equipment, including at least 35 locomotives, in the yards at Florence, transport hub of north central Italy, the statement said. Consequently the, Mediterranean aerial command picked experienced Marauder squadrons to strike at the Florence rail yards, and took every
that they avoided damage to the city proper. The Rome radio reported that Rome was raided heavily today, but
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REPORT TALLINN RUINED
STOCKHOLM, March 11 (U. P.-. —The Stockholm Tidingen reported in a dispatch from Helsinki today that 60 per cent of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, was in ruins as a result
Flying Fortress raid on Germany |
precaution in briefing crews to see
RUSS SMASH FORWARD ON
FRONT
Nazi Armies in Ukraine Face Annihilation As 20,000 Die in One Sector; Enemy Retreat Becoming Rout.
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
War Editor
Russian armies hammered at crumbling German lines along a front of more than 500 miles in the Ukraine today while American and British bombers kept the air war going at full blast. The Russian 1st, 2d and 3d Ukraine armies struck hammer blows in three sectors from Tarnopol in southeastern Poland to Khristofovovka, 21 miles from the Black sea port of Nikolaev, Ire So-ordiviaied attacks threatened to disrupt
German plans’ for a slow, orderly withdrawal and turn it into a disorganized retreat with such heavy losses that Marshal Fritz Erik vom. Mannstein's army would be br militarily. An indication of what may be in
|store for the Germans came in the
drive through the center by Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 2d army on a front of 109 miles between Vinnitsa and Krivoi Rog. The Russians broke through to a depth of up to 44 miles, routing 14 divisions of perhaps 180,000 men of whom they killed 20,000 and captured 2500.
Captured Much Booty
Of equal or greater importince was the German equipment destroyed or captured, since the choking off of the main German supply. line through Poland will make it difficult if not impossible to replace in time to avert total defeat. Moscow reported the taking of more than 500 tanks and self-pro-pelled artillery, 600 field artillery
claimed to be most of the armor
river and the rail communication lines south of Vinnitsa.
* First Army Advances
front, the 1st army fought its way through the streets of Tranopol and seized position after position as far east as Yanov, 125 miles away. In the south the 3d army, on a shorter line, made more rapid progress, advancing 17 miles to Khristoforowka and taking 150 towns and villages. : Uman, a fortified town of 42,000 persons, fell after bitter street fighting during which the Germans made a last futile attempt to regroup their forces for a counterattack to stem the new Soviet onslaught. os
‘On the War Fronts
—March 11, 1944—
RUSSIA—Soviets wage great battle of annihilation along 508-mile front in southern Ukraine.
AIR WAR—American bombers make heavy raids on western Germany and French coast,
PACIFIC—United States fliers reportedly destroy main town on
Japanese island base of Ponape. ITALY — New German infiltration
of the raid by 300 Russian planes Thursday night.
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard
TO LEAVE FINLAND
WASHINGTON, March in the not-too-distant future:
1. Developments in the
sure. It'll be one of those gether affairs, with only one 2. A brief comeback for Dino
be succeeded by a moderate leftist
on Russia for defense against a
tant Soviet demands.
Odessa. For instance, a pact between Communist Tito and King Peter of Jugoslavia, as the result of British pres-
foreign minister, and later ambassador to London. It was he who engineered Mussolini's fall, then fled to Lisbon for his life. He has never been a convinced Fascist, has been an Anglophile, aid. there are those in high places who think he might serve to situation where neither the King-Badoglio combination nor the combined opposition has been effective. '
3. The fall (before the year is out) of Generalissimo
assailed by Communists and Syndicalist extremists. In short, look for a repetition of the events that followed Alfonso’s overthrow. 4. A London-Moscow squeeze play costing Poland her She will be presented (whether she likes it or not) with East _and other German territory. This would mean Polish dependency
mined to get back her version of Alsace-Lorraine, 5. js cary armistice Iu Pigian, ¥iSh Sie Pighe coin
| attack beaten back by American forces southeast of Aprilia.
Washington
Newspapers | 11. Five things Yo look for
Balkans if the Russians take
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pieces and 12,000 vehicles. It was intended to defend the upper Bug
On the northern end of the