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U. S. May Announce Bomb Targets, Dare

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pondent LONDON, March 13.—A high official source said to-

day that the growing combat reluctance of the German air force might cause Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz to announce his bombing targets in advance as a direct challenge to the

_ Nazis to come up and fight.

The source said a regular broadcast to Germany. announcing that American bombers were on the way to a specified target might be the only way and the logical last. - recourse in the attempt to get the Nazi fighter Squadrons

into the air. The Luftwaffe is not yet

PAYING TAXES “AT DEADLINE

Queues Stretch Into Streets: All Day Long at Federal Building.

By SHERLEY UHL Some 5000 last-minute taxpayers, the largest crowd ever to besiege the local office of internal revenue, today lined up in a patient queue

extending at times into the middle; =

of the Ohio st. sidewalk in front of the Federal building. Revenue Collector Will H. Smith

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The odyssey of the average ad-vice-seeking citizen consumed a period of three hours, during which the resigned stragglers stood on one foot and then another, absently read and re-read newspapers and novels, plopped accasionally on

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OPA HINTS CUT IN '\" COUPON VALUE

Decision on Equalization

Expected Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. PD). «~QOPA Rationing Chief Bryan Houston said today that a final decision on country-wide equalization of “A” gasoline rations would Qe reached late today or tomorrow, Other rationing officials declared there was a “definite possibility” that the “A” ration in all other sections of the country would be

weekly allowance now prevailing in

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Houston said OPA could not act officially until second quarter gasoline allocation figures are delivered formally by the petroleum administration for war. This was expected late today. :

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Martinsville Triplets Fight for Lives in Hospital Incubators Here

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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1934

have got its number if they have not yet of it down, the

informant said.

Spaatz, commander of U. S. strategic air forces over

Europe, was represented as

prepared to adopt extreme

measures soon in an effort to draw the German fighters aloft so the Americans can get at them and carry through an intensifying campaign of elimination before the invasion of western Europe. The Germans still have considerable fighter strength, the official source warned, and the first clear day on which American bombers strike deep into the Reich they are

likely to run into heavy battles. .

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Bluebeard Flees As 25 Skeletons Are Unearthed

LONDON, Match 13 (U.P.).=

‘The charred and dismembered

skeletons of 25 women, apparent-

around the house

Paris police unearthed the skeletons several days ago and laid a trap for Petiot, but he caught sight of police officers posted around the house and fled, DNB said. Shortly afterward, he disappeared from Paris, along with his wife and 17-year-old son. DNB identified Petiot as the 47-year-old former mayor of Villeneuve Sur Yonne, a town 70 miles southwest of Paris. He was removed from office for fraud, the

BLUE-BEEKER FEUD GOES ON

Detective Removed From Prosecutor's Office by Police Chief.

faiok wg igo The BitieF conflict over law enforcement, which began more than a year ago in a factional fight for control of the Republican party machinery, was raging with renewed

fury today. » On one side was Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, representing the regular G. O. P. organization and on the other was Police Chief Clifford Beeker, representing the city hall anti-organization forces and Judge John Niblack, of Municipal court 4, an announced candidate for the G. O. P. prosecutor nomination. With scorching words, Prosecutor Blue Saturday lambasted Chief Beeker on an old complaint—illegal arrests in connection with the apprehension of automobile owners whose parked cars didn’t have new 1944 license plates.

Beeker Slashes Back

Two hours later, Chief Beeker threw his weight back with an order removing Detective Charles

and assigning him to the detective office at police headquarters. Mr. Russell had been assinged to the prosecutor's office for nearly two years. ‘ That touched off another blast from Prosecutor Blue. Said he: “The removal of Mr. Russell is a matter which concerns the welfare of the people of Indianapolis too deeply to allow Mr. Beeker to quibble over it." He explained that the need for a police detective in the prosecutor's office “Ils long been established by competent authorities.” Chief Beeker insisted it wasn't

agency said.

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FDR Encourages Post-War

Securify Plans of Industry

“By E A. EVANS

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 13.—President Roosevelt's “we must plan now” letter to the national conference on post-war housing at Chicago encourages those who believe efforts to insure jobs for the fu-

ture should go hand-in-hand with

the war program.

Various other officials have lectured industry recently for “too ‘much talk about post-war planning.” The President said that secur-

ity and happiness aren't going to come automatically with the war's end—indorsed the idea of ade vance preparations to employ returning veterans and displaced war workers “at a wage which provides decent standards of living.” There is no dissent from his proviso that such planning must be done “without stopping for a moment our struggle to bring -about the unconditional surrender of our enemies in the war.” Manufacture of household appliances is one field many new-

are certain to want to in. :

comers vade, because of the bright prospect for a huge market demand.

A coast-to-coast estimate by 102 | Says

Westinghouse distributors sales of that company’s appliances

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THE FOURTH F AT THE FRONT

@ Front line service in this war isn’t all fighting, foxholes and forced marches. There's fun,

to laugh at death and hardship, -

@In every outfit there's at least one man with a _ perpetual twinkle in his * eye, and Ernie Pyle today tells about him,

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right—Barbara, Virginia and Doris. her

as she turned her face from the camera.

Have Good Chances For Survival, Says

Physician. TRIPLETS, premature by two and. a half months, are fighting a winning battle for life at Riley hospital today. In incubators since birth Feb. 27 and 28, the three, all girls, of . “The first born, was delivered at home at 7 p. m., an ‘hour and a half before the family doctor, Henri LeClair, could arrive, The mother was taken to the Martinsville hospital, where she gave birth to Doris and Barbara 24 hours later. wo s . The triplets were brought to Riley hospital on the 290th. The hospital had to borrow a third incubator. In good health, the three are fed by tubes into their stomachs. As Dr. Robert Maurer, doctor now in charge, said, “It is easier on them than using an eye dropper. This way they don't have to swallow. They usually sleep through their feeding.” Virginia weighs four pounds, Doris three pounds and two ounces, and Barbara three pounds and eight ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have three other children aged three, six and 0.

” ” » No photographers were allowed in the incubator room. Pre-focus-ing his camera and setting all the gadgets, a Times photographer gave Miss Martha Dykes, assistant head nurse of the infant ward, a short course in press photography. Wearing sterile clothes, Miss Dykes “shot” the triplets through the glass-topped incubator. “That's the most fun I've had in a long time,” she said.

MRS. OTT SAYS SHE WAS MENTAL INMATE

Arson Suspect Removed

From Hospital.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 13 (U. P)~—Mrs. James Off, 41, charged with arson at the Logansport state hospital, admitted today that she was a former mental patient and officers removed her from a hospital to the Cass county jail for questioning. Mrs. Ott, an attendant at the state institution before she was arrested late last month, apparently has recovered from a suicide attempt two ‘weeks ago when she took an overdose of sleeping ers. . Sheriff Harold Smith and Hugh McGowan, deputy state fire~marshal, announced that she admitted she was the former Miss Maude

Weston, W. Va., state hospital until 1941. - “Well, I am back home,” she said smilingly when officers returned her

reg I erself. With the camera pre-sef, Miss Dykes babies through the glass-topped incubators. Left to

Maj. Gen. James H. “Doolittle,

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoflice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

But the source believed that the air would be decisive if the weather over the continent could be eliminated as a factor for 30 to 60 days. Already the German air force is backed up behind the Brunswick-Leipzig line, in front of which the American bombers operate with virtual im-

punity, he said.

~ Clear weather, it was pointed out, would permit Amer-

ican precision bombers to eli

minate ‘the last vestiges of

German aircraft industry systematically, meanwhile fore-

ing the Luftwaffe into the targets.

The source indicated that

Doris’ feminine modesty overcame

CITES DOOLITTLE FOR PROMOTION

F. D. R. Also Nominates Former Hoosier for Rear Admiral. :

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. P..

leader of the 1942 raid on Tokyo and now commander of the 8th air force in Britain, was nominated by President Roosevelt today. for pro- . motion to lieutenant general. At the same time the President nominated Capt. Robert W, Heyler, who spent most of his early life in Muncie, and Capt. Allan ¢ B. Smith to be rear admirals, and named Brig. Gen. Gen. . Doolittle Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, - deputy chief of air staff, for promotion to major general. Fifty-two-year-old Capt. Hayler is an ordnance expert and a native of Sandusky, O.

Native of Detroit Smith, 52, of Detroit, is a grad-

naval war college. Vandenberg, 45, was assigned to England in 1942 and assisted in the planning and organization of the air forces for the North African campaign. Doolittle, 47, was famed as a speed flier and test pilot during the 1920's and early ‘30's. Called to active army duty July 1, 1940, as a major, he was assigned to the 8th air force in July, 1942, while he was a brigadier general. The following September he was named to command the 12th air force in North Africa. Promoted to major general, Doolittle then was made commanding general, North African strategic air force, ‘in March, 1943. He became commander of ‘the 15th air force on Nov. 1, 1943, and on Jan. 1, 1944, he took his present post. One of the most decorated air generals in the army, Doolittle was awarded the congressional medal of honor for leading the raid on Tokyo. : Doolittle has played an important role in the development of both

uate of the senior course at the]

air to defend those vital

American overcast bombing,

Jugoslavs on Two Islands.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Editor

As the Russian armies hammered the retreating Germans at key points on their sagging line in the Ukraine today,.. developments within

mounting trouble for the Germans closer to their inner fortress. Allied bombers renewed the ceaseless aerial offensive against the continent, but there were signs that new problems are developing for the Nazis. Among them were:

It was disclosed for the first tinte that American officers were taking an active part in the war being waged by Marshall Josip (Tito) Brozovich’s forces in Jugoslavia, leading the partisans in battie on the islands of Brac and Hvar off the Dalmatian coast. This development came shortly after the still unconfirmed Berlin report that 1500 British and American commandos had been landed on Lissa island on the same coast.

to within about 100 miles of the border of Czechoslovakia led that country’s government-in-exile to issue a call to Czechs to organize active, armed resistance against the Germans. It is a signal which has Jong been promised all occupied countries would be given when allied help is at hand. "Rumania as well as Bulgaria showed further signs of a desperate desire to get out of the axis as the Russians likewise drew closer

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Hoosier Heroes—

TWO LOCAL FLIERS KILLED IN ACTION

Navy Lists James Hofmann; Army, Sgt. Gleichman.

TWO INDIANAPOLIS airmen have been killed in action recently and another local flier is missing after a raid over Germany. f J n 2

KILLED Aviation ordnanceman 2-¢ James Lohrmann Hofmann, 1349 Kappes st. S. Sgt. William D. Gleichman, 6338 College ave. ” ” 2 MISSING Lt. Oral Hert, 1236 E. Ohio st. » os ” JAMES LOHRMANN HOFMANN, aviation ordnanceman 2-c, has been

civil and military aviation.

WAR THEATERS—

battles over northern New Guinea,

by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said there was no resistance encountered by the marines, a detachment of the 22d regiment under Maj. C. B. Lawton, Fairfax, 8. C. Wotho, which is about 100 wiles

Marines Occupy Fifth Atoll In 6 Weeks, Find Enemy Gone

: By UNITED PRESS U. 8. marines have occupied Wotho atall,.a group of 13 small islands 240 miles south of Eniwetok in the fliers have dealt another heavy blow to the Japanese air force in aerial

The date of the landing on Wotho, the fourth atoll seized by the Americans in a month and a half, was not revealed, but a communique

western Marshalls, and American it was disclosed today.

in an engagement Saturday over Wewak, shot down 26 Japanese planes and probably destroyed six others, The American airmen lost routed the ters to clear

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while keeping pressure on the Luftwaffe, does not endanger the small, isolated factories on which the Luftwaffe depends. That was the reason, the informant said, that German fighters did not come up through the clouds Thursday : over Bérlin or Saturday over Munster. The source said that with good weather the strategic air forces would fulfill its mission—to destroy the German air force, and it does not matter whether it is destroyed

in the air or on the ground. * To do this job, the source

said, the American air force

in ready to lose whatever number of planes is necessary to

knock out the Luftwaffe.

March 13, 1944

RUSSIA—Soviets turn German retreat across Ukraine into rout; drive into Odessa district.

PACIFIC—Marines occupy Wotho atoll in western Marshalls,

AIR WAR-—Strong bomber. force smashes at Europe.

ITALY — Allied long-range guns rake German positions around Anzio beachhead. Pope makes new appeal that Rome be spared by belligerents.

EIRE—Britain and United States may employ economic sanctions against Irish.

ALLIES MAY CUT EIRE'S SUPPLIES

Coal, Food, Machinery Expected to Be Curtailed Soon.

LONDON, March 13 (U. PJ). Drastic curtailment of shipments of food, coal and machinery to Eire and closure of the northern IrelandEire border were predicted today as

the next Anglo-American steps in retaliation for southern Ireland's refusal to oust German and Japanese officials. Britain took the first retaliatory move early today by banning virtually all travel between Britain on

WASHINGTON, March 13 (U. P.).—Secretary of State Cordell Hull told his press conference today that the United States’ firm position toward Eire was inspired by fear of future use of that country as a base for axis espionage rather than by evidence of past information leaks.

one hand and northern Ireland and Eire on the other, because of military operations of “paramount im-

{portance”—an obvious reference to

preparations for an invasion of western Europe. Though northern Ireland was included in the travel embargo, it was aimed primarily at Eire, from where German and Japanese diplomatic and consular representatives have been keeping a close watch on western front preparations in Britain. Eire’s concern over the possible repercussions of her refusal] of an American request for the removal of axis officials was revealed by

NAZIS ROUTED AS RUSS SMASH INTO ODESSA DISTRICT

| Yanks Officers Lead On the War Fronts Spearheads Only 130

Miles From Black Sea Port.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, March 13.— Russian troops waging a ti< tanic battle for the liberation of the entire western Ukraine, have slashed into the Odessa provincial district and today were reported pushing on toward the big Black sea port. Field dispatches reporting the penetration of the Odessa district by spearheads of the Soviet armies smashing the Germans back evérye where in the Ukraine did not specify the location. At captured Gaivoron the Russians were 130 miles north of Odessa, while the Dnieper river estuary sector was some 100 miles to the east. The swiftest advances were crede ited to the army of Marshal Ivan S. Konev. Striking down through the Ukraine at a pace of almost a mile an hour, his troops had turned the German retreat into a panicky flight which even small arms and gas masks were abandoned.

Big Battle Underway

‘The newspaper Pravda said a gle gantic battle to drive the last Nazi soldier out of the Ukraine was in full swing. with Soviet troops spreading out along the lower Bug and slashing southward west of the river.

The entire German position in the Ukraine was tottering under the hammer blows of four Soviet armies, which imminently threate ened Vinnitsa, Tarnopol, Proskurov and ‘Nikolaev. “The ghost of Stalingrad is with the German army,” Pravda said. “The Germans are thinking only of avoiding a repetition of Staline grad. They are more sensitive to our cutting roads behind their lines, Our armies now are advancing to= ward the western frontiers.”

2500 Nazis Killed

Smashing through to the middle Bug on a steadily-widening front, Konev’s 2d Ukrainian forces drove enemy remnants into the river and hundreds drowned. Another 2500 German dead littered the ape proaches to the river. The official newspaper Pravda said the German , retreat had reached the stage where {troops

munition containers, light machinee guns, rifles and gas masks in their panicky efforts to escape the Soviet

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