Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1944 — Page 1
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E=HOWARD VOLUME 55_NUMBER 2
TUESDAY, MARCH
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14, 1944
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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A’ Gasoline Ration Cut To Two Gallons Effective March 2
WASHINGTON, March"
trator Chester Bowles today ordered the “A” gasoline ration in all states west of the Allegheny mountains cut from three to two gallons a week, effective March 22. He also’ reduced the permissible “B” mileage in five
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: No changes were made in any gasoline “rations in the 7 East coast states. Nor were “C” rations affected.
A PLEA FOR REPENTANCE— Mistakes of Management
Cited by C. As Warning
By ERIC A.
of C. Chief to U. S. Labor
JOHNSTON
President, Chamber of Commerce of the United States
THIS IS A TALK about labor and management and their place in meeting American human needs. I remember a strike out my way in the West. The strike leader was a smart man. When the newspaper re- - porters asked him what all this labor trouble was about,
he said:
“Labor trouble? There’s no labor trouble. The employees in this plant are just having a little Rpg
trouble.”
And he was right. That particular strike was man-
agement’s fault. I'm going to mention plenty of by management also. I. think we together.
bad practices by labor; and plenty all ought to hit the sawdust trail
But, gentlemen of labor, Ill tell you something straight. Right now you have a priority at the mourners’ bench. Right now you're
just where we of management were 10 years ago. What a chance we in management missed!
“Prom 1921 to 1930
we had everything all our way. A friendly administration in Wash-
ington. Low taxes. and a friendly public. And what did we do with our power} On the economic side : we gave this
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0. K’S COMPROMISE SOLDIER VOTE BILL
WASHINGTON, March 14 (U. P.) ~The senate today approved the compromise soldier vote bill, 47 to -31, despite the opposition of Democratic majority leader Alben . 'W. Barkley, The vote came after two days of debate on the controversial measure. House approval of the bill was . considered assured.. It then would go to President Roosevelt for veto or signature. Opponents of the compromise bill charged that it would restrict the number of soldiers who could vote. Supporters claimed that it would facilitate voting by more soldiers
sity last night. ws. wie of the
6 HOOSIERS DIE IN GAMP BLAST
Seven Others Killed, 13
Injured as Land Mine . Explodes.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 14 (U, P.).~An army board of inquiry at Camp Joseph R. Robinson today investigated the explosion yesterday of a supposedly harmless land mine which killed 13 soldiers, six of them Hoosiers, and injured 13 others. Those killed from Indiana are: Sgt. Jack K. Wareham, Denver. Cpl. Pearl W. Allen Jr., Winslow. Cpl. Lawrence E. Bachman, Monon. : Pfc. Robert A. Appleman, Chesterton.
Pvt. Orval L. Collard, Newland. T. 5th Gr. Russell E. Volk, Gary. The injured included: T. 5th Gr. Eugene C. Walther, Terre Haute. Pvt. Cliver F. Burgoon, Richmond. Pvt. Willlam S. Kummer, Montpelier. The men, members of a service mine class in -the 652d tank de-
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Hoosier Heroes—
2 LOCAL SOLDIERS KILLED IN ACTION
Robt. Douglass, Paul Smith, Among 4 Casualties.
COMBAT on three battlefronts has added four Indianapolis men to
than are eligible under present law.
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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Amusements. . Eddie Ash ...
8| Ruth Millett. 10
Ration Dates. 16 Earl Richert.. 4 Mrs, Roosevelt 9
the war casuality list.
ot \ KILLED c. Robert H. Douglass, formerly of Indian
polis. Sgt. Paul Smith, 2823 Meredith ave.
MISSING T. Sgt. Herbert C. Derado, 738 8.
‘8 Noble st.
S. Sgt. James H. Coleman, for-
8 merly of 413 N. Alabama st.
E o 8 PFC. ROBERT H.' DOUGLASS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Douglass, Ft. Wayne, was_killed in
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Reduction of gasoline consumption by motorists is necessary, Bowles said, because the amount allotted by the petroleum administration for civilian use in April, May and June is expected .to be nine per cent less than in the current quarter. At the same time, farm ‘needs for gaso.
line will be, Increasing... \ : ationing
: eonference that the lv changes ‘would save between
IBLUE AND REMY
SWAP CHARGES
IAS FEUD GROWS)
Safety Board Meeting Fails To Accomplish Agree-
ment. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue and Safety Board President Will H. Remy flung charges of “non-co-op-eration” at each other in a heated
verbal fracas today at the regu-larly-scheduled safety board meet-
ing. The debaté, held ostensibly to give Mr. Blue a chance to plead for retention of police officer Charles ‘Russell as an as-
of-
volved pent - up animosities that have been raging for many months between the po-
and the county Mr. Blue i secutor. In the matter of police tow-ins of parked automobiles failing to display 1044 license plates, Mr. Blue charged the police department with the prosecutor, getting to2 wih certain courts, and act-
i: government” shouted.
Mr. Blue said he had obtained an opinion from the attorney general's office that police tow-ins of parked unlicensed automobiles were illegal, and had been advised to take up the issue through the public press. While Prosecutor Blue and the safety board were arguing at the city hall, the Blue-police department feud was having repercussions in municipal court. Arrests ‘Iliegal’ After prosecuting several cases before Judge John L. Niblack, Deputy Prosecutor Sam Huffman walked out of court when 10 defendants charged with. failing to display 1944 auto licenses on parked cars, were called before the judge. Called back by Judge Niblack, Mr. Huffman said he had tried all the cases in court and that the prosecutor’'s office was not prosecuting these cases because the arrests were illegal. Judge Niblack then continued the cases indefinitely, explaining, “I do not want to both prosecute and judge the cases.” In the safety board meeting when Mr. Remy accused Mr. Blue of “blasting out too much in the press,” the prosecutor retorted: “I don't intend to be ganged in my ef-
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$6000 Airways Jobs in Alaska
Create Furore
SCORES OF Indianapolis couples have deluged The Indian apolis Times office. the last few days with queries about’ those $6000-a-year Alaska airways communicator . jobs. for married couples which were publicized last Thursday. ; But today harassed officials of “the -civil aeronautics “administra tion in Washington dug their way out of an avalanche of letters and telegrams and asked the public please to stop applying. In the first place, CAA needed only 50 of [the man-wife teams
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WASHINGTON, March 14 (U.P). —President Roosevelt was expected to act today to meet the serious threat to war production posed by the prospect of heavy inductions of heretofore deferred - workers by draft boards reluctant to call up fathers, the industrial manpower situation. as “very serious,” Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt
M. Nelson
F. D. R. Studies Draft Delay For Workers in War Plants
18,000 and 20,000 barrels a day for the nation as a whole,
The five states affected by the reduction of “B” driving °
from 460 to 400 miles a month are California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. This change also will’
be effective March 22.
The cut in “A” rations outside the East will be
id by making blocks of coupons valid months instead of two months. Individual coupons will
continue to be worth three gallons each. Bowles said that “we are entering a period in which critical demands will be made on our limited supplies of gasoline, and we are enter
ing it with supplies that are
. of war demands.” _He said that during February quotas were exceeded
or three
55 Tar as inYormiation 1% available the same holds
true for March.
sharply limited as the result
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NA UKRAINE FRONT DISSOLVING; ALLIES PLAN ISOLATION OF FIRE
lice department] :
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MRS. OTT GIVEN ONE TO 10 YEARS
|Pleads Guilty to Setting
$500 Logansport Hospital Blaze.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 14 (U. P.) —Mrs. Maude Lucas Ott, 41, pleaded guilty to an arson charge today in connection with a $500 fire last month at the Logansport State hospital and was sentenced by Judge John B. Smith to one to 10 years in the Indiana women’s prison. Cass County Sheriff Harold Smith said that he would take her to the prison late today or tomorrow to begin serving her term. Through her attorney, Lynn O'Neill, Mrs. Ott waived arraignment and entered her plea of guilty to the Logansport fire. She was sentenced immediately. However, she maintained her innocence in connection with fires which occurred at the Evansville, Ind. State hospital and at a Toledo, O., hospital. Her husband, James, 46, was in court with her and helped his wife to her feet as sentence was passed. He was then taken back to his jail cell, where he was held on charges of being an accessory to arson. Prosecutor Kenesaw M. Landis II indicated that these charges would be dropped and that Ott would be
turned over to officials from Birds-|;
eye, Ind, who were expected to other charges in connection with | fire which destroyed the Ott April 11, 1043. Mrs. Ott's plea today came after| long sessions of questioning by state and county officials concerning the Evansville fire, which killed eight persons and cost $2,000,000. James Ott had accused his wife of starting the fire. . Although she declined to deny it, she still would not confess.
A new decision to slow down reclassification and inductions of deferred workers would have the net
effect of spurring the draft of fathers.
Poles Charge Germans With Mass Murder
LONDON, March 14 (U.P). ~The Polish telegraph agency charged today that the Germans, hastening to evacuate Lwow before arrival of the advancing Russ army, were conducting - wholesale massacres of the city residents. More than 10,000 persons already have been killed, the agency r These included a whole train load ofRussian women and children carried off from Soviet soil and groups of Italian officers and soldiers who refused to continue fighting the Russians.
RAHKE ESTATE SET AT $115,000 HERE
Wife and Children Share
_ In Properties.
The estate of Emil Rahke, 4146 N. Meridian st.” who died Sunday, was valued /at more than $115,000, his will filed in protoday. : e was president of the sil t salesman Co. and was an official of four other subsidiary
The will left the residence and & {household property to his wife, Mrs. € Rose M. Rahke, and $1000 in cash to a stepson, Bruce E. Fessler. --The-rest of the estdte was divided into six shares. One share was left to a daughter, Mrs. Marion Miller, and another to a son, Fletcher Rahke,. The four remaining shares are to be held in trust by the Union Trust Co. Of the trust fund shares the proceeds of two of them are to go to the wife, one to another daughter, Eleanor J. Rahke, and the fourth to a son, Ronald E.
Rahke.
KNOX CITES NEED OF ENFORCED LABOR WASHINGTON, March 14 (U. P.).
—Mounting manpower requirements of a navy expanding at the rate of
Local draft boards. for 10. days of the ?
have been reviewing industrial and agricultural deferments, especially for men under 26, at the President's
and man
and manufacturers have ex-|m
Doe ius tot Sagem: : deferred
33d War Profustion Chis} Donal fies | the deferment
comprised s|Halifaxes and was one
War Theaters—
1000 JAPS DIE IN FUTILE DRIVE
{Allies Mow Down Foe at
Bougainville, Capture
Two Islands.
By UNITED PRESS American ground forces have repulsed a suicidal Japanese counterattack on Bougainville in the Solomons, killing nearly one-third of the enemy force, while other U. 8S. troops strengthened their hold in the Admiralty islands by seizing two more islands off Los Negros, it was disclosed today. The American troops on Bougainville killed an estimated 1000 Japanese soldiers who charged into heavy machine-gun fire in a futile attempt to break through the U. 8. | perimeter at Torokina on Empress Augusta bay. The enemy force, which attempted three attacks Saturday, was estimated between 3000 and 4000 men, some of whom thrust to within 10 feet of the muzzles of U. 8. machine guns. In one sector, 500 Japanese were killed in a fanatical drive against the American lines. In the miles to the west, 'U. 8. troops occupied, with only slight opposition, the islands of Hauwei and
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NAZLANTI-INVASION’ CENTER IS BLASTED
R. A. F. Bombers Disrupt
Rail Lines at Le Mans.
LONDON, March 14 (U, P).— Hundreds of ‘R. A. F. heavy bombers disrupted Nazi anti-invasion preparations last night with a thunderbolt attack on railway. tarkets at Le Mans, 110 miles south« west of Paris, while Mosquito raiders struck Frankfurt and other objectives in western Germany Explosive and any. bombs tore up railway tracks, set fire to cars and ‘warehouses and wrecked other installations at Le Mans, one of the main junctions through which pass troops, ammunition and other supplies for German forces
v=! manning defenses on the Brittany
and Bay of Biscay coasts. The assault was made by a force entirely of four-engined of the heavagainst
Admiralty islands, 650]
Churchill Says Ban On Travel Only ‘First Step.’
LONDON, March 14 (U. P.) .—The allies intend to isolate Eire completely from the outer world to prevent invasion secrets leaking to the axis, Prime Minister Churchill told commons today amid charges that Irish agents eslready have obtained details of U. S. forces in Ulster and “certain plans of their operations.” Churchill described restrictions on. travel between Britain and Ireland as merely the “first step” toward quarantining Eire from the rest of the world “during the crit-
measures.
tain plans of their operations.”
therefore essential. Mail Censored
S Churchill said.
sary.”
censorship of mail between Northern and Southern Ireland, as well as other anti-espionage matters, were receiving “constant and vigilant attention.” “If a catastrophe were to occur to ‘the allied armies which could be traced to the retention of German and Japanese representatives
generations wouldn't bridge, Have Taken Measures
Mr.
and their staffs in Dublin.
proaching.” Churchill
Gqod-Natyred. Thousands Pay -
Income Taxes NEXT-TO-THE-LAST-MINUTE
| taxpayers today are crowding their
way to the third floor of the Fed-
tax returns, The line winds its way from Ohio st. through wrought-iron, state police-guarded gates, up the stairs -to the second floor, around half the halls, up to the third floor and around the halls again. , Approximately 1000 persons are estimated to be in the line at any given time. From the time they take their place at the end of the line until they have finished their return they have spent
a shoe coupen.
now approaching”—a clear hint that ‘Britain was planning to close the bordér between Eire and Northern Ireland as well as institute other restrictive
Sir William Davison, Conservative, charged that agents of the outlawed Irish Republican army had been apprehended recently with papers “giving particulars of American forces in Ulster and with cerHe Churchill directly whether
asked | ‘eter a” trom he did not consider closure ;
the Eire-Northern Ireland frontier
«1 prefer to confine myself to a tatement in -general terms today,” “All necessary measures within the limits of which 1 have described will, of course, be ‘taken as they are deemed neces-
He told another questioner that
Russ Threaten to Hurl Foe Back
To Dniester.
MOSCOW, March 14 (U., P.). — The tattered German front in the Ukraine was res ported losing its last seme blance of effective resistance today under a hail of Soviet army blows enhancing the likeli hood that the Nazis. would be thrown back at least to the Dniepe er river. > Soviet armies smashing forward in concert along a 500-mile front were racing for Nikolaev at the mouth of the Bug river, closing an assault arc against Vinnitsa, and pushing forward within about 50 miles of the old Rumanian border. (The British radio said Russian tanks were within 20 miles of Nikolaev from the north and from the region of captured Kherson to the southeast.) : - Despite formidable handicaps of
the southern Bug river would be
overridden summarily by the ho sians, which would fi them to
in Dublin,” Churchill said, “a gulf would be opened between Great Britain on one hand and Southern Ireland on the other which even
“We for some time past have taken a number of measures to minimize dangers arising from the substantial disservice to the allied cause involved in the retention by (Prime Minister Eamon) de Valera's government of the German minister and the Japanese consul
“The time has come when these measures must be strengthened and the. restrictions on travel to Ireland announced yesterday are the first step in ‘a policy designed to isolate Great Britain from Southern Ireland and also isolate Southern Ireland from the outer world during the critical period now ap-
said the United States took the initiative in approaching Eire with a suggestion that the De Valera government seek
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eral building to make out income
stemming the Soviet onrush in the lower Dnieper area, and laid open the way for a quick thrust at Nike olaev, 38 miles to the northwest. Moscow reported that the present offensive already has cost the Germans more than 63,000 killed and 9000 captured. The total for the various-Russian drives on the entire front this winter was placed at 350,« 000 Germans killed and 44,900 captured. These casualties on the Ukrainian front especially were accompanied by a demoralizing Joss of equipment. (A German DNB dispatch sald the Russians on the lower Dnieper outnumbered the Germans 10 to 20 times and still were bringing up re inforcements, while a Berlin radio spokesman was heard by C. B. 8. broadcasting. that the suffering of Nazi troops in the southern Ukraine “exceeds by far anything they had to endure during the icy snowstorms of January and February.”),
Report New Gains
Late dispatches reported new gains through crumbling enemy defenses all the way from Poland to the Black seg as the three Russian Ukrainian armies’ intensified what appeared to be their supreme effort to clear Southern. Rusts of the In. Fvaders; : an Marshal Gregory K. “Zhukovs Ist army, striking suddenly in a new
. foffénsive between embattled Tarno-
pol and Proskurov at the western end of the front, captured Skalat, only 52 miles north of the Dniestet river border of old Rumania and 108 miles northeast of .the former boundary of Czechoslovakia. 3 The advance also brought Zhkuov's forces 58 miles northeast of the Lwow-Cernauti railroad, one of three remaining German escape routes from the southern Ukraine, and 77 miles from Cernauti itself,
1200 Nazis Killed Some 1200 Germans were killed in a bitter battle on the approaches to’ Skalat, while 29 enemy tanks and Tine self-propelled ula Jug
about 2 hours and 45 minutes and .