Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1944 — Page 1

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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 3

By EARL RICHERT AND SHERLEY UHL One hundred million gallons of black market gasoline flowed into Hoosier automobiles during 1943, a comparison of OPA and state gasoline tax Separiment figures showed

today.

This enormous traffic in" illicit gasoline, stimulated by a continuous flow of counterfeit gas coupons from Chicago, has branded Hoosiers as among the chief violators agency had authorized the use of 552 million gallons of

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1944

responsible for the Midwest slash i in the “A” ticket value,

“John E. Scott, district O charged today.

PA enforcement’ attorney,

Mr. Scott said the state is blanketed with counterfeit

coupons, with “thousands of Indianapolis every week.” OPA statistics revealed

them changing hands in

that in 1943 the federal

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Hobsiors Buy 100 Million Gallons Of Black Market

gasoline in 91 Indiana counties, Lake county’s quota being omitted from this total because it is in the Chicago area. While Lake county figures were not immediately available, it was estimated that at least 25 million gallons were allotted there, thus making a state total of around 577

million.

State gasoline tax department records showed that 672 million gallons of gasoline had been used in the state

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25 million gallons included in

The comparison also disclosed that about 14 million : gallons allotted by OPA for non-highway uses had found its way into automobile gasoline tanks. While 102 million

gallons were earmarked for

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Gasoline during 1943, or approximately 100 million gallons more than was authorized by OPA.

(Lake county’s estimated OPA figures.)

non-highway purposes by

Unorthodox Bill

Bill Jack « . . "In 10 years wel

BLUE TO SEEK RENOMINATION

Niblack in Republican Primary. By NOBLE REED The political spotlight turned full blast on the primary contests for Marion county prosecutor today when it was learned that Prosecutor Sherwood Blue will make a formal announcement of Bis candidacy for renomination tonight. His arnouncement will climax the long feud over law enforcement policies between the prosecutor, representing the regular Republican organization, and Judge John Niblack of Municipal court 4, who has been carrying the torch for city hall's anti-organization police methods. Judge Niblack announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for prosecutor two weeks ago and subsequently challenged Mr. Eines policies all the way down the

The Blue-Niblack fight reached the gloves-off stage last week when the prosecutor accused the judge of trying to be “both judge and prosecutor” in court cases where deputy prosecutors refused to approve affidavits in police cases described by

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BRANCHES FOR VOTE REGISTRATION OPEN

Branch offices for the registration of voters are open from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. today at: Speedway City town hall; Beech Grove city hall; Edgewood school; Wagle : Brothers’ store, New Au-

tral high school, New Bethel school. The main registration office in room 34, courthouse, is open from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily and 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Sundays. Voters who failed to cast ballots in either the primary or general election in 1942 and those who have moved from their old precinct into

Jack Tells How

be bigger than General Motors.” »

Backs Generous Policy as Bar To Depression

.By"ROGER BUDROW" BILL JACK, who rode a freight train into Indianapolis 23 years ago hunting a job, came back again today in a Pullman with a story to tell. It's about his famed Cleveland war plant where workers are called “associates” and are given free vacations in Florida, free insurance, coffee and doughnuts during work, vitamin pills, steam baths, special ‘shoes uniforms -—and make more $5600 dress

and . than a year to boot. ss = = . Mr. Jack, here to ad a sell-out meeting of the Purchasing Agents association of Indianapolis at the Columbia club tonight, believes that he has found the solution to “freedom from want and fear by making my associates happy and contented, and thus more productive than

Specifically, he was continuing his crusade against the present method of renegotiating war prof-

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TAXPAYING LINES THINNING OUT TODAY

U. S. Office to Stay Open Until Midnight.

Today is the last day to get Square with Uncle Sam. The federal income tax return is due at the office of the internal ‘revenue collector by midnight or must be in the mail and postmarked by that time. While it was the last day for filing returns, lines at the office of Will H. Smith, the collector, in the Federal building were thinning. “Looks to me like over,” he said.

Open Until Midnight

Yesterday about 4300 persons were assisted at the office in filing re-

the rush is

third floor, down the stairs

today there was a crowd oh the

a new one, must re-register before they are eligible to vote.

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third floor only.

job tomorrow.

will be received at his office. A MacARTHUR DINNER SET CANBERRA, March 15 (U. P).—

in any other plant I know of.”

turns. Lines’ extended from the| and around a second-floor corridor, but

The tax office will be open until midnight. Mr. Smith said that in the event.the midnight gong sounds and persons are still in line, their names will be taken and they will be permitted to complete their filing

He said that about 800,000 returns already have been filed in Indiana and that today and tomorrow between 160,000 and 170,000 pieces of 7/mail containing returns probably gan

Prime Minister John Curtin announced today that the second an-|g niversary Friday of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's arrival in Australia will be observed at a dinner among parlia-

YANKS BOMB REICH; NAZIS

Berlin Says Target of Raid! Is Brunswick; Flak Is Light...

N LONDON, March 15 (U. P).— American airmen flew back into central Germany today and bombed their target—Nazi broadcasts said it was the aircraft center of Brunswick—without serious challenge by, the battle-weary German air force. Formations of Flying Fortresses and Liberators described officially

LONDON, March 15 (U. P.).~— Maj. James Stewart, former movie actor, led a force of Liberators over Germany as command pilot today.

as “medium sized” again drove an aerial spearhead into the heart of Germany without luring up any appreciable section of the Nazi’ fighter force for a test of strength... Pilots conceded that dirty weather probably contributed to the lack of opposition which made g “milk run” of a raid on a region once guarded by Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering’s boldest fighters where American airmen have fought tremendous air battles.

Resistance Light

The German fighters which did rise were pounced on by overwhelm-

numbers of ; f —{rilernorts Th or el

bombers in great strength on the first penetration of Germany since Saturday. Belying Nazi propaganda claims of great battles fought over the Hannover area northwest of Brunswick, which the Paris radio said was the chief target, returning crewmen said few German fighters were able to break through the U. 8. shield and reach the bombers. The Fortresses and Liberators dropped their bombs through'a solid cloud layer over the target, but reported their cargoes were on the aiming point. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate. The American planes pushed straight down the Berlin road in an attempt to draw the Germans

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Clerk Demands $50,000 in Suit Over Nose Bite

A BITE on the end of the nose is’ worth $50,000 damages, Dewey F. Campbell, Warren hotel room clerk, contended in a suit filed in circuit court today. He brought the suit, asking $50,000 damages, against Roger Ferguson, an agent of the So-cony-Vacuum Oil Co. The suit charged that the defendant, when told there was no room available at the hotel, the night of March 7, became angry, bit Mr. Campbell on. the nose and struck him in the face, causing lacerations which required 34 stitches. The Socony-Vacuum Co. was made co-defendant in the case. Ferguson, who has been held in jail on a charge of malicious mayhem, was released today under $1500 bond pending trial of the case in criminal court. Campbell said today that he has been unable to work since and has been under a doctor’s care at his

SHUN COMBAT

CASSINO DESTROYED BY MIGHTY ALLIED SKY AND LAND OFFENSIVE

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The town of Cassino (foreground) literally was levelled foday by a massive allied aerial offensive. The Casting monastery which recently was reduced by American attacks is shown at upper left. ;

EASTMAN

‘One of Capital's Hardest Workers’ on ICC for 25 Years.

WASHINGTON, March 15 (U.P). —Director Joseph B. Eastman of

the office of defense transportation, the man who was responsible for extracting the last ounce of war effort from the nation’s railroads and motor trucks, died in emergency hospital today of a heart ‘ailment which struck him down BR last Feb. 19. < Eastman, who would have been

: weeks after celeG TT brating the 25th Mr. Eastman anniversary of his ‘appointment by President Woodrow Wilson to the interstate commerce commission, a post he held under five presidents. Friends feted Eastman®at a banquet on the anniversary occasion, Feb. 17, and two days later he suffered a heart attack. His condition appeard to improve, and he confidently expected to be back in harness again soon. He suffered another attack today, however, and died at 7:10 a. m. President Roosevelt heard the news of Eastman’s death with “deep negret,” White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said. The White House disclosed that on Feb. 19 Eastman, because he was

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stal? Writer ASHINGTON, March 15.—Rep. Ludlow, Indianapolis Democrat,

Ludlow Blasts U. S. Bureaus In Announcing Candidacy

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appropriations subcommittee on postoffice and treasury expenditures. The official Ludlow announcement reads: “I have sent to the secretary of state my declaration of candidacy for the 79th congress. If I am nominated and elected my service in congress will be extended until Jan. 3, 1947, I believe the next congress will cover the most momentous period in the history of the world. “We hope and pray, with some reason for our faith, that it will mark the liquidation of the war and the establishment of the peace. I hope that it also will mark the repeal of a myriad of bureaucratic orders and directives ich are annoying our people and harassing business, Whatever the future may unfold, it is certain that the years immediately ahead will draw heav-

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bock beer. It's different. It’s a sad story for the elbow benders. The supply will be limited—very limited. Following the best tradition of the trade, the Indianapolis Brew= ing Co. will release bock beer for sale Friday, St. Patrick's day. There won't be much of it. “Each customer will get a little,” said William E. Clauer, president of the company, “but I don’t think there will be enough to last more than a week.” ; 2 8 =» Distributers of leading brands made in other cities said they wouldn't have any. They said their breweries didn't make any because of limited production and the extra time it takes to brew bock beer, Bock beer (trade marked with the head of a male goat) “is described in the dictionary as a kind of beer usually brewed in the spring from a strong wort, containing about five per cent alcohol and much extract.

HINKLE WILL RULE GREAT LAKES SPORT

Named Athletic Director at!

Training Station.

LT. PAUL D. (TONY) HINKLE, former athletic director at Butler university, who accepted a naval

commision to coach basketball at Great Lakes, today was named athletic officer at the naval train-

ceeding Lt. Cmdr.

Lt. Hinkle, recognized as one of the foremost coaches of the cage game in the country was sworn into the navy in April, 1942, after a 21year reign at the head of Butler's athletic teams. Great Lakes developed into one of the strongest service teams in the country under Lt. Hinkle's guidance and his basketball and football teams have rated with the

Tony Hinkle

best. He achieved one of his great-

est triumphs just last fall when his Sailors upset a heavily favored, previously unbeaten Notre Dame football team that had . been marked as one of the greatest in the history of the South Bend school. Lt. Cmdr. Cook also, is another one of Indiana's great athletes. He was a former star at Central Normal and had charge of the coaching ‘activities at Great Lakes

until the arrival of Lt Hinkle.

RUSS Mop IP

Claim 14,000 Enemy! Troops Killed or Captured | In Ukraine.

«{peared in the balance.

{HAS PLAN FOR PEACE

MOSCOW, March 15 (U. P).— Gen. Rodion ¥. Malinvsky's army of the Ukraine carried a battle of annihilation against several trapped German divisions into the mopup stage today, steadily increasing the Nazi losses now at more than 14,000 men killed or captured. Field dispatches predicting early Soviet victory over the German divisions encircled north of Kherson said the stamping out of resistance in the pocket probably would make untenable the Nazi position at nearby Nikolaev, last major German-held Black sea port east of Odessa. Repeated German armored count-er-attacks failed to. break the Soviet ring, and the fate of the divisions as well as of Nikolaev ap-

Closely following the pattern of the encirclement and annihilation of 10 German divisions west of Cherkasi last month, the new envelopment emphasized that Marshall Fritz Von Mannstein's insistence on trying to hold his lines in the Ukraine will cost him a heavy percentage of his forces. The . German divisions were trapped - in a pocket of somel/300 square miles, resting on the “west bank of the Ingulets river between Berezengovataya on the north Andsnegirevka on the south. Military observers doubted that the Nazi command would try to hold®out at Nikolaev after the liguidation of the pocket, since the

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REPORTS RUMANIA

Bulgaria Also May Be Ready To Quit.

LONDON, March 15 (U. P.).— Rumania is ready to offer a realistic

six-point surrender and Bulgarian leftists have decided to attempt to overthrow Premier Dobri Bojilov, reports on activities of Adolf Hitler’s troubled Balkan satellites said today. Prince Barnu Stirbe, 70-year-old former Rumanian premier now in Turkey, reportedly was en route to Cairo and a London Daily Express dispatch quoted reliable sources at Ankara that he was ready to offer Rumania's surrender. The terms were said to include: 1. Bumania to cede Bessarabia to R without reserve. 2. Rumanian troops to withdraw west of the Pruth river. 3. German forces to be invited to’

Believe Finland _T6 Reject Russ Armistice Plan BULLETIN HELSINKI, March 15 (U. P.)— The Finnish parliament was reported most reliably today to have approved a government proposal

to reject the armistice terms which Russia ‘offered to Finland.

HELSINKI, March 15 (U. P).— Premier Edwin Linkomies is expected to tell the Finnish parliament at a secret meeting today that the government sees no chance to nel gotiate with Russia on the basis of her six-point peace proposal. The government was believed already to have reached a negative decision. The Riksdag, Finland's parliament, is expected to approve! the action, leaving practically no! hope for further armistice negotiations with the Soviets. The Russians are believed to expect a definite answer before midnight Saturday. After that, hostilities may be resumed on a full scale! at any moment. Finland also is most apprehensive that the United States will break

Hoosier Heroes—

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BLOW LEADS NEW ATTACK

Into Twin Drive at Nazi Fort.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 15 (U. P.).—Allied land and air forces launched a tremendous offensive against the German mountain stronghold of Cassino today and leveled the miles square stone village with five hours of the heaviest aerial bombing ever concentrated in so small an area. Mustering every plane in their Mediterranean arsenal from tiny Spitfires to giant Flying Fortresses and Liberators, the allied airmen sent 1400 tons of bombs crashing down on Cassino in a deluge .unbroken from the first light of dawn until noon when’ the" 5th “army's ground troops moved into the shattered enemy positions which had held their advance in central Italy toward Rome for weeks. Another 1400 tons of high exploand + fragmentation bombs were dumped on Nazi gunners crouching in foxholes and trenches in the hills north and northeast of Cassino.

Fly .3000 Sorties

"he twin aerial blow, combining a weight of explosives not surpassed even in the heaviest of the mass raids on Berlin, was thé opening phase of the “big push” by the allied 5th army to crush the Nazis’ stubborn resistance in the mountains of central Italy. Observers said Cassino, the focal {point of the German defenses, was {wiped from the earth under the air assault and the storm of shellfire from massed artillery which follow= ed it. Thundering over in a parade of death that began with the first light of dawn and ended just be= fore the ground assault began at noon, the allied planes returned iagain and again to their bases to {reload and observers estimated that they flew more than 3000 sorties in five hours, making it one of the great aerial assaults of history. The fleets of planes had but one objective, the ‘complete destruction of every building in Cassino where Nazi gunners manned countless artillery pieces and trench mortars

ON CASUALTY LIST

Pvt. Fix Killed in Italy:

Sgt. Preda’ Missing.

TWO INDIANAPOLIS infantry-

ties following ac tion in Italy in: January. KILLED — Pvt, | John Fix, 1841 E. Epler ave. MISSING—Sgt. Earl -Preda,-2441 © S. Rybolt st. ~ ” =

PVT. JOHN FIX, stationed with the 5th army infantry, was killed in action in Italy Jan. 31. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fix. Attached to the headquarters company of the 3d division, Pyt. Fix had been overseas since September:

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BAGS 3 NAZI PLANES, LEADS HOOSIER ACE

LONDON, March 15 (U. P.).—Lt. Robert S. Johnson of Lawton, Okla., shot down three German planes today, raising total bag to 22 and making him the leading Amerjcan fightér ace in the European theater. On his return to base he was promoted to captain. °° Johnson's three new Victories put {him two ahead of his flyitig ‘mate, the former ace of aces, Capt. Wal- |i

Pvt. Fix

men have been reported war casual-|’

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On the War Fronts

March 15, 1944

AIR WAR—American heavy bomb ers resume daylight offensive against Germany.

RUSSIA—Soviets break through to middle Bug river on 40-mile front. >.

PACIFIC—Americans tighten ring around , isolated Japanese and Bismarck archipelago. a

ITALY—British infantrymen drive Germans from strongpoint south " of Aprilia in surprise attack on left flank of Anzio beachhead.

7000 FORD WORKERS STAY HOME TODAY

DETROIT, March 15 (U. P). ~—= More than 7000 workers were absent: from their ‘jobs at the Ford Motor or of b otay 2 result of a series tions by wildcat strikers described by a company spokesman as “ane other prize example of hoodlumism