Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1944 — Page 2
LONDON FIRED ‘BY NAZI BLITZ
. Heaviest Incendiary Raids In Three Years Strike City at Midnight.
LONDON, March 15 (U. P) —~Upwards of 100 German planes ringed London with fires late last night in what appeared to be the heaviest incendiary raid since the 1940-41 blitz, but all were extinguished within five hours, The effort, obvioukly: designed to placate the bomb-battered German people, cost the already strained juftwaffe at least 13 bombers, including two destroyed over their base in Holland by an R. A. F. Intruder. One plane crashed in flames :in a London suburb. Striking just before midnight, the raiders ran a gantlet of rocket and anti-aircraft shells, as well as night fighters, to shower thousands of fire .bombs and scores of high explosives on London.
Large Fires Kindled
Larger conflagrations than those ‘kindled in the “baby blitz” last month sprang up in the wake of “the bombers and at one time almost “encircled one London district. Numerous casualties were reported, but censorship prevented publi‘cation of a d€ath toll. Rescue _ Squads still were tunneling through the rubble of wrecked buildings and dwellings in some sections for dead and injured.” # One oil bomb blazed furiously o on - the top floors of a 60-foot-tall warehouse during the height of the raid while 4000 Londoners laughed and joked in a basement shelter below, unaware of their danger, Wardens prepared to evacuate the shelter, but the flames were extinguished within an hour. Another bomb fired a bus loaded with American soldiers outside a club. All escaped before the bus was destroyed.
Soldiers Give Aid
American soldiers rushed from a service men’s club in another district to aid fire fighters and rescue squads after a cluster of incendiaries ignited shops and several apartment houses, Two {fashionable squares were among the areas hardest hit, Houses on two sides of one square burned fiercely and the occupants hurriedly removed furniture from their rooms and stacked it in the middle of the square.
RABID DDG VICTIMS UNDER MEDICAL CAR
BLOOMINGTON, March 15 (U. P.) —Between eight and 15 Bloomington persons. were under Pasteur | treatment today after having been bitten by a raid dog. Treatment was advised -yesterday : by. Police ‘Chief John Rawlins when an analy-]
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New Restrictions
On Eire Studied
LONDON, March 15 (U. P).— Further steps to prevent leakage of news to the enemy through Eire were considered today as plans were drawn to isolate the country if it is deemed necessary to protect the allied forces sta-
Retaliate for Allied Raids on Railways in Rome and Vicinity. By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent NAPLES, March 15. —German night, bombers, striking back savagely after a series of allied air blows that ripped up Nazi railroad
lines from Pisa to Rome, swarmed
in over Naples in-the early morning. hours today and gave this allied “headquarters city its heaviest raid in months. (The German DNB news agency said the raiders struck at the Naples port area and -that great damage and large conflagrations”
were caused. Four transports totalling ‘20,000 tons were damaged; badly, DNB said). i The Nazi raiders were greeted by a thunderous barrage from the] massed allied anti-aircraft guns.
Allies Strike in Rome
I watched the attack from the balcony of an apartment house. Most of the raiders were kept at a great altitude by the violent flak barrage, but occasionally I could hear dive bombers whooping down in an attempt to break through to
their targets. The Nazi attack came on the
tioned in Britain. Among measures examined by | allied officials were proposals to close the—entire border between Eire and North Ireland with guards, police and troops patrol- | ing the frontier, and the severance of all telephone and telegraph links between Eire and the outside world passing through | Britain and North Ireland.
12,595 PUPILS QUIT BEFORE STH GRAD
Dr. Clement T. Malan, state superintendent of public instruction, reported today that a total of 12,595
{heels of a smashing American Mar-
lauder raid on the Prenestina rail [yards in Rome, junction point of the | Florence- Rome line and of main railroad routes joining the capital with east coast ports. More than! 100 freight cars were destroyed or
{damaged in the attack.
(Radio Rome reported that Vir{ginio Gayda, editor of the Gionale |D’ [talia who had served as Premier Bark Mussolini's mouthpiece dur-; ¢ hey-day of the Fascist re- | AY wb killed when a bomb <de-| stroyed his home, where he was at work. Swiss reports said the entire, Gayda family was Killed.)
While the Marauders were smash-,
ing fail targets inside Rome, B-25 Mitchell medium bombers hit the] yards at Terni, about 40 miles north
pupils now between the ages of 14|of the capital on the alternate cen-! and 18 have dropped out of In- tral railroad route to Florence while
diana’s public schools before com-| pleting the eighth grade. Dr. Malan’s réport was based on a questionnaire sent to -all‘ school administrators in the state. The survey showed that 1197 boys and 716 girls between the ages of 16 and 18 quit school before completing the eighth grade, 1966 boys and 1333 girls quit at the age of 15 and 4211 boys and 3172 girls quit fat the age of 14. Dr. Malan also announced. a series
of six regional spring nieetings of | school administrators at which edu-| {cational problems will.be discussed.
BOMB FALLS FROM BLIMP ABINGTON, Mass, March 15 (U. P.) .—A depth charge bomb fell 1 a navy dirigible today and landed
sis disclosed the animal was af- in a driveway between two houses here without explading.
fected.
a second strong attack was aimed at the yards in Orte, on the main {Florence line. Returning crewmen ‘reported direct hits on both lngess.
U.S. PRISON BRUTALITY PROBE
WASHINGTON, March 15 (U.| P.) —Attorney General Francis Bid-| dle said today he would not order a further investigation into charges that inmates of the federal prisons medical center at Springfield, Mo, had been treated brutally. He said the dangerous character
“tof the prisoners there often made it necessary to “use force and use! it promptly,” but concluded that the recent informal inquiry had shown no malicious or flagrantly brutal
handling of inmates.
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around the isolated Japanese in. the baul. Bismarck archipelago today and allied airmen carried out smashingiin attacks against the enemy from New forces cleared the enemy from HauGuinea to the Carolines and the|wel and Butjo Luo islands off Los
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