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(Another Pyle Column, Page Nine)

the bombing of our villa on

3 By ERNIE PYLE i WITH THE FIFTH ARMY BEACHHEAD FORCES, in Italy, March 20 (By Wireless)—Yes, we almost got it this time. I'll try to tell you how it feels. I'm speaking of

the Anzio beachhead which

you may have read about in the news dispatches. We correspondents here stay in a villa run by the 5th

army's public relations section.

In this house live five

officers, 12 enlisted men and American and British. ~The house is located on sometimes: washes over our

a dozen correspondents, both

the waterfront. The current back steps. The house is a

huge, rambling affair with four stories down on the beach

and then another complete

above it on the bluff, all connected b

he

stairways.

three stories just a series of ‘interior

section

For weeks long-range artillery shells had been hitting

of us. Raiders came over nightly, yet ever since D day this villa had seemed to be charmed. The night before our bombing Sgt. Slim Aarons of

Yank Magazine said, “Those

shells are so close that if the

German gunner had just hiccuped when he fired, bang

would have gone our house.” And 1 said, “It seems to

me we've about used up our

luck. It’s inevitable that this house will be hit before we

leave here.”

Most of the correspondents and staff lived in the part

vie: “Yes, 1 Almost Got It This Time—Here’s How It Feels’

of the house down by the water? it being considered safer

because it was lower down.

‘ But I had been sleeping alone in the room in the top part because it was a lighter place to work in the caytime. We called it “Shell Alley” up there because the Anzio-

bound shells seemed to come eaves day and night. On this certain morning

in a groove right past our

1 had awakened early and

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Touring in 'Small-Time'

By THOMAS L. STOKES Secripps-Howard Stall Writer WITH WILLKIE IN WISCONSIN, March 20.— There’s something a bit like ‘the glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-

a-day in the cheap and drafty theaters of the provinces

PLANS DRAWN T0 SAVE JOBS OF 8,000,000

Post-War Production Set For World Markets By Senate Group.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (U.

in Wendell Willkie's attempted P.).—The senate war contracts’

. seeing you back

Lem Jones on Hand

" ‘Roosevelt ave, 5432 E. Washington

_ comeback for the Republican

presidential nomination on this Wisconsin circuit, preliminary to | the April 4 primary. Or, perhaps, like the major league pitcher who is sent back |

the ball, who left the big town with the confident assure ance from the boss, “we'll be

old Mr. Willkie

again, boy—you'll like that club,” which he tries to believe as he shakes hands with teammates who smile too cheerfully. All the trappings of the big time, all the sound effects, the perfection of detail, still cling reminiscently about this Willkie troupe back on the provincial circuit,

The local committees are onganized. The high school auditoriums are spick and span and frilly with flags. The suppers are laid out temptingly in the back rooms of local restaurants with that dainty touch so dear to small town women showing them- | selves off to strangers. The hotel reservations are ready in advance. The automobiles are on hand to transport the traveling show from town to town—Mr, and Mrs. Willkie and their entourage plus a sizable press corps which remembers the big-time circuit of four years ago, the screeching, storming multitudes, the huge auditoriums wild with frenzied people. i Lem Jones, the indefatigable”! secretary and handy man, is slong, everywhere at once, as in that tempestuous 1940 e. So

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REGISTRATION BOOKS | OPEN IN 6 BRANCHES

Branch offices for. the registration of voters will be operated to-| day, tomorrow and Wednesday | from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m. at: Six fire’ engine houses, 1575 st, 1445 W. Michigan st, Prospect st, 2918 E. 10th st, 2060 Kenwood ave. The main registration office in the court house will be open daily from 8 a. m. until 6 p. m. and on! Sunday from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m.|

TOMORROW'S JOB—

1136 and

'G. I. Bill of Rights' Assures Returning Soldiers of Work

By E. A,

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 20.—Returning veterans of this war will be assured of material assistance in

Jobs or enterprises under the “G. L of early passage by congress.

a one its provisions (in addition to mustering-out pay of $100 to $300, already voted, and: to pensions and other special benefits for the

disabled) are: A year or more of schooling or vocational training at governniént expense; loans up to $1000, inter-est-free the first year, for part payment on purchases of homes, farms or business properties; a

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Amusements... 4;In Service..... 16 Eddie Ash ... 6|Our Hoosiers .10 Comics .......15|Ruth Millett. .10 Crossword ....11{Movies ..... oo 4

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err aneas

{today the nation must aim for

{within five years after the end of

{| (R. W. Va), criticized the “inefli-

‘subcommittee, warning that" 8,[000000 workers will be jobless when war output stops, declared

| $200,000,000,000 a year production {in the post-war period to achieve a “healthy domestic economy.”

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a way that our total output of goods: and services during the transition periods falls to no less than $135,000,000,000 a year,” the report said. “It is entirely feasible for us to aim at $200,000,000,000 a' year or more

the war.” Thus, it said, the 8,000,000 persons who face unemployment can find jobs in expanded or new industries which will turn out the goods to help raise the standards of living not only in this country, but throughout the world. Market Expansion Seen

“It is clear,” it said, “that the

{ only thing to take the place of war

contracts is the purchasing power of the people and of our fello bl nations throughout the world . . All programs - intended sist our economy to the remova contracts upon which it 2 ever

in the water or on shore within a couple of hundred yards

Royal Pair Wed

LONDON, March 20 (U. P). ~King Peter of Jugoslavia and | Princess Alexandra of Greece

were married simply today

start of the war Culminating a two-year engagement which precipitated several Jugosiav cabinet crises, the wedding took place at 4 p. m. at the Jugoslav embassy before the greatest gathering of crowned

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‘Hoosier Heroes—

LT, ROBERT IRELAND.

FIGHTER PILOT, DIES.

in | the first royal wedding since the |

SLUG WAY TO

Drive Into Only Remaining ‘Strongpoint of Foe; -

P.).—Veteran

way into the last major German strongpoint inside Cas-

the remaining Nazi para- troopers | holding out in a ruined, block of |

houses along the southwestern fringe of the town. A front said the New Zealanders, battle-hardened Maori; natives who spearheaded the Brit-| ish Sth army across She North Afriican desert fn ‘1943, slugged their i way into Cassino’s continental hotel,’ center of the Nazi resistance since i the battle began last Wednesday. | A number of German tanks that ‘had been set up in the lobby of

STOCKHOLM, March 20

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| breakdown jn her peace talks | | with Russia to be followed by the United States’ severance of displomatic relations with the Helsinki government,

ALLIED TROOPS

Argentine Father Claims Quintuplets

RUSSIANS POUR INTO RUMANIA; NAZIS LOSING CASSINO FOOTHOLD

EASTERN WALL

EDGE OF TOWN

Bag Prisoners. N

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 20 (U. New Zealand’ infantrymen fought their

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BROKEN, NAZIS --

IN FULL FLIGHT

Two Big Enemy Bastions

Fall to Swift Soviet Offensive.

. | LONDON, March 20 (U. i P.).—Russia’s

1st and 2d armies of the Ukraine burst

? [through two gaping holes in,

| Hitler's eastern wall today,

oni by their father in Argentina to be aituplets, born ast uly 15, are (left to right) Carlos | driving tens of thousands of

sino today and began mopping up, Alberto, Maria Esther, Maria Fernanda, Maria Christina and Franco. This picture was given to the press

in Buenos Aires March 17, by Senor Dilikenti, the father, and radioed to New York.

P.).~Finland expects a complete

| the wrecked hotel were knocked out

1

{in 24 hours of furious, close-quarter | ifinng and about 100 Nazis sur-

rendered. Mop Up Snipers ene Maoris were mopping up Nazi pers who had filtered in behind [their lines to hide in the huge rub- | ble piles that choked the streets, | and. it was indicated that the battle r Cassino was rapidly approach-

{in large part must be aimed at de-| ‘Wounds Received in Action ing its final stages.

veloping domestic and foreign markets to a level that has never before been known or dreamed of.”The committee, which also includes Senators 8. Truman (D. Mo.) and Chapman Revercomb |

cient and unsatisfactory” method in which the government has handled the $13,000,000,000 in contracts terminated thus far. “No more than 10 per cent of the | sums estimated due on termination claims submitted to date has been

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EVANS

themselves in civilian bill of rights” which seems certain

from $15 to $25 a week for a maximum of 52 weeks, if it's needed in the first two years after honorable discharge. Also, soldiers and sailors are

. The “G. I. bill” authorizes expenditures up to $500,000,000 for additional veterans’ hospitals. and’ medical authorities contend

Over England Fatal.

"LT. ROBERT N. IRELAND, In-|

| dianapolis Thunderbolt fighter pilot, | died March 8 of wounds received! lin action over England. A telegram fromi his parents, Mr.

{and Mrs. Neal D. Ireland of Los) | Angeles, Cal., x Jommerly of Indian-

apolfs, was read yesterday in the|

Methodist church, |

L land's death. A graduate of Technical high school, the pilot recently was awarded the distinguished flying cross for excep3 tiondlly meritorious service in Lt. Irelang aerial flight over

enemy-occupied Europe. He also

was decorated with the air medal. Lt. Ireland, who attended Purdue university, was employed at the

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WATCHMAN KILLED

IN LUMBER MILL FIRE

Body of Pefer Gates Found In Martinsville Ruins.

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. March 20 P.) —Peter Gates, 70, was burned to death today when he was trapped on the" second floor of the Schnaiter Lumber Co. when the frame building caught

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three-story. fre and was destroyed.

ates was night watchman at the

Central Avenue & telling of Lt. Ire- |

The allied headquarters commu- | nique issued earlier today said Ger- |

man reinforcements had been moving into the town in a steady stream, iit was suggested that the backbone {of the German defenses had been | broken. In the hills overlooking fhe town, | however, allied and German troops i were locked in a violent, shifting

Juatite in which strongpoints| changed hands repeatedly. Recapture Hill One German force recaptured

Hill 165 a small elevation several hundred yards west of Cassino from which the Nazis were able to direct a stream of artillery and mortar fire at the New Zealand infantrymen battling through the streets. Other enemy units were entrenched in strength in the “Duke's palace” on the south side of the! Via Casilina, just south of Cassino, and in an ancient Roman

amphitheater across the road.

NEAR-BLIZZARD SIGNALS SPRING

Milder Weather aatter Dé After

Storm That Claims

3 Lives Here. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ...22 10am... 24 7 a. mo 38 11am .... 26 8 a. . 22 12 (Noom) . 29 Sam ih 1p.m..... 30

Spring blew in to Indianapolis at 12:49 p. m. today under a camouflage of ice and snow which arrived with a late-season storm yesterday.

After a low temperature of 21} the weather

‘bureau predicted “slightly warmer”,

degrees at 6:15 a. m,,

for tomorrow, Yesterday's driving sleet and snow which froze on windshields | {and pavements made driving haz-| iardous and contributed to numerous

{accidents in which an Indianap-|

olis man and two women from | | Frankfort were killed. Slick streets necessitated slow

Use of Rays to

fore the war ends a radically new

That new weapon will be an

project from each turret. This bomber will fly into enemy air zones. Clouds of enemy singleseaters will swirl and weave preparatory to splitting up into groups for the attack. Then the attack. There they go—motors wide open. The approach is orthodox until the fighters are two or times beyond gun range, and then something happens. | The heavens that | with motors are comparatively silent, and only the whine of the | wings is discernible. {| One by one the attacking fight- | ers swerve away in ever-steepén- | ing glides toward the earth with their motors silent.

I feel certain you will read

three |

re-echoed |

VICTORY WITHOUT GUNS?

Kill Ignition

On Enemy Planes Visualized

‘By MAJ. AL WILLIAMS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

NEW YORK, March 20.—I have a hunch—that's all it is—that be-

air weapon will appear to the com-

plete consternation of the other side.

airplane without a single gun on

board. Possibly we had better assume that it will be a bomber equipped | with the usual gun turrents—but =e guns.

In place of guns, a tube will

JAP RESISTANCE

| Germans into headlong retreat into

| Rumania and the Carpathian foot-

hills on the border of old Poland. In two triumphant orders of the day issued only a few hours apart, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin announced that his fast-rolling arms

| ored columns had captured Mogi-

lev-Podolski, a key Dniester river

stronghold on the Bessarabian fontier, and the central Ukraine base of Vinnitsa, 60 miles to the north. Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s 1st Ukrainian army engulfed Vinnitsa LONDON, March 20 (U. P.)— Russia’s drive into Bessarabia led to speculation today that Rumania may make a tangible effort this week to take herself out of the

ENDS N2 2 FRONTS ce by a direct frontal assault

admiration, Burm Burma Valley Ruled by Allies.

By UNITED PRESS Converging allied ‘land and air | offensives battered against the out- | {er walls of Japan's Pacific con- | quests with increasing force today {as allied communique anpounced the | collapse of Japanese resistance in | the Hukawung valley of northern

ter throwing two powerful spearpeter around the flanks of the Nazi garrison. (Vinnitsa, almost enveloped rail junction anchoring a German salient bulging far behind the Dniester crossing, was evacuated after the destruction of all military installations, a Berlin communique re-, ported.) The German position on the southern front now has become so perilous that the question facing the Nazi command was not whether

it can hold positions, but how and where it can disengage before the

i driving this morning, and the city’s (Continued on “Page 5—Column 3) | j Burma and on the South Pagific | constantly increasing Russian at-

transportation - systeth was on schedule. Indianapolis Railw

Inc., had crews working all a

| to keep the tracks open and to salt

and. cinder the intersections. Roads Hazardous

State police warned that state roads were hazardous, particularly

in the central and southern secticns |

of the state. Injured fatally in traffic accidents were:

James Riley, 64, of 2549 Brook-|

Way ave. Mrs. George Dolt, Frankfort. Mrs. Iola Richardson, 52, Frankfort. Mr. Riley died in the City hospital after he was struck at Commerce and Massachusetts aves. by a car driven by Floyd Woolf, 3156 Forest Manor ave. Mr. Woolf said

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By S. BURTON HEATH:

he is doing almost in his He could, to be sure, echo William Tecumseh Sherman's fa-: mous: “If nominated I will not accept, if elected I will not serve.” But he is not

most vigorous

‘Dewey Chooses Not to Run, But Will if Party Insists’ ON ST. LAWRENGE ICE

ALBANY N.Y. March 20.—After a careful check here, among poli | { ticlans who have been watching Thomas E. Dewey very carefully for the past 15 months, I am convinced that the governor does not want | the 1944 Republican presidential nomination. So far as I can discover,

power to avert his own nomination.

ing a reply that Henry P. Fletcher is supposed to have given to that

. very question about Governor

Dewey: “No man holding public office could refuse his party’s nomina-

* tion for the presidency.”

Some obsérvers at the distance

It has not been seen since.

{near the plane on Wegnesday, +

CROWDED PASSENGER BUS FALLS IN RIVE

Death Toll in Pass in Passaic, N. J

Crash Undetermined.

PASSAIC, N. J., March 20 (U. P). |—A crowded Comfort Lines bus skidded in a freezing snow storm and plunged through the railing of the Msdrket street bridge into the deep channel of the Passaic river shortly after 8 a. m. today, carrying an undetermined number of persons to their death. The number aboard the bus fvas unknown, but company officials said {that a. bus during. the rush hour | might have carried up to 50 pas- | sengers.

PLANE, 3 MEN DOWN |

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Efforts of Rescuers.

MONTREAL, March 20 (U. P). —A Canadian Pacific airlines plane with three men aboard is down on an ice floe in the St. Lawrence which is drifting out to sea, C. P. A. officials announced today.’ The plane carried one passenger and a two-man crew. It was forced down on a big pan of ice in

the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Har- | rope.

rington Harbor, Quebec, Tuesday night. It was located by air on Wednesday. but contact was lost later in the day due to bad weather:

The names of the three who were seen

Drifting to "$e Despite

| Admiralty islands. | Chungking announced that Amer{ican and Chinese forces had {cleared the last Japanese from the {Hukawing valley, climaxing a fourimonth drive that cost the enemy | 4000 dead and 1800 square miles of | territory. Japanese bombers struck across; the Burmese frontier at Imphal, | capital of India’s Manipur state, {but an allied communique indicated a Japanese land offensive headed toward the same city had been | stalled in the upper Chin hills sector along the Indo-Burmese border. Simultaneously, it’ was announced that American troops in the South Pacific had captured Lorengau on Manus island, virtually completing the occupation of the strategic Admiraltys and opening up a new

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{'tacks. Operation ‘Ruthless’

In an operation described as “fantastic for its speed and ruthlessness,” Marshal Ivan 8. Konev's 2d Ukrainian army. forced . the | Dniester river border of pre-war {Rumania on a 31-mile front yes- { terday and captured more than 40 towns and villages on the southwest bank. The crossing, coming only 12 hours after the Soviets had reached the left bank of the river, broke the Dniester line behind which the Germans had been expected to attempt to rally their forces after the rout they suffered along the southern Bug river. Konev’s men swarmed across the Dniester between Yampol and Mogilev-Podolski over ferries and

pontoon bridges.

Yank Bombers Raid Reich

z Through Cover of Clouds

LONDON, March 20 (U. P). —!while struck the Creil rail junction

| Flying Fortresses and Liberators be-!

{tween 250 and 500 strong bombed

southwest Germany for the second time in three days today and -the Berlin radio reported that several towns were attacked through a heavy “cloud cover. Hundreds of United States Mustang, Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters maintained a protective shield “around the heavy bombers which went back to Germany while American Marauder medium bombers and other allied planes swarmed over wide stretches of western Eu-

25 miles north of Paris. and numerous targets on the French invasion coast. while Thunderbolt fighterbombers of the Sth air force bombed two airfields in France. Nearly 150 Marauders soon after dawn attacked Creil, funnel for traffic to the channel ports through Amiens. Wave after wave of planes if Planes swept out over the English southeast for shuttle attacks on the pr s :