Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1944 — Page 2
JAPS COLLAPSE
ON TWO FRONTS
Admiralties, Hukawng Area In Burma Now Are Ruled by Allies.
{Continued From Page One) pase for allied air blows in that
iy Liberator bombers hit the Japanese base at Matsuwa island | in the central Kuriles islands for the first time today in what probably was the longest over-water combat mission of the war. Eleventh air force headquarters announced the Japanese apparently were taken by surprise as the planes swept in from the ocean just before dawn to unload heavy demolition bombs on enemy air installations. The planes, all of which returned safely to their Aleutians base, encountered no anti-aircraft fire and no interceptors came up to offer resistance. 610 Miles From Truk Lying at the northwestern tip of the Bismarck archipelago, the Admiralty airbases at Lorengau and Momote on Los Negros, brought the allies within 240 miles of the northern New Guinea coast and 610 miles of Truk, completing the southern prong of a pincers attack on the Japanese mystery base in the Carolines. American airmen, striking from bases in the Marshalls, have bombed the Carolines 34 times in the past month. The capture of Lorengau was effected Saturday by dismounted troops of the 1st cavalry division. With the aid of tanks and a bombardment from: American destroy- - ers, the troops routed the Japanese, destroyed 75 enemy bunkers and captured quantities of arms and equipment. “This completes the occupation of all vital areas in’ the Admiralties,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said. “The remnants of the enemy garrison were driven into the hills to the south, abandoning many hundreds of dead.” Ground fighting continued on Bougainville in the Solomons, with allied troops repulsing a new Japanese attack on the beachhead lines at Empress Augusta bay, and killing at least 195 enemy soldiers. --—-The {increasing aerial offensive took allied pilots over enemy positions from New Guinea and Java, through the central Pacific to Paramushiro, 1000 miles north of Tokyo, which navy Ventura bombers raided Saturday for the third time in three days.
Bombers Fly 2000 Miles One of the longest flights was made by allied airmen who made a 2400-milé round trip to bomb Soerabaja, Java, Friday for the second time in three days without loss. Tokoyo radio said the Americans also bombed the naval base again on Saturday. Along the New Guinea coast, the allied planes struck at Hollandia,
sinking a 3000-ton freighter, andl
seriously damaging a destroyer and a 5000-ton cargo ship, and then bombed Wewak, 200 miles to the east, for the eighth straight day Saturday. American planes also. bombed three enemy bases in the eastern , Now isolated behind the American front line, but lost one
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George Hofmann Seeks Judgeship
2 GEORGE A. HOFMANN, Indianapolis attorney, _ today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination of circuit court judge. X Mr. Hofmann, a lifelong resident of Indian- © apolis;, is 57, married and lives at 307 E. : North st. He has practiced law since being admitted to the bar 28 years §& 3 ago. He is a past Mr. Hofman chancellor commander of Capitol City lodge 97, Knights of Pythias¢ a member of the past chancellors association; the present royal vizier of Shambah temple 139, Dramatic Order “Knights of Khorassan, and a member of the Indianapolis and state bar associations. In his announcement, Mr. Hofmann said that he was not affiliated with any faction or group within the party “as I am a lawyer, and not a politician.”
Royal Pair Wed In Simple Rites
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heads since the coronation of King George VI of Great Britain. Queen Mother Marie of Jugo-
slavia, Peter's mother, was unable to attend because of illness. The bride arrived first, wearing a dark.mink coat and a skull cap so small she appeared bareheaded. Peter was accompanied by his brothers, Prince Tomislav, who was wearing a Jugoslav midshipman's uniform, and Prince Andre, a student in an English school. A small crowd gathered at the Greek Orthodox church at Bayswater, but dispersed when told the wedding would not take place there. The ceremony was witnessed by King George II of Greece, the bride’s uncle; King Haakon of Norway; Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; Princess Aspasia, mother of the bride; Crown Prince Olaf of Norway; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the Duchess of Kent, and various members of other royal families. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Great Britain headed the distinguished official guests. King George of Greece gave the bride away. * Peter wore the uniform of the Jugoslav royal air force, ‘while Alexandra was dressed in a white satin gown with a small train of old lace provided by the Duchess of Kent. Simple gold wedding bands were placed on the fingers of the bride and groom during the ceremony, performed by Serbian Archpriest Ristanovich and Greek Archbishop Germanos ‘of Thiatyre. : ” The couple left immediately for a short honeymoon somewhere in England. Peter and Alexandra met in March, 1942, at an allied officers’ tea, He proposed a month later while driving with her from Lbndon to Cambridge, where she was attending school, and almost ran the car into a ditch when she
dive-bomber in the operation.
accepted.
Willkie's 1944 Campaign Is "Ona 'Small Time' Scale
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is his charming wife, Nina, who helps with all the little details as she did in 1940.
‘Middle Group’ Absent And there's a newcomer, a gal
from Texas, who has the inappropriately fragile name of Mimi Calley. She's a Texas lady, but not at all fragile. She can order things done with that rugged and effective initiative of her country, and, what's more, get them done. . But it's all in miniature—1940 on a greatly reduced scale. —The $owns are smaller, the crowds are smaller, and the enthusiasm is tempered with the restraint of old folks who sit placidly and boys and girls in their very early teens who gape and whisper and giggle, but don't make hilar{ous noises. "That vigorous middle group of the electorate is no longer here. It is off somewhere in the wars or wars’ industry. -
Willkie Has Doubts
But the big, shaggy fellow is working at his electioneering job here with only 24 convention votes as the prize as if the whole thousand odd were at stake. As he sees it, that is the stake. He is here trying to prove that he's popular with the plain folks, despite the politicians, He wants s0 much to be President, so very much. You can see he has doubts now that he didn't profess a few months back. He's a sobereg man, but still determined.
Gymnasum Was Full
We watched him perform for the small circuit, . The high school gymnasium was full—the largest crowd it has ever had except for the county . fair when the governor is a guest.” It Was a quiet, orderly crowd, until at 8:15, the high school band struck up “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” :
gressives, Socialists, Prohibitionists, and Townsendites,” and there was a chuckle through the crowd. This is a heterogeneous state politically. “A good political meeting,” he sald, “is like an old-time religious meeting—there's always the hope that someone will be converted.” Mr. Willkie lost no opportunities. When he had finished speaking, it was announced he would shake hands with all who wanted to come to the platform. For over half an hour, the folks filed by. There was nothing like that on the big circuit in 1940.
Willkie Conferred With GOP Senators
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 20. Wendell L. Willkie was revealed today to have had last minute conferences here with Republican senators before beginning his three weeks’ campaign for the Wisconsin and Nebraska presidential primaries. In contrast to other visits to Washington, Willkie wes unseen and unheard except by those with whom he had political conferences last week. He opened his Wisconsin campaign over the week-end with a farm policy speech in Richland Center. Full slates of Willkie delegates are entered in the April 4 Wisconsin primary and the April 11 Nebraska primary. Wisconsin will have 24. and Nebraska 15 delegates to the Republican national convention. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New "York 15 Tepresented by a partial slate of 16 delegates in Wisconsin despite his request that his name not be used. Former Gove ernor Harold E. Stassen, of Minnesota, now a naval officer, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur also will be represented in Wisconsin. Willkie’s full scale invasion of Nebraska and Wisconsin is intended to demonstrate that there
1 is a grass roots demand for his
renomination for President and that, despite polls, he Is the popular choice over Dewey. Furthermore, topheavy success In those states would serve somewhat to ease the shock
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Pyle Tells How It Feels To Think It ‘Definitely Is The End.”
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was just lying there for a few minutes before getting up. It was just 7 and the sun was out bright. Suddenly the anti-aircraft guns let loose. Ordinarily I don't get out of bed during a raid, but I did get
ing in long underwear and shirt so I just put on my steel helmet, slipped on some wool-lined slippers and went to the window for a look at the shooting. I had just reached the window | when a terrible blast swirled me | around and threw me into the middle of the-room. I don’t Semernber whether I heard any noise or not. | The half of the window that was shut was ripped out and hurled across the room. The glass was] blown into thousands of little pieces. Why the splinters or the | window frame itself didn't hit me I don't know. . From the moment of the first blast until it was over probably not | more than 15 seconds passed. Those 15 seconds were so fast and confus- | ing that I truly can’t say what took | place and the other correspondents reported the same.
r ‘I Thought It Was the End’
There was debris flying back and forth all over: the room. One gi-| 'gantic explosion came after an-| other. The concussion was terrific. It was like a great blast of air in which your body felt as light and
whirlwind. | I jumped into one corner of the room and squatted down and just cowered there. I definitely thought it was the end. Outside of that I don’t remember what my emotions were. Suddenly one whole wall of my| room flew in, burying the bed where! I'd been a few seconds before un-| der hundreds of pounds of brick, | stone and mortar. (Later when we dug out my sleep-| ing ;bag we found the steel frame! of the bed broken and twisted. If I hadn't gone to the window! I would have two broken legs and crushed chest today.
No Pain—Astonished
Then the wooden doors were ripped off their hinges and crashed into the room. Another wall started to tumble, but caught only part way down, The French doors lead- | ing to the balcony blew out and one of my -chairs was upended, through the open door. As I sat cowering in the corner,| I remember fretting because my steel hat had blown off. with the first blast and I couldn't find it. Later I found it right beside me.| I was astonished at feeling no. pain, for debris went tearing around |
{every inch’ of the room and I!
couldn't believe I hadn't been hit. | But the only wound I got was a! tiny cut on my right cheek from! flying glass, and I didn’t even know | when that happened. The first time I knew of it was when blood ran down my chin and dropped into my hat. I
‘Glad to Be Alive’
I had several unfinished columns, lying on my table and the continu-| ing “blasts scattered them helter-| skelter over the. room and holes! were punched in the paper. I remember thinking, “Well, it won't make any difference now anyhow.” Finally, the terrible nearby ex-| plosions ceased and gradually the ack-ack died down and at last I began to have some feeling of relief that it was over and I was still alive. i But I stayed crouched in the corner until the last shot was fired. |
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MEAT—Brown Y & Z expire to-| day. Red stamps AS, BS, C8, D8, | E8 and F8 in Book 4 good for 10 points each through May 20. G8, H8 | and J8 become good Sunday and ex- | pire June 18.
CANNED GOODS—Green stamps | K, L, and M expire today. Blue! stamps A8, B8, C8 D8 and E8 in Book 4 good for 10 points each through May 20. Stamps F8, G8, H8, J8 and K8 become good April
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SUGAR—Stamp 30 tn Book 4 is! good indefinitely for 5 pounds. | Stamp 40 in Book 4 good for 5 pounds of canning sugar. Stamp 31 in Book 4 becomes valid for ° SHOES—Stamp 18 in Book 1 expires April 30. No. 1- “airplane” stamp in Book,3 good indefinitely. Another shoe stamp becomes valid May L
GASOLINE—Stamp A-10 is good ! for 3 gallons through tomorrow.
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B-1 and C-1 good now for 2 gallons each; B-2, C-2, B-3 and C-3 good for 5 gallons until further notice. T good for 5 gallons; E-1 good for 1 gallon; R-1 good for 5 gallons. A, B, C and, D coupons are not | valid until tHey have been indorsed! in ink with automobile registration number and state. Motorists should write both 1044 and 1942 numbers on book and on coupons.
FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 ggupons valid "through Sept. 30. All changemaking coupons and reserve coupons are now good. Consumers should have used not more than 80 per cent of their rations as of March 13.
TIRES—Next inspection due, A’s
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SEVITZKY TO SERV AS GUEST DIRECTOR com pes | ‘Pablen Bevitzky, director of the oti star. Her name Juianapell
-~ his acceptance of Is Miss Moore,” he sald. ~ «- five guest conductor appearances The cabbie got there in a hurry. :
for next season. : “Pretty cold day for a sarong, | He will conduct the Detroit eh?” he genially remarked with a Symphony orchestra in four SunS ay evening radio broadcasts— gleam in his eye, as he mistook July 9, 16; 23° and ‘30—and will be the singer for the actress. guest conductor of the Vancouver, Miss Moore told her audience |British Columbia, Symphony orlater at” English’s: “That Lamour name was the
chestra on Oct 1. He was guest only reason I got here in time.”
HE 8 * a. _. Lamour Name Brings Service THE MAGIC NAME of Dorothy | A bellboy offered {5 call the cab Lamour probably was the only reason singing star Grace Moore got to her concert at the English theater on time yesterday. Miss Moore was having her troubles at the Lincoln hotel a few minutes before the concert was scheduled to start. With the weather tying up the transportation system, she couldn't get a taxicab by her own efforts.
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Vesuvius’ Lava Threatens Tow
. NAPLES, March 20 (U, P).— Allied military government ‘of clals prepared today to evacuate towns in the path of lava flows from an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius unless the disturbance abates by nightfall. : ; The eruptions began Saturday, sending. four streams of flaming lava down the mountainside. The main stream, estimated at a quarter of a mile wide and seven feet
deep sizzled toward Torre Del
Forests and crops already have suff considerable damage, but . no serious damage to dwellings has been reported thus far,
_ Ttallan experts regarded the
eruption as the most serious since 1906 when the upper part of the crater's' ash cone collapsed and lava streams poured almost into ~
Torre Annunziata and partly de-
stroyed Boscotrecase.
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