Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1944 — Page 3
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PATRONAGE WA
Recodification
~ Ordinance Intended to Remove
Tyndall's Powers.
By SHERLEY UHL na
tempt to wrest temporary control of
Mayor Tyndall's patronage PpOWers|]
by redelegating them to City Clerk Frank J. Noll Jr. its official secretarial agent. The move will come in connec-
tion with an ordinance authorizing § Clerk Noll “to select and employ at}
the expense of the city four guali-
fled lawyers” to undertake the N)|
of recodifying all city ordinances since 1925. Three of the attorneys would be paid $1500 with the fourth, serving
project, to receive $1800. Challenges Power
In the measure, the predominantly anti-administration council chal-
authority to hire or fire any or all city employees. Concurrently with preparation of the measure, city council issued an explanatory
taken over by such administration through amendments to the original law and just what they have left to us. “It is generally conceded that the original plan of giving to the legislative bod yof the city considerable control over the administrative branch of government was a wise method and of benefit to the taxpayers. “It is easy to imagine what might be the effect for the council to cease entirely to exercise its statutory suthority while the administrative branches of some of our city governments have been known
Cites Own Powers
Slated to receive the four appointments under the revised ordinance are Frank Noll Sr, John Caylor, Adolph Emhardt and Edward Fillenwarth. It appeared unlikely that administration legal and political chieftains will allow the patronage-as-suming maneuver to go uncontested since the four jobs have generally been considered comparatively Juley plums on the administration
ARMY COOK REVEALS QUADRUPLETS’ BIRTH
CAMP EDWARDS, Mass, March cine 2 (U. P).—Sgt. Gordon Herbert {leY
Blue, a cook attached to the anty
, aircraft training center here, told; ~* his buddies today that he was the father of quadruplets born late last Miami, Pa
week in Ithaca, N. Y. Blue made the disclosure as he entrained for that city to see the babies and his wife, Katherine, a
precedent-setting ordinance, | the city council tonight will at-|
CAPT. WILBUR H. METZ,
base.
at 1320 N. Delaware st. The award was announced by
gressional medal of honor.
fordierly display for The Times, was awarded the soldier's medal by Brig. Gen. Leon W. Johnson, Liberator wing commander, after he saved the lives of nearby men and equipment when a bomber exploded at an English
. The medal is the highest award for non-combative valor. Capt. Metz, group ordnance officer, entered the service in June, 1942, after serving with the Indiana national guard 13 months. ¢ His wife, Helen C., section manager at L. 8. Ayres & Co., lives
advertising ‘salesman
Maj. Gen, James A. Doolittle, 8th
A. A. F. commander. Gen. Johnson recently was awarded the con- -
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Allison division of General Motors before entering the army air forces. LJ o » 8. SGT. KENNETH E. HOWARD,
try, was wounded in combat on Kwajalein atoll and is stationed in Honolulu after being released from the hospital. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Howard, 1414 King ave, Sgt. Howard i called home long distance last week when he received the news that his brother, Pfc. Ronald Howard, had died of wounds in action.
Inducted in | the
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El Toro, Santa Ana, Cal. Capt. Swickard won his first air
OFFICIAL WEATHER
All Dats in Central War Time
Sanrise ..... 6:48 | Sunset ..... 5 March 20, 1943 T8 MM aries WISP. Moen 8
Precipitation 34 hrs. ending 7: ” a.m 50 Total precipitation since Jan. 6. Deficiency since Jan. 1
The following table shows the temperasture in other cities:
Atlanta Bos
former Ithaca waitress.
w York 23 ( 30 Omaha, Neb 2 Pittsburgh 20 35 . Louis 25 Washington, D .C 25
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Some
JOCKEY SHORTS have come in—
ig rh construction serves to promo. a from smoother, more comfortable fit— ARROW . and help form the mild, yet are 65¢ efficient support for which : Cooper is noted. 3! They're knitted— They're much wanted— The Shorts are 600. The Midway Shorts are 600, The Longs are $1.
‘They have the Y front— "Y front?” Because—that form of
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NEARER VICTORY,
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Combat Wounds Fatal for Lt. Robert Ireland, Pilot
{installations in the face of stout
radio technician in the army infan- age.
medal for sinking a Jap destroyer just a year ago. His second award was for numerous sorties made against, enemy shipping and ground
defense with resultant heavy dam-
Before entering the marines, he was a biologist for the Indiana state health board... He was graduated
with his wife, Mrs. Ruby M. Shelton Swickard, formerly of Indianapolis, at Laguna Beach.
Ethel Midkiff, Shelbyville.
{in German interment at Baden
from Butler university and lives
FOUR HOOSIERS outside Indiant { apolis have been killed in action in | the Mediterranean theater. They are 2d Lt. James B. Held, son of James Held, Paoli; Cpl Joseph 8. Boilek, son of Mrs. Mary Boilek, East Chicago; Pfc. Elbert 5B Bumbalough, son of Mrs. Leslie « | Bumbalough, Columbus, and Capt.|gn 1Kimble E. Midkiff, son of Mrs.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT today
JLLON NAZIS GUARD EUROPE’
or Lines of Defense Revealed to Interned
Correspondent.
By RALPH E. HEINZEN ’ United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YOIK, March A 20—~The Germans say that a million men stand watch day and night in “Fortress Europe” under the high command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to resist any allied landing attempt from Spain to Finland. While I was spending 13 months
Baden I was permitted to compile records about these defense works by talking with persons who had seen portions of the line before they were interned, and from German military publications: I have seen small segments of the coastal works near the Spanish border on my way to freedom and I made a personal inspection of 31 forts in the inner defense are along the Rhine when gestapo guards took some of us there, This is the German pre-invasion defense picture as made available to internees at Baden Baden by German agents:
9000 Big Guns
From Hendaye, Franco-Spanish frontier, to the Hague, Netherlands, stand 6000 cannon planted permanently behind steel and concrete and 3000 mobile guns, In the waters off that coast are millions of mines, steel obstacles planted in concrete to rip the bottoms of assault craft, and submerged wrecks, Northward to Petsamo on Finland's northermost tip are similar emplacements. Some 1700 cannon have been planted practically -one to the mile along the 1500-mile Norwegian coast, deeply cut by fjords and difficult for landings at best. Acres of minefields have been planted from Hendaye to Petsamo, some to explode on contact and
according to descriptions published by the Germans.
No Eyewitnesses
No eyewitness confirmation of such features is possible, of course, but the foregoing is a digest of what American internee is told at a Baden. Getmans say the face of nature has been lifted in vast camouflag-
ing operations. Behind the coastal defenses they
; Pucher Orders
. ALGIERS, March 20 (U, P.).—
3 Pierre Pucheu
% NAZIS REMAIN MUM
confirmed the previous report that Pvt. Harry L. King, husband of Mrs. Vera J. King, 3759 Kinnear ave, was wounded in the Mediterranean theater and announced the names of 11 wounded soldiers. Pfc. Melvin H. Dickerson, husband of Mrs. Dorothy J. Dickerson, Pt. Wayne, was wounded in the Central Pacific. . Those hurt in the Mediterranean zone are Pvt, John L. Kirkpatrick, son of Mrs. Bertha Kirkpatrick, Greenfield; Pvt. Louis A. Molnar, son ‘of Mrs. Mary Molnar, East Chicago; Pvt. Julius E. Rothrock, son of Julius R. Rothrock, Corydon; Pfe. Aloysius A. Schulte, son of George Schulte, Brookville; Pfc. Raymond J. Seger, son of Conrad Seger, Jasper; Pfc. Paul B. Sherrill, son of Mrs. Thelma M.' Sherrill, Evansville; T. Sgt. Raymond E. Short, son of Newton P. Short, La Fontaine; 2d Lt. Grover C. Smith, husband of Mrs. Grover Smith, Evansville; Pfc. Solon D, Staley, son of Mrs. Ethel Reagan, Clay City, and Pfc. Paul J. Stefucza, ‘son of Mrs. Pauline Stefucza, Mishawaka. Pfc. Edward J. Welz, son of Edward C. Welz, New Albany, was wounded in marine combat.
ON ‘IMPORTANT’ NEWS
By UNITED PRESS The German radio was silent today on the mysterious “important announcement” which was sched-
uled to have been made in Berlin Sunday morning but was called off suddenly without explanation. The Nazi DNB news agency notifiled all German newspapers and radio stations late Saturday to stand by for an announcement of first-rate importance to be issued at 7 a. m, Berlin time. Hours later the agency briefly announced the cancellation.
Launch Bosnia Offensive LONDON, March 20 (U, P)— German forces were on the offensive in eastern Bosnia, where largescale battles were in progress, and in Slovenia a communique by Jugoslavian partisan leader, Marshal
picture an intermediate defense system across the plains of Picardy, straddling the Somme, from Flanders to the Argonne. This is a rough a of the line on which we fought most of world war L Behind this they tell you of a third barrier, the Siegfried line, originally built to counter the French Maginot line, now completely overhauled and ready to protect the Rhine. I visited this line last December near Strausbourg and saw 31 empty fortresses and casemates along less than two miles of |d that vital river front. ‘No troops or guns are in the line now, but the forts are ready. I dipped my handkerchief in the Rhine and hung it to dry on a fort, beating to it the British who sang in 1939 that they'd hang their washing on that famous line. . Strengthening Goes On The Germans boast they've poured 10,000,000 tons of concrete into the Atlantic wall and that the’ sirengthening goes on. Hundreds of thousands of Prench and Italian laborers have been pressed into construction of a Mediterranean wall on the French south coast, anchored at either end in the Alps and Pyrenees. The intermediate line through the world war I battlefields corresponds to what Gen. Maxim Weygand tried to establish to halt the German tanks when he was summoned from Syria to replace Generalissimo Gamelin in May, 1940—a connected chain of strong points at crossroads in the Somme plains which sweep widely with hardly a hillock for cover. It is above all an anti-tank defense system par excellence, according to the German boasts. There are minefields, deep tank traps, pits, up-ended ste€l rails and concrete posts to raise a tank so a gun can pierce its belly.
Line Isn't Continuous
The western air defense is said to consist of an inter-locking system of concrete runways, underground hangars and communications. Despite German propaganda, the Atlantic wall is not continuous like
Josip (Tito) Brozovich, said today.
Own Execution
By Rifle Squad
Pierre Pucheu, former Vichy minister of interior, died “with great dignity” today and he" gave the final command to a French firing squad which executed him as a taitor to France. He stood proudly erect, without a bandage on his eyes and with his hands untied while he faced the 12 selected riflemen shortly before 6 a. m. at Hussein Dey rifle range on the outskirts of Algiers. Pucheu’s last request was that | he be given the privilege of issuing the final commands to the firing squad. A brief communique said he “died courageously.” His body was turned over to his brother, a resident of Algiers. About 12 persons witnessed the execution, including a member of the court which condemned him to death, the prosecutor and Pucheu’s two lawyers. Pucheu was convicted of treason by a French military tribunal last week on evidence stemming from his record of collaboration
class politician who thinks this.
The rest agree that the New York governor is not pretending but. that he is doing all that he reasonably can do to prevent this nomination without destroying any possibility of election if circumstances should force him into
pressed the desire to serve the
Pevey Cliodtas Not fo Ran, _ But Will if Party Insists’
He is attending strictly to the state's business, making a record which led one Democratic worker, whose principal duty is to catch the governor in mistakes, to lament to me: “The reason this session (of the legislature) is so dull is that up to now we haven't been able to catch Dewey in a single mistake.” While Mr. Willkie campaigns all over the country, making speeches and drawing upon himself the combined opposition of all other aspirants, Mr. Dewey goes calmly about his business. He cannot well get into a stalemate with Mr. Willkie at the convention in June. There will be enough Dewey delegates; elected without his approval or assistance, to keep him in striking position while Mr. Willkie fights against the field.
"PEACE IN 2 MONTH, 'HENRY FORD BELIEVES
ATLANTA, Ga., March 20 (U. P.). —Henry Ford believes the war will] This situation, the committee debe over in two months the Atlanta clared, “augers ill for the inevitable Constitution said today in a copy-| period of transition from war to one this year. | righted story. peace.” i Paradoxically, the more suc- | The industrialist, stopping here| The report recommended a series cessful Mr. Dewey is in keeping {on the way to Michigan from his{of measures now pending before out of the pre-convention battle, | plantation at Richmond Hill, -Ga.,|the senate military affairs committhe higher his stock soars among | was quoted as saying “I can't tell | tee as the start of a program to
(Continued From Page One) : paid,” it said. “An: nertsngly large volume, of claims has been pending for over six months, and ‘many claims have remained unset tled for over a year. : Red Tape Criticised:
“Adequate working capital is not being provided during the period between termination and final settlement. Materials released through contract termination have often lain in the same plant for months and months before removal. Instead of planning their termination program ahead of time, contracting officers , too often simply order their: con= tractors to ‘stop work immediately”.” “As a result,” the report sald, “many contractors have hesitated or declined to take new war contracts, and instead have sought civilian production assignments because they are “fearful of being tied up in a mass of red tape in event of termination.”
the election race. If such a promise has been made, I have not heard or read it. He promised not to seek a nomination, and I am convinced that he is not seeking it. He ex-
people of New York for four years, and there is every evidence that he desires to do just that. I have tried to ascertain why Mr. Dewey does not want to run this year. It is evident that the governor has not told his most intimate associates. The most reasonable answer, considering its source (which cannot be discloseq), is that Governor Dewey is very doubtful whether, unless the war changes its aspects materially, President Roosevelt can be beaten by any-
with the Germans while a mem= ber of the Vichy government. The prosecution held him responsible for ‘the execution of a number of French hostages and patriots whom he had turned over to the Germans on demand. Pucheu asserted that actually he had interceded for many patriots and demanded that his trial be delayed until after the war when documents now in Vichy would be available.
TAX ESTIMATES MAY BE EASED
Senate Plans Move to End Commission, Professional Men’s Red Tape.
WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P.). —The congressional drive to simplify taxes took another step forward today when Senator Walter F. George
(D. Ga.) said his senate finance committee plans to ease or eliminate the task of filing quarterly estimates of future income and taxes. He did not disclose details but said the plan was aimed primarily at helping those whose incomes are “almost impossible” to forecast— largely professional and commission men whose incomes vary greatly from month to month. At present time, about 15,000,000 of the nation’s 50,000,000 taxpayers are required to file advance estimates of their earnings and to make quarterly payments on the tax over and above the amount that will be withheld from their wages or salaries. Persons whose estimates are off more than 20 per cent are subject to penalty. Many Incomes Stable
George said that many of the 15,000,000 have relatively stable incomes and therefore can file a single estimate without fear of miscalculating. But such persons as commission men or doctors, dentists and lawyers, he said, are compelled to file revised estinfates because of their fluctuating ifcomes. He said his committee would attempt to solve this problem unless the house, which soon takes up the simplification plan approved by its ways and means committee last week, solves it first, George praised the house committee’s simplification plan, which appeared to have won almost general approval among congressmen.
BRITISH SLOOPS SINK 6 SUBS IN 20 DAYS
LONDON, March 20 (U. P.).—A new German undersea offensive to interrupt the flow of troops and arms to Britain for the invasion of western Europe was believed today to have been nipped by the sinking of six submarines by British escort sloops—the worst single defeat yet inflicted on the Nazi U-boat fleet. Five rough and tumble little sloops of the scret “Bird class,” led by Capt. F. J. Walker, Britain's ace submarine killer, destroyed the six U-boats on a 20-day Atlantic patrol —sinking three of them within 16
the Great Wall of China,
hours—the admiralty disclosed.
EVENTS TODAY
Red Cross annual fund campaign. Easter seal campaign. Mun Shrine members, Murat theater, night. Indianapolis Speakers club, Hotel Washington, 6:45 p.m. Federated Hardware Mutuals, Hotel Wash-
Jngtan, all day Victory Garden club, Bloat 35 m. ‘American Legion post hall,
EVENTS TOMORROW Red Cross annual fund campaign. Easter seal camps!
Siaypoul hotel, noon. 13:15 p. m. Federal
ted yar Mutuals, Hotel WashWomans* Rotary club, Woman's Departmot club, 6:30 p. m. National RArOcIAIOn of Women, Hotel
Washi 7:30 p.m. Haywars Leglon, auxill- [PS Ce x Alpha lots, Zeta chapter, 3411 N.
"aslicction, at, schools 36, | A
Hotel Washington, |.
IN INDIANAPOLIS-EVENTS-VITALS
Pred Edward Rauh, 23, Bainbridge, Ind Mary Louise Jennings, 21, of 1743 Aro. Kenneth Armon Gray, 38, Brownsburg, Ines Agatha Leone Ayers, 33, Brownsur, Donaid L. Bainett, 17, R. R. 20, Box 123; DE Xisabe Moulton, 15, of 1452 John er Fert 18, of 243 W, Bors pu Dorothy 4, Vargo, 23, of 52
whim "Howard Johns of ii ton, 35, Bw
Hewitt Cincinnatl: 0 2 OEE hel
Gaylord Jean, i ot 1301 Jackson; Maurice Edra Rainey,
daiaés B. B. EE Atterbury;
Marion U. 8. navy; Christina Harvie, n 8. Totrn) ay: My
Bernard E. Holmes, . , Stout Field; Frances Eloise. etamoras, O.
M Fox, 1, New
at City Roger, Rul Prvser " Methodist. lo. June Watkins, at Methodist.
Prancis, Hazel Williams, at Methodist. Abe, Rue Zimmerman, at Methodist. Boys Mary Guyer, at St. Vincent's. Robart. Mildred Howerton, at St. Vincent's. Carl, Thelma Richardson,-at St. Vincent's. Oscar, Elizabeth Taylor, at St. Vincent's, Robert, Velma Butler, at Coleman. Loren, Troe Douthit, at Coleman. Richard, Mary Jefferson, at Coleman. Robert, Ernestine Black, at City, Clarence, Marjory
DEATHS J
ohn E. Helm, 37, Methodist hospital, subarachnoid hemorrhage. Josephine M. Kelley, 86, of 907 Woodlawn, cardio vascular renal. Ralph Blane, 17, To hospital, influenza meningitis. Margaret Mae Leukart, 71, of 108 N. ‘Sheridan, hypertension. Leal Ems, 3 2, o
Polly rere: 44, of 612! Torbet, cerebral hemorrha Henry A eumeyer, 56, of 430 Moreland, chronic Jaydcarditis. Franklin H. Johnson, 88, of 4174 Broadway, arteriosclerosis. Robert
chronic myocarditis. Clarence F. Pieper, 36, Emhardt hospital, ‘myocarditis. Charles W. Petty, 88, City hosiptal, carLilian M. Wasson, 19, Methodist hospital, alte Pay , 69, of” 3114 N. Layman,
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of 2706 Shriver, pulmonary}
Moore Bryce, 11, of 3642 Hemlock, |
many observers. my reasons. I have them, of course.” guide post-war development,
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