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F.D.R. Will Not Run Again,
Colorado Governor Says
By EARL RICHERT Republican Governor John Vivian of Colorado, the man who sometime ago made the nation's front psges with his revolt against the drafting of farmers, predicted here today that President Roosevelt will not be a candidate for a fourth term. “I may be alone in-my belief,” said the Colorado governor, here to aidrems the Rowiiy cpm, “but I don't think he will run the risk of a
‘DEWEY TARGET
OF WILLKIE TALK
Avoids Mentioning Name in Challenging Governor to
Discuss Issues.
WASHINGTON, March 21 (U. P.)~Lt. Cmdr, Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, has notified Secretary of Navy Frank Knox that while he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination he will accept if nominated. =
By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WITH WILLKIE IN WISCONSIN, March 21.—Governor Dewey of New York is very much the man who isn’t here. Wendell Willkie has him constantly on his mind. In his campaign here for Wisconsin delegates in the April 4 primary, the 1940 Republican candidate strikes at his rival for the 1044 nomination without naming him, by using him as a symbol of the type of candidate who refuses to discuss the issues as he, himself, is discussing them in his tour through the state, : Mr. Willkie gets into the subject by listing three SRgearis. of Republican candidates.
Alludes to MacArthur First, representatives of ‘narrow nationalism and economic toryism.” In conversations he includes Gen. MacArthur, who is entered. in the primary, in this category, as well as Governor Bricker or Ohio, who is not a candidate here, though he names neither publicly. Second, those who would avoid the issues and depend upon rallying
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SEEK 3D MURDER VICTIM _
BOSTON, March 21 (U. P.)~Police dug into snowdrifts in suburban Winchester today for the body of a third possible victim of a Charlestown marihuana-dddict who already has confessed to two sex murders.
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defeat, thereby detracting immeasurably from what for him have been 12 glorious years. “I just don't see where he thinks he can get the votes with the byelections showing the Republican trend to be gaining landslide momentum.” The governor said his state, carried by Willkie in 1940, was a|three
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“cinch” to go Republican, regardless of whom the party nominated. And he said he believed the Republicans would even carry the normally Democratic state of Texas, as well as Kentucky and Oklahoma, in which G. O. P. victories were scored in 1942. i Governor Vivian said he supposed the Democrats would nominate President Roosevelt's choice. He declined to express preference
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REGISTRATION BOOKS OPEN IN 6 BRANCHES
Branch offices for the registration of voters will be operated today and tomorrow from 10 a. m. until 8 p. m. at: Six fite engine houses, 1575 Roosevelt ave, 5432 E. Washington st, 1445 W, Michigan st., 1136 t st., 2018 E. 10th st. and en« wood ave.
The main registration office in the court house will be open daily from
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
; LONDON, March 21 (By Wireless).—Gen. Eisenhower has caught on amazingly well in England. After one week here that is my outstanding impression. I mention this not merely because I thifk the item will interest every American but because it comes near to being vital
to the war as a whole.
My impression that Gen. Eisenhower is a hit comes not from Americans but from the British. Not that the Americans don’t agree with the verdict—they do, 100 per cent. But the vital thing is what the British say,about this man who came from overseas to take top command
over their sons and brothers.
For it might so easily have been different. I was a correspondent in France during the first world war. As
TOFO0T LAVA WALL DEVOURS SAN SEBASTIAN
Mt. Vesuvius Eruption Is, Showing No Signs
Of Abating. BULLETIN ON THE SLOPES OF MT. VESUVIUS, March 21 (U.P.)—
The volcanic crater of Mt. Vesuvius exploded with a terrifying roar tonight, blanketing the countryside for 10 miles around under a pall of smoke and burying two mountain villages beneath tons of flowing laya, The sie spread as far as Nap miles away, hal 5 all traffic in the streets there. By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Stall Correspondent ON THE SLOPES OF MT. VESUVIUS, March 21.—A T0-foot wall of molten lava obliterated the village of San Sebastian, on the upper slopes of Mt. Vesuvius today, only a few hours after allied mili~ tary authorities had removed its 6000 inhabitants. The great stream of lava, spewed out of the voleano’s cone in the worst eruption of modern times, moved down the northwest slope with inexorable force and by midafternoon had traveled 500 yards beyond San Sebastian to cover three-quarters of the neighboring town of Massa di Somma. The force of the flow showed no signs of slackening, although it was cooling rapidly as it spread over the mountainside, resembling a huge pile of slag spilling out redhot coals as it advanced.
Evacuate Town
Allied military government officials, under Lt. Col. Alvan C, Kinkaid, set up emergency headquarters at Torre del Greco near the foot of the mountain and directed the removal of the 6000 residents of San Sebastiano and 600 of Massa di Somma. Through the night U. S. army vehicles tore up and down the deeply-rutted and precipitous mountain road to evacuate the villagers. Officials of the Italian royal observatory said the flows had reached the proportion of the 1872 eruption,
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PARK METER ‘GRISIS' JUST ISN'T A CRISIS
‘Competition Is Imaginary, Councilmen Find.
By SHERLEY UHL Prospects of an inter-state race between Indianapolis and Louisville to buy up the “remaining sup-
day with the revelation that the city fathers in both towns are jogging only half-heartedly toward the finish line. City Councilman R. C. Dauss’ dire admonition last night that “Indianapolis had better decide to install pagking meters before Louisville gobbles up the only 2500 left on the market,” was discounted today by a quick call to the Kentucky metropolis where Louisville Works Director Roy W. Burks, “pfft” at the idea and said’ that city's park-
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Gen. Eisenhower Popular With British People, Says Simms
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William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, arrived in London by air a week ago. In his first dispatch from the invasion capital, based on soundings he has taken in the last week, he says the American commander of the approaching allied invasion, Gen. Eisenhower, has made a hit
with the British.
A part of Mr. Simms’ mission in London is the establishment of a bureau there for the Scripps-Howard newspapers.
not command—that he could only “request,” and that even his requests were subject to review in allied capitals, Today 1 find no such atmosphere in England. Perhaps 1 have not been here long enough. However, 1 have been knocking about the world a long time and I think 1 know at least something about the British. One of the things I know is that they don’t gush. Another is that they don’t wear their hearts on their sleeves.
command there.
such 1 was a close observer of the long fight for'a unified National and personal jealousies were keen. For two years the plan was blocked.
It took a near defeat to
naming Marshal Foch generalissimo, and even then there were reservations. Foch complained bitterly that he could
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HUNGARIANS MAY DEFY INVADERS, DECLARE WAR AGAINST GERMANY
Thus when representative Britishers tell me, unsolicited, that they think Gen. Eisenhower is doing a good job over here I consider it significant. I asked one Englishman what made him think as he said he did about Eisenhower. He replied: “There are a number of reasons, but the main thing
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Sister Sees Brother Overseas on Screen Here
| Hitler’s Act Seen ‘Report Nazis Set As 1st Sign of | Despair.
Up a Puppet Regime.
BULLETIN ANKARA, March 21 (U. P.).— Formal German occupation of Rumania was believed imminent today after reports reached informed Ankara quarters that five Nazi divisions—one infantry and four armored—had crossed Hungary and moved info Rumania.
LONDON, March 21 (U. P.).—Hungarian quarters in Stockholm said today that Hungary might proclaim a formal state of war with Germany in defiance of Nazi
(By Wireless to The Times) { SOMEWHERE IN| EUROPE, March 21.—Germany’s occupation of Hungary, one of the axis satellites and the 17th country on this continent since 1939 to be trodden underfoot by heavy Wehrmacht boots, is interpreted here as the first obvious act of despair on the part of the German hign com-
mand. It represents an almost unavoidable reflex of self-defense by the German - military as they ponder
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Cpl. George Willis , . . Mrs. Edith Huntsinger shouted, “Oh, there's ‘George !”
Marine Cpl. George Willis Shown in Pic-
ture of Eniwetok.
THEATERGOERS were startled Saturday night by a feminine voice shouting, “Oh, there's George!” It was Mrs. Edith Huntsinger, 3223 N. Gladstone ave., shouting. She had good reason. On the screen at the Lyric had flashed a war film and there was her brother, Marine Cpl. George E. Willis. He was with a group holding a Jap flag captured on Eniwetok island in the Pacific. The Lyric has had a constant customer since then. “I practically live there,” said Mrs. Huntsinger. The picture moves on tomorrow, but Mrs. Huntsinger planned to spend today with her brother again. “I'd like to follow the film around,” she said. Entranced by seeing her brother, who has been overseas for 20 months and rarely writes, Mrs.
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Mrs. Edith Huntsinger and Miss Lila Jane Bear (left to right) look over part of the movie film in which Mrs. Huntsinger’s brother and Miss Bear's sweetheart appears.
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TWO. LOCAL YANKS MISSING IN ACTION
AN INDIANAPOLIS bomber crewman and an infantryman are missing in action over Austria and in Italy. They are: T. Sgt. Robert M. Garnett, 3102 Madison ave. Pfc. Donald Harry Gille, 1234 N. Linwood ave. | Ba. t J T. SGT. ROBERT M. GAR-
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WITH 5TH ARMY BEACHHEAD FORCES IN
It was the sort of
The other half was a disarray
“been lying on the chiaiF-that- weit™
Amusements.. 6) Jane Jordan.. 12 Eddie Ash ... 8|Daniel Kidney 10 . . : ol Comics ...... 18 Ruth Millett . 10] ITALY, March 21 (By Wireless).—When our bombing Crossword ... 11|Movies -....... 6 5 Sour Denny OiMusle +o... 0 was over, my room was a shambles. Editorials ... 10{Obituaries ... 4| thing you see only in the movies. Peter Dusen : 1 Ae Pyle 1. : More than half the rdom was knee-deep with broken Financial .... 3 [Ration Dates, 1 brick and tiles and mortar, Forum ...... Roose all covered with plaster dust and broken glass. My typeMeta Given . 13|Side Glances . 10 ven : uC s| writer was full of mortar and broken glass, but was not... 4| damaged. | My pants had through the door, 01 dug them out fron/under the debris,
Ernie: Dame Fortune Rode With Us T
By ERNIE PYLE
hat Morning’
put them on and started down to the other half of the
house.
Down below everything was a mess.
The ceilings
had come down upon men still in bed. Some beds were a
foot deep in debris. miracle.
That nobody was killed was a pure -
Bill Strand of The Chicago Tribune was out in the ~ littered hallway in his underwear, holding his left arm. Maj. Jay Vessels of Duluth, Minn., was running around without a stitch of clothing. We checked Japidly and found:
that everybody wat still alive. ~The boys couldn't |
Germans Fleeing From Bessarabia
On 50-Mile Front|:
MOSCOW, March 21 Marshal Ivan S. Konev drove Soviet spearheads through Bessarabia to within 35 miles of the Rumanian frontier today and the government organ Izvestia said that “smashed German regiments are retreating across Rumania.”
(Since the Soviets regard Bess-|-the|
arabia as a part of Russia, Izvestia report of a Nazi retreat “across Rumania” apparently meant that the Germans are pulling back beyond. the Prut river, the boundary between Rumania and Bessarabia.)
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the storming of the eastern ramparts of Festung Europa by the
Russian. steamroller.. together with
allied invasion in the west. The diplomatic maneuvering which preceded the invasion had all
ithe unsavory flavor of the days of
March, 1939, when Hitler, in an historic scene in Berlin, imposed on the exhausted Dr. Emil Hacha,
t | president of Czechoslovakia, the oc-
cupation of his country. Refused Nazi Terms
Hungarian Regent Adm. Nicl. olas Horthy and some of his military advisers were called during the week-end to Der Fuehrer’s headquarters to “discuss” Hungary's partciipation in the Balkan defenses against Russia. It is said that they then refused the Nazi terms. In the meantime six German divisions walked over the Austrian border into Hungary —ga simple military march as most of Hungary's available troops are concentrated at the Transylvania border with the somewhat unco-op-erative view of threatening the Rumanians. Also, in the best line of the 1939 tradition, the Nazi fifth column in Hungary—composed of Bela Imredy’s Arrow Cross partisans—was busy occupying all the important centers of the capital, overcoming by force Premier Nicholas Kallay's
§ | police.
That this was done is proven by
# the fact that almost overnight the
Hungarian radio discontinued its own news program and relayed DNB (Nazi news agency) reports only.
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As the 2d army of the Ukraine| °
poured “into Bessarabia on a front ‘more than 50 miles wide, the official ‘Soviet army journal Red Star proclaimed jubilantly: “Germany has lost the battle of the south. The Red army offensive is spreading like a spring flood.
Sa “The Red army has crossed the| | last river barrier in the Soviet]:
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BOY RECOVERING
Robert Thompson, 8-year-old 'son| |
of 51
and Mrs. Lowell Thompson, East st., was recovering today he received yesterday
the impending threat of a mass}
occupation of the country and the reported establishment of a puppes government, at. Budapest. . N
nouncement that Hungary was at war with Germany, although other reports from the continent indicated that some 150,000 German troops were completing the occupation and had the strife-torn Balkan state well under the Nazi thumb,
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The Berlin radio quoted a government spokesman that the purpose of the occupation of Hungary was to “strengthen the defense forces in southeastern Europe” which by other accounts were in a state of near panic, because of the Russian drive to within 35 miles of Rumania proper and 100 or so miles of Hungary. Adm. Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, Premier Nicholas Kallay and Foreign Minister Jenoe de Ghyczy were reported to have been taken to Germany by the Nazis after the week-end politico-military coup obviously aimed at bracing up the tottering German position in southeast Europe. Count Lonyay, ‘leader of the free Hungarians here, charged that Hungary had been betrayed “by Horthy and his gang” and called on his countrymen everywhere to join the allied armies. Though the Germans cut all Budapest's communications with the outside world, round-about reports reaching London said the week-end
coup was designed to forestall a Hungarian peace move and prepare
A ceremony planned in Budapest) for a last-ditch stand behind the | (Continued on Page 3—Column 1)