Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1944 — Page 2

Improvement in Year, Report Says.

Federal bureau of investigation statistics indicate that Indianapolis is “well in the lead” in the percentage of crime reduction in 1943 in cities of 200,000 population or over throughout the, country, a re-

port issued today by Safety Board |

President Will H, Remy states. The report cites figures to show that Indianapolis ‘in 1943 dropped from eighth to 21st placé in the

FBI LAUDS CTY |. DROP IN CRIME i

Indianapolis Shows Major .

Adm. Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, is reported a prisoner

nation in the number of burglaries committed. It also boasts ‘that the city, twelfth in the nation's robbery] rate list in 1942, dropped 14 notches to 26th place in 1943. Police Chief Clifford Beeker said the reduction in major crimes, Bes eluding robbery, burglary, assau and murder, was approximately % per cent under the 1942 rate.

Ranked 8th in 1942

A prelude to the comparative ot ings declares: “In 1942 Indianapolis ranked 20th in population. In.the number of] burglaries, however, Indianapolis| ranked eighth, with 2673 burglaries! for the year. Only seven cities with| an average population of 2,423,863 had more burglaries than Indian-| apolis. They "were Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Phila-| delphia, Pittsburgh and Houston. | “All the cities except two whic had more burglaries than Indian- | apolis had a population of more] than a million. “However, the list of cities out- | numbering Indianapolis in burglar-| fes in 1943 is as follows: “Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Portland, Ore.; St.| Louis, Baltimore, Seattle, Denver, | Cincinnati, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Cakland, Washington, Dallas, | Cleveland and Columbus.

Twelfth to Twenty-Sixth

“In 1942, Indianapolis, " the statement continues, “was 12th in the number of robberies or holdups, with 478, which could have been expected in a city of 640,000 popula- | tion like San Francisco. In 1943, it was 26th in the number of ob-| beries, which might be expected in 8 town of 306,000 like Columbus.” The announcement did not give| any comparative FBI statistics on! murder or assault rate, merely stating that the city was “in the very forefront” in the percentage of reduction of “crimes of violence.” Comparative totals on burglaries pointed to Chicago as the nation’s most lawless city in this respect, with: the Windy City leading in both 1942 and 1943 with 10,253 and 9102 burglaries, respectively. New York was charged with only 5458 burglaries in 1942 and 6061 in 1943. . ..'The report commended “the excellent record made by the Indianapolis police department under the leadership of Chief Beeker, Detective Chief Jesse McMurtry and Inspector Donald Tooley as an outstanding performance for 1943.” It also congratulated Mayor Tyndall “for standing squarely behind a program of law enforcement un-|

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of Hitler as the Nazi armies complete their occupation of his country.

FOE IN CASSIN AIDED BY TUNNEL

Use Secret t Passage to Get Reinforcements to the Fighting Line.

AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Na-| ples, March 21 (U, P.).—German: shock troops lashed back savagely!

{at attacking allied forces around |

today and allied spokesmen revealed that reinforcements were being dispatched to-the embattled Nazi gar{rison through a secret 1200-yard| | tunnel leading to an ancient Roman! amphitheater outside town. Official information -reaching headquarters traced the strong | German stand to the existence of {a hitherto-unsuspected tunnel run-

almost three-quarters of a mile southwest of Cassino. German panzer grenadiers, it | was revealed, have been slipping | through the tunnel into Cassino under the guns of the unsuspecting

|allies to bolster the band of para-|

troopers who had been holding the southwestern end of the town since the record allied aerial and artillery

| bombardment last Wednesday.

On the slopes of Mt. Cassino, overlooking the town, German

troops still held onto one of the! | heights they won back in their

counter-attack Sunday, and it was disclosed that the Nazis were using a dry watercourse northeast and north of the wrecked Benedictine monastery as a passage for reinforcements,

850 BUS DRIVERS STRIKE

NEW ORLEANS, March 21 (U. P).—Bus travel in Mississippi, Louisiana and part of Alabama was at a standstill today as 850 drivers of the Teche-Greyhound and TriState Co. lines failed to report for work. .

SEEK TO LOWER VOTE AGE BISMARCK, N. D., March 21 (U, P)~~The North Dakota legislature today considered a proposal by Governor John Moses that the | voting age for all residents in the armed services be lowered from 21 to 18 years.

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At Which Gen. Curry Will Be Speaker.

Seven army generals, all friends and former associates of Col. H. Weir

ner next Tuesday when Indianapolis’ Municipal airport will be dedicated as Weir Cook airport in honor of the flier who was killed a year ago in the Southwest Pacific. The speaker will be Maj. Gen. John F. Curry of Denver, Colo. commanding general of the army air forces’ western technical training command.

be Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, deputy chief of staff of the army; Maj. Gen, Thomas H. Henley Jr, commanding officer of the fying command, Maxwell field, Ala.; Maj. Gen. W. H. Frank, commanding officer of air service headquarters, Patterson field, Dayton, O.

Stout Field Commander

Brig. Gen. E, W. Evans, commanding officer of the I troop carrier command, Stout field; Maj. | Gen. Jacob E. Pickel, commanding officer of the army air forces eastjern technical training command, | St. Louis, Mo., and Mej. Gen. James lL. Collins, commanding officer of | the 5th service command, Ft, Hayes, | Columbus, O. Mrs. H. Weir Cook, widow of Col.

h | Cassino’s gutted Continental hotel Cook, and her three children, Har-

vey Weir Jr, Peter and Suzanna, will be honor guests. C. Walter | McCarty, managing editor of The | Indianapolis News, will be toastmaster. More than 2000 aviation enthus- | iasts and friends of Col. Cook are lexpected to attend the dinner at the Scottish Rite cathedral which is being sponsored by the chamber of commerce. Lt. Col. Walker W.

| ning from the Roman amphitheater Winslow is general chairman and

the dinner is open to the public. | Tickets may be purchased from the Chamber of Commerce. A pioneer in the development of the army air forces, Gen. Curry was one of the first officers to apply for aviation training and was one of the original combat - pilots during the 1915 expedition into Mexico under Gen. John J. Pershing. A pilet in world war I, he flew in combat and while lieutenant colonel was made chief of staff, air service, for the American 2d army .at Toul, France.

Organized CAP

In 1937 he was named to the war department general staff and three days after Pearl Harbor began organizing the civil air patrol. He assumed his present post in March, 1942, Under his command airplane mechanics, armorers, photographers, meteorologists, machinists, clerks and technicians are trained to keep the air forces flying. A graduate of West Point in 1908, he also has complete work at the air service engineering school, air corps tactical school, the command and general staff school and the army war college.

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Yanks Take Toll Of 20 Jap Ships And 1500 Troops

By UNITED PRESS American airmen sent five ships of a Japanese convoy and 1500 troops to the bottom off northern

New Guinea while American submarines sank 15 more Japanese ships in the Pacific and far east, it was announced today. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox reported the largest submarine haul. included two y two tankers and 11 freighters, bringing to 642 the total of Japanese ships hit by the United States underwater fleet. The list includes 492 ships known to have been sunk. \ The American bffensive from the also brought planes into collaboration with battleships to deliver what appeared to be a knockout blow on Mili atoll, one of the few remaining enemy bases in the eastern Marshalls.

Among Major Blows

The air attack on the Japanese convoy resulting in the loss of 1500 troops believed intended as reinforcement for the battered enemy base at Wewak, was described as the greatest sea engagement in the southwest Pacific since the first battle of the Bismarck sea a year ago this month. Battleships and eafrier-based planes delivered the heavy attack Saturday on Mili atoll, 300 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the eastern Marshalls, in the first combined action since the raids én Truk and Saipan. The Japanese Domei agency said American planes raided Mili again on Sunday.

GERMANS FLEEING FROM BESSARABIA

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south. The Dniester is behind us. There is increasing anxiety among Hitler's vassals, especially the Rumanians.” . Field reports said the Germans were relying on Rumanian divisions to cover their retreat at many points. Two Rumanian divisions with German stiffening elements were charged with the defense of Migilev-Podolski. There on the elbow of the Dniester the Russians feinted attacks in several directions, threw the defenders off- balance, seized the river bridge and made it possible to sweep on into Bessarabia without loss of momentum, In one sector, two Rumanian infantry divisions were overwhelmed and a large number of prisoners taken. Destruction of 11 out of 24 ships in a German Black sea convoy bound for the Crimea was reported in the Soviet high command’s midnight communique only a few hours after the official publication War and the Working Class revealed that the enemy already had. begun evacuating his forces from the Crimea to Bulgaria and Rumania, At the Polish end of the Ukrainian front, Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's: 1st army drove to within 53 miles northeast of Lwow, the principal communications hub in southeastern Europe, with the cap-

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NETT, son of Fred L. Garnett, has been missing in action over Austria since Feb. 24. = Stationed in Ttaly with the army air forces, Sgt. Garnett had been in service two and a half years and has been a bomber crewman overseas since last May. A former Technical high school pupil, he was employed at the International Harvester Co. before entering service. ” ” ” * PFC. DONALD HARRY GILLE, who had been serving with the infantry in Italy, has been missing since Feb. 2, his third wedding anniversary. He is the husband of Mrs. Mildred Gille and son of Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Gille, 964 N. Lesley ave. A graduate of Technical high school, he achieved high scholastic and athletic honors and played football there. He attended River Falls State Teachers college in Wisconsin and later entered war work at the Allison division of General Motors Corp. Inducted at Ft. Harrison, Pvt. Gille was stationed at Ft. McClellan, Ala.; and Ft. Meade, Md. He went overseas to Africa Sept. 30 and then was transferred to Italy. 2 = o

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F't. Bliss, Tex., but now is home on furlough; T. Sgt. John D. Williams is in Amarillo, Tex., and Machinist's Mate 3-¢ Thomas Williarns in Ireland. . ” ” .

SECOND LT. GLENDON D. BOWERS, stationed with an engineers’ battalion in Italy, was wounded Feb. 2 and is now recovering in a base hospital. Lt. Bowers 1s the husband of Mrs. Fern V. Bowers, 941 Bradbury ave, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Renzo Bowers, Hagerstown. The 25-year-old soldier was inducted April 15, 1942, and went overseas June 17, 1943. He was commissioned at Ft. Belvoir, Va.,

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Lt. Robert C. Swindler, son of Frank H. Swindler, 4401 Central ave, and Pvt. Wendell 8. Baldwin, son of Mrs, Ferne Baldwin, 1048S

: |Elder ave., have been wounded in . | action.

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ELEVEN HOOSIERS outside Indianapolis today were listed among 451 U, 8. soldiers wounded in action. They are Pvt. Harold C. Baugher, son of Mrs. Pearl Baugher, Warsaw: Pvt. Dennis N. Bradshaw son of Mrs. Grace A. Bradshaw, Osgood; Pfc. Newton R. Brann, hus-

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BRITISH SUBS SINK ° 7 MORE JAP SHIPS

LONDON, March 21 (U.P).— British submarines, ranging through far eastern waters, sank seven Japanese supply ships and severely damaged two others, one of which was left burning, in recent patrol actions, it was announced today. ~An admiralty communique said among the ships sunk were two medium and two small vessels. Those

damaged were described as one and. one medium-sized supply ship. The actions occurred in the Malacca straits, at the southern end of ‘the Malayan peninsula, and around

nearby Sumatra, the communique

said, although the time of the engagement was not disclosed.

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