Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1944 — Page 1

MAY, STEVE’ 'LL GIVE HIM

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor "LONDON, March 23.—A high source in close touch with conditions in Europe's occupied countries told me today that Secretary Hull's pronouncement on America’s war and peace aims comes when most needed to dispel “disturbing fears regarding the allies present objectives. An eyewitness who escaped from Central Europe less than two weeks ago said Goebbels is having a field day

THURSDAY, MARCH

twisting allied declarations and events to fit Hitler's ,

urgent needs.

- freedoms.

Germans, he said, no longer expect the Reich to win

the war, but of late they have been led to believe they can escape the consequences, thanks to wrangling among

the allies.

As for the masses within the occupied areds, my informant continued, their one great hope all along has been

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Inns Hull Peace Aims Cheer Hitler's Slaves In Europe

in allied unity based on the Atlantic charter and the four This has made their resistance worthwhile.

This has made their slavery under the axis yoke bearable.

Life just for the sake of

life itself long ago ceased to

have meaning. If that was all resistance was to mean it was far less terrible to die and have it over than to suffer the pangs of death daily, yet go on living. The one beacon that kept the spark alive was the cer-

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tainty that national and individual liberty lay ahead for them and their children. That certainty was contained

in the Atlantic charter.

In the past few months however, my source continued, events have thrown some doubt on the charter as binding

on all the allies.

There has been a tendency in the direction of unilat(Continued on Page 3-~Column 1)

Mother of 5 Licks "Mess Hall’ Problems

Here are a lot of Smiths. Father, otter aud IF of the children take time out to “Sit> for 2 family portrait. Inset (left) is Mrs. LaRayner Zimmerman, one of the married daughters. At the right is the Smiths’ pride in the armed services—Pfe. Birthi H. Smith, in New Caledonia,

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‘600D NEIGHBOR RULE PREVAILS

Mexicans to Stay in Irvington Manse.

By SHERLEY UHL For the first time in three month's all's quiet on the Irvington front, wh That neighborhood's Latin boarders have been accepted with good grace and Mayor Tyndall, mopping his brow in relief, is congratulating himself on having compromised a controversy with international angles reaching from Audubon rd. to Mexico, It all started in December when the Pennsylvania railroad decided to lodge 40 laborers from some-

where south of the border in the; .

histeric old George W. Julian home, an Irvington landmark, at 115 8. Audubon rd. The move provided fuse for a Jpluttering of fireworks that showered the mayor with bits of correspondence from opponents and “foreign labor” policy. Pyrotechnics Die Down

Today the pyrotechnics were somewhat quelled with word that Irvington remonstrants had agreed

the home by right-of-way workers until June 30, when, Pennsylvania officials say, plenty of labor will be available here in Indianapolis, Mayor Tyndall's troubles with the Mexicans date back to the time when. the South Irvington Civie

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168,292 ON ARMY LIST OF CASUALTIES

WASHINGTON, Margh 23 (U. P.). ~Announced Americah casualties since the start of the war today totaled 168,.202—39,624 killed, 61,117

wounded, 35,783 missing and 31,768 |

prisoners of war. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said that: army casualties as of March 7 were 126,193—21737 killed, 50,363 wounded, 26,747 miss ing and 27.346 prisoners of war. On Feb. 20 the army total was 123,054, The total announced navy casualties—navy, coast guard and marine corps—today are 42,099. They comprise 17,887 dead, 10,754 wounded, 9036 missing and 4422 prisoners of war.

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Mrs. Smith loves to cook.

BLOCK NEW SITE OF DETENTION HOME

Keystone Ave. Citizens File

Protest Injunction.

The five-year-old fight of county officials to get the juvenile detention home moved out of its present condemned quarters on W. New York st. struck another legal snag today when an injunction suit was filed in superior court 4 to prevent the proposed moving of the home to county-owned buildings at 25th st. and Keystone ave. The suit to prevent use of the Keystone ave. buildings as a detention home was filed in behalf of 21 property owners in the vicinity of the proposed new home site. The property owners protested that moving the detention home into the Keystone ave. buildings would violate the city zoning ordinance which bans establishment of a penal institution in that area and that use of the buildings would constitute a nuisance ' to nearby property owners.

Vesuvius Still Active as Ash

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Amusements . 18 Daniel Kidney 16 Eddie Ash.... 22 Ruth Millett. 16

Comics... .; 25 | Movies ...... 18 Crossword ... 17 Obituaries ... 11 Editorials . 16 | Pred Perkins. 15 Peter Edson.. 16 Ernie Pyle .. Fashions .... 19 Radio ........25 Findneial -.... "12 Ration Dates. 7 Forum ....... 16 Earl Richert.. 17 , Freckles ......25 Mrs. Roosevelt 15

Sports savas 22 Deaths. 11

Covers Towns

By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ON THE . SLOPES OF MT. VESUVIUS, March 23.— Weary villagers in the Pompeii-Salerno area today were digging out from a “blizzard” of volcanic ash that

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swirled from Vesuvius in the last 12 hours. RE “Layers of ash three to 18 "Inches thick blocked henway traffic and in roofs.

BIG POST-WAR

§ with local building representatives. {He also spoke on “What's Ahead

k | emergency, resulting in a tremen-

The noon Kour at the Smith house is always a festive event. But

The Smiths Keep Her Busy, but Aid Her Too.

By MILDRED REIMER ARMY COOKS could take a few lessons in mass food preparation from Mrs. Lester Smith, 2171 8S. Pennsylvania st. For the South side family practically has a “mess hall” right.in their home and more than enough hungry mouths to make up a G. I. “squad.” Mr. and Mrs. Smith have 15 children living . . . just enough girls at the right ages to “keep the dishes washed up,” but lacking one boy to make an “all-Smith gridiron eleven.” Seven other children died while infants. But now only 11 of the Smiths are home besides the parents and

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CHURCHILL MAY GIVE ‘ERD HOUR’ CALL

London Papers Say Speech To Restate ‘Aims.’

- LONDON, March 23 (U., P.)~— The Evening News said today-that Prime? Minister Winston Churchill's scheduled broadcast Sunday may be a “zero hour call” to the nation on the eve of the opening of the western front, restating Britain's war aims and calling for maximum effort in the next few months. The broadcast, scheduled for 9 p. m. (3 p..m. Indianapolis time), will be short-waved to the United States and probably rebroadcast by American networks,

HOME DEMAND

Ready to Put 6,000,000 to Work if U. S. Does

Not Interfere.

The home building industry throughout the nation is ready to

programs directed from a Washing-

Home Builders, said here today. Mr. Gerholz came to Indianapolis to discuss problems of the industry

for Heme Building” at a meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate board at noon. eo wargaiiiciis die 2 very poor job of handling the public building program during the

dous waste of the taxpayers’ money and constructing many buildings which will never be tenanted,” the N. A. H. B. head asserted.

Boom to Follow War

“Government housing failed because of the monotony of the long strings of houses,” he explained, ! “and the American people are,

ism. Many of the structures were of a character that people will not live in them.” As to ‘when the building boom will come, Mr. Gerholz said that it| will begin when the war in Europe winds up but the big change will be seen when the war ends and all materials are released for construction. “In the first post-war year 350,000 to 400,000 housing units will be built,” he predicted, “but during a 10-year period the average will be 1,000,000 per year following the war.” i With much new renovating and face lifting going on in addition to new building, Mr. Gerholz said the construction industry would blaze the trail for post-war employment. When the 9,000,000 young people doff their uniforms to take up lives they left off when they went to fight for Uncle Sam, postponed marriages will be solemnized and many of these people will establish their own homes, he added.

Sees No Miracle Homes

But the home of tomorrow will not be a miracle house, the N. A. H. B. head predicted. “It will be pretty much like the home we were building in 1941,” Mr, Gerholz said, “because the manufacturers have nothing new to offer in materials. “No doubt,” he said, “attention will be given to more efficient arrangement of space, improved lighting and to increasing the functional facilities of the home.” The prefabricated houses of this war period, the N. A. H. B.-head declared, will have a restricted market in the post-war world because they offer no saving in cost or no variation in design. Mr. Gerholz, who has been on an inspection tour of housing units over the United States, urged local building groups to make a survey of the housing situation and have

employ 6,000,000 men as soon as the] : last shot is fired, but it wants no}:

ton bureau, Robert P. Gerholz, pres- : - ident. of the Natifnal Association of

known for their rugged individual-|

|astride the main Mandalay-Myitky-

Cause of Fatal Furniture Firm Fire Is Sought

An investigation to determine

the cause of the fire which for a time threatened to sweep through the Banner-Whitehill, Inc. furniture store at 31 8. Meridian st, yesterday, has been started by Bernard A. Lynch, fire prevention chief, The flames, which started in . .. the ‘basement of the warehouse and shipping department, were confined mostly to the first two floors of the rear building and did not spread to the main store. Thick smoke, however, caused

Mr, Lewis heavy damage to nearly all retail departments. One fireman, Herman N, Lewis, 56, of 26 N. Traub ave, collapsed

SEVER JAPAN'S BURMA LIFELINE

Airborne Native Troops Cut . Main Railway, Imperil Foe’s Rear in India. NEW DELHI, March 23 (U. P).

{—A mystery column of allied ground troops has landed squarely

ina’ railway in northern Burma, it was revealed today, severing the lifeline of communications for thousands of Japanese in the north and imperiling the rear of other enemy forces moving across the Indian frontier on Imphal. The surprise blow apparently was launched by a band of air-borne Indian infantrymen who were landed deep inside the Japanese

and gliders late last week. Supplantied by Planes

The allied communique did not identify the units, but revealed that they were on the attack in the area of Indaw and Mawlu, two key junction points on the main railway line.

tions in the area.

lied forces would command all enemy supply movement northward on the railway line to Myitkyina, the main Japanese base in northern Burma. They also would be in a position to cut half a dozen vital

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AUTO FOR 25 YEARS

.A new record in suspension of a driver's license was set in criminal court today when Earl Moore, 329% E. Washington st. was prohibited from driving an automobile for 25 years. He is 51 years old. He was convicted for the third time on a charge of driving a car while intoxicated. Judge W. D. Bah sentenced him to six months on the penal farm and fined him $50 and costs in addition to the 25-

everything ready for the “go” signal.

CLEVELAND, March 23 (U. P). —As Japanese_bombs rained down on Guadalcanal last summer, an |estimated 2000 American servicemen, irked at news that coal miners back home were striking, staged a two-hour sit-down strike of their own, u veteran of the Pacific fighting said today. Philip Scacco, 28, who engaged in

Reveals Soldier 'Sit-Down' As Coal Mine Strike Protest

hand-to-hand battles with the Jap-|.

‘year license suspension.

Japanese had been cleared off Guadalcanal,

ceived a medical discharge, said.

to bits’ when they came back to this country.” The strike by | servicemen

lines by American transport planes |

From Indaw and Mawlu, the al-

NAZI HOPES LIE IN MUD ALONG RUMANIA ROAD

Seen as One of Costliest Retreats in World's History.

By DAVID M. NICHOL Times Foreign Correspondent ON THE UKRAINIAN FRONT, March 23.—The Nazis’ road to Rumania is littered alike with the hopes and the wreckage of the German army.

It is the road that leads away from the richest area in Ukraine, the section on which Hit-

entire colonial program,

German morale to its very founda-

this war,

this.

stages of destruction.

of every variety,

Mark VI tanks. Abandon New Tanks

At the tiny railroad station at Potazh, for example, the Germans abandoned new tanks enough to equip an enfire division. Some of the guns had never been fired. Red army engineers tallied 240 tanks there, most of which had only just arrived as replacements. So impassable &re the roads that it is impossible from the ground to get an adequate picture of this de-

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the Jer and his leaders had based their It is the path that has jarred

tions and it has been one of the costliest retreats in the history of

I am not altogether a slranger. 40 the confusion that is left in the wake of any major engagement, but I have never seen anything like

Mile after muddy mile of Ukrainian highways are lined with every kind of conveyance in various

There are trucks and halftracks staff cars and smaller automobiles, field kitchens, mobile radio stations, heavy guns mired to the hubs of their oversize wheels, and immense Mark V and

Rumania Chief ‘On Spot.’

LONDON, March 23 (U. P.). — Reports reached London today that Germany, strengthening her hold on southeastern Europe in preparation for a_desperate stand against the Soviet army, has summoned the premier and vice premier of Rumania to Adolf ditler’'s headquarters for “important talks” and may have occupied Slovakia. In German-occupied Hungary, a

new puppet government took office and prepared, in the words of an

that country’s resources “for a final

ian and German peoples.”

tions with Russia. " Hint Slovakia Occupied

ing on Lwow in old Poland. The

German invitation, for “important talks.” German occupation of Hungary followed a similar summons from

Horthy. ported yesterday to have begun seizing strategic points in Rumania but this has not been confirmed.

Have Nazi Background

Though he previously had been reported under arrest by the Germans, the German-controlled Buda- |

struction. We tried once in a jeep, but three times in as many miles] we got stuck and were hauled out. | Utterly defeated by mire, we

inspection by air. For this there is the admirable Russian airplane called Ou-Dua, or You-Two, a tiny two-seater biplane

Allied medium bombers swarmed with the open cockpit that is uniin to the support of the raiders, blasting in force at Japanese posi-

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{ple that Horthy swore in the new | {pro-Nazi cabinet yesterday. (U. S. government monitors re-

abandoned the whole project for an lcorded a Hungarian broadcast say-

ing that the parliamentary “incompatibility committee” would meet today. The OWT interpreted the meeting as a sign that the new government may be planning to purge parliament of anti- Nazi elements.) The ‘new Hungarian government, announced yesterday, is headed by

GERMANY ROCKS AND SMOULDERS IN 2500-PLANE DAY-NIGHT BLOW

BUILDERS SEE

1500 Yank Craft

Follow Big RAF Raid.

LONDON, March 23 (U.

victory of the common cause in the spirit of old friendship and comradship ‘in arms between the Hungar-

A London Daily Mail dispatch from Madrid said German airborne troops were seizing railways| pranks and telephones throughout Bulgaria pnkfure last night. and bad detained Soviet diplomats} [Hn Sofia after occupying the em ‘bombs ‘and scattered over bassy. Bulgaria, alone of Germany's |giytteart, SH ! Balkan ' satellites, maintains rela- {northwest Germany.

Reports circulated in Bern that German troops have occupied Slovakia, across the Carpathian mountains from Russian troops converg-

Nazi Vichy radio said that Premier Marshal Ion Antonescu] and Vice Premicr«Foreign Secretary) sault which drew the first formidMihai Antonescu had left for Hit-| ler's headquarters, in response to a!

P.).—Germany rocked and smouldered today under a broadside by about 1500 American planes which overcame fanatical Nazi fighter attacks in two sectors, after British night bombers dropped more than 3360 tons on Frankfurt in the heavlest aerial assault of all time, United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators with a mighty fighter escort strewed bombs across air fields and industrial targets in Brunswick and the Ruhr and fought furious battles over the cities in

official communique, to muster all the second straight day of batter-

ing the reich. Feint Toward Berlin

The air ministry announced that the greatest tonnage of explosives and incendiaries ever delivered to a single target—more than 3360 ‘tons —devastated great sections of Only once before, on March 15, had the R. a. |F. dropped a comparable weight Munich and Feinting towards Berlin, the R. A. F. Lancasters and Halifax bombers threw the German night fighters off balance and had an easy task in the delivery of their record bomb weight on the war production center of southwest Germany, “Exceedingly satisfactory” was the {label attached to the daylight as-

{able German fighter defense in {many days over Brunswick and an{other city not identified immedi- | ately.

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Hoosier Heroes—

JOSEPH E. TAYLOR IS KILLED IN ACTION

Sub-Chaser Crewman Dead interior; Lajos Csatay, army min-

—Soldier Is Missing.

AN INDIANAPOLIS sailor has been killed in action and a local soldier is missing following Euro-

KILLED Signalman 3-¢ Joseph Eugene Taylor, 1961 Park ave. MISSING

Lt. L Gene Kirkpatrick, 1934/000000 over the last drive's goal.

SIGNALMAN 3-C JOSEPH EUGENE TAYLOR, member of a subchaser crew, this week was reported killed March 3, 1943, in a collision

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March 23 (U.

“The morale of the soldiers at that point was the lowest I had ever seen, Scacco, who recently re-

“I heard about eight fellows pledge that, they would ‘cut John L. Lewis

the American| 50

described as “decidedly better’ today, but for the fourth successive day he stayed away from his office and worked in his White House study. ; ——————— LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10am... 47

began after an Akron, |

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Field Marshal Dome Sztojay, former minister to Germany, and its members all have a pro-Nazi and, in some cases, an anti-Jewish background. Besides Sztojay, the new government comprises Denoe Racz, deputy premier; Andor Jaross, minister of

ister; Lajos Remenyi-Schneller, minister of finance; Istvan Antal, minister of justice; Lajos Szasz,

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GOAL 16 BILLIONS

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U. P.).—Secretary of ‘Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., today set the goal of the fifth war loan drive at $16,000,000,000, an increase of $2,000,-

MOSCOW, March 23 (U. P)—

F. D. R’s COLD ‘BETTER [,20SCOW: March 33 U.P)

WASHINGTON, : P.)—President Roosevelt's cold was [Proaches of Rumania today and 200

wide swath to the Bessarabian ap-

miles to the southeast stormed the defenses of Nikolaev, big Black Sea port and eastern anchor base of rthe hard ‘pressed German salient in, the Ukraine. - (A Moscow broadcast recortled in London said Soviet assault forces driving the Germans out,

now were of: Nikolaev, many Strong.

Called ‘Terror Raids’ Targets scattered across hundreds

Hitler to Regent Adm. Nicholas | ,¢ miles of northwest Germany German troops were re-| erupted in flame and debris as a {number of formations dropped their heavy cargo through the gaps in the partial overcast.

The German DNB news agency

acknowledged the weight of the {attacks by calling them {raids” and admitted the ineffectiveradio told the Hungarian _| ness of the fighter defense by elaimpest 8 peo line the German planes were handi{capped by bad weather.

“terror

Over Brunswick about 50 Messers-

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On the War Fronts

March 23, 1944

AIR WAR—R. A. FP, smashes at bat tered Frankfurt and stabs lightly at blazing Berlin; American bombers following through with daylight offensive on Brunswick district.

RUSSIA—Soviets drive more than halfway across waist of Bessarabia.

ITALY—German forces launch series of strong counter-attacks around Cassino.

PACIFIC—Allied bombers sink Japanese destroyer and two cargo ships.

BURMA—Advanced British patrols seek to halt Japanese spearheads knifing across Burma boarder into India.

BALKANS—Rumania’s premier and vice premier reported summoned to Adolf Hitler's headquarters.

Russ Storm German Base, = Drive Deep Into Bessarabia