Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1944 — Page 15

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#Hey, Joe,” and all along the dock was a chicken-yard bedlam of “Hey, Joe, bis-ueet.” Each one crying at. the top of his lungs to call attention to himself, and holding up his hands, te was a stocky little fellow of about 8, with coal-black hair and a constant good humor, He was about the only one of them who wasn't ragged, the reason being that he was entirely glad in military garb. He had on a blue navy sweater. Then for pants had the biggest pair of British tropical shorts you saw, which came clear below his knees, were bare. He had on gray army socks t0 his shoetcps. And on his feet were

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum

TRAFFIC WAS heavy on N, Meridian yesterday morning when a shrieking siren heralded the approach of a city ambulance on Michigan st. An elderly Negro with a strong sense of civic consciousness stepped off the curb and flagged down the cars until . Ain the ambulance passed. Then he motioned trafficto go ahead, and went on sbout his business. We need more’ such citizens. . . . Speaking of traffic, we're a little discouraged about the prospects of ever getting our pedestrians educated to observe traffic regulations without a policeman standing there holding a club over their heads. We've observed the downtown section the last few days during the afternoon hours when gid the police were not on watch, and ‘the number of folks walking against the red light was disheartening. . . . Municipal Judge John Niblack is being ribbed by some of his friends with the suggestion he turn his musical talents to advantage in his campaign for the Republican nomination for prose-

‘ eutor. In his younger days, Judge Niblack was quite ia virtuoso on the harmonica sand mandolin, with

*Pretty Little Redwing” as his favorite selection. So

: far, he has resisted the ideas. y ., Victor Weller, the { former state trooper, is home on 15-day furlough

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after completing his boot training at Great Lakes. And we're told many of his feminine admirers in the statehouse are happy to see him again,

‘Reds’ Rule Committee :

“SEE RED” was the slogari adopted by the Red Cross campaign committee of the Public Service Co. of Indiana. The reason: It was an all-red-haired committee. The chairman, John Mellett, is a “redhead"—or was before his hair started turning pink— and he chose a red-haired committee from each department. They are Les Leonard, Alice Rudbeck, Iva Williams, June Herrell, Avis Worth, Lillian Martin, Bertha Fesmire and Katherine Todd. Their goal was $1500—50 per cent above last year's contributions by the 330 employees—and it looks as if they'll make it. » + « Bob McMurray, an executive of the same com-

WASHINGTON, March 23.—As expected, the Russian advance into Bessarabia forced Hitler to reinforce Rumania and Bulgaria and to occupy Hungary. Hungarian occupation merely brings into the open the Nazi control hitherto operated through Horthy's Fascist- regime. The change is about the same as when Vichy France was occupied. Though this move is not without political significance, its immediate - importance is military. Hitler is buttressing his southeast wall. To do that he must weaken his west wall on the eve on Eisenhower’s invasion—or at least use his central reserves. Risky as that is, Hitler has no choice. Now that the tide has turned, he cannot hold his socalled allies except at the point of a gun. He learned that in Italy and Bulgaria, and in a different way in Finland.

Surrounded by Nazis

HUNGARY OF COURSE had long been surroundEven had the Budapest Fascist government succeeded in recent peace feelers, and signed an armistice with the allies, it would have been powerless to deliver. The gestapo could have galled in neighboring Nazi troops quickly. But by moving in advance Hijler improves his Balkan position generally. First, he puts more reliable troops on. the Car‘pathian mountain barrier facing the Russians,

| My Day

CARACAS, Venezuela, Wednesday. —Back in the mountains of British Guiana are flat plateaus where

% the handy rancher can build himself a home and in

20 years so Maj. Art Williams told me, he can be ~ secure enough financially to send his boys and girls away to school. Meh and. women must work hard, however, and no weakling could succeed. Spaniards,

pioneers.

youngster would get hurt, and make a terrible face .

Hitler's Hungary

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act from payment of taxes from to &'$300 bonus or less. : I had a chance to talk to a n of the ‘corporations to re-employ boys and some of the girls brought out for a dance| veterans of world war II and estabby the U. 8. O. Later we went to the movies with|lish equal rights and privileges’ by = them all, and saw & gangster flim I'am sure took| crediting. their war service as contheir minds from the war. iE Tih when itt was over. eT ; bonus peace

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Hunger Was Genuine IT ‘WAS the old women in the crowd that I could hardly bear to look at. Throughout the day there must have been a couple of dozem who came, tried for half an hour to catch something, and finally went dejectedly away. : They were horrible specimens of poverty and in-

Hopes to Win Independents By Attacking Both FDR And GOP. .°

By THOMAS L. STOKES Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WITH WILLKIE IN WISCON-

SIN, March 23.—~Wendell L. Willkie is carefully building up, in his Wisconsin primary campaign, a middle-of-the-road philosophy designed to attract the large independent vote. Upon this he is resting his chief claim for renomination as Republican presidential candidate. Mr. Willkie is frank about his obAs he describes it, the

The poor old woman never let go. She clung to . it as though it were something human. And when both 1 Somestieally od a the last cracker was gone she walked sort of blindly| 3 ppeal to t ndepend away, her head back and her eyes toward the sky, vote.

He estimates that vote as between 35 and 40 per cent of the electorate. That seems high. But polls show a much larger percentage of voters undecided this year than usual, which indicates a greater degree of independence. Difficult Task

This is a difficult task. He is trying to show, on the one hand, that he is not a New Dealer, not still a Democrat, not “another Roosevelt” and, on the other, that he is not an old-line G.O.P.-type Republican. When he arrived here, he found the air full of talk that he is not a real Republican. He has been

sail that night.

pany, left Tuesday for Annapolis to report as a lieutenant commander. A graduate of the naval academy, he received his commission last Friday. ... A couple of gals driving across 42d st. were. horrified the other evening to see what appeared to be a human leg, unattached to a body, laying in the street beneath a parked car. Stopping quickly, they turned their car's spotlight on the leg, and then discovered it merely was a wooden leg. They haven't figured | the administration.” out yet how it got there. . , , Even the dining. _“T've never talked politics with porters have to use psychology. Jim Dilley reports|President Roosevelt in my life,” he that while on a recent trip to New York, he got|says. : aboard the Spirit of St. Louis. Shortly after the| Then he reads his bill of partrain pulled out, the dining car porter came through |ticulars in proof that he’s not a shouting: “Dinner now being served. No dining car|Democrat or New Dealer. * service after Columbus.” Everybody rushed for the| On foreign policy, he specifies, he diner and stood in line. It suddenly dawned on Jim|has disagreed in a number of inthat, the train wouldn't reach Columbus for another|stances with the administration, inthree hours. He mentioned this to the porter, who|cluding most recently the Polish| replied: “Sure, but if you don't scare them, theyll|question. He even went so far as

all wait until we're almost there.” to accuse the administration of havKey Troubles

MRS. AL BLOEMKER frequently has trouble] On domestic policy, he charges finding her car keys around home, we hear, but that's| the administration with poor

them, that “I'm a carbon copy of Roosevelt,” that “I'm in league with Roosevelt,” that “I'm trying to help

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THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1944

, - Fiery Lava Flows Over. Village of San Sebastiano

As lava from erupting Mt. Vesuvius threatens this San Sebastiano street (the lava wall can be seen at the end of the street) allied personnel (center) move forward to help evacuate houses. This village, a short time later, was virtually buried by the white hot rock.

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_ Here a fiery wall of lava crushes homes in San Sebastiano as the worst volcanic eruption in over 70 thousands homeless.

Quick action by AMG officials and troops saved many lives by evacuat_ing refugees in every available army vehicle.

TO TERMS IN FEDERAL JAIL

Defers Final Action on Local Men in Alleged Gas Black Market.

Judge Robert C. Baltzell meted prison terms to 12 defendants in Federal court yesterday. Of 60 persons arraigned in the overtime session, 36 pleaded guilty. Sentencing of five Indianapolis men allegedly linked in a widescale black market gasoline racket was deferred. OPA affidavits charge the defendants with exchanging more than a quarter of a million gallons worth of already-used gdsoline coupons stolen from downtown bank vaults. The defendants are Clarence Teneyck, Ernest H. Jones, Charles Gilbert, Theodore Howard and leslie Woolen. Jones, Gilbert and Howard pleaded guilty. Teneyck’s trial was set for May 3.

: Pleads Not Guilty

James J. Gavin entered & not {guilty plea to charges that he falsi{fied his 1937 and 1938 income tax {reports by allegedly failing to file 1$88,000 in horse bet winnings. Gavin was given a two weeks’ “re- 1 consideration period” during which 4] time he may change his plea. 2 For admittedly burglarizing the Clayton postoffice, Theodore Ben Able was sentenced to a 0-year 3 prison term to run concurrently A with three other terms he now is serving: for similar offenses. Judge Baltzell delayed sentencing of Theodore Garfield Ridlen, Able’s alleged accomplice, Ridlen, who is 63, was brought intd court on a stretcher.

i Receives 3 Years i Frank Clifford West received three years on his plea of guilty to us- 3 ing the mails to defraud. West ad- = mitted reaping $2000 by answering war-scarcity want ads and selling articles he did not own, obtaining p. the money in advance. An asso- . ciate, Charles Greene, was referred H to probation. : Henry Ellis Mayberry and Wilbur William Smith were sentenced to _ {two years each on white slave charges. Clarence Hamlett received three years for violation of the Mann act. A merchant seaman from Indianapolis, Fred F. Pacella, who said he had been torpedoed three times, Was meted five years for admittedly)

couldn't find the car keys. She had He holds up two cabinet sion of having dropped them in her horrble = examples— they weren't there. Then she realized Secretary of Agriculture Wickard dropped ‘them in the t of o and Secretary of Labor Perkins.

was trying on. She started backtracking an hour later found them in the one of the stores. .

places until Mr. Beane gave the command, in somewhat less strident tones, ‘Dismissed!’ ” lief, but the egotism of it he de- : as the result of people being

long in power.

By Ludwell Denny

Second, he protects and improves his major Danubian supply lines into southeastern Europe. Third, he reduces the danger of a HungarianRumanian war behind his lines—or, if one begins, he can stop it. Fourth, he is in better position to prevent a Rumanian run-out. Fifth, he stiffens his shivering puppets elsewhere. Sixth, he can purge any anti-Nazi leaders who have

been missed by Horthy, speakers, would be able to quote Played Both Ends him at length without bothering to

LIKE THE Badoglio group in Italy, Hungarian |COin any new phrases. rulers have long tried to Ey Ral, While| He tells time after time, here in they went along with the axis, they kept furtive |Wisconsin ‘where isolationism was contacts with the allies in the hope of being let off | SO prevalent, how he fought for lightly in case of axis defeat. lend-lease and he takes credit for They took as much territory from axis conquest as | helping to get the bill through conthey could get and shared in the rape of Jugoslavia, |gress, though 80 per cent of the but contributed to Hitler only as much as he forced. Republican party leadership, he Meanwhile they continued to exploit their own people, |S8¥S, Was against it, who neved liked the Germans and who were less| In telling an audience at Manitoenthusiastic about the war after large losses in Russia. | Woe yesterday that they must “bear Most of the Hungarian democratic leaders are|in mind always that the objective dead, imprisoned or in exile. The democratic under-|0f the party is fo advance social ground is small. So hope of effective Hungarian |relations” he sald: revolt now is slim. But there is a better chance of| “I'm anxious to remove the imorganized sabotage on Nazi transport and com-|pression that the Republican party munications and of some guerrilla warfare linked up|is brutal, cold party that does not with Tito in Jugoslavia. Meanwhile major pressure [recognize social obligations.”

on the Balkans will probably have to come from without—from allied air #hd supply bases in south- GUY SALLEE SEEKS ?

ern Italy, and particularly from the advancing RusGuy D. Sallee, owner of the Sallee

just pathological,” he says. On the other hand, he denounces standpat Republicanism as bitingly as any Democrat ever did, and, if he should get nominated, President Roosevelt, or any of his campaign

sians in the East.

HOUSE IS WARY

OF SUMNER PLEA

Feels Move to Place Jap War First Smacks Of Meddling.

WASHINGTON, March 23 (U.P). —House military affairs committee members, wary of being accused of meddling in war planning, declined comment today on demands by Rep. Jesse Sumner (R. Ill) for immediate action on her proposal to delay the European invasion and speed up the war against Japan. Miss Sumner has two bills before the committee to: 1. Postpone invasion of Europe until President Roosevelt can secure agreements to a declaration that the sovereign rights of oppressed nations will be protected. 2. Unify the Pacific command under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and send him ample equipment “to defeat the Japs within one year.”

Questions Logicality

Committee members hesitated to comment publicly, but one said privately: “It looks as if Miss Sumner is proposing that congress take over military operations.” “That doesn’t sound very logical to me,” he added. In a letter addressed to all members of the military affairs committee, Miss Sumner said that “this is’ the. opportunity for the American congress to initiate a service of historic magnitude.” She declared that American war aims in Europe have been blocked and unexpected developments in Italy “have already made the promised invasion this spring a Quixotism «impossible to prepare adequately.” . Opposite in Pacific

“In the Pacific it is the opposite,”

against the United States.” “I am advised that with a single unified command and amphibious

loted to the“war against the Japaneset—to defeat the Japs within one year.” “Congress, led by your committee, is the only hope in sight. If we walt like windmills to be moved by public opinion, it will certainly be too late, The information is leaking out too slowly. At this timid rate, public opinion will never gather effective strength.”

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she said. “There, delay militates|

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By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, March 23—A jury of seven women and five men, all old enough to remember when Charlie Chaplin was the funniest man ever to stumble across the silent screen, settled down today to hear the story of his adventures with Joan Barry in New York and to decide whether they justified

slaver. The white-haired Chaplin, who earned $8,000,000 entertaining just such people as those who are sitting on the jury, admitted that he took Miss Barry to New York, but contended that he was only the picture producer looking out for the interests of his starlet.

Subpoenas Hotel Owner

He has subpoenaed among others J. Paul Getty, the oil millionaire and hotel proprietor, to testify that Miss Barry spent three weeks in October, 1942, at Getty's Hotel Pierre, while Chaplin remained at the Waldorf-Astoria. Chaplin and his lawyer, Jerry Giesler, insisted that does not look like violation of the Mann act to them. Prosecutor Charles H. Carr prepared a 15-minute opening oration, which he said would “lay the case out in the open.” He said he could present his case in two days of testimony. Giesler sald that it would take at least five days to have the facts for the defense related. The dapper Chaplin was partic-

DETAIL FOR TODAY

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Jury, Old Enough to Recall His Comedy, Pleases Chaplin

stealing seven automobiles while on a cross-country trip from Seattle. "Charge Draft Evasion i Two_Indianapolis youths, Harry Robert Legg and Harry Humphrey, were sentenced to three and four years, respectively, on selective ularly pleased with the jury, con-|service counts. Another man sisting entirely of citizens in their charged with draft evasion, Richard late 50s and early 60s. Clifford Barker, was allowed to enThe women of the jury included) ter the army in lieu of a sentence, two spinsters, the Misses Lcretta; Pleading guilty to the theft and

sending him to prison as a white}

Easley, a piano teacher, and Miss Pearl A. Adams, who said she worked as a part-time book binder. Their sisters in the well-polished jury box consisted of comfortable, motherly-looking housewives,

Engineer's Wife

Among them were Mrs. Beatrice Allan, the stately, gray-haired wife of a construction engineer; Mrs. Vera L. Danius, who varies her duties as a housekeeper by functioning as an air raid warden; Mrs. Lydia M. Hussey, mother of three children, including a 36-year-old daughter; Mrs. Edyth E. Lewis, smartly turned-out wife of a canned goods broker, and Mrs. Hazel M. Gill, wife of a steamfitter and mother of five, The outnumbered men of the jury included Grant Ritchie, a retired farmer who said he was nearly 70; Bernard Davis, weatherworn caretaker at the estate of Movie Producer Jack Moss; Roscoe S. Reeder, dignified advertising executive; Rowan T. Segner, half-bald banker, and Claude Millsap, salesman for a shirt manufacturer.

Tam Deering, director of recreation for the city of Cincinnati, will speak Wednesday noon at a luncheon at the Hotel Lincoln sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Mr. Deering formerly did recreation work in California, organizing the “save the beaches” movement. He organized community service work in Seattle, Wash., and during the first world war worked with the war camp community service in Boston. During the last 11 years in Cincinnati he had aided in creating the Airport Recreation fleld and trebling the city's recreational facilities. Reservations for the luncheon may be made at the league office, 507 Illinois building.

ILKA CHASE'S NIECE "WEDS NAVY OFFICER

New York, niece ‘of Author \

Ilka Chase, and Navy Lt. Craig Smith, San Francisco, were honeymooning today at the Palm Springs

Racquet club.

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 23 (U, P)~Mrs, Mildred Woodward,

forgery of government checks, Israel Willis Jr. and Earl Lee Caldwell were given two years each. After he confessed to thefting a watch and ring from soldiers’ mail passing through the South Illinois st. branch postoffice, Joseph W. Hinton, 426 W. 40th st, was referred to probation. Sol Sattinger, operator of a Madj-

ceded that he had “taken advantage of the Christmas rush, “to sell whisky above the OPA ceiling. He said he sold three cases to an army officer at $47 over the ceiling, and had disposed of two more cases at a price ranging $45 higher than the OPA limit. He was referred to probation officers. Trial for the following Indianapolis men pleading not guilty to draft evasion charges was set for May 3: Kimball, Stanley Lee Beecham, Robert Stephens and Harold Richard Smedley.

EXPLAINS GOSPEL PROMISE IN SERVICE

Two alternate jurors are C. E. “We rush in urgent, wantin, Kells, an accountant, and Mrs. |g mething done about it right proving Margaret Ingram, Hollywood widoW.| when we pray,” the Rev. James M. 3H ———————— Lichliter of Webster Groves, Mo., % told his noonday congregation in © | RECREATION EXPERT | simmey mgie - S “We're looking for a magic that i T0 LECTURE dak will take away our troubles all at Te once,” he said. “If God should in- y terfere through miracle and coerce ]

us-into righteousness, we would be machines, not men. The Gospel promise, as I read it, isn’t that we'll have an easy time of it, but rather that we'll have the strength of God himself to count on when the going is tough.” ! : Noonday services will continue daily, Monday through Friday at Christ church for the remdinder of Lent.

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