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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 13

: ing apart a crevice in the Nazi-held Dalmatian wall of the Festung Europa is now under way, with American officers leading groups of Jugoslav patriots in a kind of island-to-island warfare in the Adriatic sea. * Not much that can positively be authenticated is yet ows about this overture to what may be eventually—if

What is known is this:

are working the crowbar from the Italian side of the Adri- -

the allied crowbar fds’ a hole—a new Balkan campaign.

MONDAY, MARCH

The Americans and British

atic, and the Croat partisans under Marshal Tito are wedging it on the Balkan side. At the same time the Germans, who have just opened up- their own aerial offensive on allied positions in the Adriatic, are fortifying the Jugoslav towns of thé Dalma-

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tian coast which they hold.

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They are ds carrying on a

brisk. supply line running southeastward down through

of the Adriatic.

the coastwise channels of islands that dot the eastern side

The German sea lane runs aninterrupted—except for allied daylight bomber attacks—from Italian Trieste along the Jugoslav, Albanian and Greek coasts.

~The crowbar campaign is essentially unorganized.

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The Slavs, under their Miction and British leaders, are carrying on a kind of harassing guerrilla war against - Nazi garrisons in the islands. : The Germans concede that the allies already possess one base among the Dalmatian islands: That is, Vis (called Vis which Nazi broadcasts claim is now occupied by U. S. rangers and British commandos,

RENT CONTROL ACT UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURT

Decision in Georgia Test of Constitutionality Is Reversed.

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P.).~The supreme court today upheld constitutionality of the administration’s rent

control program, based on the wartime stabilization act

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Swap Cha rges In Radio Feud

Dies Calls Columnist a 'Dupe’ but He "Sticks By Guns.’

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P).~Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex), got his opportunity last night to speak to the radio audience of one of his severest critics—Walter Winchell—and promptly used it to denounce the columnist-commentator as a peddler of “bedroom keyhole scandal” and the mouthpiece of a “smear bund” out to destroy congress, Dies, chairman of the special House committee investigating unAmerican activities, spoke over the Blue network immediately after Winchell’s regularly scheduled pro-

able by the network and Winchell's sponsor to enable Dies to answer what he called “false statements many times repeated on this program.” Promises Probe Winchell, whose radio scripts have been ordered investigated by Dies’ committee, said that he not only would refuse to retract his previous statements but “I reiterate every one of them." He also read a newspaperman'’s “declaration of independence” in which he said he would continue to exercise the right to criticize a public official. Dies opened up with a blistering attack on Winchell, calling him the “Charlie: McCarthy of a smear bund” out to discredit and destroy congress to make way for an “allpowerful central executive.” He said his committee would uncover “a highly organized and well

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OPA WILL REMOVE EXPIRATION DATES

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By Token System.

The OPA was rejuggling its food rationing system today and let it be known that its newest idea is to remove the expiration dates on food stamps for the duration.

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Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Side Glances. 10 Sports

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CHEMICAL WAR: SHOW TONIGHT

To Highlight Exhibit Of Planes Here.

PROGRAM 2:00 p. m.—Air exhibit opens at world war memorial plaza, Band concert by Stout field band.

7:30 p. m.—Concert by Billings general hospital band. 8:30 p. m.—~Chemical warfare demonstration by the army alr forces materiel command eof Wright field, Dayton, O.

10:00 p. m.—Exhibit closes. Will reopen at 2 p. m. tomorrow and close at 10 Pp. m.

Indianapolis’ aviation enthusiasts continued to jam the three circussized tents at the world war memorial plaza today to view the world’s largest display of aviation equipment. It is estimated that more than 130,000 already have seen the exhibit and today’s will run from 2 to 10 p. m,, highlighted by a chemical warfare demonstration at 8:30 p. m, Spectators will get a closeup view of the work of incendiary bombs, smoke grenades, smoke tanks, bomb

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VESUVIUS ERUPTION IS BELIEVED OVER

NAPLES, March 27 (U. P.).—The eruption of Vesuvius appeared to be dying down today. No lava of any volume has flowed from the volcano in the last 60 hours and the spray of cinders and boulders ceased Saturday night.

TOMORROW'S JOB—

By EDWARD A. EVANS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer DETROIT, March 27. Ford's home town

Demonstration at 8:30 p.m.

Follow Heavy RAF Raid; Have Fighter Escort.

By PHIL AULT United Press War Correspondent

LONDON, March 27.—Between 500 and 750 American heavy bombers plastered German airdromes in southwest and central France by daylight today after the R. A: F. night raiders crashed 2800 tons of explosives on the great Krupp armament works at Essen. Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz shifted

his campaign against the German air force to its bases in lower

J Prance in the 21st major attack this

month by the four-motored bombers of the Bth air force. “Strong” formations of United

‘| States bombers were escorted by a

“very strong force” ‘of Lightning, Thunderbolt and Mustang fighters of the 8th and 9th air forces. Reachest “Lowest Rung” Commentators said the offensive to knock the Luftwaffe out of the skies over Europe preparatory to the allied invasion now had reached the lowest rung of the Nazi aerial organization—the air flelds themselves, British night bombers smashed in force at Essen for the first time in eight months after the Germans were reported to have repaired about one-fifth of the Krupp works to re-establish “quite a substantial volume of production.” “A great weight of high explosives and - incendiary bombs was dropped, but clouds made it impossible to observe full results of the attack,” the air ministry announced in a communique. Other four-engined bombers in the “very great” force which the air ministry said attacked Germany raided Hanover, war production center and communications

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COURT TRANSFERS IRWIN ESTATE SUIT

Woman Plaintiff Wins Plea For Change of Venue.

Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind, March 27— The suit of Mrs. Zula Schuder of Indianapolis against the estate of the late William G. Irwin on the contention that she was his com-mon-law wife was moved to Jennings circuit court today. The change of venue motion was granted by Judge George W. Long in the Bartholomew circuit court today. Mrs. Schuder, who has filed a $2,000,000 claim against the estate of the wealthy Columbus industrial-

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Million Post-War Jobs Seen Hinged on Conversion Speed

500 to 750 U. S. Heavies

Willkies Have

(Thomas L. Stokes story, ‘Page 3).

Get- Together

Acme Telephoto.

Lt. (ig) Philip Willkie (center), son of Wendell L. Willkie (left), G. O. P. presidential aspirant, made a flying one-day trip fo Milwaukee, Wis, to visit ‘his parenis before returning fo duty in the Mediterranean. he Sits JWikic has been eampaituing in Wisconsin,

ALLIED HOUR

APPROACHES

‘False Alarms’ Will

Precede Action.

LONDON, March 27 (U. P)e Prime Minister Churchill told the world by radio last night that the hour of the allies’ “greatest effort and action” was approaching, but warned that it would be preceded by “many false alarms, many feints and many dress rehearsals” to deceive the enemy. “Magnificent armies of the United States are here, or are pouring in” Churchill said in his brief reference to the forthcoming invasion of western Europe. “Our own troeps, the best trained and best equipped we have ever had, stand at their side In equal numbers. and. in true comradeship, “Leaders -are appointed in whom we all have faith. We shall require from our own people here, from parliament, from the press, from all classes, the same cool sirong nerves, the same toughness of fiber, which stood us in good stead in those days when we were all alone under the German blitz.”

Britain ‘Can Take It’

Churchill cautioned that Britein also might find itself the object of “new forms of attack from the enemy,” but added that Britain “can take it” “She has never flinched or failed, and when the signal is given, the whole circle of avenging nations will hurl themselves upon the foe, and

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COUNTY TRANSFERS FUNDS, STARTS ROW

Jose Balks at Sending School Money to State.

Adoption by the county council today of a resolution turning over to_thae state treasury about $300,000 cash balance in the county school

Japs Gain New Ground in India

NEW DELHI, March 27 (U.P). —Heavy fighting flared along a 120-mile front on the Indo-Bur-mese border today and an allied

communique acknowledged that Japanese forces were gaining ground in a drive across the wild Somra hills toward Kohima and the main Assam-Bengal railway. A communique from Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten’s southeast Asia headquarters revealed that the northernmost of the fivé major Japanese invading columns was sweeping north and west through the Somra hills in an obvious attempt to cut the AssamBengal line and sever communications between allied forces inside Burma and their Indian bases. There was no indication that the British had yet engaged this column in any strength, and the communique said the enemy “continue to move in the general direction of Kohima.” Advanced elements of the enemy force were believed within less than 100 miles of Kohima

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DENY GOV. DEWEY’S CENSORSHIP CHARGE

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York was “100 per cent wrong in the accuracy of his statement” that the state department had requested the British censors to suppress political news sent to the United States.

ADMIT CASSINO IS BLOODY FAILURE’; ~ 2800 TONS RIP ESSEN; RUSS Al PRUT

Torrents of ly Thrown Into Rymania.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent’

MOSCOW, March 27.— Soviet guns massed along the Prut river border poured a torrent of steel and explosives into Rumania today, paving the way for a Russ army thrust into the heart of Adolf Hitler's jittery Balkan satellite, as Premier Joseph Stalin revealed the capture of Kamenets-Podolki, last

|German-held stronghold north of

the former Rumanian border, (The British broadcasting corporation reported that Russian advance elements had crossed the

‘I Prut into Rumania. The broadcast

was in the Spanish language and was not confirmed immediately.) “The Germans won't get a breathing spell,” the Communist organ Pravda said in confirming that Marshall Ivan S. Konev's 2d Ukrainian forces contemplated no more than a momentary pause, si Crossing Should Be Easy -Konews- infantry and tanks broke through to the Prut on a 53-mile front west of the Bessarabian railway junction of Balti yesterday, hurling the Germans back across a Soviet border for the first time since the start of the Russian-Ger-man war June 22, 1941. Though the Germans have been reported hastily fortifying the west bank of the river, the Prut nowhere is more than 100 yards wide and should offer little difficulty to an army that crossed both the Bug and Dniester rivers within five days earlier this month. Reinforcements streamed across the Dniester to the northeast despite massed attacks by formations of 30 to 40 German bombers. Soviet fighters on contstant patrol over the river crossings intercepted

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Hoosier Heroes—

ELWOOD NEWTON

Local Fortress Gunner Was On Flight Over Reich.

8. SGT. ELWOOD NEWTON, Indianapolis tail gunner on a Flying Fortress, has been missing in action since Feb. 25, when he failed to return from a flight over Germany. The 23-year-old gunner is the son of Mrs. Clara Newton, 1321 W. 23d st. Before his last flight, Sgt. Newton was transferred to Italy.’ He had been stationed near.d.opdon since July 18, 1943, and had received the

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WASHINGTON, March 27 (U. P.). —The supreme court ruled today that the federal wage-hour law re-

Jquires payment of compensation for “portal-to-portal’ travel time-to uns,

derground iron ore miners. The opinion / delivered by Justice Frank M y in the case of three Alabama mining companies —Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron

High Court RulesIron Miners To Get Portal-to-Portal Pay

likely to have any immediate effect on that situation, however, since the United Mine Workers and major coal companies have agreed on a contract which embraces a settlement for travel time. This contract is pending before the war labor board for approval. Appealing from adverse rulings in the Alabama federal district court and the fifth circuit court of appeals at New Orleans, the iron com-

membered” have been negotiated on the basis of payment from the time

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Stars and Stripes Reveals Allied Loss in Italy.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 27 (U. P.).—The allied attack on Cassino has ended in bloody failure after 12 days of bitter hand-to-hand fighting, the U. S. army newspaper Stars and Stripes conceded today, while observers indicated that the Germans had regained the initiative inside - the ruined mountain stronghold. The German hold on Cassino and the surrounding hills is almost as strong today as it was before allied bombing planes and artillery leveled

publication declared.

“Despite the most determined and valorous fighting on the part of the allied infantrymen and tank crews, the Germans have been able to hold on and today their grip on this key fortress of the Gustav line is nearly as strong as ‘ever,” the Stars ‘and Stripes said. "Unable to Gain "For ‘five ays fiow New B ; troops in Cassino and other allied units engaged in a desperate struggle for the slopes below the Benedictine abbey have beeh unable to make any significant gains. “The Germans, on the other hand, not only have reinforced their units but have been able to infiltrate the allied lines and improve their positions. ; The Canadian infantrymen’s newspaper, Maple Leaf, echoed the U. 8. army publication's frank report. “The” allied bid to take Cassino and Monastery hill, the key to the door opening on Rome, can only be termed a failure,” an editorial in that semi-official organ said,

‘No Time to Kid Selves’

“The allies haven't been in the habit of kidding themselves and this is no time to start.” Both newspapers, however, insisted that the defeat can by no means be considered final and indi cated that another all-out offensive to smash the German front in central Italy would be made. The Stars and Stripes paid trib ute to the determined stand made y the Germans even after the town had been beaten flat by the furious allied bombing and shelling. “The hardy, fanatical Nazi paratroopers who garrisoned Cassino came up full of fight when the New Zealanders burst into the town,” it said. “With the tremendous ade vantage of Monastery hill’s batteries on their side, these crack German soldiers were able to halt the allies at the eleventh hour, when victory was almost within our grasp.’. . .

Start Artillery Duel

“The Germans clung to a line of very strong defenses in big wrecked buildings on the southwest edge of the town and made them impreg= nable.” Meariwhile, official reports said ground fighting in the streets of the devastated town had slackened and the battle had shifted to a crashing exchange of artillery fire,

STUDY NON COMBAT JOBS FOR 4 4-F MEN

Those Over 38 J 38 ‘Also Seen As Work Prospects. :

WASHINGTON, March 27 (U, Pl —Col. Prantis V. Keesling of selec tive service revealed today that the army®and navy have discussed a plan for inducting 4-F's and. men over 38 for work in military hos« pitals, the harvesting of seasonal