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SCRIRES HOWARD VOLUME 55_NUMBER 15

It’s Marine Brown’ S Personal War Now, Japs Killed His Son

By MARSHALL McNEIL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March

29.—This is Earl Brown's

own personal war now, his war of vengeance against Japs

who killed his son.

Earl Brown was there. He and his son together, fellow marines, Shurged the beach at Namur island in the

Kwajalein atoll.

Capt. Willlam Isley

OPEN SESSION BATTLE LOOMS

G. 0. P. Wants It Limited to Vote Bills; Governor Seeks Other Action.

Another conflict over the coming special session of the legislature threatened today following adoption of a resolution by the Indiana Re-

publican committee, recommending that the session be limited to soldiers’ vote legislation only. Governor Schricker, other Demoeratic leaders and municipal groups have been planning to sponsor other war emergency measures described as vitally needed at this time, A conflict also looms between the state administration and the ReX on

See Vote Bill Fight

The state G. O. P. committee has ~ drafted a soldiers’ vote bill which would not authorize the use of federal ballots. Governor Schricker has said he will recommend that provision be made for the use of federal ballots for soldiers overseas in the event a state ballot is not available to them. The Governor also wants to open the special session to proposed measures to place federally-owned war plant property on the tax duplicates. The federal government is willing to pay taxes on the property, but present state laws prohibit such taxation, The Indiana Municipal League has been proposing for many months that special legislation be enacted as soon as possible to enable cities and towns to build up reserve funds from direct taxation for use in post-war emergency reconstruction programs,

Start G..O. P. Platform In addition to the resolution to Himit the legislature to soldiers’ vote matters only, the state G. O. P. committee yesterday began action on {ts 1944 platform issues. The platform advisory committee, appointed several weeks ago, elected George L. Denny, Indianapolis attorney, as chairman, and L. 8. Bowman, G. O, P. research director, as secretary, The drafting of proposed planks for the platfora that wiil be adopted at the riate G. O. P. convention here Jvae 1 and 2 was assigned to each of the 18 members of the platform committee. ‘The subjects include post-war and peace issues, federal taxation, soldiers’ benefits, agriculture, labor, business, social urity, un-Ameri-

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944

out alive, Krowiig for the first time what ‘hate means, _ proud that his boy gave his life for his country, grieved

beyond words.

When his 19-year-old son, Jack, joined up, Earl Brown, of Childress, Tex., decided to go along. He was 44 then, a veteran of the last war, having served in five major battles. But if the boy could go, so could he. In the marines, they soon became separated, but Rep.

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Eugene Worley (D. Tex.) helped get them together in the. same company. The next Rep. Worley heard was when he got a letter from Mrs. Earl Brown, it said:

“Dear Mr. Worley:

“1 suppose you know that my son, Pfc. Jack H. Brown, was killed in action. 1 want to thank you again for what you did for us in helping them to be together. “We are strong believers in what will be, will be. So

Lt. Samuel Blue

Local Pilots Return From $aga Including Mis-

take Attack.

By MILDRED REIMER CAPT. WILLIAM ISLEY and Samuel (Beriny) Blue, Indianapolis transport pilots, are home today after more than 1200 flight hours and a very Narrow escape from American naval gunners over Sicily. The fliers, both members of the 64th troop carrier command, were hauling paratroopers to Gela, Sicily, July 10 when - American naval gunners mistook the trans

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« By NOBLE REED

A CAMPAIGN to make the world a little safer for poker players who gather once a week for a friendly game was launched as of today by John K. Jennings, state director of the war manpower commission -and former state WPA director. “ The reason he feels so strongly about his poker playing privileges is that he was arrested last night while entertaining six of his usual guests at their weekly session in the Claypool hotel. He was charged by Police Chief Clifford Beeker's raiders with “keeping a gambling house” and his six guests were charged with “yisiting a gaming house.” ‘His arrested guests were Thom-

can activities ang home rule.

SCHOOLS GIVEN

STRKE THREAT

300 Janitors and Matrons|

Plan Walkout April 10

In Union Row.

Some 300 janitors and matrons of Indianapolis schools are scheduled to “walk off” their jobs Monday, April 10, in protest against the school board’s refusal to recognize their union as a bargaining agent. ‘This was announced today by Edward Dailey, representative for Indiana of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, of which the Indianapolis custodial force composes local 154. The union members voted unanimously to call the strike after the

school board refused to enter an ago

agreement or contract with the union at the béard meeting last night. Bert Newcomb is president of the local union whose membership in-

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CITY GIVEN STAY AS NO. 2 LABOR AREA

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 29.—Indianapolis will remain a No. 2 critical manpower area on the April 1 listing by the war manpower commission, it was learned today. But unless there is marked improvement during the month. of April, the whole Indianapolis industrial area will again be placed In the No. 1 classification, which bars further war contracts. For WMC now calls the city a “border line case,” which could as well have been shifted to No. 1 now as being kept in No. 2.

Army Backs Plan to Draft

4-F's, Others

WASHINGTON, March 29 (U.P). ~—Undersecretary of ‘War Robert P. Patterson today put the army's support behind proposals to draft 4-F's and other men for essential war work. Testifying befors a house military affairs subcommittee, Patterson said he was “firmly convinced” that the manpower problem is of a “critical character” and that the time has come for each to do his share.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

for War Work

~ He recommended that congress pass either the Austin-Wadsworth national service act, amended to include only registrants from 18 to 37, or the limited service proposal of Rep. Claire Boothe Luce (R. Conn.). The Luce bill provides for a “labor force” of 50,000 to+200,000

essential activity would be given |

Tomorrow's Job— Building ‘Dream Car’ to Require Long Evolution

By EDWARD A. EVANS Scripps-Howard Stall Writer DETROIT, March 29.—America's post-war automobiles will be products of evolution rather than revolution. That's the practically unanimous opinion of the industry's engineers —the men responsible for seeing that cars actually get built—as contrasted with what they call the “dreams” of some designers. Again and again, in recent months, officials of the big companies here have told the public that the first cars made after the war will be in all important respects very like the 1942 models that were being made when production stopped more than two years

For that there's a compelling practical reason. The industry must start up again by building what it

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Y. M. C. A. ENGINEER GIVEN LIFE TERM

Of Minister’s Son.

ELKHART, Ind, March 29 (U. P.).—Cleo Fred Davis, 35, building engineer at the Elkhart Y. M. C. A, today pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the death off Harlan Elliott and was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge William Wider. . Davis had confessed that he had pushed the 16-year-old son of a Free Methodist minister under the waters of the “Y” swimming pool March 19, Judge Wider accepted the plea of unpremeditated murder and immediately passed sentence. Davis was indicted yesterday by an Elkhart Superiae court grand jurye

Hoe Heroes——

LOCAL FLIGHT CADET KILLED IN TRAINING

Lt. Thompson Missing in Action Over Reich.

and a local bombardier-

Pleads Guilty in Drowning!

AN INDIANAPOLIS aviation ca(det was killed yesterday in flight

training navigator is missing in action over Germany.

KILLED Aviation Cadet Glenn E. Smith

Jennings, Who'd Like to Be Poker Players’ Patron Saint, Protests That Police Raid on His 'Inviolate’ Room at Hotel

as Hutson, 401 N. Illinois st., state labor commissioner; Carl Mullen

"of Hammond, president of the

state federation of labor; ‘Abraham Rader, 37 W. St. Clair st;

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JUDGE SCORES BINGO 0 RAIDERS

Police Entry ary. Into Home Without Warrant Termed lilegal.

Declaring that a police raid last night on a women’s bingo game in a private home was illegal, Judge John L. McNelis of Municipal court 3, threw the case out of his court today and gave police a scorching lecture. Mrs. Leona Coonce, 30, of 1830 Sharon ave. testified that police barged into her home where she was entertaining women guests at bingo and arrested her without a

ing a gaming house and operating a lottery enterprise. Addressing police officers, Judge McNelis said: “Go Tell Tyndall” “you should ‘nbt have made this arrest. It was not gambling and a private home was entered illegally by police officers without a search warrant and you can go and tell Mayor Tyndall and the whole world that this court won't recognize that kind of police work.” Mrs. Coonce said she was entertaining friends at a party and that “things are getting pretty bad when people can't entertain their friends in their own home without police barging into your home.” - Judge McNelis said he felt the same way about it. : “People are entitled to some recreation in these days of war strain and police have no legal right to break into homes that way,” said the judge as he threw the affidavit against Mrs, Coonce to deputy prosecutors, instructing them-to dismiss the case.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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special investigator in the office of former Governor M. Clifford Townsend, and Carl Clarence Reeves, 2020 High School rd., of the C.1. O. “If our little game is a crime against society, then we had bet ter take another look at what

we're fighting the war for,” said Mr. Jennings. “Every sport needs a patron | saint and I-want to be the patron saint for poker playing,’ ‘he said. . "The manpower chief said the raid on his apartment was illegal. “That's my home and has been for seven years and under the constitution it is my castle, inviolate,” he said. “We had no warning that anyone was at the door wanting in . . . the first thing we heard was the crashing blow of a 20-pound sledge hammer on the door which was smashed open. The officers came in so fast and scooped up the cards and money that we

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search warrant on a charge of keep-|

C. 1. O. Leaders Accused by Dies

As Communists

‘WASHINGTON, March 20 (U.. P.).~The Dies committee investigating un-American activities charged today that the C. I O. political action committee represents a “subversive communist campaign to subvert the congress of the United States to its totalltarian program.” Ina 215-page special report, the Dies group also charged that: 1. Sidney Hillman, chairman of the committee, rather than Earl Browder, is now “in effect” leader of Communists in this country since the “political views and philosophy of the communist party and of the C. I. O. political action committee coincide in every detail.” - 8 : J » 2. Eighteen members of the 49man C. I. O. executive board, who are also leaders of the political action committee, are Communists, and 21 affiliated C. I. O. unions have “strongly entrenched” communist leadership Another 115 C. I. O. leaders have been affiliated with Communist front organizations. 3. The significance of the decision of the Communist party in the United States to dissolve as such is that “during the 1944 elections Communists will throw their entire weight into the C. L O. ‘political action vi aol - #

The special pon, signed by |

Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) and other members of his committee; denounced as “tyrannical taxation” the assessments levied by the political action committee on the C. I. O. membership to amass $2,000,000 for expenditure in the 1944 elections. The Dies report said its finding that a “majority” of the unions affiliated with the C. I. O. had a “Communist leadership” justified a remark by John L. Lewis, whose United Mine Workers union was once affiliated with the C. L O,

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DALLAS, Tex, March 29 (U. P.).~Four-year-old Billy Meers, to whom the nation sent blood plasma when his mother pleated

was afflicted BN proved too much § for even a nation’ of child

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Billy Meers Dead Despite Aid of Sympathetic Nation

physicians said Billy would die because public interest in the brown-eyed boy had died. But the

FORTS OBLIGE SUICIDE SQUADS

Small Force of U. S. Bombers Thrusts Deep Into

Germany.

LONDON, March 20 (U. P), — American Flying Fortresses, some 250 strong, struck at a vital Nazi target in central Germany - today and tangled in a wild melee with suicide squadrons of enemy fighters that attempted to ambush them deep inside the Reich. The Fortress fleet was one of the smallest formations of United States heavy bombers sent over Germany in months, Its size prompted speculation that Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz was flaunting a lure to draw the German air force into combat. While the Forts hit Germany in the first daylight attack since Priday, Liberators of the 8th air force in comparable or lesser strength

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BRITISH FALL BACK 15 MILES IN INDIA

Report Jap Forces Swarm

Out of Somra Hills.

NEW_DELHI, March 29 (U. P).— British imperial troops were reported falling back 15 miles inside the Indian frontier today under heavy attack by Japanese invasion forces swarming down through the Somra hills toward the Manipur state capital of Imphal. It was indicated that the British were battling to prevent a Japanese break h gato the crude highway lead from Ukhrul to Im-

the southwest. The main impetus of the four-

appeared to be centered for the mo-

umns still were on the march farther north, apparently striking toward Kohima and the upper end of the Manipur valley road. Heavy air fighting also was reported” over northern and central Burma, where the allied air forces scored 10-to-one victory Monday and Tuesday, shooting &own 30 Japanese bombers and fighters to run their score for March to 130 enemy planes.

TUCKER PECTED TO ANNOUNCE TODAY

Ready to Open Campaign For Senatorial Nomination.

phal, little more than 30 miles to

pronged. Japanese invasion of India

ment on the Ukhrul sector, but the allied communique said enemy cole

FINAL

"PRICE FOUR CENTS

1 think it was his time to die home just the same. that.

“1 am so grateful his father was near when he died.

If you have time, would you tell the marine corps officers who helped us that 1 thank them for being nice and genI do appreciate all the nice things

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erous to my marines.

QUIT WAR, RUMANIA AND BULGARIA TOLD; CHURCHILL THREATENS T0 RESIGN POST

Angry Leader Asks Confidence Vote

In Commons.

LONDON, March 29 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Churchill threatened today to resign with his government unless a rebellious commons reverses its stand on a minor domestic issue—the favoring of equal pay for men and women teachers. Contending that there should be no question of commons’ support of the government “at this very serious time in the progress of the war,” Churchill said the issue would be made the subject of a vote of confidence and demanded an “adequate majority” if his administration were to be retained. Churchill appeared in one of his dourest moods as he read his threat to the house at the end of the

question hour. He said it would be impossible for the government to accept the 117-to-116 vote by which the house yesterday overrode government objections and amended the education bil] to provide equal pay for teachers, regardless of sex.

Debate Resumed

Debate would be resumed at the next sitting of commons, Churchill said, and any refusal to delete the offending amendment and adopt the government version of the bill would entail his and his ministers’ resignations. After suspension of the session, members split up to discuss the situation, one of the most dramatic in British politics since Churchill took over the prime ministership. A series of frantic meetings among those who led the fight for adoption of the amendment was anticipated before the next session, and informed political observers believed Churchill's personal prestige and the house's unwillingness to take the responsibility for overthrowing the government on such an issue would enable the prime

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German Troops Seal Victory in Area of Cassino

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press War Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 29 (U. P.).—German troops have sealed their “defensive victory” in the Cassino area by regaining control of the upper slopes of Mount Cassino, it was disclosed toddy, as the allied air force announced that its “bombers have cut all railroad communications between the Nazi armies in southern Italy and their northern supply centers. 8 8 8

Air force headquarters asserted flatly that bridge-busting Marauders, Mitchells, Invaders and Bostons have smashed bottleneck

leading down from northern Italy to the embattled Germans on the Anzio beachhead, at Cassino and on the Adriatic front. There was no immediate explanation as to how that disclosure

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By JAMES E. ROPER United Press War Correspondent OUTSIDE CASSINO, March

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mania and Bulgaria today

sweeping toward Odessa and old

points on every railroad line |

and he would have died at

River for Lunge Over Border.

MOSCOW, March 29 (U. P.).—Russia warned Ru-

that they must break with the axis or become a battleground for the Red armies

Czechoslovakia while massing along the Prut for a full scale drive across the border into the Balkans. The fall of Nikolaev collapsed the eastern rim of the German salient in the South Ukraine, and victorious

LONDON, March 29 (U.P) Soviet troops have captured the mountain town of Kolomyja, east-

in an order of the day today.

Soviet mobile forces were speeding westward toward Odessa, biggest Russian port on the Black sea. Moscow awaited an official ane nouncement that ofher Russian forces had crossed the Prut river, the border of Rumania, for the first Soviet penetration of enemy territory from which the axis ate tacked on June 22, 1941. The possible imminence of a bor der crossing was emphasized by the government organ Izvestia, which said the time was at hand for Bulgana and Rumania to decide now whether to join the allies or share the fate of Germany. Meanwhile, interest here in an expected announcement of a Prut crossing was fanned to fever pitch. (The emphasis put by Moscow on the immediacy of expectations of an “official announcement” of a Prut crossing suggested the possibility that it already had been made, as reported by Berlin.) With one-fourth of Besserabia in Russian hands, together with almost one-third of the Prut's east bank, Soviet armies unquestionably

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GAS DEALER GIVEN: 30-DAY SUSPENSION

Took Unindorsed Coupons, Ration Board Says.

_By SHERLEY UHL For the first time, OPA today penalized a local filling station operator on-charges of accepting unindorsed gas coupons. OPA also penalized an auto sales company proprietor for admittedly driving to Florida on “loose” ration stamps and others issued for demonstration purposes. N. L. Sloan, operator of & Gulf service station, at 38th st. and Capi tol ave. was given a 30-day suspension penalty after OPA Heare ing Commissioner Frederic Glover found him guilty of accepting 473 gallons worth of unindorsed cous

John H. Williams, 1302 N. Meridian st. had the right of purchasing consumer gasoline taken away from him until Dec. 31, after that he had driven a encoding. registered under the ownership of

Hungry, Undaunted Gurkhas + Come Down Off Mt. Cassino

(Delayed).—The Gurkhas came down off Hangmans hill tonight, thirsty and half-starved but still full of the fighting spirit of India's

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