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Candidates Lack Indorsement of County Regular Organization.

As last-minute candidates rushed to the filing 20oths before the deadline at midnizht tonight, the Marion county Republican organization was still undecided about a candidate for the 11th district congressional race. Up to noon today six candidates had filed for the G. O. P. congress nomination, but none of them was regarded as organization choice. They were Charles A. Huff, real estate man and chairman of the anti-organization G. O. P. victory committee; John E. King, former city councilman; Capt. Ralph Updike, former congressman and now In active service with the marines; J. C. Cartright, 53 Edmundson ave.; Lt. Edward Lewis, 2219 N. Delaware st, and T. Ernest Maholm, criminal lawyer. . Mrs. Fern Norris, 11th district chairwoman and secretary to the oounty commissioners, who had been mentioned for many months as a possible congressional candidate, said today she will not file

Board's Choice

Arthur E. Wooden . , . . new county wélfare director,

MUSIC TRIBUTE TO HOLY WEEK

Verdi's Dramatic ‘Requiem’ Will Be Presented By Symphony.

For the second time during this year's concert season, Indianapolis will offer a musical tribute to a religious occasion. The first was at Christmastime when the Indianapolis Symhony orchestra and a combined voice choir presented Handel's Messiah.

The latest to file were: Patrick J. Delaney, 2712 N. Illinois st.; Chalmer Schlosser, 2440 Park ave.

Republican, Piling for Sas seuaigf from

Marion county were Sexton, 3707 N. Meridian st, x crat; Arthur J. Sullivan, 4418 College ave, Democrat and Irvin P. Norris, 5122 Winthrop ave, Republican. Candidates whose filings are in the mail before midnight tonight will be accepted at the secretary of state's office Monday.

OIL TRUCK, GARAGE DAMAGED BY FIRE

Fire believed to have been started by a short circuit in a truck, broke out in the garage of the Shell Oil Co. plant at 2219 W. Michigan st, early today causing Sousiderable damage. One large ofl truck, costing about $10,000, was badly damaged and the flames burned up through the roof of the garage. Four large truck tires were exploded by the heat. Fire destroyed the roof of a frame house owned by Ed Fitzgerald at 260 Parkview ave. last night. pr —————————

TEACHERS MEET HERE FOR PANEL SESSIONS

Approximately 200 representatives of the Indiana State Federation of Public School Teachers met today at the Lincoln hotel to conduct panel sessions and honor past presidents. and pioneer members. Miss Sara Ewing of Technical high school conducted a panel on the, history of the federation, .and Miss Virginia Kinnaird, Ft. Wayne, spoke of the federation's future. Presiding was Mrs. Gertrude MecComb, Terre Haute. Mrs. Gail H. Haen, president of the Indianapolis federation, headed the local delegation of 30 teachers. The past officers. were hanored at a luncheon.

WOMEN CHARGE ENSLAVEMENT’

Allege They Were Held 7 Years in Servitude

‘By ‘Teacher.’

TULSA, Okla., April 1 (U. P).— Mrs. Fay H. Smith, accused by two young women of holding them in virtual servitude for seven years under “starvation conditions” in the belief that they were performing a “religious duty,” was held in the county jail today while Prosecutor Dixie Gilmer investi gated the charges. The two women, Wiletta Horner, 20, and Virginia Evans, 31, signed statements accusing the middleaged Mrs. Smith, known also as Mrs. Richard B. Fontaine, of tak-

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FINAL CHAPLIN CASE ARGUMENTS MONDAY

HOLLYWOOD, April 1 (U. P).— Joan Barry, who accused Charlie Chaplin of twice violating the Mann act by transporting her to New York City and back in 1942, and the British comedian took time out from federal court today while their attorneys prepared their final arguments for presentation to the jury Monday. . Both sides rested yesterday and the case will go to the jury Tuesday after Federal Judge J. F. T. O'Connor has delivered legal instructions to the seven women and five men.

Bricker to Open Campaign: For State Support Thursday

Governor Bricker of Ohio will make his first Indiana political -address in his campaign to win the G. O. ‘P. presidential nomination

state of Presidential Candidate endell Willkie. He has made two TIMES FEATURES speeches here recently, one before : the Scottish Rite and the other beON INSIDE PAGES fore the state bar association, but " : : they were non-political. Amusements . 10| Obituaries... 8] ie Wil Ho Introd weed by-Attr| Eddie Ash ... Ernie Pyle ... 17 Preceding the address, Governor Churches ans Race Entries. . 8/ Bricker and his party will be guests Ration Dates g|8% a reception be given at the Mrs. Rousevelt 7 } ith) 6 Sports .... .. 8

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WELFARE HEAD

Madison Man Chosen Over 12 Higher on Merit List;

Dispute Seen.

By NOBLE REED After a delay of more than a year, the Marion county welfare board today appointed as permanent welfare director Arthur E. Wooden of Madison, Ind, Jefferson county welfare director, who was 13th on a list of 14 merit system eligibles for the post. Elimination of the first 12 merit eligibles, 10 of whom were Indianapolis resident, brought a statement from Dudley Smith, state personnel director, that the appointment of Mr. Wooden was not according to law. “In the first place, the list of 14 eligibles had not been formally certified and the board in appointing Mr. Wooden, who was next to last on the list, failed to follow the formalities provided by the state personnel selection law,” Mr. Smith said. Sees Procedure Violated

“1 don't see how the Marion county board can put Mr. Wooden on the payroll unless his appointment conforms with the law in all respects.” — Mr; Smith said that before the board can appoint an applicant lower on the list than the first three, it must first give “acceptable for the elimination of those of the list.” the welfare board had

‘he and other members into all the lega] phases appointment and found

Fred Hoke, president of the state welfare board, declined to make any comment on the appointment, explaining that all appointments made under the merit system was under Mr. Smith's department. Thus, the county welfare department appeared to be heading for another stormy era after its eight years of conflicts. Miss Helen Guynn, who was 10th

director of the department since Jan. 1, 1943, when Thomas E. Neal resigned as director after six years of conflict over policies with the local board. The 1943 legislature revamped the board setup, transferring from Judge Earl Cox of circuit court, a Democrat, to Judge Mark W. Rhoads, of juvenile court, a Republican, the power to appoint board members. Judge Rhoads appointed the present board in March, 1943, and a list of eligibles for the directorship was submitted to the new board soon after it took office. A few weeks later, the board rejected the whole list, explaining that

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ATTERBURY TO HAVE GENERAL HOSPITAL

Col. Conrier Gets Command

~.. Under New Program.

The 106th infantry division under the command of Maj. Gen. Allen W. Jones has arrived at Camp Atterbury from Ft. Jackson, S.C, for further training,

The war department today announced that the station hospital at Camp Atterbury with a capacity

into a general hospital immediately to care for war casualties. Commander hospital, which will be similar to Billings General hospital at Ft. Harrison, will be Col. Haskett IL. Conner, native of New Albany. He was transferred from the cx of the station hospital at Pt. Bliss, Tex. The hospital formerly was used’ exclusively for soldiers on the reservation. The name has not been chosen. Col. Conner, who was stationed in Hawaii for several years, had been at Ft. Bliss ‘since 1940. Col. and Mrs. Conner have a son, Maj. Hasken L. Conner Jr., who is over-

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WOMAN DEFIES U. 5, LAWMAKER

Miss Kellems ems CliaNeripes Rep. Coffee to ‘Come Out in Open.’

TORONTO, Ontario, April 1 (U, P.).—Vivian Kellems, Connecticut

manufacturer, today challenged Rep. John M. Coffee (D. Wash), who she called “little woodenheaded Charley McCarthy Coffee,” to “come off the floor of the house” and repeat his charges yesterday that she conspired with a Nazi agent. “Make those statements outside where I can hale you into court” said in a sta t

: Miss Kellems Hoke Declines Comment A othe... King. Edward

hotel. “Before the New Deal destroyed the last vestige of decency and ethics,” Miss Kellems said, “any man who would do what you have done would be publicly horsewhipped. I regret that I am not a man so that I could take on the Job.” Miss Kellems said that after she returned from South America in the spring of 1941 “I made a complete report to the FBI and again late in 1943. I gave the FBI additional valuable information regarding Count (Frederick Carl von)

| Zedlitz and I also submitted to the

state department a comprehensive report on his activities before the war and up to the present time.”

Reads Parts of Letters

Coffee yesterday read on the floor of the house excerpts from letters he said were written by Miss Kellems and allegedly addressed to the count, who was reported .by Coffee to be in Buenos Aires. Some of the letters, according to Coffee, contained terms of endearment. Miss Kellems referred Coffee and Drew Pearson, newspaper and radio columnist, to the FBI and the state department for the information contained in her reports. “Since these brilliant detectives, Pearson and Coffee, have access to

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‘WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers:

at results of air. warfare.

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some congressmen believe—and Since our navy didn’t find .the

TO NEUTRALIZE CAROLINE AREA

U. S. Bombers Strike Eight Times in 36 Hours; Palau Remains Silent.

By UNITED PRESS A full-scale offensive to neutralize Truk and other Japanese strongholds along a 1400-mile front in the Carolines was believed under way today by American air forces from the Central and Southwest Pacific, which completed at least eight attacks in 36 hours on the enemy bases. Two additional raids on Truk and new attacks on Woleai, Eauripik and Ponape islands were disclosed in communiques from Pacific {eet headquarters at Pear] Harbor and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Australia. The Japanese said 20 American bombers made three “ineffective raids” on Truk Wednesday and 30 bombers attacked in two raids Thursday. Damage was described as negligible by the Japanese who claimed they shot down three Liberators and damaged seven Others in the two-day period.

Silence at Palau

The heavy U. S. naval force of battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers which began an assault on Palau islands, 1055 miles west of Truk and 460 miles east of the Philippines, at dawn Wednesgay, still “was silent and the vesult of the attacks may not be known for several days.

four isolated enemy positions in the eastern Marshalls yesterday, while heavy bombers from the southwest made their 56th attack on Rabaul, New Britain. Allied ground forces also were active. Dismounted troops of the American first cavalry division made a four-mile invasion hop from Manus island to. occupy Pityilu island and strengthen their hold on the Admiralties, 610 miles south of Truk. On New Guinea, Australian troops reached Mabelubu, 10 miles south of Bogadjim, while American forces crossed Kamara river to reach Gaube river, 14 miles east of Bogadjim. On Bougainville in the northern Solomons, U. 8. forces cleared the enemy from Hill 26Q Tuesday, near the Empress Augusta bay beachhead, and some 200 additional

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EZRA STONE IS FATHER

HOLLYWOOD, April 1 (U. P.).— Sgt. Ezra Stone, the Henry Aldrich of the radio, became the father of a seven-pound, 12-ounce_boy yesterday. Mrs. Stone and the baby were reported “doing well” at the

WASHINGTON, April 1.—Growing p pessimism about victory in Europe before 1945 is based on disappointment

Feeling grows that its part in eventual victory is more limited than advocates hoped; that it is taking longer . than schedules allowed for accomplishing its share.

Luftwaffe is not yet destroyed. War department explains that German aircraft industry, has been found to possess '‘tremendous recuperative powers.” It makes clear, also, that only after destruction of Luftwaffe can destruction of Germany's key war industries¢proceed

Failure at Cassino taught another hard lesson regarding airpower.

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a detailed study of reports. They indicated any such reports probably would be ‘delayed for some hours. Reports from Schaffhausen through Zurich said the bombardment extended over the entire city, which was covered by thick clouds of smoke. Military and air raid precautions fire fighters went into action at once, the dispatches said, but were confronted with a difficult task since many houses and business buildings were burning.

Rail Station Destroyed

A station was destroyed and the assistant station master and seven other persons killed, the Swiss advices said. They. also reported three factories badly hit and a theater on fire. Accounts from Schaffhausen by way of Zurich said the bombers circled over the city for some time, dropped a number of red flares and then opened the bombardment which shook houses like an earthquake. A spectator said a number of houses in his area, including a cloth factory, still were afire when the report was sent. He said he saw a number of dead and wounded persons carried into a house. Nearly 200 Liberators rode out difficult weather and heavy anti-air-

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ITALY VIEWED AS NAZI ASSET

Army and Navy Journal Links Allied Setback to

Second Front.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P.).— The Army and Navy Journal, unofficial service magazine, today criticized in an editorial allied conduct of the war in Italy, asserting that the campaign has not only “provided us with lessons, but has furnished the enemy with them.” It said the rebuff at Cassino was not the only phase of the Italian campaign which has aroused criticism, but added that the allies are now in a position in Italy where “we must continue our efforts to advance on this front, and thereby lessen the. strength that could be employed more favorably on the western front.” Reviewing the war in Italy, it said: “There was, first of all, the delay in connection with the plan, reported by Mr. Churchill, to land an airborne division in Rome. It was not executed because the Germans had time to seize the airfields. “There was the decision to enter Italy by the toe of the boot. This called for an advance along the mountain range, which offered ample opportunity for German defense

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TWO LOCAL AIRMEN MISSING IN EUROPE

Three Indianapolis Fighters Listed as Wounded.

TWO INDIANAPOLIS AIRMEN are missing in Europe and three soldiers have been wounded in Italy. : MISSING Lt. Eino V. Alander, 3207 Central ave, .T. Sgt. James H. Fiers, 4780 Wentworth blvd. . "WOUNDED Pfc. Louis W. Kampe, 1052% Vip. (Yous giania ave, (Continued on Page 2—Column 3)

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Liberators Strike Reich.

LONDON, April 1 (U. P.).—United States Liberators attacked southwest Germany today and Swiss dispatches said American planes dropped bombs on Schaffhausen, in north Switzerland near the German frontier, killing at least 30 persons and causing considerable damage. A Swiss communique said about 30 U. S. bombers flew over the| cantons of Schaffhausen, of which the city is the capital, and neighboring! Bombs dropped on Schaffhausen started several fires, the communique said. Supplementary Swiss advices reported seven columns

U. 8. army air force officials said any official statement or unofficial reaction would have to await interrogation of crewmen out today and

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9TH THREATENS GASSINO'S REAR

Takes Mile-High Mountain In Apparent Move to Flank Nazis.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQARTERS, Naples, April 1 (U. P.).—The 5th army has smashed forward a mile and

captured 5840-foot Mt. Marrone in a surprise three-pronged attack that threatens to outflank the stalemated Cassino front, 16 miles to the southwest, it was announced today. Ending a months-long lull on the mountainous central front, allied troops attacked under cover of a heavy artillery barrage and overwhelmed strong German defenses to score the most important allied victory in Italy since the 5th army reached the outskirts of Cassino in February. The assault indicated that Gen. Sir Harold R. I. G. Alexander, allied commander in Italy, apd Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, 5th army commander, may have decided to shift the main weight of their offensive | to the north following their failure to crack through the Cassino bottleneck on the main road to Rome. From Mt. Marrone, the allies were in a position to mount a grave threat to German positions just behind both Cassino and Monastery hill. The snow-peaked mountain dominates the German-held Atina-Colli highway and lies three miles west of Rochetta. In addition to Mt. Marrone, the allies also attacked nearby San Michele and Pizzone, but the outcome of these thrusts was not announced immediately. On the Cassino front, German patrols totaling about 40 men each penetrated New Zealand positions south of the railway station on three occasions Thursday night and Friday morning, but were driven back to their original lines after confused fighting. Casualties were inflicted on the enemy. The town and approaches to

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RUSSIAN TRAP TIGHTENS FAST BEHIND THEM

Other Soviet Forces Enter Carpathian Passes Into Czechoslovakia.

MOSCOW, April 1 (U. P.). | —Russian troops raced southward through Bessarabia today at a pace promising entrapment within two or three

days of 100,000 German troops falling back within 35 miles of Odessa in the fast shrinking Nazi salient along the Black sea. Front dispatches said the battered German divisions had abandoned their stubborn defense on the are around Odessa and were in headlong flight to escape the closing trap. To the northwest other Soviet forces had entered the approaches

By UNITED PRESS The Germans killed 25,000 Russian civilians in the Black sea port of Nikolaev before it was recaptured by the Russ army, the Soviet Tass news agency said today in a Moscow broadcast recorded by United States government monitors,

to the Carpathian mountain passes between pre-war Poland and. the Carpatho-Ukraine province of old Czechoslovakia now a part of Hungary, as reported yesterday, (The Germans acknowledged that the Russians had reached the foot

west of Delatyn. The British radio

Czechoslovak units formed a part of the Soviet vanguard)

Sweeping ‘Like Flood’

The Soviet 2d army of the Ukrain€' was Teported sweeping down toward the Black sea between the Prut and Dniester rivers “like a spring flood.” At the same time the 2d and the 1st army to the northwest were massing in the Prut valley for an immediate onslaught against Rumania as soon as the primary stratergic task—the destruction of the German 6th and 8th armies on the Black sea—has been accomplished. On the eastern rim of the German Salient, Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s 3d army had only the flat steppes of Odessa province ahead of him in the push against Russia’s biggest Black sea port. (The Britsh radio reported that the Germans are evacuating troops and war materiel from the Crimea by sea, and that perhaps 100,000 German and Rumanian troops had been stationed there since the Russ army plunged the Perekop isthmus

INDIA SUPPLY BASE

‘Surprisingly Stror Strong Forces’ Resisted by British.

NEW DELHI, April 1 (U. P).— British imperial tropps were reported today to be putting up stiff resistance to a Japanese drive for Kohima, vital supply center 60 miles; north of Imphal, capital of Manipur | state. If the new threat, involving surprisingly strong gJapanese forces, were successful it would force the entire British army on the Burmese central front to rely on air supply and supply depots built in the Manipur valley. Fighting in the area was said to be severe.

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On the War Fronts

(April 1, 1944)

RUSSIA—Upwards of 100,000 Germans in southern Ukraine. flee to escape Soviet trap.

AIR WAR-U. S, Liberators raid southwest Germany; Swiss com-= munique reports U. 8S. planes dropped .bombs on Schaffhausen.

| PACIFIC—Renewed air raids by American forces from Central and Southwest Pacific indicate full scale offensive underway to neutralize Truk and other Japanese strongholds in Carolines.

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. April 1 (U. P.).—Fred Shite Jr, victim of infantile paralysis since 1936, today marks the beginning of his ninth year in his famous iron lung. Snite, 33, was stricken with the

Snite Begins His 9th Year. As Traveler in Iron Lung

of Tatar or Jablomica pass south- "a said reports reached London that