Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1944 — Page 1
FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight and tomorow; lowest fempicatire tonight above. freezing.
By THOMAS L. STOKES | Scripps-Howard Stat Writer
CLEVELAND, 0., April 6.-True to form," Wendell Willkie provided the country with a couple of sensations in one day by his devastating defeat in the Wisconsin presidential primary and his almost immediate recognition of that personal political debacle by his withdrawal from the race for the Republican nomination upon which he had
80 set his heart.
This double-barrelled actiorf created wo interesting situations, one as to the nomination, the other as to Mr.
Willkie, himself.
His rout in Wisconsin and his withdrawal seemed to clear the way for the nomination of Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and, some were forecasting confi-
dently, on the first ballot.
Fond in the same primary, the young governor topped
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1944
‘Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
. Will Willkie I Bolt? Te Wants To Keep GOP Leaders Worrie
and from sources close to Mr. Willkie, the immediate situa-
off the popular swing toward him among rank and file Republicans, matched by general support among organiza-
tion leaders so hostile to Mr.
Willkie, by beating the 1940
candidate on his own selected field and without raising a
finger.
What about Mr. Willkie? ; From his own statement of renunciation made last _ night at the close of his speech on foreign policy at Omaha,
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Death, Capture or
MOSCOW, April 6 (U. P.).—Russian mobile forces converged from three directions over thé immediate approaches
.of Odessa today, clearing the
Soviet city still in Nazi hands and bringing the German disaster in the Ukraine to a quick end.
Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's vanguard was within artillery range of Odessa to the north, northeast and east—
distances of 10 miles or lesa. The Russian army held out for
vo montis wider siege in the
Black sea port in 1041. (The London Evening News said the Russians were within sight of Odessa.) Germafh troops in the Odessa pocket, numbering about 100,000 a few weeks ago, appeared doomed to death, capture or an attempted
med directly by Soviet troops pushing down behind the Odessa
Farther northwest, the battle of
encirclement against 15 German di-| man
visions trapped in the Scala area was reported drawing rapidly to a conclusion. Two desperate German break-through attempts to the west and northwest were smashed.
Snowstorm Ceases
A flerce snowstorm which had impeded the battle dwindled away,
enabling Soviet assault planes toa
resume the pounding of the encircled Germans. Eleven Junkers 52 transport planes trying to supply them were shot down. Reports were skimpy from Tarnopol, pre-war Polish rail junction, where one of the bitterest struggles of the war was on. Russian assault forces were battling forward street by street and house by house. Malinovsky’s forces, some of them veterans of Stalingrad, virtually sealed the fate of the Odessa garrison yesterday by cutting both the
highway and railway running from
Odessa to Chrisinau in Bessarabia. 39 Persons Arrested and
The only land escape route remaining in German hands was a single-track coastal railway that hurdles the five-mile-widk Dniester lagoon by ferry. Only a trickle of Germans could escape from Odessa by this routes A month ago, the remnants of the German 6th and 8th armies remaining in the Odessa pocket were estimated unofficially at more than 100,000 but tens of thousands of the “enemy. since have fled westward to Rumania as the Russians converged on the port.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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SS AT GATE OF BLACK SEA FORTRESS PORT
Three Forces Converge Upon Odessa, Within - Artillery Range; Nazis Seem Doomed to
‘Dunkirk’ Escape. way for storming the biggest
BOMBERS BLAST INVASION COAST
Berlin Reports Aircraft Seen in Southeast Germany.
LONDON, Aprii 8 (U. P)~— Eighth air force Liberators attacked the French invasion coast for the second straight day today and -Ber-
bombers and their strong fighter escort fought air battles with Gerdefense planes over northern Jugosiavia in the areas of Zagreb and the border town of Marburg. Royal air force heavy bombers, in their first attack since the record loss of 94 planes over Germany a week ago, wrecked German aircraft repair plants at Toulause last night, the air ministry reported. : The night assault followed by only few hours a heavy attack by 200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators from Italy on railway targets and a refinery at Ploesti in the rich Rumanian ofl fields and an American fighter sweep from Britain over the Berlin and Munich areas in daylight yesterday.
WASHINGTON CLUB RMDED BY POLICE
$3500 Is Seized.
Answering’ rumors that police were relaxing their drive against gambling, Police Chief Beeker led raiding squads in one of the biggest hauls of the year last night. At the Washington Athletic club, 505 W. Washington st., which had been granted an injunction against police interference, the raiders arrested 39 persons and confiscated more than $3500 in tash and considerable gaming equipment. The raid was made under strict legal formalities” with a warrant that had been issued an the story of a 17-year-old youth whose false story that he had been held up was
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Services for Good Friday '‘Reverent City’
To Reflect
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER .. Times Church Editor Tomorrow, Good Friday, the an-
posts, in penal institutions and many churches. An interdenominational commit-
The Nazis said American heavy |
niversary of Christ's crucifixion on|tee, comprised of both Catholics Calvary, Indianapolis- will go to|and Protestants, which has been, church in downtown theaters, in|working for months toward a “revhospital chapels, at the military erent city on Good Friday.” Hum- ; bert P. Pagani, Catholic layman, is chairman of the committee.
TIMES FEATURES |} Service Julep Ue (ures hours ON INSIDE PAGES ater and the First Baptist church,
and the Catholic outdoor “Way of the Cross” devotions in the World Amusements . 22|Inside:Indpls. 17|war Memorial plaza from 2:15 to
rd... + 22inold services at Keith's theater Editorials .... 18{ Obituaries .... 8|from noon to 3 p. m. while there Fashions :.... 20| Pegler ....... 18! will be ‘three-hour services also at Mrs. Ferguson 21| Ernie Pyle... Bn Christ Episcopal church on the
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TOGET JOBS WAR INDUSTRY
Plans Studied to Draft All Under 26 Who Refuse
To Volunteer.
WASHINGTON, April 6.(U. P).— All 4-P draft registrants under 26 were asked today to find employment in essential industry as the government pressed the drive to free younger, able-bodied men for the armed forces. The appeal was made - by the house military affairs committee as it studied legislation to force into war jobs all 4-F's who fail to do so of their own accord. The . committee asked Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey
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commission a list cf the “appropriate activities” which would exempt 4-F's from army labor battalions or any other type of compulsory service that congress may enact. Members sald it was urgent for 4-F's to go into war jobs to replace the thousands of men now being
new policy of limiting drastically all deferments to men under 26.
Notify Draft Boards Those 4-F's unable fo get essén-
public utilities, even if it means temporary impairment of power and
to retain deferred men in the 26-32-years age group—reportedly the next to feel the no-deferment policy. Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes said that refusal to defer coal miners under 26 would have a “very serious effect” on the nation’s coal stockpiles and might result in severe restrictions on coal consummation.
The war shipping adthinistration revealed it has stopped recruiting seamen from among the ranks of draft-eligible men under 26 “unless they are already skilled as licensed officers, radio operators or ‘able-bodied seamen.” ' The government'’s inter-agency deferment com:pittee was said to be studying whether some 64,500 merchant marine personnel under 26 should be made subject to the draft. WSA officials pointed out, however, that drafting these younger men would create a serious problem in the growing merchant ma«ine, which will need an additional 70,000 to 80,000 men this year.
The army service forces announced that a representative has been named in each of the WPB's 13 regional districts to consult on production problems and
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Hoosier Heroes—
SUB OVERDUE, LOCAL MAN LISTED MISSING
Radioman Matthews in Navy Service Since 1940.
RADIOMAN 1-C STANLEY EDWARD MA has been missing in naval sction nearly a month following the report that his submarine is cverdue. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Leslie Matthews, 410 N. Beville Ave, he joined the navy a in 1940 and has been on submarine duty most of the
radio training and went to the submarine school
enlisted.
combine.} "His two brothers, Boatswain's Mate 1-0 Matthews - and
{back to normal—at least temporar-
James Noel, Lawyer, Dies At Ageof76
lawyer and president of the Purdue university board of trustees, died today in Methodist hospital after an illness of four weeks. He was 76. A member of the Noel, Armstrong & Woodard law firm, he practiced law in Indianapolis since 1895 and lived at Traders Point. » 8 os Born in Melmore, O., Nov. 24, 1867, Mr. Noel received his B. S. degree from Purdue in 1892 and his LL. B. from the Indiana Law school in 1895. He had been a trustee of his alma mater college since 1917 and served as vice president of the board from 1925 untl 1943 when he was named president. During his csreer as a lawyer
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MARKET IN EG6S IMPROVES HERE
To Ease. Situation For Dealers.
With the war food administration joining hands with the Easter bunny, it looks like Indianapolis’ glutted egg market is. on its way
ily. In Washington, WFA officials an nounced today that the agency will begin immediately a new egg-buying program designed to assure producers a price of 26 cents a dozen. In Indianapolis, egg sales in retail stores were up this week which retailers attributed to the usual preEaster rush and their intensified sales campaign on the food and money value in eggs. Today Governor Schricker proclaimed April as Eat More Eggs month. Organize Drive Both the WFA action and the sales campaign to relieve the flooded egg market stems from Iast week's meeting here of producers, farmers, government officials, retailers and egg driecs. Alarmed over the season's unparalleled egg production which has caused prices to sink-as low as 16 cents a dozen to some producers, they organized a drive to encourage the housewife to buy more eggs and appealed to the WFA for action. Under the WFA plan, egg companies in parts of the county where prices are sagging will be designated to act as agents to buy directly from the farmer at not less than 26 cents. The companies then will resell the eggs, after proper certification of the purchase price, to WFA for 29 cents a dozen,
‘Not High Enough’
This move was regarded by Harry Truax, manager of the feed and hatchery department of the Indi- | ana Farm bureau, as a definite aid | to the present chaotic conditions, but he maintained that the 26 cents does not cover the cost to farmers for producing a dozen eggs. . “The price is not high enough to encourage the purchase of baby chicks for flock replacement, and it will not prevent the sale of laying hens,” he said. Farmers have cance orders for a and oe their hens since the egg price fell,
JAME W. NOEL, Indianapolis |
| Willkie’s home state but now with
Easter Buying Is Expected reclassified and drafted under the|
BRICKER MAY START DRIVE HERE TONIGHT
Press Club Talk Offers “Chance to Seek
Indiana’s Vote.
By EARL RICHERT With Wendell Willkie now out of the G. O. P. presidential arena, political observers today believed that Governor Bricker of Ohio would use the occasion of his address here tonight before the In-
dianapolis Press club to lay the groundwork for a Bricker-for-Presi-dent organization in Indiana. Up to date the Ohio governor has been hesitant to come into Mr.
the field wide open it is believed he will lose no time In setting up an organization to try to garner as many of Indiana's 29 convention delegates as possible. Claim Bricker Is Late
Most G. O. P. ‘eaders, however,
tion of the now resigned candidate for the 1944 nomina~
tion is about as follows.
. He will cease activity looking forward toward the He may make some speeches from time to time, between now and the convention, June 24, at Chicago. But he will confine himself to a discussion of principles -
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nomination.
are of the opinion that the Dewey bandwagon has gained such momentum that it will sweep through Indiana with practically one and all hopping aboard and that it is
be getting started here. G. O. P. State Chairman John
Willie's withdrawal: Willkie is to be admired and res
nated, as I believe he will.” Mr. Lauer-said that as of today Mr. Dewey undoubtedly has the most strength of any of the mentioned presidential candidates in Indiana. “But,” he said, “those out in front
frost.” The Bricker forces were hopeful, however, that they could make headway here, especially if they can get an organization in the field before someone sets up a pro-Dewey organization. “By all the rules of the game it is only logical that Indiana should support the candidate of its neighboring state,” said Frederick E. Schortemeier, former secretary of state, who is a Bricker booster.
Allen Issues Appeal
Most of the crowd in the Ralph Gates-for-Governor camp, at present the crowd dominating the state G. O. P. organization, are definitely pro-Dewey. This includes Mr. Gates himself; Lauer, Robert. Lyons, attorney and chain store lobbyist; Secretary of State Rue Alexander, and State Auditor Richard T. James. One man prominent in the Gates camp said he did not believe any pro-Dewey organization would be set up in the state because it = not needed. “If any of the other candiptes are able to get more than three out of the 29 delegates between them, I'll be surprised,” he said. The Allen county Republican organization which several months ago indorsed Mr. Dewey followed on the heels of Mr. Willkie’s withdrawal announcement with an appeal to their workers to start circulation among the voters of “Win the War — Save the Republic With Dewey” petitions. The MacArthur forces in Indiana also were jubilant over Mr. Willkle's withdrawal. “That will make our man all the stronger here,” said B. B. Kirkbride, vice chairman and treasurer
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against Germany in world dates just as memorable.
ed Technical high school before he, a
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pretty late now for Mr. Bricker to]
Lauer had this to say today on Mr.! “It was-a hard thing to. do. Mr.|
spected and his friends hope that|. he will ‘support whomever is nomi-|
early sometimes get caught in the}
FD. R. WILL DISDAIN RACE, WILLIS THINKS
New Deal Repudiation.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) today declared that Wendell L. Willkie's withdrawal from" the Republican presidential race might result in President Roosevelt not seeking a fourth term.
The senior senator from Indiana based this idea on the view that Mr. Willkie’'s Wisconsin defeat was due to his supporting Roosevelt New Deal ideas. “Mr. Willkie’s apparent decline in popular favor can be attributed to the fact that the people were not able to differentiate between many of the policies which he espoused and the policies of the New Deal,” Senator Willis asserted. Contributes to Unity
“His withdrawal will contribute to the unity of all those. favoring sound government and the American way of life, “The resentment against New Deal methods has grown to such weight that it would not be surprising if Mr. Willkie’s announcement were followed by a statement by . President Roosevelt that he would not be a candidate for a fourth term.”
Says Wisconsin Results Are!
DEWEY DRAFT BOOSTED AS HOOSIER WITHDRAWS FROM 1944 CANDIDACY
Acme Telephoto. Wendell Willkie leaves the auditorium at Omaha, Neb. after his surprise speech withdrawing from the contest for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Willkie's Plans Made—W:ill Plant
Corn in Indiana
CHICAGO, April 68 (U. P.).— When asked to comment today on the withdrawal as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Wendell L. Willkie said he planned to plant 400 acres of corn on his farms near Elwood, Ind. He refused to discuss politics or the war upon arriving here from Omaha. He planned to leave for New York later in the day. Willkie was accompanied by Mrs. Willkie and his secretary, Lem Jones. ” 2 EJ
“May Run With FDR”
BOSTON, April 6 (U. P.).—The Boston Post, in a dispatch from Washington, said today that some political observers predict’ that President Roosevelt would propose Wendell Willkie as the vice presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket. The Post said the idea was to form a coalition government while the war was on and for settlement of the peace, and that the President was understood to feel that such a ticket would have bi-partisan appeal. t 4 8 “
Mrs. Willkie Relieved
OMAHA, Neb., April 6 (U. P.).— With her husband's “One World” - crumbled, Mrs. Wendell Willkie
oman Speech Gets Republican Party Off Balance.
By LYLE C., WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 6.— Wendell L. Willkie’'s withdrawal from the contest for the Republican presidential nomination projected him toe day into a new role as free lance political adviser with a mis sion to ‘commit the party to significant post-war co-operation in international affairs. . : He withdrew last night in a statement that challenged the party with the possibility that he may bolt the ticket this year if he re.
| lgards the candidates or the plate
form to be against the principles he has espoused. : Organization and congressional Republicans generally waived him out of the contest with some: cheers and few misgivings. The consensus seemed to be that Governor Thomas E. Dewey's chances of being drafted steadily presidential nomination were jm proving.
Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, house Republican leader, apparently was confident
| Willkie would stand by the Re-
publican party to which he went
{from the Democrats after President
Roosevelt's first election in 1932. Willkie withdrew last night from the Republican presidential nomina« tion contest in a statement made in ‘Omaha, Neb., where he arrived over the week-end to campaign for the states's 15 delegates to the Republican national convention. They will be elected at next Tuesday's primary. Willkie’s only Nebraska opposition was from Lt. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, who evidently will get the Nebraska delegation by default.
No Recent Parallel
The withdrawal followed immediately upon announcement of complete but unofficial returns from Wisconsin's April 4 presidential preferential primary which revealed Willkie a bad fourth to Dewey, who won a smashing victory, Stassen and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. There is no recent parallel for the kind of political repudiation Willkie suffered in Wisconsin where he chose to make a showdown test of rank and file party support. Willkie’s somewhat anti-climactiec address in Omaha last night was devoted to foreign affairs. He ended it with announcement that “it is now obvious that I cannot be nominated” and a request to his sup. porters not to present his name at next June's Republican national convention. His statement was as follows: “It has been my conviction that no Republican could be nominated for president unless he received at the convention the votes of some of the major mid-Western states. for it is in this section of the country that the Republican party has had its greatest resurgence. Therefore, I quite deliberately entered the Wis« consin primary to test whether the Republican - voters of that state would support me in the advocacy of every sacrifice and cost necessary to winning and shortening the war and in the advocacy of tans gible, effective economic and politie cal co-operation among the nations of the world for the preservation of
What Will April, Month of Historic Happenings, Bring?
What will April bring? With thousands of American soldiers poised in the British Isles for the promised assault on western Europe, the history of April as a month of momentous war dates is in-
Today, April 6, is the 27th anniversary
Senator Willis just returned from Chicago where he held hearings for farm organization representatives, as a member of the Republican national committee's farm plank committee. “Out of five farm organizations appearing, only the Farmers Union favors continuation of the New Deal 1 bureaucratic regimentation of farmers,” ‘Senator Willis said.
REPORTS HINT LINDY he detzoved the § MAY GO ON MISSION
April 9, 1942, is a day to re- | NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P)— member when America exacts [Reports . persisted today that lasting vengeamce against Japan. [Charles A. Lindbergh had received On that date the American-Fili- |yellow fever immunization injecpino forces surrendered on Ba- tions at the Marine hospital here, preparatory for a mission outside the country, . G
of the U..S. declaration 1 war I. But there are other April
Adm. Dewey was one day late as “‘far as April is concerned when’ he destroyed the Spanish fleet in
sat in the audience here last night and hardly took her eyes from him as he made his farewell.
“Are you relieved?” a reporter Result Disappoin asked afterward. ag
“« » “ “The result of the primary is nats Yes,” she replied softly, “I am if Wendell is. Whatever he does |r disappointing and doubly so is 1000 per cent all right with me.” - - »
. “4th Term Booster” LONDON, April 6 (U. P)~# The Evening Standard said in its “Londoner's Diary” column today that Wendell L. Willkie, as a result of his defeat in Wis- |am as consin, was expected to advocate |any activity toward that
the peace and the rebuilding of humanity.
a ih term for President
r Ra “first action on Hs return to .New York from the