Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1944 — Page 2

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

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600,000; Czechoslovakia, 125,000. This totals 68,825,000, 46,000 barrels in 1941, 80,000 in 1912, 60,000 in 1943.) U. 8. crude oil production in 1943 was 1,503,176,000 barrels. Pigures point up statement of Foreign Economic Administrator Crowley that “the mobilized economit strength of the united nations fs now overwhelmingly greatér than that of the Nazis.” 2 »

Willkie Is Specialist in Surprises

WILLKIE'S FUTURE: Whatever €lse happens you can be sure he won't do any of these things: Run on a ticket with F. D. R. Start a third party. . : : Blitz the Republican convention and get nominated after all. ° Beyond that, don't do any betting. He's a specialist in the unexpected, may keep the G. O. P. guessing until election day nears,

JAP FLEET HIDES

FROM U. S. NAVY

Yanks Smash 46 Ships in Attacks on Palau, Two

Other Bases. (Continued From Page One)

destroyed or damaged in combat, 20 probably destroyed or damaged on ground or in the water. Ground installations destroyed-—40 buildings at Arakabesan; 4 hangars and small buildings at seaplane base; more than 20 warehouses at Malakal; warehouses, dumps and hangars at Korror. Ground installations damaged— phosphate plant at Anguar; dock in Babelthuap. At Ulithi, several small vessels were sunk and the dock, radio station and other buildings were

s = 2 x = WHO'LL PAY compensation benefits if 4Fs are drafted into work | battalions, permanently injured by work beyond their strength? Army doesn't, want to, and congress begins to grasp size of the bill thal might ultimately be presented to taxpayers. Private employers don't . want to either. BUT 4Fs show no signs of rushing into vital jobs, figure some physical standards will have to be set to separate those with minor defects from 8nes whom might be injured by heavy work. 2 2 ” sn n

HOUSE VETERANS COMMITTEE is likely to scale down proposed $25 a week unemployment compensation carried in “G. I. bill of rights.’ | Some members feel $25, with payments limited to 52 weeks during two-year period, would dissuade some veterans from diligently | hunting work. BN Otherwise committee will approve bill substantially as it passed | senate 50-0 vote. Committee begins consideration of amendments | April 17. } Proposed $500,000,000 program of veterans’ hospital construction, ! carried in “G. I bill,” won't reach that figure. Veterans’ administration plans to convert cantonments into hospitals, limit construction of new buildings.

Other Unions to Emulate U

OTHER UNIONS, particularly in the C. I. O., will follow lead of United Automobile Workers and call meetings, probably in Washington, of their members who are veterans of world war I or the present conflict. Aim is to improve relationships with men now in uniform. The U. A, W. claims 250,000 of its members are in the armed forces— about one in five. The same proportion is said to hold throughout organized labor meaning that the service forces have about 2,500,000 |

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damaged, while at Yap, airdrome facilities and buildings in the settlement were damaged.

Seven Planes Destroyed

Seven planes were destroyed and five probably destroyed at Woleai. Small craft, stores, dumps and buildings were damaged.

Another 17 Japanese planes were shot down by American -carrierbased planes and four by antiaircraft guns during enemy attacks on the task force preceding and following the Palau assault. The warships also sank at sea three small enemy ships. The class of the battleship torpedoed by the American submarine was not identified. _ “Although she suffered considerable damage, she was able to escape at moderate speed under protection of her destroyer escort,” Nimitz's communique said. The task force operated under the tactical command of Adm. R. A. Spruance, while planes of the carrier force were commanded by Vice Adm. Marc A, Miltscher.

Australian Beaufighters were

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March 4, 1943, that his plane was shot- down off Texel island, Holland. E Sgt. Snover, who was 29, was the son of Mrs. Martha C. Snover and wrote his last letter home the day before his fatal flight, Prior to his death, the -airman won the air medal with the oak

awarded posthumously the purple heart. According to information received on the plane was recovered and crews on other planes in the flight

reported seeing several members of the crew parachute from the fall-

___ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Sgt. Mahlon Snover Dead; © Pfc. James Farrell Prisoner

leaf cluster and also has been|

here, .the body of the bombardier A

SOEBBELS MUST

he worked at the A-1 Refrigeration Co. before enlisting. - His brother, Cpl. Arthur W. Pear Jr. has been in the Pacific theater 23 months.

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PFC. JAMES OC. FARRELL JR. | with the 141st infantry division in Italy, is a prisoner of war in Germany following the report that he was missing in ac-

ditions in Germany. He is the son of |. : James C. Farrell Sr, 2803 W. 10th st., and brother of Pvt. Paul J. Far. rell, Camp Haan, Cal,

marized as follows: ONE:

RALLY BERLIN

New Job as Boss of Reich

to Germany if they-allowed themselves to be interviewed about con-

What the Nazis are attempting to hide ‘from allied correspondents based in Stockholm may be sum-

Relief organizations are

ing plane. A graduate. of Spencer high school, Sgt. Snover was employed at Century Metalcraft Corp. in Los Angeles, Cal, when he entered the army air forces. In September, 1942, his unit of 19 planes flew over

James Farrell

Born at Wilbur Wright field, Fairchild, O,, Pfc. Farrell was graduated from St. Anthony Catholic school and Cathedral high school.

failing to provide adequate shelter and food for bhombed-out citizens following heavy raids. This strikes at morale when it is at its lowest pitch. It is partly responsible’ for the signs of increased defeatism and depressive tendencies we have been

Visiting Here

H, K. Walters B. H. Robinson

SEAMAN 2-C HARRY K. WALGeorgia Walters, 50 N. Keystone ave, after completing boot training.

Great Lakes, is visiting his wife and sons, 1350 Reisner st. He is the son .of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Robinson, 2331 W. Morris st.

1250 U. S. Planes Smash Brunswick

_ SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1944

TERS is visiting his mother, Mrs.

VERNON HERBERT ROBINSON, who has finished boot training at

That's the Word From Congressmen Sifting Man- - power Problems.

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in his stead is supplied with all the necessities for carrying on the fight —that he has the means to protect his life.” ‘ . Manpower Commissioner Paul V McNutt and Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey appealed jointly to army rejects not now in war jobs to consult with local government employment offices and obtain instructions as to what

It is belleved that the Mst of essential activities

INTO WAR WORK"

would be considered “essential” for °

Spencer en route to the east coast and then overseas. : Other survivors besides his mother are a sister, Mrs, Mary Elma Campbell, ‘Superior, Mont. » # " LT. FRED HECKMAN JR, a navigator on a B-17 bomber, has been missing over Germany since March 8. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Heckman, 1203 W. 29th st., and husband of Mrs. Pred B. Heckman Jr, who lives in Rapid City, S. D. Overseas since January, Lt. Heckman entered the army air forces April 22, 1042, and was commissioned at the army air base, Monroe, La. A graduate of Technical high school, he attended Butler university one year and was employed at the Allison division of General Motors before enlisting.

Before being inducted at Ft. Harrison Dec. 2, 1942, he was employed at the office of the Advance Beverage Co. ! He fook his basic training and attended clerical school at Camp Wheeler, Ga., before being sent overseas in April, 1904. 3 ” ”n f J ELEVEN HOOSIER SOLDIERS are among the 427 U. S. service

men listed today as wounded in action. In the central Pacific theater, the wounded are Pvt, William H, Eastburn, husband of Mrs. Eileen Eastburn, Raub, and Pvt. Arthur T. Evaline, son of Mrs. Ora Evaline, DePauw. Wounded in the Mediterranean war zone are Sgt. Benjamin B. Anderson, son of Mrs. Bertha B. Anderson, Woodburn; T. 5th Gr. Franklin T. Archambeault, husband of Mrs. Dorothy M. ‘Archambeault,

particularly in the last fortnight. TWO: Berlin's fire-fighting services have proved unable to cope adequately with the huge fires

bombings. Some buildings are known to have burned as long as a week after inextinguishable firebombs and the R. A. P.’s new 12,000pound bombs had landed. THREE: Looting apepars to be on the increase in Berlin. Tied up with

foreign slaveworkers and some escaped prisoners who have . disappeared underground without identity papers, or with forged papers, and presenb the Nazis with an eventual security threat. ’ FOUR: Overstrained traffic resulting from bomb damage, evacuation of Berlin's nonessential population and supply demands for troops

able to observe from Stockholm,

which follow Anglo-American

this problem are large numbers of |:

SECOND LT. RICHARD J. PEAR,

Michigan City; 2d Lt. John W. Baum, son of Peter Baum, East Chicago; Pfc. Andrew 8S. Bencze Jr. son of Mrs. Elizabeth Bencze, Gary.

guarding against an allied invasion. FIVE: Inability of medical organizations to handle all casualties following R. A, F. and U. S. 8th

son of Mr. and Mrs, A, W. Pear, 1745 Lafayette rd, is missing

Others are Cpl. Louis H. Bick-

air force raids. It is always difficult to get ac-|

Factories, Airports (Continued From Page One)

recess, Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the 15th. air force in Italy dropped 5685 tons of bombs on southeast Europe in the week ending Friday, an announcement from Mediterranean headquarters revealed. The heaviest blows were struck at Bucharest, Budapest and Ploesti in direct support of the Russ army drive on the southern front, and were credited today in Moscow dispatches with accentuating the defense task of Marshal Fritz von Mannstein. The statement from Italy credited gunners of the 15th air force wtih downing 270 German planes. Lighter planes of the ASth dropped 1562 tons of explosives in various operations, it reported.

MORE HOARDED CASH

The McNutt - Hershey statemen: did not say what would happen to 4-F's who did not heed their appeal.

Reviews Not Ordered . - Meanwhile, local boards were formally told to “apply strictly” de-

ferment regulations for men aged 26 through 29.

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union members. These men are being urged to join veterans’ organi- (credited by MacArthur with sinking

zations, such as the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, in order to influence their policies which, in some instances, have | been antagonistic to organized labor. . 2 = ~ s ” REPORT FROM A. F. of L. leaders on chances of John L. Lewis’ affiliation situation: 50-50. . 2 » n » ” THOUGH SOUTHERN senators are busy preparing amendments to carry on their filibuster against the anti-poll tax bill (it comes up right after the Easter recess) some feel sure that cloture will be voted this time and the bill passes despite their efforts. The reason: Desire of northern Republicans, many of wHom refused to vote cloture last year, to lure Negro voters back into the G. O. P. Republicag ambition in this respect wasn't helped by recent dissent of Justice Owen J. Roberts in Texas voting case. s » "

Post-War Aviation.to Bring Battle

STRUGGLE over administration of foreign and domestic aviation promises to become one of congress’ liveliest battles. Senator McCarran, author of bill for unified “All American flag line” for foreign service, foresees inland cities becoming great centers of world air commerce, Manufacturing and economic factors will outweigh proximity to oceans in location of air centers, he predicts. Odds are against any upset of past CAB rulings barring steamsnip lines from controling air carriers when hearings start, probably in

a loaded Japanese oil tanker near Timor island, northwest of Australia, while other allied bombers sank a coastal vessel and set fire to a 7000-ton cargo ship in the Wewak | area off the northern coast of New Guinea.

New Guinea Action

following combat over Germany March 18. The 26-year-old co-pilot on a B-24 bomber has been in the army air forces since May, 1942, and overseas since October 20. He was married Oct. 19, 1943, to Betty Jane Wilson of La Porte. A

Twelve barges were sunk and | eight others damaged in a series of | air attacks along the northern coast | of New Guinea and in the northern Solomons. MacArthur's airmen also made their first raid of the war on Wake island, 110 miles west of the northern New Guinea base of Hollandia. Twenty-nine tons of bombs were dropped and fires visible for 50 miles were kindled. Night patrols bombed Hollandia, starting fires and probably blowing up an ammunition dump. The Tth air force, based in the Central Pacific, also was active, blasting Japanese-held Wake, 500 miles forth of the Marshalls and

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late June, on applications pending before CAB for new Carribean and South American air service. Announcement of Canadian government, taking surface lines out of airline business, may strengthen CAB's hand in this matter. 2 ” 2 » s s PIANO MANUFACTURERS whose war goods orders have been cut back will be allowed to make a limited number of pianos, but not for public buying. Output will go to army, ‘navy, USO, Red Cross, churches, institutions. # s 2 ” ” 8 AMONG LEADING critics of the supreme court are other judges in the federal judiciary. Some who are acquainted with members of the highest tribunal have come here to tell them that net result of constant bickering has been to lower respect for the judiciary everywhere. So far the advice has been unheeded. » ” o ” AS MUCH as a billion and a half dollars may be cut from the navy's 1945 budget estimate by the house appropriations committee when, after the congressional recess, it considers the pending supply bill. v

{Carolines, with 44 tons of bombs | Wednesday. Large explosions and {fires were observed during the attack, the 18th since the Japanese seized the island. Ponape, in the eastern Carolines, and the last four enemy-held atolls in the Marshalls also were raided {by the 7th air force.

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” ” break through into central Poland and southern Rumania. { The Russians are heading in the {south toward the Rumanian oil

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curate and trustworthy details from inside Germany, but these points seem true. Goebbels certainly has a real job on his hands. A French war prisoner has just reached the refuge of Stockholm with further details which describe Berlin as “one vast reconstruction

Marion; Pfc. Robert Culbertson, son of Mrs. Mary Culbertson, Terre Haute; Sgt. William 8. Girdley, son of Mrs. Anna Morgan, Scotland: Pvt. Francis M. Harter, husband of Mrs. Francis M. Harter,” Churubusco, and .Pfc. Charles F. Lewis, son of Mrs. Jennie C, Lewis,

graduate of Shortridge high school,

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and through the marshes before the Bessarabian border. One German column of unrevealed strength gambled on that hazardous means of escape. Malinovsky’'s troops bore down on it in the Belyayevka area a few miles west of Odessa and ripped. it to

Yank Air Raids Help

Except for the tiny Odessa pocket and isolated sectors, the southern Ukraine now was fully cleared of the German invaders. The campaign in neighboring Bessarabia was reported proceeding steadily. The German task of defending Rumania was made more difficult by American air attacks on Balkan transport centers. Observers said such attacks as those on Bucharest

jand Ploesti were accentuating Von 'Mannstein's major problem of mov-

ing in sufficient reserves to stabilize his lines. This development, the first example of close co-ordination in an American-Russian attack, was regarded as foreshadowing even closer collaboration in a mighty effort to wrest the south Balkins from the

Russ Reach Czech Fronfief, Block Nazi Escape in Odessa

Mitchell. |project.” He says that many thousands of foreign workers are busy all over Berlin trying to rebuild key centers—“like slaves unwillingly repairing a graveyard.” Saw Postoffice Burn

This Frenchman tells how he saw the huge postofice in Altendorf burn flat on the night of Feb. 24: 1,500,000 letters and parcels intended for soldiers on the eastern front were destroyed. Bomb attacks, he says, have’ disrupted the entire German postal systein. : His estimate is that only about 30 per cent of the houses of Berlin are still standing,

placements and trained on pillboxes | and other strong points blocking the last few miles of the main roads and railways into the big Black sea port,

Russ air force bombers swept ceaselessly over Odessa, dropping their cargoes of 'explosives in a thunderous prelude to the libera- | tion of the city and patroling the

sea approaches to prevent any attempt at a Dunkirk evacuation. Other elements of the 3d Ukrai-

German force in weeks, began to grind up the remnants of five to six German divisions trapped in a 150-square-mile

northwest of Odessa.

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patch for American consumption. Kohima is only 25 miles east of the

nian army, completing the third Soviet encirclement of a sizable less than two

pocket near Razdelnaya, 35 miles

OFFICE OF DEFENSE transportation is reviewing restrictions governing pleasure craft operation, may make some concessions to excursion boat operators who argue their. husiness raises war morale. Oil and manpower are ODT's chief considerations.

Semen

center the 2d Ukraine

fields and in the north toward the Galician fields, which are vital to the German war machine. In the army is across the Prut and at the +*foot-

Assam-Bengal railway, main allied supply line for Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's Chinese and American forces fighting in Burma.

German grasp. (The London Star carried a banner headline reporting that the Germans were “quitting Odessa.”

He makes a point which I hear repeatedly from everyone who familiar with Germany: That the allies must not build up false optimism about a German crack-up; the Germans are being weakened constantly, yet their will to fight is still firm and vigorous. Even though the past fortnight has revealed an outburst of executions for defeatism, Germans on the whole are still holding together in a degree that makes them dangerous enemies worthy of the most careful planning against the period of hard and bloody fighting ahead.

LIFT WRAPPER RESTRICTIONS

WASHINGTON, March 8 (U. P.). —The war production board today announced that there would be unrestricted production hereafter of tissue wrappers to insure the safe transportation of apples, pears, | peaches, tomatoes and lemons, as requested by the war food admin-

OF BIG BILL' FOUND

CHICAGO, April 8 (U. P).—The hoarded estate of William (Big Bill) Thompson, former mayor, was increased by $26,700 to a total of $1624950 today when his fourth

safety deposit box was opened revealing $18500 in cash and $8200 in liberty bonds from the last war. The box also contained a six-inch pile of utility and bank stocks and bonds Which are yet to be tabulated. No will was found, but authorities have hoped it may be in the fifth box which also will be opened today. Thompson's estate originally was estimated at $150,000 until it was learned he had five safety deposit boxes. Until a will is found his sole beneficiary is his estranged wife.

‘SECRETARY NAMED

~ BY INDIANA ELECTRIC,

Announcement of the appoint-

{ment of E. F. Hauser as secretary of the Indiana Electric association

i was made today by the association | president, Dean Mitchell of Ham{mond, Ind. Mr. Hauser succeeds | Roy. E. Blossom, who has held the | office since 1939. Prior to coming to Indiana in March, 1937, Mr. Hauser was district manager for the Pennsylvania & Ohio Light Co. Youngstown, and | was associated with an industrial {firm in Cleveland. He came to In{diana to take part in the farm electrification program as assistant to the general manager of the Indiana Statewide Rural Co-operative. In April, 1940, he was made general manager of Statewide, a general! district corporation se up under the | REMC act of Indiana and spon-| sored by organized agriculture to! promote electrification of

PHONE MAN MARKING 35 YEARS' SERVICE

Thirty-five years of service in the telephone industry will be observed by J. H. McCluskey, 5347 College ave, A ; Toll practice supervisor for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. Mr. McCluskey began his telephone career at ‘Alianta, Ga., and served in several southern states before he jcame to Indiana | ment engineer at 5 He later served as district traffic superintendent for the Indiana bell lat Evansville, Kokomo, Muncie and | Ft. Wayne. Since 1929, Mr. MecCluskey has held posij tions in the traffic department here

'RAILROADER TAKES | BLAME FOR WRECK

SPRINGFIELD, O. April 8 (U, |P.).—A Big Pour section foreman today admitted he inadvertently left jopen a switch which caused the dejrallment of a fast passenger train of the New York Central railroad near London, O., yester@ay in which the engineer and fireman were killed and 13 passengers injured. > F. A. Dawson, Big Four divisiop superintendent, said that the fores man volunteered the information as

hills of the Carpathians, capable of starting g drive through the i passes into Hungary or of swinging south to skirt the Transylvanian | Alps toward Ploesti, Bucharest and {the mouth of the Danube. The peril to the Germans is! lgreat, for a Russian sweep past Tarnopol and Brody to Lwow would

Stettinius' Visit fo London May Presage 'Big 3' Parley

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We in turn have added reasons

The newspaper quoted radio Vichy as saying that German rear guards in the port were fighting delaying actions to cover the withdrawal of their main forces.) The siege of Odessa was about to begin. Its main outer defenses had been smashed and the stage was set for a thrust into the city itself and the destruction of its

could point lo easily discernible go thinking well of the Russians be as equally disastrous as a military successes wheras the BEO- fas allies, ‘breakthrough into southern Rugraphical position of the American| ne advance of the Russian mania. The three armies of the!

and British armies is nov conspicu- armies into Rumania, Poland and -ously different from what it was gt Odessa has cost the Germans

during the Teheran conference. ‘heavily in territory, men and maIt may be pointed out to those terials and prestige.

Ukraine present a triple threat] which is extremely hard for the! Germans to meet simultaneously. Nevertheless, it has to be met or

holding such views that at this| Tne ploesti oil fields which con- disaster is inevitable. That acstage %u ibe war the maps do notjgtitute 55 per cent of the natural counts for the refusal to withdraw accurately

reflect national contri- oj] supplies and 20 per cent of the butions to the common war effort. "total oil resources of Germany, are The Russian armies would not be seriously menaced by Russian adwhere they are today if the United vances and allied bombardment, AlStates and Great Britain had not!lied bombers are now seriously provided them with huge quanti- hampering shipments of oil as well ties of military equipment, Ameri- as otherwise impending German can and British aircrews had not! operations in the Balkans.

drastically curtailed German mili- op the political side the we. MINES BOOSTING PAY

tary strength by effectively placed sian government made a favorable | WASHINGTON, April 8 (U.P.).— bombs and American and British impression by announcing through | Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes military operations had not diverted. Foreign Commissar Molotov that it |is expected to act soon to release considerate German forces from iss poy pursuing the enemy into Ru- anthracite mines to private operthe Russian front. |manian territory “with the aim of |ators whose wage contracts with the The allied bombing of Buchar- seizing any part of Rumanian ter. | United Mine Workers has been apest, Budapest, Sofia, Ploesti and | rjtory » proved by the war labor board.

other strategic Balkan targets ma- | The WLB a « | pproved the agreeterially assists the Russian advance | ment late yesterday, completing

in the south. action on one phase of the turbuAt, Moscow and Tehran the rs ‘have made concessions in explora-|lent coal wage case which was sians were fully acquainted with the [tory talks on post-war aviation. referred to the board nearly a year difficulties inherent in an am-| ago. The t d still has not taken

Lord Beaverbrook and Assistant Ftbiots Jevanen. ern Secretary of State Adolf O. Berle final action on the bituminous wage ope ii Beh > i date |°1- Said at a joint press conference contract, and the anthracite decisuch operations could be launched. | oF: ’ sion did not necessarily foreshadow | approval of the soft coal agreement.

1 - The Russians have to grounds for) Ir an hour-long conference at the

[from such exposed positions as| Tarnopol and Odessa, and points) to increasingly sanguinary fighting | as the Russians press forward.

U. S. PLANS FREEING

LONDON, April 8 (U. P.) —Great (Britain and the United States each |

ocsngye Y oe ugfort of their discussions, The anthracite agreement, rais- - . eaverbrook, cabinet member in ing the daily wage 70 cents over TYPEWRITERS REPAIRED | charge of post-war civil aviation |the 1941-43 scale, gives the 80.000 ANY MAKE Planning, said” Great Britain had anthracite miners the same basic

imade concessiohs, Berle immediately. countered that {concessions needed to be made by jboth sides and that the United (States also had made some.

“§ , daily pay they have been earning ‘uhder the government contract negotiated last Npvember by Ickes jand. U, M. W, President John L.

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VAN SANT OFFERED POST WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.). —Thomas H. Van Sant of Fulton, Mo., has been offered the post of assistant secretary of agriculture and is expected to make known his

SWEDEN CENTER OF

Sweden,

virtually trapped garrison, once estimated at 100,000 troops. Front dispatches said big siege guns were being rolled into em

DIPLOMATIC FIGHT

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.).— lone remaining Scandinavian neutral, was the center of

urgent diplomatic pressures today (as Germany sought to have her step

up vital. shipments of ball bearings for the Nazi war machine, while Britain and the United States sought to reduce them. } Ball bearing shipments, as well as exports of high grade steel for which Germany has no other source. have been a subject of continuing diplomatic battling. But recent air raids on Schweinfurt and Steyr are believed to make Germany's need more pressing than ever, Officials in Stockholm have warned that the danger of Sweden being drawn into the war is not yet passed,

18,000 MARCH IN ARMY DAY PARADE

NEW YORK,. April 8 (U, P.).— Some 18,000 uniformed men and women marched up Fifth avenue under a cloudy sky today in ‘the annual army day parade, Under the sponsorship of the military order of the world war, the parade this year ‘included no active service units except token delega~tions of WACs, WAVES and SPARS. Boy and Girl Scouts, ROTC units,

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Another Domei dispatch said 15 B-24 bombers and six P-40 fighters had raided northern Hainan island off the South China coast Thursday. and admitted some damage was “sustained by the Japa. nese forces and ground installations.” The Japanese did not, as they usually do, claim to have shot down any of the American raiders. Allied fliers in the southwest Pacific made their first raid on Wake island, 110 miles west of Hollondia on northern New Guinea. Central Pacific bombers attacked Wake, 500 miles north of the Marshalls Wednesday; Ponape in the (eastern Carolines and four enemy atolls in the Marshalls, | A Japanese broadcast said about {20 American Liberators had bombed Truk again Thursday morning and

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1943 INDEPENDENT | RETAIL SALES UP

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P).| —Sales by independent retailers for 1943 ran 14 per cent ahead of 1042, while inventories showed a decline of 8 per cent during the year for the first drop since 1938, the census bureau disclosed today. In 1938, inventories of the retallers fell 9 per cent, and this was accompanied at that time with a Slump of 121; \pér cent in sales. The bureau's es were based on reports from 16,804 stores in 34 states, ’

BABY’S DEATH CAUSED BY LIGHTED MATCH

JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 8 (U. P).—A six-weeks-old baby burned to death in his carriage yesterday in ‘a fire believed started by a lighted match carelessly tossed from the window of a tenement building. Neighbors upset the blazing car-

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