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It was an unexpected holiday for pupils of 24 schools today when city custodians struck. But the exuberance of youth compensated for the great sorrow in the schools’ closing. Here students of school 43, at 40th st. and Capitol ave, start a game of hop-scotch on their day off.
HULL URGES UNITED WORLD
Defense of U. S. Foreign Policy Hailed by New Deal,
Meets Some Criticism.
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. PJ. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's vigorous new defense of U. 8. foreign policy - was hailed enthusiastically in administration circles today but some critics charged anew
that this government is still sidestepping a specific stand on many
pressing questions, Hull's defense came last night in a “minute nationally. broadcast! address in which he reviewed the principles behind his concept of foreign policy and appealed for national unity on world questions to help prevent a third world war—"a tragedy to you and to your children and to the world for generations.” Makes Six Pronouncements He said in brief that: 1. The United States cannot recognize the French Committee of National Liberation as the government of France because Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower must have absolute authority when he leads allied armies into France. 2. The allies will adopt a firmer attitude to stop neutrals from aiding the enemy, 3. More democratic elements will be introduced into the Italian government. : 4. The United States is ready to help settle all European boundary disputes. S. The allies will make no compromise with Nazism and Fascism. 8. The United States has not made, nor will it make, secret agreements or commitments. Congressmen Approve Hull also revealed that he has asked Chairman Tom Conally (D. Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee to appoint a representative .bi-partisan group to consult with the state department on foreign problems so that the United States will be able to go into international conferences with plans that are likely to win congressional support. Many congressmen were absent from the capital for the Easter re-
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RUSS CLAIM NAZIS CONSCRIPT WOMEN
By UNITED PRESS The Moscow radio, in a German language broadcast beamed to Europe and recorded by United States government monitors today, said that Adolf Hitler had called up 500,000 German women for the armed services and that 400 already
and 500 in Breslau. LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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Rivers Nearing
At Indianapolis White river rose exceed its flood stage of 12 feet. The most dangerous points were! in the extreme northern and south-| ern portions of the state. At Wabash, the Wabash river rose to 12.4 feet, and was expected to rise to 19 feet, seven feet above flood stage.
White River Overflows
The west fork of White river at Edwardsport was already 1.1 feet above flood stage of 12 feet, and the, forecast rise at that point was 18
Other river measurements were: Bb River Flood ForeWabash River— Stage Stage east
Bluffton s...... 91 100 West Fork, White River— Anderson ...... 100 100 12 Noblesville ..... 106 140 15 Elliston ........ 188 180 22 East Fork, White River— Seymour ...... 128 140 15
The weather bureau said yesterday's storm, which ripped through
Several thousand dollars danse
' Poles Blown Dgwn
The Indianapolis Power and Light Co. and the Indiana Bell Telephone |
utility poles were blown down in the 2200 block on N. Spencer ave. and high voltage wires were grounded on LaSalle ave. north of Washington st. Houses damaged were those of Clifford Myers, 1461 N. Drexel ave.; Mrs. Mary Miller, 1465 N. Drexel ave.; Arthur Sebree, 1469 N. Drexel ave.;, Kenneth Pearson, 1477 N. Drexel ave. The wind demolished the garage of C. J. Williams, 1522 N. Bosart ave, and the wind lifted the nextdoor garage of Eugene M. Fogarty, 1518 N. Bosart ave. and placed ft
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40 HURT IN CRASH OF CHURCH CEILING
Crackling Gives Warning to
200 at Easter Services. (Photos, Page Nine)
At least two-score Easter night worshipers were injured, none seriously, and others escaped death when the metal mesh and plaster ceiling of the balcony in the Centenary Christian church, 11th and Oxford sts, collapsed during services. The police emergency squads and the fire department rescue squad were sent to the scene and aided
were taken to the City hospital in private cars but all were
police.
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Naples, April 10 (U., P.).~Cmdr.
been awarded the gold star, repre-
Amusements ..12 | Daniel Kidney.10 Eddie Ash 6| Ruth Millett ..10 Comics. ....... 16{ Movies .......12 Crossword ....16/ Music ..... vred3 Editorials ..... 10| Obituaries .... 4 Peter Edson ..10| Pegler ponrenld Financial ..... 7|Ernie Pyle .... Forum: .......10{ Radio ....... Freckles ......16| Ration Dates. .11 Gardens ...... 8 Mrs. Roosevelt. 9 Meta Given 13 Side Glances .10 S..B. Heath oe 9| Sports ........ 6 In Indpls. warn 3] State Deaths |, 4 War 8
With Rains Predicted Here
The weather bureau predicted more rain today and tomorrow as the | Wabash and White rivers neared flood stage and northeast Indianapolis property owners looked over the damage done by a rip-roaring storm | that swept their section last night,
palace today,
to property resulted but no one was gun injured.
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Co. sent repair crews to take fare) of minor disruptions in service. Two |
in extracting the injured from the debris and gave first aid. Many
on examination and treatment.| Several others were injured but failed to give their names to the
Approximately 200 were attending
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H. Standley Jr, son of the retired admiral and former ‘United | States ambassador to Russia, has
Flood Stage
to 7.9 feet but was not expected to
BULLET MISSES MEXICAN GHIEF
President Camacho Seizes Officer Who Tried To Kill Him.
MEXICO CITY, April 10 (U. P). ~A Mexican army officer attempted to assisnate President Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho in the national
but was disarmed after misisng with a pistol shot at pointblank range. The
| were present at the pre-session ac-
i sonally for the one-bill-only-session
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School officials met today to consider ways to reopen the 27 city school which were closed after 60 janitors and custodians walked off their
jobs this morning.
Pupils in the schools were sent home because of the cold buildings but told to report
back tomorrow. Classes in
and the remaining 57 grade schools were in
session.
the high schools
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
The striking workers, comprising one-sixth of the school’s maintenance staff, carried out a threat made two weeks ago to walk off their jobs unless the school board agreed to recognize their union, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, local 154, A. F. of L., as a bargaining agent. The school board appealed to Parent-Teach-er associations for fathers to help fire the
PRICE FOUR CENTS
Thus, the board
30, 34, 36, 43, 45, 4
stood by its former state-
ment that any employee who abandoned his post would be considered as having resigned. Schools closed were 6, 7, 10, 12, 19, 26, 27,
8, 49, 52, 54, 56, 58, 62, 63,
67, 68, 69, 75, 78, 85 and 86.
Although regular classes at school 10 were (Continued on Page 3—Column 6)
G.0.P. CHIEFS VOTE ONE BILL SESSION LIMIT
Action of Caucus Awaited On Eve of Soldiers’
Ballot Session.
BULLETIN The G. O. P. legislative steering committee voted unanimously this afternoon to hold the special session of the legislature, which opens tomorrow, to consideration only of the soldier vote bill. The steering committee's action is expected to influence the caucus this afternoon of Republican legisiators at which a final decision upon the subject matter to be considered is to be made.
By EARL RICHERT Limitation of the special session of the legislature to consideration of only the soldier vote bill seemed likely today as legislators gathered here in preparation for the opening of the session at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Actual decision on the subject matter to be taken up was to be made at a caucus of G. O. P. majority members of both houses this afternoon. Leaders of both houses said they would be bound by the decision of the caucus. Chief reason for the belief that legislators would follow the wishes
expressed in a resolution recently) and take up only the soldier vote by the G. O. P. district chairmen.
G. O. P. Sees Advantages Practically all district chairmen
tivities and most of them were buttonholing legislators and selling them upon the idea that a short session of the legislature devoted only to the soldiers’ vote bill would be for the best interests of the Republican party. Many legislators, too, were per-
because they are up for re-election and do not want to get caught in| any controversial fights just before the primary.
ar- " tillery Lt. Anton- Gen. Camacho io Lama Rojas, approached Avila Camacho as the President was
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Hoosier Heroes—
THOMAS MASCARI MISSING IN ACTION
Local
Overseas Last October. PVT. THOMAS M. MASCARI,
Istationed with the first ranger bat-
talion in Italy, has been missing in action since Jan. 30. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Mascari, 948 S. East st, he was inducted in the army Dec. 4, 1942, and went overseas last October, Before entering service, the 21-year-old] soldier worked for the Dietz Box!
Co. and attended Manual high school. His brother, Seaman 1-c John Mascari, is stationed with the coast
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Soldier Was Sent
| Senator Floyd I. Garrott (R. Battle Ground), chairman- of the state budget committee, typified the viwes of many with this comment: “If we open up the session and get | into a lot of controversial legislation we'll just hurt the Republican party since it controls the legislature and will be held respontible.” Two large pressure groups oOpposed the limiting of the session to the soldier vote measure were
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(WAR COST NEARING TRILLION DOLLARS
NEW YORK, April 10 (U. P).— The total cost of world war II is approaching a trillion dollars and should pass that astronomical figure in 1945, according to a survey by Dr. Mabel L. Walker, executive secretary of the Tax Institute, research organization of tax economists. Dr. Walker based her survey on figures available from the united nations and axis countries, who | spent altogether an estimated $631,591,000,000 by the end of fiscal 1943. The trillion dollar figure, she pointed out, would be between two and three times the total cost of the first world war to all bellig-
of the G. O. P. state committee (as| Ss
opening
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GOP Assembly Chiefs Map Strategy
P. legislative teaders meeting tolsy at the, Claypool {o decide party stratésy In advance of the session tomorrow included (left to right) House Speaker Hobart Creighton, Warsaw; Lt. Gov. Charles Dawson, Indianapolis, president of the senate; Rep. George Henley, Bloomington, majority floor leader in the house, and Senator John VanNess, Valparaiso, slated to be elected senate president
BOMBS RIDDLE NAZI AIR BASES
U. S. Heavies Plaster Belgium, France; 63 Enemy
Planes Shot Down.
LONDON, April 10 (U. P)— American heavy bombers attacked German air bases in France and Belgium on a 300-mile front today, shifting their daylight offensive after a Sunday raid reaching as far east as Poland in which 64 Nazi fighter planes were shot down. Strong forces fanned out over western Europe to pound German air centers in the third straight day of a new daylight offensive aimed at the Nazi air force. United States headquarters announced that Fortress and Liberator gunners downed 43 German planes yesterday, which with the previously reported escort plane bag raised the total to 63, plus 29 destroyed or damaged on the ground. The only fighters encountered today were those opposing the bombers which made the day's deepest penetration of France. Their attack was brief and feeble. The air ministry revealed that British heavy bombers were challenged by a large number of German night fighters last night during a moonlight attack on the outskirts of Paris. It was the first report of heavy night fighter opposition during R. A. F. attacks on French targets, in-
erents, as estimated by the late Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman.
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FDR Goes South For Two Weeks To 'Shake' Cold
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt has left Washington for approximately two weeks of relaxation in the South, the White House announced today. The White House indicated Mr. Roosevelt would cut short his trip, however, in event any “unexpected emergency” should develop. The White House statement said that Mr. Rogsevelt will devote himself exclusively to “relaxation out of doors, in fresh air and sunshine.” The President has been recuperating from a recent attack of bronchitis and sinus infection. The chief executive had several colds during the winter. The White: House reported last week that his bronchial and sinus conditions were virtually cleared up, but that he needed fresh air to eradicate them completely. Mr. Roosevelt was accompanied by Adm. William D. Leahy, his
personal chief of staff; his miliks “tary and naval aides, and his
physician. White House correspondents of the three press associations also left Washington to cover the presidential vacation, but their dispatches will not be published until after they return,
REPORT TIRPITZ TOLL
STOCKHOLM, April 10 (U. P.).— The newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda said today that 156 crewmen of the Tirpitz were killed in the British air attack on the German battleship last Monday.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 10.—Elmer Davis is a world evangelist who lacks a sturdy gospel, but in two years he has taken three or four foundering government information agencies and parlayed them into the biggest § propaganda &¢ machine Amerfica has ever
seen. It is costing i nearly three i 2 million dollars a Mr. Davis month—66 mil lions since the war began—to run the global effort of the office of war information to fo win friends
Who operates the largest mall order catalog be dramatized
Howard staff writer.
America’s propaganda line and how is it carried out?
The answers to these yuestions and many others you have been wondering about the office of war information are contained in a six-part series (of which this is the first) by Charles Lucey, Scripps-
radio network? Who establishes How can a for the radio?
That looks pretty big beside the 2% millions a.year George Creel - spent to tell the American story in 1917-18. The 5561 OWI employees Mr. Davis has strung
around the world are more than
10 times the number on the propaganda pay roll of the earlier war, To indicate what an immense this OWI ig
country’s biggest radio network; its 350 daily programs are twice the number sent out by the National ‘Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System combined. It is, they say, the largest single enterprise disseminating news, features and pictures abroad.
Quite aside from a vast short-
OWI Lavishes $66,000,000 on Radio, Press and Picture Propaganda Reaching Millions Throughout the World
the output of a major wire news bureau in such a world news center as Washington. It is one of the world’s largest
pamphlet and magne publishers. It operates, on OWI's word, the first co-ordinated world - wide radiophoto system. OWI makes the pictures that go into the pack-on-the-back projectors of itinerant peep-show men in remote China and into little news-sheets ‘of Tahiti, It turns out leaflets telling axis soldiers theyll be smart to lay down their arms, and it feeds news surreptitiously to underground papers of Nazi-occupied : For all of which the U. 8. tax-
JAPS INGREASE
RUSS CAPTURE ODESSA: SLASH TOWARD PLOESTI
FALL OF CITY OPENS PATHS 10 RUMANIA
Nazis Claim Evacuation of Garrison; 444 Cannon Greet Victory.
LONDON, April'10 (U.P.). —The Russ army has captured the great Black sea port of Odessa, ‘powerful German defense base which covered
the ways to central Rumania,” Premier Josef Stalin announced to day. He ordered the victors saluted with an unprecedented 36 salvos of 444 cannon. Gen. Rodion Y. Malinosky’s 3d army of the Ukraine, returning in triumph to his native city, outflanked Odessa and then stormed it frontally to liberate the biggest
Sussian Mejiopolis 3 ensmy ups, Stalin revealed in a-special order the day,
Occupy Czech Village Moscow announced the capture of Odessa, the last German strong-" hold in the southern Ukraine, a few hours after Berlin acknowledged the loss of the city and claimed the evacuation of its bate tered garrison. Soviet dispatches also revealed
WEDGE IN INDI
Two Columns Near Imphal
As British Battle to Save
Supply Base.
NEW DELHI, April 10 (U. P).— Converging Japanese forces drove to the edge of the Imphal plain from the east and southwest today,
Map above “shows how Japanese forces invading India from Burma have cut the Manipur rd.
British garrison hurled back . repeated enemy attacks on the vital allied supply center of Kohima. A communique from Adm. Lord Leuis Mountbatten’s southeast Asia headquarters revealed for the first time that the Japanese invasion column moving on Imphal from the south had reached the northern
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JAPS SOUND ALARM
By UNITED PRESS American airmen,
storm.” x A communique from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ - headquarters, dis-
force Liberators on Moen and Dubnight, said, without further exup Truk continue.”
The phrase “soften-up” often has been used to describe
while 60 miles to the north al
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striking av blows at Japan’s air and paval supply bases in the central and southwest Pacific, blasted Truk again in| attacks described officially as “soft-ening-up” operations and the Japanese said today the allied movements may be “the lull before the
closing new raids by Tth army air lon islands in Truk atoll Friday planation, that “operations to soften
{that Soviet and Czech formations had driven into old Czechoslovakia (and Russian forces slashing down {into northeastern Rumania virtual ly had isolated the key rail center of Iasi in a push toward the rich | Ploesti oil fields. Czech sources here said the Russ army had occupied the village of Jasima, 10 miles inside the Car-patho-Ukraine, the easternmost province of Czechoslovakia now occupied by Hungary. The report indicated that the {Russians had completed the occupation of the crest of Tatar or Jablonica pass leading over the Carpathians down toward the Hune garian plain.
Probably Only Shell
Odessa, once a large city and prosperous port and last sizable Russian city remaining in German hands, probably was only a broken shell. The Russ army devastated it in 1941, and the Nazis claimed they destroyed it again before yielding it. All land routes from Odessa had been cut by the assault arc thrown around the city, belying Berlin claims of a successful evacuation. A formidable Russ air force fleet had been hovering over Odessa to blast a~y desperate attempt at a Dunkirk flight by sea. “The town of Odessa was evacuated in the course of planned movements after carrying out ‘destruc tions which had been prepared for weeks of all important installations and after transport of all ships, vessels and other war material had been concluded,” a Berlin communique said. Military quarters believed the fall of Odessa in effect sealed the doom of trapped axis forces.in the Crimea. Berlin hinted that the campaign to
peninsula already had begun. The Nazis said heavy fighting was going on at the Perekop .isthmus linking the Crimea with the mainland and on the coast of the horieastem Crimea.
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