Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1944 — Page 1
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FINAL HOME
CRIPPS =~ HOWARD
G. 0. P. Expected to Ignore All but Soldier Vote.
By EARL RICHERT A 10-point program of wartime legislation, including the soldier vote bill and elimina- " tion of the 7-cent state tax for state aid to schools, was
recommended by Governor Schricker if his message to the special session of the legislature which opened today. Most of the governor's proposals, however, seemed destined for the legislative waste basket since the majority Republican members of both houses agreed in caucus yesterday to limit the session to passage of a soldier vote bill and measures to exempt soldiers from the payment of poll taxes and penalties on delinquent real and personal property taxes. Following the message, bills cov-/ ering both the G. O. P. program and the proposals made by the governor in his message were introduced in both houses by Republicans and Democrats respectively. The legislature then recessed until 10 a. m. tomorrow. ‘Fine Speech’ While generally approving of the governor's proposals, Republican legislators asserted that it would take the entire 40 days permitted by law to consider them. Typical of the G. O. P. reaction was this comment by Senator Clyde Black (R. Logansport)—“It was a fine speech. I am in harmony with all but one point (he would not specify the point), but it would make the session too long to’ consider them. The public Hightilly
eliminate poll taxes and penalties on delinquent property taxes for men in the armed forces.
Urges Federal Form The governor, in face of the known opposition of G. O. P. lead-| ers, called upon the legislators to authorize the counting of the fed-
eral or bob-tailed ballots in Indiana. (The G. O. P. soldier vote bill which was introduced today does not authorize the counting of the short federal ballot.) “Perhaps only a limited number of federal ballots will find their way back to Indiana at any election, but who among us would refuse to count it the vote of a single Hoosier fighting man, from bloody Cassino to the foxholes of New Guinea, who used this method of expressing his wishes at the polls?” the governor asked. “I cannot conceive that the sure render of state sovereignty is involved in such action.”
Seeks Longer Hours
The chief executive made it clear that he was satisfied with the Re-publican-drawn soldier vote bill except for the fact that it did not authorize the counting of federal ballots. (The federal ballots, under federal law, cannot be used except when a soldier has requested a state ballot and when the state ballot could not reach him. The Republicans contend that this form in which the voter writes in the names of his choice for president, senator and congressman is unconstitutional.) Other points in the governor's message: Voting hours should be extended for the duration of the war from |
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Plan Mail Application For State Soldier Ballot
By NOBLE REED The G. O. P. soldier vote bill introduced in the state senate today by Senator James Armstrong (R.
Springville), if enacted into law, will set up the following procedure to enable members of the armed
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"SCHRICKER SENDS 10-POINT PROGRAM | 10 LEGISLATURE
Camera Spots Lawmakers of Today and One Of 55 Years Ago
Hobart Creightpn, speaker of the house (left), pauses with Governor Schricker on the platform prior to the governor's message to the special session of the legislature which convened this morning.
DEWEY SURE OF N.Y. DELEGATES
No Indication That Governor.
May Change Stand By June.
ALBANY, N. Y., April 11 (U, P). —Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was assured the unanimous support of New York's 93 delegates to the
Republican national convention as} ‘select eight : While no formal indorsement of
met. today 10.
Dewey as a candidate for the presidential nomination was expected at the meeting—probably at his own request—the leaders made it clear that the governor would have the unanimous support of New York's representatives. The governor repeatedly has said he is not and will not be a candidate for the nomination, but his friends are confident he will not refuse a draft and there was no indication that he plans to change his position before the June convention. Wendell L. Willkie's' withdrawal from the race last week removed the only major obstacle to a unanimous New York delegation. Rolland B. Marvin, former Syracuse mayor and powerful upstate leader, announced he would support Dewey.
Leaders Predict Special Session
End Within W eek
How long will the special session of the legislature last? Here's what the four G. O. P. leaders in both houses have to say on the matter: Lt. Gov. Charles Dawson, president of the senate—“It should be over Friday.” Senator John VanNess, president pro tem of the senate—“It will be over in three days.” House Speaker Hobart Creighton
—“My rough guess is that it might
continue for the rest of this week, although thie length of the session, of course, will depend upon what the members do or do not do.” George Henley, leader—"“It should not exceed a week.”
forces to vote in the general election this fall: The soldier, whether he be overseas or in an U. 8. camp outside his
‘home state, will receive -a complete
federal, state and county ballot upon application.
in application, which counts as tration, can be made three The soldier can use the postcard provided by the federal government, the new federal application form provided by the new federal soldier vote bill or he may simply write in to the secretary of state, stating his name, age and address, giving enough information ‘to show that he is eligible. to vote. All applications for ballots must
lots (having placed his initials upon them) to the application and send them on to the county clerk of the applicant's home county, The county clerk will then at-
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A legislator 55 years ago, John M. Thonias put in his appearance for the special session.
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1944
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
000 YANK PLANES RIP REICH; "RUSS TAKE CRIMEA RAIL CENTER
WHITE RIVER
Soldier Drowns in State as Police Save Families
Marooned Here.
The weather bureau today | predicted considerable flood | of the Wabash and White |
the lower portion of the west | fork of White river. | From two to three inches of rain | fell in various parts of the state within the last 24 hours with no relief promised until tonight. The forecast was for partly clearing skies tomorrow. One death was recorded as the waters rose in the state. At Bloomington, Charles Elbert Young, a soldier home on furlough, drowned last night when the taxicab in which he and two other persons attempted to ford a swollen creek overturned and pinned him in the front compartment.
Mother, Baby Saved
Young, who lived near Bloomington, took the wheel ‘away from the cab driver, Robert Harlow, authori-' ties said, when Harlow refused to ford the creek. Mrs. Pauline Nichols and her four-months-old baby remained in the cab but were rescued by Harlow. At Indianapolis White River rose three feet in the last 24 hours and stood at 109 feet against a 12-footi flood stage. Eagle creek was re- : fast, and four city |
trucks loaded with sand bags were;
sent to Warfleigh vo patch a break! in the White river levee.
Roads Under Water Several homes in lowlands around
6 ARE KILLED IN WALL COLLAPSE
4 Others Injured as Portion
of Store Falls Into Ft. Wayne Bank.
National bank. from the building but fire rescue crews worked to extricate the two remaining bodies that were trapped under tons of debris which crashed into the bank about 9 o'clock this morning. The dead were: Carol Davis, Thelma Pifer,
Advertising Co.
the cave in.
Hoosier Heroes—
ALBERT GC. FRODGE
Local Soldier Since September.
been missing in action since Feb. 22.
his wounds. Although the
ments on his position in the presi-
tach a county ballot and send all [dential
FT. WAYNE, Ind, April 11.— Six persons were trapped and killed and four others were injured whén a wall from the Sears, Roebuck store caved in on the First
Four bodies already were taken
Indianapolis were surrounded, base- | ments were flooded and streets and |
roads were under water at some points. Road 34 at Speedway City was flooded and traffic detoured, and | the Pennsylvania underpass on| Road 40 near Bridgeport was under water. At Traders Point Road 52 was a foot and a half under water. Georgetown road and W. 16th st. from the Big Four railroad to the Crawfordsville road were blocked by Speedway police as water rose to two feet in some places. S. Emerson ave. under the Big Four railroad was covered and water was two and one-half feet deep under the elevation at Southeastern ave. and Sherman dr,
FORK BREWING HEAVY FLOOD
Police and sheriffs marooned residents from two homes today. At 3219 Schofield ave., where
Families Evacuated
evacuated
Wilma Myers, all bookkeeping employees of the bank; Cliff Jones and Sam Wass, receivers for the old First National Bank; and John Pierson of the Superior
The Sears store was being repaired after having been charred by fire at a loss of $250,000 about two weeks ago. Unofficially it was estimated that heavy rains and high winds in the past 24 hours caused
MISSING IN ACTION
Overseas
PVT. ALBERT C. FRODGE, who was wounded with the army infantry in Italy last January, has
He is the son of Mrs. Inez Frodge, 2515 W. 10th st, and returned to duty Feb. 6 after recovering from
war: department telegram listed him as missing since Feb. 22, Pvt. Frodge had written
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WILLKIE QUITS OREGON
NEW YORK, April 11 (U. P).— come to the secretary of state. He|Wendell Willkie reiterated today will affix the state and federal hal-|through his former campaign manager, Ralph Cake, Republican national committeeman from Oregon, his withdrawal from the Oregon primary and added that any state
water was four inches deep on the floor, Sgt. Robert Smith and his police emergency squad carried out Mrs. Mabel White and her one-week-old son. ‘They were taken to the City hospital. Then police carried out the following White children: Stanley, 14; Chester, 12; Jack; 11; Billie, 9, and Lilly, 7. Mildred, 15, Milton, 18, and Harold, 19, waded out. Three grandchildren, June, 7, Martha Ann, 2, and Gerald Clark, 19 months, children of Mrs. Irene White Clark, were carried out. The first rescue act necessitated by the spring rains was performed about 4 a. m. today by Deputy Sheriffs Harry Foxworthy and Robert Imhausen who waded to the marooned home of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Wright, 2506 S. Lyons st. Mars Hill and carried out the four Wright children. Brought to the matron's office at the jail, the children were given
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Pupils Do Work of Janitors
rivers with a heavy flood in|
School 86. at 200 W. 49th st.
PRICE FOUR CENTS
RAF Assault on Results Cal
| Daylight Attack Follows Heaviest
Invasion Coast;
led ‘Good.’
LONDON, April 11 (U. P.).—“Very strong” forces of American planes, up to 2000
| struck one of the heaviest blow
heavy bombers and fighters, s of the pre-invasion offensive
lagainst Germany today, blasting aircraft plants at Bern-
| burg and Oschelsleben on the
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approaches to Berlin.
The daylight attack followed by a few hours the heavi-
Rk est air assault of the war in which British night raiders
was functioning almost normally
today although the custodians still were out on strike. Fathers came in at 6:30 a. m. and stoked the furnace; students took over the rest
of the janitorial services. empty the classroom wastebaskets
Charles Rohm and. Carolyn Ashbaucher
as their part in keeping the school
going. Each grade, with the exception of the first, was organized this morning by Mrs. Mildred Orr, principal, to care for various custodian
duties.
SCHOOL STRIKE MAY END SOON |
City Officials to Consider |
Cases of Those Who Wish to Return.
‘More city schools, closed by the{g
strike of" janitors and custodians, were expected to reopen by tomorrow as several fathers of pupils offered to fire the school furnaces un-
til the janitors return to work or}
help can be hired. School 27, closed this morning, was to open at noon today and classwork was resumed in four of
ithe 29 grade schools which were
{ closed yesterday. However, Schools 50 and 51, which were open yesterday, dismissed classes today.
Schools 9 and 20 reopened to-|:
day as the janitors returned to
work. At School 67 the boilers were| fired by Oscar Eller, husband of the: principal, while the janitor sat by 4
watching. Janitor Resigns
At school 86, the janitor resigned, but classwork went on after some of the fathers of pupils built the fires. The other 25 schools, remained closed today, were 12, 19, 26, 27, 30, 34, 36, 43, Se hy 49, 52, 54, 56, 58, 62, 63, 68, 69, 5, 78 and 85. With the return of the janitors to two of the schools 58 members of the custodial staff are still out on strike in protest against the school]
6 hich
board's refusal to enter into a contract or agreement with their A. F.|
of L. union, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, local 154. The Indianapolis office of the U. S. employment service yesterday declined a school board request to provide workers to replace the strikers, explaining that it is unable to provide replacements for strikers.
Won't Lengthen Term
Theodore L. Locke, school board president, stated that the board | ‘would consider taking the strikers] back on an individual basis.
to get back on the job, we'll take | them back after’ individual consid-| eration,” he stated. The board formerly issued a statement explaining that any employee who abandoned his post of duty would be considered as having resigned. School board officials stated that the closing of the schools would not lengthen the school term, but the
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By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 11.—The hallmark of wartime propagandizing, as it is done by the office of war information, is bigness and lavishness. The Germans and British do it in the grand manner and—the theory goes—so must the United States. = To tell a story you don't just write a pamphlet or a radio pro-
PROPAGANDA POWERHOUSE—
British and Germans Do It, So OWI Produces Lavishly
tion. Feature articles are written. Perhaps some posters would be just the thing. That's the way to get the American message across, as OWI sees it. When it's all finished, the landscape from Belfast to Bombay should be so plastered with magic from the American scene that it would take something like a miracle to miss it. OWT's biggest and most solid da thrust out of New York is by short-wave broadcast. From 16 studios employing 100 full-time and 150 part-time announcers go 2500 radio shows: weekly, 1900 di
Here Sandra Krouse dusts down the hand rail as Peter Burkholder sweeps the stairs.
APS RUSH FRESH TROOPS INTO BURMA'
Reinforcements Also Sent
Against India Defenses.
NEW DELHI, April 11 (U. P).— Fresh Japanese troops and equipment were reported streaming into {Burma from Thailand and other {southwest* Asia reservoirs today in| an effort to halt the allied offensive in northern Burma and reinforce; enemy invasipn armies in eastern India. | Allied spokesmen indicated that thousands of Japanese soldiers, | racing to beat the rapidly-approach-| {ing monsoon rains,
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| the network of railroad lines feeding into central and northern Burman from occupied Thailand. Powerful allied bombing formations were disclosed to be in almost continual action against the rail lines. Meanwhile, an allied communique revealed that British imperial forces were holding fast in the East Indian supply base of Kohima under increasingly-heavy Japanese attack, while other allied units fought off advanced elements of three invading columns closing in on Imphal, 60 miles to the south.
M'ARTHUR ‘TESTED’ IN ILLINOIS TODAY
Preferential Primary.
CHICAGO, April 11 (U. P.).—Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the" only major presidential possibility. whose name appeared on the ballot today in the Illinois presidential preference primary election. MacArthur, whose name was entered without his consent, was opposed on the Republican ticket only
were being| “If they are good men and want rushed into the battle areas over C
Opposed by Ex- Boxer inf
{battered French and Belgian
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CENTER TAKEN
Thousands of Nazis Die in ‘Dunkerque’ Attempt at Fallen Odessa.
the Ukraine has captured Dzhankoi, railroad junction commanding all of the northern Crimea, in a whirlwind campaign sweeping 37] miles deep into the Black sea
nounced today. Another 4th army column crashed | through the formidable German |
mus linking the Crimea with the mainland and drove through Arm-| yansk down into the peninsula, Pre-| mier Josef Stalin said in an order | of the day.
Nazis Die in Odessa Tolbukhin's campaign to wrest
{the Crimea from ; the -100,000 or
more axis troops stranded there since the Russians sealed off the diamond-shaped Black sea peninsula last November was developing at sensational speed. Moscow reported that Russian bombers and artillery shattered an attempted Black sea Dunkerque evacuation of doomed Odessa, killing thousands of German and Romanfan troops scrambling in wild disorder to escape. Far to the northwest, Soviet mobile forces swarmed 62 miles into Romania, forcing the Siret and Suceava rivers on a 45-mile front in a drive aimed at the Galati bottleneck guarding the approaches to Bucharest.
“Like a Madhouse”
Dispatches from Odessa said that in the last 48 hours of axis resistance the Black sea port was “like a madhouse.” The waterfront seethed as panicky Germans and Romanians made a mgd rush to board barges, tugs, ships, rowboats and rafts. Most of the shipping collected for |the flight was Romanian, but the Nazis refused to let their Romanian allies board the vessels, shoving them from the quays and beating them back with rifle butts, dispatches reported. The Germans looted Odessa, re-
speed of the Soviet breakin left /them no time to raze what was left of the city. Soviet planes hovered over the port and seaway night and day, bombing and gunning every ship {which emerged. They also blasted {trains and columns trying to make | their way westward ‘to the ferry ossing of the broad Dnester roy Meanwhile, along the highways west of Odessa disorderly groups of axis troops were overtaken by the Russian army.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m....48 10a m..... 7a. m....48 lam... 8am . 50 12 (Noon) .. 9am . 52 1pm
Hughes, Ex-Chief Justice, Observes
His 82d Birthday
WASHINGTON, April 11 .U. P.).—Charles Evans Hughes, who retired in 1941 as chief justice of the supreme ccurt, celebrated his 82d birthday anniversary today. Receiving newspa permen graciously but refusing comment on public affairs, Hughes issued a one paragraph statement which read: “I am as well as can be reasonably expected at my time of life. I still cherish the - privileges of old age. I am living quietly and trying to ode as cheerful as possible in this ; war-tom world.”
LONDON, April 11 (U. P.).—Gen.!| Fedor I. Tolbukhin's 4th army of |
peninsula in four days, Moscow an- |
defenses astride the Perekop isth- |
ports from the city said, but the |
railway junctions with more
than 4032 short tons of hombs, an all-time record. One of the biggest United States aerial fleets in action |recently plunged deep into
CRIMEAN RAIL
Germany to smash anew at plants supplying the German lair force and break up repair work on previously shattered {factories. Bernburg is 85 miles southwest of Berlin, and Oschersleben 25 miles to the northwest and 95 miles from the German capital. The weather was clear over Gere {many, permitting visual pin-point | bombing. Crewmen of the first Liberators returning from Germany said resistance was feeble.
Barrage Is Heavy German ground gunners threw {up a heavy barrage through which {the big bombers flew in perfect { formation five miles above the { Reich. Nazi radio propagandists claimed {that a number of Fortresses were {forced down in the Spreewald area some 50 miles southeast of Berlin. Six Flying Fortresses landed in South Sweden this morning, a {United Press dispatch from Stock= {holm said. It also reported that Swedish anti-aircraft gunners shot down a German plane. It burned and the crew was killed. The largest number of British bombers ever sent against occupied territory participated in last night's attacks, the air ministry announced. German opposition generally was negligible. Drop 4030 Short Tons
The 900 R. A. F. bombers dis | tributed more than 4032 short tons of explosives among railway yards and depots at Gent, Belgium; Laon, 70 miles northeast of Paris; Tergnier, 15 miles northwest of Laon: Aule noye, 110 miles north of Paris, and Tours, 125 miles southwest of Paris, Squadrons of twin-engined Mosquito bombers attacked Hannover in northwestern Germany and objectives in the industrial Ruhr during the night. Twenty-two R. A. PF. planes were lost. Heavy air blows appeared to be (falling on France and Belgium with {increasing intensity and regularity as the hour for the opening of a western front approached, with railways supplying Germany's coaste al defenses among the prime tare gets. The American 8th and 9th air forces alone sent 2000 bombers and fighters against France and Bele gium yesterday. Hits Nazi Air Powers
British and American air power now have come fully into their own {in a day and night trip-hammer offensive from targets near the channel deep into Poland. It is an offensive which deals shattering blows at the sources of German air power and at production centers which feed the Nazi land machine but which at the same time is steadily softening up “invasion land” for the western front to come. This versatile offensive never would have been possible without the huge preponderance of air power built up on the air fields of the British Isles and without the American offensive against German fighter strength which has reduced the luftwaffe—defen« sively—to the status of a second rate opponent, Because the allies between them have developed that. preponderance and have forced the German air force into a desperate conservation of its strength, they can throw their whole might into: 1. A steady campaign of strae
production and 2. This new “blitz” against come
the Reich's western defenses. And they can combine both ate tacks without giving away thelz invasion hand.
COLLECT TIN AGAIN ON NORTH SIDE TODAY
The April tin can collection in the northern part of the city is ex» pected to be completed today. Pive car loads were salvaged" north of 16th st. City-owned trucks
munications which feed life into
tegic attrition of German war
Es