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SOLDIER VOTE G. 0. P.-Dominated Senate
The Republican-dominated state senate was expected to pass, with little difficulty, the G. O. P. soldier vote bill this afternoon after beating down a Democratic proposal to amend the bill to authorize the counting of the federal ballots in Indiana, ;
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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 27
Women Lawmakers Hold Hallway Huddle
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1944
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Women legislators get in a huddle over the soldier vote bill in the halls of the statehouse. Left to | right they are Mrs. Ida R. Wilson, Boonville; Mrs, Arcada S. Balz, Indianapolis; Mrs. Clara Van Coons, Crawfordsville; Miss Elizabeth K. Downing, Marion county; Mrs. Mabel Lowe, Marion county, and Mrs.
Nell Downey, Marion county.
All are members of the house except Mrs, Balz.
APPROVAL DUE
Expected to Pass Bill
This Afternoon. By EARL RICHERT
The senate considered the meas- |
ure as a committee of the whole | this morning and several technical | and grammatical amendments were | adopted which would in no way] _ change the general content of the biil
Vote on Amendment { An amendment offered by the the counting of the federal ballots
was offered just before the noon| recess and it was scheduled to be
voted upon, after long blasts of oratory,
after the session reconvened. | Senator John VanNess (R. Val-. paraiso), Senate president pro tem, notified the senators that he would seek passage of the soldier vote bill under suspended rules after conclusion of the work of the Senate as a committee of the whole. The most important change made | in the bill at the morning session was the adoption of an amendment making the soldier's application for a special ballot this time serve as registration for all elections for two years after the cessation of hostilities. Two Bills Move Up
The other two G. O. P. program |
measures to exempt members of the!
armed forces from payment of poll taxes and penalties on delinquent property taxes moved on up the legislative calendar in the House, that group approving committee reports
The house accepted an amend-| ment to the poll tax exemption | bill, offered by the house ways and!
"means committee, which would make |
tt possible for members of the! armed forces to obtain their auto-| mobile license plates and drivers’ licenses without showing personal] property tax receipts, The Democratic measures intro-| duced to cover the proposals made
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His Name Entered On Wrong Ticket
LOS ANGELES, April 12 (U. P.).—Lloyd L. Vye wanted to be a congressional candidate, but he got on the wrong ticket. Rush- | ing to file before the deadline, the San ‘Pedro railroader was stopped by a traffic officer for speeding through a stoplight at 50
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‘Raid Us Not in Our Hotel, Assembly Members Plead |
By NOBLE REED The house of representatives today formally moved to protect its members from Police Chief Beeker's raiding squads during the special session of the legislature. - A resolution requesting Mayor Tyndall to instruct his chief of police to refrain from raiding the inhabitants of the Claypool hotel while members of the house “are in pursuit of their business otherwise,”
and pleasures, innocent or unanimous vote,
It was introduced by Rep. Matthew E. Welsh, (D. Vincennes) who explained that the recent raiding policies of the Indianapolis police department prompted him to remind Mayor Tyndall of the constitutional immunity of members of the house in police matters. He referred by inference to the raid on the Claypool hotel apartment of John K. Jennings, Indiana war manpower director,
two weeks ago when Mr. Jennings
were arrested by Chief Beeker’s raiders and charged with gambling
and visiting a gambling house. A moment after Rep. Welsh's Jess C. Andrews (R. West Point) * Republican majority of the house
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Peace Planning By U.S. Firms - Asked by Kaiser
By EDWARD A. EVANS Secripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 12—“T won~ der,” Henry J. Kaiser said today, “whether it isn’t about time for industry to start doing some bold, smart taking of orders for postwar business.” The shipbuilder, who had been among the honored guests at a luncheon given by the national trustees of the ¢ om m ittee for economic devel- § opment, thor - oughly approved of the speeches he had heard there. “Paul Hoffman and his assO-
tainly right in ; urging business and dustry to 0 Raiser plan boldly and smartly for high levels of production and employment after the war,” he said. “But if there are going to be plenty of jobs, the goods that in-
going to have to be sold, and what I'd like to know is, when do you start selling? When do you begin taking some orders for gobds to be delivered just as fast as they can be turned out after the war contracts are finished? “When do you-tell the customers what goods you're going to make, and what prices yours going to charge? “Because, as I see it, orders on
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miles an hour. By the time his 6am..... 3% 10am... 38 name was on the traffic ticket Tam..... 3 lam... 43 and the officer had finished his Sam... 36 12 (Noon) .. 47 lecture, it was too late to file. fSam..... 3 l1p.m..... 49 THE U. S. PROPAGANDA 'LINE'—
OWI Pictures United States With Best Foot Forward
By CHARLES T. LUCEY - Seripps-Howard Staff Writer ' NEW YORK, April 12—The office of war information gives the overseas world a “dressed up” ver-
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sion of American affairs that is a natural result of treating news as propaganda. OWI pecple believe that's what they're. there for. It is in the “America's best foot fore ward” technique. ; : The U. S. propaganda “line” is adroitly deigned by placing the day's news against a background of state department policy and the best military and political intelligence so as to create the maximum propaganda impact abroad. There are recent examples to show how news is molded to fit a propaganda pattern, The OWI has played to the hilt the Finland-get-out-of-the-war line, In campaigns like this, OWI often goes much further than to report, as in this case, that Russia and Finland were negotiating: “If can {
were closed today as the janitor strike continued and pupils were sent home with instructions not to return until they were notified that the schools would reopen.
school with over 1000 pupils, opened {at noon after being closed this morning,” but Schools 18 and 20 were added to the list of 25 other) schools which were closed yesterday |W {and today.
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was adopted by a
and his six poker playing guests
resolution was introduced. Rep. concurred in it and urged the to “go along with the Demo-
AT SCHOOL 26
Twenty-seven Others Closed
As Janitors Remain On Strike.
Twenty-seven city grade schools
School 26, the city's largest grade
MWARTHUR AND
STASSEN LEAD IN2 PRIMARIES
liinois and Nebraska Favor Military Leaders in G. 0. P. Contest.
By UNITED PRESS Presidential stock of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Lt. Cmdr, Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, was boosted today by incomplete and unofficial returns from yesterday’s presidential primaries in Illinois and Nebraska. i ’ Three of every four Republican votes cast in the Illinois election were for MacArthur, whose only opposition was Riley A. Bender, a former pugilist not considered seriously as a candidate. Nebraska Republicans made Stassen their 2-to-1 favorite over Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, a write-in candidate. Dewey, who would not permit his name to be entered in the primary,
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Nazi Fighter Craft Believed At New Peak
LONDON, April 12 (U. PJ. —A British air commentator said today that “frenzied” Nazi efforts to meet the allied aerial challenge had brought |
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German Aircraft Plants. ~ :
BULLETIN LONDON, April 12 (U. P.).—Some of the heaviest explosions of the war were heard across the channel today,
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the German fighter force to | coming from Nazi-occupied Europe. BBL) dire Dea omy = Record Sum Approved, The explosions quieted down between 1:30 p. m. and A] five months ago, before the King Urges Crushing 2 p. m., then were renewed in long, rolling salvos resem- 3 start of the great battle for . bling naval gunfire. ) 5 Berlin, of Japs. The English east coast shook under the impact of the
“The Germans doubled their fighter defenses ingl1942 and redoubled them 4n 1943,” a R. A. FP. spokesman said. “Their
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. p..| explosions, rattling doors and windows and causing build-
—The house appropriations commit-| ing to tremble. tee today approved a record $32.-| : 647,134,336 navy appropriati il | v _ . . . 5 a ami LONDON, April 12 (U. P.).—American air forces Ernest J. King urged that the swung the main weight of a record aerial offensive south-
United States accept no victory in|ward against German aircraft plants in Austria today with
the Pacific short of J de- oe . struction. she apanese de | Italy-based heavy bombers striking in great strength at the The commander in chief of the| Wiener Neustadt area south of Vienna. U. 8. fleet told the committee that | Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining sent formidable fleets of “Tokyo is the ultimate objective of |, . . . 'his flying Fortresses and Liberators to hammer three Mes-
all these operations” conducted and : : ~ - planned in the Pacific. serschmitt factories clustered around Wiener Neustadt and
“Whatever the cost,” King said, |to blast vital targets at Zagreb and Split, Yugoslavia. 3
“we know the Japanese well enough | a: | Ls # to realize that we cannot. regard Britain-based bombers meanwhile streamed out Dory 2 orma- 7
victory in the Pacific as anything the channel, and the Berlin radio said “rather weak” short of the destruction of the Jap- | tions of American planes flew in over western and central
before. “Virtually all of the fighters have been assigned to the protection of Germany. Chanty begins at home for the Germans these days.” The commentator said the increase has been coming not from new production so much as from planes which already were between the factory and air field, from reserves against the western front, and from planes which were being repaired.
polled less than half as many votes
name removed from the ballot. Results in Illinois
In Nlinois the Republican organization slate headed by Governor Dwight Green swept to victory in! the contests for state offices. Nearly complete unofficial returns; from the state's 3728 precincts included: . Republican— i President (7282 precincts), MacArthur 432976, Bender 29,884. Senator (7407 precincts), 427423, Deneen Watson 68,652.
486,839, Carlstrom 80,139.
566, Col. Edward Davis 144,357. Democrat—
Scott Lucas 474,054. Governor (6730 precincts), Thom- | as Courtney 475,042. 1 Mrs. Emily Taft Douglas 425,077. Nebraska Tabulations
They are Schools 6. 7. 10, 12, 19, 36, 43, 45, 48, 498. 50, 51, 8 and 85.
school system, announced the ap-
tract or agreement with the Amer
and Municipal Employees, local (A. P. of L).
Mexico Chief's
Assailant Dies
MEXICO CITY, April 12 (U. P.) .—Antonio de Lama Rojas, 32-year-old Mexican artillery lieutenant who tried Monday to kill President Manuel Avila Camacho, died today from peritonitis which
| developed from a bullet wound in
his abdomen. The staff surgeon at the Mexico City Military hospital reported that Rojas died at 9:05 a. m. today. Gen. Roberto T. Bonilla, commandant of the Mexican department of military justice, said that the shooting of Rojas when he attempted to escape from a military barracks was unavoidable.
BOMBER SINKS U-BOAT
LONDON, April 12 (U. P).—A German U-boat, lying in wait for a convoy, was surprised and sunk by a Catalina patrol bomber from the R. A. F. while flying far at sea during a snowstorm, the air mintry last night.
MARGARINE SUPPLY CUT
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U, PJ. —Hopes for a reduction in the 16point per pound ration value of butter faded today as the war food administration announced that civilians will ‘get 17,000,000 pounds less margarine during April, May and June than during the first three months of the year.
PRISON POPULATIONS DROP WASHINGTON
ghost-write statement,
pointment of seven new persons to {the custodial staff. The schools; 16,338; Willkie, 5857. {had no new volunteers today to help {fire the furnaces. i Some 60 members of the custo-| dial staff walked off their jobs Mon- | day in protest against the school]
jcan ‘Federation of State, County 154!
, April 12 (U. P).
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in November because of the size of
the totals rolled up by the unop- that the river had been rising an inch an hour since 6 a. m. Be 3 a. m. and 6 a. m. today it swelled | six inches, they said.
{posed Democratic candidates.
J. E. McGaughey, superintendent! Returns from 1283 of Nebraska's of buildings and grounds for the | 2031 precincts gave:
i Republican— | President—Stassen, 34,862; Dewey!
Democrat— Roosevelt, 22,178. Governor— (Republican) Griswold,
board's refusal to enter into a con-| 'were moving their automobiles to | Arrive Too Late AN Y DEMOCR ATS 0 K {higher ground. One family ws WALLACE SIDESTEPS |ported that German and Romanian (19 18 1 | . {forces “further disengaged them-! More than 10,000 planes partici-
‘Resolution | 4th Term Apprbval. |
i NEW YORK, April 12 (U. P).— | The New York state Democratic | {committee unanimously re-elected {James A. Farley as its chairman to- | {day and unanimously approved al Iresolution that was interpreted as |an indorsement of a fourth term for | { President Roosevelt. - The resolution was proposed by] {former National Chairman Edward | {J. Flynn. Indorsing President Roosejvelt's administration, it did not {specifically mention his re-nomina-{tion and re-election. i “The inevitable victory of ‘our righteous cause,” the resolution said, “can best be assured the sooner by his continued direction of the great contribution that armed America, agricultural America, and industrial America are making all over .the ‘globe in defeating the forces of tyranny.” Farley had opposed Mr. Roosevelt’'s nomination for a third term and resigned as national chairman after the 1940 convention. Today's resolution appeared to be a compromise with state Democratic factions wanting a specific indorsement of Mr. Roosevelt as a presidential candidate this year. The Albany O'Connell faction wanted to remove Farley as state chairman.
HITLER SUMMONS AIDES
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as Stassen but ran far ahead of| Wendell L. Willkie, who withdrew | RING last Wednesday, too late to have his RIVERS NEA Fair, Warmer Weather to
Ly ons northern 2s Sena) Inds Yee of direct appropriations—exclusive | through the Crimea at a pace] Wiener Neustadt ann i nearing hon ne omttiern part of | of contractual authoritv—for the promising its compiete iiberation in| U0e * ] ’ flood wa y { : : the state are due to rise for another | 73% since the start of the national a matter of days-after-
at-large (6220 pre- week, the weather bureau reported, |cincts), Rep. Stephen A. Day 308,- today. |
{to 13 feet with a crest of 15 ex-| Ssndier (973) Prucingis), Benster pected BRR as pr fair | Sonnel, followed by $4,600,640,000 for said there was no sign that the) |and warmer holds true.
Congress-at-large (6738 precincts) {some roads and streets yesterday, {had drained off today, and residents of the lowland communities around Indianapolis were wading to| Republicans hailed the voting as and from their homes. Out in the| because their totals state, however, schools were closed. | {topped the Democrat primary fig- roads blocked and farmers res for the first time since 1932. !viewing the heavy rainfall and Democratic leaders sald the figures water as a hindrance to sprin indicated a triumph for their party. planting. ’ i
| yesterday afternoon, and was two aggregating more than |feet deep in the grocery of ROY tons, as compared with 7733 vessels | center 41 miles to the east. Goodpasture at 73d st. and the totaling nearly | river.
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§ moved from 7240 Fitch st. | | Police brought a 15-year-old boy! FOR ELECT FARLEY! to juvenile aid yesterday afternoon J |atter they saw him and two com- | —— panions riding a raft near the east!
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anese empire. { yo , ) o “To accomplish that destruction | Germany, where they were J
= = = we must deliver the heaviest attacks | engaged by Nazi fighters. of which we are capable as soon and | | Early reports on the at-
as often as possible, where it will rd SE tacks from Britain indicated
{hurt the most.” ; FLOOD CRESTS... ormmexa. ACROSS CRIMEA :irsesimenris 1 as e -plane American attac oul Mgn Mons pod jon Germany esterday. British propriations and contract- authority | bombers carried the unprecedented
. A campaign through the night with a totaling $31,566,134,336 for the 1945 fiscal year beginning next duly 1.| 1680-ton bombardment of the Ger-
{It also provided for additional ap- jman rail junction of Aachen and
| S thrusts at other targets. i propriations totaling - $1,081,000,000 { for the rest of the current fiscal Naples dispatches describing the
vesr | 15th air force assault indicated that
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Resistance. : i {several hundred Fortresses and ‘ : { The new appropriation bill would] MOSCOW, April 12 (U. P)—i_. The Wabash and White rivers in| 1 .~_iLiberators were in action, concen~ {increase to $102,205,108,441 the total Russian armies are sweeping, .ing the bulk of their bombs on
} . Many tons of bombs were defense program on July 1, 1940. { bulk of its northern quarter ana oe oe ferier 5 ustadt, | The largest single expenditure | half the Kerch peninsula in a light- | the Bad Voslau fact 10 miles to At Indianapolis, White river rose Category proposed is $8,029,000,000 ning campaign, Soviet front dis- ;.. north and a component center ' {for new ship construction. Next in patches said today. 25 miles north of the main works is $6.229.919,172 for naval! per-! Reports from the Black Sea front . Report Results
aviation. estimated 150,000 Germans and Ro-| A pig force of Liberators hit an Here are some of the things the manians in the Crimea had the gir field and rail yards at Zagred, new funds are intended to support heart for a fight like the famouspiggest rail center in northwestern or buy: Russian stand at Sevastopol despite | yugoslavia, and Fortresses bombed NAVAL PERSONNEL — Navy, a purported order by Adoll Hitler toa cement plant at Split on the Dal3,006,000; marine corps, 478,000, and |hold the peninsula at all cost.' | matian coast. coast guard, 173,467. Other military dispatches report-| The Fischamend Markt plant, the PLANES—24230 new aircraft, vir-{ed that Soviet troops who reached northernmost of the three which is were tually all combat types. To bring|the Czechoslovak frontier had cap-|12 miles from Vienna, never had high the navy's air strength to its au- tured half a dozen towns described | heen bombed before. Fortress crewg thorized number of 37735 useful, as “actually the gey to the heart!men reported good coverage of their up-to-date fighting craft. of the Carpathians” and hinted "target there. | SHIPS—807 combatant types and that Russian mountain fighters had! The bombers and their escort were {30,151 in other categories, largely | penetrated the passes leading down challenged by enemy fightesr, but tween landing craft. {to the Hungarian plain. details were not reported immediRear Adm. E. L. Cochrane. chief| In Romania, other Russian forces ately. of the navy's bureau of ships, told forced a new crossing of the Sifet| "American. and British bombers the committee that by the end of Tiver to capture the Pascani rail from Britain alone since Saturday Water Comes Over Levee |, |. fiscal year the navy will| junction on the trunk line running have dropped fore than 11,200 tons The water came over the levee have 10244 self-propelled vessels north from Bucharest and strength- of bombs on German aircraft plants 10,000,000 (en their flanking of the Isasi rail and key communications centers in | Germany, France and Belgium, (A Nazi-relayed Romanion com- both gf which must be knocked out munique claimed the recapture of or at least severely damaged in adsmall towns 14 and 25 miles west of vance of the opening of a western /Iasi on the railroad to Pascani.) | front. (The German high command re-|
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|selves to positions farther south” in pated in the four days'and nights the northern Crimea.) 'of attacks, which left a trail of ruin . Military quarters reported that across Europe from the French At-
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taking off from Britain were not TITO ORDERS DRIVE
announced immediately, but they LONDON, April 12 (U. P..—To
| | presumably lay along the French WASHINGTON. April 12 (C. ). wit Russian troops driving into [038% 0s, Fehr SPooner —Vice President Henry A. Wallace | Romania, Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz : | N from France soon after the allied today declined to elaborate on his today orderéd upwards of 50,000 formation or i the |plans to visit Chungking. China. yygoslav partisans to open a gen-| nile hundreds of British heavy but said some speculation about it|era) all-out offensive against Ger- :
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: | Significance Denounced. At Bluffton, the head waters of |
of White river south of New Speculation st. His two pals left before
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Hoosier Heroes—
PILOT AND MARINE FROM HERE KILLED
Lt. Alander, Pvt. Timmons
Listed From 2 Fronts.
BATTLES OVER HOLLAND and in the South Pacific have claimed the lives of an Indianapolis marine | and a co-pilot of a Flying Fortress. |
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is “not true.” Wallace said he would not go be-| /yond last night's simple announce- | {ment that he hopes to visit Chung- | | king some time in the late spring] lor early summer.
Such a trip might take him « Pattern of Allied Bombing Confuses Nazis on Invasion
of the country during the Democratic national convention at Chi- | | cago, where his political future may be decided. That fact resulted in speculation that Wallace was withdrawing himself from the race for | choice as Democratic vice.presiden- | tial nominee. “The only thing I have author-
man garrisons in Serbia.
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WAR ANALYSIS—
By LOUIS J. KEEMLE United Press War Editor
The allied air offensive against the European continent has evi-
|ized to be said was that I hoped to! gently entered its final pre-invasion
Pvt. Robert L. Timmons, 803 visit - Chungking in late spring Or|gtrategic phase, but still without
Sanders st. Lt. Eino V. Alander, 3207 Cen-
tral ave. MISSING . Second Lt. Fred M. Bennett, In-
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NEW DELHI, ‘April 12 (U. P.).— has
Charles T. Slusser, superintendent
ers. “There is nothing else to be] added. Things printed in addition are not true.” Wallace met..reporters when he entertained a group of Latin American members of the Washington American league baseball club. Questions about Wallace's trip ended when the baseball group arrived and club president Clark Griffith suggested: : “Couldn't you add that you are going to bring me back a Chinese ball player?”
STATE PARK TO OPEN April 12 (U. P).—
of Turkey Run State park, announced today that the park offi-
| early summer,” Wallace told report-| giving the Germans any definite
clew as to how much nearer is the actual invasion day. From where the Germans sit, this phase might last only for days, or for many weeks. The principal allied targets during February and March were German industrial centers essential to their war production, but particularly the aircraft plants which keep the Luftwaffe in being. , Later, more attention was devoted to German airfields in the Reich and other countries, to destroy on the ground the fighters which were sent into air combat only under the most favorable conditions for them. Now the emphasis is on railway communications leading to the
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uneasy: They cannot tell whether it may be one of the “many false alarms, many feints and many dress rehearsals” to which Prime Minis ter Churchill referred in his March 26 speech. : The aim of this phase of the offensive is twofold—to reduce the luftwaffe to a completely ineffective defense force by the time invasion comes, and to tangle the enemy's web of railway lines so that the rapid shift of troops to threatened points and the flow of supplies to the front will be impeded. : To do this, both the R. A. P. and U. S. A. A FP. are taking heavy losses: in bombers and personnel. The R. A. FP. for instance, lost 94
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