Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1944 — Page 2
Chaos Ahead Otherwise,
. He Tells House Group.
WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.), ~The emergency price control act ‘must be renewed “substantially. in its present form” to prevent price chaos, Price Administrator Chester Bowles told congress today. Testifying before the house bank-
ing and currency committee as the g
first witness on legislation to extend the price control program beyond its
present June 30 expiration date, § Bowles said that under the pro- §
1. The cost of living per average family has risen “only 6'% per cent Since price control was first introduced at retail in May, 1942." * 2. The cost of living has been held in check with no rise whatsoever for the past 12 months, 3. Corporation and farm profits fre at “record levels,” and “business failures are at the lowest point in 50 years,” Bowles anticipated amendments which will be proposed by opponents of the present program, and said one of these will be designed “to make it mandatory for the office of price administration to establish prices which are profitable to each) of our 3,000,000 business concerns.” Any such amendment, he said, “would cause unforgivable increases in the cost of
ford to pay higher prices. ”
WALDENMAIER RITES | TO BE HELD FRIDAY
. Services for Mrs. Elizabeth K.|
Waldenmaier, 5102 Madison ave. | church's program in China after
will be held at 2 p. m. Friday in the| Haskell & Morrison funeral home| in Vevay. ’
in the King's Daughter's hospital at Madison. Prospect chapter 452, O. I. S.; Indianapolis chapter of American
War Mothers, and the Olive Branch | | teacher. All have had recent gradulate work at Yale, and- will go to Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.| India as soon as transportation is| Dorothy M. Davis; a brother, Otto! Kopp, both of Indianapolis; a son,| Bernhardt A. Waldenmaier, More- at ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. head City, N. C., and six grandchil- morrow in Graham chapel of the
Christian church.
dren and one great-grandchild,
GEN. KOENIG IN LONDON
LONDON, April 12 (U. P.).—Gen. Joseph Koenig, French war hero appointed by Gen. Charles de Gaulle
eration, was
conference pe Gen. Dwight Eisen- | so he “could have another chance.” hower, commander of allied western Wife No. 1 was prompt to reply invasion forces.
Aviation
vania st.
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST SET MEETING HERE
Twenty-four Disciples of Christ!
|
missionaries, on
living—increases China because of the war, will come which would fall heavily on those to Indianapolis from all parts of of our citizens who could least. af- the United States Friday and Satur- | day to attend a conference of postwar missionary plans. The missionaries are in the em-| ploy of the United Christian Mis222 Downey ave., where the conference will be held.
sionary society, | Discussions will {the war. |
| missionaries.
| Hazel Hughes,
available,
i missions building.
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NO. 1 WIFE SAYS “NO” NEW YORK, April 12 (U, P).— as official’ military delegate of the Edward Kauhaus’ French national committee of lib- | charged with bigamy, in London today for would give him back to wife No. 1
“I don’t want him.”
cadets
Schlake, 517 W. 46th st., and Rohert C. Wendling, 3034 N. Pennsyl(left to right), pore over
| The board of trustees of the so{ciety, in session today at the misMrs. Waldenmaier died yesterday sions building, presented three new They are the Rev. She was a member of and Mrs. Keith Hall, both Butler] the university graduates,
They will be officially appointed
| Hopkins, United society president, | will present their certificates.
Fmory V. cross country flight plans at the Frederick army air field, Okla. The two are slated to win their wings and commissions as bomber
pilots May 23.
Wins Historic Medical Battle
BOSTON, April 12 (U. P.).—Last survivor of the Cocoanut Grove holocaust to leave the hospital, Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson was en route to his Sumner, Mo., home today after winning a 16-month battle agajnst burns in one of medical history's most amazing fights for life. The 22-year-old serviceman, who left the Brighton Marine hospital yesterday, was burned almost beyond recognition in the night club fire that claimed 490 lives Nov. 28, 1942. Third-degree burns covered 65 per cent of his body. No other’ person in that fire who suffered more than 20 per cent burns survived. Johnson, who spent almost a year while hospitalized lying on his stomach, probably owes his life to unparalleled nutritional treatment, blood plasma and about $50,000 worth of the finest medical care obtainable. In all, 17,000 pin points of skin graft were worked into his body. He reecived 100 blood transfusions from soldiers, sailors and friends. However, Johnson must return to the marine hospital May 2 for additiqnal treatment,
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Ladies’ auxiliary, 393, B.L. F. &E, will sponsor a card party at 2 p. m.
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NEW-GUINEA HIT _ FROM SEA, AIR
American Forces Seize Five More Marshalls Bases.
By UNITED PRESS American forces, tightening the pressure on the Japanese in the Central and Southwest Pacific,
shall islands while U. 8. destroyers joined In the almost continuous aerial bombardment of enemy supply ports. on the northern New Guinea coast, it was revealed today. A fleet of destroyers, under cover of Lightning fighter planes, shelled the harbor areas around Hansa bay, New Guinea, Sunday, and heavy Liberator bombers followed up with a 227-ton attack which a communique said left the enemy installations “thoroughly gutted and covered with smoke.” ; The destroyers also shelled Madang and Alexishafen, about 100 miles southeast of Hansa bay, while the Liberators bombed gun positions in Uligan harbor, 12 miles north of Alexishafen. Alluk Seized In the Central Pacific, American forces seized Ailuk, Rongelap, Likiep and Utirik atolls and Mejit (New Year) island, to complete a solid, 600-mile front between the isolated Japanese positions in the Marshalls and the enemy-held Carolines.
portant bases in Japanese hands— Wotje, Jaluit, Mili and Maloelap. A communique said four unidentified Japanese positions in the Marshalls were hit with 55 tons of bombs Sunday by army, navy and marine fliers, Truk Raid Reported Southwest ‘and Central Pacific bombers combined again in attacking the Carolines, and the Japanese said that Truk itself was raided by 20 American bombers at dawn yesterday. The targets around Truk announced by American quarters ranged from Woleai, 500 miles to the west, where two cargo vessels were damaged, to Ponape, 385 miles to the east, and Ulul island, 150 miles northwest. American ground forces on Bougainville in the Solomons pushed their lines two miles east of the Torokina permieter, and a spokesman disclosed the Japanese lost 5370 ‘dead in the month ending April 8 in their futile attacks to penetrate the Empress Augusta bay beachhead. It also was revealed that 442 Americans were killed, 1062 wounded and 10 were missing in the campaign on New Britain, in the Bismarck archipelago, where allied airmen continued their almost daily attacks on Rabaul, last important enemy base on the island.
SERVIGES SET FOR “CAVE-IN VICTIMS
FT." WAYNE, Ind, April 12 (U. | P.).—Funeral services were arranged | today for three women and three {men who were trapped and killed ! yesterday when a wall from the | Sears, Roebuck store collapsed into [the Ft. Wayne National bank, Victims of the cave-in were: Samuel L. Wass, 41, and Clifford Jones, 40, receivers of the old First National bank; Carol Davis, 28, { Thelma Pifer, 22; Wilma Myers, (21, all bookkeeping employees of | the bank; John Pearson, 31, of the | Superior Advertising Co. | City and state firs officials had [not yet determined whut was re- | sponsible for the cave-in, but it was | believed that high winds and heavy | rains aided the disaster. The Sears |store was closed for repairs fol-|lowing-a fire on March 27, which {did $250,000 damage. The two top floors of the building had been | burned away leaving the brick wall | standing alone, and the state fire | marshal had ordered cables attached to the wall to. avoid any collapse. - “Four - bank employees also were {injured when tons of brick, mortar, |and other debris crashed in on the | mezzanine flogr of the bank. Two | rescue firemen also were hurt but none of the’ injuries were serious.
FILE MORE CHARGES
IN TULSA HEX CASE
TULSA, Okla., April 12 (U. P.).—| Two additional charges of obtaining | | money under false pretenses and
subornation of s perjury were filed | yesterday by County Attorney Dixie | Gilmer against Mrs. Carolann | Mary Smith, central figure in | Tulsa's strange “hex house” case | who already faced three felony accusations. | The middle-aged woman was ar- | raigned in common pleas court to- | day on the two new complaints. She | pleaded not guilty and bond was | set at $2000 on each of the two | charges. | Mrs. Smith was given until noon Wednesday to post the bonds, and was permitted to remain at liberty { on the $9500 bail she has made on the previous one federal and two state charges. Gilmer announced he was consid{ering seven additional charges | “which I can, and may, file.”
‘MARLENE IS GIVEN | YANKS’ PROTECTION
ALGIERS, April 12 (U. P)— | Mires Marlene Dietrich joined !soldiers on the Algiers water front | 1ast night to watch distant flashes | of battle as enemy aircraft at- | tempted an attack on convoys {moving along the North African | coast. | Miss Dietrich had just finished ‘her first show for the army at the ‘Algiers opera house when the alr raid alarm sounded. It was, 5 De said, her first real air
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seized five more bases in the Mar-|
The occupation left only four im-| —
‘the officers reporting here from the.
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The famous cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin in Washington are out in full beauty—and so is that certain something to which a young man's fancy turns—even in wartime, judging by photo above.
GLOBE CIRCLED FROM MEMPHIS
150 Types of Planes Ready "To Fill Orders From All Allied Nations.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer MEMPHIS, April 12.—Here on the banks of the Mississippi is one of the greatest military airports of the world. Here are a thousand pilots ready to fly any one of 150 types of planes to any part of the world where Americans can land. It is the home of the longest regularly flown air route in the world—28,000 miles round trip to India. They make that round trip {n just eight days from the official | _ takeoff at Miami. It is done “pony | express style,” with crews snifted | instead of ponies. The Memphis municipal alrport | has become the home field for the 4th ferrying group of the air transport command. The eight-day round trip to India has won this command more than 110,000 miles of air routes. The pilots stationed here flew 110 million miles in 1843. | All this sounds vast, but to listen to
Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, it seems a simple operation. For Uncle Sam has built air fields around the globe, some of which make the Memphis field seem some- | what modest. {
| Facilities in Pacific
Lt. Col. Earl Johnson, who is the commanding officer here and proud of the layout, says he has landed at places in the far Pacific where the width of the landing strips built by the U. 8. seem to equal the length of the great run-/ ways at Mémphis. His descriptions of what has been accomplished by Americans in making coral reefs into huge landing fields for our forces is breath-taking. He likes to talk about it, as do the dozens of other men who have been around this hew wartime “one world” more often than Wendell Willkie. In the officers club there is a great globe which serves as a chan-| delier. Col. Johnson points to it to illustrate that 80 per cent of the land of the world lies north of the equator. To Col. Johnson that means that the U. 8. A. and U. 8. 8. R. must work together to find peaceful solu- | tions to air transport problems | when the war is won, for they have the land upon which these air ar-| madas can be based. ‘The northern route is the only all-land route we| have to travel 'round the globe,” he | points out. | | |
Fly Through Storms
In the ‘wap rooms the vast Pa- | | cific and Atlantic over-water routes loom large. Flying them in all | weather appears vastly - difficult. | But Col. Johnson says timt the toughest flying anywhere is right here in the United States. { “If a pilot can navigate a ship, around this country he can fly anywhere,” he says. “They can skirt around Pacific and Atlantic storms, usually, but often we have to fly right through them here.” There are 1600 officers operating this great airport, They ferry freight and passengers anywhere at any time. They even operate their own domestic airlines. The pilots come from civilian flight schools and from combat men who have come back war weary for non-combat flying, Every allied nation places orders here and gets delivery. Col. Johnson says the pilots here are “always students” for they are learning to fly new ships and new (for them) routes constantly. Their losses are one-third that of the army air force as a whole. “Who owns all these fields that we have built around the globe?” Col. Johnson was asked. “Damned if I know,” he smiled in reply. “We Americans just built and operate them.” Until the war is won the ATS is too busy to-argue about anything except getting the land to land on.”
700 PUPILS IN CONTEST MINTICELLO, April 12 (U. P) =
Monticello today prepared to entertain more than 700 pupils of 10 high .|schools Saturday in the musical
tectively on a blacked-out front,
pro- contests of the Northem Indiana er (Betical Band,
House Approves Legislative Pay
THE FIRST BILL to pass.the house of representatives today, as is usually the case, was the appropriation measure to pay the legislators their salaries and expenses. The bill provides $20,000 to pay the legislators their $10-a-day salary and $5 a day for expenses
during the session as well as mile- |
age fo.and from Indianapolis. It passed by a vote of 87 to 1, Rep. Roy J. Harrison (R. Attica) voting against because he said it was his established custom to vote against something every session, and that it looked as if this would be about the only measure he could vote “no” on this time.
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GATES CAMPAIGN - QUARTERS OPENED
Gates-for-governor state headquarters were opened today in the Claypool hotel to promote the Re{publican candidacy of Ralph F. Gates, Columbia City, Jesse L. Murden, Peru, will manage the headquarters, with Like V. | Schneider, Indianapolis, publicity director. Mr. Gates said he would not engage a state campaign manager and that Mr. Murden will be in charge of headquarters only. A Peru businessman, Mr. Murden is a former member of the Indiana state highway commission and was
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Service Ballot Cast Under U. S. Plan, -
The Indiana C. I. O, in a statement placed on all legislators’ desks, today called upon the special session
. {of the general assembly to authorize
the counting of the federal soldier
_| vote ballots in the election this fall.
The G. O. P. soldier vote bill, approved by the Republican legislative caucus, does not authorize tHe counting of the federal ballots and
{provides only for the casting of the
regular federal, state and county ballots by Hoosiers in the armed forees.
While stating that the Q. o. P
{bill is “fairly acceptable” the C. IL
O. pointed out that in case the regular ballots are lost in transit “as happens regularly” then the in dividual applying will have lost his right to vote. (Under the federal law the soldier can cast a short federal ballot only if he has applied for the regular state ballots and does not receive them.)
Asks “Second Chance”
After pointing out that all nine Hoosler G. O. P. congressmen voted for the federal soldier vote law which does permit the casting of the short ballots, the C. I. O. said: “Certainly then, Indiana’s general assembly in adopting a measure to make it easier for the service man to vote, should adopt a bill that provides for a second chance to the men and women in the service and should not repudiate the federal bill. “Certainly the proposed bill should be amended so that if the soldier does not receive his state war ballot he may then use the federal ballot. “The members of this legislature cannot feel in their hearts that they have done their full duty for our servicemen if they do not give them this second chance.” »
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WASHINGTON, April 12 (U. P.). —The National Automobile Dealers association gaid today that government tests so far have failed tC
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