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A.F.L.Wary Of Freedom For Industry By EDWARD A. EVANS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, April 14.— Something will have to be added to the sales talks if business and industry hope to win organized labor as an enthusiastic adherent to the doctrine that free, private, competitive enterprise will solve Amerfca’s domestic problems after the war. . A reporter who believes in free enterprise is forced toward that conclusion after two days at the American FPederation of Labor § forum here on @ “Labor and the
Post-war World.” ;
conservative | branch of labor
| the legislature this afternoon.
} provisions for counting the short5 [form federal ballot, and the senate. passed and sent back to the house
SESSION NEAR 0.KSGL VOTE
G. 0. P. Clings to Plan for
Adjournment Despite
Pressure.
By NOBLE REED Despite increasing pressure for enactment of additional war emergency bills, Republican majority leaders were| scheduled to force adjournment of the special session of
The house passed and sent to Governor Schricker for his signaturé the soldiers’ vote bill, minus
with amendments the tax relief measure for military personnel,
END AS HOUSE
‘Ace of Aces’ Bong, a Major Now, Smiles At His Pin-Up
Both houses adjourned until this ‘afternoon to await a report of a joint house-senate conference committee on the amended tax exemp-
listened atten- ng tively and ap- Mr. Evans plauded politely, as the case for
free enterprise was presented by tion measure. three able spokesmen—Eric John- | ston of the U. S. Chamber of Tax Passage Due
Commerce (who spoke by radio |
from Seattle, Wash.), Robert Gay-+ lord of the National Association of Manufacturers, and Paul G. Hofman of the committee for economic de. elopment. - » . The federation’s own program, prepared by a committee on postwar planning headed by Matthew Woll, and approved by the A. ¥. of L.'s executive council, declared that “free enterprise is an essential part of the democratic way of life . . . free enterprise and free labor are interdependent, Neither can last without the other.” But delegates really started
The house .was scheduled to pass the tax measure without delay, send it to the governor and adjourn before tonight unless Republican leaders are unable to hold the line against pressure for consideration of other bills. The Republican-controlled house elections committee announced it would report gut on the floor favorably the bill to extend voting hours to 8 p. m. if given the opportunity. However, Speaker Hobart Creighton indicated he might not call for committee reprris, thus killing the bill in committee.
Te Hold Line
II it is reported to the floor, Rep. George Henley, Republican ma jority leader, said he would seek to hold the line against action on it in accordance with the pre-session
Japanese plane to become America's “ace of aces.”
FRIDAY, APRIL 14,
Capt. Richard I Bong, Poplar, Wis, was promoted to a major the same day he shot down his 27th The pilot is shown above pointing to the picture of his
girl friend, Marge Battendahl, Superior, Wis, which graces his plane.
OFFER TO TAKE BACK STRIKERS
School Board to Rehire Workers if They Ask
Reinstatement. The school board today notified
caucus agreement to limit the ses-| (1. 351 school custodians, janitors
to the soldiers’ vote bill and] tax relief ure. {and matrons of their offer to rein
and industry intend to make it a fair | Republican niajority leaders in State any member of the custodial partnership with the workers Who ithe senate beat down a move of staff who went on strike Monday. are “their most important cus- |Democrats for action on a bill that] Ini & letter mailed to the workers
would transfer to the federal gove' ; board ernment 300 acres of Dunes state | Theodore L. Locke, ‘school
park for a veterans hospital | president, called attention to the Pressure for passage of the house | board's former statement that any handsome in the 1920s. But it bill that would extend the volng|employee who abandoned his post hours on election days to 8 p. m. to] of duty would be considered as havAPRN { ed. & (Continued on Page 3—Column 4) [IE rec board, of course, reserves e right in this case, as in all
: th NAZD STEEL WALL [Ses 5% Eom
boom collapsed, “short sightedness” in the 1930s, and can now reasonably be asked to prove by more than words that it is determined not to travel that road
Major Becomes ‘Old Doc Dafoe’ | Of Anzio Beach
By ROBERT V. VERMILLION | United Press Staff Correspondent i WITH FIFTH ARMY, ANZIO BEACHHEAD, Italy, April 14.— Maj. George Evashwick has brought a8 lot of babies into the world since he left Turtle Creek, Pa., for medical school, but never with a cheering section until] he delivered two boys and three girls on the Anzio beachhead. : “1 delivered the first girl baby on Feb. 20 to a 19-year-old Italian girl whose husband is a German prisoner,” he said. “It was the damndest thing I ever saw, “All the women in the neighborhood gathered around the bedside, screaming ‘Courage’ to the suffering young mother. “Old crones screamed advice at me and I thought for a minute they were going to kick me out and do it themselves. Then, when the baby was born, everybody
“The board has great confidence
; fi SINKS INTO SAND io 3, = secosusber. superintendent
| authorized to say that any employee! !who desires to apply for reinstate- |
| i i ‘ment should immediately report to! Belgian Defenses a Failure, me: ey. aod tan ve 45
Tere were more nods when
3 {sured that he will receive fair treat-| Lisbon Reports. I ahr Moeaghrs Ranas =
LONDON, April 14 (U. P)—A| No Word From Union Lisbon dispatch to the Evening ; Standard said today that the Bel-| This was the first official move |gian section of the Nazi “steel made by the board to end the strike]
|wall” along the European coast is {Which has closed down as many as) l“a failure” because of the sandy{29 schools this week. So far, offi-|
loam on which it is built.
the voluntary action of economic groups, : - ss = = “ “It took government planning, direction and sometimes coercion to start the wheels of stagnant industry, overcome unempioyment and raise farm prices,” Mr. Lincoln said. “And all for the purpose of producing for war.” For each of the several hundred A. F. of L leaders Who attended the forum there are thousands of rank-and-file union members back
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Industry Io Need Job-Making Capital, Executives Are Tol
{place “are being swallowed up,” the /Municated with the board. The dispatch said. ‘Trenches in the Strike was called in protest against| |Ostend area were reported to have the board's refusal to recognize the caved in, forcing the Germans to Union as a bargaining agent. |strengthen all defenses with rein-| Meanwhile, janitors at three more | forced concrete. jcity grade schools returned to work i today, reducing to 23 the number of | schools closed by the strike. Reopening today were schools 12,! 36 and 63. . | Schools which remained closed] [today are 6, 7, 10, 19, 20, 30, 34; 43,| {45, 48, 49 50, 51 51, 54, 36, 58, 62,! | 68, 69, 75, 78 and 85.
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JAPS VIRTUALLY
Allied Garrison. NEW DELHI, April 14 (U.P) —|
munique indicated that the enemy siege line has virtually isolated a mixed force of British and Indian veterans inside the fortress town. Fanning out through the hills bordering the southern end of the Imphal plain, Japanese flying columns struck toward-the BishenpurSilchar highway, threatening mo-
mentarily to sever British commu- Melitibnceten : i j red | EE ye SBontal (Continued on Page 5—Column 5 NEW 0 ASU ALTY LIST == allies last September approved |
WHITE AND WABASH |.
railway line 70 airline miles west of Imphal.
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which contained that
ISOLATE: IMPHAL
this New Deal can be stopped this
Close In F All Sid jim ou American way of bite Js | Democrat on the state ticket elected rom ides on forever doomed.” MacArthur replied (to office in 1940, fails to get into | trading with Germany or its asso‘on Oct. 2, 1943, that he did not the senatorial race and spearhead | ¢ y or iis
By ROGER BUDROW Industry is being handicapped in creating more post-war jobs by government policies which prevent the accumulation of capital, Frederick C. Crawford, chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, declared here today. Mr. Crawford, who is president of Thompson Products, Inc., Cleveland, said the = a American public fi concedes industry “has done a magnificent job" in war production but believes it is “getting rich out of the war.” ; “Phe.public doesn't realize that in 1917, on a = turnover of $85,~ ‘ cD An duce Mr. Crawford try had a profit of 10 per cent after taxes,” Mr. Crawford said, “whereas in 1943, it had virtually the same
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Amusements... 22 Movies ...... Eddie Ash ... 24 Obituaries ,.. 17 Comics ...... 27 (Pegler ... Crossword ... 19 Ernie Pyle .. 17 Peter Edson.. 18|Ration Dates. 12 Financial ..,. 14|Reflections .. 18 * Forum ....... 18{Mrs. Roosevelt 17 Meta Given .. 21 Society poe 20,21 In Indpls. Sports
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profit on a turnover of $295,000,- | 000,000 or only 2.5 per cent.” Mr. Crawford spoke at the Indiana Executives conference on public relations at the Claypool hotel. “This conference of Indiana .industrialists is really just a school,” he said, “to teach management how to explain to the public that to! have one-third more jobs after the war means they will have to permit congress to change present tax laws so industry can retain job-creating capital, The average citizen doesn’t realize that its determination to prevent anyone from coming out of this war with ‘any more than he went in with is actually putting himself out of a post-war job.” He pictured. management as the “middle man who is pressed by his customers for cheaper ‘products, pulled by his stockholders for larger dividends and tugged by his workers for more pay. The only solution to this is greater production which gives everybody more of what he wants.” Everett R. Smith, director of research, for Macfadden Publications, New York, said he made a survey in a large Indiana industrial plant and found that “almost all of: the workers think that the company for which they work is making from a a dollar to three dollars net profit after taxes for every dollar which is paid out in wages. Whether it is
tant. The important thing is that the workers think it is true.” J Mr. Smith said “most of the men don't. ; industry . . . they look
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NEW EUROPE ACE | DOWNS 25 PLANES
Tops Gentile’s Mark but
Trails Pacific Flier.
LONDON, April 14 (U. P).—A new star leaped into the ascendency in the air war over Europe today while Capt. Don S. Gentile of Piqua, O. chafed under a forced respite ordered by flight surgeons because of a crackup at his home field, Gentile probably: will re. sume flying within a few days. . Capt. Bob Johnson, Lawton, Okla., claimed three more victories, which added to his accredited list would give him a total of 25 Nazi planes destroyed in combat. Gentile has claimed 23 planes destroyed in the air but three still await confirmation. Both men trail Maj. Richard. Bong of the Southwest Pacific theater, who has brought down 27 enemy planes.
GIRAUD LOSES POST
LONDON, April 14 (U, P.).~Gen. Henri Honore Giraud has been re-
Laundries Asked
| To Aid Invasion
LONDON, April 14 (U. P).— | British laundries were ordered to- | day to aid in preparations for the opening of the western front by washing extra volumes of service garments and hospital linens, Laundry officials, following the order, warned the public to ex~ pect drastic reductions in service when invasion operations begin.
The Yanks ‘are coming ...in"a new daily Times panel by the top war cartoonist of world war II. The title is “Up Front With Mauldin.” .
he gets the material for his panel firsthand at the front...
"AGL Joo because he portrays the j unflinching
Mauldin and His 'G. I. Joes’ Start Monday in The Times
URGES M ARTHUR TO END SILENCE
Rep. Miller Asks General To State Whether He Will Run.
WASHINGTON, April 14 (U.P). —Gen. Douglas MacArthur, allied supreme commander in the Southwest Pacific, has been urged by an active supporter to break his political silence immediately and state unequivoeally whether he is avail"able for the Republican presidential nomination, it was revealed today. Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Neb.), who has been working independently in MacArthur's behalf, urged this" step upon him in the latest-letter in an exchange of correspondence. It was a reversal of Miller's previous recommendation to MacArthur that he not be a candidate but permit himself to be drafted and then accept the nomination “as a candidate for commander ~- in - chief of all our armed forces.”
Vandenberg Silent
In a letter dated Sept. 18, 1943, | proposal, | told MacArthur that “unless
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anticipate Miller's flattering predic- |
tions about his presidential possi- the .Democrats might just as well|
bilities, but added that “I do un-|
jcials of the union, local 154, Ameri- Japanese jungle troops were re-Teservedly agree with the complete! “The governot is Steel and concrete employments can Federation of State, County and| ported closing in from all sides on| wisdom and statesmanship of your leader of the Democratic party in sank considerably and in some | Municipal Employees, have not com-| Imphal today and an allied com- Comments.
National Chairman Hanne-
gan Coming for Decisive western Germany last night approaches of Sevastopol were
Meetings Tomorrow.
By EARL RICHERT Governor Schricker is expected to make it clear in his address here tomorrow night
AZIS DRIVEN T0 SEA: . PLANES BOMB EUROPE
SENATE RACE Mosquitoes Bomb|Hail of Russ Leal i
Berlin Following
YES’ EXPECTED record Raid. OF SCHRICKER _icxeaccr
LONDON, April 14 (U.P.).|
sive of the war, hit Berlin and!
| reported trying to flee the Black
sea peninsula by sea today under a shattering hail of Soviet bombs.
Front dispatches said the axis burst
{after nearly 4000 American planes | blasted and burned seven countries land shot down 112 aircraft in a vecord two-way assault on axis Europe yesterday. (The OWI reported -the Berlin
|—German and Romanian \ing out the sixth day of the troops herded into the south"igreatest non-stop air offen- ern Crimea by Russian mobile
Blocks Escape’ Of Enemy.
MOSCOW, April 14 (U. P.).
forces now sweeping over the
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‘defenses of the Crimea had !like a punctured balloon.
\ Ul radio broadcast a warning at 9:58| The second Nazi attempt at a before the Democratic Edi- a m. (2:58 a. m. Indianapolis time) Black sea Dunkerque Wei 8 week i iati 11 | that allied aircraft were over north-|appeared doomed to the fate of the Yorial Bssicidtion that he wil, ie Germany. The Nazi-operated first, in which thousands of axis if the party so desires, accept |p 4anect radio went off the air at troops were killed as they sought to
the Democratic senatorial nomina-ig3g a m., government monitors escape from Odessa. tion at the party's state convention said, indicating the possibility of a; Russian air force assault planes
only two months away. There is no doubt that the party
leaders so desire—they definitely want the party's best. vote getter on the ticket for t h e admittedly tough fall election fight. And they have been subjecting him to much pressure during the last week to influence him to get into the race. Adding significance to tomorrow’s Democratic
Mr. Hannegan
meetings (the state committee also single day attacked simultaneously will meet) will be the presence of from the west and south yesterday,
Democratic National Robert Hannegan and Vice Chairman Ambrose-O’Connell. This will be Mr. Hannegan's first visit here ‘since becoming national chairman recently. He has been traveling about the country seeking to get the strongest possible candidates on the Democratic tickets to bolster the national candidates.
Many believe that he personally;
will urge the governor to take the senatorial nomination which he can get without a contest.
Pressure Applied
Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Gov- |
ernor Schricker’'s appointee in the U. 8. senate who will make the principal speech at tomorrow night's banquet, is also expected to make his future intentions clear shortly after the governor states his. The senator is regarded by party leaders as the likely gubernatorial nominee. The Schricker-senate movement is a genuine draft. The party leaders feel that if the governor, the only
the party campaign this fall that
fold up. undisputably
' new pincers assault.) Ground Defenses Active
The British night raiders dropped hundreds of incendiaries and demolition bombs ranging up to two-ton
tal and war factories to the west, touching off big explosions and a number of fires. All planes rei turned safely. | Almost all of Berlin's defenses went into action. Beams from 250 searchlights criss-crossed the sky, but the raiders pressed home their attacks and saw the flashes of their ibombs through the glare. | The largest number of American {planes ever to raid Europe in a
Chairman | with formations from Britain raid-!
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~ SWEDEN ASKED
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Nation Told to Cut Off Ball- | Bearing Exports to Reich Plants. STOCKHOLM, April 14 (U. P).
—Informed sources reported today the Britain and the United States
block busters on the German capi- |
{hovered ceaselessly over the southfern ports of the Crimea, bombing and sinking evacuation vessels. Field guns joined in the cannonading. i Berlin Admits Battle {A" Berlin communique tacitly acknowledged the coastal baftle in reporting that naval escort vessels ishot down, three Soviet bombers over Feodosiya.) | Stormovik assault planes were re{ported ruking the approaches to the {Crimean beaches, picking up the {trails of fleeing axis columns by the {dust clouds they raised. | The army vanguard raced down = ‘the South Crimean railroad from i captured Simferopol into the ape proaches of Sevastopol, great naval {base where the Russians held out
{under siege for eight months in 1941-42.
Gen. Fedor I. Tolbukhin's "4th {army of the Ukraine was spearing {straight at Sevastopol while other {Soviet forces moved down the south ‘coast from captured Feodosiya. | 600 Towns Overrun | More than 600 towns and villages, iincluding Simferopol, the capital, and the ports of Yevpatoriya and Feodosiya, were overrun yesterday {by the 4th army and Gen. Andrei | Yeremenko's independent army in the swiftest advances ever {made by Soviet forces. | By Wednesday, more than 20,000 Germans and Romanians had been | captured. | The Germans made an 11th hour
coastal
had asked Sweden to cut off all ex- {attempt to save Simferopol, rushing ports of ball-bearings to Germany. un, units which hitherto had not The request, it was said, was con- | participated in battle. tained in notes understood to have |, nder the weight of Soviet attacks, been presented to the Swedish gov-|ihe untried troops turned and fied ernment yesterday by American and |i, nanic only to be shot by special British ministers in connection with i Nazi fi li U. S. Secretary of State Corden = °f Nazi field police. {Hull's warning to neutrals against
On the War Fronts
No Action Mentioned | (April 14, 1944)
| These sourges said, however, that AIR WAR—R. A. F. Mosquito bomb{the notes did not contain any pro-| ers hit Berlin after nearly 4000 {vision for possible action if Sweden| American planes blast Europe.
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Indiana today.” said one. “and ificontinued to supply Germany with |
Senator Arthur’ H. Vandenberg he should decide not to run, there ball-bearings, an integral part of | BUSSIA—German troops trying to
(R. Mich.) who has been a leading | advocate of drafting MacArthur for the Republican nomination, had no | comment on the Miller-MacArthur| correspondence. Nor did other con- | gressional supporters of MacArthur| for president. i Miller reiterated his belief that
CONTINUE TO EASE
The upstate waters of the Wabash|
and White rivers, swollen above flood stage earlier this week, continued dropping today, but the weather bureau predicted showers
and thunderstorms tonight and to-|,
morrow forenoon. In southern Indiana the rivers) were still rising, but were not expected to reach the crests formeriy predicted unless rain tonight and tomorrow sends them on another rampage.
The quality that makes Mauldin’s war humor unique is jts authenticity. His characters are not comic creations, hand-tailored to fit manufactured gags. They are real down-to-earth G. 1 Joes caught in real situations, : Mauldin doesn’t dream up his ideas over a drawing board. He goes. right up to «the fighting front for his material and so his cartoons hit the mark with the unerring aim of an army field piece. For a daily slice of as it really is— . Drawn by a soldier who really
soldier life
knows how it is— J din,” starting Monday in “The
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Hoosier Heroes— -
9 LOCAL MEN PUT ON
E. L. Thompson Harvey Sturm
INDIANA'S WAR CASUALTY list mounted today .as seven local sol-
diers and two marines joined the
hundreds of Hoosier heroes. KILLED S. Sgt. Harvey Sturm, R. R. 2, Box 97. Pvt. Eugene L. Thompson, 128 S. Noble st.
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HEAVY GUNS DUEL ALONG ANZIO FRONT
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 14 (U. P.).—Allied and German artillery traded heavy blows yesterday along the main 5th army front below Rome, it was disclosed today, while Anglo-American warplanes attacked Nazi rail and road lines north and east of the capital.
With allied offensive efforts apparently still concentrated on the
‘laerial campaign against the Nazi
army's communications lines, ground
flee Black sea peninsula under
mechanized equipment. hail of Soviet bombs.
Neither the Swedish foreign min- | istry nor the British and American | PACIFIC—American bombers from {legations commented on the reports.| North Pacific raid Kurile islands. | A foreign office spokesman, com-| menting on Hull's speech, although ITALY—Heavy artillery blows ex{not referring to the notes, said, changed below Rome. {Sweden took the view that since
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DAD'S CAR KILLS BOY NORT MANCHESTER, April 14 (U. P.).—Funeral services were planned for Saturday afternoon for
| Swedish exports to Germany, it, [Sou not change existing agree-| ments now without “going back on
Cracking
{our word.” The notes reportedly did not men- | tion iron ore exports nor safeconduct traffic. Informed sources said meantime that the Swedish parliament reportedly will meet in a secret session at 11 a. m. April 19, to hear a government statement on the Fin-
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Vaughn Penrod, 3, who was killed yesterday afternoon when he was struck by his father's car in the driveway at their home.
| "LOCAL TEMPERATURES
U. S. Bombs St
Kurile Isles
| By UNITED PRESS | American bombers from ‘the North Pscific raided the Kurile islands in Japan's northern. em-
pire for the third consecutive day Wednesday while other U. S. aerial forces, operating 4000 miles to the south, blasted the enemy's big Hollandia base on the north coast of New Guinea. Ventura bombers of fleet airwing four and army Liberators from Aleutian bases attacked Matsuwa island, 1069 miles north of Tokyo; Shashikotan island; the big naval base at Paramushiro, and Shumu-
and the Kamchatka peninsula of Siberia. ”
In the Southwest
ators, Mitchells and Boston Bombers of the 5th air force dropped 322
swept over adjoining Humboldt bay to destroy or damage
shu, which lies between Paramushiro “Pacific, Liber-] Ire
tons of explosives on Hollandia, and
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6a m.... 47 10am. .... 54 Tam... 47 11am... .. 57 8a m..... 50 12 (Noom).. 62 9a m..... 50 1p.m.. 63 ike F rike rrom
to New Guinea
but eight were shot down and 10 © | others damaged. A {| The Japanese said the American = force which attacked Hollandia | consisted of 148 bombers and fighters, of which they claimed five were definitely shot down and probably two others. The Americans admitted the loss of one plane and ddmage to several others. -¥. S. bombers also raided Wewak, 195 miles south of Hollandia, with 35 tons of bombs, and Uligan, 150 miles south of Wewak, with 41 tons. Isolated enemy bases in the Bis~ marck archipelago were gi 1 almost daily assaults, with bomb-
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