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URILES ABLAZE

AFTER ATTACKS

Complete Treirins TURKISH POLIGY QUEER PARADOX

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers §

From. End to End of

Concern for Future Viewed As Explanation of

| Jap Bases. (Continued From Page One)

enemy's Kurile bases. Heavy antiaircraft fire was encountered but|. there was no aerial opposition and all of our planes returned undamaged. . ’ Fires and explosions were caused

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our naval bureau of ordnance has been quietly at work developing its own, s = = s @ = AMERICAN PLANES get into action against Nazis five days after

ordered. While German rockets have been getting publicity,

S. Niblock _

Two Indianapolis men, PVTS. STANLEY NIBLOCK and THOMAS DESPOT, have completed basic training at Ft. Knox, Ky. preparatory for combat duty with an arm-

T. Despot

they leave our factories, in some cases. It's no longer- secret that they're flown over Alaska to the Russian front. This is one reason for. emphasis on developing oil supplies in Alaska.

Aid to Reich.

By RICHARD MOWRER Times Foreign Corréspondent CAIRO, April 15.~Turkish polity is perhaps the strangest paradox of the war. During Britain's bad days, when the British were being driven out of Cyrenaica, out of Greece, and

REP.-A. L. MILLER of Nebraska says he's surprised at rumpus he kicked up with MacArthur letters, He didn't think they were news! But Miller has no qualms about publishing them, expects no protest from the general. Months ago, he says, he wrote MacArthur that he'd make no use of correspondence if the general preferred that he did not. Says he had no answer, 2 & = : ® 8 = AMERICAN EXPERTS chosen to discuss international petroleum policy with the British here next week include experienced oil men, but some independent operators warn that unless they're on their toes they may get their pants traded off them. ) “Early discussions will center about our government's proposed

No , s 8 = in this morning's attacks by navy |ored unit. Pvt. Niblock is the hus- : Venturas on air installations at|band of Mrs, Doris Niblock, 1021 Surprised at MacArthur Rumpus il Suribachi, Kurabu, and Kurabu Hosbrook st, and Pvt. Despot’s

Zaki or Paramushiro. : Lt. Cmdr. W. R. Stevens, Salem,

wife, Dorothy, lives at 824 Ingomar ave.

Ore., one of the navy pilots, reported he dropped two 500-pound demolition borhbs and incendiaries on a large “H” shaped building at Suribachi, The bombs straddled the building which burst into flame, and Stevens said eight greenish explosions followed. Army Liberators attacked the important airbase on Matsuwa is-

RAILWAY TO PAY BONUS FOR YEAR

Union Meeting Called on Whether to ‘Accept

New Scale.

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|urer and business representative of Allied forces, striking against the the union, today would not com‘Japanese from land and air, car- ment on the possible. decision of ‘ried an aerial offensive on the union members but indicated that

, {he did not think employees would and in Netherlands East Indies, where*both oil and natural rubber Kurile islands in Japan's northern |, “satisfied” Wri vg 5-cent

are produced. Also: |empire, into the fourth day, while jh. ease. " Sir Frederick's Sheil Union is controlled by Batavian Petroleum, 4000 miles to the south they capwhich is part of Royal Dutch. In addition he is one of the managing |tyred Bogadjim, on the north coast 25 Cents Requested directors of Iraq petroleum, affiliate of Shell Transport & Trading [of New Guinea, and were driving | Previously the union had asked Co, which is associated with Royal Dutch. | toward Madang, 16 miles away. {for a 25-cent-an-hour raise but only ro» a #8 8 Yanks Blast Wewak {an .8-cent increase was granted by AND: Ameng other owners of Iraq Petroleum is Near East De- | . the Chicago regional war labor velopment Co., owned 50-50 by Standard of New Jersey and Seocony- The Australian conquest at BO- 0.4 The case was taken to the Vacuum, both American companies, both opposed. to our Trans. 2adiim, protective base of Madang, , .tiona) labor board because the Arabian pipe line. was coupled with new aerial at-| oon] boards had not been adSir William's Anglo-Iranian is half owner with Gulf Oil of con- tacks of the northern New Guinea | ;.., of the principles laid down cessions at the head of Persian gulf. And Gulf Oil is one of three Coast, where American bOmDbeTS |, th. national board in relation (others being Standard of California and Texas Co." which have blasted the Wewak, 200 miles north |; wage stabilization fr the transit agreed with our government on the Saudi Arabian pipe line. of Madang, with 250 tons of X= | industry. |plosives, and strafed a 90-mile| Only transit employees who bes 2" * * stretch from Wewak to Aitape. y rans NEW ATTEMPTS lo amend anti-trust laws are being planned by - long to division 1070 of the union

Southwest Pacific bombers also an investors’ group. Idea is that combinations in big and, Mttle busi- i; wakde island, 110 miles west off eet OY he se Terminal

ness which have helped us break records producing munitions should f)jandia on the far northern New be permitted in the peace to provide full-scale employment—but only Guinea cqast, and shot down a Jap- |

ap- | if held by a disinterested agency to be in the public interest. anese bomber 280 miles southeast Idea may be advanced as the fifth freedom. “Freedom of private |of palau, 550 miles east of the Phil- | HANNEGAN PREDICTS enterprise.” Buf observers here believe any effort to change Sherman | ippines. ! . and Clayton acts will meet stiff opposition in congress unless it can be { i DEMOCR ATIC S p proved that only in this way can we win the peace on the home front. | __ Hit at Carolines diy 8 8 # : sg =n on | Central Pacific forces continued , (Continued From Page One) Polls Show Wallace's Popularity | their offensive against the Ee cuss they ‘wep the Preslient

land early today and then ranged northward 250 miles to bomb Kurabu Zaki.

Trans-Arabian pipe line. Talk eventually will cover whole field of Middle Kast oil operations, may include rationing of production and division of markets in that sphere of British influence, supplying India and Far East after the war, and international trade issues created by our great new synthetic-rubber industry.

Baur et ‘New Guinea Base Companies Have Far-Flung Interests | 5 LNiTED PRESS } BRITISH DELEGATION includes Sir William Fraser, chairman | of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in which British government holds majority interest, and Sir Frederick Godber, chairman of Shell’ Union Oil Corp. Their companies have far-flung interests in Middle East

Australians Take

{striking the main base of Truk on| DESPITE ALL the things not in his favor, feeling grows on Capitol | Wednesday and four of its protec- continue handling the war, Hill that Vice President Wallace has a good chance to be No. 2 man on [tive positions on Thursday, The “It certainly does encourage us.” a fourth-term ticket. Reason: Polls showing his popularity, and the outlying targets were Ponape, 437 The Democratic national chairthought that he might gather in the nebulous labor vote and the miles east of Truk, which was raid- man, a close . personal friend of] confirmed New Deal vote. He has steadily advocated the New Deal, ‘ed for the 22d time in two weeks; James A. Farley, said that he did! even after F. D. R. chucked the name out of the window. Pakin, near Ponape; Ulul, 150 miles not know what the former national # a =® 2 8 = northwest of Truk, and Kuasaie, the chairman would do but that he felt | SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN'S friends say he brought back from casternmost Carolines base, 343|that he Would go along. | Texas no important worries about his campaign for renomination in Miles southeast of American-held | One of the scheduled guests, Lt. July primaries. The Democratic national convention opens in Chicago |KWajalein. | Gerry Kisters of Bloomington, win. | three days before the first Texas primary, and some think the speaker | Amy, navy and marine planes of ner of the congressional medal of | might be nominated for vice president before his renomination to (the Central Pacific attacked four honor, is unable to be present be-| the house. : . ou Japanese pases in the Mar- Cause he is undergoing treatment in| ; aia # oo ik a shalls bo : . POWER COMMISSION and WPB will resist congressional drive | Loy: Whue American airmen Srom =o to repeal national daylight-time law. Leader of repeal movement is Sojomons bases. wig ed ou eir| Chairman Cannon (D. Mo.) of house.appropriations committee. dary reid on Rabavl.

*r v= / * = a King Says Japan J. SIDNEY JOHNSON, advertising executive who organized war . 9 y p food administration's drive to promote use of no-point and low-point Dodging Battle foods, will return to his old job in private industry about May 1. WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. PI

Campaign has been launched in 250,000 food stores, will start soon in hotels and restaurants. ’

-the business session. He succeeds Ray E. Smith, secretary to Governor Schricker.

—Adm. Ernest J. King, accusing] director of the state consepvation

. the Japanese of “lack of co-opera-| department, was advanced from =

GOP to Contribute $3000 to Campaigners

REPUBLICAN campaign organization, fighting to win house control, plans $3000 contributions to incumbents facing stiff contests and to candidates with chances to unseat Democrats. 2 s on 2 ” 8

with the United States navy, said! president and Robert P. O'Bannon, | would be delivered during the next!adgvanced to second vice president.’

few months against Japanese bases, | | . and against the Japanese fleet if it |

AMONG FIRST recommendations to reach new house committee Addressing the graduating class, J !

on post-war military policy will be one from naval affairs subcom- | 0f the federal bureau of investiga- | mittee urging allotment of naval vessels to friendly South American |tion’s national police academy, the | republics for joint hemispheric defense. Some members: of policy | commander-in-chief of the U. S.|

committee are dubious.

CHICAGO, April 15 (U. P).—

2 8 ow x a = I Fi oe oculdq rently aefine| Jack Guzik, chief of what remains | IF THE STEEL and other campaigning unions break the ‘little a major p 0 peiic! ! steel formula, look for United Mine Workers to ask for more pav ty d 1t rietory thev w . opportunity espite the apparent victory they won from Ickes-Lewis agreement mpossible. for lack of J , that ended last year's coal strikes. The miners, working longer hours a — sta e apancse c0- talking about his reported kidand more cays for more “take home” pay. are viewing seriously the Dotto ! Stage a major sea naping. war labor board's argument that the settle nt involved no r ir or Cs ! basic pay g the settlement involved no raise in Japs Won't Gamble A confidant of the gang leader o w -. told the United Pr s #2 = a # 8 We are willing, but the Japs % ess Pe talked

do not seem to want to gamble with "ith Guzik on the telephone last

Coal for Householders to Be Scarce that type of battle. So we are seek- | Night, a little more than 24 hours

COAL FOR HOUSEHOLDERS will be scarcer next winter, Ad- Pg opportunities to strike when- after the gang leader was reported | ministrator Ickes is preparing consumers for a chilly winter—or the (ever we can get within range of (5 p | use of inferior substitute grades—by limiting purchases of scarce their warships or bases, and I think | coals before Oct. 1 to 75 per cent of yearly requirements. you will find within the next few IN MANY CITIES householders will be required to file declara- months to come that we shall cretions of needs, supply on hand, type of equipment, etc. Ickes calls ate more of these opportunities.” program “dealer control,” since retailers will be enforcement agents, “For example,” he said, “I have but aides concede it's “rationing without the name.” only to cite the recent successful | attacks on Palau. Yap and Woleai

ave been dragged from his | automobile in suburban Berwyn by three men. “Guzik said he had not keen kidnaped,” the informant said. “But he didn't say where he had been.” | The gambling czar’s friend said!

s 8 = CE I | islands.” Palau is 560 miles from MC had called back to make sure year i on . en . 1sianas. ie 1S ¢ & ) i ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE BERLE, back from London ja philinpines ~ the caller was Guzik and was conmeetings with Lord Beaverbrook, probably will go before a senate | Aner ht vinced the information was “on ’ ; eae ’ Reminding that t » ’ commerce subcommittee on aviation early next week to report. He's ¢ that fo date more than | the jevel» The call was placed

600 Japanese merchant ship: ’ said to be much more chary of British plans than when he started been WP ” Roy Ships have

out, and he'll find listening senators determined to O. K. no foreign air agreements which give away big concessions to other nations.

{from a drug store, he said. unk, probably sunk or dam-| Despite Guzik's denial that he aged by submarine action alone, pad peen kidnaped there was no King added that Japan “cannot| goubt that he had been missing

out of Crete; when they were being

harassed by the Irak rebellion and

compelled to wage & campaign in Syria; when they had their backs to the wall in Egypt while German armies were thrusting into the Caucasus; during the allies’ gloomiest days, the Turks maintained not only their neutral policy but their friendly though negative alliance with Britain. Today, when Germany's collapse appears inevitable, with the allies poised to open the second front and the Russians -sweeping into the Balkans and Poland, the Turks not only maintain their neutral policy but favor the Germans by increasing shipments of chrome to them despite allied protests.

Cold Reasoning Seen

Turkey's policy perhaps may seem astoundingly illogical. Yet there is probably more clear, cold reasoning behind it than appears on the surface. What the Turkish policy amounts to now ‘is prolonging the war by helping German armament production and by denying the allies use of their airdromes, the possession of which would undoubtedly accelarate the collapse of the Balkans. In the opinion of observers of Turkish affairs, Turkish reasoning is based on the following precepts: 1. The best policy is to be strong. The future of Europe is extremely vague, the allied post-war policy extremely vague. 2. Perhaps the Germans are right when they insist that the Anglo-

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ford Times Mail before entering the air-forces, He is 24. His father, Jack Bennett, and his son, Jack, both live in Bedford. His sister, Lt. Jewell.Bennett, is in the army nurses corps in Ireland. Mrs. Bennett, who works: at Cur-tiss-Wright Corp, lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Robbins, of ‘the Union st. address. t ww ” s CONFIRMATION that four Indianapolis men were missing and one wounded was made today by the war department. The missing are S. Sgt. Louis E. Znidersich, son of Mr. and Mrs, Louis E. Znidersich, 938 N. Ketcham st, in the European theater; T. Sgt. Robert M. Garnett, son of Fred Garnett, 3102 Madison ave.; Pfc. Donald H. Gille, husband of Mrs. Mildred "Gille, 1234 N. Linwood st., and Pfc. James A. Hodges, husband of Mrs, Marjorie E. Hodges, 1203 N. Belle Vieu pl, all in: the Medi terranean area. Sgt. Albert Merle Harmon, husband of Mrs. Carol Harmon, 3420 E.

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ENSIGN ALFRED B. REED, son of Mrs. Myrtle W. Reed, 5860 Lowell ave. has been commended for outstanding performance of duty as officer in charge of the U. 8. LCT342 during the assault landings on the north coast of Sicily.

The commendation states that during amphibious operations in support of the U. 8, 7th army, Ensign Reed led his ship under enemy gunfire and aerial bembardment from Aug. 3 to Aug. 16, 1943, in the ferrying of heavy mechanized {military equipment to landing {points around demolished bridges {and tunnels. He also “skillfully and expeditiously” discharged assault elements over the designated beaches behind {enemy lines on Aug. 8, 1943, at! | Terranova, Sicily, and again on Aug. 11 at Brolo, Sicily.

Lt F. M. Bennett, Local Flier, Held Prisoner-in Germany

which he destroyed five enemy aircraft,

26th st., was listed as wounded. . [Mary P. Strzalkowski, Gary.

» s » “ PFC. JOHN C, NELSON, son of Mrs, Grave Nelson, Whiting, lost his life in marine combat. : ® a = SEAMAN 2-C EARL LEE MILLER, husband of Mrs. Laura Miller, La burg, was killed in naval action. s » = NINE HOOSIERS are missing in action in the Mediterranean and War zones. : They are T. Sgt. Lester W. Seelig, husband of Mrs. Alberta L. Seelig, Howe; 1st Lt. Robert J. Shurilla, son of Mrs. Mary Shurilla, Gary; and Sgt. Robert D. Smith, son of Mrs, Rose Smith, Kendallville, all European casualties. NR Missing in the Mediterranean are Pvt. Albertus H. Miller, son of Mrs. Mable V. Hollinger, Angola; Pfc. Alva J. Smith, son of Charles F. Smith, Anderson; Pfc. Jesse J. Sparks, son of Mrs. Beatrice M. Sparks, Terre Haute; 8. Sgt. Irvin Stillson Jr.,, son of Mrs. Lucy M. Stillson, Crown Point, and 2d Lt. Ted F. Strzalkowski, son of Mrs.

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AMONG THE 387 U, S. soldiers listed today as wounded in action are seven Hoosiers stationed in the Mediterranean theater, and in the Pacific. Pfc. Mike Jaros Jr. brother of Mrs, Jean Holly, East Chicago, was injured in marine action. «Those wounded in the Mediter-; ranean are T. 5th Gr. Ralph E.| Chasteen, husband of Mrs, Evelyn | L. Chasteen, Williamsburg; 8gt. Stanley J. Chwalek, son of Mrs. | Frances Chwalek, South Bend; Pvt. | Raymond D. Gustafson, son of Mrs; Hulda C. Gustafson, Knqx; Sgt.! Forrest H. Hartman, son of John H.! Hartman, New Albany; Pfc. Her-| bert L. Schmoe Jr., husband of Mrs. | Alice Jane Schmoe, Ft. Wayne, and| Sgt. Louis M. Treber, brother of! Carl Treber, South Bend.

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Ed » » LT. LLOYD F. HENRY, son of! { Mrs. Pearl-Henry, 1540 N. Meridian |

8S. SGT. AUGUST K. FRICKE,

Anderson, and T. Sgt. Charles O. Cole, son of Mrs. Myrl Cole, Mid-|

Saxons are bound ultimately to|St. and Lt. Charles F. Anderson, !|and, are prisoners of war in Ger-|

clash with the Russians, and in any case ‘the Germans are still strong: they have stalemated the allies in Italy and the second front is still to be demonstrated. — =

View on Britain

cannot afford now or in future to renounce its alliance or friendly re-

lations with Turkey—it will want aj friendly Turkey to bulwark its in-

terests in the Middle East against powerful Russia, 4. Russia's milifary successes are fearful, but if the war of attrition continues long enough Russia, perhaps, will be so weakened that Turkey will have less to fear. 5. Nobody knows what is going to happen. Maybe the Russians

th Wednesday and Thurs- the Nichols hospital in Louisville, |and Anglo-Saxons will quarrel be-| {fore the war ends—varieus diplo-| A. J. Heuring, Winslow publisher, | matic events have suggested lack of | was elevated from the vice presi-| synchronization, if not absence of | 'dency to the presidency of the identical viewpoints between the Democratic Editorial association at Russian, British and American gov-!

ernments.

In any case, it is better for Tur-| ( {key to be strong and well armed to! | Hugh A. Barnhardt, Rochester, meet the uncertainties of the future. Such, whether for better or for appear to be the fundation” in staging a major sea battle second vice president to first vice mentals of Turkish reasoning at

worse,

this stage of world developments.

today. tha’ powerful new blOWs Corydon, third vice president, was Copyright. 1944, by The Indianapolis Times

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

BEES OUST GUESTS

IN SOCIETY HOTEL

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, April 15 (U. P.).—A swarm of bees looking fleet said: {for a place to light caused a hasty evacuation of the Oasis, upper-crust

resort hotel, yesterday.

ported and the bees departed of

their own free will.

Gary, have been commended for: operations over enemy occupied Eu-| rope from March 6 to March 23.

started operational flights with the Mustang fighter group of the 8th.

Dean to Address State Educators

CITY AND STATE educators will hear Dr, T. R. McConnell, dean of the college of science at the University | of Minnesota, | i speak Next Friday and Saturday at Butler university. Dr. McConnell will discuss “The Future of Liberal Educa~tion” Friday in the second series of meetings this yearon post-war education. There will be other talks and forums during the two days with the program centering on education for veterans of world war II who return to school.

ok Dr. McConnell

3 COUNTRIES WOULD SHARE OCCUPATION

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respect to the Pacific as ‘seizure of |°f the Al Capone gang, was back | The bees buzzed in one, side of | Eisenhower unprecedented authority So far it has been in circulation today, but he wasn't| the lobby and the guests dashed out|,yver Europe. i ithe other. No casualties were re-| {nqer the proposed plans, it was|the bills but that he didn't avant

understood, Russia would occupy Germany up to the border, running

Hitler Suggests That Pope Close Church to Fliers

By UNITED PRESS THE CLANDESTINE radio Atlantic said last night that Adolf Hitler had suggested to Pope Pius that the church excommunicate “every pilot of Catholic faith who raids Catholic churches or other buildings sacred to Catholics.” “As most American pilots are | Catholics,” the letter was quoted as saying, “this measure would | have the effect of preventing the

stand such a rate of loss for any

since he léft the Willow Springs

length of time and keep her em-

pire together.” police court Thursday. And de-

|spite the telephone call he did not appear at his headquarters today.

North Side -Terrorized . ° . Objective Is Tokyo By Knife-Wielding- Burglar He saig that well er 2,000,000 DR. HULLIHEN DIES

Co oo tons of Japanese cargo tonnage has| “WILMINGTON, Del, April 15 (U. | push the car of hag mth, been sunk to reduce Japan's mer- P.).—Dr. Walter Hullihen, 68, presibedroom window. When he shouted Ort ap ae The | chant fleet to not more than two- dent of the University of Delaware,

‘ : ! front of the Claypool hotel. , i the man ran. Police found the ,, pushed the car to Senate ave, | thirds of pre-war tonnage. Newark, Del, since 1920, died in screen pried out of the window

and Missouri st., where he d a! . Abcut 5:15 a. m. Martha Perse | gun, ag Frommer ie. Puled Ba objective in the Pacific is Tokyo. and Marian Bey,” 3630 N. Meridian g11 from Mr. Smith's companion, | “But,” he added, “we do not unst, Apt. 3, were awakened bY a|Harold Whitley, 1117 Church st. Gcrestimate our enemies. We give man entering their apartment. He Then he hit Mr. Smith with the hem credit for determination and held his knife at the throat of Miss gun and departed. |tenacity, skill and ingenuity, as well Persell and said, “Don't say any-

as a savage disregard for humanity | thing or I'll kill you. ['ve already Jona J. Dugan, 419 N. Oakland and for reer their oan " killed two people tonight ” The ave, was relieved of his hilifold | King declared that as time goes! eamed, anyway and ihe map COPPAININE $9 as he was walking on “ihe Japanese will learn that the | screamed, anyway, and the man pear Maryland -and California sts. |e, p A disappeared - for the third time :

through a window.

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called orthodox methods®of war- tremendous expenditure in

A youth struck Laverne Simmons, fare

1149. Dawson st., several times as

she was walking near her bome. tring corps commandant, told the'anq distributing it equally?

graduates that the American sol|dier's faculty to think for himself: Leyeling Process Seen ‘and to make the right decisions con-| “It would be a stitutes one of the greatest ad- process. vantages he holds over the Japa- big businessmen nese fighting man. :

Hold-up Men on Rampage Hold-up men were adSo on the rampage last night, taking billfolds containing more than §109 and a watch worth $45. When Dr. Dan R. Tucker, 3311 College ave., got out of .his car at 30th and INinois sts, two jnen forced him back into the seat land . drove him to McClain st. and Boule- | vard pl. There they robbed him of |: - $50 and a wrist watch valued at $45.) put ‘out of the car, took one

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ROMMEL REPORTED ILL ; By UNITED PRESS The clandestine radio Atlantic said last’ night that ‘Marshal Erwin Rommel has been ill, but will be! able to resume his duties” in a few

days. - ; all people have enough to live on,

YOCKEY IS APPOINTED Harry Yockey, city OCD director, down the race for riches, If a per

| CLUB MEETS MONDAY Petit for Victory club will meet t.8 p. m. day at She,

He reiterated that the American Delaware hospital here yesterday.

. We have no objection to |they like, but we want to see that souls it “I do think the plan would slow

{today was appointed by Mayor Tyn- son . knew that he was insured! ly dall to represent the city on the against all the hasards of life and advised to follow the adj 0 boards qu the

bombing of Catholic churches in the future by American fliers.” The letter, which expressed regret over the destruction and damaging of churches “by. the air | terror of the allies,” was given to | the papal secretaty of state by | Baron Ernst von Weiszacker, German ambassador to the Vat- | ican, the broadcast said.

Townsend Raps Politicians, Declares They Block His Plan

Dr. Townsend started his plan as By {United States is not relying on so-'rich,- why shouldn't we ~have a 2 MOrale-builder for the old folks in

the his community of Long Beach, Cal. time of peace by setting aside a! He explained that their savings had Lt. Gen. A.+A. Vandegrift, ma- certain percentage of our earnings been swept away fn 1929, and many

were committing suicide and wor-

|rying themselves to death.

country.”

non-partisan,” he

“The idea was to give them someleveling aut thing to work and, hope for,” he |sald. “To many people it? sounded getting as rich as absurd but to those poor, broke cld 0) sounded good and immediately the idea spread all oyer the

-| ‘The Townsend groups are “strict said, but are dvice of local

through Silesia and to the North sea at Stettin, while Britain would take over northwest Germany.

Plan Joint Occupation

All three allied powers would participate in the occupation of Berlin, reliable reports of the planning by the advisory commission said. The Rhineland would be under joint occupation by the United States and Britain, The British proposals were understood to have suggested that the Americans occupy Austria, but Russia was said to have favored a three-way occupation. The first suggestions to the advisory committee from Russia,

submitted about a month ago. The first drafts of the British and Russian suggestions were understood to have been made, followed within a few days by those from the United States.

Jittery Germans Fear 'Real Thing’

i “MADRID; April 15 (U. P).— Reports from France said today

rea! thing, called a general invasion alert for about three hours on the Brittany coast in northwest France Wednesday night. The reports said that coastal batteries had fired for miles along the coast and that the action did not constitute maneuvers. . Reason for the alert was not disclosed. (A German DNB news agency

coast with live ammunition.)

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alr forces. Lt. Anderson, who holds | to the purple heart for wounds re3. . Whatever happens Britain the air medal with one oak leaf|ceived in action Feb. 13, 1944, on cluster, participated in missions in!the French coast air attack.

Britain and the United States were

that the Germans, fearing the |

broadcast from Berlin yesterday | said German troops recently held | a test of defense fortifications ' along the French Mediterranean

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CAPT. GEORGY; BARTUSKA of |

The Indianapolis flier recently South Bend, bombardier for an 8th

\When Fight’s Over

air force Flying Fortress group, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster

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new. facilities will be needed by the | American Legion, which is taking into its membership the veterans of the current war.

Closing Session Tense

There was tenseness as the session closed, the Republican leadership being determined to recess the legislature, which costs around $4000 a day, if the Governor decided to

spend the three days permitted to him for looking over the G. O. P. bills. The Governor, however, signed

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ACHES FOR FIGHT

‘Ace Temporarily Out of Air; Wants to Keep Flying After War.

ADVANCED ALLIED BASE, NEW GUINEA, April 15 (U, P.).— Maj. Richard I. Bong, the shy and modest Poplar, Wis., farmboy, who became America’s greatest air hero by shooting down 27 enemy planes, said in an interview today that he wants to keep on flying warplanes even after ‘he present conflict is ended. . Grounded temporarily, Bong said there was only one thing he want

WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. P.).~Maj. Richard 1. Bong, who was promised a case of Scotch and a oase of champagne by Eddie Rickenbacker and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, respectively, for shooting down his 27th plane, woulll just as soon have a “coke,” thank you. .

ed to do—get back to his job of flying more combat missions against the Japanese. When asked if he expected to be sent home to aid war bond drives and other civilian war efforts, Bong replied: “My God, I hope not.”

MacArthur Praises Bong

Bong, who was a captain when he shot down two Japanese planes in the Hollandia area, revealed he was made a-major the day after he broke Capt. Eddie Rickenbackeris world war I record. The promotion was“ in a’ congratulatory message from Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific. Bong, chunkily built, with brown curly hair and a snub nose, looks like any other average American small town boy. He speaks in a low, soft voice and uses words sparingly, When he was asked, for instance, if he felt nervous while fighting,

{husband of Mrs. Mae L. Fricke, he replied:

“Hell, no™ Pressed, he explained that he did not have time to think of anything but the job at hand.

Bong Gets ‘Shakes’

LOS ANGELES, April 15 (U. P). —Ma). Bong admits he gets “the shakes when it's all over” his sis. ter, Nelda, 22, said today. “You don’t have time to get them

PROTEST MARKS Leese io vm END OF SESSION

‘Democrats to Campaign be, “the thrill is fiying, not com-.

on, but I get the shakes when come bat's over™-Nelda said he told her while on a leave last December. “Dick doesn't like to fight,” Nelda sald. Repeatedly he has written bat,” she said. Nelda is proud of her brother's record, but she smiles when she remembers their farmohuse back in Poplar, and how “cluttered it was with Dick's model airplanes.”

Fascinated as Lad

Nelda recalls her brother's fascination when he saw a plane in the sky as a youngster. “All he could think about was planes, and when a plane appeared

daydream until he couldn't see it any more,” she sald. Nelda, a stenographer at the American President Lines headquarters in Los Angeles harbor, thinks Marge Battendahl, Dick's girl friend whose picture flies on his P-38 Lightning, is “simply a

the bills after a study of about three hours and both houses immediately adjourned. The governor pointed out in a conference with some of the G.O.P. {leaders that he had agreed to sign

to sign them without first reading them over.

Bitter Protest Made

During the closing hours, the Democrats had entered upon the records of both houses a bitter protest against the “dictatorship” of the G.O.P. state committee which had kept the other measures they felt to be vital from being considered at the special session. The Republican leadership made no attempt to keep this protest from being filed. John Lauer, G.O.P. state chairman, issued a statement at the close of the session praising the legislators for keeping the session short.

swell girl and I'm all for my brother | marrying her.”

PLEDGES TO HELP MENTAL HOSPITALS

Rep. Earl B. Teckemeyer, candi date for renomination as state representative on the G. O. P. ticket, {last night outlined the platform on which he is seeking office in an address at a fourth ward rally. He said that, if elected, he would work to develop an adequate patient treatment program for the iphabitants of the state mental institu tions and would seek a strengthens ing and broadening of the state merit system law. As chairman of the welfare legislative investigation commission, he said he would be returned to help pass the “modernizing” legislation to be recommended to the '45 session by the commission.

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