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today that the: greatest concentration of shipping since the Dunkerque evacuation has been assembled in British waters, presumably for an invasion of western Europe.
The royal navy is being concentrated in home waters, along with units of the American, French and Italian fleets, the broadcast said. “Troops are leaving London,” it added. “Every day now, troop trains are leaving London stations taking men to ports.”
Another Berlin broadcast said the Germans across the channel and North sea have concluded all “prepara-
tions to counter the invasion” the enemy. )
Crack SS elite guards, considerably more disciplined
with all defenses ready for
and much better equipped than other line troops, have. reinforced German garrisons in the Atlantic wall defenses, the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen reported from Berlin. More than 300,000 men now stand ready to repel any
4llies Mass Ships, Troops For Invasion, Nazis Say
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—The German radio said
allied invasion, Berlin sources said. European reports indicated that all was not well behind Hitler's invasion de-
fenses, however.
A Swedish Telegraph agency dispatch from Oslo said
- a small vessel—obviously an ammunition ship—blew up
opposite the so-called Fortress Quay at Bergen on the the west coast of Norway and destroyed a number of buildings in a military area near the shore, including Haakon'’s hall, one of Norway's oldest historic monuments.
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The explosions, presumably touched off by- saboteurs, - killed at least 43 persons and injured hundreds of others. . Another Swedish Telegraph agency dispatch, this one from Copenhagen, said gestapo agents had arrested hundreds of Danish patriots in a surprise round-up that covered the entire country. The Danish press service said the German command held a number of realistic anti-invasion maneuvers recently in Denmark.
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LOCAL CLINI GIVEN CITY BY HYGIENE UNIT
Transfer of Hospital Title §
Assures Permanency Of Institution.
The Indianapolis Social Hygiene association today made the city a gift of property housing the 150bed city isolation hospital at 1140
Deeded over to the city in formal ceremonies in Mayor Tyndall's office, were three structures housing venereal clinic facilities and the quarter of a block upon which they were located, Dr. Harold B. West, president of the hygiene association, said association purchased the property from the W. B. Fletcher Sanitarium Corp. and had also paid off a mortgage held against it by the American National bank, trustees of the Fletcher estate.
Retiring as Dean
SR : 557500
Dr. Frederick D. Kershner
CHANGE ASKED |
BY DR. KERSHNER
jcoming invasion of Europe and ex-
SALE OF ARMY BEDS AND COTS LINKED 70 0CD
17,000 TONS FROM 9000 PLANES
"SHAKE EUROPE IN 4-DAY ATTACK
Huge ‘Surplus’ Reported in Indiana Center as Invasion Nears.
More than 8700 “surplus” army hospital beds and folding cots and 3663 “surplus” mattresses now stored at the army depot at New Castle will be sold to the high bidders at Cincinnati tomorrow by the procurement division of the treasury department. Local dealers and wholesalers who received advertisements for bidding expressed amazement that such a sale should be made in view of the
pansion of operations in the Pacific. An official in the procurement office at Cincinnati said that the property was declared as “surplus” by the Office of Civilian Defense.
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"Local Flier
Uninjured in
P-38 Crash
‘Head of Butler Religion
He said he did not know “whether |
Cologne, Paris and Two Rail Centers
Blasted by 1100 Bombers in Record Assault.
BULLETINS
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—The strongest force of British bombers ever mobilized dropped more than 5040 tons of explosives on Europe last night, topping by far the weight of any other air attack in history and raising the pre-invasion offensive to an unrivaled pitch of intensity.
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—The German radio said a large United States bomber force attacked southeastern Europe today, dropping bombs in Serbia and southern Romania. The broadcast claimed that axis fighters
Ne Strings Attached He declined to divuige the amount of money involved in the transac-| tion, but emphasized that the isola- |
i it would be permissible” to give the {name of the civilian defense offi- | cer signing the order declaring the | beds and mattresses to be surplus.
School to Continue as Instructor.
“broke up the compactness of the attacks.”
LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—The royal air force sent its
tion hospital grounds and ie) Dr. Frederick J. Kershner, whose go over to the city “without any world-wide reputation as a scholar
strings attached whatsoever.” {has brought students from as far Since November, 1042, when the away as Australia, New Zealand and venereal clinic was established, the Korea to Indianapolis, will retire
Attack Anticipated
He pointed out that the only con j nection the treasury procurement! division had with the matter was!
Go
LARGE-SCALE BATTLE | IN CHINA BREWING
CHUNGKING, April 21 (U. P).—~
- Sept. 1 as dean of the Butler uni-
versity school of religion. . Dr. M. O. Ross, university presi-| dent, announced today that Dr. Kershner, retiring at his own re-| quest, will becothe dean emeritus of} the school. He will continue as a full-time professor and head of the school's department of Christian! doctrine. Dr. Kershner, now 68 came to!
| Butler in 1924 to organize a division | | for religion students. The next year |
12 students enrolled in the college! of religion.
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Under his growing world reputa-
Japanese spearheads of a force | estimated at 60,000 troops attempted ; today to storm the immediate out-| skirts of Chenghsien in Northern | Honan province with an attack, which may develop into the first, large-scale battle in China since] that of Changteh, Other Japanese columns, apparently bypassing Chenghsien, - were | advancing west in the general di-| rection of Kunghsien, described by | Chinese spokesmen as the “first city| of strategic importance west of Chenghsien.” 2
enrollment is now more than 10 times its original size, It is one of the largest ministerial training institutions in the country, free from ebts and with large endowment funds available. { In 1939 the college became a graduate theological schoo! and in the fall of 1942 a separate school of religion building was opened on the Fairview campus. The hundreds of students who have come from every part of the
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FREAK SQUEAKS— PLAN BIG POINT CUT
Ride on Bumper Of Car Provides
Greatest Scare Pork, Butter Values Also N
BY HELEN RUEGAMER |
CHARLES W. ALKIRE has | pursued his job of selling in- |
surance with renewed vim and vigor since his Freak Squeak
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seared him within an inch of his e. As his entry in The Indianapolis Times-Chamber of Commerce Safety Council Freak Squeak contest, the Indianapolis
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TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Amusements . 25| Ruth Millett.. 20
Sav aeane
Meta Givens. 23| Mrs. Roosevelt 19
Gardens ..... 14/Simms ....... 20 In Indpls Ad ae 3 Society ven 28,24 Inside Indpls, 19] Sports
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Will Be Lower.
WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P). | —Ration point values of lamb and {mutton will be roughly halved next month, pork point values will be cut {somewhat and the point value of
butter will be reduced from the 'present level of 16 points, probably ito 12 points, it was learned today. {The office of price administration, {its hand forced by premature dis{closure of its. plans gt the capitol, {officially announced that it was
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Mailers Refuse
dianapolis Mailers’ Union No. 10, has announced that the mailers have refused to handle the May issue of the International Teamsters, official publication of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Union (A. F. of L.). ; In his statement, Mr. Weaver branded Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters, as an “unfair employer.” : 3 The dispute centers on certa girls employed by the Teamsters’ union ine preparation of mailing
charges that several years ago (when the mailers and printers withdrew from the A. F. of L)
with the mailers’ union by forcing his employees who : were members of the mailers’ union to withdraw
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Financially Independent | sold tomorrow.
tion, the schoa] expanded until its!
May Issue of 'Teamsters'
W. C. Weaver, president of In-,
lists for its magazine. Mr. Weaver! Mr. Tobin repudiated a contract
from that union and to affiliate
26 (with the A. F. of L. Stenographers,
to act as disposing agent, Newt Goudy, public relations director for the state office of civilian defense and a former New Castle newspaperman, said that he knew the federal office of civilian defense early in the war had a large quantity of beds and mattresses stored at the New Castle depot for use in case of bombing. New Castle was regarded as a central point from which distribution could be made quickly over a wide area, he said. It is presumed that it is these beds and mattresses that are “being
Sale Publicized i The official in the treasury office,
at Cincinnati, who declined to let! -
his name be used, said that all government agencies had been circularized concerning the disposal of the surplus property, An employee of the Smaller War Plants Corp. here which has asked for bids for the production of 15.000 cots for the navy said, however, that’ his division had received no information on the sale of the government property in the New Castle d {
1 It was doubted, however, that the]
“Enough Stuff Here”
the New Castle depot, said that as {far as he knew only 1500 army cots
FOR MUTTON, LAMB Capt. Leo Regan, commander of | :
were being sold.
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{ The official in the treasury office ‘at Cincinnati said that the prop-| erty to be sold included 7500 army ! medical folding cots, 713 adjustable | hospital beds, 1500 camp folding] { cots, 713 innerspring mattresses and’ 2950 cotton mattresses.
i DEFENDS EMPIRE UNITY | LONDON, April 21 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today that he had “never conceived that fraternal association with the] |Viied States would militate in any | way against the unity of the British! commonwealth and empire.” |
to Handle
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Early this year, a group of the girls employed by the Teamsters’ union in preparation of its mailing lists gave their bargaining rights to the Mailers’ union. To obtain recognition, the Mailers’ petitioned the national labor relations board nearly three months ago, but no action has been taken thus far by the board, Mr. Weaver said. * Approximately ‘450,000 copies of the International - Teamster are mailed each month, and copies of the May issue were scheduled to be ready for mailing today: |
Bookwalter-Ball-Greathouse Printing Co,, while the mailing is handled by the Lambert Mailing Co. The president "of the Mailers’ union emphasized that the.union had no grievance either with the
“We have enough stuff up here,”| ; he said, “to put everyone in Indiana | ® to bed tonight.” |
The magazines are printed by the |
Lambert Mailing Co. or the Book-
————— beds and mattresses to be sold| ‘Gems | would be of the type wanted by the! | navy.
Lt. Malcolm McDermott of Indianapolis (in circle) and a group of air force officers and men are shown {lieved in its final hours as two Rus-
Hold Baltic Lines;
‘strongest fleet of the war against Europe last night, boost-"
ing to nearly 17,000 tons the weight of bombs dropped on the continent in four days of pre-invasion bombardment by about 9000 allied planes. More than 1100 British bombers hit Colonge, the outskirts of Paris and two" rail centers serving the invasion coast, and jabbed lightly at Berlin in what appeared to be the most powerful bombing broadside of all time. American Marauder medium hombers and Havoc assault planes, supported by Spitfires of the British tactical air force, carried the record offensive against the continent into
5 = = its fifth day with daylight RU SS REPULSE blows on northern France. | radio ‘said this afternoon that
The Nazi-controlled Paris NAZI ASSAULTS come action bombs dropped durthe night still were exploding asked:
ing | “almost every moment,” and “How many more of these nights
Other Forces Fight Within
LONDON, April 21 (U. P= Allied headquarters announced
| today that Lt. Gen. George S. Sevastopol. | Patton Jr.” had arrived “for ! duty.”
MOSCOW, April 21 (U. P).—The —
{German command hurled hordes of of tarror shall we have to endure _ | tanks and infantrymen today
tens of thousands of before the invasion starts?” against Soviet| The main weight of the more forces massing in Estonia and than 5040 tons of explosives crashed
land for spring and summer on Cologne. industrial capital of emand but or Russians held | the Rhineland and first city of the firm and were reported officially to WAr to rock under the impact of a be “slaughtering” the attackers. | 1000-plane raid. The increasingly heavy German | The other British targets were La “preventive” attacks indicated that | Chapelle, in the outskirts of Paris; Russian armies may be preparing to | Ottignies, 15 miles southeast of strike next in the Narva sector of | Brussels, and Lens, in northern Estonia in the Baltic states and on France, with a supporting nuisance the Stanislawow front in the Car- | attack _ Berlin oo 3a pathians as soon as they complete mbers. ) ixteen planes were lost. the liberation of Sevastopol, last! New Raids Teday Nazi toehold in the Crimea. Following in the wake oy the night Planes Block Sea Lanes bombers and the nearly 1000 Flying
Acme Telephoto.
among the ruins of the building where they were working when the plane crashed.
Lt. McDermott Misses HOOSIERS SHARE IN
Death as Plane Hits HAIR-RAISING NEWS secre sank an enemy destroyer and [ino of Germany's intricate system - four transports totaling 15.000 tons, 5¢ military railways in advance of ! SO!
Hoosier Heroes—
LT. WILLIAMS DIES IN RAIDING EUROPE
2 Other Indianapolis Men
Reported as Missing.
AIR COMBAT has claimed the life of another Hoosier navigator and two more local names have been added to the list of air force members missing. KILLED Lt. Robert L. Williams, Pittsboro. MISSING Sgt. Harvey Phipps Jr., 4941 Ford st. Second Lt. Richard Lewis Green, 4155 Park ave:
” ” » LT. ROBERT L WILLIAMS, a navigator of a B-17 Flying For-
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SEDITION DEFENDANT HINTS AT . POLITICS
WASHINGTON, April 21 (U.P). —Edward James Smythe, whose junket to Au Sable Forks, N, Y. delayed proceedings in the sedition
Naples Building.
ONCE IN A WHILE Lady Luck, who often looks after the welfare of American airmen, is grounded. - . When this happened at an army air base near Naples, Italy, she bestowed her charm upon an Indianapolis lieutenant and nine fellow-workers. ‘ Today's news dispatches listed Lt. Malcolm McDermott, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McDermott, 30 Maple Ct., as one of several army air force officers and men who narrowly escaped death when a P-38 plowed into the building where they were working. * The Lightning reconnaissance plane was coming in for a routine landing - when one motor conked out and the pilot lost control of the ship. The airoraft plowed into the concrete building. Two pilots and one enlisted man on the ground were killed, nearby jeeps and trucks as well as the building were wrecked.. Miraculously, the pilot escaped alive. In a letter home Lt. McDer-
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Marsh, Fines, “Edmundsen, Givan Have Thrills.
The names of Indianapolis men and other fighting Hoosiers today were sprinkled through the war news. Over the cables out of the South Pacific area came the name of S. Sgt. George Walker Marsh, Indianapolis engineer, who helped blast the Japs out of Truk in that recent historic raid. The big bombers caught the enemy in complete surprise, destroying 49 planes on the ground and battling for 45 minutes the
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LIEBER WILL LEAVES
The will of Richard Lieber, founder of Indiana's park system who died Saturday, was filed in probate court today, leaving his entire estate to the widow, Mrs. Emma Lieber. ° : The value of the estate was not estimated, but a bond of $100,000 was fixed on the administrator of
estate, a son, Ralph Lieber.
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ESTATE TO HIS WIFE
! Fortresses and Liberators which hit | The German stand in Sevastopol, | ine prench invasion coast late yes- { Russia's biggest naval base, was be- terday, American and British bomb- | ers and fighters carried on by day|sian armies slowly pressed the | jioht. First reports said the at(doomed garrison back through the (crs were concentrated on north- | streets of the city. | ern Prance. | Soviet planes blockading the ap- | The allied command long has {proaches to the port in 24 hours p..n expected to order the ecrip-
'some of them loaded to capacity the opening of a western front, with fleeing German and Romanian | which Nazi sources have been pre- | troops. |dicting will come within the next | (A British broadcast recorded by | five weeks. CBS said a heavy Russian cruiser,| 1, observance of Adolf Hitler's standing off Sevastopol harbor, Was s5ih birthday, a force consisting shelling the docks in the German-
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Bar Association Gives Blue
139 Votes to 119 for Niblack
For Democratic prosecutor--Mr, Bradshaw, 187; Joseph Howard, 71,
The Indianapolis Bar association's | pre-primary balloting on candidates seeking judicial offices gave Prosecutor Sherwood Blue a 20-vote majority over Judge John Niblack for the Republican prosecutor nomination. The votes of 298 attorneys tabulated last night also indorsed Harry O. Chamberlin for the Republican nomination for circuit court judge: Wilfred Bradshaw for the Democratic nomination for prosecutor and Judge Earl R. Cox for the Democratic nomination for circuit court judge. The vote fotals were: il For Republican prosecutor-—Mr. Blue, 13¢; Judge Niblack, 119.
For : ouput Mr. Chamberlin, 116; Lioyd D. Clay- {the
mann, 108. The balloting showed that 135 attorneys listed themselves as Repub-
independents. Forty ballots were ruled out by the association’s judiciary committee. Twenty-one of them were
Mosquitoe
For Democratic circuit court Judge Cox, 150; Joseph QO, Hoff.
licans, 93 as Democrats and 10 4s
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