Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1944 — Page 1

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SATURDAY, APRIL

22, 1944

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LONDON, April 22.—The Germans in France have the “invasion jitters,” according to a recently arrived

. underground leader. that induced by waiting for multiplied a thousand fold. The first “shoe,” he sai

The malady, he said, is akin to

the other shoe to drop, but

d, was the terrific pounding

the British and American air

forces are dealing out daily

to Germany and the invasion coast. But other things,

many of them psychological,

are contributing to the in-

flamed state of Nazi nerves—for instance, the British order virtually impounding the diplomatic corps here and

the daily radio warnings to occupied countries.

the populations within the

Paris, Brussels and other key places are reported

ait For The Other Shoe To Drop’

. be jammed with gestapo men. These are hunting night and day for spies, saboteurs, underground leaders, and any who might be allied sympathizers. Traffic regulations are changed suddenly from time to time for both vehicles and pedestrians. One day pedestrians have to walk down say the right side of the street ,

to a certain intersection, then the other side.

cross over and proceed down

The next day the rule may be reversed.

The idea is to catch any strangers unfamiliar with the system, the presumption being they might be spies. Anyone found wearing any apparel which the gestapo knows to be unusual in occupied Europe—and they have made a thorough study of such details—is out of luck. He is arrested and generally presumed to be guilty unless he can demonstrate otherwise. All western Europe ap~

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Spokesmen Here Say Not! Even a Memo on the Sub- |

ject Has Been Received.

Rumors that passenger travel will soon be on a strict priority basis

The chief passenger agent here

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say to those mothers and dads who want to visit their sons im army

camps?”

‘Travel ‘Self-Rationing’ He cited also the thousands upon thousands of businessmen that hurry to and from Indianapolis in the course of the year, most of them connected with the war effort either or remotely, and concluded that job of drawing up a rail priority list would be a delicate one

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New York, Central representapointed out that railroad travel “rationing itself” inasmuch as many people can't obtain accomie anyhow. As an example he recalled the plight of 50 persons left stranded at the gates yesterday,

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passengers as it possibly could in its seats, aisles and wash-rooms. Local ODT officials said they had received no hint of travel rationing and added that it seems probable that the government will let the

"CARDINAL O'CONNELL

APPROACHES . CRISIS

BOSTON, April 22° (U, P)—A

In churches throughout the arch/!

tomorrow, prayers will be

diocese sald: “for the spiritual and bodily

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agent. “And what are you going to

Otomo three to one, the “wise guys” who braved the show, as this one did, were “cat kings” for a night. ‘ More "Slick Chicks’ Than 'Wise Guys' Attend

Teen-Age Event.

THE INDIANAPOLIS “jive wagon,” with youth in the drive er's seat, rolled into Tomlinson hall last night for the first all-city teen-age “jam session” which “cut the rug to shreds” as 500 “hep cats” strutted their stuff.

The “slick chicks” outnumbered the “wise guys” three to one in the opening shuffle which was sponsored by the student mvgste council of the OCD. Special guests were the teens canteeners from Hep Kat Hall, Strut Hut, Jive Hive, Hut Sut, Swing Haven, Rhythm Rockers and Buzz Bucket, who grooved their way through the sweet and low and the hot and loud.

A variety show with everything from “boogie woogie” to ensemble groups held forth from the stage between dances as the jitterbugs “fanned the arches” for the next battle. : A unanimous shout of approval went up when Officer Paul White- | side, on loan from the police department, asked if the teen-agers wanted another “jam session” in the future. “Slick chicks” guarantee the “wise guys” will get “hep” and show at the next session if they're really “on the -beam.”

IBOY, 10, INHERITS $3,800,000 ESTATE

CHICAGO, April 22 (U. P)— Robert M. Roloson III, 10-year-old

Jivers Inaugurate City Jam Session

Some 500 “fost happy” teen-agers jived fo their heart's content at the first all-city jam session last night in Tomlinson hall. .

| Hoosier Heroes—

FRED MEYER JR.

of a director of United Air Lines, who was killed with his wife 9

LISTED AS DEAD

Airman Shat De Down Over Bougainville; 4 Local Soldiers Missing.

CPL. FRED MEYER JR., Indian-

«4 from the-ainarm wing to “go in and flatien them.”

YANK HEAVIES IN FOUR BIG WAVES

STRIKE GERMANY FOR 6TH DAY

Eyewitness—

‘LIKE HITTING A GNAT WITH

BASEBALL BAT

Writer Describes - Sumatra Attack—'‘Japs Caught Flat-Footed.’

By HAROLD GUARD Untted Press War Correspondent WITH ALLIED FLEET OFF SABANG, April 19 (Delayed) — American, British, French and Dutch warships more than 25 strong sliced into the rim of Japan's stolen empire today and devastated Sabang with a carrier-borne aerial strike that was like swatting a gnat with a baseball bat. The united nations forces, including a U. 8S. aircraft carrier, moved in under orders from Adm. Sir James ‘PF. Somerville to “catch

They carried out the assignment

‘in a manner that caused Somer-

ville to signal” after it was over: “Yours Much Appreciated”

“Congratulations on a successful day. As far as I am concerned,

apolis marine airman, was killed Dec. 3, 1943, when his plane was! shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Bougainville.

missing in action are: S. Sgt. Robert B. Reed, 912 Arbor! ave. Pvt. Charles A. McCarnan, 3333. N. New Jersey st. Pvt. Alfred E. Alyne, 1350 Com-! merce ave. T. Sgt. Thurman D. Graves Jr, 836 S. Norfolk st. ® » » CPL. FRED MEYER JR. a tur-! ret gunner in the marine air! corps, had been missing in action | in the South Pacific theater since] Dec. 3 when the navy department | officially notified relatives April 10; that he was killed. Son of Pred Meyer Sr. 1133] Brunswick st., Cpl. Meyer enlisted in| the marines June 8, 1942, and had, been overseas since last July. Before entering service, the 22-1 year-old marine worked at Federal Mogul Co. and attended Southport | high school. Survivors besides his father are four sisters, Misses Ruth and Velma | Meyer, both of 1133 Brunswick st.; | Mrs. Gladys Edwards, 1125 Bruns- |

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DELAY AY B DENIED

Sessions to 10: Resume Monday as Result of Ruling.

WASHINGTON, April 22 (U. P.). ~The U. 8 court of appeals today denied a request that the sedition trial be halted pending an inquiry into legality of the proceedings. Stoppage of the trial, scheduled to resume Monday, was sought by James J Laughlin, counsel for Edward J. Smythe, one of 30 persons accused of conspiring with the Nazis to undermine. morale of the armed forces. $ Laughlin’s petition for a writ of mandamus charged that Justice Edward C. Eicher, presiding at the trial, iy incompetent and biased and that procedures of questionable legality have been used. . The appeals court said “we are of the opinion that no proper cause is shown for mandamus. All of the charges made in the petition involve rulings which ry appeal” : i OE ———————————————— PATENT JUDGE RESIGNS WASHINGTON, April 22 (U. P). ~-Judge Irvine

| many. On today's list of local soldiers;

this occasion is she first in which British and American naval airieraft formed a single attacking {force, May it prove the first of

An American officer who cannot: be identified replied, “Yours much , appreciated. Also hope this is be- |

them with their kimonos up” andi ; ~commeander

‘Hello’ Brought Here From Pyle By Flight Mate

PERSONAL GREETINGS to Times staffers from the Hoosier Vagabond, Ernie Pyle, walked into "the city room yesterday afternoon in the shape of Paul Oliver, Al-

Paul Oliver .

jamal, greetings to Times staffers

. he brought per-

lison technician just back from the Italian battlefront. As’ casually as though he had just come downtown on the College ave. streetcar, Mr. Oliver stepped up and said, “I just flew in from Africa and Pyle asked me to come up and say hello” » Mr. Oliver met Ernie as the two boarded a plane in Italy on th y to Africa. It wasn't long,

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SEDITION TRIAL

reviewable on|

1. Lenrook, of the.

! ginning of similar joint operations.” |

DAWSON GETS START

NAZIS BATTLE ° T0 DELAY RUSS SPRING DRIVE!

War's Fury Mov Moves to Old Poland; Sevastopol .

Siege Continues.

- MQSCOW, April 22 (U. P.).—The Germans stepped up their counter-

Athrust against the Soviet flank

southeast of Lwow today, throwing more and more armored and infantry reinforcements into an at-| tempt to smash Russian prepara-| tions for a late. spring drive into! Czechoslovakia and central Poland.

Russian artillery and anti-tank guns staggered in depth southeast of Stanislawow, 70 miles below Lwow, continued to absorb the full force of the strongest German attacks since last fall, however. without yielding any ground. More than 1500 Germans were killed and 68 tanks wrecked in ‘yesterday's -abortive attacks, boosting the toll for the first four days

{of the Nazi counter-thrust to at {least 8700 Nazi troops killed and

108 panzers destroyed. Like Kiev Battle

The Russian army's siege of Sevastopol entered its fifth day with Soviet forces apparently regrouping for a new assault on the strongly fortified naval base after their Mightning liberation of all but the southwestern tip of the Crimea. The battle southeast of Stanislawow appeared to be assuming the pattern of that in the Kiev salient last autumn,

The attack on the Japanese out- | post at the tip of Sumatra on the road to Singapore may have been {aimed at enticing the enemy fleet into combat. But it did not stir. Two striking forces threw their aerial weight at Sabang and the 1 Lho Nga base ‘across the straits on {the Sumatra mainland from two directions. Caught flat-footed, the Japanese opened their anti-airaraft barrage {late. The allied planes, meanwhile, | were swarming in to knock out the Sabang radar station, smash a power station, JSoaling wharf, bar-

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IN GOVERNOR'S RACE

Makes G. 0. P. "0. P. Candidacy

Known in Letters.

Lt. Gov. Charles M. Dawson today took the first formal steps in his bid to win the G.O. P. gubernatorial nomination when he mailed letters to party workers throughout the state announcing his candidacy. The lieutenant governor, the state’s top-ranking G. O. P. official, had made no secret of the fact that he soon would toss his hat into the gubernatorial ring against Ralph

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WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Wadinghon Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, April 22. — Lull-before-the-storm deadens Washington. Government marks time, awaits invasion flash. Decisions are postponed, plans held up. Even political squabbles lack zest. Guesses on invasion start with “tomorrow,” range along the calendar. Best judgment here is that not even Eisenhower knows the exact day. When everything is ready, the weathérman will pick it. » = ” » . r

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DEWEY on the first ballot, insiders say, with no preliminary intraparty friction. MacArthur boom, promising 10 days ago, is over. Looks like Bricker for second place. Republican high command thinks it has

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For the time being at least, gunners attached to the 1st Ukrainian army under Marshal Gregory K. { Zhukov, Vatutin's successor, were | breaking all armored attacks in {the Stanislawow sector and draw{ing more and more armor upon i them without the necessity of withdrawing _from .advance positions along the Czechoslovak border to the south.

Predict Nazi Exhaustion

The Germans probably will become exhausted after four or five more days of assaults, after which Zhukov may begin his anticipated drive into Hungary's CarpathoUkraine, formerly the eastern tip of Czechoslovakia and central Poland.

ed the Russian army with raids on enemy railway communications ane troop concentrations. On the Estonian front, other Soviet planes bombed German shale oil factories at Kokhtila, 35 miles west of Narva, and Kurtna-

lager, 37 miles southwest of Narva.

Moscow,

250 Medium Bombers Blast N. France As Pre-Invasion Assaults Reaches New Fury.

By UNITED PRESS Europe shook under the impact of allied bombs again | today as the big air offensive preluding invasion entered the sixth day of its greatest concentrated attack. In clear weather, four big waves of American heavy

.|bombers crossed the English channel in force to carry on the

work of destruction which since Monday has seen more than 17,000 tons of bombs dropped, mainly on the network of communications essential to German defense of the continent. The day's activities started before dawn when British

'two-engined bombers dropped two-ton blockbusters on the

{industrial city and traffic artery of Cologne, still in flames from the 1770-ton British attack of Thursday night. Heavy bombers of the United States 8th air force, idle yesterday because of bad weather, went back into action in substantial force. Marauder mediums and Havoc assault bombers also were out in strength, hammering northern. France. Hundreds of planes formed a virtually unbroken

RUSS MAY JOIN Ser i 0 ALLIED ATTACK:

sans § indicated that daylight. rations were on a large era

Coastal observers said the roar lover the straits of Dover was al- ! most constant as bombers and fightReports ers shuttled through the skies. Among them were heavyweights flying so high they were not visible and could be identified only by the throb of their motors. “Everywhere one looked it was planes, planes, planes,” one south= east coast reporter said.

Bari Hint at Co-ordinated

Invasion Drive.

LONDON, April 22 (U. P.).—Moscow dispatches and Berlin broadcasts hinted broadly today that the

Smash North France invasion of western Europe might

Stormovik attack planes support-!

be co-ordinated with a full scale Russian offensive, in line with the pattern of concentric assault on Germany as laid out at the Tehran conference. United Press Correspondent Harrison Salisbury reported a “feeling of anticipation of great events” in Moscow in connection with an ex. pected Russian army spring offensive. His dispatch dealing with German counter-attacks in pre-war Poland said: “With millions of aliled troops poised in the West and the allied air offensive on the crescendo, German invasion jitters over the prospects of a co-ordinated attack as

FREAK SQUEAKS— Contest Closes Tomorrow; Get

By HELEN RUEGAMER AFTER ALMOST two years E. A,

NAZIS FAGE GRISIS IN EAST WALL TEST

Conclusive Battle

With Russ Near Lwow.

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE (United Press Foreign Editer) The German counter-offensive southeast of Lwow is the first important enemy reaction to the staggering defeats in the Ukraine and Crimea in the last two months. It may turn out to a conclusive test of Nazi strength along Hitler's east wall. If it succeeds in splitting the Russian 1st army of the Ukraine, which is rather riskily extended on a long front from the Pripet marshes to the Romanian border, the threatened Russian drive into Galicia and Hungary may be averted for months. If it fails, the German wall will be irreparably breached.

servers, this front is far more im-

In the view of allied military ob-|

st., still thinks he's living on borrowed time. His close call which came while

| driving a tractor in the summer

Brews

of 1942 was one of the many breath-taking Preak Squeak contest entries received, yesterday. With the contest,

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d. RUSSIA—Germans step

More than 250 Marauders and Havocs were in action for their seventh attack in five days on military targets in northern France. They encountered heavy anti. aircraft fire but no German fighters. All returned safely. Royabh air force and allied Bostons and Mitchells, covered by allied fighters, also hit objectives in | northern France. While British-based air armadas | intensified their campaign to soften | western Europe for invasion, Amer{ican heavy bombers from Italy continued to support the Russian army with attacks on railway yards in | Bucharest and Turnu-Severin in { Romania.

100 Nazis Intercept

| Nearly 100 German planes inter{cepted the raiders, but they and [their escort shot down 35 of them at a total loss of eight bombers and five fighters, R. A. F. Wellingtons in the Ital ian theater extended their pre{dawn raids to Genoa, ' northern Italy’s largest port, today. fg Other Wellingtons attacked the

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On the War Fronts

(April 22, 1944) AIR WAR—Four waves of American four-engined bombers cross channel to send pre-invasion offensive into sixth straight day following R. A, F. night attack on Cologne.

up couns ter-thrust against Soviet flank southeast of Lwow; siege of Sevastopol enters fifth day. :

ITALY—R. A. F. Wellingtons exe tend pre-dawn raids to Genoa.

PACIFIC—Two forces of American

CHINA—Under air Japs battle for | Chinese rail junction.