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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 42

SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1944

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Bambino’s In Town He'll Cheer Wounded G. I.'s

By LEO DAUGHERTY

Babe Ruth is in town today to help cheer America's wounded of this all-important world series. At 2:30 p. m. the Bambino will be a guest on the first of a series of radio programs entitled “Visiting Hour.” Sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System in collaboration with the war department army service forces,

the broadcast will be aired from Billings General hospital. Next Saturday the program will originate in Louisville with The Times’

Joe Williams as guest. Before and after this afternoon's program, Mr. Swat's famed spindle pins will motor his 250 pounds from bed to bed of wounded soldiers to shake their hands. And when you have had your hand shaken by Mr. Swat

you know it has been genuinely

shaken.

A Happy Visit

Visiting Indianapolis again is a happy chore for the swat sultan. He wasn't in a highly hilarious mood when he arrived by plane late yesterday. He complained of a swollen larnyx, which he said caused him pain every time he talked, but talk he did, no end, Mr. Ruth being one who never lacks a word for it. He also squawked about the plane making six stops between New York and here. This was strictly contrary to the Babe's system of travel, he having established the custom of starting from home plate and making no stop until the end of his journey. Today, however, he’s feeling fine and ready to pitch and slug for the benefit of all the guys who were fouled by a couple of low belters called Hitler and Hirohito. He'll tell the boys at Billings and the fans in the radio stands and bleachers about his old blockbusting Yankee teammates, about the strange doings of Heinie Muller and Lefty Gomez and about the antics of those roaring, hell-bent-for-the-pennant Yanks.

Has Seen One Game

Mr. Swat sheepishly admitted that he has seen only one ball game this year, the opener. But he says baseball will go on and that it will be one of the greatest

morale builders both for the folks

at home and the fighters abroad. While the names in the wartime box scores are for the most part

just so many Joe Blows and Joe

Doakes to him, he says the American league contenders will be his own Yankees, the Browns and the Senators.

Of the National league, he has no opinion, his acquaintance with

that loop always having been

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CHINESE STOP JAP

SOUTHWARD DRIVE

CHUNGKING, April 29 (U. P.).—

Chinese troops counter-attacking In ;.... rr mit and father of Karen,

ORDERS ARMY TO WITHDRAW FROM WARD'S

of

Government Operator Plant Explains. Court

federal government ordered the army to withdraw today from the

Babe Ruth

seized Chicago plants of Montgomery Ward & Co. The order for the withdrawal of the detachment of 40 military police from the sprawling mail order and retail store plant along the Chicago river was issued by Wayne Chatfield Taylor, undersecretary of commerce, who became operator of the properties when they were “taken over by the department of commerce Wednesday night. Taylor said the troops no longer were needed to enforce the government’'s seizure because of a federal court order which restrains Ward company officers from interfering with the government's operation,

New Officers Named

The temporary restraining order against the company was issued Thursday night several hours after the soldiers had carried Sewell Avery, head of Montgomery Ward, from the .uilding and ordered him to stay out. Taylor also said he was appoint-

‘Hoosier Heroes—

4 LOCAL FLIER

Lt. Moffitt, t, Bomber Pilot | Among Casualties on New List.

FOUR Indianapolis airmen are; | missing in action in the European! | theater and an army engineer has

| been wounded in Italy. ” - MISSING

| ing John Goodloe, special assistant | secretary of commerce and general {counsel for the Reconstruction | Finance Corp., as grievance officer | under the governmental operation of the nation’s second largest mail "order house. Shortly after Taylor issued the

| LOST IN IN EUROP Joe ee Jsiliary police began |

equipment and prearea. : ed the plant. “On Thursday, the United States ? district court issued an order restraining’ Mr. Avery and other ex{ecutive officers of the company | from interfering with the possession {of (the plant). by the United States,” Taylor said. “This order has been continued by the court until the question of {law raised by the bill of complaint |of the United States has been de‘termined. “there is {now no reason for the presence of

f Second Lt. Joseph C. Moffitt, 901 | troops in the plant.”

. Jefferson ave.

IN. Kealing ave.

Ry Sgt. Howard D. Grindstaff, 1347]

Move Made for Books

Taylor said that “preliminary

8. Sgt. Kenneth A. DeVore, 5607 steps” had been taken to obtain

!E. 8th st. T. Sgt. Earl F. Brown, Indian apolis, » » | WOUNDED

62d st.

| SECOND LT. JOSEPH C. MOFFITT, pilot of a Flying Fortress, has! been missing since April 2 over Aus.

tria. He is the husband of Mrs. Bett

First Lt. Gilmore W. Reid, 4500 E. += - with the help of the army seized | Biscay.

the books and records of the com- . pany which would “reflect ac|curately the operations resulting {from the possession and operation {by the government.” en the commerce department!

ithe plant earlier this week, com-|

the books.

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Has Jurisdiction. | CHICAGO, April 290 (U. P.) —The|

northern Honan province have; reached the outskirts of Mihsien,

which fell to the Japanese a week

ago, and have stopped the enemy's southward push along the PeipingHankow railway at Shikuchen, 43

miles south of Chenghsien, a Chi- |

nese army communique announced

both of 901 N. Jefferson ave, and (Continued on “Page 2—Column 4)

| ———————

NEW LANDING SHIP TYPE IS LAUNCHED

today.

Fighting was continuing at Mih-

CHICAGO, April 29 (U. P.).—The first of a new type landing ship

sien, which is west of the railway destined to complete the navys in-

and 22 miles southwest of Chenghsien, the communique said. Enemy reinforcements arrived in| the Shikuchen sector yesterday and began an attack west of that point, but were repulsed, the communique

reported.

MISSISSIPPI NEARS HIGH FOR 100 YEARS

By UNITED PRESS The Mississippi river lapped at

levee tops from St. Louis to Cairo, | as it was expected to; |LSM’s taki

Ill, today reach the 100-year high of 38.9 feet at St. Louis Sunday. An estimated 1,015,000 acres of land were under water in Misssouri and Illinois and

| the Mississippi and its flood-choked| ANOTHER CARRIER FINISHED |

tributaries, the Illinois and Missouri rivers, broke through levees in a score of places.

vasion armada was launched today from yards of the Pullman-Stand-ard Car Manufacturing Co. The new vessel, known as the LSM (landing ship-medium), is the final and most restricted of eleven basic designs of landing craft considered necessary by the navy to assure success of coming amphibious operations. It is “over 200 feet in length.” The launching was speeded through in 10 minutes so as not to interfere with production of other LSM's taking shape in the yard. During the past year, the company has been building submarine patrol vessels, known as PCE's.

NEW YORK, April 28 (U. P).— The 13th aircraft carrier of the Essex class to be built since Pearl

CAA TO RELINQUISH

2 Local Airports Affected By Army Curtailment.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, April 29.—Indianapolis is one of 23 cities where the civil aeronautics administration no longer will operate airport traffic control towers beginning June 30, it was announced today. The announcement came from CAA officials, who explained that termination of such operation is because of the withdrawal of army air force funds. In Indianapolis it applies to the Weir Cook airport and Stout field. “Operation of these towers was undertaken by the CAA at the request of the war department because of the heavy military traffic,” it was explained.

The 13th Day

watchful eye on reported shi

waechter, said the allies deliberately were sparing French and Belgium ports in| their air raids “because they hope to use them for the invasion.” German planes again crossed the

last night in efforts to spy out in-

LONDON, April 29 (U. P.).— Three of the five principal allied landings -on this side of the Atlantic have come on week-ends, observers here noted today. Allied forces landed in northwest Af- | rica en a Sunday, in Sicily on a Saturday and at Nettune, below | Rome, on a Saturday. The landing on the toe of the Italian hoot eame on a Friday and at Salerno, Italy, en a Thursday.

vasion preparation secrets and two were shot down. There were no reports 'of any bombing incidents. German raiders were believed to have laid mines in the channel off South England during the night in an attempt to hamper British shipping. None of the small raiding force made a landfall Martin von Hallensleben, military commentator for the German D. N. B. agency, said the German war machine has “taken up its post” along the-invasion coast with all defenses in readiness.

Blasts Shake Coast

Another D. N. B. dispatch told of the laying of 200,000 mines | along a deep, 12';-mile stretch of | the French coast of the Bay of In a short interval, the {dispatch said, 33 “obstacles” were

pany officials refused to turn over constructed and 100 barbed wire} Taylor declined to ex-| entanglements strung to form “an [acting secretary,

impenetrable system of traps for men and tanks. | Reports from the English south-| | east coast said the Folkestone area was shaken four times by earth- |

TOBIN | REHIRES 11 DISCHARGED GIRLS

(Editorial, Page Six)

Only a few “hours after it was) issued, Daniel J. Tobin, president | {of the International Teamsters union, yesterday canceled an order discharging the 11 girls who address the union's offiical magazine, | the International Teamster. No reason for the reversal was given. Mailing of the May issue

1

a dispute with Indianapolis Mailers’ Union No. 10. Teamsters officials made it clear]

the girls has been canceled, no| agreement with the mailers’ union| has been reached and no steps are being taken in preparation for publication of the June issue of the:

“The war department has advised CAA it no longer considers these towers necessary to the war effort.’

Luther Dillon, ct chief airport traffic,

The Red Cross reported 5700 fam- | Harbor, the $60,000,000 U. 8. S. Bon | controller at Municipal airport, said {lies homeless in the two states, 2880 | Homme Richard, will be launched ‘today that his office had received

of them receiving Red Cross aid.

today at Brooklyn navy yard.

WASHINGTON

A ‘Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Seripps-Howard

WASHINGTON, April

Washington Newspapers

29. _ Food outlook for next

winter causes quiet worry here. Planting season this spring has been worse than last year’s; adverse conditions far

more widespread. Last year’s delay in pl rain, floods, was offset by later in most sections.

anting crops due to excessive phenomenally good weather

This year, with planting "even

farther behind, recovery will depend on similar breaks

4 later.

MEANWHILE, plentiful supplies of potatoes, -eggs, cut in point

88 0y

INTERNATIONAL pact agree volunt conserve

values of many foods, gives public i esting food crisis is past.

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under which Britain and ihe U. 5. ofl resources

|no word of the CAA shutdown i | airport traffic control here. He said that approximately 3)

i traffic control work. ;

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... 4 0am... 58 7am... 46 lam... 62 8a. m.... 48 12 (Noon) 63 9a.m..... 53 1pm... 64

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

persons were employed at the Mu-/| {nicipal and Stout field airfields in|

magazine.

Axis and Neutral Observers Point te Massed Shipping, Big Air Blows as Sure Signs.

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, April 29.—Axis and neutral sources, with a

intensified air offensive, persisted today in their predictions that an allied landing in western Europe was imminent. Speculation placed “H hour” anywhere from a matter qf hours to a matter of weeks away, but all foreign sources agreed it would not be long delayed. German broadcasts continued to play up reports of allied ships massing in English east, south and west coast harbors and one Nazi commentator, Adm. Alfred Saal-

English southeast and south coasts

wide sweeping raids over Japanese

that while the order discharging

BERLIN, TOULON AFLAME; INVASION IS SEEN NEAR

pping concentrations and the

SEE FORRESTAL

Monday at Arlington

Cemetery. (Editorial, Page 6; Roosevelt Tribute, Page 7.) —The navy carried on today under James V. Forrestal while the cap-

ital speculated over President Roosevelt's plans for a successor to

the post left vacant by the death

of Secretary Frank Knox. Knox who died yesterday of a heart malady, will be buried Monday afternoon in Arlington cemetery, surrounded by the graves of many of his former comrades in arms. His duties as secretary of the navy fell on the slender shoulders of Forrestal, his soft-spoken but tough undersecretary. Flags were at half-mast on all

ments but all hands in the navy’s fighting force were pledged by their commander-in-chief, Adm. Emest J. King, to perform “what would surely have been his (Knox's) last order—‘Carry On.’ ” Between expressions of regret over Knox's death, there was wide speculation over his successor in the cabinet. The general belief was that Forrestal would continue as at least through

AS NAVY CHIEF

Knox Burial Services to Be

WASHINGTON, April 20 (U. P.)

the leadership of Acting Secretary

ships and naval shore establish-|

Oh, Sylvia!

“Sylvia”

Carl Nixon

Carl Nixon, University of Southern California football player and wag, polled plenty of votes in a campus beauty contest as “Sylvia Jones.” It was done with the aid of phony silken tresses, false eyelashés—and mirrors.

Reich Capital,

LONDON, April 29 (U.

by a like number of fighters

Berlin and crashed about 2000

RAF RIPS ANZIO SUPPLY ROUTES

a Pounded as Attack. On Nazi Lines Hits New Peak.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, April 29 (U. P)—R. A. F. bombers smashed at Italy's main west coast ports from dusk last night to dawn today, bringing the allied offensive against Germany's tenuous supply lines to the front below Rome to a new high pitch. Striking in the wake of heavy American daylight blows on the same targets, wave after wave of British Wellingtons dropped blockbusters and thousands of fire bombs on the ports of Piombino, Orbetello and San Stefano, on which the Germans have depended to move troops and equipment since the severing of their railroads. Wellingtons also teamed with R.A.F. Liberators during the night for a shattering attack on dock installations at Genoa, north-

G.O.P. FACTIONS

By Regulars and Victory

the national political conventions. But among the names heard, be-

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AIR TOWERS HERE (Continued on Page 2— Column 6) LAND- BASED PLANES

BLAST GUAM ISLAND

Fly 1100 Miles Across Pacific to Goal.

By UNITED PRESS American bombers have made new

bases in the Pacific, including the first land-based attack on Guam.

" Allied-- planes carried out raids| Marianas, | (Continued on “Page 2—Column 3 of the magazine has been halted by| throughout the Carolines and the | reer —————®

Marshalls and along a nearly 1000- |

from Guam in the

mile stretch of the northern New! Guinea coast. Army and navy Liberators flew ab least 1100 miles across the Pacific to make the first land-based attack on Guam, former U. S. naval base, in their deepest penetration of the southeast approaches to Japan.

Politicians Eye

In Lining

| By NOBLE REED With leaders of opposing factions

in both parties claiming certain vietory at the polls Tuesday, battle lines were forming today for the county conventions next Saturday when party chairmen for the fall campaign will be elected. The controlling power at the county conventions will hinge upon the outcome of precinct committeemen contests in the primary vote. These 373 committeemen, to be elected at the primary, will comprise the delegates to the conven-

tions of both parties, electing their

Gardening .... 3 Sports .

3| Thos, - Stokes

“A Indpls.. 7

Amusements ..10| Movies .......10 Eddie Ash .... 8/ Music ........10 Churches .... 4! Obituaries .... 3 Comics Too 3iPegler ........ 6 Crossword .... 9 Ernie Pyle .... 7 L. Denny ..... 6 Race Entries. . 8 Rasiorials seen Bi | Radio aan e Financial. ....10 Ration Dates.. 3 Forum ....... 6; Mrs, Roosevelt. 7 Freckles ..... 9 Side Glance. . 6

“8 {In Indpls ..... 3 3 Stata Dist. 3

‘| chairmen.

Conventions

Up Candidates

vice chairmen, treasurer and secretary. } Around this brace of officialdom will rally the controlling forces of the machinery in both parties for direction of the fall campaign. Henry S. Ostram, Republican central committee chairman, announced today that he will be a candidate for re-election and he was virtually assured of it if a majority of the regular organization committeemen are elected at the polls Tuesday. Regular organization leaders

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Complete | in

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All the regular Times features and t of the. day are con-

‘This edition of your Saturday Indianapolis Times is

One Section

Committee.

“Final” slates were announced to-! 2—Column 7) day by the regular and Victory or-| during which they observed blue

FINISH SH SLATES the port area and communications system of San Stefano

Final Selections | Announced trated in the industrial area, with

ern Italy's biggest port. Ground Fronts Quiet

The ground fronts remained quiet except for patrol and artillery aci ivity. Reconnaissance photographs

| well covered with bomb bursts. At { Piombino, the bombing was concen-

| considerable new damage noticeable fon the quaysides, two piers de-

Pilots who participated in the night attack on Genoa sail they

Record 3000-Plane Yank Armada Hits

| stroyed and a steel works smashed. »

South France

Port in Twin Attack.

P.).—American air armadas

totaling nearly 3000 planes hammered home the first 1000bomber daylight assault on Berlin today and smashed at the big French naval base of Toulon, lifting the pre-invasion bombardment of Europe to a new pitch of intensity on its ‘113th straight day. A thousand Flying Fortresses and Liberators escorted

burst through the ranks of °

| nearly 200 German fighters trying desperately to defend

tons of bombs on the capital. Another 500 Forts and Lib-

lerators based .in Italy poundjo German shipping and sub-

| marine pens at Toulon, on the

{ French Mediterranean coast, in the | greatest pincers attack of the war jon invasion-threatened Europe. .

Smoke Towers Over City

The record daylight bombardment of Berlin capping the second week of the “invasion eve” offensive was carried out by a force of 2000 i heavy bombers and fighters which left smoke towering over devastated sectisns of the city and wrung from Nazi propagandists an admission of heavy damage. - Crewmen returning from the record or near-record daylight attack on Berlin said their bombs crashed

| squarely on the targets and sent

up towering columns of smoke, The great armada made up of about 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the 8th air force and a like number of fighters flew through cloudy weather on the way to Berlin, but the skies cleared somewhat about 50 miles this side of the capital.

Bomb Through Cloud Gaps

Some of the Fortresses dropped ‘their bombs through’ gaps in scattered clouds over the Berlin area despite .an intense anti-aircraft e, Thunderbolt, Lightning and Mustang fighters of the U, S. 8th and 8th air forces and Mustangs of the British tactical air force gave the. Forts and Liberators a stiff shield~ * for the deepest American’ penetra= tion of Germany this week. Berlin claimed that strong German fighter forces fought the U. S. raiders over .Berlin, as well as during both the inbound and outbound flights.

First Attack March s

were over the city several hours,

| tory—Charles A. Huff.

| Regular—Sherwood Blue; |

0 GAIN IN POLAND

ganization factions of the Repub- | flashes indicating hits on the elec- |

‘lican party for the Tuesday pri‘mary. The slates follow: CONGRESS Regular—Judson L. Stark; Vie-

CIRCUIT JUDGE Regular—Lloyd D. Claycombe; Victory—Harry QO. Chamberlin. PROSECUTOR Vietory—John L. Niblack. i JOINT STATE SENATOR Both Factions—Arcada S. Balz. | STATE SENATORS Regular—John W. Atherton, | |

NAZIS TRY FUTILELY 7

Russ Kill 1200 i in Defense

0f Lwow Flanks. |

| MOSCOW, April 29 (U. P.).—The i Germans were ‘reported today to i have stepped up their counter-at-| tacks below Lwow in old Poland, in one sector fércing-Hungarian troops| into action at the point of machine- | guns. Some 1200° Germans were killed in the Nazi command's latest futile attempts to drive into the Russian flank southeast of Stanislawow, 70 miles below Lwow, a supplement to the Soviet midnight communique said. Russian air force planes, strik-j ing in support of ground forces, bombed concentrations of military trains at Lwow Thursday night. Russian navy planes were credited with sinking a 1000-ton transport and a fast landing barge and seriously damaging two other transports on the approaches to besieged Sevastopol, Crimean naval base. In White Russia, other Soviet planes kindled 15 large fires visible { for 62 miles in a heavy raid on a Germgp airfield near Orsha.

- THIS SOUNDS FISHY

Los ANGELES, April 29 (U. P.. —1In a divorce case the plaintiff was (Fred F. Fish; the defendant, Ella Fish! attorney for the plaintiff,

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tric railway. Other bomb bursts were | | seen in the inner harbor, where an estimated 2000 tons of bombs

three big fires were started.

R. A. F. Mosquitoes rounded out;

and two other planes were lost in (the day's 1700 sorties. Five enemy laircraft were destroyed.

U.S. Jeep Serves For Christening

LONDON, April 20 (U. P).— Stars and Stripes reported today t a British mother, filling in a ration application at a food office, gave her infant daughter's

name as Nadine. “That's an unusual name,” the clerk observed. “Is it French or Russian?” | “I dunno, mum,” the woman reLi “I got it off an American

jeep”

ALLIES DRIVE IAPS FROM INDIAN TOWN

Dislodge Enemy From Hill

w The U. 8S. 8th air force made its first mass attack on Berlin on March 6, plasterifig the capital with

{and losing 68 bombers. The next | day another force of Forts and

| the night attacks with forays over| Liberators gave the city the heav-

{southern France.

| Nine American heavy- bombers it With 350,000 incendiaries along 0 ott wv | with 10,000 high explosive bombs.

iest fire raid in history, showering

Other forces of allied - planes joined in carrying the pre-invasion attack on western Europe through its 13th day. Thunderbolt fighter bombers of the 9th air force with a Thunderbolt fighter escort attacked an airfield in northern France without loss. Typhoons of the R. A. F. tactical air force on offensive patrol destroyed a German plane near Tours.

Fifth Toulon Attack

Meanwhile, the U. 8. 15th air force based in Italy sent a powerful striking force of Forts and Liberators with an escort of Lightnings and Mustangs to slash at Toulon, the jumping-off place for German ! shipping to Italy. The fifth bombing of Toulon dur{ing the war was carried through I successfully despite German at- | tempts at interception in which a !number of Nazi planes were shot down. Big fires and heavy ex-

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On the War Fronts

1 A 29, 1944. Posts Near Kohima. | el - [AIR WAR—2000 American planes ALLIED SOUTHEAST ASIA! set Berlin ablaze; 500‘ bombers HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon,| blast Toulon.

April 29 (U, P.) —Allied troops en-!

gaged in a second counter-attack aimed at cutting supply lines: of Japanese driving westward towards Kohima have captured Manpin in the western part of Mogaung valley and dislodged the enemy from the Kauri Kumon mountain range on the western part of the valley, a communique announced today. In addition to taking Manpin, which is 10 air miles from Kamaing and 25 air miles from Mogaung. allied forces are pressing on Warong in the southwest sector of the valley, the communique said. © They also occupied enemy positions west

of Inkangdhtawng, in the same

area. The. twin counter-attacks at Kohima. came as Indian gurkhas drove

section

en: Pishgrund: for the defendand

deeper into the Papel-Tamu road, m south of Tuphal and. Chi-lso-

RUSSIA—Germans step up coun-ter-attacks below Lwow in old Po~ land.

PACIFIC—American bombers raid Guam.

INDIA—Allied troops strike Japanese from two sides in mountains . around Kohima. “

ITALY—R. A. F. bombers smash at main west coast ports,

CHINA—Counter-attacking Chinese reach outskirts of Mihsien. .

BRITISH SINK 1 TANK