Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1944 — Page 1
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| BONDS PLEDGED Employees in County Sign
3 fms today had pledged $16733850 in war bond savings for the coun-
employing a single person to the
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By B. J. 'McQUAID Carresponden
Times Foreign
VOLUME 55—NUMBER 51
‘Why Does The Lu
t
LONDON, May 10.—Luftwaffe leaders cannot seem to make up their minds whether to sit out the daily smashes by allied air forces at prime military concentra-
tions and industrial targets .
..« or to come up and oppose
us, thereby taking further losses in their disastrously
dwindling fighter strength.
Before Monday s sky battle over Brunswick, some
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1
shrewd “and experienced American air leaders had felt
reasonably sure that the pattern of German air strategy between now and D-day had been established. As it con-
cerned fighters, it seerned clearly to be a pattern of non-
resistance.
This was the only pattern which made sense if you
wage sustained offensive air operations in any theater. Not long ago I had the unique experience of living undis-
accepted the premise of the American strategic air force
leaders, which was, and is, that months of precision bomb-
0, 1944
ing attacks on German plane
to a dribble, which could hardly be counted on to sustain normal operational attrition, let alone combat losses.
Germany for many mon
turbed for several days aboard
Entered as Second-Clads Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
waffe Hide... Is Nazi Morale Cracking?
plants have cut production
ths has not been able to
a warship in a British port,
within striking range of enemy air bases.
At no time during my 19 months in the Pacific war
theaters would it have been thinkable that valuable shipping could have remained at anchor, accessible to any
sizable Japanese base, and escaped savage, determined and repeated air attacks.
The Germans, to be sure, seem never to have thought
very clearly in terms of sea communications and over-
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‘Doc’ Morgan Plunges Into Penicillin Tests As Politicians Marvel at His Long Reign
Dr. H. G. Morgan
By SHERLEY UHL That “new face” peering unperturbed from between fresh supplies of penicillin at the city isolation hospital isn’t a new face at all. It's the familiar counte-
- nance of Herman Grover Morgan,
Indianapolis’
“never say die”
For 32 years, as secretary of the health board, “Doc” Morgan has applied a sensitive finger to the
. city’s pulse, diagnosing political as
well as public health symptoms. He's reigned as the unchallenged czar of the health department through four Republican and four Democratic administrations, Undaunted, after taking the well-known heat of public office for more than half of his lifetime, the white-thatched medicine man is striking out for new fields to conquer. This time it's venereal disease control, and Doc has become so
absorbed in new curative methods such as sulfa compounds and penicillin that he’s moved bag and baggage into the city’s quarantine clinic where, if you're lucky, you'll find him tipping testtubes into the wee small hours. Before he established residence at the isolation. hospital, Doc's home address was as much a secret as the key to his success. He never bothered to list his permanant residence in either the city directory or the telephone book, a wise oversight that spared him the trouble of explaining away complaints against the public health system registered by the proverbial irate taxpayer. What is the miracle of Morgan’s tenure? How, in the course of his 17 years under Democratic regimes and 15 years under the Republicans, has he contrived to leap nimbly from elephant to
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BY 102 FIRMS
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For $1,673,850 of $79,000,000 Quota,
Employees 6f 102 Marion county
ty's June and July $79,000,000 fifth war loan drive. THe firms ranged in size from one
Vivicillin Offers “Hope of Saving | Mdny Wounded |
LONDON, May 10 (U. P.) —~Two German refugee scientists said today that they hoped vivicillin—the new drug which they developed in their English laboratory—will save thousands of lives on the western front, “Its effect is the same as penicillin in healing infection and it is made from a mold,” Dr. Hans Enoch, co-discoverer with Kurt Wallersteiner of vivicillin, said. “But there is this important difference — it can be mass pio-
RULING REFUSED
| Federal Judge William H. Holly re- | fused today to rule on the government's against officials
war plants
Quota assignments were sent to $123 concerns in the county.
thousands.
duced.”
© It may be applied easily to cuts
he
,
| buy bonds under the payroll sav-
F the Carnegie-Illinois Steel
| war military policy today hat he is i *“unqualifiedly opposed” to th Bl posed consolidation of the war and
The drive opens June 12, but the| more than 137.000 employees who
ings plan will get to count regular June and July purchases toward quotas of $100 a person or investment of wages from 100 hours of work. $5,535,826 Pledged . Over the state employees swept the state's one-day quota acceptance total to $5,535,826. At Gary the 25700 workers of
and wounds but it cannot heal cancer or other virulent disease, he said. “lI am distressed at letters I have received from many people, because many of them are from victims of cancer and other diseases which viviclllin cannot heal,” Dr. Enoch said. One letter he has answered personally, he said. That was a letter of gratitude from his “first patient,” a boy at
Corp., largest ~ employee-group in the | state, accepted a quota that will
. increase their war bond savings —
from a regular 10 per cent to 23
| per cent of gross payroll during
the drive. Prom the Missouri Valley Bridge
| & Iron Co. Evansville's big ship : yard, came word that the quota had
been accepted. First newspaper employees to ac-
cept a quota were those of the South
Bend Tribune. The newspaper has
F185 on {ts staff,
Counties from which employee-
8 group quota acceptances were received include I Delaware, Elkhart, Fayette, Grant,
Allen, Dearborn,
Hamilton, Johnson, Lake, Lawrence,
Newton, Ripley, 8t. Joseph and Van-
derburg.
| ADMIRAL RAPS MERGER
WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P.).
I —Vice Admiral F. J. Horne, vice f chief of naval operations, told the
special house committee on postwo
navy departments pending further
| Intensive study and “until this war
has been brought to a successful conclusion.”
COLLIERS EDITOR DIES
|. NEW YORK, May 10 (U. P.).—|
Charles Colebaugh, editor of Collier's weekly, died today at New York hospital after an illness of three weeks.
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Wellhouse hospital who had been pronounced beyond all hope of
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FAMED LOCAL FLIER CITED FOR BRAVERY
Lt. Jack Watson Is Given
High Recommendation.
FLYING FORTRESS BASE, England, May 10 (U. P.).—Lt. Jack
W. Watson, 4538 Carroliton ave, Indianapolis, the Yankee stadium “buzzer” who brought his blazing Fortress home alone from a raid on Germany last January, has been recommended for one of the U. S. air forces’s highest awards for gallantry, it was learned today. Nine other members of Watson's crew bailed out over Holland when their plane caught’ fire on the way back from a raid on-Oschersleben, but when the young pilot looked out all he could see was water, so he rode it out alone to England. That was the story Watson told after fire fighters at an emergency field spent two hours putting out {the flames. The official squadron records reveal, however, that the pilot refused to jump with the othfers until he had- gone back to the ball turret to make sure the gunner had bailed out. By that time the plane” had passed out to sea and it was too late to leave.
Near End of Missions The award proposed for Watson
. and complete dis-
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Pegler Ernie Pyle 20| Radio
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at bat missions.
PUSHES G: I. BILL
WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. Bi) x | Commander Warren H.|
ON WARD ORDER
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u. S. Request Termed Moot Point With Firm in
Control Again.
CHICAGO, May 10 (U. P)—
request for an injunction of Montgomery Ward bécause the property had been turned back to the company and announced he would decide by Friday whether to dismiss the injunction proceedings with or without prejudice. Attorneys for the government
{asked outright dismissal of their
request for an injunction to prevent company officials from interfering with government operation of the firm's Chicago properties. Counsel for the company asked that the government's injunction petition be dismissed with prejudice, “Moot Question”
The judge was to have ruled this
| morning on the government's in- | junction request, but he said the]
fact that the government gave up| the plant to the company last night | made the issue a “moot question,” which he could not rule upon. Dismissal of the proceedings “with prejudice” presumably could be hailed as a moral victory by] Montgomery Ward but would not
[have a material effect on the dis- [from the auditorship in favor of | missal order. Sewell Avery, chairman of the seeking the treasurership nominaboard, was not in the courtroom, as tion.
he attended a meeting of the board
company this morning. While at
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ENDS 100 MISSIONS
operations, the Marauder and Bitter,”
yesterday—a record for bomber based in England.
1943, the bomber has carried 166 crew members into battle, has been flown 300 combat hours and has
the factory.
How Does FDR Look? Reporter Opinions Differ
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Pres. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 10— “How did he look to -you?” was the question on many lips after President Rooseyelt’s first news
conference since his return from a month's vacation in the south.
DAWSON QUITS
‘Lt. Governor's Withdrawal
of directors of the U. S. Gypsum /|county clerk whose scheduled in-
the meeting he sald business at {poned by the ban on drafting men
WITHOUT INCIDENT
NINTH AIR FORCE MARA UDER STATION, England May 10 (U. P.)—The most reliable plane in the European theater of “Mild returned unscratched from her 100th mission at twilight any
Since the first mission, July 28,
traveled 58,000 miles, all on the two engines originally installed at
AS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
INVASION COAST ROC
BY WAR'S RECORD RAIDS
"Makes Gates Probable | GOP Nominee. |
By EARL RICHERT
Lt. Gov. Charles Dawson today withdrew from the G. O. P, gubernatorial contest, thus apparently assuring Ralph Gates, Columbia City, -former Republican state chairman, the nomination at the state convention June 1 and 2. Mr. Dawson's statement was read by him at the reorganization meeting of the Republican state committee at the Claypool hotel. It followed by only one day the announcement by Mayor Tyndall that he was not a candidate for the governorship. Mr. Dawson also announced his support of Homer E. Capehart in the battle being waged between Mr.| Capehart and James M. Tucker for the U. S. senatorial nomination. Re-election of Chairman John Lauer and all other officers of -the state committee with the exception of Mrs. Eleanor B. Snodgrass, state vice chairman, apparently was assured. Mrs. Snodgrass is to be supplanted by Mrs. Mabel Fraser, Delphi, second district vice chairman. Will Quit Public Life
In his statement Mr. Dawson said that -he had been urged by many friends to make the governorship but that during the past few it had become apparént to him that party members favored the nomination of Mr. Gates. He pledged his support to Mr. Gates and the Republican party and said | it was his intention to return to| private life upon completion of his) term of office. He said that inasmuch as his own district had indorsed Mr. Capehart for senator, he, too, recommended him to the delegates to the state convéntion for that high honor. The Claypool hotel took on a preconvention atmosphere as Republicans from all over the state gathered for the reorganization meeting.
Committee Outnumbered
The candidates and their lieutenants by far outnumbered the mem|bers of the committee, Both Frank Millis and A. V.| Burch, candidates for the Republiican auditor nomination, denied re{ports that they would withdraw
{ {
| the other, the one withdrawing
Reuel Steele, Bedford, Lawrence duction into the army was post-
over 26, let it be known that he was “receptive” for the treasurership nomination, which is also being {sought by Wallace Weatherholt, deputy state treasurer, and Oscar Couch, Mooresville banker. The retention in office of Mr. Lauer was regarded by observers as a definite sign that Ralph Gates has not lost control of the state organization since resigning
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SINATRA’S FEVER DOWN
NEW YORK, May 10 (U.P. .— Physicians treating Frank Sinatra's streptococcic throat said today that his temperature was “almost normal” and they expected to be able to discharge him from Mt. Sinai hospital by Saturday.
PILOT TO INHERIT
Under Transfer Orders.
NORRISTOWN, Pa, May 10 (U P.)—An estate inventory revealed today that Second Lt. William Wikoff Smith, Bryn Mawr, Pa, an army bomber pilot, was left an estate of almost $10,000,000 by his Bethe, Misi Helen Losier Sui
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Desire fo visi ONLY THE DEA
Russia Voiced By First Lady
PITTSBURGH, May 10 (U. P.). Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, beginning a day-long jaunt through the | Pittsburgh district, today de- | fended her recent visits to military bases in the Carribbean area. | At the same time, Mrs. Roosevelt said she had no plans for | future overseas trips, but indicated a desire to visit Russia, “if such a trip would be useful.” She did not elaborate.
Asked to comment on challenges as to the propriety of the visits, Mrs. Roosevelt said in an interview: “I think the war department | answered the question. The plane that I rode on would have eventually gone to those places. Mail packages and other articles were also carried in the plane. “It's just that I was along and they did make a particular route, but the plane would have reached all those places anyway.” Mrs. Roosevelt said “we were treated as any entertainment group,” then added, with a laugh,
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|to armies personally | sky,
| jor base only 240 miles from the
NAZIS ARE LEFT IN SEVASTOPOL
| editor, | Stalin expressed himself at- the Capture of City 6 Gives RUSS ‘Teheran conference as having “no | desire to own Europe.”
Big Base Periling
Romania.
MOSCOW, May 10 (U. P.).—Sovjet armies counted tens of thou-| sands of German and Romanian |
| dead and vast booty in the rubble! do at home without undertaking | of Sevastopol today after capturing | new territorial responsibilities.
the big Crimean naval base in a | powerful three-day assault that | wiped out the last enemy toehold in|
| pre-war southern Russia.
The fall of Sevastopol last night commanded by Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevchief of the Soviet general staff, gave the Russian fleet a ma-
Romanian coast and released large forces for new Russian army offensives being prepared for to the west. Front dispatches said the greatest artillery barrage in history
| Stalin Dost Not
came as the marshal volunteered desired to conciliate his neighbors.
Russia is only half-populated, and
Want New Land, Writer Declares |
PHILADELPHIA, May 10 (U. P.).—The Saturday Evening Post, in the first of two articles by For-
rest Davis, Washington associate said today that Marshal
Stalin's statement, Davis writes, a sweeping declaration that he
Stalin, Davis reports, said that
ALLIES S CARRY SKY OFFENSIVE INTO 24TH DAY
Report British Homes Rock From Blasts Across
Channel. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
that the Russians have plenty to
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The statement was prompted, according to Davis, by President Roosevelt's emphasizing that good will on the western hemisphere resulted from the United States’ policy of not hankering after the lands of our neighbors. Mr. Roosevelt then told Stalin that the marshal's task was simpler in certain respects, than that of this country, in that the Slavic nations adjoining the Soviet union are nearer in blood to the Russians than are the peoples
Naples, May 10 (U. P.).—American heavy bombers attacked a German aircraft factory at Wiener Neustadt, Austria, today.
LONDON, May 10 (U. P.). —The royal air force made the heaviest attack of the war on the French invasion coast last night and today allied bombers smashed at seven German bases in’France and Belgium while Berlin reported vio lent battles with American raiders over the Balkans. Big formations of allied planes struck across the channel late in the day after an afternoon lull
“although 1 am not entertalpw broke enemy resistance at Sevas-
ment.”
fopol and enabled thé ‘Soviets to smash into the Black sea port from three side.
in the southern hemisphere q the
United States. Soon after 4 p. mi. § heavy rumbling
resembling gunfire came from channel waters or the French coast.
$10-MILLION ESTATE,
24-Year-Old Lieutenant Is
REPORT GANDHI CONDITION 600D
Like Dying Man to Newsman.
The British government released the Mahatma Gandhi from imprisonment last Saturday because it was feared the 74-year-old Indian independence leader's health had been impaired by 21 months’ incarceration.
By DARRELL BERRIGAN United Press Staff Correspondent POONA, India, May 9 (Delayed). —I squatted beside Mahatma Gandhi while he prayed today on the lawn behind the mansion where he is staying. and he did not look like a dying man to me. As I approached the 74-year-old Indian leader, his homespun shawl slipped from his shoulders, and I was surprised to see his hair-cov-ered chest and legs ‘muscular and not what you would call lean. Then Gandhi asked me to “come closer if you wish,” and I chose a place a few feet from where he was sitting cross-legged while his faithful followers chanted prayers. When the prayers were completed the Mahatma laughed and seemed to enjoy the chatter of the circle of intimates about him. That Gandhi is tired and weakened could be seen from occasional spells of listlessness and from a certain gaunt look about his eyes. He has agreed to go to a seaside
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Wounded List Includes Three Local Soldiers
have added three
They are: lege ave. ave.
1006 Ingomar ave.
Mahatma Does Not Look,
BATTLES in the Mediterranean and Southwest Pacific war zones
soldiers to the war department’s -llist of men wounded in action.
Pfc. Richard C. Long, 7051 ColPfc. Lloyd Marshall, 2215 Winter Second Lt. Horace E. Beaman
PFC. RICHARD C. LONG, stationed with the infantry in Tal,
‘Heap of Ruins’
(The official Ger:nan DNB agency confirmed the fall of Sevastopol today in a dispatch that said the city had been “evacuated.” DNB said Sevastopol had been turned into a “single heap of ruins by artillery fire never experienced before on such a scale, and incessant air bombing.”) Literally thousands of heavy guns were hauled up to the front for the final assault and at zero hour Sunday loosed a thunderous barrage on the three concrete and { steel defense lines built by the Ger-
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naval base. Soviet infantry waiting for the signal to advance saw huge blocks of granite hurled into the air by the impact of thousands of tons of shells. When they reached the, fortified heights, they found masses | of twisted German guns, snarled steel girders and wooden beams,
manian soldiers. Stalin Pays Tribute
sian assault force, Premier Marshal
five artillery generals, in his order] of the day announcing the capture of Sevastopol. | “The enemy suffered enormous losses in manpower and equipment,” | a subsequent Russ army communique reported. Moscow's 324 guns saluted the victory with 24 salvos. The three-day Russian conquest of Sevastopol compared with Germany’s final assault of 27 days in June and July of 1942 against an ill-equipped Soviet garrison. Altogether, the German siege of the naval base lasted 250 days, whereas the Russians liberated the whole Crimea in only 32 days.
'NAB FLEEING CONVICT AFTER STREET CHASE
Kenneth Madison Maxey, 22, of Indianapolis was captured by police in the 1400 block on Hoyt ave. today, a few hours after he escaped from Pendleton reformatory. While a squad of four police were checking on a report that the fugitive was in the 1400 block on Fletcher ave, Maxey ran out of a
ADE IS? IMPROVING
KENTLAND, May 10 (U.P)—
{allied forces
| vi and torn bodies of German and Ro- | San Francisco were Adm. Ernest
| mitz, Indicating the size of the Rus-. |Ja., South Pacific commander. Josef Stalin paid tribute to 54 com- | manders, including 12 infantry and|
MAJOR PACIFIC OFFENSE HINTED
Meeting of Top Navy Chiefs May Foreshadow Drive On Philippines.
By UNITED PRESS
A powerful force of British heavy bombers ushered in the fourth anniversary of the German sweep into the low countries and France with a record bombardment of the French coast which rocked it and southeast England like a violent earthquake. These attacks followed yesterday’s raid by nearly 5000 allied planes on 29 targets in Hitler's Europe,
Plaster Rail Yards
American ‘medium and fighterbombers took up the non-stop as-
New major allied moves in the
and reconquer the Philippines, were believed foreshadowed today by a meeting of three top-ranking U. S. navy commanders at a time when were raining new | blows on the Japanese. Taking part in the meeting at
J. King, commander. in chief of the U. 8. fleet, Adm. Chester W. Nicommander of the Pacific fleet, and Adm. William F. Halsey
While the session was held ostensibly for Nimitz to receive a distinguished service medal awarded by congress, there was little doubt at Washington that the meeting had a more important motive. One possibility was that King received a complete report of Nimitz’s recent conference with Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Another factor in the Pacific pic-
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JAP DEFEAT BY HALF
Harold G. Moulton, president of Brookings institution, estimated today that only 50 per cent of the army ground forces and civilian war workers will be needed to finish off Japan after the defeat of Germany. He predicted that the European war would be over by this year’s end and that the war against Japan would be concluded by the end of 1945.
sault on its 24th straight day, fanning out behind the Atlantic wall
mans in the hills surrounding the Pacific, possibly a drive to clear; to plaster Nazj rail yards, air fields, {the enemy from the Central Pacific| a power plant and a key bridge
scattered ‘through France apd Belgium. Nazi radio reports of intense air battles over the “eastern Alps” indicated that the United States 15th air force again was striking from Italy at Balkan targets which were
| plastered effectively last week, Ber-
plastered effectively last week. Most of the R. A. F'’s night force of heavy bombers concentrated on the Boulogne - Dunkerque area, studded with rocket guns and other anti-invasion defenses, which were hit by 1500 to 2000 tons of explosives. Other British bombers ranged inland to attack the Gennevillieres suburb of Paris, Annecy in eastern France, and Berlin. The attack on the German capital was carried out by Mosquito bombers.
‘Earthquake Blitz’ The Evening News called the attack on the French coast an “earthquake blitz.” Marauder medium and Havoe light bombers of the U. S. 9th air force this morning bombed rail
OF ALLIES FORECAST
WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P.) —
yards at Mons and Tournai, Belgium, and Creil; France, along with
the Poix air field west of Amiens. They were .escorted by allied Spitfires. Thunderbolt fighter-bombers of the Sth dive-bombed a vital rail bridge at -Mantes-Gassicourt and rail yards and a power plant at Valenciennes. Thunderbolt fighters escorted them, while other Thunderbolts, made offensive sweeps over
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LONDON, May 10 (U. PJ).
Britain Soon May Clear Coast fo Speed Invasion
—habintants will be given rallway Britain was reported today to have fare to temporary new homes and plans for the Possible i$] a week subsistence, ‘Women, es