Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1944 — Page 1
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Ade Rates ~ With Aesop And Harte
By ANTON SCHERRER BENJAMIN HARRISON died in 1901. Less than a year later a group of civic-minded people started the Harrison Monument Fund. Almost immediately somebody suggested an easy way of raising money, He proposed exhibiting the authors of Indiana, somewhat on the order of the freaks in an old - fashioned dime museum. The show might be called “Indi"ana Authors’
When it came time to organize the enterprise, it was discovered that Indiana had enough seasoned authors to stage two shows, And that's actually what happened. The first to strut their stuff were James Whitcomb Riley, Charles Major, George Barr McCutcheon and Mary Hartwell ' Catherwood. The billing for the second night included the names of George Ade, Meredith Nicholson, Evaleen Stein, Booth Tarkington and Gen. Lew Wallace,
The two performances cleaned up $2500 (net). The sum included the. money brought in by an auction conducted by Harry Adams, as good a story-feller and toastmaster as Indianapolis ever
British Patrol Halts H Car in Crete, Whisks Him to Ship. By WALTER COLLINS United Press Staff Correspondent
CAIRO, May 19—A small p of British soldiers, in a daring
Crete the night of April 26, captured Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe, commander of the 22d panzer division, it was disclosed today. After a reconnaissance of the Nazi Crete headquarters and the general's personal habits, the raiders slipped ashore after dark, stopped hthe general's unescorted car by waving a red light and re-embarked with their prisoner after leaving a
thorities.
stream guards.
German headquarters on the north| shore of Crete, and later encoun-| tered Gen, Kreipe's car leaving the
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had. The big idea back of the suction was to get people to loosen up and pay premiums for their tickets. The first bidder was rather cautious, I remember. He bid $1. When. Ringmaster
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note of “thanks” for German au-|’
The raiders were led by a British |: major and a captain of the Cold- |. They landed after): dark at a point near Heraklion, |:
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President Roosevelt, rested and smiling, poses for his first picture - since his return to the White House
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3-Way Drive Due Shortly, Smuts Says
By PHILIP AULT United Press Staff Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, England, May 19.—A gigantic three-way assault on Europe soon will squeeze Adolf Hitler's fortress and a final decision in the war against Nazidom “may come much earlier than pessimists forecast,” Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, prime minister of South Africa said today. At the same time, Smuts expressed optimism: over progress of the war against Japan and
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| way across the channel to other reached the proportions of a rout.
NAZI FIGHTERS
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BATTLE 1500
YANK PLANES
Returning Airmen Tell of
Heavy German Losses Over Berlin.
LONDON, May 19 (U. P.). —American warplanes, 1500 strong, battled through massed German defense squadrons from the North sea to Berlin today to blast the Nazi capital and Brunswick in an all-out resumption of the preinvasion onslaught against western Europe. The powerful force of heavy mbers and fighters showed the
‘Foe Leaves Supplies, Guns Behind,
Sets Torch to City of Gaeta; Resistance Slight.
BULLETIN
LONDON, May 19 (U. P.).—The German radio said
today that Anglo-American armies of “unimaginable” size are massed in southwestern England for an assault on western Europe, but it asserted that the allied invasion schedule has been upset by‘heavy storms over the channel area during the past six days. Lt. Col. Alfred von Olberg, Transocean news agency's military commentatog, said in a broadcast that allied land, sea and air forces have not yet reached the state of
maximum preparedness for
the invasion.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 19 (U. P.). —Defeated German forces were falling back in disorderly retreat on the lower Italian front today before American and French troops racing westward through fortifications of the
Adolf Hitler line.
The German retreat approached, but had not yet"
Yielding the right wing
| hundreds of allied planes springing of their vaunted Hitler line, the Nazis were abandoning rich
* into action with the first break in| the stormy weather which had held 18
up the air offensive for five days.| divisions.
Returning airmen said the Nazi command apparently threw every
tores of equipment, including the big guns of two entire
May Abandon Town
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lege of buying a ticket. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison bid $10, the record premium for a seat.
The boxes brought even more. |
H. P. Wasson got his by bidding
($25) and C. E Coffin ($20)—on top of which, of course, came the pegular price of admission, » » » The money raised by the writers helped to pay Sculptor
Charles Niehaus for carving the | statue which now enhances the |
southern half of University Bquare. The location, 1 hasten to add, was picked at a time when everybody considered the park the necropolis of Indianapolis. The pigeons didn’t move in until much later—as a matter of fact, not until the park was bounded by buildings high enough to serve As roosts. The Indiana Authors’ Readings created quite a stir not only here but all over the country. Up until then relatively few people realized that Indiana was the home of so many professional writers, The discovery was so sensational, indeed, that it moved a New England editor to declare the whole thing a frame-up, the purpose of which was to steal the seat of literature from Boston.
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Apparently, the sheltered editor didn't know that America's cultural center had been moved to Indianapolis long before anybody thought of memorializing Benjamin Harrison. To put a still finer point on it: Mr. Harrison was in the best of health when the transfer took place. Coming as it did at the turn of the century, the round-up of so many Indiana authors was the subject of considerable speculation—especially on the occasion of the second night. For one thing, there was the problem of fixing George Ade’s place, if any, in literature, Highbrows who had their doubts dismissed his writing as
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Home Folks and the Famous. Meet at George Ade Rites
Times Special BROOK, Ind, May 19.—Scores of famed literary and professional men thronged Hazelden Farms today to
when they got 59 of the 119 planes shot down. Clash in Bitter Duels
Through heavy clouds nearl
000-foot layer, the American and German fighters clashed in bitter duels. One group of Mustang pilots
E | back from Berlin said the capital's
Navy Leader in Brief Ceremony
WASHINGTON, May 19 (U.P. —James Vincent Forrestal was sworn in today as the 48th secretary of the navy at a brief ceremony attended by members of the congressional naval committees and top ranking admirals, He had been undersecretary of the navy since June, 1940, and was acting secretary following the death of Secretary Frank Knox on April 28. ” » ” The oath was administered to the 52-year-old New York 'investment banker by Rear Adm. Thomas L. Gatch, judge advocate general of the navy. Forrestal, attired in a double breasted powder blue pin-striped suit, stood stiffly, his right hand raised as Gatch recited the oath. When Gatch finished, Forrestal replied: “1 do, so help me God.” That was the only statement made by Forrestal. He had issued a request that no questions be asked him by newsmen attending the ceremony.
attend the funeral services of George Ade, Hoosier humorist, author and playwright, who died
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INTAKE OF $5776
$4907 Spent in 64 Months, Report States.
The Marion County Republican committee collected $5776.63 from contributors and spent $4907.20, leaving a balance of $889.43, according to ‘a financial report filed in .the county clerk's office today covering the period from November, 1942, until May 13.
Among the larger contributors)
were Henry E. Ostrom, county!
chairman, who donated $700; Joseph Daniels, former 11th district G.O. P. chairman, $450; James L. Bradford, former county chairman, $300, and Homer E. Capehart, candidate for the G. O. P. senatorial nomination,
Judges and other major Marion county office. holders donated amounts ranging from $100 to $200. For the first time in several years employees of juvenile court appeared on the lists of contributors as making donations to the G. O. P. committee about every month since last July 1. Their donations averaged about $10 a month, some of them donating as much as $75 to $100, since their appointment Jan. 1, 1943. Employees of other county departments were listed as paying monthly
Charles A. Huff, unsuccessful city hall candidate for the G. O. P. congressional nomination, reported that he had spent $1654.91 out of contributions of $1800 received for
Forrestal Made [COUNTY GOP FILES | Child, 2, Dies of
Leukemia After
Guinea Pig’ Plea
LOS ANGELES, May 19 (U. P)). —Two-year-old Alta Mira Sorenson died today from leukemia, a blood disease, after her parents ma had made a desperate appeal to scientists and medical experts in a last effort to save her life. They had offered the child to any legitimate agency 3 ; experimenting 8 with the disease Ala in a last-minute hope of saving her life. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Sorenson was stricken last month ih ‘leukemia, a disease of the white corpuscles, complicated b: bone infection. y Her distracted parents appealed to the Mayo Brothers clinic, John Hopkins university, the Rockefeller foundation, and Leland Stanford university research departments. Every answer was the same: “We regret to inform you there is no known cure for leukemia.” “So mow I'm offering my bahy.
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————— SURRENDER AXIS NATIONALS LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 19 (U. P.). —Bolivian aythorities have turned over to the United States 82 German and Japanese nationals ar-
rested here as enemy it wi aliens, as
HOOSIER MOTORISTS
CHECKED IN FLORIDA'
More Than Score Stranded By Gas Inquiry.
More than a score of Hoosiers are temporarily stranded in Florida pending a complete review of their gasoline ration status, Marshall Williams, local OPA enforcement attorney, said today. Mr. Williams said gasoline allotments to Indiana residents whose license numbers were noted by Florida OPA sleuths are still being investigated. Although most of the vacationers are still in the resort state, seeking rations with which to drive back to Indiana, some of them managed to return before the ration probe caught up with them, he said. ; Ration allotments of at least one prominent. state official personage who drove to Florida and back this winter are under scrutiny by a downstate local board, it was learned. Mr. Williams explained that the cases were cleared through the Indianapolis office to the various local boards where their merits or demerits could be better examined. So far, he said, no definite action has been taken against any of the travelers under investigation, “but it sure looks bad for some of those in Florida.”
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
HOOSIER HEROES—
\Four Local Fliers Missing In Fighting Over Continent
reports today as saying that the
tl anti-aircraft defenses were more
active and heavier than ever. “There was a solid ring of flak all around Berlin,” 2d Lt. Warren Johnson of Cleveland, said. “We all got flak holes in our ships, and I got one nice-sized hunk in the wing.” First Lt. Joe Lang of Hyde Park, a suburb of Boston, got one Messerschmitt with bullets and another with psychology. Previously credi-
Germans had put the torch
§l the last trip to Berlin on May 8. to Gaeta, which belched smoke and flame throughout the ¢MY | afternoon.
Fanning out north and south beyond Formia on the ‘ancient Appian way to Rome, the United States units blanketing Germany under a 30-| ™ .
KILL 47 FLIERS IN MASS BREAK
Nazis Shoot Recaptured Allied Airmen, Eden
Tells Commons. LONDON, May 19 (U. P.) .—Forty-
ted with seven planes shot down, Seven royal air force, dominion and Lang said of one of his brace today: allied air officers were shot and
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killed by the Germans after a mass
“I spotted a queer looking plane escape from. the Nazi prison. camp off to the side and pointed my nose at Stalag Luft 3, Foreign Secretary y;. vajjev the disorderly retreat at him. When I did, he just climbed | Anthony Eden told commons today. was characterized by the fact that
out of the cockpit and jumped without waiting for me to fire.” About 750 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators, escorted by an equal number of Lightning, Thunderboit and Mustang fighters, swept in over
the heart of Germany,
Britain's second tactical air force
issued the first official announcement of the day, reporting an attack by Mosquitoes and Typhoons on military targets in northern France.
Last Raided May 8
Berlin was last raided by the 8th |26, but a representative of Switzer-| lana, the protecting power, learned |
air force heavies on May 8 when a fleet of 1000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators ang 1000 protecting fighters hit the Nazi capital and the industrial center of Brunswick. Thirty-six bombers and 13 fighters were lost in that raid, but the LuftwafTe lost 119 of its dwindling fighter plane reserves.
'G. I. DAD TO MISS DAUGHTER'S RITES
The Red Cross reported today that it has been unsuccessful in its attempt to fly Cpl. Oliver Gordon Ball back from Iran to Indianapolis for the funeral of his daughter, Betty Joan, who was electrocuted Tuesday in the rain Storm. The 13-year-old child died when she fell against a charged radio aerial hanging in the yard of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver T. Ball, 626 Woodrow st., with whom she lived. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Leo Davis at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Conkle funeral home. Burial will be in Floral Park cemetery.
REPORT GENOA EVACUATION By UNITED PRESS The British radio quoted Swiss
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Information furnished by Switzerland disclosed that some were shot while resisting arrest and others during a new attempt to escape after being recaptured, Eden said. Of 76 who participated in the original escape, he said, 15 were recaptured and 14 still were at large. There was no immediate indication whether any Americans were
wheeled around the Gulf of Gaeta coast toward the town of the same name at the opposite tip of the half moon arc. The prospective or actual abandonment of Gaeta was indicated by the Nazi demolitions as they fell back into the Hitler line, putting up only token rear guard resistance against the American sweep. Reconnaissance showed the biggest buildings in Gaeta covering several blocks aflame as the Nazis carried the scorched earth policy to its extreme, and American outriders pressed forward cleaning out the stragglers beyond Formia.
Split Into Small Units On the 5th army front below the
ithe Germans were splitting up into
{small units,.edch scrambling to save’
(itself, rather than pulling back as a
|whole by any pre-arranged plan. | The enemy disorganization fa|cilitated the rapid advance of the |5th army on a broad front, and leading French elements now were |close to the Itri-Pico road, the {lateral route parallel to and behind
among the officers who escaped orpart of the Hitler line fortifications.
who were shot. Stalag Luft 3 is situated at Sagan, 50 miles northwest of Dresden. The mass escape occurred March
{of the incident only during a rou-
tine visit to the camp April 17, Eden said. “The government was profoundly shocked by this news and have urgently requested the protecting power to demand of the German government a full and immediate report of the circumstances under which these men met their deaths and an explanation of its failure to report the facts at once to the protecting power,” Eden said. The names of the men shot were furnished by the Swiss representa-
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REPORT JAVA RAIDED
LONDON, May 19 (U. P).—The Swiss radio quoted a broadcast from Japanese-controlled Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies today as reporting a heavy bombing attack on Soerabaja, big naval base on the northeast coast of Java.
EYEWITNESS— Cassino Found
At the other end of the fast {shifting battle line, the British 8th |army was closing against Piedmonte, northern bastion of the Hitler de-
to the southwest. Reach Itff Outskirts Thrusting fo within 70 miles of Rome, American troops reached the outskirts of Itri, one of the main southern anchors of the Hitler line, in an advance of nearly five miles along the main coastal road from newly-captured - Formia. The 8th army, swiftly exploiting its capture of Cassino on Via Casilina, drove to within a mile and a half of Piedmonte, northern anchor of the Hitler line, and neared Aquino, another stronghold in the defense belt. (The German high command re ported heavy fighting in the Es-peria-Pontecorvo sector in which the allies were attacking after seve eral hours’ artillery preparation and with strong tank and air sup- = port. It said “one local break-in* near San Olivia, 3% miles northe west of Esperia and the same dis-
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