Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1944 — Page 1
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High over wrecked Cassino lies the St. Benedictine monastery, which before its capture by the allies
during months of fighting.
WARTIME POWER OF OPA UPHELD
"was used by the foe as a fortress. The photo shows dramatically the destruction wrought in the area
POLICE JOIN OPA
Supreme Court Rule Seen as Sweeping F. D.R. Victory.
WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P). «The supreme court, in a sweeping affirmation of the President's power to regulate the national economy in time of war, today upheld the office of price administration's authority to order restrictions on operations of businesses which have violated rationing regulations. : The 8-to-1 decision, Justice Owen J. Roberts dissenting, upheld an OPA order directing L. P. Steuart & Bros, Inc, Washington fuel ofl dealer, to restrict its sales and de-
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its books as of Oct. 21, 1942, Justice William O. Douglas, delivering the majority opinion, said the court could not quarrel with the President's war-time power “to take away from a wasteful agency and route to an efficient one a precious supply of material needed for the manufacture of articles of war.”
Might Aid Armed Forces
“That power of allocation or rationing might indeed be the only way of getting the right equipment to our armed forces in time, he! said. “From the point of view of the factory owner from whom the materials were diverted the action would be harsh. He would be deprived of an expected profit. But in times of war the national interest cannot wait on individual claims to preference. ° “The waging of war and the control of its attendant economic probjems are urgent business. “Yet if the President has the power to channel raw materials into the most efficient industrial units and thus save scarce materials from wastage it is difficult to see why the same principle is not applicable to the distribution of fuel oil.”
Would Weaken OPA
Police Fraternity Hailed as Annual
Jamboree Starts
By SHERLEY UHL SOME OF THE BOYS had | whooped it up last night at | local Fraternal Order of Police headquarters, so only a scattering few were on hand at the Clay- | pool hotel this morning to hear Indianapolis’ “big three” of law enforcement lavish words of kindness and praise on the city's “finest.” The occasion was the opening conclave of the Fraternal Order of Police state convention, that annual round of merry-making and frolic in which police from Gary to Evansville are afforded an opportunity to let their hair down and enjoy themselves just like plain folks. . . s The “big three” of local law enforcement who were so generous with their compliments at the morning session were Mayor Tyndall, Safety Board President
City police and OPA investigators | have linked forces to launch a con-| |certed drive against gamblers, auto, {thieves and other police characters | suspected of booming the Indiana’ | gasoline black market. Proceeding on the theory that| habitual law-breakers are among {the chief contributors to the wide- | spread traffic in illicit gasoline, local {police and OPA authorities for thei {first time have entered into a mutual assistance pact. OPA has long had a working agreement with state | police on enforcement measures, { but city police co-operation in the {past has been strictly informal Police authorities have agreed to refer to OPA all records containing information relative to the illegal exchange of gasoline or any other raticned commodity. Complete files on habitual gamblers and thieves) have already been sifted for black market information and soon will be turned over to OPA investigators. Beeker Issues Order The newest crack-down against gasoline free-booters was made public by an order issued by Police Chief Clifford Beeker instructing
BLACK GAS WAR §
Traffic Violators’ Coupons § Will Be Checked at od : Time of Arrest. |
MONDAY, MAY 22, 1944
Entered ss Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9; Ind. Issued daily except
Sunday
ADY TO STRIKE-F.DR:
2000 PLANES RIP KIEL, DUISBURG
American engineers are shown clearing the Appian way, one of the two main highways to Rome, of debris under railroad trestles near Itri, after the allies had driven the
bastion.
Explains Freeing Defendants, Convicting Informer |
In White Swan Case.
A lack of sufficient evidence and the incredibility of the state's only witness were given as reasons today | for the acquittal of seven men charged with gambling at the White Swan Social club, 49%: S. Illinois st. Edwin J. Ryan, presiding as special judge in the case last Saturday in criminal court, explained that he sustained a motion to discharge the defendants because “no evidence was offered to prove that
police to check the gas ration books and coupons of all persons whose
Will H. Remy and Police Chief Clifford Beeker. Their remarks were sweet, but short, because many of the guests who had risen early enough to hear them were already anticipating the stag party scheduled to come off at 2 p. m. today at Fraternal Order of Police headquarters, 107 S. Capitol ave.
“on the spot” comparison of serial] numbers on gasoline coupons with license numbers of automobiles driven by suspects or arrested per-| sons. Traffic violators will also be among those sought in the policeOPA dragnet, with particular atten-
8 - - . tion focussed on speedsters.
arrests involve use of an automobile. | tion with the club’s activities other The chief especially demanded an | than the testimony of one ex-con-
The power to allocate, Douglas gdded, would be “feeble” if OPA | could not protect “a community against distributicn which meas-
ured by rationing standards was in-|
equitable, unfair, and inefficient.” In appealing from two federa court decisions upholding the suspension order, the firm contended that congress, in delegating war-
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~ Red Cross Drive For Funds Lags
Indianapolis citizens and business institutions today were urged .to dig deeper in their pockets to help bring Indianapolis out of the hole in the Red Cross war fund drive. The local Red Cross -war fund committee announced that it lacks approximately $90,000 of making its quota of $1,146,000 and stated that
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Police Chief Beeker virtually handed the boys the city on a silver platter when he graciously announced that “if there is anything in the way of entertainment not already prepared by the
reception committee that I can |
arrange for you, know.” The chief said he had al¥ays wanted two things: A promotion and the honor of playing host to
just let me
Formal co-operation by local police in enforcirig ration regulations was requested by OPA here after OPA heads became impressed with the relentless activity of Indiana's underworld, one police authority { said. Clues to Offenders
“It appeared obvious that known police characters whose names appeared frequently on the blotter
an F. O. P. convention. “Now
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Hoosier Heroes—
CAPT. ENSMINGER MISSING IN ACTION
Pilot Has Been Overseas
Since First of Year.
CAPT. ROBERT E. ENSMINGER, pilot of a Flying fortress, failed to return from a bombing mission over
| must be resorting to illegal meth‘ods of obtaining gasoline,” the | spokesman explained. In the course of questioning law-violators evidence of black market participation often emerges as “incidental information,” it was learned. Police authorities also disclosed that routine investigations of unrelated cases had led to discovery of black market filling stations where gasoline is sold ration-free for exorbitant prices. Chief Beeker’s order stressed the fact that police would in no way engage in the actual prosecution of ration regulation violators since this is within the exclusive jurisdiction of OPA agencies created by presidential directives and congressional mandates not applying to local en-
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forcement officers.
the accused men had any connec-
| viet.” The seven freed defendants were | arrested a week ago on affidavits [charging them with operating a | gambling house and gambling fol- | lowing a raid made on the White Swan club by police May 13.
Claims Loss of $135
Although none of the defendants were in the place at the time of the raid, police arrested them after | affidavits were signed by Clyde] Fowler, Kirkwood hotel, who said he lost $135 at the club and that he saw. the seven defendants gambling at the club. When arraigned in court Fowler pleaded guilty to visiting a gaming house but the other seven defendants pleaded not guilty. The seven defendants discharged by Judge Ryan were: Lakey Farb, Jack Williams, Joey Jacobs, Nate Ceiner, Gordon Duckworth, all of whom had been charged with keeping a gaming house. Butch Goldstein and Hogan Glazier were charged with gaming.
Criminal Record
Records show that Fowler, who has served prison terms for burglary and grand larcemy, testified that he saw Goldstein, Williams and Duckworth operating a dice game and that Glazier was serving as “doorman” and that he saw Farb and Jacobs “around the place.” Fowler also testified Farb and Jacobs offered him $10 to “get out of the place” after he had complained about his losses. At the conclusion of Fowler's
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Capt. Ensminger was graduated TOMORROW'S JOB—
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Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
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‘Sawdust’ Alcohol Industry
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allies today were riddling the third
Rome. Broken lines indicate possible further allied advances, with Rome as their goal in one direction, and a juncture of the Anzio beachhead troops and the main 5th army the objective in another
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Acme Telephoto. Blasting their way into Fondi, Terracina and Piedmonte, the
defense line of the Germans below
U, S. NAVAL RAID
REPORTED BY es
Claim Attack» on Island 1100 Miles From Tokyo.
LONDON, May 22 (U. P).—An American naval task force sailed deep into the southeastern approaches to Japan and made a twoday air attack on Marcus island, 1150 miles southeast of Tokyo, Saturday and yesterday, a Japanese communique said today. Meanwhile, a single Aleutiansbased Liberator bomber, in the
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May 22 (U. P.).—The first heavy monsoon rains deluged the North Burma battlefront today as overwhelming allied forces closed in from all sides on a doomed Japanese army cornered in the Myitkyina - Mogaung - Kamaing triangle.
war's deepest penetration of the] Kuriles, struck . only 400 miles northwest of the Japanese home | islands, blasting installations on’ Shimushiri and Ketoi islands. The Japanese communique, recorded by the United Press in London, said the attack was launched from the waters “to the east of the! Bonin islands,” an indication that) the task force penetrated to within less than 1000 miles of Japan. The |Bonins lie only 600 miles south of Japan and 750 miles west of Marcus:
32 U. S. Planes Claimed
Damage to Marcus was “negligible,” the communique said, while more than 32 American aircraft were shot down by the garrison. The attack, coming close on the heels of Wednesday's task force raid on the Japanese naval base at Soerabaja, Java, offered another demonstration of the U. 8. navy's ability to attack Japan's vulnerable Pacific empire on far-flung fronts. The- Aleutians-based Liberator of the 11th air force, flying within 400 miles of Hokkaido, nearest point on the Japanese mainland, dropped its
(Continued on Page 3—Column 7) SEES 5TH COLUMN END WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P). —The once ominous threat of an
McCoy, Hero of March of Death, To Talk Tonight
| (U. P.).—United nations
from the south, the east and the west with lend-lease aid that reached $24,224,806,000 on April 1, | President Roosevelt told congress “on
| strengthen the Soviet armies
Reveals Plans in Nazi Reserves Halt
Lend-Lease
| Sth Army Before Reports. |
Terracina.
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WASHINGTON, May By REYNOLDS PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUAR-
|forces ‘“‘are now about to : strike new and mightier TERS, Naples, May 22.—The | blows” at occupied Europe| Nazi command has thrown
into battle its last reserves south of Rome and, by pour-
ing reinforcements into the coastal sector, has thrown the American vanguard back two to On the eastern front, he said, 1hrge Mires doer Terracina; #-wag lend-lease supplies will continue to | Marshal Albert Kesselring turned “forion the allies with everything he | the new blows that will be timed to {had for what appeared to be the {our advances.” showdown battle of southern Italy. Mr. Roosevelt gave a general re-| The concentration of German | view of the forthcoming offensives! forces produced the first allied setin transmitting to congress his 15th|back of the 11-day offensive when report on lend-lease operations.|the Americans were pushed back He said that aid extended—goods from Terracina, coastal ‘anchor of and services—reached a record-! the enemy line, after advance pabreaking $4,239,000,000 during the trols attempted to enter the stratefirst three months of 1944. It|8ic town this morning. showed that exports to the United Crack Regiment Fights Kingdom continued at a high rate;| The 7th German panzer grena-
[that those to the Soviet Union had dier regiment of the 29th division
dropped after hitting a peak in De- rushed into Terracina, forcing. the cember, and that those to the mid-| forward elements of Maj. Gen. dle east, Africa and the far east Geoffrey Keyes’ forces back 4,000 have dropped sharply. to 5.000 yards. Near $2 Billion a Year While the .American spearheads {were ‘bent back in the Terracina Reverse lend-lease from British area, other Yank columns on their commonwealth nations has totaled right flank plunged ahead as much over $2.000,000,000 since the pro- as three miles into the enemy's gram began and “the rate of aid is|so-called switch line northeast of approaching $2,000,000,000 a year,” the historic Appian way, capturing the report said. three important heights. “Our American forces will go into, battle side by side with the men furious counter-attacks in a bid to of Britain, Prance, Norway, Po- stem the allied offensive. He
!stripped all the garrisons north of (Continued on “Page 2—Column 5) the fighting front and weakened his
ring around the Anzio beachhead BOMBERS BLAST less than 30 miles ahead of the
allies. The immediate result was the RR of the 5th army offensive |at Terracina and the Polish push into Piedmonte, northern anchor of enemy line, where bloody street yo sre was going on.
12000 Planes nes Smash Into; _ Fierce Fighting Reported | Fierce fighting was in progress German Cities, Coastal [between Pico and Potencorvo from
{the middle to the northeastern sectors of the “switch line” through the mountains, Gen. Alphonse Juin's French troops took Mt. Leucio, three miles
Fortifications.
By WALTER CRONKITE United Prew Staft Correspondent
A FIRST-HAND account of life in a Japanese prison camp will be presented to Indianapolis citizens tonight when Cmdr. Melvyn H. | McCoy, Indianapolis naval officer who escaped from the Philippines after taking part in the “March of Death,” speaks at a public meeting at 8:15 Pp. m. in the Technical high school gymnasium. Cmdr. McCoy, a graduate of Tech, will he introduced by Governor Schricker. Presiding at the meeting will be Miss Rosemary Lawlor, Alumni association, © which is sponsoring his appearance, The program will include a
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U. S. TROOPS SEIZE SECOND WARD PLANT
‘Strike Ends at Factory Making War Parts.
SPRINGFIELD, III, May 22 (U. P.) —Smiling and apparently happy
over settlement of a strike that had kept them idle for 16 days, 300 men and women employees of the Hummer Manufacturing Co., a Montgomery Ward subsidiary, returned to work today under the jurisdiction of the U. S. government, which seized the plant yesterday. The returning workers were the vanguard of 450 who quit May § after the company refused to comply with a war labor board order to sign 2 union contract with a maintenance of membership clause. They were ordered to return to work by Joseph Winoski, chairman of
Miss Lawlor president of the Tech
‘west of Pontecorvo, lost it yesterJanes day afternoon, and took it again P this morning in violent struggles
LONDON, May 22.—About 2000 | American and British |aropped 4000 tons of bombs on the
Kesserling threw 17 divisions inte .
-tover northwest, northern and cen-
German war centers of Kiel and Duisburg, French coastal fortifica-| tions and other targets today as the new pre-invasion offensive roared unabated through its fourth straight day. Flying Fortresses struck at Kiel, Big German port and U-boat base, and Liberators hit the bomb-pocked Pas de Calais invasion coast of France in the wake of. a major
LONDON, May 22 (U. P.)— | The French underground was reported today to be scrawling the following invasion-day slogan on walls throughout France: “Choose | your Hun. There won't be enough | to go around.”
R. A. F. fleet which made a saturation assault on the German rail and |
industrial center of Duisburg.
Seventy-five rocket firing German | fighters rose to ‘he defense of Kiel, ! but before they could mass for action, the United States escort put | them to flight. The Forts made their run through intense anti-air-craft fire over Kiel, and the airmen saw their strings of bombs march through smcll ships massed in the harbor and onto the docks. Enemy broadcasts reported large formations of American planes
tral Germany and said they were engaged in heavy air battles by Nazi defense squadrons. The Berlin reports lacked early substantiation, however. Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle split his 8th air force heavy bombers to send about 250 Fortresses against the Baltic port of Kiel and a like
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ITALY-—Nazis throw last reserves into battle south of Rome, throw American vanguard back two to three miles from Terracina.
4000 tons of tb Duisburg.
surging back and forth among the rugged fastnesses. To bolster the fighting in the Pico region the Germans had drawn the 20th panzer reserve division from the region of the Anzio battle and (hurled it against the French. The Germans have lost more than 6000 prisoners in the current campaign and also have suffered “most
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[TALIANS ALERTED FOR UPRISING SOON
‘Nazi ‘Spy’ Raide Raiders Scout | Along British Coast.
By UNITED PRESS
Ifalian patriots throughout Ger iman-occupied Italy were told by |allied and Italian leaders today to to stand by for orders for a general uprising and to keep in touch with “foreign elements in the German army so that they will be able to desert and go into action when they are told of the mcmen: to strike.” Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G. Alex-
ander, allied commander in Italy, rand —the Italian high command
Jointly issued a communique which was broadcast to all patriots, telling
them that German-occupied Italy .
had been divided into six operational zones for Italian patriots ate tacking the Germans from within. Meanwhile, invasion jumpy Ger. man “spy” raiders scouted the Brit.
ish coasts from the northern tip of .. (Continued on Page 3—~Column 8)
On the War Fronts
(May 22, 1944)
BURM A—First De monsoon
rains strike as allies close in A dupa gastiaen 363
ATR WAR—Two thousand alled| a planes