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Farmers Fight to Keep ogs Alive in Severe Stockyard Tie-Up
2d Embargo Called After Terrific Run
AHEAD DESPERATE farmers were \ throwing water on their hogs in
1 Sma — crowded trucks to keep them alive
Small Business fo Need Aid jon Young of Purdue Lists * gh Mies SES
Probable Steps for runs in yard history followed the
After War, Hearing Is Told peopstruction. | in o 2 cmos esr,
One of the heaviest hog runs in the history of the Indianapolis stockyards today tied up trucks in block- lines such as this alohg the Kentucky ave. entrance. At noon, officials ordered an embargo. But the long walt in the hot sun was taking a heavy toll of the hogs.
Other farmers were stripping
The first witness at the senate-conducted small business hearing at| poor handling of reconstruction! .,. via) cargo.
War Plants Corp. must be continued through the recenversion era. in runaway inflation and another
the witness, said he foresaw “desperate times” ahead for small businesses qean of the Graduate School of | | even those already arrived.
Senator James E. Murray of
Montana, chairman of the senate special committee on small busi- N Ww IR ness, who conducted the hearing, 'Dr stated that farmers who eet said that the continuance of the ’ lean You t5 enter the post-war SWPC would in “no way involve reconstruction period without high regimentation of business. fixed costs should find farming “No control is involved, the profitable during this
3 . agency merely assists,” the senator | . a | . "said “If small businesses can get: OPA Ration Chief Reports War Effort Cited GROSSES 900 lI along without aid, so much the ; He predicted the following sebetter.” Motorists May Get More uence of events in the future: .
meeting of the Indiana Bankers'|
pending in the senate to continue TWO: A sharp speculative the SWPC in the post-war period By EULALIE McDOWELL lot short duration when peace comes. Proceeds Marked to and to set up a sort of FHA plan| UsMed Pres Staff Correspondent | THREE: A sharp inflationary’ for small businesses whereby the! WASHINGTON, May 24.—There rise lasting two years or more when Aid Youth. = government would underwrite 10ans wil} in all likelihood be new tires controls are released and accumu- '/ made by private agencies to small we lated purchasing power-is spent for By SHERLEY UHL bus : | for everybody next year, and “B ers’ goOdS.
conducting the hearing by Senator increased in the.Bast and in the mobilization is completed with cos
Samuel D. Jackson (D. Indians). pmidwest sometime after July 1 of siderable unemployment. THIS Will i be the most ‘critical period in the that somet 1
Indiana) was unable to attend be-
| i was chosen for the hearing because during the last three months of followed by a long period of re- for promotional activities and s it is a typical war production center 1944 | construction at home and abroad. | thousand or so for expenses, is
vital role, Charles F. Phillips, new office of handled, runaway inflation may be partment Pals’ club program.
Many Contracts Canceled and from authoritative spokesmen! In his opening address this morn- Swego, local F. O. P. secretary.
of contracts have been canceled and tires would be given to “A” motor- | National bank, Lafayette, cited the Mr. Swego said he was unable that if the war in Europe ends this ists whenever production; now at association's accomplishments dur- give an accurate accounting of
an avalanche of cancellations. 2,000,000 mark. bankers for their willingness to help nationally-known promoter, is “Without assistance from the gov- {put over the war loan drives and receive one-quarter of the total ernment, 1 see dark days ahead for Raise Tire Quotas small businesses,” Senator Murray It was learned that the 2,000,000- wartime jobs. | selling job. said. . mark would be outdistanced during! He outlined the association's) Mr. Swen said police mag { “We must continue to maintain 2 {steps in fighting government subsi- cided to relieve themselves o i) small businesses in the United October, November or December.
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made eligible for new tires, “A” : I
| GOP PARLEY FAILS moire bo nad been unable to BIDDL PONCER Mother Seeks un ON SENATE CHOICE sencer viocks or we tres IDOLE CONCEDES Return of Lost = UNOIOE “wi ne is cre soni vas vor WARD GASE DOUBT os
] sumably” would be larger than thi - | Tucker-Capehart Race: Left Sears—indicaing that by the stat 0 oo 0 oes of next year, tire difficulties which ——— 1 In Status Quo Stage. {have plagued TE earl! b
Tie Tucker-Caehinrt tnatorial [20 or oud have become a thing | Open to Challenge.
race remained in the status quo! The new rationing chief said| WASHINGTON. May 24 (U. P). stage today after what was sched=-|there was no indication that gaso- | —Attorney General Prancis Biddle
S| _ led to have been a decision-mak- line rations could be increased be | SOnceded today that Phitere 1s Jou ' . mins {for d'sagreement on the legal asv ; J ing conference by a number of dis- (Continued on Page 5—Column 5) vects” of the government's seizure trict chairmen here yesterday end- ll tr pedeeatetth tS or on last month of Montgomery Ward.
ed with nothing decided. CHIEF JUSTICE STONE * Co: Chicaso properties
A ‘The meeting was highly secre- } “But,” he told a house commit 3 , tive, the district chairman drifting MAY STAY ON BENCH tee investigating the case, “no at J | WASHINGTON, May 2% (U. P). president can do more than in \j ]
in for such announced purposes as torney general in advising th buying potash (the excuse given by | Al Norris of the 10th district) and oe Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, terpret the law as he sees it, trus’ for reserving. rooms. for the coming |11= the Only ‘supreme court jusiice ling to the courts to correct him i
state convention (the reasons given "°% eligible to retire, is expected'ne is wrong and to congress t
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3 by Toby Yoder and Roy Jorg of ‘© stick on the job at least another yngke any changes in the law whic! : the third and fourth districts, re- Yor despite some reports to the iy deems wise.” | © spectively). | conrary. . {| Biddle emphasized that he bi ga { | The approaching end of the jieved he was right in tell we an court's current term — scheduled president Roosevelt before tu. (Continued on Page 5—Column 4) tentatively for next Monday—has seizure that he pcssessed full au- |
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By EARL RICHERT | By HELEN RUEGAMER bushes and trees of branches to |. ..: pe no bargaining by Germany i ‘ | ? 8 and Japan for peace, Churchill —A force of 6500 allied war- offensive spearheaded by U
made no mention of their satellites slanes blazed a trail of ruin across the primary line of retreat for 17 German divisions ——— | on the main front.
cover the open trucks and protect
the Indianapolis Athletic club today testified that he felt that the Smaller jn the post-war period may result, Meanwhile, at noon today, yard {and thus proffered an unspoken | officials ‘slapped on another em- |invitation to them to seek less
Albert Beck, president of Beck Canvas Products, Inc, Indianapolis. jarm depression, Dr. E. C. Young. jure Ja annouAY. shat NO | harsh terms by abandoning the channel coast to the austrian WRG FLY AT Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes’ 0gS W accepted after 6 p. m., | axis cause. U | Alps today, spearheaded by |
| As delegates to the state Fra-
to “A” motorists would get und i i 3 { Senator Murray said Indianapolis get under way | handled intelligently, this should be, The money, minus 25 per cent) by refusing to enter the war
i i He said that already between in the office of the rubber director. 'ing Association President Burr S. Because he was still counting late- driven from her “soil, the Italians seven and eight billion dollars worth Phillips told reporters that new Swegey, president of the Lafayette coming proceeds pouring in by mail, = cunatever democratic
{take on ration banking and other take for having handled the ticket
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LONDON, May 24 (U. P.). —Prime Minister Churchill
warned today that the allies 1 will accept only unconditional 6500
surrender from Germany and
Japan and called for a new post-war world organization—yith D United States participation—armed )
situation in an 83-minute speech before a crowded commons vir-
and sea-berne invasion thé world
ever has known, but he avoided all mention of the coming assault. Spearhead Attacks by
Ignores Satellites Daylight.
He proposed that the new world
bankers today. who have stood in line all day |ization of the League of Nations, blasted Berlin and Paris from the |
in the post-war period unless the government agency was continued.| purdue university, told Indiana two big American air fleets that That means that some farmers | structure follow roughly the organ- | RY AN Wh ARIN Speaking at the 48th annuall oo... G00 of at the last mo-
arming to the teeth to enforce its... the south.
association at the Claypool hotel,’ (Continued on Page S—Column 5) i... decisions and outlaw war for gen- i . . 1 | erations to come. | In the most widespread American Poolroom owner Withdraw There should be room in the new daylight attack of the war, some organization for organisms like the 3500 heavy bombers and fighters Appeal for Return of British empire and commonwealth, from the U. S. 8th, 9th and 15th
| he said, “and I trust there will wid
with “overwhelming military power” . to prevent future aggression. Churchill reviewed the world |
lacross axis Europe from the]
but avoid that body's pitfalls by | west and the suburbs of Vienna
i ; FOR ECAST AS [2 Partly 1 cloudy with likelihood celihood of thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature. : — : : 2] VOLUME 55-NUMBER6 °° WEDNESDAY, MAY 24,1944 = Bre pot a Tod. Jomsod daily ezceps Sunday -
ow TERRACINA FALLS; | BY Chl 110 YANKS CUT ° [ese NAZI ESCAPE ROAD
Nazis Lose More Than Thirty Tanks In Violent Four-Hour Duel On Italian Plains.
in a four-hour battle near the
1 th f th atest ai i Aly OL Ee ye ax Huge Yank Air Fleets ,nq to the southeast captured Terracina, coastal anchor of
the German defenses on the main Italian front. A special announcement by allied troops, breaking out of the Anzio beachhead, scored Though emphasizing that there| HON May 24 (U. P.).! new gains and took many prisoners on the second day of the nited States armor slashing
License.
be room for the fraternal associa‘tion of the British commonwealth LONDON, May 24 (U. P.).—The | and the United States.” German Transocean news agency
Bill Is Pending F [ Aft ] | : | ONE: Gradually rising prices {- “I am sure these great entities | reported today that American ue er Ju | during the war. will in no way disturb the general| forces attempted a” “small outThe hearing Woz on the bil y Le Promoter to Take Fourth of purpose of the world organization,| flanking landing” above the beach-
{put that in fact will help powerful-| head in the Aprilia sector but said ly to make it run smoothly,” he “counter-measures prevented the said. | landing.” Other highlights of Churchill's
| Despite his move to withdraw his ‘appeal without further ado, Ed- | {ward A. Ryan's hearing on his re{quest for the return of his poolroom {license got slightly out of hand and
| produced a flashy display of legalis-
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, May 24 (U.P.).—= American forces cut the Appian way on both sides of | Cisterna today, knocking out more than 30 German tanks
| the coastal anchor of the Ger‘man defenses with the cap- | ture of Terracina. from which they | were driven back three days ago Ss by Nazi reinforcements ordered to hold the strategic town at all cost.
tic fireworks today.
speech:
|such changes “will render a more : ; Senator Raymond E Willis R ing in the neighbor-| Such change n The Britishabased America this year, it was learned Oday. |go. voi ational policy, he hood of $9000 worth of tickets had secure peace in Europe. | heavies, Almost 1000 strong, fought
1 has decided to return to pri-|
price administration rationing chief, ' expected. | youth reereation project, said Fred _.. ic. upon the capture of Rome 8nd in Yugoslavia.
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!and once the Germans have been Luftwaffe Answers
hi form of government they desire.
to In-' ot Marsha! Josip (Tito) Broz be- [swarmed up to challenge the Berl
de- fighting the enemy and “some of [running up to 100 planes. the his subordinates have trafficked |
committee, ha accepted an invita- {5 the target area and back.
|tion to come to London to discuss| Fortress pilots back from the Ber{relations “between the committee |jn assault reported that they {and the allied governments. {dropped their high explosives and {fire bombs through a thick overcast
| The Breach between Russia’ and the Polish exile govern-
i . | gli ity. Tent is not so wide as it might ap- st mpses of the city
{and even funny to insult and abuse | tack.” ‘ ic government of Spain.” Report Paris Damage
{but said ‘he had “great hopes that | ercdorf airdromes.
! progressed and finished in his fa-
columns of smoke attested to
| BRITISH HONOR ELLIOTT R. | deadly accuracy of the American = brought on recurrent rumors that | thority under the war labor disputes ROBERT (BOBBY) BROOKS | LONDON, May 24 (U. P.).—Col. blind-bombing technique.
‘tribunal by President Calvi Cool-| Biddle insisted that MODGEOMETY| and is the apple of his mothers | Monder of the Order of the British |1ieveq to have been producing parts n
| Empire, the third highest rank of {for Nazi fighter planes.
the best available opinion, including from the owners of other plants| But a few days ago Mrs. Leland | hat order, in a ceremony at Su-| wnpile the U. S. heavyweights
| preme headquarters of the allied
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: 4 5) . \ ¢ L | Ls LOCAL TEMPERATURES | Stone, originally appointed to the {act to take over the properties. (above) is 10 months old now | Elliott Roosevelt was made & com-| The Atzgersdorf plant was S———— I. «+ gam....66 Wam. 77 | i ! - : " Tam... 61. Mam qe (idee. in 1925, plans to retire, But Ward “was in no different position| eye : Bl Sam... Je 2 Woon . 3 [that of some of his colleagues, is and facilities that have been taken | mm : 1B 1pm... {that the g are unfounded. under the act.” . | (Continued on Page 5—Column 3) expeditionary force today. - sing TIMES FEATURES | mt 1 ON INSIDE PAGES | = ine - : A 2 : S ; ts. 4 bw ¥ - 5 nies Amusements . 18 Ruth Millett . 10: N 4: an 14| Movies iad 18 oh 1 AS Comics ...... 17 Obituaries -... 4 el x 17 Pegler . ia
1440 S. New Jersey st. MISSING
lish ave.
rounding Paris, while about 750 to On the side of the allies. | Fortresses and Liberators from the,
where small business has played a - The Information came from SIX: If reconstruction is poorly be used to finance the police de- King Victor Emmanuel of Italy Mediterranean lashed targets) around Vienna, in northern Italy, |
{ Axis broadcasts and reports from | {the first returning crewmen indi-| cated the big raids had stung the
year, as is possible, there will be 1400000 a month, passed the ing the past year and lauded the affair at this time. Lewis M. Lewis, 4 Britain has switched all her |luftwaffe into battle. support to the partisan forces| Hundreds of = enemy fighters
calise Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch of raiders, whirling head-on through | lthe royal Yugoslav army is not |the bomber formations in groups
i : Similar opposition was encoun!dized lendin jes. stating that responsibility of personally peddling _. { i . Civilian tire quotas were raised y.qiana's il oy able “ take tickets on the theory that such pro- with the Germans. tered on the Vienna sweep, accord-
i Radio Berlin indicated, however, pear on the surface. {that the raid had inflicted heavy “I have no sympathy with damage on the battered city, de- | those who think it is clever nouncing it as another “terror at- [the island of Fyn into four
Churchill referred only briefly to} pai Paris also reported “conthe fizhting in Italy, where he sald gigerable damage” in the southern {a mighty battle was “at a climax | .ng southeastern suburbs of Paris. | = south of Rome. He foresaw the| mn. Vienna raiders struck their “VO V! f hideous prospect of the red-hot ain plow at the Atzgersdorf airrake of battline lines being drawn |. art factory five miles Toon | {from sea to sea right up the whole | west of the old Austrian capital and {patches said. . length of the (Italian) peninsula,” |the nearby Munchendorf and Wol- |
the city of Rome will be preserved| smaller formations blasted militrom the struggle of our armies. tary installations at Graz, 80 mfles ties have esta Churchill spoke rapidly at the |soith of Vienna. the Aviso railway | outset, though his voice sounded &!yjaduct on the Brenner pa Ne (Continued on little tired, but warmed up 8s he south of the Italian border, and ss = =
5 : Zagreb. ‘miliar resounding style as he pic-| Poor visibility obscured the 15th) tured the new world organization.|air force targets, but towering
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. Frederick H. Freund, Missing Two Years, Is Dead —. RE ac a GEES AN INDIANAPOLIS infantry officer has been declared ‘dead in,
the fall of Corregidor and three | “other local airmen are missing over 3
‘Lt Carl F. Thinnes Jr., 1515 Eng-
n | was represented by Robert Carrico. Mr. Ryan's son, Bdwin J. Ryan, special judge in the much-discussed
{ ’ | i 3 cause he is recovering from an eye It was also expected that ration-| said. | been “sold to the policemar’s ball, ) . |through heavy enemy fighter op- } You { operation. : ing of new synthetic rubber tires. FIVE: - If reconstruction is held Monday night in the Coliseum. | Turkey forfeited her Tight| ition to pound Berlin and the | White Swan Social club case in } : to a strong voice at the peace work of Nazi airdromes s ur- | volving the dismissal of seven de-
{fendants charged with gambling, did not appear.
gaming charges.
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ing to German radio accounts e Gen. Charles De Gaulle, presi- | wpien told. of violent air battles Denmark Divided dent of the French national raging all the way from the Alps
| Into 4 Defenses
that permitted only occasional| LONDON, May 24 (U. P)—Re 4 |ports from Stockholm said today Pontecorvo Fall Seen
{that Germany, convinced that the| By reaching the Melfa the Canae lallies will attempt a landing in|dians had driven a wedge between | Denmark, has divided Jutland and!Pontecorvo and Aquino, breaking “in-| the backbone of the original Hitler
vasion administrative zones.”
Other Nazi preparations to meet in various forts along the upper 'what the German command appar- section of the line were in immis entlys believes is an imminent at-! nent danger of being cut off of [tack included the destruction of overrun. llages in lengthening the run-| The Canadian advance of four {ways for an airfield on the east and a half miles since yesterday coast of Jutland, Stockholm dis- morning was made through the
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Mr. Ryan, whose license for his
lair forces smashed at the three | poolroom at 35 W. oe There is no question of any vital axis nerve centers, while about was suspended by the ety board gasoline rations may be ‘ ais q vita , | ¢ Senator Murray was assisted in possibly be; POUR: A sharp drop when de- ;. .,; order of Police convention guarantee that Germany will|1500 other allied planes swarmed on May 9 after police raid squads broke camp today, #t ‘was learned not undergo territorial changes if lover the French invasion coast.
Michigan st. {tem on the approaches to Rome. | The Americans were within {seized baseball pool tickets there,!yards—a. little more than s..mile } | —of Cisterna on both sides, dise
The son had signed his father’s back to escape the threat of encireleoriginal request for an appeal hear- | ment, ing and represented him in a pre-| vious safety board hearing involving) oy g troops 4nd tanks had 1 : ‘| cracked the German defenses at Among the more glaring conver-) geval points aroind the beach- E sational fireworks was Mayor TYD-| oad and in the first 36 hours of : dall's statement that “this admin-|,;n. offensive had overrun hundreds 2! istration is fighting professional| ,¢ enemy strong points. a gambling. We're not against personal amusements in the privacy gaid: {of the home. but there definitely «raking advantage of the breach will not be a letup in our War in the Hitler line made Tuesday, | against professionals. I intend t0 Canadian armor has been quick to
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Against In vasion force, and many prisoners have been
(A German .army announcement boxes, barbed wire and tank traps reported to the office of war infor-| against one of the Germans’ elite {mation said Nazi military authori-|divisions, the 90th panzer gren: hb: blished control over| Pontecorvo was expected to fal
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town 25 miles below Rome,
allied headquarters said the
. S. armored units erumpled
Gain Five Miles
At the other end of the main front, Canadian troops crashed five miles deep into the last section of the Adolf Hitler line. They reached the Melfa river, a tributary of the Liri, five miles northwest of Pontes corvo, on which the Canadians were closing. American forces leading the beachhead “offensive registered a notable success by driving acros the Appian way on each side Cisterna, transport hub of the sys
| patches from the beachhead report ied, adding that within a few hours lit might be known whether the | Nazis intended to fight for one of | the toughest strong points in the horseshoe defense system or fade
Crack Defenses
A late afternoon announcement =
exploit this success and after a day of heavy fighting advanced armored elemenis reached the river Melfa. “Other Canadian troops are clos ing in upon Pontecorvo. | “Terracina was occupied in the | coastal sector. | “More progress Was made in the attack by the 5th army bridgehead
taken.”
line. The Germans still fighting
| heart of a bristling maze of pills