Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1944 — Page 15

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the beaches at night has over to the anti-aircraft artillery, or ackI read recently that we have here on the beachhead the greatest concentration of anti-aircraft guns ever assembled in an equivalent space. After three solid weeks of being kept awake all night long the guns, and having to snatch your little sleep in odd moments during the daytime, that is not hard to believe. ~

Flak Becomes Real Menace

HERE ON the beachhead the falling flak becomes 8 real menace—one of the few times I've known that

to happen in this war. Every night for weeks, pieces

of exploded shells have come whizzing to earth within 60 yards of my tent. Once an unexploded ack-ack shell buried itself half a stone’s throw from my tent. Our ack-ack is commanded by a general officer, which indicates how important it is. His hundreds of gun batteries even intercept planes before they near the beaches. The gun positions are plotted on a big wall map in his command tent, just as the battle lines are plotted by infantry units. A daily score is kept of the planes shot down—confirmed ones and prob-

Nazis Don't Follow Through -

OFTEN THEY will drop flares that will light up the whole beach area, and then fail to follow through and bomb by the light of their flares. The ack-ack

the Germans apparently just salvo their bombs and hightail home. It is indeed a spectacle fo watch the anti-aircraft

the blood-curdling approach of a hurricane. Your tent walls puff from the concussion of the guns and bombs, and the earth trembles and shakes. If you're sleeping in a foxhole, little clouds of dirt come rolling down upon you. When the planes are really close and the guns are pounding out a mania of sound, you put on your steel hemet in bed and sometimes you drop off to sleep with it on and wake up with it on in the morning and feel very foolish, *.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum

UNTIL RECENTLY, John Prattas, manager of the St. Moritz bar, received letters, written in Greek, from a youthful friend of his, a lad of Greek parentage, but born in Indianapolis, The friend is stationed with the army .

on Africa's gold coast, probably in Dakar, although censorship forbids mention of the exact location, Anyway, one letter, written in Greek, came through with the sly remark: “I'm writing this in Greek so the censor won't know what I'm talking about.” On the outside of the letter was written: “That's what you think. The censor happens to be Greek, himself.” John says foreign language letters—at least those in Greek— were forbidden, beginning a couple of weeks before the invasion. Now his friend has .to write in English, + + « Yesterday was the birthday of Clarence Jackson, head of the State C. of C. We didn't learn which birthday. Anyway, the office force was ready for him and handed him a package the moment he arrived in the office. In it were a half dozen fancy neckties. Clarence got even by giving the girls three boxes of candy. . . . Note to Betty C.: Sorry. but we don't use poetry, If we ever started we'd be swamped. Thanks, anyway. ... Note to a lot of other folks: Please sign your letters... . Bill Summers, of L. Strauss & Co, is having trouble keeping buttons on his shirts, He's had his chest all swelled out ever since he read in The Times that his cousin, Col. Joe Kelly of Columbus, Ind, is in a six-plane group that has completed 631 missions against the Nazis. We don’t blame him for being proud,

Classy Entrance

JIM CLEMENTS, attorney for Curtiss-Wright, and Cliff Campbell, of the Automatic Canteen, opened a restaurant Monday on the site of the former Betsy Ross shop in the Hume-Mansur building, A day or

In Chicago

CHICAGO, June 30.—The big question is, “What kind of a campaign will Thomas E. Dewey make for the presidency?” Some of his New York backers claim that the phrinking violet pose he has indulged in during the last few months is not natural to the man, but was imposed on him to maintain the idea that he was being drafted for office, Now that the nomination is his, they say, Dewey is expected to speak out and really let the country see what a great man he is. “The governor has already received some very good advice on what kind of campaign to make.” says George Z. Medalie of New York, who as federal district attorney was Dewey's boss and one of the men who gave the candidate his start on the road to fame as an assistant U. 8, attorney. “Some people have told him to go out on a whirlwind campaign, making a lot of speeches and barnstorming the eountry,” says Medalie. “He has also been advised to stay home and say nothing.” After all, look what the latter policy got him!

Old Political Custom ;

THE OLD American political ideal of letting the office seek the man instead of vice-versa haf been revived by Dewey in a big way. Right up to the end he stuck to the myth that he was being drafted. The whole four-day doldrum was a limp, dishrag

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday.—In his column the other

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‘day, Ernie Pyle said that he was writing a collection

of “items,” and I have a feeling that I should do the

same, for I have so many unrelated things that I

want to talk about. Il have to take them one at a

time, however, First of all, I have had a number of letters from women who feel resentful because in, the reports of overseas actions, so often those who write in newspapers or talk over the air minimige oar losses. In reporting a bombing mission, for instance, they will say: “Only six bombers failed to return.” That little word “only,” when it is read by a woman whose son or

Fight Is Far From Won, Nation Told; “Tough Battles Foreseen.

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U, P.). —Workers who leave war jobs to return to civilian life were classed today with battlefront deserters by the nation's top military commanders, who said that production bdelays would prolong the war and delay final victory. In a report to President Roosevelt seeking to curb undue optimism, the three commanders—Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff; Adm. Ernest J. King, commander of the U. S. fleet, and Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces —said that the war was far from won and that tough fighting still lay ahead. Recently returned from the bloody Normandy beachhead, they advised Mr. Roosevelt that “we perceive a state of mind in this country against which we believe the public should be warned.” “The recent favorable course of the fighting,” they said, “seems to have persuaded some: people that the war is as good as won, and that accordingly they can throw up their

two after the opening, Jim met Bill Kelley, manager of the Employment Security division office. “What's this I hear about you opening a restaurant, and where Js it?” asked Bill. Jim explained it was a “very fine restaurant — with an entrance on Monument circle.” Jim looked at his watch then said: “Come on, I'll take you over there now.” He led Bill over to the Columbia club, and into the club. “Pretty classy location,” murmured Bill. Saying nothing, Jim kept on walking, on through the club, out the back door and agross the alley. Then he led him into the Hume-Mansur building, and finally into the restaurant, Bill couldn't think of anything to say. ... Bill Aitcheson, head of the OPA gasoline rationing, threw a party for some of the OPA department heads the other night at Gus Hitzelberger’s Liberal View league.

. The piece de resistance was frogs’ legs. . , . Attention

motorists: If you don't have your new federal use stamp for your car, better get one right away. Tomorrow, July 1, is the day you're supposed to have it. And Uncle Sam hasn't much of a sense of humo about such things, :

Feathered Family

MRS. MARIE PYLE, who lives in Apt. 15 at 2063 N. Meridian, has been getting an intimate view of the family life of a pair of robins the last couple of months. The robins, for some reason, chose Mrs. Pyle’s window ledge for a home, and built thereon a nest, right up against the window screen and without a speck of shade or other protection. The doings 6f the feathered family upset the normalcy of the house-

hold, with everyone watching the birds. It took ex-|

actly three weeks for the four blue eggs in the nest to hatch. After being gorged for two weeks on insects and worms, the baby robins tested their wings, and then departed. The nest was empty a short time, and then Mrs. Pyle noticed four more eggs in it. This second setting took only two weeks to hatch, probably because of the heat. And now there are four more little robins in it, busy eating worms and insects. Pretty soon theyll fly away and then, maybe, Mrs. Pyle can open the window once more.

By Peter Edson

goings-on, right in keeping with the spirit of the draft

age. The volunteers, the men like Bricker and Dirk-!

sen who were willing to serve their country at such great sacrifice, got no place. The man who had to be coaxed got the job. All that has to be decided now is whether draftee Dewey is 1-A and A-1 or whether 4-F is going to stand for a fourth term for Franklin.

Two Schools of Thought

ONE GENERALLY accepted line of thought has been that if by fall the liberation of Europe or the war against Japan or both are well along, Dewey will

stand a better chance of election because the “indis-!

pensability” of Roosevelt to carry on the war will then have passed, and the dislike of the New Deal, plus the desire for change, can be allowed to run rampant, Some of the politicians at Chicago question the correctness of that psychology. While agreeing that the emotional reaction of the voters to the war situation at election time may have a lot more to do in deciding the election than any deep-dish debates on important issues, it is contended that Dewey may have a better chance of election if the war is still tough than if it was weli on the way to being over, The reasoning follows this line: If the war is still on, the discontent with Roosevelt and the New Deal will continue at their present highs. On this basis, if the election were to be héld next Tuesday, Dewey would stand a good chance of being elected. If, however, the war or part of it is ended by late October, Roosevelt will be the great leader who won it and

therefore would stand a better chance of being reelected.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

brings healing to hurt souls instead of adding sorrow. A friend of mine in England, who has two boys fighting in Burma, sent me a poem which should make many of us who are fortunate enough not to have lost any loved ones so far in this war more alive to the feelings of others. The poem is entitled: “We Who Have Husbands at Home.” .

“We who have husbands at home should be very quiet For we do not know The meaning of days, nor yet do we understand The hush of houses where in shadow go The unheard footsteps, the invisible faces of men.

Let us not speak . Too loudly of war restrictions the black-out For there are eyes that seek Empty horizons, skies and deserts and sad gray seas, And a sign from God,

While we who have husbands at home look in the For wool perhaps, or cod Let us remember, when we complain of the winter's BE So. : ;

and rationing and in

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in’ the moonless dark of a thousand

| jobs and go back to civilian life, No {doubt most of the men at the front {would also like easier and better- ' paid peacetime jobs. | “Anyone can see that desertions lon the fighting fronts would protract the war and reduce our pros- | pects of victory. Desertions on the home front would tend to the same

result.”

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“Speaks for Itself”

The statement was made public 'by the President without comment. Reporters who asked for background {information on reasons prompting [the statement were told by a White {House spokesman that it spoke for itself. | ‘The President himself voiced sim‘ilar sentiment at a recent news confererice but did not go to such length nor speak as bluntly as did this joint chiefs of staff. | While reassuring the President and the nation that victory is certain, they cautioned that “no effort required in the home front battle should be diverted by any element in the production machine—whether it be ownership, management, rank-'and-file workers or those in the service of the government itself,”

Praise, Industry, Labor

{ They heaped praises on industry ‘and labor for the “enormous material production” backing up the {armed forces but pointed out that {the allied military machine, even in | victory, is suffering heavy losses in weapons and material which the home front must replace fully and speedily. “Any slackening in the needed production will only delay ultimate victory,” they said. They paid tribute to all branches {for their courage, toughness and skill in meeting and defeating a | “fanatical and determined” enemy.

Women to Come Under Job Control

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P). —Certain areas in 16 states will require that women as well 2s men | be hired through the U. S. employment service or other approved {agencies when the new hiring controls go into effect tomorrow, Chairiman Paul V. McNutt of the war manpower commission announced today. The original announcement that all jobs after July 1 must be sought through the U. S. E. S. applied only to male labor. McNutt said that not every area in the 16 states would subject women workers to the so-called “priority referral” system. The states are: \

Indiana Not on List

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee,

South Carolina, Nevada, Oregon, |

* (One of a Series)

By 8. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer ALBANY, N. Y, June 30.— Tom Dewey rose to fame as “the racket buster.” The Luciano case, the Hines case and other cases fought and won by Dewey aroused wide ptiblic interest in his various anti-racket exploits. Charles Luciano, known as “Lucky” until Dewey nailed him, - was a one-time drug peddler and bootlegger who, picking up the reins after his gang leader had been killed by rivals, was credited with control over narcotics, policy and industrial rackets in New York. Poliee Commissioner Valentine called him Public Enemy No. 1. The Luciano case was Dewey's first major appearance as special rackets prosecutor by appointment by Governor Herbert Lehman. The methods by which he broke it spread his fame overnight from coast to coast,

Wanted Higher-Ups

One February evening in 1936, about 165 plainclothesmen were sent out by Dewey with sealed orders, Precisely at 9 o'clock, they swooped down on 41 disorderly houses and arrested 70 women and seven men—managers, bookers and operators. Dewey's sole legitimate interest was organized crime, with particular reference to official collusion. To him, officially, the prostitutes, madames and bookers were only guideposts toward the 11 responsible leaders of the racket. Topmost among these leaders, brains of a nation-wide vice ring, said Dewey, was “Lucky.” Before Dewey moved publicly, his staff had completed seven months of intensive investigation so secret that even the innermost political and underworld circles had not even a vague suspicion. When he struck he was ruthless and thorough. Three months after the first sensational raids, Dewey put Luciano on -trial.- Less than a month later he had a conviction against Luciano and eight co-de-fendants.

Hines Was Powerful

The Hines case involved the most powerful Tammany district leader in New York. Almost everybody, for years, had gossiped about James J. Hines’ affairs, and several] investigators, including Samuel Seabury, had failed completely in attempts to prove what most insiders thought they knew. The {first public indication that Dewey was preparing a case against Jimmy Hines—the first hint that reached the powerful Hines, despite his theretofore ine fallible sources of inside information—came when the politician was arrested in Dewey's office and charged with providing political protection to the notorious Dutch Schultz gang of policy racketeers. Power Broken Except for Dewey's record up to that time, most observers would have said then that he had committed professional suicjde. Hines not only controlled Tammany Hall, and had powerful connections with the underworld, but he had concealed actual proof of his criminal activities so effectively that he was an intimate of President Roosevelt and an occasional guest in the White House, The Hines case became doubly notable because of the controversy created when, in the first trial, the presiding judge ruled that Dewey had pulled a legal boner and declared a mistrial. | Thereupon Dewey took the case to another court, convicted Hines and sent him to Sing Sing. In addition to these most publicized prosecutions, Dewey carried out many others with equal success achieved by similar methods. Thirty-six loan sharks were sent to jail. Dewey's office broke up rackets in the electrical trade, in trucking, in restaurants, in the poultry business, the bakery business, the garment trades and the taxicab industry, and sent their

FRIDAY,

JUNE 30, 1944

Meet Mr. Dewey: Role as Racket-Buster Spurred G. O.P. Nominee's March to Fame

Failure to Subpena Convict Again Brings Delay to ‘Dropped’ Case.

Failure of the prosecutor's office. to get a subpena to state reforma-

{tory officials resulted today in post-

ponement of the trial of the burglary case in which a special judge resigned suddenly more than a month ago. The case was reset for trial July 17 by Special Judge Harry L. Gause after it was revealed that one of the three defendants, a prisoner at the state reformatory, was not in the courtroom. The absent prisoner, Herald Weidman, 19, of 1035 English ave. was the defendant who testified in criminal court more than a month ago that he had made a deal with Indianapolis police officers to drop

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Governor Dewey reads the headlines announcing the conviction of

Jimmy Hines, one of the most spectacular successes in his career as

“racket-buster.”

Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Flegenheimer) was murdered while Dewey was building up the policy case against him, but Hines was caught in that net, not to mention J. Richard “Dixie” Davis, mouthpiece for Schultz's and other criminal] gangs. It was estimated that rackets eradicated by Dewey were gouging $160,000,000 a year out of New Yorkers’ pockets, While this was going on 1937 arrived. The four-year term of District Attorney William C. Dodge, whose ineffectiveness had necessitated appointment of Dewey, expired. Strong demand arose that Dewey should run for the position. He consented only after an ace

tive anti-Tammany leader, whom he had taken to a conference to support his declination to run, joined with others in the reform group and pressed him to accept. Dewey was elected district attorney with American Labor party support, and in that office continued his drive against organized racketeering, along with the normal business of the county prosecutorship. As a result of charges made by him in the campaign one of the most important Tammany leaders resigned as county clerk and another; less potent, resigned as assistant attorney general of the state.

NEXT: Dewey as governor of New York.

BY EARL RICHERT

“WE DONT want Wallace.”

Democratic national chairman. The Democratic leaders have seen to it too that the views of the Hoosier Democrats have reached the national chairman in plain English. The Indiana Democrats think that the placing of some youthful politically-unscarred Democrat in the second spot would be the perfect thing to do—thus presenting to the voters a ticket representing age and experience and yputh and vigor. They have no one in mind but they figure that some one with these qualifications” should be found. A vice presidential nominee of this type, they say, would counteract Governor Dewey's appeal to youth. - ”

Would Back Schricker

THE INDIANA Democrats naturally would back Governor Schricker for the vice presidency if he would permit them. But the Indiana governor, unlike Mr. Dewey, definitely has squelched all moves by his friends to thrust him 4nto the national spotlight. The Indiana governor is 60 and thus does not meet the youth specifications although he is politically unscarred and would be a new figure nationally. . It was learned from Oklahom oil men attending the G. O. P. convention at Chicago that a real

sponsors to prison.

drive is being put on by leaders

Up Front With Mauldin

Arizona and California. McNutt revealed meanwhile that every state in the Union is ready to institute the new controlled hiring system for male labor designed to channel manpower into war industries facing shortages. He said employment ceilings had been established in labor shortage areas and that for intensifying recruitment was ready to go into operation. He also noted, as Indicating the importance of the need for hiring controls, that 79 per cent of the nation's munitions industries are in tight labor market areas and that 9,700,000 workers—2700,000 of them women—are engaged in munitions plants. :

FOUR REAPPOINTED

RED cross

TO PURDUE BOARD :

That is the almost unanimous off-the-record top-ranking Democratic leaders as the time for the opening of the Democratic national convention in Chicago, July 19, draws nigh. While this is off-the-record insofar as statements to the press are concerned, it certainly is not off-the-record to Robert Hannegan,

chant of Indiana’s

his case if he would testify for the | State against two other defendants, | William Cangany, 27, of 535 Rybolt fave, and Joseph Alfred Rollan, 27, of 827 S. Pershing ave.

Miller Resigns

When the trio was called into criminal court for trial on the charge of burglary more than a month ago, William B. Miller, the original special judge in the case, resigned from the bench suddenly, charging that “newspaper publicity had cast some reflections on the court in this case.” Subsequently, Judge W. D. Bain of criminal court named a new panel of lawyers from which Mr.

Gause was selected as special judge. Also at that time Prosecutor

Sherwood Blue announced that he Would make a thorough investigation of all circumstances surrounding the case and asked for a delay {of several weeks to complete his; | investigation. Two weeks ago, June 30 was agreed upon as trial date by all attorneys in the case. Client Absent

When Judge Gause called the case for trial today John O. Lewis, attorney for Weidman, asked for a continuance “because my client isn't even here.” “How does that happen?” asked Judge Gause, “I guess it is our fault,” replied Prosecutor Blue. “I see by the record that we failed to get a subpena from the state reformatory to bring the defendant into court.” Both Cangany and Rolland were in court. Cangany is out of jail under $11,000 bond and Rolland has been held in jail since February unable to make the $11,000 bond. Lowers Bail

in the petroleum industry to win the Democratic vice presidential nomination for Governor Kerr of Oklahoma, the Democratic convention keynoter and a millionaire oil man himself, The Oklohoma Republican oil men said that with Kerr on the national ticket all prospects (and the prospects are pretty good right now) for them to carry that doubtful state would be eliminated. That's more than anyone will concede that Vice President Wallace can do in his native state of Iowa. A boom of sorts is under way too to win the Democratic vice presidential nomination for Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah. It is extremely doubtful that the Indiana Democrats will go so far as to buck the nomination of Mr. Wallace if the President lets it be known that he wants him on the ticket again. But if any major anti-Wallace move does get under way, Indiana's 26 delegates probably will be in it. s » 2 INDIANA'S junior senator and Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Senator Samuel D, Jackson of Ft. Wayne, is being considered seriously by the Democratic national committee for the position of permanent chairman of the party’s national convention, it has been learned. Senator Jackson was among those considered for keynoter, =

Dewey Speech Scores

G.O.P. CONVENTION NOTES: Governor Dewey's acceptance speech was the highlight of the convention. It was something new for most of the Republicans present, most of whom themselves have been ranting and railing for years against Roosevelt. Mr, Dewey gave them a common sense speech in which there was none of the usual humbuggery, He didn’t paint the Democratic President as all black and he concentrated what attack he made on. the spots in which even the Democrats will admit they are weak. Indiana Republicans could

With the approval of Prosecutor Blue Judge Gause reduced the bonds from $11,000 to $6000. + The trio was charged with burglarizing the Vonnegut Hardware store 3833 N. Illinois st., carrying away a safe containing $2200 in cash and war bonds last Feb. 21. When Judge Miller dropped the case he declared that he could not preside over the trial because “if the defendants were found not guilty it would® be said that the case was fixed and if they were found guilty the defendants would think the court was prejudiced against them.”

EXPECT DECISION ON RAILWAY RATE CASE

George Beamer, chairman of the state public service commission, said today that the commission probably would rule next week on the petis tion seeking dismissal of the rate reduction case against Indianavolis Railways, Inc. The commission took the petition under advisement after a hearing yesterday at which Local 1070 of the railway employees union wag allowed to enter the case as an interested party. David M. Lewis, attorney for the union, said that the employees naturally were interested in the case since a bonus incentive plan based upon the company’s earnings +has been approved by Fred Vinson, economic stabilization director. Attorneys for the utility contended at yesterday's hearing that the public counselor had failed to show that the present fares are unjust or discriminatory,

WINS SCHOLARSHIP Miss Marjorie Louise (Gaskill, 24 N. Wallace st., has beex: awarded a scholarship to Butler university where she will take up a pre-nursing course in September. She is a Howe high school graduate.

HOLD EVERYTHING