Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1944 — Page 2

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Break Out of Ring in

By UNITED PRESS An estimated force of 45,000 starve ing Japanese sought desperately to

break out of an allied trap oR British New Guinea in the South-

west Pacific today, as casualty figures on the Saipan campaign revealed the Japanese lost five men

for every American killed. Although details of fighting were

not disclosed it was indicated that | isolated units of the 18th Japanese;

army on the northern New Guinea coast were making furious attacks in an attempt to find an escape Toute, The units, pocketed on a 110-mile strip, by the American landings at

Aitape and Hollandia, were en-,

circled by American forces to the) west and Australian troops to the east. 25 Per Cent Killed

A communique from Gen, Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said the strength of the original army trapped was estimated at 60,000 but that an estimated 25 per cent was believed to have died from privation or had been killed by aerial bombardment. On Saipan it was estimated that less than five per cent of the enemy’s original force of 20,000 to 80,090 survived. Americans buried 11948 Japanese dead and captured “1000 prisoners. A considerable number of Japanese still remain unburied. American losses in the 27 days of fighting were announced at 2359 killed, 11,481 wounded and 1213 missing. Guam Hit Again A communique by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced that Guam and Rota in the southern Marianas had been attacked by carrier-based planes ‘Monday for the seventh straight day. A communique from Southeast Asia headquarters said the Jap anese had withdrawn. from the Maibi Khunou ridge dominating the Palel-Tamu road, the enemy's main supply route into India.

POST-WAR LEVIES ALARM TAX GROUP

The Indianapolis Taxpayers’ association went on récord today as

projects unless the projects “definftely determined upon and the money so raised positively = earmarked for the purpose for which it was orig Antended.” Expre: over the rising tide of municipal budget increases, Roger Benjamin, executive secre~ tarp of the association, told vuity officials now preparing the 1945 city

proposals for public improvements made in recent weeks can be carried out in 1945. We recognize the Justice of increasing some salaries under present conditions, but the

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Prepare to Attack Tengchung After Yank Planes Rip City’s Walls.

CHUNGKING, July “13 (U. P).—

assault today on the Japanese stronghold of Tengchung after American Mitchell medium bombers blasted a hole in the city’s ancient wall. A communique said the Chinese already had occupied the last strongpoints outside of Tengchung, west of the Salween river, and Were preparing for a thrust fhto the city through the breach in the wall. The 14th air force bombers, together with fighter planes, were giving steady support to the Chinese forces in Yunnan province, and also carried out new attacks on Lungling, the twin base of Tengchung, and a junction point on the Burma road

Drive Toward Lungling Other Chinese troops were driving toward the outskirts of Lung ling and nearby Mangshih in the Salween offensive aimed at effecting a juncture with Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s forces driving east. ward through northern Burma. The air attacks on Tengchung and Lungling were of widespread raids ‘in which American warplanes. hit Japanese defenses from Hankow to Canton and destroyed at least 120 river boats through the area.

Scalp Restored To Girl Worker

ST. LOUIS, Mo,, July 13 (U. P). —In a delicate three-hour opera tion, surgeons at City hospital today had restored a 18-year-old girl war plant inspector's scalp, torn completely from her head last ‘night by a machine at the ‘Landis Machine Co; ; The girl, Miss Margaret Egan, had leaned down to inspect shave ings from a screw machine make ing mortar shell fuses, when her thick black hair became entangled in a spiraling part of the machine. She was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and police followed carrying her scalp, which sure

question is how much can the community afford in the 1945 tax rate?”

PLANS AWAITED FOR BIG 4 POST-WAR TALK

WASHINGTON, July 13 (U. P). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull is expected to announce this week plans for conversations here with the other big four nations about a post-war international organization. He told his news conference yesterday that he expected to have some news on the plans before the week-end. It was assumed that he Was preparing to make public the date when the representatives of this country, Great Britain, Soviet

geons sewed into place, hoping it will reunite with remaining tise sties. Doctors described Miss Egan's condition as “good.”

BULLITT IN N. AFRICA ON MAGAZINE JOB

NEW YORK, July 13 (U. P)— William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to France and the Soviet Union, left by plane early this week for North Africa to write for Life magazine, A spokesman for the magazine

sald today that Bullitt's connection!

with Life was not that of a war correspondent, but as an accredited representative on a definite assign-

The conference probably will take place some time this summer,

ment, the nature of which was not revealed.

Chinese troops massed for an-all-out|

These Boy Scouts will spend the next 15 days canveing in Wisconsin. > -

CHINESE MASS TO STORM BASE

To explore uninhabited country in the wilds of Wisconsin, 51 senior Boy Scouts and four scout leaders left last night for a 13-day canoeing trip. Led ‘by Richard F. X. Smith, senior scout director of the Central Indiana council, the youths will make White Sand Lake their base and, dividing into four groups, will cover approximately 200 miles with four Wisconsin guides joining them as special instructors. Those assisting Mr. Smith will be James Bishop, W. A. Braun and Basil Fischer. Scouts making the trip are: Dale Overstreet, Richard Rinsma, Richard H. Braun, Harold Jorio, Dan Metzger, Herbert Nees, Connie Shelland, Earl Brown; Paul Hodge; William Chappell, Robert Denson, Robert Todd, Charles Michael, Donald Rudolph, Dick Greenfield, Larry Campbell.

Persistent Sleuth Finds Bulk of Stones After

One-Year Hunt.

WASHINGTON, July 13 (U, P.).— The bulk of a glittering, $70,000 hoard of antique jewels from Ceylon, India and Jerusalem was back in the hands of its wealthy owner today, and the woman who was once acquitted of stealing them faced new difficulties with the law. The untiring efforts of a noted jewel detective brought the new climax to the story that began a year ago when Otis Beall Kent, 58, retired tax lawyer, accused his 37-year-old ex-secretary, Mrs. Frances Dolmage, of stealing his valuable jewer © “~ction. She v.; tried and an all-male jury found the pretty, black-haired defendant innocent. It was almost immediately afterward that Lt. Joseph. Shimon, a jewel detective connected with the U. 8. attorney's office; went to work.

Faces Perjury Charge

Yesterday, after months of investigation, Shimon - brought Mrs. Dolmage here by plane from Mexico City. She led him to the bulk of the jewel cache, then was jailed on a perjury charge. Today she goes before a grand jury which, authorities said, may prefer other charges in addition to perjury. During her trial last summer, Mrs. Dolmage’s attorney described Kent as an eccentric who dabbled in the mysticism of the East. She told the court that she had never seen the jewels while she was in his employ —in fact, doubted if they existed. After the acquittal, Shimon learned that Mrs. Dolmage and her 79-year-old dentist husband planned a trip to Mexico. He asked customs cfficials to be on the alert and was informed that Mrs, Dolmage had been seen wearing two of the miss ing gems in Mexico City.

Finds More of Gems

In one of Mrs. Dolmage’'s Washington apartments, Shimon found 22 of the missing gems. Last week

more of them in her apartment there, asked Mexican police to arrest her and then persuaded her to return here voluntarily, With the detective at her side Mrs. Dolmage, wearing a valuable string of antique coral beads, led him yesterday to still another apartment where she produced 100 more jewels. She also pointed out the spot on Kent's farm in Maryland where she first buried the gems a! year ago. Shimon said Mrs. Dimage insisted the jewels had been given to her! by Kent over a period of 15 years. Kent inspected the. returned vaiuables and said the articles still missing included his favorite crystal ball valued at $10,000, a sapphire and diamond pendant, an imperial fade necklace worth $22, 000 and a| platinum lorgnette set with , diamonds,

JAPS- IN INDIA YIELD RIDGE NEAR KEY ROAD

SOUTHWEST ASIA HE QUARTERS, KANDY, Ceylon, Ao 13 (U, P.).—~The Japanese have withdrawn from the entire Maihi Khunou ridge, dominating Palel-Tamu road, the enemy's most |

& communique announced today, In the Imphal-Ukhrul sector, the| Japanese were reported surrender{ing ‘in increasing numbers, with | their forces split into disorganized isolated remnants,

‘DEAD HERO ‘DRAFTED’

. FALL RIVER, Mass. July 13 (U. P)—~Wheén a. local draft board ordered Leo J. Pineault, 19, to re. port for pre-induction examination, it was that the

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They'll Split Into 4 Groups, Cover 200 Miles in Canoes

William Withem, William Doig, Morris Boles, David Hurst, Tully Shaw, Robert Joel, Byron Lingeman, Walter Spencer, Forrest Cullings, Herbert Cox, Donald Russell, Ruddy Miller, Edmond Randolph, B. R. Fisher, William Ackerman, Tim Delanty, M. F. Winkler, Robert P. Smiley, Harold McKenzie, Perrie Pitts, James Gresham, Max Cowan, Cyrus Jordan, Paul F. Kays, Robert Virtue, Larry Poe, Forrest Cummings, Elmer B. Lewis Jr., William Nolti, Eugene Bouslog, James A. Kempe, David Carter, Donald Holsapple, Paul Zirkelbeach, Scout headquarters also announced today that a pageant based upon the life of Otterskin, last of the Miami Indian _tribe’s chiefs, will be given tonight at “Camp ‘Chank-fun=un-gi. Otterskin lived on the camp site Jim Bartlett will take the part of the chief.

Jimmy Walker's Ex-Wife Is Dead

NEW YORK, July 13 (U. P)— Betty Compton, actress and former wife of James J. Walker, one-time mayor of New York, died last night after a six-month illness, Miss Compton, 37, had been ill since giving birth to her first child last January. Her marriage to Walker after a long romance took place in Cannes, France, in 1933. It was her third. Previously Miss Compton had been the wife of Capt. Stanley’ Reed Riches, a Canadian, and Edward D. Dowling, theatrical and olen pleture director. She and Walker were diworced in 1941 and parted good friends. Later she married ‘Theodore Knappen. Her husband, an infant son, Theodore Compton Enappen, and two adopted children, Mary Ann, 8, and James J. Jr, 7, whose custody she shared with Walker, survive,

AIR TALK ‘CENSORED, VETERANS ASK PROBE

NEW YORK, July 13 (U. P.), — Officials of the Catholic War Veterans demanded today that the federal communications commission investigate the censorship by station WMCA of State Senator Frederic C. Coudert Jr.’s speech before the county convention of the American Legion last Friday night, In a telegram to the FOC, the Catholic veterans challenged the station's action in deleting parts of the speech, which contined uncom plimentary references to the New Deal and an attack on communism. The wire, signed by National Commander Edward T. McCafirey and three past national commanders, said the station's action was “deplorable” and “inconsistent with the policy of the station which permits commentators to utter antiCatholic talks.” Nathan Straus, president of station WMCA, sai¢ that parts of Coudert’s speech w deleted because they contained material “calculated to stir up disunity at home.”

KEMPER TO HEAD GOP FINANCE GROUP

NEW YORK, July 13 (U. P.).— James S. Kemper of Chicago has {been named chairman of the Re- | publican finance committee for the

‘| Dewey-Bricker campaign, Herbert

Brownell Jr, G. O. P. national chairman; announced today: Kemper, who will make his head{quarters in New York, said the {campaign will operate “on a baljanced budget,” and that plans for | financing now are under discussion.

PATTERSON SCORES | CIVILIAN GOODS PLAN

WASHINGTON, July 13 (U, P.) ~ | Acting Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson today strongly criticized | war production board plans for |éradual resumption of civilian production and asserted that for the second quarter of 1944 army supplies fell $400,000,000 behind schedule, He told a news conference that this failure to meet schedules rep resented “about an 8 per cent lag in the target set and the require~ ments we hope to meet.”

CURB ON RESIDENTIAL

ih TRAFFIC IS ORDERED

| Police Chief Beeker today ordered Indianapolis police to “crack down” |on traffic violators in te residential | districts. He pointed out that 171 out of 350 traffic accidents investigated by his department during the month {of June were the direct resuit of traffic violations. +

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NEW JOBS URGED

Effect ‘of City Hall Efficiency Study.

By SHERLEY UHL First complete summary of the J. L. Jacobs & Oo. survey of city jobs and salaries révealed that the “efficiency expert8” hired by city council to streamline the administration, have recommended municipal pay raises totaling $355,854 annually, In addition to urging salary increases, City Surveyor Fred Telford said he had also suggested to the mayor's survey advisory committee that “some 200 new jobs be created to enable city hall to function with maximum efficiency.” On the other hand, he said he also would request the abolition of some 100 present posts, a move which he

fect sizeable savings.”

Tampering Opposed

Prevailing sentiment among the advisory committeemen, however, is against any tampering with the departmental make-up as it now stands, with probability that the recommendation as to new jobs or job elimination will g0 unheeded for the present.

Mr, Telford and associates have! also re-named hundreds of city po-| sitions which they claimed were, “misclassified.” Stenographer clerks, | for instance, were divided into five| different divisions, all signifying varying pay rates. Should Mr. Telford's ideas be accepted by city council, the budget enlargement would boost. the city! tax rate by something like 7 cents, |

are pointing out. The low-tax lobbyists are girding for mno-holds-barred fight to the finish to repress as much of the city salary boom! tendency as possible.

Here Are Some Facts

Out of a slightly confused welter of job classifications and sliding pay scales compiled by Chief Surveyor Telford, emerged the following facts: Well over half of the 2500 employees investigated so far will receive substantial wage hikes in 1045 if city council falls in line with Telford's work-sheet. Nobody now on the city payroll will receive a salary cut. About three-fourths of the total increase will benefit those employees under the $1500 a year wage level; non-skilled and semi-skilled labor Is in line for pay upgradings ranging from 5 to 30 cents an hour, Department heads, however, are slated to receive the largest proportionate pay boosts, as far as individual salaries are concerned. Some of these are statutory and could not possibly become effective before 1046, even if the legislature authorized them. By far the bulkiest salary increase under the Telford plan, would go to the park department where the proposed 1945 payroll is $110,247 more than the current budgetary appropriation, Others Promised Share

Other departments assigned shares of the salary increase allotment are city hospital, $60,112 additional; street commisisoner, $44,214 additional, and e¢ity engineering, $32,499 more, Proposed pay boosts for department and division heads are as fol lows: Mayor, from $6000 to $12,000 a year; city clerk, $2400 to $3060; councilmen, $50 to $125 a month; corporation counsel, $375 to $625 a month; municipal garage superintended, $3000 to $3680 a year; city engineer, $4200 ‘to $7500; street commissioner, $3200 to $5100: traffic engineer, $3600 to $4200; building commissioner, $3750 to $4200; gamewell superintendent, $3575 to $3600;

WARN: OF CIGARETS “IF ARTERY IS HURT

CHICAGO, July 13 (U. P)—TIt is inadvisable to give-s wounded soldier a cigaret if an artery has been injured, the Journal of the American Medical Association said today, in reporting on studies which show that nicotine causes constriction of blood vessels. ~—Corn: silk cigarets, also used In the experiment, showed negligible

effect on the subjects, the report said, but standérd cigarets reduced skin temperatures ‘by 18 degrees centigrade at the toes and 32 degrees centigrade at the fingers. An increase in the rate of the heart beat also was noted. When an artery has been injured, the article said, spasm of the artery 1s common and “the constriction of blbod vessels in & person sensitive

damage.”

THURSDAY, JULY 13; 1944

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health director, $5690 to $6000; city hospital, superintendent $5500 to $7500; park superintendent, $4677 to $6300; sanitation plant superintendent, $308 to $525. Salaries of -the various board memberships, many of which are considered “honorary,” were left untouched.

YANKS SEIZE PEAK GUARDING LIVORNO

ROME, July 13 (U. P).—American -assault forces stormed and captured Lajatico, German mountain stronghold -20 miles southeast of Livorno, in some of the bitterest fighting on the Italian front since the fall of Rome, allled headquarters reported today. German resistance stiffened further all along the line, and now was nearing the intensity of a full. scale stand in the outposts of the Gothic line as the allied 5th and 8th armies battled before the coastal anchors of Livorno and Ancona. ‘The Germans were revealed to have pushed advanced 8th army elements back two miles from Pietralunga in the mountains east of the Tiber valley.

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from the Italian resistance - front said today that German troops had garrisoned Turin when a general strike followed orders of German

authorities to dismantle machinery in factories for- shipment to Cler-' many. | The report said the Germans

ported 3000 workers to Germany.

DIRECTLY TO FRANCE?

STOCKHOLM, July 13 (U. Po! 's| A Berlin dispatch of the STB news| agency said today that American

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