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FRIDAY, AUGUST

4, 1944

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More Than $2,000,000 to Be Spent After War, Pfleiderer Says.

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times ‘Church Editor Indianapolis churches will spend “well over” $2,000,000 for new buildings, additions and remodeling after the war, the Rev. Florizel A. Pflei- : i derer, new chairman of the Church Federation ty committee, announced

U.S. Institutes Strict Control

| Of Manpower

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U, P)—

| The government, moving as far as

it can without national service legislation, instituted drastic new manpower controls today to mobilize an additional 200,000 war workers

whose production it says is urgently

needed to knock out an enemy al-

{ready “on the ropes.”

War Mobilization Director James P. Byrnes ordered employment ceilings placed on non-essential industries in all labor shortage areas in ‘order to hold war workers on their . jobs and release others for manufacture of critical munitions. Byrnes said the new regulations would ‘work hardships “on particular concerns and particular individuals,” But the war is not yet won and those at home, he said,

. | “must work as hard as those abroad

-ohurch, “succeeds. EN pa = . He on as chairNelson resigned from the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed

A survey made by the comity

considering erection of a church in the first-named area.

BACK-T0-WORK MOVE IN BUS STRIKE FADES

are fighting.” oo .He....authorizged all “government ugh as choking off mations, However, he placed responsibility for making the program work on local officials. “The communities,” he said, “must meet the: responsibility if we are to be able to finish the war without enacting a universal serv. ice law.”

GOP GOVERNORS CHALLENGE FDR

Charges Inefficiency in Administration.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. ¢ (U. P.).—The Republican governors’ conference

Army Charges Threats to| >>

Returning Men.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4 (U. P). =The back-to-work movement in Philadelphia's rapid transit strike slumped off today as police and the army took extraordinary precautions to prevent violence. from breaking out in the wake of threats

who wanted to work, warned that fering with the ending of the strike.

ferred with the U. 8. attorney's office, where it was pointed out that if a planned and concerted movement to prevent the end of the strike was found, prosecution under the war labor disputes act would result. The recalcitrants were blamed for slowness of returning service on the Philadelphia Transportation Co, lines. It was estimated that less than 1 per cent of the facilities were operating 6 hours after the army's deadline for the resumption of service.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am..... 7 10am... 84 7am..... 7 lam... 87 Sa. m..... 77 12 (Noon).. 90. fam.....580 lpm... 9%

TELEVISION STATION PLANNED AT 30TH ST.

Mallory Co. Expects to Set Up First in City.

P. R. Mallory & Co. is planning to locate a television station and laboratory on the northeast corner of 30th st, and Kessler blvd., it was ‘The station would

Approval of the Federal Communications Commission will be sought for the construction in the near future of a modern, streamlined 6000 square feet research huilding, and a 75 foot television tower. Company officials said it was hoped that projects perfected in the experimental laboratory would prove a means of providing “considerably increased post-war employment in our main plants.” The Kessler blvd. and 30th st. site was chosen because television sending techniques require relatively

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TIMES FEATURES

“Amusements ,.12|Movies .......12

Eddie Ash ....14|Obituaries .... 6 Comics .......17 Pegler cxnnevavO Crossword Ernie Pyle .... 8 Radio. vcs 17 .13|Ration Dates.. 4 .11{Mrs. Roosevelt. 9 Side Gilances ..10 13 ;

ports ........14

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shortage? Well, add to it a vacationing sports staff and you'll un derstand why I was in a ringside seat at the Sports arena last night pinch-hitting- (pardon me, you pinch-hit in golf, don't you, or is it tennis?) for Eddie Ash. 1 was ready

Final Report Under Dewey

HINT FEDERAL SENATE BALLOT 10 BE UPHELD

Statehouse Expects Emmert To Rule in Favor of 1937 Law.

By EARL RICHERT Well-informed sources said today that Republican Atty. Gen. James Emmert would hold that the names of the senatorial candidates should be placed on the federal ballot. Betting odds at “the statehouse were 5 to 1 on this decision, which is regarded by leaders of both political parties as of great 'importance: The question to be decided was whether the names of sena-]

oii candidates should be placed Poles

on federal or state ballots, Effeef-of the opinion; if followed by the state election board, as is expected, will be to plac: the names of Governor Schricker and Homer E. Capehart on the Democratic and Republican presidential ballots, respectively, along with the names of President Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey. See Schricker Hurt

Leaders in both parties think that this will cost the Democratic senatorial nominee, Governor Schricker, votes and will aid Mr. Capehart, the Republican senatorial nominee, It is expected that the attorney general will hold that the 1937 law,

The placing of the names of the senatorial candidates on the federal of course, have no effect here voting machines there the candidates list, but approximateof the state's pre-

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Mr. Lewis asked for an opinion on the matter, saying that the 1933 and 1937 laws were conflicting. The opinion was asked by Mr. Lewis in-

*{dividually and not by the- election!

board, the other members of which are Governor Schricker and Edwin

| Steers Sr., Indianapolis Republican

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BULLETINS

ROME, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—British 8th army patrols penetrated the southern section of Florence today.

COLUMBUS, 0. Aug. 4 (U.P, Governor John W. Bricker, Republican vice presidential nominee, said today he will make his first campaign speech at Indianapolis Sept. 9 before the Indiana Newspaper association.

FAMILY TO DIVIDE FAIRBANKS’ ESTATE

Mrs. Robertine Fairbanks, 4171 Washington blvd, received 50 per cent of the Richard Fairbanks estate and all personal effects and household goods under terms of the late publisher's will, probated yesterday in Marion county probate court.

Other estate shares were bequeathed to Mr. Fairbanks’ two sons, Lt. Robert Fairbanks Jr. of the navy, who received 35 per cent, and 13-year-old Michael Fairbanks, 15 per cent. ' Attorney Joseph J. Daniels and the widow were appointed executors, ; Mr. Fairbanks, who died July 25, was president and publisher of the Indianapolis News and president of

radio station WIBC.

bring back a story. 2 _I had heard of the Golden Gloves ‘ 't sure whether it had anywith California and 49) Brown Bomber, which could be a Flying Fortress

WARSAW SIEGE IS TIGHTENED BY TWO ARMIES

Section. - ‘By HENRY SHAPIRO

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United Press Staft Correspondent

stricken German civilians be-| gan evacuating East Prussia as the Russian army massed | at the frontier for the first |

forces swung northwestward beyond the Vistula in a grand scale flanking drive against Warsaw.

army was poised on a broad fron for a drive into East Prussia, bu semi-official sources stated categorically that the border crossing had not yet been made. 100 Miles From Germany The government organ Izvestia

cating they now were at or within a few thousand yards of the frontier.) Gen. “Bors,” leader of the Polish

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JACKIE COOPER OF FILM FAME ACGUSED

Named With 3 Others in

Delinquency Probe.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 4 (U. PJ).—Jackie Cooper, former film star and a naval V-12 trainee at Notre Dame, was charged today with contributing to the delinquency of a 15-year-old South Bend girl

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 —Panic- |

tia reported today as other Soviet:

Gen. Ivan D. Chernaikhovsky's |

thrust onto Reich soil, Izves-

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mb- Plot Victim

According to a German caption accompanying this photo received today in New York by radio from Stock-

visiting Nazi Infantry Gen. a bomb explosion in the re-

assassinate Hitler. :

or “Acme Telephoto.

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‘BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 4 (U. P). «=

| Adolf Hitler has ordered ‘a ruth-

less purge in Germany in an at-

| tempt to account. for the ‘last of | the “criminals” taking part in the

conspiracy culminating in the at-

| tempt to assassinate him last

month, the D. N. B. agency -re-

i ported today.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUAR-

"TERS, A. E. F., Aug. 4.—

ALLIES CLEAR “ROAD TO CHINA

Fall of Myitkyina Removes Last Obstacle; Jap

Garrison Killed.

By WALTER LOGAN ~ United Press Staff Correspondent SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, Aug. 4 —American, British and Chinese forces today captured Myitkyina, Japanese stronghold in Northern Burma and last major obstacle to the reopening of an overland supply route into China from India, after killing the garrison of more than 3000 almost to the last man. The fallen city ended a siege which began on June 3 when British and Indian airborne troops, landing far behind Japahese lines, crossed the monsoon-swollen Irrawaddy river and sealed off the garrison’'s last escape route. | Japanese forces also have started

is ret the Tiddim road.

crossed the Chindwin river,

into India.

after President Roosevelt’s recom-

by furnishing her intoxicating liquor and inducing her to remain overnight in a hotel room he had rented. Prosecutor Arthur F. Scheer filed six ‘affidavits ‘against four persons, including the 22-year-old Hollywood star, charging them with the delinquency count. He said the charges came from an investigation of a “wild party thrown at a South Bend hotel July 22.” The others charged were Pauline Frederick, 19, South Bend, described as Cooper’s companion; George Bender, hometown unknown, also aj V-12" trainee at the Notre Dame naval training school, and Olive Lowery, a waiter at the hotel. Sheer said that warrants had been issued for the arrest of .the four. Cooper was unavailable for comment. Fhe last picture Cooper made before entering the navy, “Where Are My Children,” dealt with juvenile delinquency and was made at the

request of the United States government. :

It Was Fashion Time at the Sports Areng-— They Wore the Prettiest Trunks and Robes!

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN | make any difference, T was going t0] It was just lke I have seen in| You've heard of the manpower|see one and here's two tickets and/a good

prizefighting movie. The crowd cheered the favorites and booed the referee. The announcer “In this corner we h 135 pounds . . .” The trainers gave the boys some last-minute and a few pats on

have at}

mendation to the United States senate that Lt. Gen. Joseph W, Stil-

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withdrawing from the Tamu base, 50 miles southeast of Imphal, and it can now be said that the enemy ting from Manipur along

Many Japanese already have although it was not apparent wheth= er they will try to establish a line there or continue to retreat toward southern Burma to reinforce troops mauled in the abortive expedition

Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten's announcement that allied troops had entered the city to kill the last remaining Japanese, came two days

Task Force Air | Raid 630 Mi. Off | Tokyo Reported |

By UNITED PRESS

The : Japanese reported today that powerful formations of Amer- | ican carrier planes had attacked

within 630 miles of Tokyo, and | Radio “Tokyo expressed its belief that Vice Admr. Marc A. Mitscher's | famed task force 58 again was on! the prowl near the Japanese homeland. * A ‘Tokyo broadcast recorded by United Press at San Francisco said 10 cruisers and destroyers were sighted east of Chichi Jima in the Bonins Friday afternoon. : Their appearance there “and sudden intensification of enemy activities near the Japanese homeland” indicated to the Japanese that an American task force was operating in the area, already struck by Mitscher’s force three times since the start of the Marianas campaign in June. Powerful formations of carrierborne planes raided Iwo Jima, 100 miles to the south of Chichi Jima,

while Chichi Jima was raided three times simultaneously by “many formations “of carrier based “aircraft.” Presence of the carriers would indicate that the American striking unit was supported by the battlewagons of Mitscher’s tremendous task force, which shelled the Japa~ nese bases in their previous appearances

MEAD HEADS WAR PROBE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P.).— Senator James M. Mead, (D. N. Y.) today was named chairman of the senate’s war investigating committee succeeding Senator Harry S. Truman, (D. Mo.), Democratic vice presidential nominee.

the Bonin and Volcano islands, | -

early Friday morning, Tokyo said,

2200 BOMBERS HIT GERMANY

Robot Bases. LONDON, Aug. 4 (U..P.).—A sky-

| filling parade of 2200 or more

American heavy bombers and fighters spread a trail of ruin across 200

{miles of northern Germany. today, | smashing at dozens of Nazi military

targets .and ‘secret. enemy experimental stations at Peenemunde on the Baltic sea. Streaming out across the Reich under brilliant sunshine - that permitted visual bombing of all their targets, more than 1200 U. S. 8th air force Flying Fortresses and Liberators spewed a great weight of high explosives and fire bombs on Bremen, Kiel, Rostock, Anklam and Peenemunde.

List Yank Objectives

Another 1000. Mustang, Lightning! and Thunderbolt fighters covered

the widespread assault against what Berlin described as furious ‘resistance from the Tuftwaffe. The American objectives included an oil refinery at Bremen, port installations in Kiel, an aircraft assembly plant at Rostock, a fighter component plant and an airfield at Anklam, 20 miles south of Peenemunde, and mystery targets at the latter city. Peenemunde is the site of vast Nazi experimental plants where the Germans were reported to have developed their robot bombs and now may be working on new secret weapons for use against the allies. Allied tactical air forces also were on the attack in great strength

swept . along

American mobile forces sped at least 20 miles southward beyond Rennes in Brittany today, and informed quarters here expected them to capture the great French ports of St. Nazaire and Nantes within 24 hours, block« ing off the entire Breton peninsula for a quick mopup. At supreme headquarters the oe« cupation of the whole peninsula by Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's flying columns careening through it at lightning speed seemed to be a matter of days—and a few days at that. Responsible sources said this evening it would not be surprising if Bradley's advanced cloienis already had reached the German positions covering St. Nazaire and Nantes on the Loire estuary.

Push Virtually at Will

Front dispatches revealed that United States armored columns had raced virtually at will to points 20 miles below Rennes, 31 miles from the south coast, and 17 miles southwest of Dinan in a many-pronged push threatening to collapse the last organized German resistance. Only in the area of Rennes, an= cient Norman capital which Washe ington said yesterday had been captured, was any formidable Gere man resistance reported, and bypassing elements already were speeding far on beyond that knot of opposition. Bradley's westbound right wing the. coast - toward Brest and opened a. frontal push against St. Malo, which was bypassed by a column striking through Dinan to Broons, 17 miles to the southwest and 31 miles northwest of Rennes.

Final Stand Possible

At headquarters it was intimated the elements of four German divisions believed to be in Brittany might undertake one stubborn stand somewhere in the Breton hills. But if so it was regarded as foredoomed. The distance of the American vanguard from their goals on the

over western Europe,

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Hoosier Heroes—

INVASION LEADER KILLED IN FRANCE

Lt. Cohan Listed With Nine

Other Casualties.

The death of an Indianapolis lieutenant who was in command of some of the first Yanks to land in France has raised today’s local war casualty list to 10. DEAD First Lt. Frank D. Cohan, 24 N. Holmes ave., in Normandy. Second Lt. John S. (Jack) Stewart, 6202 N. Harding st., near Wright field. * . Pvt. Robert Lee Baldwin, 501 Coffey st., in Iran.

MISSING

sylvania st, over Germany, WOUNDED

First Lt. Ernest A. Buenting, 828 N. Bancroft. ave, in European theater. :

Plo. George Saba, M47 N. Temple ave. on Saipan. .- Plo.

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ens Among Yank

Objectives in Brittany