Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1944 — Page 1

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AUCTION SALES NOW UNDER WAY

Flood Was Great Blow to Group Faced With Pare ments Due. :

By VIOTOR. PETERSON. Mo Small doubt remains today that] the government sponsored co-opera-tive project of the Deshee Parm, Inc, nine miles south of Vincennes was a failure. Three factors caused the downfall and liquidation auction sales now in progress will attempt to wipe out the remainder of a $102,193 debt owed the Farm Security Administration. Failure factors are the human, the natural and the gove: tal, General concensus farm folk attending the auction and members of the co-operative association is that the project attempted 10 care for too many families on too ‘small An acreage, “Too Much Help®

“We were top heavy with help,” said Verlin Paul, farm manager. “The farm with its 2771 acres was set up for 42 families, about 20 more than we needed. We never had more than 36, but that number meant that help literally was -bumping into each other, The number ate into the farm profits.” Kenneth Harris, local FSA representative, Vincennes, admitted that it was a government mistake to attempt to provide for so many families, “The situation’ has been better the past year, however,” he said. Yet today, as liquidation progresses, and members go to other * jobs, the co-operative is down to nine members and has been forced

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LOW TEMPERATURES TO STAY FOR AWHILE

From all indications at least a light blanket will be in order for residents of the Indianapolis area for at least two more days based upon the weather bureau's five-day forecast this morning. Near normal temperatures are predicted for tonight with a slight rising trend through tomorrow but it is expected to turn somewhat cooler tomorrow night and -Thursday. Warmer weatler and Right and scattered showers are probable Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the forecast concluded.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

88. m....58 10a m..... 69 9a m.... 58 1lam....72 $a m.... 5 12 (Noen).. 74 «66 1pm... 7

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These government financed houses, rent free to members failure near Vincennes, will go the way of the rest of the

VOLUME 55—NUMBER 146 THE END OF AN EXPERIMENT. Three Factors Blamed in Failure of . Government Sponsored Deshee Farms||

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the Deshee Farm, Ine. co-operative farm equipment now being sold at public auction,

"The end of a government experiment in co-operative farming. Equipment of the Deshee Farm, Inc, goes on the auction block as the association is ligudated. More than 1000 attended, - -. -

; {received disclosed today that there {as many soldier votes cast as any

maximum number of soldiers from Marion county who would bother to send applications for ballots,

Already Double Figure

However, just to be sure, County Clerk A. Jack Tilson had some 10,000 of them printed to-take care of any emergency and the soldier vote factor was forgotten as party workers canvassed the home front customers for early election trends. But Mr, Tilson, frankly puzzled, revealed today that applications for soldier ballots already had reached 10,000 “and this is only August.” So all previous estimates for

election officials were convinced! the total soldier vote would go beyond 20,000, four times the number any politician expected two months ago. What does it mean?

Political Headache

~That's the puzsler many a worried politician is sitting up nights thinking about right now, not the ‘home front voters he can poll for the pre-election trends that govern all the campaign strategy. With 20,000 to 25,000 votes pour-

supplies were revised upward as

Amazed Politicians Watch Soldier Vote Requests Pour In

By NOBLE REED The soldier vote, regarded until this week by the professional litico as a negligible factor in the election returns, is becoming the biggest single question mark (and headache to some) in the entire Marion jcounty election arena. A count of ballot applications from military personnel already re-

probably will be four er five times

personnel'in all corners of the world; the pre-election jitters in the party machines will reach an all time high. ‘The machine politician is familiar with all the problems of picking out the voting trends at home but the temper of ‘the soldier who has been overseas a couple of years is the great mystery that is nettling many a heretofore confident ward boss. ‘The prospect of a big soldier vote seems to be worrying the Republicans more than the Democrats, As far back as last April, the Democrats claimed a lion's share of the soldier vote in the special session of the legislature,

Republicans Worried

The Democratic minority battled unsuccesfuuly to force the Republic-an-controlled legislature to legalize for Indiana soldiers the federal short-form ballot that would be distributed to military personnel at whatever camp or battle front they happened to be. But the Republican majority howled it down with charges that the New Deal was trying to steal the election through manipulation of soldiers’ votes. At any rate the Republicans are pondering the estimated 20,000 bag of votes with no little concern since the margin of G. O. P. victory here

ing in here by mail from military

point in most fictional and true-life mysteries—the discovery of the body.

NEW CITY TAX RATE IS FINALLY ADOPTED

Record Levy of $1.479 Falls

Below Mayor’s Figure.

Despite a last minute maneuver arbitrarily to increase and to decrease the city tax levy estimate, city cbuncil adopted the $1479 rate agreed upon Friday at the termina-

TIMES INDEX

Amusements .. 6; Mauldin ...... § Comics .......17| Ruth Millétt,. 14 Crossword ....17 Movies ....... 6 Editorials ... «14 Obituaries reel Peter Edson. ve 14; Fred Perkins..13 6

Sars 4 Sie Roosevelt. 13 - Forum .......14 Side Glances. 14 ; ‘Freckles Fok Loi Wm. P. Simms 14 Meta ven ven ..16 Sports sonatnnadl or vevs 3| State

Deaths. .13|p Service ...20 This. Stokes ..14 A 1. 13

tion of a hectic budget review last night, Mayor Tyndall's request that the rate be boosted to $1.58 “to avoid deterioration of the general fund,” went unheeded as did Council Finance Chairman Herman E. Bowers’ attempt to compromise at $1.50. Three other ted levies were also voted down on the council floor, among them deputy, comptroller, Larry Parson's. jJeretofore unannounced figure - «$1484.

in 1942 was a scant 8000 votes,

Room Where WAC Was Slain Yields Multiplicity of Clues

By JOHN L. BOWEN

IN ORDER to get a clear picture of the murder of WAC Cpl,[.] Maoma Little Ridings, we will start at the traditional, if overworked, starting

From then on, we will work our way progressively through the five phases of murder as outlined in the first aiticle of this series, namely Action, Method, Clues, Motive and Deduction.

It was between 8:20 and 8:25 p. m, Saturday, Aug. 28, 1943, when Mrs. Lillian McNamara, supervising housekeeper at the Claypool hotel, knocked at the door of room 729, which occupied a corner position on the seventh floor at the junction of

This is the second of a series of articles on the killing of Cpl.

solved murders in Indianapolis.

a corridor running north and south parallel to Illinois st. and another running east and west parallel to the alley between Washington and Market sts. The door of 729 faced north. To the left of the room (as you faced the door) was a stairway that led

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. SISTER KENNY TO AID U. §,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U. P). ~8ister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse whose method of treating infantile paralysis has won her

Maoma Ridings and other un-

lant st., of s| Sst. Roland

TUESDAY, AUGUST

Russiag—

Soviets Cut Nazis’ Oil Line to the Black Sea.

(Map of Russia, Page Five) By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 29.—Russian forces have broken into Hungarianoccupied Transylvania at two points and, to the south, have captured

» { Buzau, only 40 miles from the great

Romanian ail center of Ploesti and 57 miles from Bucharest, German broadcasts conceded today. The German Transocean agency quoted a Nazi military commentator as reporting that Soviet troops and tanks had swept across the Transylvanian border after bursting through the Oituz and Ghimes passes, 27 miles apart in the Carpathian mountains north of Focsani. The Russians already had announced the capture of Brectu, nine miles across the border, in an advance through the Oituz pass, but latest Soviet reports had placed the Russians still 13 miles east of Ghimes pass, ; The fall of Buzau, on the Cer-nauti-Ploesti trunk railway, cut the oil pipe line running from Ploesti to the Black sea port of Constanta, depriving German warcraft and

PO- | transports in the Black sea of their

main source of Moscow a

the Germans had set fire to Constanta, destroying most of the town, and were evacuating the entire Romanian coastal area.)

Seize Submarines The Russian army organ Red Star said the Soviets already had seized a large number of German and Romanian submarines, gunboats, barges and transports on the Danube, Moscow said the broken remnants of German divisions were resisting bitterly .on the approaches to Ploesti in an apparent effort to gain time to blow up the oil refineries and set fire to the wells. Romanian troops were said to be co-operating with the Russians in the expulsion of - Germans. Red Star told how Romanian Gen, Mihail Voiko, commander of the 14th infantry division, appealed to the Soviet command to help § reorg#nize his forces to re-enter the

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Hoosier Heroes—.

SEVEN LOCAL MEN KILLED IN ACTION

Four Others Wounded; One Is Missing.

Seven more Indianapolis men have given their lives for their country to bring today's casualty lisd up to 14.

KILLED

Rural st., in Italy. Pvt. Claude L. Hume Jr. 1620 N. Alabama st., in France Sgt. Earl Lg 2441 8. Rybolt st., in Italy. Pvt. Calvin Scharrer, 6714 E. Washington st, in France.

Second Lt. Paul I. (Bud) Zumkeller, 17 E. Regent. .st., over Yugo-

slavia, MISSING Pfc. James William, Lawrence, 1325 N. Arlington ave., in France. WOUNDED Pvt. John Klepper, 333 S. Keystone ave, in France. Pvt. Rolla W. Stabler, 831 Park ave, in France. Steward’s Mate 1-¢ Horace Hayes, 2818 Shriver ave., in naval action. Sgt. Rudy L. Cesnik, 602 N. Alton st, in France, a

.. PRISONERS Lt. Roy W. Pattison; 30 Pleas Sean.

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FORECAST: cousin cloudiness and warmer tonight; rain Wednesday.

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ating eastward.

Part of the administration had gone away by night during July when the allies were not even close to Paris,

The story of the incredible disintegration of German authority in Paris is told by Jean de Gandt, a Belgian national and long a distinguished United Press staff correspondent, who lived out the occupation in Paris. De Gandt refused to work for the Nazis or their Vichy underlings during the occupation.

and sold food, clothing—even » ” ” was a railroad strike on Aug.

blow where it hurt most.

and ‘Gennevilliers,

ghtall of the

Then the factories had closed down, one by one, for lack of fuel and power and the idle workers masséd on the sidewalks to watch the flight of the despised Boche, German commanders told their subordinates they were going home for a vacation and would return, but the older soldiers left in Paris did not lose their pessimism

military motorcycles for 500

francs each—to get rid of encumbering baggage.

THE FIRST EFFECTIVE blow of the French patriots

13. Four French railroadmen

were shot without trial but the Germans suffered a severe

The following day the Germans, suspecting disaffec- | the French police in the suburban towns of

Within 12 hours the police

all over Paris and released 1000 political prisoners. ‘HOSEAF workers then went on stéike. At nigh 15th, several hundred civilians gathered outside the Luxembourg palace, where the French senate met and the Germans used as Luftwaffe head-

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PYLE:

They Kissed

Us in Their Panic of Relief

By ERNIE PYLE Times War Correspondent

PARIS (By Wireless).—The other correspondents

and so well about the fan-

tastic eruption of mass joy when Paris was liberated that I shall not dwell on it much longer. But there are some little things I have to get-out of my system, so we Lb have at least this one more column

floored most of us. I know

that I have felt totally incapable of reporting it to you. It was so big I felt inadequate to touch it. where to start or what to say. The words you put down about it sound feeble to the point of asininity.

I didn’t know

I'M NOT ALONE in this feeling, for I've heard a dozen other correspondents say the same thing. A good many of us feel we have failed in properly presenting the loveliest, brightest story of our time. because we have been so unused, for so long, to anything

It could be that this is

to the demonstration. From

2 o'clock in the afternoon until darkness around 10, we

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By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Chairman of the delegations to the cur{rent Anglo-American-Russian in. ternational security conference revealed today that they have reached general agreement on the American

.| proposal for & peace organization

with a council composed of the major powers, on a permanent basis, and elected members of smaller countries. The organization also would have an assembly comprising representatives of “all peace-loving nations.” Apparently, however, decisions would be made by the council. The three chairmen, in their first. joint press conference and statement since the talks began a week ago yesterday, said the question of what countries would have permanent representation on the council still was under discussion, hey refused to indicate whether ihe Dfumanent cet mienijefs 3 would aud be

Conferees on World League

Indicate Accord on U. S. Plan

ing to reassure smaller countries that they would not be side-tracked in the proposed world organization, emphasized that as soon as their current talks are concluded their results will be transmitted to all of the united nations for consideration. At a special press conference in, the mansion of the Dumbarton Oaks estate, they announced that a future world organizajtion should provide for: “1. An assembly composed of representatives of all peace-loving nations based on -the -principal of

which the principal states will be joined by a number of other states to be- elected periodically. Effective means for the peacesettlement of disputes, includan international court of justice hy the adjudication of justiciable questions, and also the Moscow {application of such other means

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SOISSONS AND CHATEAU-THIERRY FALL BEFORE RAMPAGING YANKS; RUSS POUR INTO TRANSYLY

THE STORY OF PARIS

Nazi Debacle Began Aug. 12, Long Before Allied Entry

By JEAN DE GANDT United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Aug. 29.—The German debacle began in the week of Aug. 12. Throughout that week the hungry,

occupation-weary Parisians watched with happy amazement while the Germans filled the streets night and day with vehicles of all kinds packed with men and loot evacu-

HOME

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North France—

Advance at Mile-an-Hour Rate Over

Battlefields

Germans

the German frontier.

Gen. George S. Patton's U. S.

BULGARIA GALLS ITS TROOPS BACK

Occupation Forces Withdrawn From Yugo-

slavia.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 29.—Bulgaria has taken another step toward peace with the United States and Britain by withdrawing her occupation forces from Yugoslavia, an Ankara teh sald today,

from Bulgaria also was under way, Radio Moscow said. Though apparently reconciled to

ported exerting pressure on Hungary to remain in the war,

Offer 10 Divisions

The London Daily Herald said Swedish reports asserted that Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, supreme commander of the German armed forces, has offered Hungary 10 divisions within the next month to help fend off Russian and Romanian forces. Joachim von Ribbentrop, German

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Aug. 29. A rampaging American tank army swept triumphantly across the battle fields of world war I today, J Marne and Aisne river lines and captured historic Soissons * and Chateau-Thiérry in a mile-an-hour drive on Belgium ad

Racing more than 40 miles east and northeast across fields and farmlands where the A. E. F, of 1918 fought and. won the bloodiest battles in American military history, Lis

Marne line almost without opposition and plunged on across

Imoving tank and infantry column

“evacuation of German troops the

losing Bulgaria, Germany was re-|

broke through the

3d army collapsed the entire

the Aisne at Soissons. The enemy fought hard for the Aisne river crossing buf was ridden down and dise persed by Patton's widridg armor,

Swing North to Aisne

Soissons, where the Americans launched their great counter-ofe fensive in July, 1918, fell to a fast

that burst across the Marne west of Chateau-Thierry, drove through Belleau Wood and Chateau~ yd and then swung 22 miles north to the Aisne. 5 Fifteen miles east of Soissons, the Yanks battered their way fore ward to the Vesle rivet, six short of the Alsne, at Fismes,

Approach Epernay Fifty-four miles beyond Solssons lay the Belgian border, while & bare 20 miles to the west was the historic Forest of Complegne, where the 1918 armistice was signed and where Adolf Hitler imposed his conqueror’s truce on France 1940 3 On their right flank, other Amers ican armored units swept eastward along the valley of the Marne, drive ing 45 miles beyond captured Chateau-Thierry to within two miles of Epernay. A supporting column drove along

foreign minister, and an S. S. general were in Budapest conferring with Premier Doeme Sztojay. There were increasing signs, however, that Hungary desired to follow! Romania and Bulgaria out of the Nazi camp. One report said labor! had threatened a general strike unless Hungary quits the war,

Studying Peace Terms Bulgaria has made no move toward withdrawing her occupation forces from Greek Thrace and Macedonia. The Bulgarian regents and government were believed already studying allied peace demands brought to them from Ankara by Stoicho Moshanov, special Bulgarian envoy. The minimum demand from Bulgaria probably was evacuation of all stolen territory, including Greek Thrace and Macedonia, and free passage for allied forces through the country.

SCRAPPING OF WAR AIRCRAFT 1S URGED

Lovett Warns of Surplus

Choking Production.

CHICAGO, Aug. 29 (U, P.).— Robert A. Lovett, assistant secretary for air, told the National Association of Broadcaster¥at its executives war conference today that surplus aircraft in America must be “purposefully and unemotionally” scrapped or salvaged after the present war in order to insure aviation's progress. “Our safety lies in progress” Lovett said. “Surplus Liberty engines choked off our aircraft industries after the last war, This surplus continued through 1932— 14 years after the war—and choked off development of our air power because we stil had 3000 Liberty engines on hand.

lcrossed the river at two points |

“We cannot afford to repeat such|

the south bank of the Marne and

southeast of Chalons, 18! miles | beyond Epernay, and unofficial re~ | {ports said the Yanks also had |breken into the vital railway hub of Vitry-le Francois, 18% miles southeast of Chalons. Headquarters spokesmen indicates ed that the tide of American Pers 3 troops and guns was striking on beyond Soissons and Chalons in a bid to collapse the entire Nazi defense position in northern France,

Near Argonne Forest

Barely 25 miles beyond Chalons, which the Germans said Patton's men had entered, lay the forest of | the Argonne, and beyond that hise toric Verdun and the Alsace-Lor= raine invasion road to Germany, Headquarters announced that the German armies of northern France had lost 122,000 killed and captured in their disastrous defeat in Nore

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