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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 298

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1945

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

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It’s A Very Sad Tale (Shirt-T ail)...But Don’t Blame George Washington

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.~This seems to be the ap‘propriate day to tell you the sorry tale of George ‘With a sheet around

Washington without a shirt. his middle. A laurel wreath upon

sticking into the breeze. ' Ah, the shame of it! and a low-down bum I wouldn't be

* congress chose to conceal its saddest experience with

the arts.

1 wouldn't be telling you exactly how you can get 8 look at the father of his country in white marble,

10 feet, six inches tall, and mostly

NAME PROBERS ON COMMUNIST ARMY RATINGS

May Starts House Action On Order Qualifying

Commissions.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (U. P). «Rep. R. Ewing Thomason (D. Tex.), today was named chairman of a house military affairs. subcommittee ‘to investigate a ~ war department order which permits Communists to be commissioned as army officers, Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky), of the full. committee named the investigating group. Its other members, besides Thomason, are Reps. Carl T. Durham (D. N. C), James A. Roe (D, N. Y.), Leslie C. Arénds (R. Ill) and Charles A. Elston (R, O.). : Thomason said he would call a meeting of the group Monday or Tuesday. He asserted there would be “no delay” in getting the investi. gation under way. Thomason's subcommittee will inquire intowa war department order. to all commands that membership in the Communist “party shall not prevent individuals from being atmy officers. Its appointment by May @ after some seeming indecision Army Appears Willing The commitment, to investigate is now definite. It is understood that the war department has indicated that it would not object to an inquiry. The other development on the commissioned Communist front was s change of heart of the war department. On Tuesday the department spokesman said it would have “no. information or comment” on the subject. The department thus brushed off newspaper reporters who had inquired if the published report were true. ; Ulio Explains

Yesterday it was learned that Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio, chief army law officer, had explained the matter to two congressmen. Ulio’s explanation confirmed the teport. that a new order had been issued permitting the advancement of Communists in the army. Ulio said it had been decided that the basic consideration should be the individual's loyalty to the United States and not his membership in a political or other organ» {zation. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimpon told questioners at his press conference today that Ulio’'s letter explained the war department's position in detail. “The policy of the war: depart-

‘tent is and will continue to be to

permit only loyal Americans to serve in the army in any capacity,” Stimson said... He added the individual loyalty of all members had always been a constant concern of the army, “Membership in, or strict adherence to the doctrines of the Communist party organization is evidence,” the explanation conceded, “that the Individual is subject “to influences that may tend to divide his loyalty.” But Ullo said that a soldier eould be subject to conflicting in-

If I weren't by nature a cad

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sculptor, Washington.

his brow. His toes

revealing the place

“" BUT 1 AM a trouble maker at heart and: congress slipped Herbert Greenough, the celebrated $5000 to sculp a heroic statue of George

Herbert. took the money to Florence, Italy. Six years later he emerged with his 0-ten statue, securely wrapped in a wooden box, It was so big he had to chop "down all the olive trees on one side of the road from Florence to Leghorn, This—plus some other incidental expenses—cost con-

gress $8311.90.

naked,

'WHO'S A LIAR?" Rankin and Hook Toss Uppercuts On House Floor

WASHINGTON, Feb, 22 (U, P.). —Reéps. John E. Rankin (D. Miss), and John E. Hook (D. Mich.), engaged in a fist fight on the house floor today. Hook had called Rankin “a dirty liar.” Rankin had made a reference to the {fair employment practice committee, group “and the dirty Communists the gentleman from Michigan is associated with.” Hook waved his right arm up and down as he counfered with: “Liar.” The two congressmen who were about 10 feet distant, moved toward each other, -Rankin appeared to raise his arm in a gesture, and the two exchanged punches before colleagues fell upon them and pulled them apart. As the group of more than a dozen members fell away from the battling pair, Rep. E. E. Cox (D. Ga.), was holding the slender, gray-haired Rankin by the left arm, A floor attendant was at the side of the stocky Hook. Only about 40 members were on the floor as the melee broke out. Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.), - had been making a speech attacking the C. I. O. :

IT WAS 12:13,

But Police Decide There Was No Murder at Midnight in the Claypool.

It was 13 minutes after midnight There was a loud explosion. A woman screamed. A man groaned. Somebody yelled: “Murder!” Seconds later nothing remained but a few ‘acrid wisps of powder smoke. That's what happened on the fifth floor of the Claypool hotel early this morning, say Homicide Officers F. E. McKeighan and Ivan M. Bettner. But today, the Claypool's latest whodunnit was still a mystery. Description of all these goingson was provided by three occupants of a fifth-floor room and numerous other guests. Their fears prompted Assistant Manager James Israel to summon police and the homicide detail came on the run. There were 40 policemen on the scene, They guarded the lobby and elevator doors and permitted no one to leave either their floor or the hotel. Dignified senators and representatives attending the Indiana general assembly were irritated no end when

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Eight Ravenswood schoolboys will appear in juvenile court tomorrow morning to face charges of vandalism and burglary. The boys, ranging from 10 to 15 years, allegedly broke and entered the John Strange school where they are students and took money. They also are charged with attempting to set fire to “Ravenswood Community church and entering several Ravens-

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wood homes,

PLANNING FOR RETURNING VETERANS— Building Specialist Plans. For Indiana Presbyterians

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Times Church Editor

“Post-war building plans show & tendency toward smaller and more efficient churches with the strictly American, or colonial, de=~ sign gaining in favor over the Gothic,” the Rev.-A. Allison Am=stutz said today. The Rev. Mr, Amstutz a secre-

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tary of the department of location and relocation of churches for the Indiana Presbyterian synod. In so far as it has been possible to ascertain, the Presbyterians are the only denomination in the state to employ a full-time specialist, such as the Rev. Mr. Amstutz, to help state churches with post-war building problems. He is also accumulating a library of information on building designs, plans and materials in the Presbyterian state office, 1132 N. Alabama st., for the benefit of churches seeking advice, When a church selects a loca~ | tion for a new building, he makes, a survey to gain:.a complete pice " ture of the area and all its possibilities. “This is to discover . a new church is really there a) whether it is

statue onto a boat.

PUPILS FACE CHARGE IN SCHOOL THEFTS

The engineer at Leghorn started to hoist the But the rope broke and George Washington went through the bottom. Then the

YANKS DROP PARALYZING BOMB LOAD ON NAZI ROADS, RAILWAYS

“No Matter The Cost’

SENATE GROUP VOTES 13-4 FOR WORK-OR- ELSE

at for Einployers Who Hoard Labor Added

By Commitee.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (U. P.).— The senate military a irs committee today approved a Ywork-or-fight” bill including fines and prison terms for employers who hoard labor. Committee Chairman Elbert D. Thorhas (D. Utah) said the revisea bill was approved after it had been agreed ip committee that penalties inserted yesterday should apply mostly to employers instead of individual workers. The vote was 13 to 4 for approval. But Senator Thomas said practically every committee member reserved the right to oppose all or any part of the bill when it reaches the floor next week.

House Bill Substitute

The senate committee's measure was written as a substitute for the house-passed May bill, which pro-

*|vided jail terms and fines.for registrants 18 to 45° wha violated its

provisions. Under the house bill, registrants would be inducted or punished if they refused to take or {ish war jobs. . Thomas said the house bill by will be offered on the setts floor ax a substitute to: the

The committee vote came after lengthly discussion of amendments by Senators Warren R. Austin (R., Vt), and Millard E. Tydings (D., Mich.), which were tentatively added yesterday. The Austin amendment would make penalty provisions of the sec~

‘lond war powers act—$10,000 fine or

one year in jail—apply to any person who violates regulations under the proposed new manpower law,

Provides Penalties

The Tydings amendment would make selective service act penalties ——$10,000 fine or five years’ imprisonment — apply to any person not acceptable for combat service who quits a farm job, for which defer-

proval of the local draft board. Mr, Thomas said the Tydings amendment penalties would apply to employees, while those of the Austin amendment would affect only employers.

PAY HIKED BUT ASH MEN REMAIN IDLE

Signs of Compromise Are Reported at City Hall.

City ash and garbage collectors remained out on strike this morning despite state tax board approval yesterday of a 10-cent-an-hour pay raise. Meanwhile, Arnold Wills, president of the collectors’ independent union, the Unity club, revealed that Mayor Tyndall had dismissed him effective last Monday. There were signs that a compro= mise might be reached and that the men might return to work later today. Mr. Wills insisted, however, that the strikers would not go back until Ben H. Thompson and Fred Schriner, supértendents of the collection department, have been reinstated by the mayor. The superintendents, both veterans of the department, were fired by the mayor last Monday. Frank Sprouse, who replaced Mr. Thompson, announced that some of the strikers “are returning” and that “some trucks” will be sent out this afternoon. He said he expected the collection ‘service to return to normal by tomorrow,

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Sectionals Start Tonight—

® Hoosierland's annual hysteria—the state basketball tournament—starts to"night at sectional centers all over the state. .

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» ” YOU MUST remember that was a doggone big bax. wo held down his curls. "The ship docked at New York—but the railroadgtim= a nels between there and here weren't big enough, The experts took the statue to New Orleans and forwarded it to Washington by devious routes—without tunnels.

By now the statue had

cents. Congress appropriated $2000 more for a base

upon which to hold it.

The navy band tootled .

30 DIVISION OF MARINES ENTER AIRBASE BATTLE

Latest Report Places Our Casualties at 385 Killed - And 4168 Wounded.

ADM. NIMITZ’S HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 22

pledged. by their general to

cost, fought thgough a downpour today ‘toward the central airport of ‘the island. Elements of the 3d marine diyi< sion hsve-hgan, Rusied into 48 (Map, Page Nine)

battle alongside men of the 4th and 7th. Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith, marine corps chief in the Pacific, said the invasion of Iwo was the most difficult problem the Leathernecks ever faced. They are up against “a very fough proposition,” he said, but will capture the island no matter how high the price in blood. Smith was on the flagship of the supporting fleet. A communique announcing slow gains in the new drive toward Iwo's central airport said that marine casualties on the island had climbed to 385 killed and 4168 wounded by 5:45 p. m, yesterday.

Marine Chief Grim

“The casualties have not been any greater than I anticipated,’ : Smith said. The usually taciturn marine commander was grim at the press conference. His lips were tense in a thin line, his voice pitched low and deadly serious, “We expect to take this” island, and while it will be at a severe cost, it 1s our assigned mission,” he said. Progress has been slow, the beaches blanketed with treacherous volcanic ash have caused’ trouble, and, they are littered with wreckage, Smith said. But he said he thought that when the beaches are better organized and roads improved, the advance will speed up. A communique announced that the marines had launched ‘a new push toward the Iwo air field after a stonewall stand against several heavy counter-attacks during the night.

Marines Slug Forward

At midday the~Leathernecks were slugging slowly forward. = They knocked out several Japanese gun positions and “generally weakened the airdrome’s defenses,” Guam headquarters announced. “There was little change in posttions of the front line,” Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported, revealing that counter-blows had checked the marine push northward on the island. “Some damage” to U. 8. fleet units has been caused, Nimitz said (A Tokyo broadcast recorded by United Press in San Francisco said the “kamikaz special attack corps”

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Troops Ashore

By 8. SGT. DAVID DEMPSEY Marine Corps Combat Correspondent IWO JIMA, Feb. 22, — The invasion beach of this island today is a scene of indescribable wreckage—all of it ours, For two miles extending norfhward from Mt. Suribachi at the “southern tip of the. island 1s a thick layer of debris. Wrecked hulls of’ scores of boats testify to. the price we paid to get. our troops #shore on this vital island four days ago. Sontinyous days. ia

boat sank on top of the statue. © of this mishap without cost to the taxpayers. The navy sent a battleship. to Leghorn, where the sailors fished Washington out of the mud.

And the great day of the unveiling came in 1841.

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take Iwo "regardless of the}

. Insurance took care

cost $26,000 and some odd

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‘We Will Take Iwo—

speeches A string .

rely saved the proprieties. Rad thongs around 'em to keep his Roman sandals from falling off.

any of its work of art. statue and they had to keep it.

., and good-gosh-amighty!

A HORRIFIED gasp rose over Capitol Hill, gress decided to dynamite its statue. Then it discovered there was a law that the government could not destroy The lawmakers had bought a

the speaker of the house pulled the There was George Washington, nearly twice as big as life, clad as a Roman senator on the way to his bath s His chest muscles rippled in the sunlight. A wreath ° The sheet tied around his waist His toes, the big ones,

some more.

move the statue, institution.

presses.

They built a shed (cost, $1600) to hide it and argued In 1008 they still were so mortified they appropriated a final $5000 to tear do®n the shed, re-

and haul it to the Smithsonian

There you will find it in the cellar under the main puilding—hidden behind. a row of antique printing

The boys still are touchy about it; I asked the

guide where I could find it. and said he never heard of it.

conAND A HAPPY

tion included.

Yanks En Route to Prison, According to Nazi Caption

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According to the German explanation of this. pie ture, Americans are shown as they wait to be marched to prisoner of war camps. The photo came from Swedish sources,

Hoosier Heroes—

8 ON EUROPEAN FRONT KILLED

{Three Listed as Missing And Six Wounded

Ih Action.

The conflict with Germany has added eight more Indianapolis men to the list of world war II dead, while three local men are missing in action and five local men and a Shelbyville man have be en wounded. DEAD

Pvt. James S. Scribner, 844 8. Missouri st., in the English channel. Pvt. Elmer Eugene Bowers, 1026 Church st., in Belgium. Pvt. Russell W. Patrick, 236 Villa ave., in France. Pfc. Ralph A. Askren, 6500 E. 16th st., in Germany. Pfc. Jewell Wagener, 1015 N, Jefferson ave., in Germany. Pfc. Dana P. Newhouse, Oaklandon, in France. T. 5th Gr. Bert Rainsford Jr, 327 Hanson st., in Belgium Sgt. James M. Wilson, R. R. 11, Box 309-V, in Germany,

MISSING Pvt. Robert E. Waltz, 1232 College ave, in Luxembourg. Pvt. William F. McCreary, is W. Ray st., in Belgium. Second Lt. Earl formerly of 2430 Carrollton ave, over Germany, WOUNDED Pvt. Jesse P. Smith, 6101 Evanston ave, on Morotal island. Pfc. Frank B. Dodd, 2800 E. 55th st., in Germany. Sgt. Jesse W. Blair Jr., 1222 Bellfontaine st. in France.

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The Price We Paid to Get Our

on Iwo Jima—

nights, Japahese artillery, rockets and heavy mortars laid a curtain of fire along the shore. ‘Their weapons had been almed at the beach long before we landed. They couldn't miss - and they didn't. Volcan's sand on this: beach 1s so soft’ that many of our vehicles weré*mired down before they had gone 10 feet. A terrace a few yards from the water hampered

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MEDIEVAL WAR— Japs in Manila Using Spears in Fight to Death

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON Pnited Press Staff Correspondent

MANILA, Feb. 22.—The last stage of the battle of Manila degenerated into medieval warfare today with the Japanese taking up spears in a desperate attempt to stave off certain annihilation. American troops encountered the frenzied tactics of the trapped enemy naval and marine personnel as they reduced the Japanese pocket south of the Pasig river to less than one-tenth of a square mile, ” ” s THE AMERICANS were entrenched in a siege line along the playground and golf links, which once were the bed of the medieval moat around . Manila's ancient walled city. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced meanwhile that Bataan peninsula was completely cleared and that the Japanese forces on Corregidor were practically destroyed. ” » N “SO FAR as can be found no living Japdnese soldier is now on the peninsula,”

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GREENLEE RESIGNS BEER ASSOGIATION

Says He Fears ‘Political

Embarrassment.’

By SHERLEY UHL In the midst of legislative reorganization of the state alcohol control system, Pleas Greenlee resigned today as executive secretary of the Indiana Licensed Beer Wholesalers association. He handed in his resignation at a meeting of the group at the Claypool hotel. An ardent Democrat and once patronage secretary to former Gov-

|ernor McNutt, Mr. Greenlee was

nudged out as beer wholesaler chief by certain directors of the association who felt it was “time for a change.” This reasoning was prompted by the fact fhat state Republicans have announced their intention of moving in en rnasse on the hereto-

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MacArthur said, | in disclosing the vindication of

800 AMERICAN PRISONERS LOST

U. S.; Airmen Believed It Carried Cargo.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 22 —A navy officer today disclosed a third sinking of a jam-packed Japanese prison ship, with a loss of more than 800 Americans. The vessel was sunk Dec. 15 by American planes which could not distinguish it from a cargo ship.

In this case, however, the cargo was 1600 Americans held in the ship's holds at rifle point. Less than half survived. In two previously-disclosed cases, allied submarines unknowingly sank two Japanese prison ships.

First One Sept. 7

The first such incident occurred Sept. 7, when only 83 out of 750 American prisoners aboard the ship (survived. On Oct. 24 another prison ship carrying 1800 Americans was sunk, with only five known survivors. Apparently upward of 3200 Amer-

|icans perished in the three tragic

| incidents of war.

of Rockford, Ill. ence at the navy department.

everybody, congressmen and the Smithsonian

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He looked me in the eye

” . " George Washington's birthday to institu.

HOUR- LONG AD BACKS PATTON'S PLUNGE TO SAAR

‘Explosives Scourge Area of

38,000 Square Miles; Canadians Gain «

LONDON, Feb. 22 (U. P.). —A mighty American raiding fleet of warplanes unloaded

sive bombs on a score of Nazi

It was a 60-minute annihilation rajd that may “have paralyzed al}

“ Iratiroad traffic acrosya’38,000-square

mile aréa of central Germany. A report from Basel said French artillery was pouring heavy artillery fire into German bunkers on the east bank of the upper Rhine, This and “other preparations seem {to indicate the French 1st army's long awaited push across the Rhine js mney’ the Swiss dispatch

eather 1s Perfect The Ri air assault came as Lt. Gen. George Patton's 3d army | plunged into the heart of the rich | industrial * Saar basin. In what has been desigriated as

Third Jap Ship Ship Sunk byt. of ‘the greatest tactical strikes

of the war, upwards of 1400 Flying Fortresses and Liberators fanned out'over the heart of the Reich to bomb and burn the vital rail lines linking the Nazi armies with their {inner supply and reinforcement bases. About 800 long-range American fighters escorted the heavies and: swooped down to strafe the enemy's rail and highway lines. Frantic air raid alarms across southern Germany indicated that the Italian-based bombers of the U. 8. 15th air force also were swarme

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CASUALTIES OF U. . PASS 800,00 MARK

Over 900,000 Germans Taken Since D-Day.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (U. P.).— American combat casualties ane {nounced here passed the ,000

The story of the Dec. 15 sinking mark today. | was related by Lt. Sarge K. Petritz, Secretary of War Henry L. Stime in a press confer- son also announced that allied He armies have captured more than

sald he and an army private were 900,000 Germans in western Europe i

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LABOR . . . By Roger W.

Stuart

Crack- Down Method Fails

By ROGER W. STUART

ment

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ment of employment ceiling and referral powers—have failed to bring in more than a tiny percentage of the required workers, a war departfhent representative said,

so far have proved no more e than were appeals to patriotism

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—-Govern-efforts to obtain workers vitally needed in two New England war plants today had hit a new snag, according to the war depart-

Crack-down methods = enforce

The crack-down methods, he sald, :

To Obtain Vital Workers

essential plants and take work in war factories. The plants involved are 10 New Bedford, Mass, fine fabric mills making handkerchief¥

manufacture fabric for heavy-duty tires for the armed forces. ; The difficulty started six months ago, when it was announced that the fabric plants, operated by U, 8. Rub= ber and Pirestone, were » need

more than 14,000 high explo-

communications centers today.

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