Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1945 — Page 1

ter. GA-143. :

CHURCH

Jiney LL, P

astor

ool “Classes, AN 8 Cross, My Only j.==6:30 P. M, == OL

RCH

interim, M,

} pom.

MING Church

't L 8

foal 900. 8S OF CHRIST.” mn: ry.”

als by excellent Hamilton. Mrs.

TO ALL

cott at B A. M.1:30 P

3419 KE 23d 19~=10:35-=17:30,

eosderens Bl

j14 N. Sap Se

Grant (elo, East)

061 Southern Ave. 10:45-7;

CHURGH rmont Sts, ER, D. D., Pastor L

nd Sermon r of the CCross.®

owship Groups.

sper Service of Girls of Indiane

estes snaeree

asbyterian Eleventh st. JL, Minister hool, all ages Power." eting, § P. M, irsday, 7:30 P. M.,

BYTERIAN

ch of Whith r was Ministes sylvania Sts. D. D., Minister _ 10:45 A.M.

shyterian tol Ave. \N, Minister

h School Our Talents.”

7:30 P.M. lies

LING

athlete. Beta Kappa

yaseball and ontracts.

tures ong the

ORNEO

NCE

ly

hurch |

5. Ave.)

Where They

FREE CONCERT | T0 HAL DRIVE

Mich, © M.

0-7:08

Crossword . | Editorials .

Indianapolis

FORECAST: Fair and cooler tonight; tomorfow fair and mild.

SCRIPPS =~ HOWARD §

OF RED CROSS

Symphony to Close Season Tonight at Cadle

Tabernacle.

A salute to the Indianapolis Red Cross war fund campaign will be ' given tonight when the Indianapolis symphony orchestra presents its last municipal concert at 8:30 p. m. in Cadle tabernacle. The concert, directed by Fabin , Sevitzky, will be free and doors will open at 7:30 p. m. Fifty wounded war veterans, patients at army hospitals in this area, will be special guests.

Tonight's program will begin the| *

| "over the top” push to reach the $1,145,500 goal by March "28. An additional 2000 volunteer workers will take the field with the original 1000 solicitors. Solicitation will not

be made at the concert, however, Employees Top Quota

Employees of the general offices of 8tokely-Van Camp, Inc, Meridian st.,, have subscribed 218 per cent of their assigned quota in the campaign, today. Each employee gave and by more than doubling the quota asked, the office group approached the figure set for the bined. All pledges were paid cash within the first four days the office drive by the 175 men and women who recently witnessed the Red Cross film, “Seeing Them Through.” The women obtained pledges from the men and the men solicited "the women employees. ~The “over the top” committee included Paul Fishback, chairman for Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.; Misses Margery Smyth, Nelle Kepler and Naom! Schmitt; Kenneth Bowman, Connje Temple and C. H. Schmidt.

DISPUTE THREATENS TO PARALYZE MOVIES

HOLLYWOOD, March 12 (U. P.), —A jurisdictional dispute invblving 72 Hollywood set designers threatened to paralyze the motion picture industry today. The powerful A. F. of L. conference of studio unions, enibracing ‘nine groups with 8000 members, threw picket lines around all major studios in an effort to force recognition of the Painters International Union (A. F. of L.) Local 1421, as bargaining agent for the set designers. A war labor board arbitrators directive had granted jurisdiction to the painters pending a national labor relations board. election between them and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, A. F. of L. Local 44.

2 WOMEN RECEIVE LITERARY AWARDS

BOSTON, March 12 (U.P.).—Two women, a New York Negro and a former social worker from. Californja, have won the 1t0h annual 62400 Houghton Mifflin literary fellowship awards, the publishing eompany announced today, Ann Petry of New York, wife of 8 serviceman, received the fiction prize for her novel “The Street,” a

social study of the Negro living in.

slum areas, Beatrice Griffith of Hollywood, formerly with the national youth | administration, was given the non- | fiction award for her study of Mexicans living in the United | States.

HIGH COURT TO HEAR PLURAL WIVES CASE

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.). The supreme court today agreed to | review the “celestial” marriage case lof nine -Utah residents convicted under federal laws for the practice of polygamy. “They appeared from a 10th circuit court of appeals. decision af- | Arming convictions against them | under the Mann act and the Lind- | bergh kidnaping law. | The eight men and one woman are members of a fundamentalist cult, which sanctions plural marriage.

ED WYNN’S SON HURT IN TRAFFIC CRASH

HOLLYWOOD, March 12 (U. P.). =—Keenan Wynn, motion picture -actor and son of Comedian Ed “Wynn, was in serious’ condition today from injuries received when his motorcycle crashed into. an automobile. He suffered a fractured Jaw, severe concussion, a back injury and lacerations, ; W

“TIMES INDEX _

| Amusements .. 4 Ruth Millett... 9 | Business ...... 6/Movies .....! 4 Comics ..15| Fred Perkins., 9 ..15| Ernie Pyle, wie B ..10{ Radio . vo 38, Peter Edson ..10| Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Fashions .....11] Side Glances ..10 ‘Forum ........10{ Wm. P; Simms. 10

| Inside Indpls.. 9|Jas, Thrasher. 10] Jane Jordan. ..13 ' Women's News 1

941 N.|

it was announced

office .and plant com- |

Meta Given ...11|8ports ........12

" VOLUME 5—NUMBER 1:

COLUMBUS, Ga. March

mando) army” sional medal of honor, commands today. At an unnamed place and an-

undesignated hour here today, “Commando” and Miss May

Kelly, the ‘one man who wears the congreschanges

'One-Man Army’ Weds Todey

> *

Acme Telephoto “Commando” Kelly and his bride-to-be, Miss May Boish,

12 (U. P,)—T. Sgt. Charles E. (Com-

Frances Boish of Pittsburgh will be married,

MONDAY, MARCH

A—————————

JAPS BIGGEST | PLANE-MAKING

2000 Tons of ‘Bombs Rain Destruction Over Five Squaré” Miles.

GUAM, March 12 (U. P.) —Fires visible: nearly miles at sea raced uncontrolled today through Na-| goya, Japan's greatest aircraft manufacturing center. The fires were started by 300 Superfortresses which sowed 2000, tons of incendiary bombs through the center of the city early today.

One of the giant U. S. planes was lost in the raid.

Raid 1s ‘Successful’

The date has significance; too. It was on March 12, 1944, when the congress stopped work long enough to bestow the blue starred ribbon around ‘Sgt. Kelley's neck for a clean-up job he performed "in Italy. Kelly killed 40 Germans single handed in 20 minutes.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 12 (U. 'P). — Four monkeys go to work for Jackson county today at $22.65 an hour. And no cracks

about the manpower shortage, please, The mbnkeys have been especially trained.to operate yacuum cleaners. They will be” “put to work cleaning out the air ducts -of “the ventilating system hat runs jouen the top floors of the -story Jadkson county courthouse, Presiding Judge George : S. Montgomery will put the monkeys on the payroil. Their owner, identified only: as “the monkey man from the Bronx,” will send

"You Gotta Show Me' State “Hires Monkeys for Cleaning

them clambering ‘through the air

ducts. . The ducts haven't been cleaned since the courthouse was built by the late Tom Pendergast more than a decade ago. The monkeys will be fitted with harnesses. Attached brushes will scrape the dirt from the sides of the ducts as they climb through. After they have made their first trip, they will -be sent through:

(A communique issued by the war

{department at Washington said re-

turning crew members “reported fires spreading widely over the city’s

meager to intense, it said. (It said reports indicated the attack was “equally as successful as the assault on Tokyo” two days earlier.) Swinging 165 miles west from still-burning Tokyo, the giant armada peleaged death and ‘destruction. on

Concentraied Bombing

They dropped fire bombs on five square miles of war plants, business blocks, government buildings and flimsy dwellings in the tinder-

under cover of darkness. Returning pilots said the rain of bombs was more concentrated even

again with vacuum: cleaners to_ pick up the dirt scraped loose. “Everybody laughs at the idea,” Chief Engineer Frank Moore said, “but it works. It will take the monkeys about 20. hours to |

complete the cleaning job. : “We were told it would cost more than $464.”

SLAYING TRIAL IN FINAL STAGE

State Prepares to Attack Alibi Evidence of De Graphenreed.

Efforts to blast alibi testimony of Charles DeGraphenreed were being made by the state as the Wiedenhoft murder trial entered its final stages today. ; The defendant, on trial in the robbery slaying of Gus L. Wiedenhoft, South side florist, was placed at a private home on W. 28th st. on the night of the slaying by four defense witnesses testifying this morning. Key in the testimony was whether the late Mrs. Nola Bell, 605 W. 28th | st., whose home DeGraphenreed was said to. have been visiting, was taken to the Flower mission June

(29. The murder-occurred last June

30. Tell of Party

Defense witnesses said a party at which the defendant was present was held the day following Mrs. Bell's admittance :to the hospital. Deputy Prosecutor Frank ‘X. Haupt said he was prepared to present hospital records to show Mrs.. Bell was taken there June 22. Mrs. Geraldine Jackson, a maid, testified she was at the party from 5:30 .p; m..until 4 a, m. the following day, and that DeGraphenreed was asleep there during this period. Acquainted with the defendant five or six years, Mrs. Jackson said although there was liquor on the premises, DeGraphenreed did not indulge. She further testified * that 'DeGraphenreed.- was a pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs. Bell, who died July 6. Woman, 77, Testifies

Another defense witness was Mrs. Bell's mother, Mrs. Henrietta Martin, 77. She said that DeGraphenreed arrived about 4 or 5 p. m. and

ge BE 4p

remained there the entire time of |

Coal Operators Lose Plea to Bar Strike Balloting |

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.). | Three - government labor agencies [today jointly rejected a petition by the Southern Coal Producers association to dismiss the United Mine Workers’ request {df a strike ballot on March 28. The" decision was made by the labor department, the national labor relations board and the war labor board. The notification was mailed today to Edward R. Burke, president of the. southern producers. A labor department spokesman sald the decision probably would have been the same even if all the producers had joined Burke in reqiesting dismissal of the strike vote

(Continued on Page 3—Column Li

Seize 4 Villages, Two Airfields on Mindanao

MANILA, March 12 (U. P.) —U.S. invasion. forces neared the heart of Zamboanga on the southwestern tip | of Mindanao today. They seized | four villages and two airfields on! the island, second largest of the Philippines. Battle-seasoned units of Maj. Gen.

{Jens A. Doe's 41st division of the

{8th army landed on the coral- | | studded beaches at 9 a. m, Saturday {against light opposition at San | Mateo. The four villages and two airstrips, west of Zamboanga's administrative center, were rapidly’ ovesrun. Gen. Douglas MacArthur anrounced that reconnaissance planes

island. Tokyo Reported Landing

(A Tokyo broadcast, recorded by FCC, said American forces also had landed Thursday on Basilan island, across the 10-mile Basilan strait from Zamboanga. Tokyo claimed that the troops which stormed Mindanao were accompanied by tanks.) The landing on Mindanao, 21st Philippines island invaded by American forces, sealed the entire west-

request filed Feb. 26 by U. M. W. President John L. Léwis. He said Burke's petition was the first of its kind ever, received under |

It contended that no valid dispute existed at the time Lewis filed the notice. Rejection was accompanied by a letter explaining that the deicision was consistent with the law and precedent.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Ga. m..... 49 10a. m..... 47 Ta.m..... 48 11am... 5 3a.m..... 47 12 (Noon)., 52 fam.....$ . 1pm.... 83

the Smith-Connally anti-strike law. |

iy side of the 800-mile long Phil- | (Continued on “Page 3—Column 6)

TIN CAN COLLECTORS START ON NORTH SIDE

The March collection of salvage® tin .cans was begun ‘in city-owned | trucks today. The collection north of 16th st. will continue through tomorrow, On Wednesday and Thursday, collection will be made south of 16th st. due Mar. 15. Borrow the

money from Morris Plan. PHone for a loan ~—Any Time--Day or Night. MA-4455.—Adv.

Income taxes

CITY BLASTED

100 |

opera SEM pe

box cenler of Nagoya for two hours * | first official announcement did not

already were operating from the!

12, 1945

» ~ y

Tre War in

A mighty allied offensiv

today. Tokyo's | invasion of their sacred soil. Nagoya, Japan's greatest ter,

| pines.

French Indo-China (Page 2).

‘Pressure Mounts Near Berlin.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, March 12. —A | strong force of American | ‘bombers attacked the Baltic | coast today in direct Support, of the Red army.

|

said a decisive break through before

main industrial areas.” Fighter] |opposition was light to heavy and |Berlin was expected soon. anti-aircraft fire ranged from | About 650 U. S. heavy wonsbers)

dumped a great weight’ of explo-

sives on military and naval largets/ on the Baltic coast. Nazi broadcasts said--the raiders | were over the Stettin- Swinemuende | area at the mouth of the. Oder, where Soviet forces were trying io ~vhe-ilerth wing of Berlin's defenses. :

Storm Oder Estuary

If the Americans hit the StettinSwinemuende sector, their bombs fell in plain view of Russian troops storming the Oder fortification. The

|name the- Baltic objectives. Soviet dispatches said Marshal | Gregory K. Zhukov's army was storming: the Oder estuary north and south of Stettin, and a great battle for river: crossings was in full swing. The German high command sald three Russian armies were hammering the Nazi bridgehead across the Oder from Stettin. Counterblows knocked out 28 Soviet tanks, it added. ’ A Nazi communique said Zhukov's first White Russian army continued |relentless attacks in the Oder valley before Berlin, where a Soviet

(Continued on Page 3—Column 4)

HIGH COURT DELAYS WARD CASE REVIEW

Government, Company De-

nied Immediate Action.

WASHINGTON, March 12 (U. P.). —The supreme court today refused to make an immediate review of a

authority to order army seizure of Montgomery Ward & Co.'s plans and facilities. The action meant that the case { will have to be heard in regular procedure by the circuit--ecourt-of -appeals before being taken to the su[preme court, | The justice department asked for immediate review by the supreme | court, stressing the case's interest o the war effort. Montgomery Ward joirfed ‘in the request for a quick review over the legality of the seizure. The government argued that the lower court's ruling threatened to impair its ability to handle “future

s war lords resigned themselves to an expected

was blazing: from 2000-tons of incendiary heaped on the city by 300 American Superfortresses. The complete conquest of Iwo is at hand (Page 2). American troops invaded Mindanao in the Philip-

Speculation mounted over a possible invasion of

|

Unofficial Moscow we 3

lower court decisiotf holding that| President Roosevelt was without

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

YANKS SLUG DEEPER INTO REICH; ‘RUSS HINT BREAKTHROUGH N EAR

» s s

+

the Pacific

e left the Japanese reeling |

aircraft Titadtating cenbombs

| |

» n »

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN

IN THE MARIANAS last month Indiana university alumni had a real college reunion with none other than Ernie Pyle, The Times Hoosier Vagabond. Today Ernie's column (see Page 9) tells about this meeting with “a couple of old Hoosier on, boys who had followed my inglorious footsteps” on the Bloomington campus. One of the soldiers was Lt. ~ Ed Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rose, 3554 College ave, and the other, Lt. Bill Morris, son of Mrs. William Heuchans, Anderson, Lt. Rose was

Lt. Morris

“editor of the

» » »

WEST FRONT ANALYSIS .

'Remagen Has

" y

” » .

PRICE FIVE CENTS

B-29's bid Nagoya; Americans Gain On Mindanao

Inside Germany Today

Neutral sources reported Hitler had summoned the Reichstage into session (Page 2).

Essen, under bombardment from the U.

S. 9th army,

dug more dead and injured from the debris left by a 5000ton night air attack (Page 2). The Berlin radio said an allied air armada was blast-

|. ing Stettin; a Yank air armada battered the Ruhr.

Berlin spent another night in air raid shelters as the R. A. F. pounded the city for the 20th consecutive night. A German military spokesman acknowledged that Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges had perhaps 50,000 men east of | the Rhine.

n ” »

2 U. S. Fliers Aid as [, J, Alumni on Marianas Hold Reunion With Ernie

Lt. Ed Rose .

Daily Student in 1938, just as I was for a while in 1922,” the Hoosier Vagabond wrote. "“Apparently it doesn't make any difference what year you were edi-

(Contihued on Page 2—Column 1)

4s WEL

. «By Ludwell Denny

Aided Allies,

But Victory Can Be Costly’

WASHINGTON; Match 12. The latest flock of joyous: predictions from Moscow, London, Paris and Washington of Germany's quick collapse are too shrill. Certainly the allied gains of the past week have shortened the war. They are not flashes in the pan. Every basic factor is in the allies’ favor. All of which is hopeful enough, without being unreasonable in our expectation of an easy open road to Berlin Hitler has several million troops with good equipment. Lacking a

| surrender stampede — of which

there is no sign among the crack Nazi units-as yet—they still cin make victory ‘costly. A good sample is the CanadianAmerican capture of the Wesel pocket on the northern flank of our line. The Germans held out for weeks, and when they finally vetreated, they saved almost all of their troops and armor. Most of the Germans gaptured so far by the American®ist and 3d armies making the CologneCobienz squeeze are second grade troops, left behind by Marshal

(Continued on Page 2—Column 1

17 In Family End Trip to Canada From West Indies

MONTREAL, March 12 (U. P.) —The Ascoli family—mother and father and their 15 children— were all together again today but

their biggest problem was still ahead of them. Joseph = rR: pAscolf™ who was joiried. by Mrs. Astoli*'an® the children after a three-stage journey from Kingston, Jamaica, said | he still had to find ‘a home for | his brood. ! The children, who had been | settled in three rooms of a hotel | after they arrived last night from New-York by plane, were content to continue their holiday living indefinitely. The Ascolis had only three strangers as plane-mates in their flight from La Guardia field. There wasn't room for any more. But that wasn't the complete privacy they -had in the first stage of their journey from. Kingston to

|

(Continued on “Page 3—Column 5)

(Continued on Page 3—Column: 4)

Known Coast to Coast for Fine Foods, Charley's Restaurant, 144 E. Ohio—Adv.

Six local servicemen have been killed in action and an army nurse has been killed in a plane crash in India. In addition, one is missing, 16 -have been wounded and 6 are prisoners,

: KILLED Lt. Ann L. Merrill, 1040 N. Delaware st, in India.

“Pfc.” Clarence W. Webb Jr, 218 N. Keystone ave, on Leyte. . First Lt. G. Thomas Sollitt Ira; 6013 Forest Lahe, in Holland,

E. Raymond st. in Belgium. Pfc. Joseph F. Pratt, 5158 Broadway, near the Ruhr river,

k "Sgt. James B. Roudebush, 1641

T Sth Gr. BGs E. Jokinen, 2

8S. 10th ave., Beech Grove. in Bel gium, 8. Sgt. Wilmer D. Buis, 615 Cole st., in France.

MISSING

‘T. Sgt. Harold Brown, 2147 Madison ave., over Germany.

WOUNDED Pvt. Phil E. Stallard, 2042 Park ave, in France.™™ ®

Pt. Orville F. Chenault, Bellefontaine st. , in Germany, Pfc. Noble Bowers, 624 Lockerbie |st.,-on Iwo Jima. Sgt. Cortland W. Shea, 5132 Norway dr. over Germany.

1403

sO. Farum 0. Suse 34 8

Hoosier Heroes: Army Nurse Included Among Seven Killed

in Luxembourg.

Delaware st., 620 E.|s

Pfc. Samuel F. Minardo, Georgia st., in Germany, . First Lt. Ray L. Holland, 3137 Sutherland ave. in France. Cpl. Claude Lanham Jr, Exeter ave, in ‘Germany. ° Pvt. Joseph E.- McAndrews, uss 8. Richland st.; on Leyte. Sgt. William R. Emlow, 328 Ww’ South st in France, Pfc. Jess B. Gilson, 717 E. 15th st., at Manila, First Lt. Herman A. Meier, R. R. ‘4, Box 730, in Belgium, Pfe. Nick Oltean, 1038 8S. Church st., in Germany. 2 Pfe. ‘Robert W.“Bruce, 1213 Con-

701

; in Germany, bein France,

Earnest Miles, Acton, In

PRISONERS Pfc. James N. Newman, 931 N. Baneroft st., of Germany. Maf William N. Engels, 437 N. »| Bosart ‘ave. of Germany. Cpl. Clyde E. Delaney, 1830 E. 34th st, of Germany. Second Lt. Samuel Bier,» 2404 Holt ave, of Germany, Pvt. Ross G: Jarrett JT, 2118 N. Meridian st, of Germany. Pvt, Jackson A. Rogers, Boulevard pl, of Germany,

3707

es Ira C. Odle, 239 W, McCarty

CHICAGO, March 12 (U,

burn today—60,000 packs of them.

They took 120 cases of cigarets,| [valued at $9200, from -the Midstate |

| Freight Lines warehouse.

[Weak Report Two New Crossings ~*~ of Rhine.

| By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS; March 12.—Tankled and air-supported Amerijcan troops drove steadily ‘deeper into Germany's inner {fortress from the Remagen |bridgehead today. Meanwhile, Berlin said the 1st {army had made two more cross|ings of the Rhine nearby. | Joint blows of the U. 8. 1st and 3d armies wiped out a German | pocket northwest of Coblenz. Meager reports, however, did not make clear whether the destroyed pocket was the big one formed by the

{which some 23,000 Germans were trapped. ¥ “14. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s sin air force laid a carpet of bombs

jon six key rail hubs east of the

Rhine through which the Germans could move against the 1st army bridgehead opposite Remagen,

Maintain Air Cover

Fighter-bombers of the U. S. 9th air force raked the German lines before the swelling bridgehead, and maintained a. constant patrol over: the Ludendorff bridge..

Nazi broadcasts acknowledged that the Americans were pouring reinforcements into the Rhine foothold. "They said shock troops pushed across the Rhine north of the Remagen bridge In assault boats for two new crossings. The Nazis estimated that upward of 50,000 men were massed in the bridgehead ready for a big push against the southern flank of the Ruhr. y| Supreme headquarters sald Lt. __| Gen. -Courtney - H. Hodges' troops {firmly held the initiative in the

ROBBERS TAKE 60, 000 | | Remagen bridgehead. The Germans PACKS OF CIGARETS

P) {Four “holdup men had cigarets to}

| still were shelling it, despite the acquisition of high ground on which | some enemy observation posts were situated. Because of the nature of the operations and the precarious plight of {the enemy, SHEAF reports were

| (Continued on “Page 3—Column 2) » - »

® Arviche mn .

assault on Hitler's approximate area

cord st. in Germany,

- d

|. (Detally Pages

ay is Seay

Faotiarens AS id Tesed tmmench nn Kicwe ; Lrope 4 Wesel TLEE % : ; aR 2 Y 9 *Gladbeck ee MCE Ce rood Vnray NA Geld res o¢ Dottmu ° ® ore Hambjiw— ban > Jen au 2s NETH, 8 Ee o ; Shh 3 : Irerlohn *J Rovereto! ! ., Rese rout 7 Wauppestal

Prelude to the “pay-oft’—five allied inner fortress. S of the Remagen beidgebend 8 steadily Supinding 3 inte

(8 GERMANY

i

{ American junetion on the Rhine, in ©...