Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1945 — Page 2
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Spontaneous Jubilee Viewed As Unfair to Pacific Fighters.
| A campaign to prevent any public celebration when the war in Europe
‘COUNCIL IN AUSTRIA
WASHINGTON, March 14 (U, P). —An" allied council to control post[day to supplement th& Big Three] | commissions which © will control] | Germany and draw up the enemy's reparations bill. " President Roosevelt disclosed yes- rain,
{fon the Tth army front? Pfe.
snow and
[terday that the Big Three had de- mortar fire for 48
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‘ends was launched today by a com-| h |
mittee of 40 members: representing business, labor and employer groups. | At a meeting with Mayor Tyndall " the committee unanimously agreed to sponsor a “stay on the job” pro‘gram for V-E day (victory in Europe), “The people of Indianapolis must realize that when the. war in Europe ends our war is not.over by means.” fact, our war probably will not be! even half over when and if Germany surrenders.” |
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The V-E day commitiee by Paul Brown, city park superin-| tendent, voted to conduct a publicity campaign to inform the public that any jubilee on Indianapolis) streets at the end of the European | war would not be fair to the thou-| sands of families who have fighting and dying in the Pacific. . Labor union officials said .they already had advised their workers against any layoffs when the war in Europe cipses. War plant executives said will put up posters throughout ty factories urging all workers to stay on the job. The Employers nounced that surveys made last summer. regarding V-E day plans revealed several plants planning to shut down for-24 hours. A more] recent survey showed a change in| attitude. No plants now are planplanning any recess.
Will Control Celebrations
Mayor Tyndall said that plans will be made to control any spontaneous celebration that might develop among crowds on downtown streets. “If any groups should want to| stage a parade, we will direct them | to the World War Memorial plaza for memorial services in honor of | the dead instead of a victory celebration,” he said, The committee instructed Mayor
boys
association an-|
. Tyndall to appoint a smaller com- i acute,
mittee of four or five members to conduct a publicity campaign advising the public against a V-E| day celebration.
ORDER INQUEST IN HOLLYWOOD DEATH
HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (U. P.) —Authorities today ordered an inquest Friday to fetermine whet er a 41-year-old Hollywood tenis instructer
murdered by gasoline black mar- |
keteers. When police found Leslie C. Wilbank’s body, with a bullet. through
Mayor Tyndall said. “In J
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killed himself or was/ TWO-—A drop-off in
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rs {German
cided to establish an allied commis- hours, while litsion for Austria at Vienna, The erally sitting on control council. probably dynamite — and will be in Berlin, and the repara- all by himself, tions commission at Moscow. The son of The Vienna commission will be Indianapolis Po[patterned after the Berlin body, lice Officer Ernest
lit was understood, but allied treat- | | Whitsett, bailiff
ment
1 people pitched in to help regain it.) Undersecretary of State Joseph C.|seven hours ahd didn’t mind a bit.
Capt. Raymond E. of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Knapp, 43 N. Vine st, is shown after he arrived in San Francisco with the first large group of American prisoners liberated from Cabana- | tuan prison camp in the Philippines. He is shown with a friend who came to greet him.
MEAT SUPPLIES ~ SHRINKING FAST
Current Shia Worst Since War Began, Qutlook Is Gloomy.
CHICAGO, March 14 (U
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get a good mental picture of those three-inch steaks and juicy roasts that used to line the butchwon't
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er's counters, because they be in style again for a long time,
Producers, wholesalers and retail-
ers agreed gloomily today that civilians might just as well resign themselves to empty meat counters. dicted, before fresh meats return to the market,
The current meat shortage, they.
said, is the worst since the war {began and is as widespread as-it
A United Press survey revealed | that in nearly every section of the
[country the better grades of meat!
—beef, pork, ‘veal dnd lamb—had virtually disappgaréd. ‘Even cold cuts and cannédimelts were ‘almost non-éxistent, ~“ *= ite 4 Reasons
the -American cited four
Spokesmen Meat Institute
for reasons | for the shortage: : -| ONE—The lowest February in history. : > production, especially in: pork. THREE—Increased demands of the military and lend-lease. FOUR—Widespread black market
the heart, in a fashionable Holly- Operations.’
wood apartment Saturday night, they listed the death as. suicide. ‘Then O. P. A. officials revealed | that Wilbanks, socially prominent | teacher of filmdom’s net aces, had | been ‘arrested in a gasoline black | market case and released under - bond after turning informer, Jack Foster, O. P. A. investigator, contested the police suicide list-
ing. He said Wilbanks, who some- |
times. used the more glamorous] name of Pierre, Beauregard, killed.”
ECONOMIST TO HEAD .
OPEN FORUM SUNDAY
“What You Earn and What You Pay,” will be discussed by Dr. Mor-| decai ‘Ezekiel, noted economist, when he speaks before the Indianapolis Open Forum at 8:15 p. m. Sunday] in the Kirshbaum center. Former economic adviser to Secre- | tary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, Mr. Ezekiel will emphasize the relationship of prices and salaries Dr, Ezekiel, who has had a lengt background of government service, is author of a book, “Jobs for All’ He also has studied at the University of Minnesota, Brookings Graduate School at Washington and as a Guggenheim research scholar abroad. Theodore Dann, president of the Jewish Center association of Indianapolis, will preside. Dr. M. O Ross, Butler univefsity president will introduce the speaker,
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Another reason cited for the ctr{rent scarcity was thé wholesale i slaughter of baby beef. The meat institute reported less than -162,000,000 pounds of meat i would be available weekly during the | first quarter of 1945,
Supplies to Fall
Supplies for the second quarter { beginning: in April, were expected to fall to 151,000,000 pounds weekly, he. saich. y ; rower w weekly ‘meat consumption from 1939 to 1941 was approximate226 000.000 pounds " But the shortage isn't co the meat for table alone. Restaurants feeling the pinch and many quick {lunch stands, barbecues and hamburger spots are closing down,
0. D. KENDRICK, 78. GRAIN DEALER, DEAD
0. D. Kendrick ave., died yesterday hospital. He was ‘78. An Indianapolis 30 years, he been and grain business nearly all | He had.offices in the Board ¢ building at the time He was a member of Red Men's lodge and the Grace M. E. church. Survivors are his daughter, Mrs rane Beloit, Wis., and a brother, Howard B., Indianapolis Services will be held at 10 a. m Friday in the Grace M. E. church with burial in-Memorial- Park -ceme~
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nfined to consumption and hotels are
1527 Carrollton in St. Vincent's about in sthe hay nis life f Trade
of his death.
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IN INDIA
EVENTS TOD AY
City tin can collection, south of 161} Junior Chamber of Commerce, lunch Washington hotel, 12:15 p. m.
EVENTS TOMORROW
Induction ceremonies, tendent of public instruction house supreme court room. 11.1% a City tin can collection, south of 16th Red Cross war fund campaign
Indianapolis Real Estate board, luncheon, Washington hotel; 12:15 p. m,
Indiana
BIRTHS
Girls Wesley, Dorothy Richland, at City, jdgar, Bertha Coob, at‘Coleman Raymond, Bylvia Steen, at Coleman. fdward, Mary Foulk, at Methodist tobert, Alma Bmith, at Methodist . Everett, May Wilkerson, at Methodist Glendon, Roberta Campfield at Emhardt Kenneth Martha Clark. at Empardt. John, Melva- Wiley, at Emhardt, Robert, Georgann Pepe, at 444 N. Beville &s, Marybelle Davis, at 8t. Vincent's, Jack, Elizabeth Harlan, at 8t. Vincent's, , at Bt. Vincent's. , at Bt. Vincent's. Robert; Ann Parks, at 8t. Vincent's, jaan, Bdna Wycoft, at St. Vingent’ |
Boys .
fayette. Winnie Bell Smith, at City, rothy Clark, at Methodist,
NAPOLIS
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rai hemorrhag Henry Ga ra carcinomas Margaret Turnbull ? bivd., coronary occlusior Barah Jane Edson, 79 hypertension Esther Bedell 25 at Methodist perrtonit Scott Hughes, 63, at. Veterans nephritis Rebecca Morse, 63,
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at 133 McKim, earci- |
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" Ranchey, a Jicthodist, en at Med Ne od. cDanie ot (4 Raber! Frances Thomas ethodist,
Carol Ann Koontz, odist, pneumonia
Ropers Donald Dodson, 8, at \
Chisie Cox
2. monsha, at Meth.
Riley, braing
59, at 516 8. East, pulmonary tuberculosis Fred J. Hatmaker 81, at . Aral peritonivis, Danny tee Lee Greenlee, 4 mohiths, at Riley, |
sare 52, at Long, cardise aw
Veterans’, gen-
It may be months, they pre-|
stocks
of Austria will be grounded, in municipal on the promise’ made to Austrians court 3, and Mrs. in November of 1943. |W hitsett, the ; hi At that time Austria was prom- lonesome private, Robert Whitsett ised post-war independence if her|asked if he was scared, replied: “Was I scared? T lay in water for
I sure hope again.” His story was. told by a dispatch from the 7th army public relations | office.
Grew reminded Austria Sunday, on fhe seventh anniversary of its ane nexation by Germany, that now was the time Austrians to show that wanted Post. -war freedom
that doesn’t happen
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Fire Scares Gl From Here
pr How does it feel to be left alone; | war ‘Austria wasn the making to-| {in charge of an ammunition dump [division fuel and lubrication truck,
Robert Whitsett of 1543 Wade st. can tell you, He weathered |
Phe driver of a 12th armored
Whitsett volunteered to haul ammunition and fuel for the Tth army front lines’
| Under cover of darkness, the convoy left the bivouac area escorted by tanks... When they reached their destination, enemy pillboxes started lobbing mortar fire on them. The tanks dispersed and the trucks were unloaded, but fast. Pvt. Whitsett ‘was left to guard the supplies. As it rained, snowed and froze, Pvt. Whitsett dug four foxholes | “just to keep warm.” Then he set-| tled down in his ringside seat to watch his tank batallion success (fully attack “the enemy pillboxes.
KILLS HUSBAND, SELF
NEW CASTLE, March 14 (U..P)). —City Policeman Marion Saul, 39, was shot and killed by his wife,
tanks to (Cross war fund campaign Friday,
Ethel, who then took her own life, | New Castle police sald today.
RED CROSS TO HEAR REPORT ON DRIVE
As additional gifts’ showing in-creased-giving came into Red Cross drive headquarters today, leaders made plans for the first report of progress in the Indianapolis Red
The report meeting will be a luncheon .at noon in the JPALCO club, N. Alabama and 16th sts. with luncheon served by. the Red Cross canteen. The drive, which got under way on March 1, continues through March 28. The goal is $1,145 500. Employees of the Hugh J. Baker & Co, 602 W. McCarty st, have
{made an “over the top” subscription
of $963, averaging almost $7 per employee. one of the best reported in the drive, ; The $963 is exclusive of the firm contribution.
NOTE 50TH ANNIVERSARY The ladies’ auxiliary to the South Side Turners observed its 50th anniversary with a luncheon today at the hall. A card party followed.
The per capita gift is]
Local Morton. on 'Hoosiers at War' AN INTERVIEW with Marine Cpl. Robert H. Souchon, who is fighting with the 4th marine division on Iwo Jima, will be broadcast over station WFBM on the “Hoosiers ‘at War” program at 5:30 p. m. tomorrow, : Cpl. Souchon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. August Souchon, 3651 N. Capitol ave., and is A member of a tank company, The interview was transcribed by the marine corps -aboard the transport en route to Iwo Jima Just before the Leathernecks
made their assault landing on that island.
NURSE IN ERNIE PYLE PICTURE IS MARRIED
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 14 (U, P).~Cadet Nurse. Beulah Tyler, who portrays the typical cadet nurse in the Ernie Pyle ‘movie, “G.I. Joe,” has married a navy lieutenant. The wedding was Saturday. The bridegroom was Lt. (jg) Thomas B. Settle Jr., Fincastle, Va. the son of a former state senator.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1045 |
|SHAKEUP REPORTED |
IN NAZI COMMANDS §
- STOCKHOLM, March 14 (U.P),
—The so-called Free German Press bureau reported today that the Gere | man army commands on both the i Eastern and Western "fronts ag 3
changed hands.
The bureau. said Marshal Walter : von Model had succeeded: Marshal | Karl von Rundstedt as commander | in chief on the Western front. The
same report circulated Yesterday in Switzerland.
The bureau reported that Col. Gen | Heinz Guderian, Nazi.chief of staff, |
had been succeeded by a Gen,
Schoerner as commander-in-chief of
the Eastern front,
LONDON, March 14 (U. P.). ~The |
Daily Express quoted unconfirmed reports that Marshal Karl Rundstedt had been wounded by strafing allied fighter planes and waa removed as commander of the Gere man armies on the Western front.
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