Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1945 — Page 1
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By SHERLEY UHL
INDIANA'S farm draft problem
is on the brink of a severe crisis, the worst in state selective service annals, In two cases at least unrest among farm owners has already - boiled over into threats of violence. Hoosiers face a critical food shortage this summer, farmers assert.
This . is the gloomy picture painted today by farm operators, agricultural leaders, canning authorities and others protesting
what they believe to be tightefed
selective service controls
farm deferments.
over
Farmers through out the state
are reported up. in arms over the dratt system's continued manpower drain. The “danger”
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.zones are spotted, however, With some counties at the .very end of their rope as far as the foodraising situation is concerned.
board chairman receiving charging that
resigned after numerous threats, the state board
“failed to back up” farm draft '
decisions made in Howard county. In Grant county, a special com=
Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Fitzgerald Win 'Oscars'
Grinning Barry Fitzgerald, beautiful Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby clutch their “Oscars”
winning motion picture academy awards. for top acting in 1944.
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VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
In Kokomo yesterday a draft:
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mittee was formed to seek a liberalization of army demands on youthful farm hands. Hassil Schenck, president of the Indiana farm bureau, citing state wide confusion over selective service aims in farm circles, said unrest: was delaying planting préparations. An official Camp, Inc,
of Stokely-Van Indiana's largest
RUMORS OF NAZI
‘Denies U. S: or Britain Has | Any Information on Swedish Reports.
By UNITED PRESS
President Roosevelt said today that neither this country nor Great Britain had any information to |back up rumors that the Germans {have been putting out peace feelers. In response to news conference {questions about these foreign ru{mors, Mr. Roosevelt said nothing
Washington. He added that a check with the | British foreign office showed they {had nothing, either.
But the British Press association |
quoted authoritative London sources as confirming that -Nazi envoys put out peace feelers to representatives of the British government in Stockholm early this month. 3
\ Draft Calls Bring Threat Of Food Shortage, State Fa
-canning- company, said the unrest had a “very depressing effect” on, the. firm's contracted Crop acreage, . : “The resultant manpower shortage on farms has worked a particular hardship on us because 50 many canning crops require the widespread use of manual labor,” this.spokesman said. °° “We might as well face realities.
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‘This is the worst, it ever has been” So incensed over .the drafting of their hired help were Howard county farmers that they intimidated Draft Board Chairman O V. Farmer into quitting -his job there. : Mr. Farmer said certain remonstrants broke. glass out of his front door and tossed a box of burning rubbish inside his house.
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l 18 and 26. This was done, he said, following receipt of a state selective service “directive” urging” a reconsideration of - the .agricultura! deferment clas: After this .had fused much stormy criticism, he said state selective service headquarters had
Later he was threatened ‘with. the a piece of lead pipe,” Mr. Farmer said, but he did not expand on this point. In addition to these physical intimidations; hé* said he was harried by a constant stream or threatening notes and anonymous phone calls, = A Kokomo businessman, - Mr Farmer said his board had drafted 49 of 143 farm youths between
ages of
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PATTON RACING THROUGH SAAR; IST" POISED FOR BREAKTHROUGH
3d Nears Juncture With 7th in Trying To Trap 2 German Armies
West of Rhine.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, March 16.—Flying columns of the American 3d army crossed the Moselle river south of Coblenz and swept through the Saar basin at a mile-an-hour clip today. It was a spectacular race to link up with the norths ‘hound U. S. 7th army and envelop the last two German field armies west of the Rhine. A breakthrough of even greater import was shaping up on the U. S. 1st army’s Rhine bridgehead 40-odd-miles
x aq. 8 ; ~ |to the northwest. : NAZIS TELL OF The Americans fought thei
edge of the plains rolling north to the Ruhr valley and were expected momentarily to break their armored power loose on the broad military highwav linking the Ruhr and Rhineland to Berlin and central Germany. Unconfirmed reports said 3d army troops were storming’ the Rhine {city of Coblenz. and German cammentators “said the whole Rhine
way up the river bluffs tothe
Radios Blare That Stage Is’ Now Being Set for Grand Assault.
United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD. March 16.—Ingrid Bergman, all choked up, Bing]
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Crosby, all grins, and “Going My Way" all powerful, today walked off | with almost every mfijor “Oscar” at the nmwvie makers’ 17th annual
Operators Offer 6 CounterProposals to U. M.. W.
; ‘Communicated to Allies’ The association, in a dispatch by its diplomatic correspondent, said
award presentation. “Going My Way,” Paramount's picture about two Catholic priests; dragged down seven awards—including four of the six top honors.
“Wilson,” 20th Century Fox studio's Miss Bergman, who just missed | getting an Oscar for her role “in ey slight, opposite... Charles Doctor Says WomanaSufferoyer. i
story of the world war I Presi- | dent, followed with six—ail een YET KILLS MOTHER “For Whom the Bell Tolls” last| . : | Crosby's award was for. his role
nical citations. IN ‘MERCY SLAYING’ year, took top honors for her work | EE in “Going My Way.” ,
| . Demands. WASHINGTON, March 16 (U P.).—Soft-coal mine operators today {formally rejected the 18 wage countract demands of the United Mine | Workers. | But they offered counter-propo-{sals on six of the demands which [they said would add $1.69 a week to iminers’ basic earnings. a The “oper#tors presented their answer to the union demands at a“ morning session of the joint wage
‘lall’ information regarding the Ger-
man approach was communicated immediately to the United States
“land Russia. ,
The correspondent said the German approach was regarded in London as a typical instance of German efforts to sow dissension among the allies, and it was “firmly ignored.” The British press association added “it is -authoritiatively stated in London” that the Nazi feeler was made “at the beginning of March” along the lines of Swedish news-
ow ’ Zz Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Patritk .
Patrick Of Jap Machinegun Fire
Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Patrick,” 50-year-old commander of the U. §.| Diréctly’ before Berlin,
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By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent | LONDON, March 16.—Nazi radios {said today that Red armies had |
front northward to the Dutch bore der was stirring.
Awaiting Rhine Crossing
{opened violent new offensives on| The Nazis were alert against an thoth wings ‘of the Berlin front, in attempted crossing of the river op|Silesia and . before Stettin, to posite the Ruhr valley. The Nazis |set the stage for the grand assault Said yesterday that U. S. 9th army {on the menaced capital. {troops attempted to cross opposite Berlin - broadcasts reported that|Duisburg but that they were hurled {Marshal Ivan 8S. Konev's 1st back. : | Ukrainian army attacked on a broad! The Germans hinted JAlso that arc south and southwest of Breslau.|the British and Canadian armies They also said Marshal Gregory massed along the river farther | K. Zhykov's 1st White Russian army north were about to storm the stormed the Nazi. bridgehead across Rhine. {theSower Oder from Stettin. Doughboys of the American 7th Soviet fatmy “opened the nutcracker of«
ing Incurable Disease. paper reports. The reports said a 6th infantry division, died yesterday of wounds received during an |{OTCes were reported pouring across fensive on the German Saar basin Approximately 2000. persons, in-| - §T. LOUIS, March 16 (U. Pp.) |cOnference which is seeking to draft | Nazi envoy tried to get in touch with inspection of the front lines east of Manila. the Oder into a growing bridge- with a general assault along a 50-
cluding movie celebrities and, every A mild-mannered 49-year-old dis-| °c" Contract for the one expiring |a junior member of the British lega-| = The Hoosier general was the son of Mrs. Anna Patrick. Tell City, (head some 30 miles east of the mile front from a point west of
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fan who could Jammed Grauman’s Chinese theater to. witness the presentations.
abled veteran of world war I put his 75-year-old invalid mother to death today by smothering her with
Leo McCarey; who. produced, di- pillows, police” said:
rected, and wrote “Going My Way,*} was high point man for the evening. the home of Mrs. Twice he dashed down the aisle to! mann.
grab one of the “plastic
When the day nurse arrived at Frances HamClarence Ham-
the son,
(gold | mann, met her at the door of the
sprayed) statues—one for the best|pedroom.
- direction and another for the best original story. Bob Hope Busy Barry Fitzgerald, priest of “Going My Way” who also
was nominated for the best actor © live,”
the best supporting role.
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“Don’t come him as saying. killed mamma.
in, police - quoted “Call the police. I I couldn't stand
be-spectacled | 10 see her suffer any more.”
“I knew mother did not have long the veteran told police.
the bedroom. She spoke to me.
Ethel Barrymore. topped. the list | Then I put the pillows over her @s the best supporting aotress. She | ace,
wasn't there, sp Charles Koerner, R. K. O. chief, accepted the award for her. . Bob Hope kept the presentations hopping along at a merry clip and
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“May God forgive me.” Mrs. Hammann, a widow, was suf-
said her physician, Dr. E. Horace Johnson.
even got an award for himself—a|
life membership on the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “Every year they slip me a consolation prize,” he saidv sadly. “I wondered what excuse they'd think up this time.”
Hope was the chief heckler when the
HOLLYWOOD, March 16 (U. P,). —Police revealed today that Ann Jeffreys, actress, won a husband Wednesday—but lost $850 in jewelry and currency. A $750 ruby and diamond ring and a $100 bill ‘were stolen from Miss Jeffreys during reception that followed her
The conference immediately adjourhed until tomorrow. The operators flatly rejected the union's demand for a’10=cents & ton royalty which would be used for an insurance and hospitalization fund undér the union's jurisdiction.
Offer Counter-Measures
The counter-proposals” offered by |
the operators were:
{approached the | 1, To the union's demand that | Stockholm with
the new contract have no expiration | The dispatch, date but be subject to cancellation | London Daily Express, said Dr.
German Says ‘Swindle’ Thre ‘press association's report circulated soon, after a German foreign
|office spokesman termed the Swedish
reports as “just a plain swindle.” A Stockholm dispatch said today that Dr. Fritz Hesse, managing editor. of the, German DNB news| agency, was the German envoy who| British legation in| a Nazi peace feeler.| published in the
lon 20 days notice by either party—| Hesse tried to get in touch with a award, picked up his “Oscar” for| She was awake when I went into operators suggested a two-year con-
[tract subject to cancellation on 60
days notice by either side after the | not interested.
A spokesman for the British le-
| first year. 2. To ‘the union's demand for 10 land 15 cents-an hour shift differ-
{fering from an incurable disease, entlals—operators offered shift dif-
'ferentials of four and six cents an hour.
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| increase from the present $50 to]
{ proposed that miners with one to| © G€MAany and touched off dem-
five years service be paid 2 per cent of their year’s earnings. Miners with more than five years service to | bé paid 4 per cent of a year's earn(ings, with a maximum of $100. | 4. To the union's demand for a!
Crosby bounded up on the stage to! wedding to Capt. Joseph R. Serena | |
receive his statue. “I hardly know what to say ...” Crosby stammered. “Do it just like you rehearsed it, Bub,” sneered Hope. Miss Bergman, dressed in black
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‘MERCURY CLIMBS
ABOVE 70 MARK western front;
The mercury olimbed above the 70 mark today and registered the highest temperature this season. It was 72 at noon. - v y Tomorrow's forecast #is eloudy with showers in the afternoon. The weather is to continue mild.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
“TIMES INDEX
Amusements. . 22,Jane Jordan.. 28 Business .... 29|Ruth Millett, 17 Comics 28 | Movies 22 Editorials ... 18] Obituaries 14, 15 Fashions .... 21|Ernie Pyle .. 17 Forum ; 18 | Radio 20 28 | Mrs, Roosevelt 17 Meta: Given... 21 .P.Simms,..18 «30, 2 TiSports . = 24, 25
Hoosier Heroes: 5 Die on W.
Fronts17 Wounded; 1 Prisoner
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Five Indianapolis servicemen have been killed in action on the 17 have been wounded in all theaters of combat, and one man, formerly with the 106th division, is a prisoner of Germany, today's casualty list reveals. KILLED
2d Lt. John Strawn Jr, 934 N. Alabama st., in Germany. T. Sgt. August H. Graute, 1748 Hall pl., in France. “1 T. Sgt. Thurman (Bud) Graves Jr.,, 1836 8. Norfolk st, over Germany, ; . Sgt. Alfred Vernon Martin, 3109 E. Michigan st., in Germany. T. Ath Gr. Vérnon H. (Bing) Miller, R. R. 1 Carmel, in France. WOUNDED Pic. Evert Wilson, 5137 Wayne ave. on Luzon, Pfc. James E. Zinn, 1325 Carrollton ave., on Iwo Jima. ‘ Pfc. Robert E. Plummer, R. R. 2, Box 32-B, in South Pacific. Pfc. Roy M. Fleenor, 715 Lincoln st, in Germany. Shoda Pte. Charles E. McConnell, Rav-
Tom Stokes. 18 enswotd, in
S. Sgt. Harry (Jack) Betzler, 1118 Church st., in Germany. Pfc. Bronko Yerich, 705 N. Warman ave, in Germany. T. 5th Gr. Arthur W. Argento, 2901 Lafayette rd. in France. Pvt: ‘Kenneth R. Riley, 550 Woodrow ave., in France. = Pfc. Gilbert Lane, 625 S. Missouri st., in Belgium. Pfc. Theodore E. Junker, 36 N. Temple ave., on Leyte. 1st Lt. Wayne M. Dressler; 1137 Dudley ave., on Luzon, . Radioman 1-c Warren Joseph Rabourn, 905 Eugene st, in the Pacific’ T. 4th Gr. William D. W. JefIries, 1121 W. New York st. in Belgium. Pfc. John H. Murrell, 719 N. California st, in Belgium. 8. Sgt. Edward G., Hunter, 2346 N. Gale st., over Germany.
E. Washington st., in Belgium. ae PRISONER Pfc. John W. Hall Jr, 2541 Mars Hill st, of Germany.
junior member of the legation in| Stockholm, but he replied he was|
gation in Stockholm confirmed to]
the United Press that a German | envoy tried futilely to contact a
| junior member of the legation,
Tells of Demonstrations | |
and brother of Herbert Patrick, 22 W. 54th st., and Charles M. Patrick,
1329 N. Oakiand ave. |
= News of his death came in a telegram to his wife, Mts. Nelle B. Patrick, Ruidoso, N. M. -An hour earlier. she had been notified that he was! seriously wounded on Luzon. : Gen. Patrick was hit in the abdomen by enemy machinegun fire when he visited the forward American positions in the Wawa sector 15 miles northeast of Manila, Wednesday. A Japanese machine-gunner, who had remained in hiding behind the American .lines, fired from a position only 75 yards from Gen, Patrick’s foxhole. One bullet passed through the general's abdomen. . He died at 5:45 p. m. yesterday. Funeral services were to be held! this afternoon at the U. S. army cemetery near the Bonifacio monument in Manila. The general, who made Tell City
THOUSANDS DIE IN B-29 RAIDS, JAPS SAY Tokyo Clair o Better Defense and Relief.
By UNITED PRESS Thousands of persons were burned to death in the destructive American B-29 raids on Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, the Japanese radio said today. There was mounting clamor in the enemy capital for more adequate air relief measures,
The situation in Japan was reach-|
ing such serious proportions that
(A CBS broadcast from Stock- |e legal residence, served in the !N€ Japanese propaganda outlets $100 for vacation pay—operators | 101m said place rumors had spread | yosges, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Ar-|OPehly admitted the extent of the
onstrations- and parades in Duis- | burg, Dortmund, Duesseldorf and | Vienna. When the rumors proved groundless, the broadcast said, | strikes broke out in Berlin, Chem-| nitz and other Saxony towns.) On the subject of post-war Ger-| many, President Roosevelt told reporters it had not yet been decided | what zone of the Reich will be occupie& by American troops. Before the Yalta conference there !
War. { From December, 1942, to June. 1943, he served with the war plans] section of Adm. William F. Hal-|
‘HUNDREDS’ DEAD IN LONDON V-2 RAIDS
LONDON, March 16 (U, P.).—Cen-
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(gonne campaigns in the first world |damage caused by the increasing |
Superfortress attacks. . .#
Tokyo's newspapers caustically at-|
tacked the government relief program as “inadequate.”
The gravity of the war situation In Japan was emphasized by the]
Domei agency, which said that! under an “extraordinary” arrange- | ment, Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso! would become a member of the! Japanese imperial headquarters. The Soviet Tass agency, in a dis- |
was a plan for Russia ‘to occupy | sorship permitted the first disclosure eastern Germany with Great Brit-|today that “hundreds” of Londonain occupying central and north-7ers have been killed or wounded by
patch recorded by the F. C. C.! {quoted its Tokyo correspondent as | |sdying panic reigned in the enemy |
T. Sgt. Kenneth C. McNight, 5813 |
western Germany while American troops took over a corridor extending from Bremen down past the bend in the Rhine at Mainz, This plan, however, was discarded when it was decided that France would participate 4n the occupation. The President said he had not heard anything new onthe occupation: pléfr-since the Yalta meeting. He #&dded that he planned to look into it. Asked why the full Italian armistice terms have never been made public, the President said he did not know.
_ RECORD AIR COMBATS
WASHINGTON, March 16 (U. P.).~Recordings of actual air combats will bé broadcast from overseas in a new army air forces program, “The Fighting A. A. F.,” the war department announced today. SA
ADVANCE ON MANDALAY CALCUTTA, March 16 (U. P.)~ British patrols of the 2d and 18th divisions, rapidly clearing the Mandalay area, neared a junction today that would cut off the city from stronghold of Sagaing.
"tory; it took less than an hour to |
German V-2 stratosphere rockets. |capital after the B-29 raid on Sat- | It has been permitted only to say | yrdav. that V-2 bombs fell in “southern t England.” But today it was per missable to-disclose that the rockets have been landing in the London, HAVANA, March 16 (U. P.).—A! area and causing casualties. [conspiracy against the Cuban gov-| How many rockets have fallen in|ernment has been put down and 80 | the metropolitan area and the ape- | persons have been arrested, the] cific places they have hit remain a|presidential palace’ announced to- | closely guarded secret. day. |
CUBAN REVOLT QUELLED
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By HENRY J. TAYLOR . The curve of the street, the -| (Copyright, 1945, Seripps-Howard slope of the hill, the edge of the |
Newspapers) watertrough-- and each yellow A RHINE BRIDGEHEAD, March | stone wall of Zern's five or six i 16.—A few of our men died yes- | houses was important to the terday at Zern. handful of men I was with, °
I have not been able to find it Before we captured Zern a famous American general had |
.on an ordinary map. 9... Zern is not important for vic- | told me of the sweep of his | present campaign. It was full of | capture it, big problems. Only a company | But wherever men’ die is im- ’
portant to men under fire. | (Continued on Page $—Columa’%)
| the U. 8. 1st, reportedly
capital for the final push forecast Saarbrwecken-to the Rhine--corner for some days by both Berlin and opposite.Karlsruhe. unofficial Moscow dispatches, Kicking off in the darkness at 1 The battle of the Baltic coast was a. Mn. Thursday, the 7th army rolled drawing: to a close, with Russian igen armies clamping a new asSault dep ZGantinued an Page I—Column 4) on. the” East Prussian capital of] ane 4
Koenigsberg and storming the out-| On to Berlin
posts of Danzig and Gdynia. i By UNITED PRESS
All signs from Berlin and Mos- | The nearest distances to Berlin from advanced ‘allied lines today:
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NO WAR CRIMINAL NOW
BUCHAREST, March 15 (De-| layed) (U. P.).—Prime Minister {Peter Groza said today the hew! | Romanian government does not view former Premier Nicholae Ra{descu as a war criminal now but might later,
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