Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1945 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Rain today; decreasing cloudiness tonight ; ~cooler; tomorrow, partly cloudy and warmer.
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VOLUME 56—NUMBER 8
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1945
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
SPRING, which undeniably has been idling around these parts
ing back into winter, says Weath-
women's hats dandelion greens .
to buy those astor, marigold and
“Bustle-Back’ Hats, Apple Buds, Skunk ll Arrives At 6. 38 |
in disguise for ‘a couple of weeks, backtracks and makes its official
entrance at 6:38 p. m. today.
Unofficially, Hoosierdom has been basking and flexing in weather-recording annals. Even Weatherman R, M. Williamson concedes that much,
of the earliest “springs”
wealhermen traditionally
cautious. Other reliable authorities, including redbirds, daffodils and State Entomologist Frank Wallace are in unanimous agreement, And if little tree buds prove. it, statistics clinch it: To date, March has heen over-
ary
in one
‘and heated by an sccarulatedt toll of 218 degrees above normal, All but two March days, the 7th and 8th, have been warmer than usual. Much of” the excess heat was generated last Friday when the temperature soared to 81 degrees.
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The average of 70 for that day was 30 degrees over normal. There just isn't any way of telling whether spring will continue to spring forth without fall-
erman Williamson. But, he points out, it's a good 50-50 bet that Indianapolis will undergo another killing = frost. April 16 is the average. Sale for the final frost. Any day now, the weatherman admits, he may have to cut his grass, nurtured to unseasonal
" ‘thickness ‘by balmy breezes, sun-
shine and showers. ! Nobody, except maybe Einstein, can decipher the complex phenomenon of an early spring and why it comes, Mr. Williamson de-
Sunday.
clares. But it all has something to do with high and low pressure areas and forecasting at present is limited to a five-day range. Additional harbingers of spring are those new type “bustle-back”
and skunk cabbage. The hats look like a victory garden on foot. Attorney Fred Bates Johnson, one of Brown county's many sages, said he had a mess of fresh dandelion greens with salt pork He also reports that Brown county is sprouting the most advanced spring trappings in years, = Among other things now in bloom, besides the artist colony, are sweetpeas, garden peas, grape hyacinth, sylla, snowdrops and salt and pepper flowers.
State Entomologist Wallace waxes rhapsodic over such spring sights as a friend catching a flock of bass in Cool creek. Now is the time, he points out,
tomato plant seeds for later transplanting. Already, ‘throughout central Indiana, apple buds are swelling ‘and bursting and. the peach trees will soon be in bloom, he adds. And some hepped-up wictory gardeners have already gone aspading, despite Weatherman Williamson's frosty warnings. Mr. Johnson says radishes and lettuce planted in Brown county 10 days ago are already above the ground. No doubt about it, it's an early spring.
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MORE RAIN ON WAY, STORMS SWEEP ¢ STATE
High Winds Cause Heavy Property Loss in 3 Hoosier Cities.
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RADIO ADMITS B-29 FIRE RAID
Moie rain was promised for Indianapolis today following yesterday's downpour which drenched local streets and left a heavy toll of damage in three southern Indiana cities, | The weatherman also forecast | eooler weather today but promised that the mercury will rise agam tomorrow, Beginning tomorrow, temperatures in the state will average five to eight degrees above normal for
sons Are Homeless Than the next five days. Showers Thurs-|
day and again Saturday and Sun- In Reich Bombings.
day are expected to bring one to] ; ! ? : two inches of rain in southern In-| Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace LONDON, March 20 (U. P.). — An amazingly frank
diana and one-fourth -inch in the north. ] © WASRINGTOR, March 20 (U. Japanese broadcast reperted Meanwhile, Madison, Salem and P.).—Commerce Secretary Henry by the B. B. C. said today that Shelbyville swept up debris today A. Wall d he would, . : Slheyille Swer: ur y Ben > 8 “whole districts” of Tokyo were destroyed totally by
from violent windstorms last nights | he is. | American Superfortresses
‘Tokyo Reports More Per- |
Paul E. Young of the civil aeronautics administration. After Monday's lesson, Young said Wallace was a “very normal
| | student.” They went up in a two-
Salem was flooded by a cloudburst which resulted in a flash flood | breaking 50-year records. merce committee last ‘week that Tt. was the second time in three| Ne Was impresséd by aviation’s days that southern Hoosier cities! Prospects and ‘that he intended . .were swept by high-velocity winds.” | to become a pilot. She latest storms came on the eve, 1i¢ 100k his first 45-minute flyof the official arrival of spring at ing lesson yesterday and will take 6:38 p. m. today. They followed his second today. « “His teacher is L more than a week of abnormal tem- | Mae peratures ranging as high as 83 de-| grees. The Madison damage was esti-| mated at more than $100,000 by Chief Ralph E. Hord. Shelby-
Wallace told the senate com- | passenger, dual control, “ercoupe”
with a=tricycle landing gear. Young handled the “plane on Nights ago. takeoff and landing, but Wallace | The raid of whiéh the Japanese | gave-a vivid account apparently was {the 2300-ton incendiary attack by | {more than 300 Superfortresses on| | March 10. | “During
did all the flying in the air. He should be able to fly the plane solo after about five hours of
lraining» CAA officials said, the night we thought |
Soft Drink Supply Shrinks As Sugar Rations Are Cut *
war plant was damaged badly. It will be even harder to find your: Javoriie: “soft “drink in the next | Salem merchants counted heavy, few months, iteration raids on Germany, and
damage from‘ overflow waters of A shortage that. now sends thirsty patrons from one store to another | | said that more persons were bombed Blue river as they seeped into stores! in painstaking search will become worse after April 1, lout than in the heaviest raids on and shops and ruined merchandise. James D, Strickland, Indiana district OPA director, said today that | the. Reich =
50 Homes Damaged { present, sugar allotments of 70 per cent of 1941 Supplies will he lowered | “The man who invented and car-|
«The. windstorm plunged Madison { 0.5 #4 cent. i : — ried out the large scale attacks on, dnto darkness. damaged at feast 50! will stay there at least tint FIGHT LOOMS OVER Hamburg is. now’ directing attacks) radio si ~ STATE'S BE BEER LAW The reference apparently was to
duced to ashes,” a broadcaster said.| { “That night will remain in the {eno of all those who witnessed
Blame Gen. Lemay
~The report compared the bomb- | ‘ing of Tokyo with the heaviest ob="
residences and posed a new relief SU 1” be sald. “An extra 10-15 on Japan from the Marianas,” the problem for Red Cross workers who| per cent will be giv en for soft aritiks’ . were engaged in rehabilitation work *04d in Sounnes with swollen, ‘war-| for victims of the recent Ohlo river| °c Popuations. Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemsy ig of| flood. Bottlers Notified of Cut the 21st bomber comm At Shelbyville, the Chambers| “The available civilian supply is “He repeated here in Rs what Corp, war plant counted a heavy (less because sugar production has Wholesalers: Adre Agree to Take he once learned in Germany,” the loss when a smoke stack was suffered from manpower and trans- | broadcaster said. leveled, shattering the roof and|DPortation difficulties.” Battle to Court. | “In a raid on Tokyo a few nights damaging equipment. Police esti- | James S. Yuncker, -president of | ago, owing to various unfavorable mated that between 30 and 40 the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. here, A free-swinging legal battle circumstances, fire caused by in-| residences were damaged badly. |said: loomed today over Republican at-| cendiaries swept away whole dis-| Heavy rains elsewhere over the | “We were notified Saturday of| !empts- to ‘oust Democrats from tricts of the Japanese capital which state closed state highways. Others the cut. I can't give you any ex- their wholesale beer business mo-| burned to the ground.” "have been barricaded since the Planation, This*time we're told the |Sopely in Indisna, Planes Flew Low floods of early March, \government needs the supplies to] Way pir diats, gris Beer! is soon as tle first incendiaryl At Pranklin, the roof of the feed the foreign populations. In r association, 80 per cent| | tk t, heard _t} | Democratic, loosed a vigorous blast|Pombs fell, the starlit night was Johnson county farm bureau co-|the past, we've heard there was a yesterday at recent G..O. P. state |ighted up,” the report added: operative building was torn off, and [Shortage of boats to bring the raw, legislation ai I ¢| clouds were suffused with a red| utility poles were uprooted by a Sugar from Cuba. : Young ail presen yp p y | wholesale permits as of May 1. | glow from the ground. storm. “Washington says there's no " o pe re Ne Yi “The Superfortresses flew In-| shortage of raw sugar now. I know oY 8 vote of 45.to C "as.
JAPANESE ‘GOOD-WILL’ that the OPA left ice-cream manu- | o¢iation agreed to institute ove. credibly low above the gradually
ceedings in state and federal Spreading fires. A B-29 exploded al-| TREES ARE BLOOMING
(Continued on Page 3—Column 2) courts to test the act's validity. As- most over the very heart of the i sociation attorneys said they. would | city. WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. “Red fire clouds kept creeping P.).—The capital's Japanese cherry tree§ began blooming today, an
(Continued on “Page 5—Column 1)! ticipating the arrival of zz FRIGTION CONTINUES NAZI FUEL SUPPLIES he: st sults wy oliots| OVER FARM DRAFT “wir Lowest pot
LONDON, March 20 (v. P.). AT CZECH LINE—NAZIS Director Irving C. Root of the Another Selective Service
Only one of 20 German ‘synthetic | LONDON, March 20 (U. P)— national capital parks said it was oil plants is operating and. fuel | Nazi military sources reported tothe earliest opening of their an- Official Quits. | Friction over selective service
|supplies for the Nazi war machine |day that two Russian drives were nual performance since 1927. have reached their lowest point, an, converging in the Czechoslovak bor- | The trees, brought here and R. A. F. spokesman said last night.| der area of southern Silesia. They | planted around the tidal basin as farm draft policies in Indiana con- As’a result, German long range threatened to trap the defenders] a gesture of Japartese-American| tinued today as another draft board good will during the administration of President William Howard Official resigned.
bombers and bomber reconnais- .of the upper Oder valley south of Taft, normally - blossom between | Chester Cook, chief clerk of]
| sance plants. almost had ceased op- | | Oppeln. April 5 and 10. |draft board 2 at Marion quit be-
| erations, he said. oe The renewed Silesian campaign | |cause of “an accumulation of con= ASKS MANPOWER FUND |
{coincided with a flareup in Hun-| A-15 GAS COUPON GOOD gary - -where other Russian armies, A-15 gasoline ration coupons will | were grinding through the German | | fusion climaxed by this farm draft WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P.).|business.” —President Roosevelt asked con-| Farmers throughout the state gress today for $93,872,900 to oper-
become valid ‘Thursday. = A-14 defenses west of Budapest and coupons will go out of use after to-| around Lake Balaton. The Nazis have expressed dissatisfaction over ate the war manpower commission |the drain of farm labor, but the during the fiscal year' beginning
morrow. Each A-15 coupon will be| | acknowledged impressive Soviet worth four gallons until June 21. ' gains on the route to Vienna. issue is especially warm in Howard July 1. This was an increase of |and Grant counties.
All three members of a Howard appropriations jor. the current fiscal| county draft board resigned last year. week-end In protest against selec-
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15| Inside Indpls.. 6 Jane.Jordan.. 18 Movies .... 18, Obituaries . die Editorials .... 12 Ernie-Pyle .. Peter Edson.. 12 Radio ... ....
By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
GETS NEW JOB, DIES | 11] FT. WAYNE, Ind; March 20 (U.! 18 P.).—Fumeral services were planned the coal wage parleys here, audition is very poor. You can see 'em but | . 15 today for Calvin Beam, 64, who died | you can't hear ‘em. 7 of a heart attack yesterday’ while | When John L. Lewis & Co. began seances March 1 with the coal . 11 en route to take over his position | operators thé gathering was assigned to a room without any windows 18 lag superintendent of roads for the! just aft of the main cocktail room = { the Shoreham hotel. Fashions. 14, 15 Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Ft. Wayne district of the Indiana o i POTUM. eras 2 Wm. P. Simms 12 state highway commission, He Was| Normally this room is uséd for Meta Given. Ssoviety 1% Ig ones formally of his fiew job cocktailing, with nobody caring John Hillman 3 only a half hour before his dedth. about lack of ventilation. sae Re i iden that the In Morris Plan provides Satay tor ydur But when this wage conference <hintion.—Ade, ROL going it tumed out that the (Continued on Page 11—=Column "n
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participants, including Lewis with a pocketful of cigars, did so much | smoking that the air situation be-
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Nip Homeland Gi Gets Recess
“The| powerful carrier-based air attacks on| enemy bases in Japan’s inland sea. |
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Allied armies ‘today were chopping up remnants of two German field armies trying to pull back across the Rhine from the Saar. To the north Yanks continued to expand their Remagen bridgehead.
AMERICANS SEEKING | HOOSIER 'HEROES— JAP NAVY'S | HIDEOUT
Eight Wounded,
Two. Prisoners
Two oval servicemen lost their | By UNITED PRESS jrves in. the Pacific war and one in The campaign to hunt down andthe Eroupean battle according to ‘destroy the Japanese fleet in its today’s casualty list. Eight others hiding places has begun, an officia! were wounded and two were taken
From Bombings. :
[navy spokesman at Washington said | [prisoners of Germany.
today. . He said it started with the recent]
KILLED
Pfc. Clifford A. Rarridon, 1922%2 | W. Michigan st., in Belgium.
“The inland sea” he told news- | Second Lt. Howard Bredenstein-
men, “is probably one of the major": 967 Layman ave, on Luzon hiding places of their fleet and pro-| vides the best refuge.
Lt. (jg) Vinson E. Reinhard, 2751 It won't be N. LaSalle st, on Iwo Jima. WOUNDED S Sgt. Eugene F. Helms, 22d st., in Germany. Pfc. Earl G.' McCormick, Broadway, in Belgium. Ship's Cook 3-¢ John Willis Sanders Jr, 1101 Eugene st., at sea, Pvt. James Harrison Wilcox, 2207 N. Pennsylvania st. on Luzon, Pfc. Joseph C. Friedman, 242 N. Sth ave., Beech Grove, in Germany, | T. 5th Gr. James E., Mosier, 2026
that very long. Begin the Hunt “This is the beginning of a campagn ‘to hunt down their ships wherever they are holed up, and to get them.” The spokesman said some good pictures”
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ARGENTINA FAILS TO MAKE WAR DECISION W, Morris st., in Belgium.
BUENOS AIRES, March 20 (U.| Pfc. Donald H. Meyer, 625 N. OxP.).—~The Argentine cabinet today ford “st., on Iwo Jima. | adjourned its meeting at which it] Cpl. George R. Vanstan, was to discuss foreign affairs with- Madison ave., in Iwo Jima. out reaching a decision, it. was an- PRISONERS
nounced. , S. Sgt. Paris. Osborne Cross, 709 It had been expected that the N. er ave., of Germany.’
cabinet would declare war on the| Pvt, Alexander K 5 - axis. thereby fulfilling one of the | land st., SXaaler Ran % BN Rich obligations enabling Argentine of join the united nations.
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Perkins: Coal Contract Near Deadline. but No One Will Talk Lucey: Auto Workers Will Face Pork: War Test of Strength
By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer + DETROIT, March 20.—There's talk here that the United autgino. | | bile Workers union, the world's largest union,’ is on the muscle because |
it knows it's at top strength now and is bound to shrink in membership after the war.
Union people dismiss it as more of the ° smash the union” campaign)
they say management is generating. How strong is the huge U. A, W.? Some top officials concede that been running ahead of income rethe world's largest union is far from | cently. the soundest. It has: a fairly small] U AW, Jeaders have tried to get “kitty” compdted to some financially plush older unions, Expenses hwre! (Continued on Pane SColuine 2
-tions.of Hitler...
Three Are Dead, i
40,000 NAZIS KILLED, CAPTURED; BLOCK ESCAPE ROAD FROM SAAR
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Huge TORY Areas In Ruins, Japs Say
IA icd Armies Chopping o Up Fleeing
| Enemy; New Remagen Drive
Reported.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, March 20.—American ground and air forces |blocked the main German escape roads from the Saar-Pal-atinate pocket today. They closed in for the kill on the thousands of Nazis fleeing for the Rhine. Between 40,000 and 50,000 of the 80,000 Germans originally spotted in the triangle formed by the Saar, Moselle
{.|and Rhine rivers were believed to have been killed or cap-
tured during the week-long American offensive. The enemy's main escape
road through Kaiserslautern, {at the center of the collapsing i pocket, was within almost point= blank artilliery range of U. S. 3d army tank columns, and its fall was
| HITLER'S CHILDREN—
Fuehrer Papa, Sweden Hears
In New Rumor expected soon.
LONDON, March 20 (U. P.).— Headquarters of the American 1st | The Stockholm newspaper Afton- +tactical -air force announced that bladet reported today that Adolf Tank fliers had Sealed of De see . . : ondary escape roads branc ou | Hitler and an unidentified bru to the east and southeast from | nette actress were the parents of 'ggjsersiautern to Ludwigshafen and ‘two girls. i
Karlsruhe. The report was one of a series
Resistance Weakens of rumors from Stockholm about Resistance on. both flanks of the the matrimonial status and inten-
German pocket appeared to have i COlADSEd. &ven the Siegfried line defenses ort; gthern rim of the Saar where the Nazis had been fighting a delaying action were crumbling. Upwards of 30,000 captives already were inside the 3d army's cages. The ¢ |Tth army, where the priséner count, Deittsches theater, in Berlin and {lagged by several days, Teported the theater Am Gaertner Platz | more tha 4000 taken.’ : in Munich. ©. | Between 15,000' and’ 20,000. of the ? 5 x.» {3d army’s prisoners were b. ese HITLER was — as a |terday, indicating the 3 Rate J | devoted father, but trying to ‘enemy collapse on that sector.
guard the secret of his father- Thousands more—their number hood lest the Germans think him | still uncounted—were killed by the
"n » . THE Aftonbladet dispatch was published under a Bern dateline. It purported” to quote a source close to the German government. | The actress was described as 31 years old and a veteran of the
| frivolous. | conver i ging armies and Americ | He was sajd to be awaiting the | aerial attacks as | birth of a son to marry the | a I mother of his daughters, one pur- | 3d 20 Miles From 7th | portedly born last July and the | Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d other a few years ago. army tank columns were barely | eet eammae. four miles northwest of Kaisers~ lautern early today. There they NAZIS MOVE 10 CURB were only 20 miles from a juncture | with Tth' army troops advancing northward through ‘the breached MOUNTING DISORDE Sicatrien line forts near Pirmasens, second major German come ro center at Neunkirchen, | miles” Southwest of KaisersCancel Army Leaves and i uteri, was only two miles trom Patton's vanguards this morning. Register Civilians. Push Eight Miles Inland By PHIL AULT The third enemy keystone ab United Press Staff Correspondent Mainz, ‘on the Rhine 45 miles LONDON, March 20.—Germany northeast of Kaiserslautern, also today cancelled virtually all army was imperiled by a tank column leave and ordered the registration that drove to within seven miles of civilian refugees in an attempt of the city on the southwest, to restore order in the chaos-ridden On the UU. S. 1st army's Remagen Reich. bridgehead front east of the Rhine, Both German and neutral reports German dispatches said the Ameriindicated that the converging ad- cans started a new offensive along vances of American, British and | the northern perimeter. The drive Russian armies and the increasing! was aimed at a breakthrough into weight of allied air raids were spreading confusion through Ger- (Continued or on Page 5—Column 5) | many. A Sofia dispatch said German U. S, BOMBERS BLA BLAST | prisoners had reported that Adolf | Hitler, fearful- of mass surrenders, NAZI TARGETS AGAIN 'had ordered the execution of fam- LONDON. March 20 (U. p).~U. |ilies of German soldiers who gave S 8th air force heavy bombersup to the allies. roared out over Germany today to Workers Leave Jobs {hit targets that were not immedi- | The official German D. N B. ately announced. agency admitted that war workers | ia Biaish boibbers sworied by Sul and civil servants had abandoned fires and -Musiangs -atia — {yards at Recklinghausen and Hamm (Continued on Page 5—Column 4):in the Ruhr.
On the War Fronts
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WESTERN FR ONT — Third army PACIFIC—American invasion force:
drives within 20 miles of juncture! expands beachhead on Panay iswith 7th army in bid to trap sur- land in Philippines. ‘
vivors of two German field armies ’ ] AIR WAR-Berlin reports allied
in Saar-Palatinate. | EASTERN FRONT — Berlin reports bombers over northwest, west and
Red army driving deeper into Ger-| man defenses at Altdamm across river from Stettin; Moscow reports Germans preparing for stand to ITALIAN FRONT-—Acton limited to death on east bank of Oder. A