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ES. OL UME 5—NUMBER 9

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945

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War.Again Reaches A Showdown Stage—And Anything May Happen

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, March 21.—With ‘the capture of the Saar by the 3d and Tth American armies and the clearing of the Oder line by" the Russians, the war obviously has reached another critical stage.

bridgehead.

ward ‘Berlin.

Anything—including the collapse of German arms -—may happen. The Germans were claiming today that something already had begun to happen with hard blows by the

at any time,

resistance.

American 1st army northward gut of the Remagen

Perhaps anticipating the ‘event, the Germans also claim that the Russians have begun their assault to-

What is evident to everybody, German and otherwise, 1s that another great snowdown is likely to come

This time the German army will do well to escape with enough force to continue its organized

The situation, from the German viewpoint, is so

Two Children Burn to Death Here

. Bandra May Smallwood Cecil Edward Smallwood

CURFEW KEEPS | N. Y. IN DITHER

‘I'm Rung City but Not Army,’ Says La Guardia. |

‘Roosevelt's statement yesterday fa- | voring a midnight curfew on = tertainment, LaGuardia said: “He's running the coun try. Just running the city.” Asked for comment on the war department order that all soldiers evacuate saloons and other night | spots: by midnight—an order that! went into force here last night and | led to the spectacle of civilians con- | tinuing with “their drinking while soldiers - were ordered away from | “the bars—LaGuardia said: “I'm running the city. I tried to | run the army but they wouldn't | let me,”

Mrs. Helen Smallwood. wart to die Yoo »

BODIES FOUND NEAR DAY BED

Mother Away From Home On Family Errands.

A young mother returned home from several neighborhood errands today to. find her. two babies had {burned to death during her short | absence. Her arms laden with groceries and an electric iron she had borrowed from her brother, Mrs. Helen Army Visits Bars Smallwood, 22, stood unbelieving, Under La Guardia’s instructions, | wide. -eyed with fear, as the fire issued in his weekly radio chat last (trucks pulled to a stop in front of Sunday, New York had become the ‘her home at 911 W. New York st. first and only large city to defy. war| She paused for a moment, then mobilization director James F| ‘dropped her bundles, running to ‘Byrnes’ midnight curfew request. |firemen and screaming: The army's order hit New York “My babies, my babies, my babies suddenly last night when military are in there.” police, accompanied by shore patrols as “obserrels’ made the rounds of Tred fo Find Safety A few minutes later Fire Lt. John

| Herman G. Morgan, {board secretary; Helen Daniels, iso-

FALSE ARREST S CHARGED IN 520,000 SUITS

22-Year-Old Girl Alleges City Officials Held Her Illegally.

A- 22-year-old girl asked damages

® totaling $20,000 against Mayor Tyn-

dall and other city officials for

licious prosecution.

Suits were filed today in Marion county superior courts 1, 2 and 3. The plaintiff charged that she was arrested March 8 on a vagrancy charge and held for five days, during which time she was taken to the isolation hospital. Municipal Judge John L. McNelis dismissed the vagrancy charge March 19 after the girl was ordered released a week ago at a habeas corpus hearing in. superior court. Her attorney, James Dawson, said no evidence was presented that the girl ever had been infected with a venereal disease or that she ‘was a “vagrant.” He pdinted out that a vagrant is a person without visible means of support or established residence. “This girl has a home and is employed,” he said. Three Suits Filed

suit for $10,000 damages was Wo against the mayor, William Remy, Paul Robertson and Smiley Chambers, safety board members. | Police Chief Jesse McMurtry, Dr. city health

lation hospital official, and Judge McNelis. In a second: suit, Raymond Porter, a police officer, was charged with malicious prosecution. It alleges he signed the vagrancy affi-

rest was made.

This suit asked $5000 damages. :

alleged false imprisonment and ma- J

davit on which the subsequent ar-|

victory seems inescapable. While the 4d and 7th what must be regarded as

units, which are known to ‘to be heard from. the American 1st and the

ap Navy Crippled By 2-Day Blow, | Nimitz Says.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent GUAM, . March 21. — Dispatches from famed Task Force 58 today boosted the toll of two days of daring air attacks on the Japanese fleet in its home bases to at least 17 warships and 600 or more aircraft wrecked. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said the raids Sunday and Monday on Kobe, Kure and other bases in Japan’s inland sea had crippled the surviving remnants of the Jap fleet as it was rushing repairs to meet an anticipated invasion of the homeland. The carrier-borne fleet of 1000 to 1400 U. S. navy planes broke off its attack late Monday. : Japs Fear New Attack A Japanese communique said the task force, including its escort from the 5th fleet, was “fleeing southward” toward the Marianas with aircraft im “close pursuit.” Radio Tokyo said, however, there were “plenty of possibilities” the task force might renew its attack. Nimitz's communique on the attack listed 15 to perhaps 17 warships as damaged. Late radio dis-

Defendants in the third suit, | charging false imprisonment and |

fel Newman, James Langsford, Thomas Flannery and Ernest Lepper. The suit charged that this police

. ‘bars apd night clubs at midnight | “explaining to club owners that they | Stewart and Fireman Joseph Lawrie, a . must clear the prmises of service-{irom No. 6 eninge davon denrst, mes. | through the flames and found hud-|

squad went to the girl's home and arrested her. She was taken to police headquarters a&& held" there 10 hours; the suit alleged, before be-

\dled behind ® day bed 19- months- ing taken to ‘the isolation hospital

lold Sandra May and 3- "years =old Ce-

YANKS, GUERRILLAS - oid Sandra SPEED PANAY PUSH The children had tried to find a

MANILA, March 21 (U. Pp.) — corner from which to hide from the

American troops linked with strong flames but the fire“gutted the little Filipino guerrilla forces on Panay three-room house. ; today in an offensive that burst| Mrs. Smallwood, the wife of into the suburbs of burning Iloilo| Charles Smallwood, Indianapolis and swept through more than 250| Bleaching Co. hooked the door square miles of the island. | with a little wire latch before going The lightning strikes of Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush's 40th division. which (Continued on Page 3—Column 3) threw the Japanese into disorder ~~ on Peanay's south central plains, ripped through three ve Bobet CITY RETURNED 10 towns and tumbled airdrome, with its be dy “= CRITICAL LABOR LIST runway. The extent of the blazes indicated the Japanese were attempting the same destruction of Iloilo and its 90,000 inhabitants as they did at | Manila.

Expect Contiued Awarding Of War Contracts.

for examination, Held at Hospital The plaintiff further alleged that she was held at the hospital four days during which she was required to submit to various examinations and considered a veneral disease suspect. “This {s just the first of four similar suits I am bringing in behalf of girls who have been subjected to this sort of illegal treatment,” Mr. Dawson asserted. “I've got another case where a

male police officer. This isn't all. In still another case, a police officer made advances to a girl and when ‘she resisted he threatened to send her to the isolation hospital. A few days later, the girl found herself there.”

Charges Gestapo Tactics

The war manpower commission today placed Indianapolis in the No. 1 critical labor’ shortage category for the second time. The city was in the acute classi- | 2 fication last. summer but after a! few months was placed in the No. 2 group. How ‘much effect the new rating, would have was not known, Théoretically the army and navy are supposed to place their contracts in areas where more labor is available, But informed persons say this | _|city's industries have large backlogs of “War contracts Already. Also,

ASSOCIATION BUYS | KERNEL LAKE SITE

Kernel's. lake, 20-acre site. in western Marion county, has been sold to the Marion County Fish and Game association. Purchase price on the deal has not yet been announced, but it is believed to approximate $5000. For the past six years the lake has been leased by the Bell Telephone Conservation club. Dr. Joseph B. Kernel was the former owner,

CHURCHILL WARNS OF PARTIAL . FAMINE

LONDON, March 21 (U. PJ .-- Prime Minister . Churchill told the house of commons today that large portions of Europe may face partial or even total famine next winter and that Britain's own food stocks{ will sink to minimum levels. * , B Churchill said that the prospective

unobtainable elsewhere, the war agencies can pay. little heed to the manpower ruling,

European (amine vas ave ean tor | (] CY 2 Detroit May Sop Post-War Labor-Management Test By FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

. WASHINGTON, March 21.~Will every employed man and woman after the svar have a guaranteed annual income from his or her job?

TIMES. INDEX

Amusements.. 6;Jane Jordan. 19 Eddie Ash ... 16 | Ruth Millett. . 11 Business ..... 8!Movies ...,...- 6 Comics ...... 19| Ernie Pyle ... 11 Editorlals .... 12| Radio 19 trial adjustments, . 12|Side Glances. . 12 President Roosevelt gave the 19 | Wm: P. Simms 12|Kick-off on the subject when he an20. Society ....14, 15 nounced an official recommendaMeta Given . 14 Sports 9 uo for further study of “io Byrnes In Indpls. 2 | Tom Stokes. . had been Teternq tor es Inside Indpls, 1 Up Front .... 11/ag board,

That question is consigned to

The- last word in Byrnes’ title

Freckles .... Gardening . .

The attorney compared local police methods with those used by [the gestapo. The suits were the first civil action taken against the police de- | partment despite repeated charges

I'made over a period of two years

asking $5000° damages. were Officer | Were Porter. and. Vice Squad Members tWisted | George Martin, Russell Wise, Dan-

19-year-old girl was required to un-| dress in her apartment before al

{paches from Task Force 58 said at least 17 and possibly more warcraft left smoking and bomb Revise Plane Losses The toll included a minimum of seven aircraft carriers, probably all that remained in the Japanese fleet, and two or more battleships, dispatches said. In addition, six freighters were sunk and seven damaged. The umber RSet lanes destroyed or damaged was revised by late dispatches from' 575 to at least 600. : “Japan’s hopes of rebuilding her crippled air force and fleet were smashed,” United Press War Correspondent Lloyd Tupling ‘reported from the flagship of Vice Adm. Mare A. Mitscher, commander of the task force. Nimitz's communique reported (Continued on Page 9—Column 1) o>, TT ——p————

Hoosier Heroes—

TWO ARE KILLED, 10 LISTED AS WOUNDED

Sgt. Dooley, Waist Gunner, Pvt. Brown Die.

An Indianapolis waist gunner was killed in action, a New Augusta flier was killed in a plane crash in Texas, and a local marine

|that hundreds of arrests were being ' made illegally. |- More than a year ago Prosecutor | Sherwood . Blue reported that his |] records showed between 700:and 800 “vagrancy” arrests were dismisses | us illegal. In October, 1943, more than a | score of girls charged that they were | arrested by police thout cause,

| confined to the isolation hospital

| without proper charges being filed | against them,

a committee of the board advisory

to James F. Byrnes, director of war mobilization and reconversion.

is important in this connection, ‘be=

cause the annual wage may be hcoked up with our post-war indus-

This recommendation came from the war labor board as part of its decision in the wage case of the

C. I. O. United Steelworkers. The!

|WLB decided it ‘couldn't impose a

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was wounded on Iwo Jima, accord|ing to today’s casualty lists. KILLED, T. Sgt. Donald W. Dooley, Linden hotel, over Germany. Pvt. Robert M. Brown,. New Augusta, in crash in Texas. WOUNDED Cpl, George Iseley, 3768 Rockville

"[48 ‘many war items made here are|held ‘in-jail under $1000 bonds and | "lp on Iwo Jima.

IG Pfc.” Robert W. McGowan, 1643 Cornel] st., in Luxembourg.

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Perkins: Guaranteed Wage Up to Government or Industry?

Some signs today are ominous.

desperate that tinted resistance is ridiculous. : It is so favorable from our viewpoint that rapid

not decisive diversion in the Saar, other armies and

The Germans’ are chattering busily about the 1st Canadian and the 2d British armies, the American 9th,

These armies except for the forces engaged im the

{and put into service in 1931, and |

_ By CHARLES T, LUCEY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer . DETROIT, March 21.—The toughest’ test of whether management and labor are to live peacefully or be at each other's throats Th’ post-war America may corre In this niass production center. -

recent hearings here before the senate war vestigatiny committee headed by Senator James M. Mead (D. N Y.). Both sides seem to. be tensing their muscles for possible conflict

.armies have been busy on a brilliant and fruitful but

be on the line, are waiting heavy

American 15th.

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Remagen operation have all been rested and brought up to strength and obviously preparing for a long-éx-pected attack across the Rhine. The mightiest collection:of air forces in history is ready to back up any assault with a v ast «collection of bombers

fighters capablé of flying something like 5000 sorties on any given day. The weather is excellent, Germans’ fine blitz weather in 1940, The Russians have been busy around Stettin and 4

and’ medium bombers, fighter

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due retribution for

in East Prussia, but several armies farther south are ready for a fresh drive.

If we had not had so many disappointments in the

and ing ability to take it

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Our Town: Art Now Has U. S. Army Blessing

PLAN EXPANSION OF LIGHT PLANT

New Power Company Unit “To Cost $3,600,000.

A $3,600,000 expansion of the Harding st. power plant, the city’s main source of electric supply, was Announced today by the Indianapolis.Power & Light Co. : H. T. Pritchard, utility president, | |satd priorities are being so

a 37,500:kilowatt turbo-gene

They will constitute the fourth | unit at the plant. The expansion is necessary now, Mr. Pritchard said, because the margin of generating capacity over peak demand has been narrowing. A total of 997,583,832 kilowatthours was sold by the company last year, compared with 464,748,007 in 1939. In-that period, the number of customers rose from 125466 to 140,703. The addition should be ready 18 months after WPB approval is obtained, inasmuch as it will duplicate the last similar units. installed’ at Harding st. The first two units of 36,750-kw. each were completed

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RECESS COAL PARLEY

WASHINGTON, March 21 (UP). —The soft coal wage conference went into “indefinite recess”

and operator forces said it was uncertain wheni they would resume negotiations. Their present contract expires in only 10 days.

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BOMB GESTAPO QUARTERS WITH 21ST ARMY GROUP, March 21 (U. P.).—British Mosquito | bombers destroyed. gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen today. A picked squadron of the speedy plywood bombers wrecked ‘the fivestory building housing gestapo headquarters in a three-minute precision attack.

A lot of bitterness emerged in the

The thing that's causing most of the trouble is. production rate—how

“The Chapel” by Tech. 5th Gr. Harold Shephenson, Wakemsn general hospital. ®

{been brought to Indianapolis. ‘are. now on exhiBitigpsas he dllinois opaht for! branch- of Indianapolis “Service

rator, | | Men's Centers, Inc. (northwest Gorand a boiler capable of producing] {ner of Tinols and Michigan sts.) 400,000 pounds of steam per hour. | Hours:

maybe, of soldiers,

short. | sure activities ly before noon today. Both union | army.

“Portrait” by

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Servicemen's Pictures on Display at Illinois Center

By ANTON

YOU HAVE no idea how the war has changed Our- Spinions of men and their behavior. Believe it or not, it is now resnectable to be an artist. Even more significant is the discovery that artists now have the “| blessing "of the AnTertean-srmy=—Jn-suppors-ek.which-L cite the art | shows held last week at Camp Atterbury, Billings hospital and Wakeman General and Convalescent hospital. In

R. A. F, HEAVIES SLUG

every case the exhibited work was: that of servicemen,

Since then the prize pictures have They

2'to 10 p. m. The assembled exhibit, labeled the Army show, will close the night of March © 23 . (next Friday). Do make an effort to see it, if * for no other reason than to readjust your opinion of artists. And, too. The show you are urged to see

"Mr. ScHerrer

is bigger than meets the eye. It represents this area’s contribution to the much-talked-of army arts! contest open to all military person- |

| nel. (the 37.500-kw. third unit if 1941

Show at Ft. Hayes Next. Yow, ought to know more about it. It. appears that somebody ' in

Washington had the imagination to | recognize the value and importance

of art and crafts as one of the leiin the To acknowledge the creative

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Arts |.

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Stout Field, Ft. Harrison,

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past, it would be logical to say that nothing could pre= vent this array of might from finishing off the German army in Germany and forcing a quick collapse. . Because the .Germans have displayed such surprise

and because of the obvious deter=

mination of the Nazis to maintain resistance until the end, nobody today would be willing to make any defi

by The Indianapolis Times and

The Chicago Daily News, Inc,

SAAR COSTS NAZIS 70,000 MEN; RUHR IS NEXT: 1ST OPENS DRIVE 600 Planes, 17 Ships In Jap Fleet Smashed

3d and 7th Link Up

In Spectacular Victory.

By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondefit

PARIS, March 21.—All ore ganized German resistance in the Saar-Palatinate collapsed

} [today as the American 3d and

7th armies joined forces. The combined forces

: | wheeled- in to the Rhine to annie

hilate a few thousand Nazi survie vors along a bridgeless, 29-mile stretch of the river bank from Lude wigshafen to the Karlsruhe crosse ing. : In one of the most decisive vice tories of the Western’ war, the two

| American armies had wiped out all

but about 10,000 of: the 80,000 or more Germans who held the vast Saar-Moselle-Rhine triangle at the start of the offensive one week ago, Chemical Center Menaced Saarbruecken, Zweibrucken, Kals serlautern, Wis Mainz and Worms, ithe keystones of the Gere man defensive system, were in American hands or on the verge of capture this morning. A sixth and even greater prize,

ter of Ludwigshafen, was menaced

army that raced to within six miles west and nortiwest of the. city. The last major German escape

opposite the east bank city of Karlse ruhe, also was imperiled by 7th army troops who smashed through

NAZI RAIL CENTERS

Americans\Raid Airfields to. Slow Luftwaffe.

LONDON, March 21 British Lancasters, carrying 11-ton| bombs, continued the aerial pound-

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the Siegfried deferfbes.beyond Wise |sembourg, 15 “miles to the _southe ! west. Not a single Rhine bridge was standing as the Sdmecicecs struck | for ‘the river this morning. “The

the sprawling Rhine chemical cene-

' panje- -stricken Germdns faced the 2

prospect of mass surrender. or a suicidal crossing in boats and barges under the fire. of American ware { planes. r to the north, the Avierican 1st army exploded a new offensive northward from its Remagen

ngs of Germany's transportation | bridgehead and swept out into open

{centers today. way bridge across the Weser river {near Bremen .and railway yards at Munster.

The ‘attack by the .British heavies

followed those of about 2000 American planes which hit nine airfields plant at Plauen many. Among the airfields attacked by

the American planes in the renewed | campaign to knock out the partially |

revived - luftwaffe were bases “for | jet-prepelled Messerschmitt 262s. | A —————————————————— LOCAL TEMPERATURES 4 10a. m.,... 38 40 Ml a.m 38 . 39 12 (Noon) 40 41

in northwest Germany and a tank! in central Ger-!

They hit the rail- | tank country less than a dozen

{miles from the southern flank of {the Ruhr basin. :

3d and 7th Linked German military spokesmen said the Americans were attacking heave ily on the northern and southern flanks of the bridgehead and age serted that the battle east of the ‘Rhine had “entered the decisive stage.” On the heels of the 1st army | breakthrough, . Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcast a grim {warning to the German civilian {population and the thousands of | foreign slave workers inside the Nazi lines to get out of the Ruhe immediately. Gen, Eisenhower de

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