Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1945 — Page 3

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. WAUNESAY, MACH 21, 194 i a i News Blackout Veils Events In Romania and Bulgaria

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> : Times Foreign Correspondent ISTANBUL, March 21.—~Where the slender tongue of Turkish soll lies in Europe history ends and darkness begins. What is happening today in Bulgaria and.Romania no American

correspondent knows,

That is because, apparently, it is impossible for American news- |’ papermen to enter these countries openly and legitimately, write frankly what they see—and yet leave themselves free to return again in the same above-hoard, rec~

LEANING WALL PERILS PUPILS

Removal of East. Side Landmark Sought.

The “Leaning Wail of Tecumseh”

for many years a landmark on the - This made it poseast side, has now become a haz- Mr, Weller 110 tor the Britard. ish to occupy a Greece, emptied of

Each day, several hundred Tech- resistance.

nical high school pupils scuffle past the leaning wall of bricks in the 2000 block of E. 10th st. Citizens in the community have long feared that the structure, which leans at a 45-degree angle, will collapse, fatally injuring passersby. Built about 35 years ago by community subscription, the wall once provided a stately entrance into Tecumseh st. © About two years ago, however, it-began to sink from spring rains.

jacent to the half-block long wall]

has worried over the problem for an American businessman to enter

some time. Remoyal Asked {

“I've called the city engineer's | office repeatedly,” she declared. “So | far, I've not been able-to-get.-any. results. I'm willing to help, but] I'th a widow with only a small in- | come and I can't afford the.entire cost of removing the wall.” | Art Henry, city engineer, could | hot be reached for comment. He| was sald to be vacationing in Florida. | His assistant, Frank ‘Unversaw, said he talked with Mrs. Martin, concerning the wall, hut that he | didn't know whether the city could legally spend the money for its removal, since the wall stands on} Mrs. Martin's property. Nothing has been done, though, to | get a legal opinion on it. Arch Bobbitt, corporation counsel, said he would have to study the case | before he could say whether there| are laws permitting the city to re-| move the wall as a safety measure. Meanwhile, a number of neighbors have indicated to Mrs. Martin thelr | willingness to contribute toward its

removal. | passive accomplices.

TOWNSEND COUNCIL

MEETS SATURDAY

The state council ofthe Town-) send National Recovery Plan, Inc, hn Romania is about to" begin

will hold a week-end meeting opening Saturday at 10 a. m. inthe Hoosier Veterans of. Foreign Wars

hall.’ > A highlight of the convocation

will be the 2 p..m. mass meeting

Sunday when Floyd R. Moody of Augusta, Mich, director of the fourth region and MIicHIga state organizer, will speak. Mr. Moody's subject will be “The Townsend | Plan and Post-War Planning.” He!

Eakins, Indiana state organizer.

“ jzers of the Townsend National Recovery plan, willgive the address | Saturday at 2:30 p. m. This'Will be] preceded by the morning session at | which Mayor Tyndall will extend | greetings. | Women of the Veterans of For- | eign Wars auxiliary will. serve a chicken dinner Saturday at 5:30] p.m.. Miss Lila Mae Dowden and | Dr. Cecilia V, Jedlan will present | special music.

ONE BIBLE STUDY GROUP ORGANIZED

Neighborhood Bible story hours tomorrow will open in more than 50 Indianapolis homes in connec-. tion with the Baptist “Winning-the-Children-for-Christ” campaign. The = campaign—sponsored by Baptist Men, Inc. in co-operation with the departments of Christian education and evangelism of the Northern Baptist convention—is a children’s revival with meetings to| be held in homes rather than in| churches. A demonstration story hour with 30 children participating was given

church. Materials for the story hour classes were especially prepared by the "American Baptist Publication society of Philadelphia.

CIVIC CLUB TO MEET The Lowell Civic club will meet |

at 8 p. m. tomorrow at Lowell school, Raymond st. and Hunter rd.| ; Chester Anderson is arranging the| Officers for the coming year and

have been banned to the free press. Some correspondents entered before the Soviet authorities had consoli~ dated political controls, °

departments were late in providing similar political action, parallel to the 15th - air force's strategic 'action, American correspondents found

= ment is only a detail of general Mrs. Lillian M. Martin, 964 Te-| American political impotence in the cumseh st., whose property is ad-| Balkan scene.

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2 : (the responsibility for the Balkan will be introduced by L. | blackout uniquely at the Soviet |ddor — pointing out the difficulti Herbert Harep, director of organ-|,. . a TE baffled ewes |ficials — stabler observers withhold Jdudgment.~ Sh Tey

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ognized manner. Eight months of ‘history have unrolled since American bombers and fighters— combined with Soviet ground troops—ireed the central Balkans from aggressive German forces.

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Since then Bulgaria and Romania

Since the American state and war

themselves without status. What Kind of Peace? But the correspondents’ predica-

Today it is actually easier for

on private affairs than for an American correspondent who wishes to inform thé interested public what Bulgaria and Romania do with their freedom and what the Russians do with lend-lease. What kind of peace. has been bought with American and Soviet blocd and arms in the Balkans remains a mystery. A Political Setback

All that is clear is that when the American air force's principal role in Balkan liberation as the smasher of the luftwaffe was written off politically in the Balkans, U. 8S. foreign . policy suffered ‘a defeat. This was comparable to those other unrecognized setbacks in the Fran-co-Soviet and Australia-New Zealland pacts. : It is known that nearly 1300 officially admitted executions have occurred fh pro - Soviet Bulgaria. How and why, nobody knows. One neutral observer, recently returned from that country, estimated that about 30 per cent of the condemned in Sofia are genuine collaborationists, The rest being simply

Plan Trials in Romania

In regions where the line between | willing pro - Naziism = and merely | bureaucratic adhesion is sharper, the authentically guilty are said to number about 80 per cent. The new. Peter Groza government | similar trials. | Its eagerness to prove that it can ‘lake a stronger hand with collabor|ators than the former Premier {Nicholas Radescu — and the Maniu | cabinet—may roll up a toll higher than Bulgaria's since Romania has more numerous anti - Russian ele- |

While some American circles place

In the case of Yugoslavia the Soviets were wrongfully blamed for

press when ft was ascertained that, actually, high officers in the British and American commands in Rome were responsible for the Yugoslav blackout.

NAVY INDUCTS 14 FROM INDIANAPOLIS

Recent inductions into the navy here include the names of 14 Indianafolis men. : They are Norman Moorefield, 2219 Terrace ave.; Aaron Ratliff, 1309 Mills ave.; Melvin Smith, 2234 N. Spencer ave.; Ronald Witman, 1236 E. Tabor st.; Morris Barker, R. R. 16, Box '597-D; Robert Elkins, 1234 E. Minnesota st.; Everett Terrell Jr., 2237 Union st.; George Boyd Jr., 2138 Pleasant st.; Richard - Folger, 1101 River ave.; Gerald Casper, 1141

Avondale pl.; Francis Lee, 3261.Col-

lege ave.; Albert Miller, 3201 E. 21st st.; Donald Newkirk, 1669 E. 59th st.

HEALEY MEMORIAL

SCHEDULED MONDAY |

A memorial meeting to the late Gen, George H. Healey will be held by the Gen. Edwin M. Lewis patrol of Mexican Border Veterans at 7:30 p. m, Monday in the Columbia club. , .

program and Mrs. Pearl Brady, delegates to the meeting of the

president, will preside.

National association will be named.

RATION CALENDAR

MEAT-Red stamps Q5 through 85 good through March 3ly TH through X5 good through April 28; ¥5 and Z5 and A2 through D2 good through June 2. E2 through J2 are valid through June 30. Meat dealers will pay two red noints and™4 cents for each pound of waste fat.

CANNED GOODS-—Blue stamps X5 through Z5 and A2 and B2 good through March 31; C2 through G2 good through April 28; H2 through M2 are good through June 2. N2

through 82 are valid through June 0., A SUGAR—Stamp 35 valid for five pounds through’ June 2. Another stamp will become valid May 1 GASOLINE — A-14 coupons good for four gallons each and are valid

through today. A-15 coupons become good for four gallons each tomorrow and are valid through June 21, B5, B6 and B7 and OCS, C6 and C7 are good for five .gallons; El and E2 good for. one gallon; R1 and R2 are good for five gallons. :

“airplane” -stamps in Book 3 good indefinitely. 3

FUEL OIL—Periods 4 and § of 1943-44 heating season and Periods 1 through 5 of 1944-45 heating season good. Approximately 84: per cent of fuel oil supply should be used as of March 18. :

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There 18 no. csvilian décoration compardable to the Red Cross Blood Donor’s Button— dbihiidn

The blood you give—enables

“others to Hre=and more-to

come back -home for Victory Day! You'll note . . the little Red ribbon with the Button—It indicates in the “Gallon club” —(He has given 8 pints) The Red Cross maintains out of its funds—(out of your ! .

“membership”

Hundred dollars or Six dollars )— these healing—life-giving centers

for Blood Donations.

FOR ¢6...YOU, ALL ALONE, SUPPORT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS...ALL OVER THE WORLD (FOR 1 SECOND)

f YOUR $100 or-$6 to the Red Cross makes available vitalizing life-giving blood to maimed and drained bodies—and bandages to the wounded.

"YOUR $100 or $6 brings, through the facilities of the Red Cross, to lonely men, and the fearfully homesick—the warmth ; and friendliness of home!

YOUR $100 or $6 puts the Red Cross in 782 Army and

Navy hospitals—and in |,117 Army and Navy camps and stations.

FOR YOUR $100 or $6

you can lift the heartache—and : the crushing worries of Service Men regarding the welfare of wife and family at home. (The Red Cross "Home Service" is right on hand.]

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YOUR $100 or $6

will aid the Red Cross in recruiting Army Nurses—vital to the health and life of the boys at the front.

FOR YOUR $100 or $6

you can arrange loans to Service Men—get messages through from

them—provide the avenue through which he can get gift packages—cigarettes.~.

WITH YOUR $100 or $6

you held in your hand the fate of many PRISONERS OF WAR—The

Red Cross packages, of which

there are millions annually, not only

contain food and clothes and medicine, but the packages are

also packed with the hope and solace

from HOME!

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Inc.. IN THE INTEREST. OF THE RED.

AND SHOULD misfortune or tragedy strike right here in town, your $100 or $6—will bring promptly on the scene the Red Cross with its facilities, well ‘organized and equipped to cope with the conditions.

It costs a bit more than $6 a second to operate the American Red Cross. We know of no deeper

feeling of accomplishment that a civilian can fake to his heart than the realization that he (or she) alone is supporting the Red Cross— all over the world—in this, the most fateful day in America’s history—even though it were but for | second—or for 6 seconds— (What a thrill of satisfaction it would be to support it, the whole a works for, say, an hour— : 5 at $22,500.)

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