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prisoners’ wing into a factery of slow death, violating
every rule in the Géneva con An American major pris forts of the other American
vention book. oner who had supervised eiprisoners to care for them-
selves showed me records of 809 Americans who had been sent to the ward during the past four months.
Of the 309, 53 had died lack of medical care.
BULLET SLAIN CATTLE FOUND ARREST 4 MEN
Booked for Vagrancy, OPA Starts Probing Black Market Angle.
Four men found skinning and dressing four bullet-slain cattle last night in the basement of Spencer's restaurant, 4411 Allisonville rd.
were the subject -of OPA scrutiny today. The black market suspects were booked ‘on charges of vagrancy by deputy sheriffs who surprised the quartet after following a trail of fresh blood leading from the dining spot's driveway to its cellar entrance. Open only one day®s a week, the
restaurant was supposed to be closed ' when the cofinty officers cruised into the driveway for a
routine check at 11 p. m. last night. In the basement, working over four recently-bled cattle hanging in huge coolers were Merle Agner, 28, Spencer manager, who. resides at the restaurant; Joe C. Williams, 49, of 1730 E. 46th st., chef; Floyd W. Miller, 42, of 5235 N. Keystone ave.,
and Frefidie Trudel, 33, of 2627 N. Illinois st. Heads of the carcasses were
pierced by fresh bullet holes, said Deputy Sheriff Virgil Quinn. Trace Origin of Stock Backtracking' to the home of Miller on Keystone ave, Mr. Quinn located what he believes is the truck that transported the valuable cargo to the restaurant.- The fidor was covered with blood. The deputy sheriff said he had ascertained that the cattle had heen shot and bled in the truck in the rear of the Miller barn. Deputy Quinn said he had tentatively traced origin of the livestock to a farm owned, ‘by Miller in Tippecanoe county near Wyandotte. The deputy said -questioning had
_ disclosed that persons selling -the
allegedly contraband cattle were to receive 21 cents a pound for the
- “animals on, foot. This is above the
OPA” ceiling, Mr. Quinny declared. « Also found in the driveway of the cafe was a smaller truck containing a 200-pound hdg, still alive. Dep+, uties said the truck is owned by the restaurant. Released on Bond Their cases slated in the Beech Grove magistrate’s court Yor -7:30 «p/m. tomorrow; those arrested were released on $1000 bonds each, supplied in cash by Bondsman Ralph Hitch, Deputy sheriffs who made the discovery were Earl Smith and Nick Rawlings. OPA officials conferred with the sheriff's office on the case this morfling. Spencer's restaurant is owned by Bam Spencer, now in Naples, Fla.
FOREST FIRES RAGE OVER STATE AREAS
Fourteen forest fires, sparked by dry spring weather, are raging the state forestry division reported today. Burning weedfields have carried the blazes to valuable state timber land, T. E. Shaw of the forestry , division said. Locations of the fires are: Two in Floyd county, ing over 200 acres; four in Brown county, two covering more than 200 acres; one in Pike county; one in Green eounty; one in Owen county, and one in Monroe county, sweeping over some 100 #cres.
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Times Driver Is Home From War
With Air Medal
Sgt. Reynolds H. Alderman
THREE YEARS AGO T. Sgt. Réynolds ‘H. Alderman drove a
Times circulation truck in‘ the downtown district. Now he’s a radio-gunner on a B-26 bomber, with 61 missions chalked up in the European theater, “Any similarity between a Times circulation truck and a B-26 isn't exactly coincidental,” smiled the
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FEAR U, S. MAY KEEP FAIR SITE
State Officials Hear It May Be Used as Parts Dump.
Unofficial reports that the state fairgrounds will soon be converted
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into a storage place for alréady-
disturbing state officials. The. officials, who prefer to remain mum and unidentified at present, harbored secret hopes that thé Hoosier state fair might be‘resumed next year if the European war has been concluded by that time. They fear, however, that the famed “site on 38UK & may become a virtual post-war parts dumps if the government should decide to use it as a receptacle for “what it termed “non-active” materials, They have consulted air force supply officers about their problem, ‘Heard Some Rumors’
Col. Frank J. Hills, commanding officer of the . AAF specialized depot here, said he had heard a number of such rumors. But, he pointed out, absolutely nothing authentic concerning them has been issued from AAF headquarters in Dayton. Already two warehouses at South and Sand sts, are storing “nonactive” aviation material, he said. The ‘AAF rents the fairgrounds at a nominal fee of $1 a year for storage of new, plane parts on their way to the war fronts. “Weffelt that it was a patriotic duty to furnish the facilities during the war,” said one state office holder. . “But if the war ends, it seems to us that left over and dismantled supplies could be stored elsewhere, maybe in some abandoned war storage plant.”
DISMISS SCHOOLS AT 11:30 FRIDAY
Indianapolis public schools will be dismissed at 11:30 a. m. on Good Friday to permit students and staff members to attend religious services, Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent of schools, said today,
U. S. Faces Test With Allies Over Food Crisis in Europe
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,
WASHINGTON, March 28.—Developments in Washington and London reveal that relations between the United States and its allies may
again reach the “Uncle Shylock” done about it. The present misunderstanding
short-tempered and impatient—more so than over money. Those who
remember the bitterness engendered by the war-debts controversy of a decade and a half ago are hoping
—~the-food situation will be. cleared up.
at once. JInformation from London is that
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is over food. Hungry people are
Col. J. J. Llewellin, British food minister, is coming to Washington shortly to réview the situationr In
is being investigated, many say he cannot come too soon.
ports in this country that Britain now has a ‘food stockpile of 700,000,+
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1000 tons. Even |Churchill has taken
trouble to deny the story. No one in authority here, however, has ever made any
ly 156 tons per capita, or three pounds a day for every man, woman'an ang Shiid in Brita; dor the ness
used and discarded plane parts are |defense.
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CODE ADOPTED FOR POSTWAR LABOR PEACE
Industry and Union Heads Draft Joint Plan for. ‘Partnerships.’
WASHINGTON, March 28 (U.
leaders today announced a proposed charter for a “practical partnership” of labor and management to insure industrial peace after the War. A sevel-point plan was made public at a joint press conference by Eric A. Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; C. I. O. President Philip Murray, and A. F, of L. President William Green. Under the proposed ole. of principles, the right of labor: to organize and engage in collective bargaining would be recognized and preserved. The code also would - recognize and preserve the. “inherent right and responsibility,” of management to direct the operations of an enterprise. Promote Principles
e so-called charter would provide’ for creation of a joint committee of business and labor representatives to promote acceptance and Jsympathetic understanding” of the principles by the organizations concerned. The preamble to. the proposed charter said that today management and labor are “united in national] Tomorrow, we must be!
{united equally: in the national in-| {terest.” {
Text of the proposed charter: “We in management and labor firmly believe that the end of ,this| war will bring the unfolding of a| new era based upon a vastly expanding economy and unlimited opportunities for every American, Pledges United Effort *“This peacetime goal can only he ftfained through the united effort of all our people. Today, we are uniting in national , defense. . To-
in the national interest. “Management-labor unity, so effective in lifting war production to unprecedented heights, must be continued in the post-war period. To this end, we dedicate our joint &f-| forts for a practical partnership| within the framework of this code| {of principles: 4 “l, Increased prosperity for all involves the highest degree of pfo-| duction and employment at wages assuring a steadily advancin standard of living. Improved productive efficiency and technological advancement, must, therefore, be constantly encouraged. Rights Must Continue “3. The rights of private property and free choice of action, inder a system of private competitive capitalism, must continue to be the
ing economy. “3. The inherent rights and responsibility of management to direct the operations of an enterprise shall be recognized and preserved. So that. enterprise may
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RED CROSS URGING LAST-MINUTE GIFTS
Campaign Is Being Pressed With Windup Tonight.
The biggest and most important Red Cross appeal in history, a plea
a continuation of life-saving. services to the boys on the battle front, comes to a climax tonight. If the goal of $1,145,000 is reached, it will establish.a ‘new high” for a campaign of this type, for the quota is $78,000 more than was raised a year ago. Drive leaders were making no predictions today as to the outcome. “It can be done providing there is no letdown and pwliding last-
their support,” was the statement of Russell J, Rydh, general chairman. ‘Pérsons who ‘have not yet given were béing urged to get their contributions “i today in order that
of $828,082, or 72-3 per cent had been raised up to last Friday's re-
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17 KILLED IN CRASH MEXICO CITY, March 28 (U.P), Z.Sewgnteen persons were killed and
18 injured last night -when a rail.\road locomotive rammed a passen-
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mg skeletons with matchstick args and legs which they could barely lift.
A large number were members of the 106th division cut up at Ardennes. nie The Prisoners said their wounds had not been cared for during the past two weeks and, earlier, often for perods of eight days
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Yanks In Prison Hospital, Many From 106th, Found In ‘Living s Hell’
By MALCOLM MUIR United Press Staff Correspondent
HEPPENHEIM, Germany,
threatened to cut off what bandages they wore, for German use. At the same time other prisoners—several hundred Poles, Serbs, French and Italians—wore clean bandages and said they had received adequate care although little food. In a storeroom downstairs I saw dozens of Interna-
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SEVEN ARMIES SWEEPING EAST, OUTFLANK ENTIRE RUHR BASIN
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on to Giessen, 54 miles past the Rhine, after a Srashing armored breakthrough.
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ALLIED PRISONERS
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Save - Selves. by Spelling -POW With Bare Backs .
By JOHN B. McDERMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE U, 8. 1ST ARMY IN GERMANY, March 28.—A thousand
had been captured by the Germans stood in the sunlight for six hours with their naked backs spellirig out
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(1. asked the senate to pass the house-approved compromise manpower
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7 LOCAL MEN DIE, ONE LOST
Nine Others Woy Wounded and
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P.) —President Roosevelt today
would hamper “successful conduct
to Chairman Elbert D. Thomas (D. irs committee that the manpower | situation “is still serious.’ |
Two Are Prisoners. In an apparent allusion to what .
{ might be expected to happen after | Seven Indianapolis servicemen? defeat of Germany, .Mr. Roosevelt |Dave lost their lives on Iwo Jima, | in Europe and another is missing | added; {over Austria. “In the days ahead of us there |peen wounded will be great temptations for works- | prisoners. | ers to leave war plants.” KILLED | The bill, written by house-senate| Marine Pfc. James H. Kidwell, 628 | conferees; would - apply stiff penal-ig. New Jersey st.,-on Iwo-Jima. {ties to both workers and employers| * T, Sgt, Joe W. Dombroski, 3148 N. | who violate its terms. . It would | | Pennsylvania st., in France. authorize the administration to| Marine Cpl. John FB. Hyland, 19 N. freeze war workers in their jobs|cChester st., and 768 and to impose manpower ceilings ave. on Iwo Jima. on employers. | Pfc. Gilbert Hack, Passage of the measure, MI. ave, in Germany. Roosevelt said, would place respon- | sibility for “effectively and fairly] (Continued on Page handling the manpower situation |
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MUNCIE PILOT AIDS RESCUE OF FLIER
Figures in \ Ernie's Story of Daring Exploit.
. Lt. Bob Murray, Muncie fighter pilot who already has 10 Jap planes to his credit, helped.in the rescue of a downed Yank flier Yecently in Japanese waters. In Ernie Pyles column today (Page 9), is the story of how five planes hung around the sixth) crippled plane to try to direct some surface vessel to its rescue, Murray, pilot of one, of the five planes, had to head for his aircraft carrier shortly before the rescue because of gas shortage.
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His Taw This Way
ray, Muncie, the navy flier is 21 land won his wings Oct. 1, 1943, at Corpus Christi, Tex. = f Since he has been. operating in the Pacific waters, he has downed nine Jap fighter planes, four of them at one time, and a ap bomber. # - Before going into the navy he went to Burris high school, where he played basketball. He was graduated in 1941 and enlisted in the navy Sept. 5, 1942. He began his naval training at Purdue university.
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New Bombing Zones Set Every 20 Minutes
Allied Tide 2 230 Miles from Berlin: Opposition ‘Melting’; Retreat a Rout in Some Sectors.
By BOYD LEWIS
Press Staff Correspondent 28. —Seven allied armies drove 200-mile belt of Germany's west-
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A series of spectacular armored breakthroughs ‘outflanked the entire Ruhr basin and carried to within 230 miles of Berlin.
American fliers who swarmed out by the thousands to
‘bomb and strafe the fleeing ‘enemy, reported that the allied
‘tide was sweeping eastward with tremendous Speed and power. Except for a few stubborn pockets of resistance in the ‘by-passed Ruhr valley, German opposition was melting
every where from the Karlsruhe corner to the Dutch border.
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Reach Dortmund-Ems Camat . Berlin said British tanks had advanced 33 miles beyond the Rhine crossing at Wesel to the Dortmund- Ems canal, almost 20 miles past their kick-off ‘point this morn Is. There the Tommies were.past the main arsenal ¢
‘ters of the Rulr and only 245 miles due west 6f Berlin.
Returning “pilots said the battle lines were moving
lahead so rapidly that new bambing zones had lo be estab\lished every 20 minutes.
At some points the pursuing British were completely out of contact with the flee-| ing enemy. ‘Trocps: of the American 9th army | on their right flank “charged into] ‘the Rupr itself and cut the Buis-burg-Hamm mil#ary highway. Radio Luxembourg said they! captured the factory city of Ster-| krade nine miles northwest of | miles or more beyond the middle Duisburg. ’ | Rhine to the outskirts of Giessen, Parts of Front in Rout { 230 miles southwest of Berlin, The The Germans were in- the midst | | drive split through the center of of a general retreat that had | .'¢ Wehrmacht front and outbroken into a disorderly rout at | flanked Frankfurf-on-Main. | many points. Hundreds of allied | Strike for Schweinfurt | tanks were riding harq on their | Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U. 8. heels. 3d army stormed into Prankfurt The allied tank armies, shaken and 45 miles beyond in a freeloose for the first time on a ma jor [swinging drive for the vital factory in- | | city of Schweinfurt, 90 road miles fantry lines and racing almost un- | east of the Rhine. r opposed across the burning Reich | Patton’s men unofficially were re- | anywhere from 30 to: 90 miles | ported striking north near Fulda, | beyond the Rhine. 198 miles from Berlin, and souththe American 3d least within 30-odd miles of Nuernand 7th armies linked up on the |berg. ; {Main river 35 miles east of the | The American 7th army broke Rhine and about the same distance | out of its Rhine bridgehead south southeast of embattled Frankfurt. of Pation’s men and raced ahead The juncture brought the Ameri- to the Main river, 35 miles east of can 1st, 3d and 7th armies abreast | the Rhine. along a front of almost 100 miles| Britain's fordign secretary, Anbétween the Lahn and Neckar river | thony Eden, served notice on the valleys. | Nazi leaders that Adolf Hitler has Into a few blazing hours that|been branded as the No. 1 German [threatened Germiany with her |war criminal | greatest military disaster of the war| British soldiers in the field, he | were packed these additional de- told the house of commons, can | velopments: a
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Promineit Nazis Reported Fleeing South Toward Alps
By W. R. HIGGINBOTHAM the British United Press Staff Correspondent [ “standing by LONDON, March 28—European | lapse. reports said today that prorinent | oy Brussels broadcast heard by Germans, including Foreigry Min- | © Exchange Telegraph agency said Ribben sonn ister Joachim von Ribbentrop and) the entop ang tie un ane} | Adolf Hitler's - personal physician, larrived at Lake Constance on the were fleeing south toward the Alps Swiss border. With them. the and the Swiss border to escape. proadcast said, was Dr. Ferdinand allied armies. Sauerbruch, - The reports followed increasing Seller uch, Hitler's personal phy evidence that victory in Europe| , oi... Exchange Telegraph diswas approaching. How soon it will patch, this one from Zurich, said pao authority would hazard |,, least four panzer divisions and
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On the War Fronts
A March. 28, 1945 WESTERN FRONT—British tanks, Japan; American invasion forces stream through broken German| sweep over Cebu island in Phillpdefenses on northern road to Ber-| pines. 3 lin. AIR WAR-—More than’ "1300 Ameri-~ EASTERN’ FRONT—Berlin reparts| can bombers and fighters attack
Red army massing super-force across Oder river for early frontal or plants in Berlin and Hann.
assault on Berlin. 4) | PACIFIC — Tokyo says American ITALIAN FRONT—Sth. ana reinforcements have landed - Kerama island, 380 miles
LONDON, March 28 (U. P.).— Front dispatches said ~ British troops entered Emmerich today; widening - their Rhine bridgehead to 20 miles southeast from that city to Wesel. .
war cabinet was " for Germany's col-