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COMMITTEE GIVES NOD Washington. — The Senate Post Office committee today approved a bill authorizing the Post Office Department to sell money order# less than $10 for five cents. o FRENCH REPULSE NAZIS Lond/on.—French partisan forces repulsed strong German attacks in the Dauphine district and were engaging enemy units in the districts of Vosges, Marne and Ardennes, authoritative French quarters reported today. Violent skirmishes occurred in southwest France between the Maquis (resistance forces) and German troops, it was reported, with the partisans knocking out several armored cars. CAPEHART ANSWERS MADDEN Indianapolis.— Homer E. Capehart, Republican nominee for U. S. senator, today answered a charge by Rep. Ray J. Madden, D., Ind., that his campaign expenditures be investigated by joining the “New. Deal keynoter in the request for_a grand jury investigation” and accusing the Democrats of trying to defeat his nomination by using “two per cent club fund,s.” Replying to Madden shortly after the congressman unleashed an attack on the GOP nominee at the Democratic state convention, Capehart said that “the New Deal poison squad has begun its work. It has been a matter of common knowledge that the New Deal . . . would center its effort toward my defeat in charges of vast and illegal expenditures of money.” o PAVEY, CHAIRMAN Indianapolis. — Mayor Jesse I. Pavey of South Bend today cen sured the Republican-dominated slate legislautres of 1941 and 1943 and condemned the state platform adopted by the GOP two weeks ago, in his address as permanent chairman of the Democratic state convention. Pavey said that the Indiana General Assembly during the past four years “established a new record for unconstitutional, defective and unworkable legislation . . . driven on by a state chairman who walked the legislative halls with greater and more sinister power than the duly elected representatives of the people.” o UNION MEN AT CAPITAL Indianapolis. — An unexpected development in the state Democratic pre-convention activity yesterday was a meeting of 200 delegates interested in labor unions who adopted a resolution against supporting two incumbent state Supreme Court judges for renomination. The resolution, prepared for submission to Governor Schricker and State Democratic Chairman Fred F. Bays, opposed Judge H. Nathan Swaim of Indianapolis and Judge Michael L. FansJer of Logansport, who sought renomination without opposition, because of court decisions involving labor unions. o WAR BOND SALES. Washington—War bond sales to individuals in the first three days of the Fifth War Loan totaled $561,000,000 or nine per cent of the $6,000,000,00 quota for individuals, the Treasury announced today. The state of Washington, setting a precedent for other states, radoied Washingtonians serving in the Southwest Pacific and in Italy, pledging that the state's goal of $228,000,000 would be exceeded.

Shades Of Ed Jackson Days Evoked By State GOP Heads

Lauer-Lyons-Gates and Capehart Are Republican Bosses Who Remind the Public of the Days When D. C. Stephenson and Gov. Jackson Held Sway In the State House—Lyons Resignation Does Not Aid the Party—All Candidates Were HandPicked By Big Four—Again Money Talks. Since when has the open discussion of the question of good government, as opposed to bossism and invisible empire been transformed into “dragging red-herring and rattling twenty-year old ghosts” in other people’s closets? Mr. John H. Lauer, who acts for Robert W. Lyons (the power behind the throne) and Ralph Gates, the Republican nominee for Governor, feels highly incensed over the disclosure of the Ku Klux Klan connections of his boss, the powerful, colorful, ruthless Mr. Lyons, former treasurer of the K.K.K., Realm of Indiana, and former special reoresentative of Dr. Hiram Evans, former Imperial Wizard of the invisible Empire.

is incensed. He

MUNCIE MAN IS WELL QUALIFIED Lester E. Holloway Will Be A State Candidate In November

WAR EXPLODES WITH NEW FURY

Mr. Lauer

hurt. He is humiliated in knowledge that his cohorts—Lyons and Gates, aided and abetted by the juke box king, Homer Capehart—have been exposed to public scrutiny. The wounds are deeper, too, because the exposure came about by good Republicans, people within his own party who

could not swallow the boss-picked Republican state ticket nor stomach the rotten political mass cooked up in GOP state convention. 'Scores of Republican editors, from Evansville to Gary, have raised themselves to high indignation and have told readers in blunt and easily understood language much of the story of what went on in the Lyons-Gates J Capehart serrK ronferpurp prior to and rhrr-

ing the GOP convention.

There are many who believe that both Lyons, who manipulated a political coup reminiscent of the days of D. C. Stephenson and Ed Jackson, to obtain his highly questionable election to the office of Republican National Committee man and Lauer, who, as Republican state chairman, are merely figureheads for Gates and Capehart. Capehart, of course, offers no indication that he is willing to step out as a Republican nominee for the U. S. Senate. It is certain that he will not. He paid a high price in campaign cash and otherwise for that nomination. But due to the criticism Lyons did resign his part. However, Lauer is silent

at this time.

From the public interest viewpoint it makes no difference whether or not Lyons and Lauer resign or are thrown out of their party offices. Their influence upon the candidates for higher offices selected under the Lyon-Gates-Capehart alliance will not lessen one bit through the removal of the titles of party office. This the public will remember. Gates was a factor and a very potent factor, in the semi-invisible manipulations of the bossed machine before and during the convention. Gates selected Lauer to he State GOP Chairman when Gates resigned that office not many days before the convention. Gates, joined by Lyons, dealt the cards which won him the nomination for Governor, unopposed. Gates is charged by

I many Republicans • with making a deal which defeated James Tucker, former Secretary of Staf/e, wounded and discharged Naval hero of the recent battle of Salerno. And this has been branded as Lyons-Gates-Capehart double cross as many Tucker supporters say Gates had promised to sup-

port Tucker.

It will he remembered by the public that the remainder of the Republican State /ticket was either hand-picked by the Lyons-Gates-Capehart alliance or came into nomination with their blessing. In the pre-convention dealing, these candidates were traded, one against-the- other, in a manner never before heard of by many an old-time practical Indiana politftTalir ~ Prmntsed one •nominatTdft by the bosses and conducting a lengthy campaign for that nomination, one candidate awakened a few days before the convention to find that he had been traded off. The nomination he sought was handed to another and he was advised that he could have a second choice nomination, which of course he accepted, if he would go along. In this deal at least two other honorable Republican candidates were crushed by the bosses steam-roller in the same manthat Lieutenant Tucker was

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smashed. In the final analysis the GOP ticket, for the most part, in fact almost to a man, was dictated by Lyons, Gates and Capehart. Lauer merely applied .the “O. K.” rubber stamp which Gates handed to him as Lyons nodded approval. Thus, with two of the ring-leaders of the big boss’s party empire heading the ticket, and the other handpicked candidates merely tagging along, a change in the rubberstamp wielding State Chairman, or whip-cracking National Committeeman could not rid the party of stigma with which it has been smeared by these men who are determined to take o.ver the gov : eminent of the State of Indiana regardless of the opposition of the good people of the Republican party, as well as that of the Democratic and Independent voters. There are only two ways whereby the GOP can be cleaned of (Continued on Page Four)

LESTER E. HOLLOWAY Lester E. Holloway of Muncie will be the Democratic candidate for the office of State Treasurer. This honor came to the Muncie man when the entire Democratic ticket was named without a single ballot being cast. Mr. Holloway, a son-in-law of the late George Dale, Muncie publisher and militant political leader is well qualified for the position, which-be--has-bean nominated To

fill.

He is now serving his second consecutive term as Delaware county treasurer, having been the only Democrat county candidate elected in 1942. He had formerly served five years as City Controller of the City of Muncie under the administration of his father-in-law, George Dale. In 1936, he was first elected county treasurer and served a two year term. His successive elections to the office occurred in 1940 and 1942. During the past four years, he instituted the plan of mailing tax statements to the taxpayers prior to the final date of payment which has proven a great convenience to the taxpayers of Delaware county. Mr. Holloway’s administration as a public executive has been marked by efficiency and honesty and his nomination to a state office is greeted by his Muncie friends. — —o— ’RIDDLED' FORTS TESTED

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NAZIS ORDER PEOPLE HOME | Bern—Reports from the Italian frontier said tonight that German authorities had ordered all German civilians living in Italian territory to return to the Reich immediately—a move regarded in some quarters as foreshadowing a Nazi military evacuation of Italy. McNUTT SPEAKS. Indianapolis — War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt said today that the election of Republican Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York as president would “come as a profound shock” to the majority of American servicemen. McNutt desecribed Dewey to the Indiana state Democraitc convention as “the galloping ghost, the smug, coy, evasive De'wey.” He also referred to Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio as “a prophet of confusion.” o JAPS FLEE FROM BRITISH. Southeast Asio Headquarters, Kandy, Ceylon, June 16.—British Imperial troops, pursuing the Japanese fleeing east and south from Kohima, captured Kidima on the Jessami trail and advanced several miles below Viswema on the Imphal road, a communique said today. Other Allied forces continued their advance from Imphal and knocked out three Japanese positions north of Kanglatombi.

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Germans Loose Their Powerful Secret Weapon On England London, June 16.—The war exploded with new fury all around 1 the world today. The Germans loosed their fantastic secret weapon on England, showering the island with pilotless, death-dealing miniature planes or rockets in a continuous stream. American forces fought their way inland on Saipan, island fortress 1.500 miles south of Japan. The assault on Japan proper by American Super-Fortress bombers was followed by an enemy announcement that Korea and the Bonin Islands, the latter 615 miles south of Tokyo, had been bombed. ’ The Allied invasion forces in Normandy extended their grip in furious fighting, with the Americans rapidly choking off the great port of Cherbourg. The 5th and 8th armies in Italy drove northward up the peninsula, sweeping the shattered German forces before them from sea to sea. The Russians were methodically cleaning up the Karelian istTnnus, widening their breach in the Finnish lines to more than 26 miles. The new weapon which the Germans turned on southern England apparently has a powerful explosive and incendiary effect when it hits. i Britons were warned that the “pilotless bombers,” as they were most generally described, contain an explosive charge which riiay go off witliin five to 15 second after the missile’s engine or propellant stops. Air Offensive Slowed Across the channel, the great Allied air offensive was slowed down somewhat this morning by unfavorable weather. During the night large forces of RAF heavy bombers plastered the Boulogne harbor area with six-ton block ousters, aiming at concentrations of German torpedo craft which menace Allied supply lines across the channel, and perhaps at the source of the new pilotless bomb-

ers.

The invasion forces were pre“temThg ~ a “Threar To" CKerboui g which Allied liaedquarters said is “substantially increasing.” American tank and infantry vanguards thrust across the peninsula to within a little more than two miles of the main highway and last railway leading out of Cherbourg. Allied Advance In Italy. In Italy the Allied armies made general advances of up to 25 miles and reached the outskirts of Grosseto, 90 miles northwest of Rome and 65 miles below Florence. Terni was captured and the Allies pushed 25 miles beyond. The German retreat on the Adriatic side likewise was accelerated and the Allies had trouble mantaining contact. % The Russian advance in the Karelian isthmus was not so swift because of elaborate Finnish defenses, but it was steady. Soviet forces drove to within 32 miles of (Continued on Page Four) T. F. Hildebrand Moving To Muncie Announcement was made today of the appointment of Thomas F. Hildebrand to the posifion of Assistant General Manager of the Indiana General Service Company. Although Mr. Hildebrand’s duties will pertain in general to the company as a whole, he will make hiJ residence and headquarters in Muncie. Mr. Hildebrand rejoins the Indiana General Service Company organization after being in the main engineering offices of its af filiated company, the American Gas and Electric Service Corporation in New York Ciiy, for the past sixteen and one-half years. After being graduated from Purdue University in 1924, he joined the engineering staff of the Indiana General Service Company in Marion where he was employed until 1928 when he was transferred to the New York office. There he became Assistant Distribution Engineer, and served in that capacity until about three years ago when he was made an assistant to Mr. Philip Sporn, Vice President and Chief Engineer of the American Gas and Electric Service Corporation. A native Hoosier, Mr. Hildebrand was born in Marion where he received his grade and high school education. He has been associated with the electric utility industry since 1918 when he started working with the Marion, Light and Heating Company, predecessor of the present organization, during school vacation periods. A patriotic appeal to all Americans to back our fighting men in our all-out struggle for victory. See Joe Little’s painting, showing what you can do to help put the Fifth War Loan over the top. On the front color page of The American Weekly, the magazine distributed with next week’s Sunday Chicago Herald-American.

Democratic Slate Named Without A Single Ballot

GUP CONTROLLED CONVENTION HIT

Sen. Sam Jackson Is Nominated As Demo Candidate Today

Harmony Marks Democratic State Conven-tion-Resolution Adopted Instructing Indiana Delegates To Cast 26 Votes for Roosevelt-Sehricker and Jackson Head State Ticket—Lester Holloway of Muncie Will Be Candidate for Office of State Treasurer.

Indianapolis, June 16. — Hoosier Democrats at their state convention today instructed their national delegates to vote for fourth term nomination for President Roosevelt and nominated by acclamation a state ticket of 15 candidates after a “harmony” ses-

sion.

A resolution was adopted instructing Indiana’s 30 national convention delegates to cast 26 votes for Mr. Roosevelt at Chicago next month. It said that “our ship of state needs Franklin D. Roosevelt at the

helm.”

All anticipated contests melted away at least an hour before the nominating session began at the huge Indianapolis state fairgrounds

SAMUEL D. JACKSON Indianapolis, June 16.—U. S. Sen. Samuel D. Jackson, D., Ind., accepted the Democratic gubernatorial nomination today with an address charging that the Republican candidates for U. S. senator and for governor “could scarcely be elected now if nobody went to the polls but Republicans.” Jackson said that the entire Republican state ticket had “nothing in prospect but humiliation and defeat.” He termed the GOP state convention two weeks ago as “black Friday” and said that altruistic Republicans “who we|Te loath to loan the name of their party to infamy . . . must look for liberation to some power beyond their own borders.” Dwells on Controversary Dwelling at length on the Republican controversy over the election of Robert W. Lyons, who later resigned, as the party’s national committeeman, Jackson said that “this is not the first time politcial barbarity has set heel upon that party, and this will not be the first time the people of Indiana have freed it.” Jackson said that he had an official document of hearings held in Washington by a house committee investigation “the chain store evil” which included the testimony of “the new Republican national committeeman—the one who resigned,” containing admissions “sc noxious to the mind /and sense they will make businessmen and their friends our most ardent supporters.” He said that the Democratic state campaign would be waged on the records of Governor Schricker and his two immediate predecessors, M. Clifford Townsend and Paul V. McNutt, and he pledged that, if elected governor, he would assure Hoosiers that the state legislature “shall not be lorded over by corrupt and avaricious lobbyists.”

coliseum, 'which held 1,446 delegates and'about 1,000 spectators. The entire ticket,, headed by Governor Schricker for U. S. senator and U. S. Sen. Samuel D. Jackson for governor, was accepted without the necessity of a sin gle ballot roll call. Convention speakers called for a continuation of the state and national administrations and urged the election of the party’s complete state ticket Nov. 7. Nominees selected today at the Indiana state ' Democratic conven-

tion were:

U. S. Senator (long term)—Gov. Henry F. Schricker, Knox. U. S. Senator (short term)—Cornelius O’Brien, Lawrenceburg. Governor—U. S. Sen. Samuel D. Jackson, Fort Wayne. Lieutenant Governor— Floyd J. Hemmer, Huntingburg. Secretary of Staid—State Sen. Charles F. Fleming, Hammond. State Auditor—Ernest Weatherholt, Cannelton. State Treasurer—Lester E. Holloway, Muncie. Attorney General — Hubert E. Wickens, Greensburg. State Superintendent of Public

MADDEN SOUNDS DEMO KEYNOTE Demands Grand Jury Investigation Of Capehart Expenditures Indianapolis, June 16.—Rep. Ray J. Madden, D., Ind., today demanded a grand jury investigation of the expenditures of Homer E. Capehart, Indianapolis manufacturer, in his successful campaign for the Republican nomination for U. S. senator at the state GOP convention two weeks ago. “We have heard with growing alarm . . . the> charge made by our Republican brethren that an unconcievable amount of money was used before and during the Republican state convention in the interest of the nominee for United States senator,” Madden said. In keynoting the Democratic state convention. Madden, representing the first district, seeks re-election this fall. “Because we look upon the office of senator ... as one that should and must be free of taint and suspicion, we now solemnly call upon the prosecutor of Marion county to . . . conduct a grand jury investigation without fear, favor or partisanship, so that the electorate may be acquainted with the facts . . . to the end that Indiana need not face the prospect of again bowing its head in shame because men (Continued on Page Four)

Instrufction—Robert B. Hougham,

Franklin.

Supreme and Appellate Court Reporter—Mrs. William Ward, In-

dianapolis.

Supreme Court Judge (First District)—John W. Baumunk, Brazil. Supreme Court Judge (Third District)—H. Nathan Swaim, In-

dianapolis.

Supreme Court Judge (Fifth District)—Michael L. Fansler, Lo-

gansport.

Appellate Court Judge (Southern Division) — Warren W. Martin,

Boonville.

Appellate Court Judge (Northern Division)—Frank B. Russell, Tip-

ton.

The Democratic platform offered for adoption at the opening session dwelt at length upon the state Republican controversy over the Ku Klux Klan issue and the election as COP national committeeman of Robert W. Lyons of Indianapolis, who later resigned.' Klan Issue Discussed Frequent reference by speakers in the coming campaign to the Hoosier Republican strife over the Klan issue and the election of Lyons was predicted by party ob' servers. The platform included a message of “sympathy” with Republicans (Continued on Page Four)

Henry F. Schricker Given Highest Honor At State Demo Convention

(HENRY F. Indianapolis, Jun 16.—Governor Schricker accepted the Democratic nomination by acclamation for Junior U. S. Senator from Indiana at the state party convention today by taking a verbal swing at the wealth of Homer E. Capehart, his Republican opponent in the fall elections. “If it takes a barrel of money to win a U. S. Senatorship, then I am already defeated,” the governor said. Governor Schricker, a formef Knox banker and newspaper publisher has risen steadily in Dem-

SCHRICKER ocratic politics in Indiana. Because of his affable and kindly nature he has made friends among Republicans as well as Democrats. While lieutenant governor his blast at the scho,ol book publishers w r as thought by many to mean the end of his chance to become governor as it brought crticism from certain Democraitc leaders. Under his administration as governor he has made many friends. He is loolvgd upon as the strongest candidate which could have ibeen nominated for United States Senator, by the Democrats.

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