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TO STUDY PRISON BREAK Springfield, III.—Gov. Dwight H. Green, commenting on an attempted prison break at Joliet state penetentiary in which one guard was killed and four convicts injured, said today he will visit the prison tomorrow and confer with prison officials. Green said the visit will take the place of one of the periodic inspections he has made in the last four years and which had been scheduled for later this month, but which, because of the prison break attempt, he will make at once. EXCEED WAR LOAN DRIVE cnicago—l he 30,000 employes of the nation’s largest war plant where engines for B-29 bombers— the type which last night bombed Tokyo—are made exceed their $2,465,100 Sixth War Loan Drive bond quota in less than five days, it was announced today. Officials of the Dodge Chicano plant, operated by the Chrysler Corporation, said employes invested $2,521,138, in war bonds during the first five days of the drive. The plant manufactures Wright 18-cylindeh horsepower engines used on the Boeing Superfortresses and is the largest engine plant, operated as a single manufacturing unit, in the world. CHESTER BOWLS SPEAKS New Orleans, La. — Chester Bowles, Office of Price Administration chief, said here today that government controlled ceiling prices must be expanded in the reconversion period if the U. S. is to avoid inflation and another fabulous 1920 postwar period, although price controls must end once such danger no longer exists. Addressing the 64th annual American Federation of Labor convention, Bowles predicted peacetime products would come back to markets with few exceptions at early 1942 prices. o ADJUSTMENTS DEMANDED Chicago—The Congress of Industrial Organizations today demanded adjustments in the Little Steel Formula and in a resolution asked that the National War Labor Board eliminate “bias and unfair reasoning in consideration of dispute cases.” “The CIO vigorously condemns the action of the National War Labor Board in refusing to submit a recommendation to the president calling for a revision of the Little Steel Formula to bring wages in realistic alignment with the sharp rise in the cost of living,” the resolution said.

Direct Cause Of Strike Is Cited The status of those members of CIO number 499, Chevrolet, Muncie, who were fired for picketing after a strike vote had been taken at the local plant, recently, remains unchanged. The five who were fired have taken temporary employment outside the factory. The three men who were given a sixty day lay-off are still off work. In a letter received this week from Richard Frankensteen, vicepresident of the UAW-CIO, to a union official of local 499, stated that he had requested of Attorney General Francis Biddle, a n immediate investigation into the “irresponsible and reprehensible action” of the management of General Motors Corporation’s Chevrolet plant at Muncie, Ind. He said in his telegram to Biddle, management tried “to infringe upon the rights of the workers ... to participate in a free election on November 7.” Frankensteen said the “direct caiij&e” of a work stoppage at the plaht last week “could be traced to the plant management’s action towards its workers on election day.” i - - Officials of the union state that Dec, 6 is the date set by the War Labor Board, when the grievances of both union and management will be given a hearing by an impartial umpire. As yet it is not known who will be sent here to negotiate. o TAX HEARINGS MONDAY

Probe Shows Widespread Voting Disfranchisement

Democratic and Independent Voters Were Denied To Vote In Many Counties—Preliminary Investigation Discloses GOP Conspiracy—Chairman Bays See Great Democratic Victory In 1946 — Ralph Gates Will Be 15th GOP Governor of Indiana.

PHONE GROUPS REVEAL PLANS

TOKYO BOMBED BY SUPERFORTS

French Forces Liberate One Half Of City Of Strasbourg London,. Nov. 24|—A large force i of. B-29 Superfortresses from SaiI pan Island in the Marianas bomb- j I ed industrial targets in Tokyo ! today, beginning what Gen. H, H.

Delaware Co. Coancil To Hold Special Session

Disfranchisement of Democratic and independent voters, it is now known, resulted to a far greater extent and was much more general than first reports received in Indianapolis had indicated. At first it appeared that refusal of Republican county and precinct election officials to let numbers of Democrats and independents cast their ballot was confined to Marion county, (Indianapolis) and a few scattered communities over the state. Authenticated reports now show that large groups of voters were refused access to the voting booth in many counties.

Bitter feeling hangs on in many

Arnold, commander of the army air forces, said will be “the systematic demolition of Japan’s war production” to soften up the heart

of the empire for invasion.

A joint committee of representa- On the western front in Europe, tives of Bell and Independent op-1 French* forces liberated one-half of erating telephone companies the Alsatian capital of Strasbourg

Nation Wide Postwar Programs To Improve Telephone Service

Washington—The House Ways and Means Committee, clearing the first obstacle from the path of efforts to freeze the Social Security Old Age Benefit Tax at its present one per cent level through 1945, voted today to begin hearings Monday on such proposals. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenburg (RMich.), has led a move to hold the payroll tax at its present rate next year, but the Ways and Means Committee must take the official initiative because revenue legislation must originate in the House. Bai-ring enactment of a new bill, the tax will go to two per cent each on employers and employes on Jan. 1.

Indiana counties. Calls for Federal investigators have been received in Indianapolis from communities where election day activities in past years were carried on in friendly fashion and with only a natural, partisan rivalry to relieve the monotony. From such places as Paoli, in Orange county, and Danville, in Hendricks county, reports of mass disfranchisement of Democratic and independent voters have poureu in. These are only examples. A complete probe of what Democratic party officials believe was a well-laid and wide-pread conspiracy on the part of certain G. O. P. machine politicians to prevent Democrats and independent voters from exercising their right of franchise appears to be assured as preliminary investigations are extended and more and more reports of alleged irregularities come in by mail, by phone and in personal reports. Disappointment of state Democratic leaders at the loss of the U. S. senate seat, governor’s office and all elective offices in the state house is lessened considerably, however, as they study the election returns from over the state and find that some very encouraging gains were made in the face of the loss of major offices. Assembly gains offer the party leaders reason to feel that the GOP sweep was not as catastrophic as first appeared. Democratic memberships in Indiana House of Representatives were increased from 18 to 31, and the Democrats gained one seat on the Senate, raising it’s total to 13. Gains in cities also are cited by Fred F. Bays, Democratic state chairman, as pleasing to the state ^committee. The Democrats rolled up pluralities in several cities now controlled by Republicans, indicating a growth of Democratic strength among industrial workers. Among cities which elected Republican administrations in the last local elections arid which cast a majority of their votes for the Democratic party November 7 th are Indianapolis, Muncie, Anderson, Terre Hatue, Evansville, Connersville, New Albany and Jeffersonville. Chairman Bays reads in the results of the election, as he anlyzes the tabulated vote, promise of a great victory for the party in 1946. He believes that the Republican state officials have made promises they either cannot or will not keep, and that two years of Republican state rule will be suffiient to convince the rural vote, from whence the G. O. P. gained its pluralities, that the Democratic party is the only guarantee for good government. “Our ability to carry about all the major cities in this election is proof that the laboring people are Democratic. We can and shall regain the rural vote,” Mr. Bays forecast. Thirty-sixth governor, Ralph F. Gates, will be the fifteenth Republican chief executive elected in Indiana. The present governor, Henry F. Schricker, is of course, Indiana’s thirty-fifth governor and the sixteenth Democrat to hold that office. Indiana’s other five governors were: Three Whigs, one Jeffersonian Republican and one non-partisan. IPolitical cycles, which constantly haunt politicians, have been broken by Democrats with the election of Isaac P. Gray, in 18i84, and Claude Matthews, in 1892. Democratic leaders are determined that there shall riot be a recurrance of. a long Republican era, such as begun with the election of James P. Goodrich in 1916. Goodrich wris succeeded iri Sequence by Warren T. McCray, Ed Jackson, and Harry G. Leslie. Republicans, do not point with pride to that era in Indiana history.

Axe Murderer Is Shot By Mob Pikeville, Tenn., Nov. 24.—With the alleged axe murderer and his two victims silenced by death, police doubted today that they could determine why James T. Scales, 17-year-old negro trusty of a state reformatory, killed Mrs. H. E. Scott and Mrs. Glen McKinney, wife and daughter of the institution’s super intendent. Scales was shot to death yesterday when he “attempted to escape” from a lynch mob which obtained his release from the Pikeville jail. The dead trusty used a double' edged axe in his alleged attacks on the women at the state training and agriculture school for negro

boys.

Witnesses said a mob appeared at the jail and said the negro boy was wanted at the school. Scales was Handed over, witnesses said, and the mog herded him through the town, brandishing a rope. The boy begged for his life. Suddenly he broke away and was

shot.

throughout the United States has been formed to advance the na tion-wide postwar programs which the various telephone companies have been working on individually to extend and improve farm telephone service, it was announced

today.

Co-chairmen of the committee are John P. Roylan, president of the United States Independent Telephone Association, the national organization of the thousands of independent telephone companies, and Keith S. McHugh, vice i president of the American Tele1 phone and Telegraph Company, j representing the Bell operating

companies.

“Rural telephone service. is more highly developed in this country, under the American system of private enterprise, than in any other country in the world,”

on the Rhine in furious street fighting, while the American 3rd army pushed toward the Siegfreid line on an 1'1-mile front inside the Saar border of Germany. The Russians tightened their semicirelement of the Hungarian capital of Budapest and were reported by Berlin to have landed on Csepel Island in the Danube, which extends almost into the center of the city. Other Soviet forces stormed into southeastern Slovakia advancing nine miles on a 30-bile front which threatened the German flank in Hungary. Cross Cosina River. British 8th army troops in Italy made five crossings of the Cosina river below Faenza and edged toward that city in what a commuique described as “very bitter”

fighting.

The Germans were putting up a

Co. and Township Officials to Meet The elected officers of the counties and townships in Indiana' will converge again this year up6n the City of Indianapolis on December 6-7*8, 1944 to attend the 10th Annual Convention and Public Officials Trade Exhibit of the Indiana County and Township Officials Association. i Twelve state-wide association^, made up of elected local officials, are invited to attend. The groups that will participate in this huge three-day conference are: Indiana State Association of Township Trustees. Indiana County Assessors Association, Indiana County Attorneys Association, Indiana County Auditors Association, County Clerks Association of Indiana, Indiana County Commissioners Association, Indiana County Highway Supervisors Association, Indiana County Recorders Association, Indiana Association of School Bus Drivers, Indiana County Infirmary Superintendents & Matrons Association, Indiana Association County Surveyors and Engineers, Indiana County Treasurers Association. Among the more important subjects which are scheduled for discussion are School Management, Post-War Unemployment and Poor Relief Problems, Veterans ‘Rehabilitation. Governmental Expenditures, Post-War Construction Plans and Local Government Administration. Because of the tremendous number bf new problems that confront local officials in Indiana, it is expected that 2500 of the state’s nearly 3000 elected officials will be present. Most of the time will be given over to separate meetings, <with general sessions scheduled for the two evenings. Sponsoring and participating organizations: Indiana County Assessors Association, Indiana County Attorneys Association, Indiana County Auditors Association, County Clerks Association of Indiana, Indiana County Commissioners Association, Indiana County Highway Supervisors Association, Indiana County Recorders Association, Indiana \Association of School Bus Drivers, Indiana County Infirmary Superintendents & Matrons Ass’n., Indiana Association County Surveyors and Engineers, Indiana County Treasurers Association, Indiana State Association of Townhip Trustees.- . ■. —o— — Property improvement loans of $1,800,000,000 were granted to 4,500,000 owners during the past 10 years, Federal Housing Administration says.

Mr. Boylan and Mr. McHugh said 'j bitter struggle in iStrasbourg, their today in a statement issued by j m0 st important remaining foothold

in eastern front, but field dispatches said they were believed to have rallied too late and complete liberation pf the city appear-

ed imminent.

Heavy rains and stiffening enemy resistance slowed up the other Allied armies at the northern and southern ends of the 400-mile front, but some limited gains, were

reported.

In the 'Pacific, the attack dn Tokyo was riiade by about 100 or

which flew over at Thursday EWT.)

TO INVESTIGATE ELECTION FRAUD

Total of $9,048.92 In Special Appropriations Requested By Various County Officials —New Budgets Prepared In ’44 Will Be Available January 1,1945—New County Officials To Begin Their New Terms on

January 1.

Disfranchisement Of Voters Brings An Investiga-

tion By U. S.

It appears evident, as this issue

of The sentinel goes to press, that ! Next Tuesday, November 28th, the Delaware a full-scale, sweeping investigation 1 county council will meet at 10 o’clock in the county ands^of SmSa vSs"i auditor’s office to conMder a total of $9,048.92 in ox more of them Democrats and | special appropriations requested by various county in'S’iTstate -win be carried ° ut iofficials in their respective departments. Eight hunin fact at least two investigations dred dollars of this amount are asked to be trans-

seem assured—one by the U. S.

Department of Justice, through the two U. S. District Attorneys’ Offices in the state, and the other by the U. S. Senate special com-

ferred from budget items already appropriated but needed for other purposes at the county infirmary. Election costs, county highway materials, and re-

mittee investigating election irre-1 pairs. to buildings make Up the greater part of the

o-nlnritiPG ' r 1 i 4-1 rv w o 1

guiarities. \ j additional funds. Evidence of illegal disfranchise- ' The county clerk requests

$10 |

ment of thousands of Indiana vot-L , . ,

ers is piling up in the offices of the cleaning- and repairing type District Attorney. B. Howard ei 's with another $do tor typeCoughran of the Southern Indiana i wr ‘ ter > eiital needed during the District, in the Indianapolis Fed- voting registration penod. Lxeral Building, and at the office of Ponses for state institution comAlexander M. Campbell of the I ™ ltmen ,^ s , 1U , amount of $o00 is Northern Indiana district, at his ! a ^ so asked by the clerk. I he counoffice in the Federal Building in j ^ coroner has reported needs for Fort Wayne. ' appropriations of $500 for per diem At the same time Harold Buck-j sa * ar y’ $^0 for clerk hire, $50 for les, chief investigator for the U. j aa f°P s y. and $1.15 for office sup-

S. Senate committee, has received I P“ es -

a vast number of statements from ! sum of $220 is asked by the disfranchised voters and others j county treasurer for the purpose who claim to know of irregularities i oi ‘ supplying stamps with which in the November 7 election, at his ;lax statements were mailed this

i fall. A change in postal rates this

them for the committee. “However, it is by no means as highly developed as we in the industry want to see it, and the industry intends to do everything in its power to provide more service, and better service, at a cost which

the farmer can afford.

“Since operating telephone companies throughout the whole country have been working on this problem, a representative joint committee has been formed con

sisting of a number of their most more BWs experienced officials. We believe j noon (11 p. m.

that the application of new facili- I to give the Japanese capital its ties and methods which were un-! first bombing since Lt. Gen. James der development by the industry H. Doolittle’s historic feat on April

before the demands of war interrupted our research and construction program will help to bring telephone service to many nev/ farm customers. As soon as wmr demands are reduced, we propose:

18, 1942.

Tokyo said the bombers, attacking in 110 or more groups, were over the city for two hours. The Japanese back-handily admitted damage to factories and similar tar-

to resume and expand our re- i gets by saying ‘practically no dam-

search effort and, along with it, the intensive program for extending farm service which was being carried on before the outbreak of hostilities. “Over one-half million miles of telephone pole lines serving rural areas have already been built so that more than two-thirds of all rural families in the United States can be served from existing lines. Since 1935 more than 500,000 additional families in rural areas have become telephone subscribers-—an increase, of 35 per cent. One of the major objectives is to continue this upward trend by making the service over existing lines increas ingly valuable and attractive. This the industry intends to do to the limit of its ability. “A second major objective is to extend service at reasonable cost to families not now reached by existing lines. Telephone industry research in the last several years has successfully developed new construction materials and methods which substantially lower the cost of building wire lines to areas not previously reached.. In addition, work was started by the industry in 1938 to develop a practical system of transmitting telephone conversations over electric power lines. A similar system can be used over telephone lines to increase their capacity. This socalled rural carrier system transmits a very high frequency current over the wires. From 1940 on, experiments with this system for telephone service over rural power lines were carried forward in a cooperative effort to Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Rural Electrification Administration. Be-, fore this work was interrupted by’ the war, it was .clear that a suitable system of this kind could be produced. “One practical effect of these developments is to make it physically possible to furnish telephone service wherever there are rural power lines and no.^telephone lines. The telephone companies plan, in cooperation with R.E.A. Cooperatives and with power companies serving rural territory, to determine the full extent to which rural carrier telephone service can be used economically and effectively. “The telephone companies also plan to study the possible applica tion of microwave radio systems to rural telephone service and to make use of this arid any other new methods which will Ee helpful in serving the farmer.” , - : :—o—-—— Language guides giving instruction in Cantonese and Malay have been issued to American troops, according to the War Department.

age” was done to “important installations.” iSmall fires were started among “civilian hojnes and hospital,” the Domei News Agency said. The Japanese claimed te v have shot down three of the bombers with small losses of their own.' The daylight attack from the Marianas exposed the Japanese home islands to two-way assault from bases in the east and west. Gen. Arnold reported to President Roosevelt that the operation was “in no sense a hit-and-run raid

• in no sense a uu,-au«-iui» o V, • i . and that possession of the new is- ^ooncker.

land bases will permit B-2v9‘s to “strike at will” at the enemy homeland. ’ j . ,'Meanwhile on Leyte Island in the Central Philippines, Gen. Douglas iMacArthur’s forces advanced toward the main Japanese positions on the Ormoc plain after capturing Limon and crossing the Leyte river. Tbe prize Japanese 1st division was almost annihi-

lated in the advance.

Traffic Accidents Account for Deaths Indianapolis, Nov. 24. — Thanksgiving day accidents caused the death of at least 40 persons, 29 less than the 60 the national safety council predicted would die during the nation’s traditional holiday, a United Press survey show-

ed today.

Traffic accidents accounted for

30 of the fatalities.

California led the nation in highway deaths with 15 casualties and , Illinois was next with three deaths. Twp hunters were killed shooting accidents in Michigan; four persons died from burns received in fires in that state and California, and five persons died from trainautomobile collisions in Illinois. Total fatalities in individual states were: California, 19; Illinois, 5; Massachusetts, 2; Ohio, 2; Michigan 3; Missouri, 2. and New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee. Texas, Utah, West Virginia and

Wisconsin one each.

In Des Plaines, 111., village policeman Arthur Flentge, 60, was called from his dinner table to investigate the death of Louis Simec and Edward Baclina, both of Chicago, who were killed when their car struck a freight train. When Flentge arrived at the scene of the accident he collapsed and died of a heart disease. The safety council! basing its .estimates on death tolls during previous years- predicted that 300 persons would die as the result of injuries received during the holiday period between Thanksgiving

day' and Sunday.

rooms in the Claypool Hotel.

Will Sift Evidence

Mr. Coughran stated that because of the priority of a fraud case and other impending actions in federal court -here, he and his

year which eliminated any twocent postage increased the amount for stamps used by the treasured during 1944. The fall statements were mailed at the regular time

staff have had no time to carefully | although funds were not available sift the evidence that has been A " il --~

presented to his office.

All information given will soon be ( examined and if there is sufficient evidence to indicate action, the information will be presented to the Federal Grand Jury, in December, Mr. Coughran stated. Mr. Buckles has conferred with Coughran concerning the Senate committee’s direct probe, and is preparing to co-operate with the District Attorney to prevent overlapping of action in the investigation and in any future action that

may result. _ -

Capehart May Lose Seat

The result of the investigations, if it is developed conclusively that there were serious irregularities, definite violations of federal law or state election laws, may.be the loss of the seat in the U. S. Senate by Homer E. Capehart, Republican, \tfho unofficial returns show to have defeated the Democratic nominee, Hon. Henry F,

The United States Senate has the authority to refuse to seat any person who they deem unsuited for any reason to membership in the upper house of the Congress. Election by fraud or disfrarichisemerit of thousands of voters in his election might be accepted as sufficient reason for refusal to seat

Capehart.

The Sentinel makes no predictions on the outcome of the investi-

gation.

How About Gates? We have been asked what would happen to the office of the Governor, in the event the result of the investigations, shows that Ralph E. Gates was elected in an election fraught with fraud. The answer to that question has not been definitely determined. Democratic party officials advise The Sentinel that they have given no consideration to that matter. They say that their interest now is not one of vacating the offices nor of penalizing Gates, Capehart, or others who appear to have been elected, but that they are anxious that any one guilty of illegal action in the election be cited and punished under,provisions of the law. If Gates should be removed, however, it appears that the office of Governor would go to Richard E. James, Republican, the Lieutenant Governor-elect. How About Senate Seat We have likewise been asked what happened to the U. S. Senate seat in the event the Senate should refuse to seat or should later remove Mr. Capehart. In that event, it appears from a hurried examination of the provisions of the state constitution that the Governor, whoever he may be at that time, would have the power to appoint a successor to fill the vacancy and such appointee would serve "until the next general election, in 1946, at which time a Senator would be named by election. That would iriean the election of two U: S. Senators from Indiana, instead of one, in 1946. However, if it is shown in the investigations that enough Democratic voters were denied their right to vote to have resulted in the elec(,Continued On Page Three)

The new budgets prepared dining 1944 for next year will be available on January 1, 1945. New county officials to begin theii terms in office on January 1st in elude Guy Ogle, Democrat who was elected prosecuting attorney to succeed Ralph Rector, Republican, Hubert L. Parkinson, former city controller, to replace Lester E. Holloway as county treasurer, and Webb Pence, Democrat, to follow Orville Ebrite, also Democrat, as county commissioner. Gallon Stephens, coroner-elect, and Alfred Ellison, surv%yor-elect, both Democrats, will also take offices at the beginning of the new year. — o — Winchell’s Column J - No More In Muncie

but the treasurer met this expense personally until a meeting was called for the county council. A limited amount for postage is also included for the purpose,of returning tax receipts to the taxpayers who did not provide for a selfaddressed stamped envelope and which receipts are on file in the

treasurer’s office.

An amount of $600 is estimated as required by the county commissioners for repairs to the courthouse and $300 is included for repairs to the county jail. The infirmary asks $650 for fuel, $350 for building repairs, $350 for equipment repairs, and $100 for fertilizer, seeds arid feeds. All of these appropriations would be transferred from other items in the county infirmary budget for this

year except for the fuel.

Parts of equipment and struc- F . nr „ ip . n tares for the children’s home are s needed in the amount of $300. The commissioners have asked for $400 to be used for Tuberculosis indigents, $252 for clerks to handle soldier voters ballots, $500 for soldier burials, and $355.77 for a 1942 claim of the Press Publishing Co. for printing the primary elec-

tion lists!

The county highway department has requested a total of $3500 to complete the balance of this year. It is estimated that $1500 will be needed for bridge repairs in the county and $2000 is asked for the purchase of gravel. Following sonsideration of these special appropriations by the county council, the same will be submitted to the state tax board for final approval before the funds may be utilized.

We reproduce a very interesting paragraph from Walter Wincheli’s daily column, taken from an out of town newspaper. His column, by the way, no longer appears in either local daily. The article fol-

lows :

The cover page of The Churchman, a reputable national Protestant periodical, is something to make the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the Rev. Gerald B. Winrod, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin and the Rev. Harvey H. Springer wince. It shows them in pious apparel handling religious bigotry. T h e caption is: “Christians at Work!

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CRAWLEY TO STAY ON JOB

Washington — Leo T. Crowley,

Economic Administrator,

has agreed to stay on the job “until Germany is eliminated from trie war,” the White House announced

today.

Crowley submitted his resignation last Friday in a letter to President Roosevelt which reported that FEA and its related agencies were “functioning very satisfactorily.” Submission of the resignation and its rejection by the President was revealed unofficially yesterday. Today’s announcement constituted official confirmation.

SAARE LIBERATED

London — Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight in an order of the day that the Estonian Island of Saare (Osel) had been entirely

liberated.

Public Cooperation In Election Probe , Sought From many Counties in Indiana come an increasing number of reports of the disfranchisement of registered voters by the Republican election officials, aided by the unusual action of state Attorney General James A. Emmert, in the November 7 election. It now becomes more clearly evident that while the greater number of disfranchised voters were in Marion county many other Indiana counties suffered the same disgraceful election day activities that were so plainly evident in Indianapolis. The investigation is on. The U. S. District Attorney’s office in the Indianapolis federal building and the District Attorney’s office in Fort Wayne are receiving statements, affidavits or other evidence. At the same time a representative of the U- S. Senate special elections investigating committee is in Indianapolis gathering evidence of fraud and other election violations. Persons who know themselves to have been legally registered, but who were denied their right to vote, and persons with knowledge of any other election law violations, are urged to get in touch with either of the following: B. Howard Coughran, U. S. District Attorney, Federal Building, Indianapolis. Alexander M. Campbell, U. S. District Attorney, Federal Building, Fort Wayne. Harold Buckles, chief investigator, U. S. Senate Elections Investigating Committee, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis. If it is not convenient to contact either of these three, The Hoosier Sentinel, as a public service, will receive letters of complaint, sighed by the writer, and bearing their residence or office address, and turn them over to the proper authorities. Such letters should be sent to the Editor, The Hoosier Sentinel, 210 Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis.. Trere is every reason to. believe that with proper cooperation of the public any persons guilty of malfeasance or misfeasance, fraud or other law violation in connection with the recent election will be brought to justice. ; , • Will you help?

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