Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1942 — Page 2

Force at Alamein; Driving Axis iy

May Be

Objective.

(Continued from Paseitne) terday continued their pressure on enemy landing grounds in

the forward area. In combat yesterday we destroyed eight fighters: and damaged

many thers.” |

The “offensive, whids ob-

servers believed would develop

‘battle to | decide the fate

Africa once and for all, svpesred to be following the ap proved desert pattern. . : The air attacks, as in the past, .were directed against areas just t where axis fighters nd’ the forward muni- . accumulated. : For ‘several 1 weeks, there had been|increasing indications that a new offensive—either allied or axis—was

fupestie 13 the door. army, it had been

American-made tanks, planes and materials, and the royal air force held an air superiority it had never ‘enjoyed: outside of England. ! It also was apparent that the axis was. seeking to reinforce Rommel’s forces. For two weeks, they had been sending swarms of planes against Malta, the British Mediter-' ranean fortress dominating the supply: routes’ to Africa. | 2 Breaks Long Lull

The eighth | s attack broke a seven-week lull which began after Rommel’s effort to smash through the Alamein line and wheel northward to the c trated. Rommel had hoped to repeat the classic maneuver he achieved at Bir Hacheim, which led to the British expulsion from Libya in June | "The effort cost Rommel an estimated 100 tanks and thousands of motorized vehicles. He attacked the - Alamein line Aug. 31, penetrating more than 10 miles of British mine fields in the forward positions, then pivoting to the northeast. Then he was stopped by direct artillery fire from a massed 25-pounders and an incessant air attack. It was uncertain whether Rommel was in Egypt now. He recently visited Adolf Hitler in Berlin and there were reports that he was remaining there, ill. Other reports said he had returned to the front. Axis fears have. been rising to notable heights . recent days, particularly conce the possibility of allied moves in West Africa directed against the Vichy French] ~ bases of Dakar and North Africa.

3 “Malta ‘Recalled

Any campaign In West Africa presumably would be timed to coincide with the assault on Rommel in the east which presumably is pinning down :the German general's main forces, prevent him from divert- - ing troops to the west to meet any threat which might develop in his Tear. The opening of the desert campaign followed the traditional pattern of North Africanwarfare. It was preceded, however, by an unusually: heavy air mbardment which has been in p: for more] than a- week. During | period allied planes have struck on almost & 24-hour basis against axis desert ed and supply lines across the Mediterranean. ‘ At: the same e the axis has been making desperate efforts to knock out Malta [in order “to. clear the way for safer| transport of supplies and men

fighting on an in asing scale. Rome reported that 29 persons were- killed and 2 wore in the Thursday night attack on Genoa in which it was admitted that serious damage was inflicted. Last night's attack brought 14 fatal casualties at Savona, said. | It was the first time in two years that the | had blasted at northern Italy for two successive nights ‘and n before had so heavy & - goncentration of ; against the region,

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BRADFORD WINS AUDITOR'S POST

Named by ‘Commissioners Atter Tyndall Faction Yields to Pressure.

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terest of all party candidates in the election,” Mr. Bosson said. Control of the auditor’s office was not the crux of the fight. It was ‘a hard-bitten maneuver on the part of Bradford's ‘61d organization henchmen to vemsSer their power in

the party. B Some of the ‘Bradford ward chairmen admitted today that they s|were prepared fo “lay down” on the eve of the election if the Tyn-dall-Jewett crowd “got too stubborn.” Faced with. the. possibility that Gen. Tyndall's campaign for mayor might be scuttled out from under him at the last minute he and his aids capitulated.

Bradford Takes the Ball “My boys tossed me the ball and

was to it,” declared Mr. Bradford as he shook hands with scores of

friends who crowded into the auditor’s office at 8 a. m. today.

ment apparently spread all over the city during the night and a large crowd of party henchmen jammed into the courthouse early today to attend the swearing-in ceremonies. He was sworn in at 9 o'clock by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, Republican, amid cheers from the crowd. Mr. Bradford said: “I am accepting the appointment to fill the unexpired term of the late Glenn B. Ralston with the full consciousness of the public trust that has been. placed in me.

No Personnel Changes

“I want to make clear that. no changes will be made in the personnel in the auditor’s office until after the November election. “The .auditor’s office is an im-

% portant ‘post in our county govern-

ment and it’ is my only desire to fill ‘the position in a manner that will reflect credit on those who have placed this trust in me. “The Republican party has always stood for efficiency and honesty in government and I am well aware that the manner in which I conduct this office will serve as al. standard of what the public can expect if the Republican ticket is elected Nov. 3.”

Democrat Signs Come Down

The first thing Mr. Bradford did when he went into Mr. Ralston’s office was to remove Democratic campaign signs and pictures of prominent Democrats. They were put in a drawer to be turned over to the executor of Mr. Ralston’s estate. Regarding the present Democratic personnel of the office, Mr. Bradford said that after ‘the election he would: “leave it up to-the successful candidate” about any changes. In other words should Mr. Moore be elected most of .the Democratic personnel probably will be “liquidate ed” in a few days after the election. . If Sheriff Al Feeney is elected it is expected that most of the personnel will remain intact. In connection with the legal ques- » | tion concerning the length of time a substitute auditor can serve, Mr. Bradford said it has been agreed by nearly all attorneys that the new auditor can take office next Jan. 1.

Ostrom Stays Neutral

Chairman Ostrom was “on - the fence” most of the time during the feuding and attempted to act as an arbiter. He ‘is said to have started out to squelch the Bradford movement but later withdrew from that position to one as a neutral referee. “I was holding out all the time for appointment of a Demoerat at least until after the election,” Mr. Ostrom said. “I think that would have been the best way out of the controversy and let the election degide who should be in the office.” = The conference at Which the appointment was made was described by party leaders Yoday as “a strange spectacle.”

Old Foes Meet “Party leaders who have ‘hated

‘leach other for many years were|

sitting in a, circle glaring daggers! at each other for five ‘hours, ” one party leader said. In this picture sat. ‘William Remy,

"| Mr. Jewett, Mr. Bosson, Mr ; Mr. Bradford and Arch N. Bobbitt.

Over in the corner of the confer-

'|ence room, Chairman Ostrom was

lying on a couch, feigning sleep. Mr. Ostfom came into the auditor’s ‘office this morning and derisively admonished Mr. Bradford to “be sure and make all of :your appointments through the regular * |organization channels.” The crowd laughed. -

TH —— ie NAZI FAILURES IRK FINNS STOCKHOLM, ‘Oct. 24 (U. P)— German. setbacks at Stalingrad and| © their failure to take Leningrad be-| # fore winter have ‘aroused widespread disappointment and grumbling in Finland, reports from Hel-

-~ Ellis B. Hargrave

1936, was elected president of the association by -acclamation as was Mrs. Eugenia Hayden, grade school teacher at Dale, who was named vice president. The new officers will take over their posts Jan. 1, 1943. Speaking to the teachers in Cadle tabernacle last night, both Mr. Fischer and Mr. Cooper urged that complete freedom be given to India by Great Britain but they added that it should not become fully effectivé” until the end of the war. ( “Gandhi is still willing te compromise on the present situation in India,” Mr. Fischer said, “and is still looking to America to help keep the situation there from developing into a grisis which can only mean an open invitation to Japanese aggression.”

Mr. Fischer, who recently re-

st had been frus-|I bad to run with it—that’s all there turned to America by clipper from

India where he spent two months— one week as a house guest of Gandhi before the Indian leader’s arrest by the British—said that the Indian leader is willing for Britain

complete military control of India for the duration of the war. “He does want, however, the Indian people to be given at least nominal political independence at this time as a symbol to the world that this is a war - for democracy,” Mr. Fischer said. “Your president says this war is for the four freedoms,” Mr. Fischer quoted Gandhi as saying. “How can India be expected to fight for them when she herself does not enjoy them?” Mr. Cooper, who spoke to the teachers yesterday afternoon, spoke differently of Gandhi, but said that “independence for India is inevitable.” He said that “Gandhi is a great man butihe is a dreamer who fails to face re Hitless He is an inconsistent ‘politician who ‘blames Hitler for starting the war but who negotiates with Japan. I wonder if Gandhi has not lived five years too long.” An important part of yesterday’s session was the adoption of resolations concerning the responsibility

Senate Debates Whether 12 . Months Is Needed for Combat Duty.

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| |that it takes at least 12 months to § | train an army ‘division, but - has

| pointed out that there is a “marked difference” between that and the} training of the individual * soldier.

Senate leaders said privately, as

{| debate resumed, that adoption of

a training restriction in connec-

£: [tion with the bill ‘appeared likely,

|Hear Fischer Talk on Indic Elect Hargrave Treasurer

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of the school" in war, retirement, tenure and educational legislation. An increase in the amount: of state pay toward each teacher's salary and an increase in the minimum salary of teachers because of the wartime ' shortage of 'instructors and the higher costs of living were proposed. They proposed that state superintendents be elected for four years instead of two and urged the use of multiple lists of textbooks so that local school units can select the books they prefer to use. The convention adopted a resolution introduced from the floor to “favor the judicious use of school busses to transport high schoool athletic teams.”

Propose Sanatoria Study

Also adopted was a resolution that the association be authorized to make a study of children in sanatoria and “to make to the 1943 legislature such recommendations as may appear to them to be desirable and necessary for the betterment of educational facilities in the

Word of Mr. Bradford’s appoint-|and the united nations to remain in state.”

The only resolution proposed by the resolutions committee to be rejected was one which urged an increase of 50 cents in teachers’ annual dues. In the morning session yesterday, the teachers volunteered to put 10 per cent of their salaries into war bonds after Eugene Pulliam, state chairman of the war bond campaign, told them that at the present time only nine schools are participating in the salary allotment plan, that only three of these are 100 per cent and that not a single school has pledged a full 10 per cent. Delegates nominated for the National Educational association convention were Alton Cochran, Crown Point; Miss ‘Amelia Krabbe, Lafayette; Ernest Thornton, Elkhart; Walter Beckman, Ft. Wayne; Adrian Little, Huntington; E. B. Wetherow, Noblesville; Ralph W. Sheek, Franklin; Frank Ross, Rockport; William E. Willson, Jeffersonville; Gladys Townsend, Muncie; Miss Beryl McClure, Indianapolis, and K. V. Ammerman, Indianapolis.

State Spotlights ‘No Politics’ Rule

THE STATE PERSONNEL board today sent letters to all officials and employees in institutions and state departments under their jurisdiction reminding them of the personnel board's “no politics” rule. Any employee or official found to be campaigning or raising funds for any candidate is subject to dismissal. .

STATE LEGION: HEADS

Leaders of the .Indiana department of the American Legion will open their annual fall conference tonight at the Antlers hotel, continuing through tomorrow. Clarence U. Gramelspacher, state commander, of Jasper, said commanders and adjutants from every post in the state have been invited. The sessions will open with an executive committee meeting following a banquet. Holding conferences at the same time will be the women’s auxiliary, headed by Mrs. D. Walthall of Clinton, president. Heading the- speakers at tomorrow’s session will be Roane Waring, national Legion commander, and other national /officers.

GROUP TO OBSERVE "50TH ANNIVERSARY

- Fidelity review: 140, Women’s Benefit association, will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a rally at 8 p. m. Wednesday in Castle hall. Candidates will be initiated.

Olds; Elkhart, supreme auditor; Mrs. Grace Meredith, Wabash, state field director; Mrs, Alta Goodwin, Angola, state girls’ and juniors’ super- | visor, and Mrs, Ella. Butcher, Peru, "|state management department. Mrs. Alice Wilshire is chairman of arrangements. Mrs. Hannah Hiatt will preside.”

er ——————— | SOUTH AFRICA HAS ALERT DURBAN, South Africa, Oct. 24 (U. P.).—Explosions were heard at

here for more than two hours’ last

|night. No official explanation was|-

given.

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sea and én air raid alert sounded |

TYNDALL FORESEES HEAVY BALLOTING

More people will vote in the coming election than most observers believe because the people realize that the home front is just as es-

-|sential as the fighting front, Gen.

Robert Tyndall, the G. O. P. mayoral candidate, declared in an 11th ward rally last night. “The home front includes good, sound city government,” he said. “Indianapolis citizens have been generous and enthusiastic in their civilian defense and war effort and this genuine spirit of co-operation will be reflected in the Nov. 3 elecion.” Taylor E. Groninger, former corporation counsel of Indianapolis, also spoke at the rally. asserted that “the people of the city are going to vote for a change in the management of their local affairs. Like a change in diet is good for an individual, so a change in officials is good for the general public.”

WIVES TO APPEAR ON VICTORY PROGRAM

Three women whose (husbands are

battle fronts will appear on the Indiana Committee for Victory program on WISE at 7:16 p. m. toMOITOW. They - are Mrs. Marie Hoster, whose husband is with the . air force; Mrs. Bernard Rosenak, who doesn’t know in what theater of war her husband is at the moment, and Mrs. Max Foster, whose husband is in England. -

MALTA DOWNS 3. PLANES VALLETTA, Malta, Oct. 24 (U.

P.) —Three enemy fighter planes were shot down and others were

tinued .its heavy aerial assault on this Mediterranean island. : Yesterday's ‘bag: brought to 129 the total of axis planes shot down over Malta in the last two weeks.

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“If the senator is right,” interposed Senator Norris, “why can't we write this amendment. into the law?” “The difference,” said Senator Hill, “is that there is a misunderstanding of what is proper training.” Mr. Roosevelt, in a letter to Senator Chan Gurney (R. S. D.) author of the legislation, opposed any limitations other than those already provided. He said the “complicated administration” necessarily involved in handling large numbers of men, as well as the urgent necessity for correcting the army’s present age “deficiencies” make it important to leave the bill as it is. Democratic leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky hoped to complete final action tonight if the one-year training amendment is disposed of early enough. “But you never can tell what is going to happen on a bill of this kind,” he added, Sen. John Thomas (R. Ida.) has in reserve an amendment providing that “no man under 20 years of age who is inducted into the land or naval forces under the provisions of this act shall be ordered into actual combat service until after he has been given at least 12 months of military training.” Senator David I. Walsh (D. Mass.) said he favored the amendment “because so far nobody in his chamber has had any assurance for any= body else here or for the pai....sun| this country that we have exhausted our manpower above 20 years of age.

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working toward that end. Since the suggestion of taking boys of 18 and 19 into the services, the group has become even more active.” A correspondent asked if President Roosevelt would: feome to England. “I think he would Hive liked

‘to have come with me,” -ghe said, ““but I'm afraid this is ‘not just

the moment.” Mrs. Roosevelt met the leaders of the British Women’s war organizations at a luncheon given in her honor by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham palace. Interrupting her’ plans for a quiet week-end after her unannounced flight across the Atlantic; the president's: wife conferred with Rear Admiral Mrs. Laughton Matthews, chief of the WRENS, British naval auxiliary; Maj. Gen.

. Mrs. Jean Knox, head of the aux-

iliary territorial service, and Air

“Commodore Mrs. Trefusis Forbes,

commander of the women’s auxiliary air force. : » ” 8 MRS. OVETA CULP HOBBY, director of the American women’s auxiliary army corps, also was present at the conferences. Mrs. Culp crossed the Atlantic in the same plane as Mrs. Roosevelt, who was accompanied by her secretary, Malvina Thompson. - Security measures prevented disclosure of the full program planned by Mrs. Roosevelt, but it was revealed that she intended to

spend most of today quietly with.

King George- and Queen Elizabeth at ‘Buckingham palace. She will attend church services with them tomorrow. "Porat least a week, Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Thompson will reside in a recently renovated bombwrecked suite in Buckingham palace. Next week, Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to make a series of trips, returning to the palace each evening. The queen will accompany her on some official visits. t 4 ” ”

Dinner at the Palace

THE BUCKINGHAM PALACE announcement of Mrs. Roosevelt's arrival said she had come to “gain first-hand knowledge of the British women’s war ectivity and to visit the United States forces in Great Britain.” Mrs. Roosevelt, seated on the king’s right, was guest of honor at a dinner party .at the palace last night. The guests included Lieut. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, the president. and Mrs. Roosevelt's son; Prime Minister and Mrs.

Winston Churchill, Lord and Lady °

Mountbatten, South African Prime Minister Jan C. Smuts and his son, Capt. Jacobus Smuts, Ambassador John G. Winant and Miss Thompson. London newspapers welcomed her enthusiastically. “One thing she will find ‘wher-

ever she” goes,” the Daily Mail

said, “is the impetus given by a new spirit of attack wihch has become vibrant in the nation.

"It is a spirit fully shared with the

American forces and fortified by their presence. “But its sense of values goes deeper in the belief that the long days of preparation are about to

‘be put to the test of offensive action against the common enemy on a greater scale than any hitherto attempted.” } Co” » 8 : * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH said: “The person: whom der fuehrer denounced as mainly responsible for = influencing her husband against Germany must command the respect and affectton of the. rest of the world. We are grateful to President Roosevelt, since

“he cannot visit us himself, for

sending his better half.” “Mrs. Roosevelt is an unofficial ambassadress to two nations— ambassadress from America to Britain and from Britain to America,” the Daily Express said. Addressing its comment to Mrs. Roosevelt, the Express added: your day and days here will be great days in our lives because history books only come alive when great persons take “the stage. ” The newspapers gave headline prominence to Mrs. Roosevelt's visit, using large type only on Russian war stories. All carried her picture on the front page. Most headlines were of the orthodox variety, but the Tabloid Daily Mirror proclaimed: We're sure glad to. meet you, ma’gm.” ” 8 8

MOST OF THE feature articles were written by women reporters who gave minute gttention to Mrs. Roosevelt’s attire. They emphasized her simplicity and lack of make-up. Olive Broun of the Daily Mail wrote: “She’s plain. Her. tanned face was unpowdered. She uses no lipstick. She is built generously and dresses without pretense. “Watching her as she chatted and shook hands endlessly, the most important impression she gave me was one of real genuineness.”

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Adm. Ghormley, in Charge In Solomons, Replaced By. Admiral Halsey.

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ports in the Solomons "under Ghormley’s commana. Meanwhile, fear has been expressed in congress that the army and navy high commands still are not working jn the co-operative manner they should. There also have been reports in congress that the full story of American losses in the Solomons still is untold. _ The enemy is believed maneuvers ing into position to choke off cne. of the sea supply routes to the em’ battled American soldiers and mae rines on the ‘northern side cf Gua dalcanal, key island of the hard won American positions in that

‘| southwest Pacific area.

That belief arose from three new dévelopments: First, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australia headquartérs revealed that army flying fortresses sank a cruiser, a destroyer and two .other ships and “badly damaged” six others at Rabaul, some 640 miiles to The devastating raid possibly shattered an-:enemy invasion armada assembling to join the Solomons battle, Second, the navy disclosed that the Japanese have occupied Russell island, about 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. ’ And third, the shelling of the U. S. base on Espiritu Santo island in the New Hebrides—the second” attack in a week—by an enemy ship believed to be a submarine.

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