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Berlin Claims 80 British Ships (Concentrated At Gibraltar.
(Other War News, Pages 5 and 7; War Moves Today, Page 9)
CAIRO, Nov. 4 (U. P.). —
Front reports late today said ||
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 204
On the War Fronts
(Nov. 4)
Marshal Erwin Rommel is|fO0_
abandoning his Alamein positions and retreating westward along the coastal road under an all-out allied air attack in which the entire British and American borber and fighter strength Was employed. Dispatches from the fighting scene said that Rommel started his withdrawal several hours ago. The reports indicated that the axis forces have given up their fight in the forward desert area, presumably
as a result of heavy losses suffered|
in the crushing British armored attack of the past three days. 24 Hours May Decide In London, it was believed that 24 hours more of fighting may determine whether the hammering.
“plows of the 8th army’s tanks and "planes can force Rommel into an
all-out retreat. It was believed there that Rommel is now more thoroughly on the defensive than he ever has been in the 18 months or so that he has been in charge of axis operations in Africa. (The German radio broadcast a DNB report today asserting that Nazi quarters were “viewing with attention” g concentration of ap-
proximately 80 allied warships and
transports at Gibraltar, The concentration was said to include the aft carriers Argus, Furious and “unknown type,” six eruisers, an auxiliary cruiser, 26 one monitor, two large troop transports,
~ 36 freighters and 12 tankers.)
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Bombers Roar Over Desert
Huge formations of British and American bombers were roaring eontinuously over the coastal road west of Sidi Abd el Rahmen, dropping tons of bombs on the jammed columns of axis frucks and troop transports streaming to the west. United States and British fighter] squadrons were thrown into the battle, smashing at the Daba-Fuka road and attacking every Nazi effort to provide an aerial cover for the withdrawal. The Germans, front reports said, |. @bandoned scores of broken and] damaged tanks on the battlefield at
- Fl Aqqaqir where the British arm-
ored forces fought Rommel’s 15th and 21st armored divisions in the greatest tank battle of North Africa. Front observers said Rommel ap(Continued on Page Three)
DAR BARS TERMS OF MARIAN ANDERSON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Marion Anderson, Negro contralto, will not sing in Constitution hall— unless she withdraws demands made upon the ughters of the American Revolution. The D. A. R. invited the singer—
. and several others—to appear in its
hall for a war fund benefit concert. Miss Anderson replied that she
would, provided there was no segregation of whites and Negroes and
that the concert hall would be open
i $0 her in the future for her concert
tours, The D. A. R. released a letter to‘day “expressing regret” that the in-
“witation had not been accepted as
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The Alamein battle line.
CAIRO—Rommel abandons Alamein defenses, retreats westward,
MOSCOW—German drive toward Grozny oilfields fails to gain in last 24 hours; heavy new German attacks in north Stalingrad; Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley. drrives.
MacARTHUR’S HQS.—Australians advance toward Oivi, five miles east of Kokoda; bombers attack Buin-Faisi shipping.
LONDON—British military observ-
cide supremacy in Egypt.
NEW DELHI-—Japanese patrol activity increased on Burma-India frontier.
JAPS GIVE HINT ON WAINWRIGHT
Report Bataan Hero Held Ir. Prison Camp in Occupied China.
By UNITED PRESS Tokyo radio today made claims, which if true, would constitute the first indication of the whereabouts of Lieut. Jonathan M. Wainwright, commander-in-chief of American forces captured at Bataan, and Lieut. Gen. A. E. Percival, British commander in the Malay peninsula. A Tokyo broadcast said Wainwright and Percival were in a Japanese prison camp in Taiyuan in Shansi province of Japaneseoccupied China, about 300 miles southwest of Tientsin. The broadcast said the Japan Times and Advertiser's Wednesday edition carried four full columns of “letters of thanks” purportedly written by Wainwright and Percival in appreciation of “kindness” accorded them and their officers and men. The leters allegedly were written to Lieut. Gen. Ando, commander of the Japanese forces in Taiyuan.
BRITAINS ORDERED INTO CIVIL DEFENSE
LONDON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—Minister for Home Security Herbert Morrison today announced that
‘| more than 100,000 British men and
women soon will be ordered into part time civil defense jobs. He warned that more persons will be called up from those who now are not putting in at least 48 hours a month in civil defense or who have been exempted. “It will be much better if they volunteer,” Morrison said.
DESERTER CALLED INSANE
CHICAGO, Nov. 4 (U.P.).—Two psychiatrists reported to Criminal Court Judge John A. Sbarbaro that Irwin Kadens, 33, army deserter accused of 50 robberies, kidnaping and rape, is insane and should be committed to an institution for the criminally insane.
LONDON, Nov. 4 (U, P.)—Sir Patrick Dollan, former lord provost of Glasgow, said. today that Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi, flew to Britain in May, 1941, as an official ambassador. 7ifrom Adolf Hitler, bearing “humiliating” peace terms. “Hess came as an official Nazi ambassador with authority from Hitler,” he said. “He hoped that he would be given gasoline and allowed to return within 48 hours.” Dollan said Hess’ conversations indicated that Germany would accept peace terms under which:
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UDLOW TRAILING BY ONLY 4 VOTE
NATIONAL GOP |
|ADDS POWER IN
HOUSE, SENATE
Democrats Retain Control; Dewey and Bricker Loom As ’44 Material.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—Republicans today were clinching senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial gains won in yesterday's elections, .but incomplete mid-day returns indicated continued Democratic control of the house of representatives. The Democrats also will retain control of the U. S. senate. The election box score on .the basis of latest incomplete reports was: Republicans had won five new senate seats and might stretch this triumph to 10 seats. A net gain of 39 house seats by Republicans was indicated. Republicans have won four governorships, are leading in the race for a fifth and lost one to a Progressive in Wisconsin. Fourteen Democratic and eight Republican senate incumbents appear to have been re-elected. For the house, Democrats elected 192 members, Republicans, 167, Progressives, 2, the American Labor Party, 1. Seventy-three coniests remained undecided. One of the latest Democratic casualties was young Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma, who sponsored an amendment to the bill authorizing the draft of 18 and 19-year-olds which would have barred sale of liquor in the vicinity of army posts. He conceded to E. H. Moore, Tulsa oil operator and leader of the Willkie Democrats in Oklahoma two years ago. Moore ran on the Republican sticket this year. Oklahomans elected a New Dealer as governor, Robert S. Kerr. He is the first native-born Oklahoman ever to hold that position. Defeat of the veteran Independent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska was symptomatic of a strong if scattered anti - administration trend. Norris, who was supported by President Roosevelt, lost to Kenneth S. Wherry, Republican. Foster
May, Democrat, was third man in the race.
Republicans made some spectacular gubernatorial gains, notably in New York where former District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey became the first Republican elected gover(Continued on Page Three)
Norris Is Beaten After 40 Years
"OMAHA, Neb, Nov. 4 (U. P.). —Senator George W. Norris, Nebraska's “elder statesman,” lost his senate seat today after 40 years of service among the leaders of the nation’s progressive movements.
Leading a Republican sweep in Nebraska, Kenneth S. Wherry, smalltown lawyer, businessman and former state legislator, won the senatorial contest in a threecornered race against Norris, who ran as an independent with President Roosevelt’s indorsement,
and Foster May, the Democratic nominee. Conclusive returns showed Wherry leading by a margin of 9 to 5 over Norris, with May trailing in third place. Norris, now 81, has been a consistent supporter of President Roosevelt's foreign and domestic
policies.
of its military, naval and air force strength, but would be permitted an air force to protect the British isles. 3. Britain would consent to a Germanized Europe with Hitler as its overlord. 4. Germany would be given the Atlantic coast of West Africa and also Syria, Palestine and other territories. 6. Control of the Suez canal would be transferred to Italy and Germany. 6. Italy would be given Corsica and Tunis.
‘People Waking Up,’ Says General
Gen, and Mrs, Robert H, Tyndall, , . « “Our job is just beginning.”
\Mayor-Elect Thinks Profest
Was Aimed at New Dealers
By VICTOR PETERSON
“It was a protest vote here and all over the country,” said Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, newly elected Republican mayor, today. “The people are waking up at last. They are tired . . . tired of the New Deal. Thank goodness that fellow Lee in Oklahoma was defeated.
It was his prohibition amendment
MARKET CLIMBS ON ELECTION RETURNS
Opening Stock Prices Up $1 a Share.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U.P)—
Election returns pleased the financial district today and the stock market responded with a short-lived rally accompanied ‘by the greatest activity of the year.
Before the opening, brokers, wires
carried statements interpreting the election results as bullish on the stock market. Orders came in volume and specialists bunched them into blocks of 1000 to 5000 shares.
Opening prices were up as much
as $1 a share as compared with Monday’s closing levels, Low-priced, speculative issues were in best demand and a number of them made new highs for the year and longer.
The steel issues, motors, rails, oils and mercantile issues joined the rise. Utilities were active and firm. Westinghouse Electric made the best gain—$1 a share. The initial burst of activity failed, however, to attract new buyers and the market immediately contracted
in volume and profit-taking de-
veloped. Beofre noon, Wall Street
had returned to the pre-election
caution.
DRIVERS TO SHOW ‘C’ GAS STICKERS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Motorists with “C” books when na-tion-wide gasoline. rationing begins Nov. 22 will be required to display stickers on their windshields indicating why they were granted extra gasoline, the office of price administration announced today. The new “C” stickers, showing special rations for essential uses in excess of 470 miles a month, are six inches long with a white “C” on a
red background and a list of 17
essential use categories on the lower half, one of which will be checked when the sticker is issued.
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'Hess Bore Hitler's Humiliating Terms’;
Annoyed When Captured, Official Says
see Prime Minister Churchill or any of his colleagues,” Dollan said, “but he wished to clear them of the government's blame for causing the war. “Britain would have become, in
effect, a German colony with Hitler as dictator and Hess as protector. Hess was annoyed when he was kept as a prisoner and complained of unfair treatment.”
Hess landed in Scotland after an
airplane flight from Augsburg. He said he had come to see the Duke no later genie that 7. Spain would be given French he ‘Hess,
that delayed the lowering of the)
draft age. “This is no time to meddle with the war effort. It is a young man’s war and it is going to be a long war. We need the youth, they recuperate faster.” Urges Look at 1944 Lounging comfortably in a pair of old brown pants and a blue flannel sport shirt, he said, hoarsely: “People are losing confidence in the present administration. For one thing they are receiving bad news too late.” “There is no question that yesterday’s election is a trend. Watch 1944. The people aren’t tired of the Democrats or Republicans... . . They are tired of the New Deal.” “The Democrats, in my opinion, didn’t vote yesterday. They wanted to be true to their party, but as a protest to the New Deal they stayed home.” In regard to Wendell Willkie’s speech to the country recently, Gen. Tyndall said: “Willkie’s speech was a great aid to the Republican cause. He is a realist, not a theorist. He is a leader and will be so from now on.”
" Looking for a Leader
Asked if his party would be likely to follow globe-trotting Willkie, the general was forceful. “The people of this country are looking for a leader . . . both. parties. Both parties will get on his band-wagon.” “Our local scene is but & part of a whole. We will try to give the city the best possible government we can with the tools we have at hand. One thing I want to do is to take the City hospital out of politics as are the schools.” “From early yesterday morning we. saw the trend toward the Republican side. We were confident from the start.” :
Party Well Organized
“We were wonderfully well organized and I can’t begin to show my appreciation for the untiring efforts of Charles Jewett who supported me in the nomination and acted as my manager in both the primary and final election.” “But the campaign is over. have a terrific job to do now.” Mrs. Tyndall, dressed in a, light brown suit with white stripes, was quietly pleased with the outcome of the political battle. “We ‘are all so pleased and it is going to be very interesting. I'm going to love having a mayor in the family,” she said.
WAR OBJECTORS PUT|
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MARLBORO, N. J, Nov. 4 (U. P.) ~Dr. J. Berkeley Gordon, medical director of the New Jersey state hospital for the insane, announced today that the federal government
had Sssigriod 25 conscientious objectors to the hospital to replace workers drafted into the armed services. The group is made up of Men-
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MADDEN VICTOR IN LAKE COUNTY
Ludlow Race in Doubt, He May Be Sole Democrat
From Indiana.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY With Rep. Louis Ludlow’s reelection still in the balance, a single Democrat in the whole state of Indiana is absolutely sure of going
'|to congress and he never has been
there before. He is Ray Madden, Gary, who will represent the highly industrialized
in the state where the Democratic ticket triumphed. Mr. Madden will replace Rep. William T. Schulte whom he defeated in the Democratic primary. His Republican opponent was Samuel W, Cullison, Gary.
Larrabee Loses Seat
Two sixth term Democrats, Reps. John W. Boehne Jr., Evansville, and William H. Larrabee, New Palestine, where caught in the Republican riptide and went down. Rep. Boehne, third ranking member of the house ways and means committee ‘which drafts all tax bills, was defeated by a fellow townsman, Charles M. La Follette, former member of the state house of representatives. Rep. Larrabee failed to win over his Republican colleague, Rep. Raymond 8S. Springer, Connersville. They (Continued on Page Four)
U. S. ENVOY HURLEY ARRIVES IN MOSCOW
General Flies From Africa
In Bomber.
LONDON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—Radio Moscow announced today that Brig. Gen. Patrick Hurley, Unitea States ambassador to New: Zealand, had arrived in Moscow aboard an American bomber. Radio Moscow said Hurley had arrived from Africa. He Tost was reported in Cairo.
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By EARL RICHERT All 11 Republican state candidates were swept into office by yesterday’s G. O. P. landslide, unofficial returns from about half of Indiana’s 4000 precincts showed today. and. although returns on the state legislative races were incomDlete, it seemed a certainty that the
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PRICE THREE CENTS
ommel In Retreat From Alamein Defense
Bradshaw and Ryan
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Latest Returns CONGRESS 348 out of 366 precincts MEYer .coecsessceccocssccscea 10,432 LUAIOW «ecocoscoccccesncasces 10,428
MAYOR 285 precincts out of 306
- Tyndall: cE EI ITS SEDANS Vee Tar 64,391
escos000scesssscsrnsen 57,738
PROSECUTOR ‘348 precincts out of 366 Blue 81,443 Hagemeier ¢.ce.ccoccccesces. 69,518
JUVENILE COURT JUDGE 348 precincts out of 366 Rhoades ....cecceeeeceaseess T1573 BradshaW .....ccceeeecceasss 72,570 SHERIFF
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Robert Dorman, 60.
Robert O. Dorman, 60, of 1851 N. Pennsylvania st., died at Methodist hospital this morning of injuries received Oct. 30 when he was struck by an automobile at 16th and Pennsylvania sts. The accident occurred when, walking north across 16th st., he was struck by a car driven by Ernest Lindsay, 44, 616 N. Senate ave., who was traveling east on 16th’ st. Mr. Dorman had worked here the past 15 years, and was employed in the locomotive shops of the New York Central railroalli. He moved here from near Greenfield, Hancock County, where he was born. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Eden, Ind, and attended the Broadway Baptist church here. Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Friday at the residence. Burial will be near Greenfield. Survivors include his wife, Ethel; a daughter, Mrs, Jerry Hadley of Indianapolis; a brother, John of Hammond, and one grandchild.
CONVOY CHRISTENS NORTHERN HIGHWAY
EDMONTON, Alta., Nov. 4 (U. P.).—The first convoy to traverse the new Alcan highway—more than 60 four-ton- Royal Canadian air force trucks—headed north and west through the Albertan wilderness today toward Whitehorse, Y, T. The trucks carried supplies for R. C. A. F. bases in Alberta, British
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Columbia and the Yukon.
GOP Sweorrs State Offices: Increases Assembly Edge
When the G. O. P. victory became apparent last night, State Chairman Ralph Gates issued the following statement: “Our majorities are in line with my original predictions. As the head of the Republican party, I am impressed with the responsibility that is now upon it to do everything possible to carry the war to a successful conclusion and to work,
TYNDALL WINS IN REPUBLICAN COUNTY SWEE
Judgeships; Citizens’ School Board Ticket Holds Lead.
BULLETIN bo First returns in the school board voting today indi- : cated a sweeping victory for the entire Citizens’ School committee slate. The five nonpartisan candidates—Mayer, Perkins, Wagner, Farrington and Young—had more than doubled the votes of the independent candidates with 90 precincts out of 305 counted. The highest independent vote was 7734, the lowest nonpartisan slate vote, 14,365. -
Indianapolis’ veteran congressman, Louis Ludlow, was four votes behind Howard M. Meyer this afternoon with only 18 precincts remaining to be unofficially counted by the
cratic victor in an otherwise complete Republican sweep in |
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Marion county. bos With 348 of the county’s = | 866 precincts accounted fory & the vote stood: 3 Meyer «..eceseocccen 75432 ¥
Ludlow sececeosees secs 75,428 Sa It appeared that Mr. Ludlow had run approximately oe. vote ‘ahead “of “the rest of which was swept under o the als" most solidly cast Republican vote Tyndall 7000 Ahead : Gen. Robert H. Tyndall was mays or-elect. With 285 of the cif] 306 precincts counted, he was than 7000 votes in front of J Dewey E. Myers, his Democratic op ponent. Oddly enough, however, Gen. Tyndall seemed to be id about 150 votes behind the rest of the Republican city ticket. 5 The situation at 1 p. m. appeared to be this: i 1. The Republican city Sickeh won by an estimated margin of some 7000 votes. Ss 2. The entire Republican county gx ticket was elacted by a margin oF
Other election news, Pages 3 2 4 and 9.
which may reach 12,000 votes, & sweeping victory in an election in which approximately 150,000 votes were cast. 3. The only doubtful race in the entire county was the Ludlow= Meyer congressional contest. Hy Political observers noted this morning that the “scratch” was practically non-existant aside from . three races—the Ludlow contest, the race for juvenile court judge and the superior court three judgeship.
Machines Jam Early
In the juvenile court race, Judge Wilfred Bradshaw ran app mately 2000 votes ahead of his ticket, trailing the new juvenile judge-elect, Mark Rhoads, by 5008 votes with 348 of the 366 precincts’, counted. wi In the superior court three race, : Judge Russell Ryan paced other sue perior judges on the Democratic side, but nevertheless was trailing Emsley Johnson Jr. by more than | 8000 votes, 7 The voting yesterday was lg and quiet with one flurry early the day when 81 voting were jammed in the precincts Defnocratic party officials ch Republicans with attempting sabotage the votes of early faci workers. This the Re denied heatedly, -
the remainder of the voting. The tip-off came soon after polls closed at 6 p. m. Republic county headquarters, tab rapidly, showed an ever-wi G. O. P. edge, while county headquarters, starting slo ly, lapsed into almost is: lence.
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