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In one hand the little old lady

clutched: a copy. of “Our ’ Constitu-

tion and Government,” and in the other; a well-worn rabbit's foot. = _ She just wasn’t taking any chances on not becoming a U. 8. citizen. Even when it.came to the point where she had to raise a hand to take the oath, she seemed to struggle with a decision about which one she should pus aside. She kept the rabbit's foot.

MAYOR HELPS GOP

FILL CITY HALL JOBS,

Permits Ostrom to. Make

Appointments Now. By NOBLE REED It may not be considered “cricket” under normal political standards but Mayor Sullivan has decided to lend a stabilizing hand to help

alleviate the personnel crisis at city hall when he turns over his office to Republican Mayor-elect Robert H. Tyndall Jan. 1. The mayor has announced he will permit, Henry E. Ostrom, Republican

county chairman, to recommend ap-|

pointees to replace Democrats as they leave their jobs between now and Jan, 1. “There have beén some vacancies already and I have notified Mr. Os-) trom to make recommendations because I feel it is my duty to the city to help the next administra- + (Continued or Page Ten)

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‘She was one of a dlags of 90 who appeared | before Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Federal-court today to take the oath and get their final papers. ‘Behind most of them were inter- | esting’ stories. Take the little old “lady, for instance.

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of ‘Switzerland. She was so excited that it was a little difficult to get her story. She was born in Uster, Switzerland, and came to this country with her parents when 10. The family settled on a farm near Marshall, Ind. Now Miss Kuhn is the last of its members and she makes her home with friends at Crawfordsville. Miss Kuhn always thought she was & citizen. In fact, she could

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PARTY DECORATIONS POISON PARTY CQEDS

BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 13 (U. P.).

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coeds decorated their boarding house with greenery and entertained 24 soldiers at a dance. The greenery turned out to be poison oak. The 12 coeds and their house mother were indisposed today. There was no information on the condition of the soldiers.

Farmer Seriously Hurt as Elephant Charges Pursuers

HUNTINGTON, Ind., May 13 (U. P.).—Modoc, a tired, bewildered elephant at large in the Hoosier bottomland, charged a group of farmers seeking to round her up today and injured one of them seriously. 3 One report said Kenneth Kindley,

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38, suffered a broken neck when Modoc hurled him to the ground with her trunk. He was taken to Huntington county hospital. Some onlookers said Kindley was hurt when he fell while trying to escape Modoc’s rush. The injury turned what had beer: an amusing safari of Indiana farm folk in search of a “good” elephant into something much more serious and authorities became more determined than ever to end the two-day effort to round up the performing pachyderm. . The hunt was resumed this morning when Roy Bare reported Modoc was rummaging in his garden, Earlier her trainer had hoped to coax Modoc from her hideout on the banks of the Wabash by offering her a reunion with her pachyderm playmates, Empress and Judy. Modoc, who fled a circus performance Wednesday and stampeded through a house, a drug store and the streets of Wabash, remained surrounded last night . in a mile

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Hero of African Expedition Married - Muncie Girl;

‘Couple Lived: Here. By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, : Nov. 13.—Mrs. Mark W. Clark, wife: of the now famous general who led the secret mission which prepared the way for the North African campaign, is a former Muncie girl who spent four years with her husband in Indianapolis. < Today she is properly proud of

"“|hér husband's promotion to the - ~ She’s Miss Elisa Kuhn, a native

rank of lieutenant general at the age of 46, and, like all Hoosiers, she likewise is proud of having been born in Indiana, “I'm an army wife with a 17-year-old son in West Point, but Mark and I sort of still consider Indianapolis our home town,” Mrs. Clark said. “We do our banking there, so I guess that makes us eligible. “When the story about my husband’s secret mission was being broadcast. last night I received numerous telephone calls from old friends out there.” Two prominent Indianapolis families have sons who have soldiered with Gen. Clark in England, she pointed out. They are Irving W. Lemayx and Dr. C. O. McCormick. (Continued on Page Ten)

DARLAN GIVES FLEET MYSTERY NEW TWIST

‘Asks’ but Doesn’t ‘Order’ Ships Join Allies.

LONDON, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—New mystery was added today to the intentions of that part of the French fleet remaining in the French naval base at Toulon, on the French Mediterranean coast, by the strange appeal of its erstwhile commander-in-chief, Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, to go to American dominated French North Africa or otherwise remove itself from “the ('erman grasp.” °° The strangeness was in the fact that Darlan, in a radio broadcast from Algiers, “asked” the commanders of the ships to leave Toulon. The correspondent who filed the announcement of his action from allied headquarters in behalf of all American correspondents under a “pooling” arrangement, was careful to point out that he had refrained from “ordering” them. ,

DESTROY U. S., BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.)—

war aims as “ultimate destruction of America and Britain,” the office of war infqrmation reported. Tojo spoke over the Tokyo radio

: “quiet Zone," a ‘marshy and ‘the jat-

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ONE IN MISSING PARTY FOUND INS. PACIFIC

Continue Search for Life Rafts; Last Heard From Oct. 21.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—A companion of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker has been rescued under ecircumstances indicating there may be other survivors from among the eight men reported missing when Col. Rickenbacker’s plane was lost Oct.

vealed today. The department disclosed that

was aboard the plane with the noted world war I flier, was rescued yesterday in the south Pacific. Capt. Cherry is in good condition, although weak, according to an advice from the navy to the war deHis early complete re-

lives in Abilene, Tex., has been ad-

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“From stich information as Capt. Cherry was able to furnish it is believed possible that other survivors may be on liferafts in the same general vicinity,” the war department said. “An intensive search of the area is being made by surface vessels and long-range planes.” Col. Rickenbacker was en route from ; Honolulu to the southwest Pacific as a special representative of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson when the plane on which he was traveling was lost. It was last in communication "with an island southwest of Honolulu on the evening of Oct. 21, when it had left only one hour's supply of gasoline.

LAURA HOPE CREWS, NOTED ACTRESS, DIES

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 (U. P.).— The, theater lost its third great character actress in as many weeks today when Laura Hope Crews, 63, died after an illness of a month. She was preceded in death by May Robson and Edna May Oliver, who like Miss Crews, were equally at home on stage or screen. Miss Crews made her first stage appearance in her native San Francisco when she was 4 and she was never away from a role more than a few months at a time in all the years to follow.

CONCERN FOR INDIANS VOICED TO MRS. R.

LONDON, Nov. 13 (U. P.) —~Thirty prominent Liberals and &aborives sent Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt a communication today expressing ‘deep concern over gravity of the situation in India.” The communication asked Mrs. Roosevelt to take back to the people of the United States and the President “this feeling of concern which we assure you is felt widely by the British people.”

DISPUTE CLOSES MINE

- BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 13 (U. P.) —Operations were virtually halted today at Edgewater coal mine of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. as an “unauthorized” work stoppage spread to the day shift and. involved a total of nearly 1000 miners, company officials announced.

MOSCOW, Nov, 13 (U. P).—A powerful flank drive by the Russians already has thrown a new German offensive against Stalingrad out of gear and forced the Nazis to divert big forees to defense positions, battlefront dispatches said today. The new offensive raged on today over frozen ‘ground in suh-freezing weather, but the Germans appeared to have been checked and to have lost twice as much gs they. gained. Units of five Germgn divisions, supported by dive bombers and tanks, opened the main thrust early yesterday against the sEntgal J sector of Stalingrad's defenses. “Other

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in the Southwest Pacific, charged in a radio speech last night that the government is misleading the people about fighting in the Pacific, He said the United States has suffered repeated disasters there, and that “we are ‘still losing the war” with Japan. He called for unity of command in Washington and in the field. Rep. Martin said he believed responsibility of meeting the situation outlined by Rep. Maas lies directly with congress. Congress, he said, should create promptly a special joint committee on prosecution of the war so that it will be mechanically equipped to handle this grave responsibility. Meantime, Rep. Maas talked with reporters about charges that the navy department had attempted to gag him or drastically modify his charges that it was bungling the war against Japan and concealing the truth from the American people. Deleted Some Passages He said representatives of the navy department had called him on the telephone affer they saw a copy of his speech and questioned the accuracy of his references to communiques * issued in Washington while he was in the Solomon islands. “At my request,” he said, “they sent several representatives to my office to go over the statements they questioned and I made several changes in the text of a purely minor nature.

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MARINES SEEK NEGROES WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.).— Marine corps headquarters. today announced plans for enlisting 500 additional Negro recruits in the marine corps reserves to be trained

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Russ Flank Attack Blocks Nazi Drive on Stalingrad

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sectors. Suffering heavy losses, the Germans managed to gain 100 to 200 yards on the central sector, but the Russians, in a counter-drive on the northern sector, hurled the Germans back 400 yards. Hastily, the Germans diverted big forces from the central sector and rushed them to the northern seetor in an effort to contain the Russian advance, weakening their main drive. © Meanwhile, the Russians were increasing the score on their side. Radio Moscow reported that they had taken ‘a’ village northwest of Stalingrad, and Soviet semy forces

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Congress Action Urged on Fa i I ® : Ce fe Charge We're Losing Pacific WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts said today that congress must act swiftly and effectively to correct “the astounding conditions” alleged by Rep.

Melvin J. Maas (R. Minn.), who recently returned from the Southwest

Rep. Maas, who spent four months on active duty as a marine colonel

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On the War Fronts

(Nov. 13, 1942)

LONDON—Anglo-American nutcracker clamping hard on axis in North Africa with Tobruk in British hands; Rommel still re- ~ treats and allied planes pound Tunisia; six Italian transports ferrying Germans from Tunisia shot down, indicating Hitler may be evacuating Tunisia.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--Admiral Jean Francois Darlan and American authorities negotiate at Algiers, possibly for a pro-allied French regime in North Africa and stand to be taken by French forces in Tunisia; Darlan requests French fleet at Toulon to join allies.

CAIRO—British 8th ‘army races past Tobruk in pursuit of Rommel. :

BERLIN—German igh command admits fall of Tobruk.

MOSCOW—Soviet flanking attack at Stalingrad unhinges some Nazi defenses; Reds gain slightly southeast of Nalchik.

GEN. MacARTHUR’S HQS— Flying fortesses blast four Japanese transports in Buin-Faisi area; allied ground forces advance on Buna in New Guinea.

U. S. PLANES BOMB 4 JAP TROOP SHIPS

Report Hedvy Enemy Losses Near Guadalcanal.

GEN. MacARTHUR'S . HE ADQUARTERS, somewhere in Australia, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—American ilying fortresses dropped high explosive bombs on four Japanese trans-

ment in a dawn raid yesterday on the Buin-Faisi base 360 miles north of Guadalcanal island and enemy casualties and materiel losses were believed heavy, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. In New Guinea, Australian troops wiped out the remainder of a Japanese forces entrenched in the OiviGorari sector and were driving along the jungle trail toward the enemy's north coastal base at Buna. The spearhead of the allied offensive was within less than 45 miles of Buna, and American forces are thrusting toward the base in another column. The four ships hit at the Buin-

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PINGER CLOSES ON AXIS ARMY

Desperate General 'Leads Men Toward Tripolitania;

Has No Planes.

By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent

CAIRO, Nov. 13.— The Middle Eastern command ‘announced in a special communique today that Tobruk, axis stronghold 75 miles inside Libya, had been taken by the advancing 8th army. (Radio Berlin, quoting military circles, admitted that Tobruk had fallen. It said preparations for its

evacuation had been started 14 days ago and all military objects that could be moved had been taken for use later on at that place which has been selected by Marshal Erwin Rommel for his final position of defense in Libya. What had to be left was destroyed, the broadcast said, quoting DNB news agency.) Tobruk was the greatest prize to fall into the 8th army’s hands since Rommel’s Afrika Korps was routed in Egypt. It has an especial significanee for the imperial army, because an Australian garrison made an historic stand there from May to December, 1941. The British, when they drove to El Aghelia last December, relieved the garrison. Subsequently, Tobruk was retaken by Rommel when he drove back, almost to Alexandria, only to be cut to ribbons and sent (Continued on Page Eight)

CAPITAL MAN BEGINS TERM FOR MURDER

MIAMI, Fla., Nov. 13 (U, P).— Zachariah T. Goldsmith, 54, member of a prominent Washington family, today began a 25-year jail sentence following his conviction of the second-degree murder of his second wife, Margaret Goldsmith. A grand jury indictment charged him with first degree murder in the slaying last March 1 at Miami Shores. He entered a plea of guilty in the second degree which was accepted by the court. Circuit Judge George E. Holt passed sentence. The trial was without a jury. Goldsmith said he had af one time owned a night club in the national press building in Wasihngton.

Today's War Moves—

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Allied success in North Africa and Prime = Minister = Winston Churchill’s ‘renewed: threat of a European invasion across the channel or the North sea raises the possibility that Adolf Hitler may have to withdraw from Rusisa to save himself in Eurppe. He is already reported to have drawn heavily on his land and air forces in Russia, but the continued fighting in Stalingrad and the Caucasus does not indicate that he has yet reached any decision. to follow

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U-Boats Attack in Mediterranean; Peril to Turkey Grows.

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United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Nov. 12.—Axis desperation in Africa ine creased hour by hour today under heavy blows by the allies

Developments in the Africa theater were: 1. The British imperial 8th army recaptured Tobruk as Rommel’s Afrika Korps, believed hopelessly trapped, fled

2. Adolf Hitler was evacuating army personnel from : Tunisia while allied planes rained bombs ceaselessly upo:

Tunisian airdromes. This in

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cided not to risk a stand in

‘the French protectorate.

‘3. Axis bases in Sicily, Sardinia and Crete: were unger heavy ‘bom: baréiment. seo

and ‘British troops were driving upon Tunisia. 3

5. French high’ officials in North

| Africa were negotiating with Amer=.

ican officials on a possible counter: government to override Vichy.

6. Admiral Darlan “requ the French navy to assist the American cause. 7. Spain and Portugal nervously prepared for possible moves by Hit=

tries for unh trol of the gateway to the Mediterranean at Gibraltar. London said it “understood” th allied forces are engaged in a hard battle with axis submarines attack= ing warships and . transports gaged in the African offensive.

May Cross Border Today

A report received here said that the allied expeditionary forces, moving east from bases at Algiers and Cape Bone, only 50 miles west of the Tunisia border, may cross the frontier today in a race for the French naval base of Bizerte and the Italian port of Tripoli w {Eee lies 340 miles to the southeast. Repercussions of the swift events in North Africa fanned out over. Europe in ever-spreading waves and there were signs that . the entir strategic aspect of the war was undergoing strong changes. 5 Hitler was striving desperately eréct new defenses and rearrange his forces. Already he had moved his troops and guns south in France to the Mediterranean and had stationed forces all along the Spanish-French © frontier. Nazi anti-aircraft gun= ners stood guard at southern French airdromes and other war objectives.

Are. They Defense Moves?

Whether those moves were wholly defensive-protection against @ | sible surprise blow -by the against the south coast of was not yet clear. It was possible that the next step. might be a Nazi thrust into Spain and Portugal. By such a move Hitler might ate tack the big British bastion from the La Linea side. He also m y gain the use of Spanish Mo where it has iong been reported | big German guns have been stalled to control shipping th the straits and bombard the F Some nervousness was evident (Continued on Page Eight)

Crisis May Compel Hitler To Withdraw From Russ

iterranean are so great that Marshal Rommels army is in such a that it may as well be ten ‘There remains only Tunisia to taken care of. The B American armies are closing: the French protectorate in 1 force and there seems little eh that it can be kept out hands. the, occupation of Tunisia, w the allies in control of, Africa. With the

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