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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 218

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1942

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~ Russians Kill Or Wound 20,000 Germans

i MAJOR POSTS a FILLED BY

~ GEN. TYNDALL

Sidney S. Miller Miller Is Named Corporation Counsel, Roy Higkman Controller.

Mayor-elect Robert H. Tyndall today announced’ two major -ap~pointments, Sidney S. Miller as corporation counsel and Roy E. Hickman as city controller, Both men have been active Tyndall supporters since pre-primary days and their appointments were

expected. Gen. Tyndall announced the appointments a short time before leaving for |Caldwell, N. J, where he will visit his son, Samuel, and his family for 10 days and “forget all about politics.” Both Mr. Miller and: Mr, Hickman are long-time personal friends of the mayor-elect and both will take office with him at noon on Jan. 1. Mr. Miller will succeed Edward H. Knight and Mr. Hickman wilt succeed James E. Deery.

Delays Naming Chief

The corporation counsel draws a salary of $4500 a year and the city

Gen. Tyndall is expected to anhounce other appointments shortly after returning from his f{rip, but these probably will not include the chief of police. He is not: expected to make that appointment until a short time before he takes office., Mr. Miller headed the Tyndall-for-mayor club during the c¢ampaign. | A grandson of W. H. H. Miller, attorney general in President Harrison’s cabinet, Mr. Miller was born here in 1893 and has been a lifelong resident. :

* Graduate of Hamilton

He attended the Indianapolis public schools, Hamilton college at Clinton, N. Y., and graduated from the Indiana Law school in 1916. | He has practiced law here for more | than 26 years. 4 During the first world war, he | commahded Battery A and the \first | battalion of the 150th field ar- | tillery, a unit of the famous Rainbow division with which Gen. Tyn- | dall also served. Mr. Miller was named chief depris uty prosecuting attorney in 1920 and | in 1922 was elected superior court Judge. A member of many veterans’ and (Continued on Page Five) ieee ints metie miami

N TO Z MOTORISTS TO REGISTER TPDAY

Motorists with names in the N-Z bracket were registering throughout the county today as the threeday registration for gasoline rationing books went into its last lap. Volunteer registrars were to be on .duty from 1 to 8 p. m. at public school buildings in he rationing © districts. " The registration is in preparation for rationing of gasoline at a rate of

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MASS SLAYING

Mass murder in a mad house engaged state policemen today as they

It's Nay-Ney

Ney and ‘Mrs Miniver’| | Delay Wedding Till War’s Over. |

SEATTLE, Nov. 20 (U. P).— | Lieut. Richard Ney, 29, has postponed his marriage with British actress Greer ‘Garson -until after the war, he revealed today. Ney and Miss Garson, who met while playing son and mother in the film, “Mrs. Miniver,” obtained a marriage license at Santa Monica while he was on leave recently, then waited for the necessary five | days for the wedding.

“But on the fifth day, at 9 o'clock,” he said, “I was ordered to leave at once for navy duty. ‘There was no place we could be: married until 10 o'clock. We decided to postpone the marriage.” Ney, on duty as a division officer on an army trangport, said he has learned to take orders and give a ‘few” commands in the navy. :

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“I STAND on the bridge when the ship in sailing and take orders from the captain,” he said. “I jump when he barks and quail when he glowers. But I escaped forever playing the role of a 19-year-old boy like I did in ‘Mrs. And then, actually I was asnamed to be in Hollywood, where no able-bodied young man should he these days.” : He displayed a recent photograph of Miss Garson taken while she was wearing a dancing costume. “They'll never make Greer into another Mrs. Miniver either,” he said. “Isn't she wonderful?”

IS SUSPECTED

Eggs Are Found Pure, Roach Powder Blamed | As 47 Lose Lives.

SALEM, Ore. Nov. 20 (U. P.)—

i workers and essential federal em-

‘| employees to get through enlistment or ‘by?

ESSENTIAL JOB HOLDERS TO BE

KEPTATPOSTS ~~

"FDR Acts to Keep Federal ||

And War Workers Out Of Uniform.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P). —Plans to keep essential + war

ployees out of uniform were made public today by President Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt sent a letter to the secretaries of war and navy, ordering that no government employees should be enlisted or commissioned in the armed services until their essential status can be determined. The president said he hoped a similar prohibition against enlstment or commissioning would be placed in effect for essential munitions workers very soon. - Many Tried to Enlist The president told a press conference that afier his .order last Tuesday for cancellation of all defer-| ments based on federal service, there was a rush of government into uniform,

either commissioning. He explained that he did not want really essential, government]

| employees to go into unifofm, and, | explained | | Knox ‘and Henry L. Stimson that! he wanted “to make sure that no!

to Secretaries Frank,

one who is really irreplaceable shall be separated from an essential posi-| tion.” “Therefore, I wish you would see to it,” he told the war and navy, secretaries, - “that present govern-| ment -employees, who have been deferred, are not enlisted or commissioned . . . unless they can produce the approval of the head of their agency.

Applies in Arsenals “This should apply not only to the regular civilian employees of the government but also to employees .in army arsenals and in navy yards and ngvy shore establishments owned or operated by the United States.” The president said it would prob-

questioned the 3000 inmates of the

state hospital for the insane in|

poured poison into scramble-¢gg batter, killing 47 of his fellows.

/ Governor Charles A. Sprague un-|

hesitatingly ruled out any possi-| bility thai the poison had gotten! into: the batter by accident | or through carelessness and characterized the epidemic of deaths which convulsed the huge institution Wednesday night as “mass murder.” If Governor Sprague’s theory proves true and the mad murderer is found, the state would find it! impossible lo arrest, charge or try im. All inmates have been judicially: adjudged legally insane and hence are not responsible for their acts. . The poison which made 460 in(Continued on Page Five)

CLAIM MERCHANTMEN SUNK

' Anyone having excess tires and

. “approximately four gallons a week, . beginning Dec. 1. Alex O. Taggart, Marion: county rationing administrator, said today. “The public schools are not to issue an A book to any applicant who has not . disposed of excess tires.

having tried to dispose, of them through the Railway Express 'Co., may apply to their local board next week and sign a statement to that effect, at which time they will be given an A book.”

| SEES CRIME INCREASE NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (U. PI— Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, _said| last night that the war had "caused. a big increase in juvenile crime, and that fhe we need is a return to God.”

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groan which diously through the fifth floor deck of the Claypool hotel this merning.

BERLIN, Nov. 20 — (German broadcast recorded by U. P. ih London) —The official news agency said today that German submarines had sunk eights heavily laden merchantmen and aytanker, totaling 55,000 tons, and two destroyers in an attack on a Britain-bound Atlantic convoy during the last 24 hours.

ably be two or three menths before |

| thorough study could be made to of his committee believe. .

determine the government em-|

seach of a lunatic belleved to hive! ployees who are really essential. He passage of a national service act | stressed repeatedly,

however, that! he did not want unessential people] deferred. The president described his ‘order; to the war and navy department as the beginning of a pattern which! eventually would mean the defer-! ment of people essential to the mu-. nitions industries.

Defer Needed Workers

If a war worker wants to enlist, he can now. The president said, however, that in the new manpower setup—which he said would be completed soon—there would be a provision for the deferment and a prohibition qn enlistment of men needed more urgently in war production than in the army. He indicated that an attempt to achieve greater uniformity in the operation of the draft law would be incorporated in the new manpower setup, He said he thought more uniformity could be obtained from draft boards by plant managers certifying to the boards cases of men who are irreplaceable. Draft boards today, the president said, do not consult enough with war production employers.

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Earns $100

Helping her mother has meant | a $100 war bond for Helen Gwin, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Gwin, 462 W. | 31st st. ! She gets the bond today and | becomes the first. pupil in ‘school | 36, Capitol ave, and 28ti st., to buy a bond through the school. Since the beginning‘ of war

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Helen Gwin and her $100 war bond:

stamp sales in October, 1941. the

| school has sold more than $1200 | in stamps to its 149 pupils.

The sales are handled by Mrs. L. J. Rape, a member of the Parent-Teacher association who visits the ‘school . daily to take orders for stamps. Each Friday,

‘she delivers the stamps OF dered

during the week. And today s will give Helen‘her $100 war Li

Immediate Draft of Labor Is Urged by Legion Group!

“The. time for ‘pussyfooting’ and ‘punch-pulling’ in securing the:radically changed by the liberation

manpower necessary for winning this war has passed,” Lawrence J. Fenlon, head of the American Legion's cmployment committee, declared

here today.

He's attending | ‘a meeting of the national executive committee at

Legion headquarters. employment, he and other members That solution is the immediate

whereby the manpower of the nation'can be drafted for war employ-. ment or essential civilian needs] whenever and wherce.cr such need exists. The Legion's governing body approved this stand.

‘What's more, Mr. Fenlon believed it is the Legion's business to see such a message is carried through the people to congress NOW. “The time for temporizing has passed,” he said. Louis A. Johnson, who headed President Roosevelt's special mission to India, spoke off the record to the -egionnaires this morning, describing details of the mission. The committee will adopt resolutions early this afternoon. The Legionnaires last night heard Senator Warren P. Austin of Vermont outline a bill which he has introduced calling for drafting of manpower. His proposal would (Continued on Page Five)

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don’t complain. At the Metropolitan opera where Mr. Crooks is the leading tenor, it costs big dough, even to hear Mr. Crooks groan, The trouble this morning was that the singer was reminded that he hasn't yet found a modern American war song he is particularly anxious to sing. ke a song like ‘Praise the Lord Pass the Ammunition’,” he said.

“Sure it’s popular. But it misrepre- |.

sents the chaplains in the American navy who don't fire any guns. Tune’s

1 all right, but the words sound like

something M. G. M. cooked up to fit a tune. “Remember Pearl Harbor?” Mr. Crooks grunted in G minor. “La de da de dee,” he sang with a chirrup. ‘It ought to go “with a

‘Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in: Ireland?’ Sappy.” The operatic tenor, here today to | rehearse with the Indianapolis! symphony orchestra for his eoncert tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon, finished shaving. He was wearing a daudy pair of wine-col-cred pajamas and he is one tenor who. doesn’t sing in the bathroom, at least not in hotel bathrooms where the echo ought to be evén better than in ordinary bathrooms. Naturally, a tenor like Mr. Crooks doesn’t need the title-wall amplification which makes bathroom singing so popular. Anyhow, he preferred to listen to his portable radio which was fairly squirming with the emotion of a daytime radio serial. “Nope,” said Mr. Crooks, switching off the misery which had been filling the room with sound, “there isn’t anything that has come up yet from this war I'd want to sing. “We ought to get somebody to write something like ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ That's a

Schubert chorus in pink tights.

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| wonderful spirit.”

marvelous war song, wonderful

words with beauty and meaning,

Mr. Crooks has sung the new Shostakovich ‘‘United Nations March” which he regards as one of the best war songs to come out of the United Nations so far. But he’s disappointed that Amefrican composers hgven't dished anything yet that a tenor ‘cap inflate his chest with.

“Na one can sing the ‘StarSpangled Banner,” he said. “I get started and have to drop out and then some one else comes in and has to drop out and by that time I can come back in again,

" Mr. Crooks said he has sung the Canadian and Polish anthems which are more singable than our own. But his favorite, he said, is the old Russian imperial anthem with its depth and feeling. “Only trouble with that,” he added, “is that when you sing nowadays, everybody expects you to wind up with ‘Hail to thee, Penn-

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There is only one solution to ‘adequately and | promptly meeting the needs for war

Two Sides

Legion and Harvard Split Over Bridges Talk at University.

Harvard university and American Legion were split today

lon the issue of “whether Harry

Bridges’ appearance on the Har-

vard campus last Armistice day! was “free speech” or the “exercise of license.” Dr. James B. Conant, president of: Harvard, and Roanz Waring, the Legion's national commander, exchanged telegrams presenting their views. Dr. Conant took the position that Commander Waring’s statements about Harvard were based on “misapprehensjon of the facts” and declared that. Bridges’ appearance was as “one of many speakers who from time to time express their views freely in Harvard halls.” Mr. Waring’s. telegram repeated and reiterated his charges that Harvard permitted the west coast labor leader to speak -at Armistice day exercises and charged that “a venerable seat of learning has been prostituted by its association with an undesirable alien.” Dr. .Conant’s telegram: “Feel sure you would wish it called to your attention that if newspapers quoted you correctly your state-

ments that Harvard university in-;

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HOOSIER ENGINEER.

IS AWARDED MEDAL

Col. Stanley L. Scott, a native of New Albany, has been awarded a distinguished service medal by the war . department for constructing army houses and defenses along the southwestern seaboard while serving 4s "division engineer of the southwestern engineer division. Col. Scott is now division engineer for the southeastern division at Atlanta, Ga.

HOCKEY OVERTIME ENDS MONTREAL,. Nov, 20 (U. P.).— Frank Calder, president of the National Hockey league, announced today that overtime play will be abolished and that games resulting in tie scores at the end of the regulation three periods will be considered draws.

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Sovlets Pledge Smash At Foe on 2000Mile Front.

MOSCOW, Nov, 20 (U. P.).—The government newspaper Izvestia said today that the Soviet victory at

Ordzhonikidze, where more than 20,000 Germans were killed” or wounded and the remainder routed, was the beginning of a Russian winter offensive that would hit the axis along the entire 2000-mile front without mercy and without letup. (In Berlin, the German high command admitted that the Russlans had started strong tank and infantry attacks on the, Don front.) Soviet forces were hotly pursuing the remnants of the routed German army through‘the central Caucasus, following the momentous victory!

southeast of Nalchik. | Front dispatches reported that! the Red army had captured a moun- | tain southeast of Nalchik and were| | attempting to round up and ex-: | terminate the Germans, from w hom | | they had captured huge quantities’ { of equipment. | Only the Beginning “The victory . . . is only the be-| ginning of Soviet counter-blows and | constituted a signal for further ac- | tivization of the Red army against the enemy,” Izvestia said. “The Germans won’t be able to take advantage of winter to re-| group their wornout units, because the Russians won't give them any respite.” The military situation has been

of North Africa, Izvestia said. It now favors the British, Russians and American and “will add to the efforts of the Soviet people in their! unrelenfing fight against the Germans. Front-line dispatches said at least) 7000 Germans were killed. A special communique had placed Ger- |

| were wounded.

Russ Control Stalingrad Again. the noon communique re-| ported “no changes on the fronts. * It reported only light attacks in|! | Stalingrad, where the Russians had | full control of the situation. “On one sector of the Stalingrad | area, German infantry. and tanks attacked the positions of two Soviet! units ‘who wiped out 170 of the

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‘COMMANDER NAMED FOR INDIANA CAMP,

| FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 20 (U. P.).| | —First Lieut. Theodore I. Cooper,| Detroit, today was the new commanding officer of Camp Scott near! Ft. Wayne. Lieut. Cooper succeeds Maj. Albert H. Hunt, who was transferred. Lieut. Cooper is in charge of the 1564th service unit which arrived yesterday to take charge of work pertaining to operation of the camp.

[LONDON — Americans push back

| MOSCOW-—Russians kill or wound

on the approaches of Ordzhonikidze, 'MacARTHUR’'S HQS.— Americans,

came last Thursday night.

[Norman Scott were killed in that

A Re AP ARPA SA ER

(Nov. 20, 1942)

Nazis in first ground clash since world war I; American, British, French drive toward Bizerte, Tunis, paced by flying fortresses

20,000 axis troops in rout at Ordzhonikidze, on road to Grozny; Soviet press hails opening of winter offensive.

BERLIN—German command admits strong Russian tank, infantry attacks on Don front; concede evacuation of Benghazi.

CAIRO—British pound Nazi rear guard toward El Ggheila; 8th army knocks out 28 tanks, 24 guns and 250 trucks in Benghazi area.

Australians close in for kill at Buna-Gona area of New Guinea; allied planes sink Japanese cruiser, destroyer and damage another destroyer.

PRAISE WORTH OF BATTLESHIP

Naval Men Say U. S. Craft In Solomons Met Japs

On Equal Terms.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P.) — Protagonists of the battleship as a valuable weapon of modern warfare today hailed the report of the latest - battle in the Solomons in which American bgttleships lambasted Japanese battleships. It “was the first time since the Spanish- -American war that American bdttleships have slugged it ouv

with another stirring victory. “This should demonstrate the]

| worth of the battleship when it can|

| fight on anything like equal terms,” said a naval officer. “In the last {engagement in the Solomons, ap- | parently neither side had the added | advantage of air striking power.”

Enemy Badly Beaten The clash between the big ships occurred Saturday night and early Sunday morning (Solomons time) in the Guadalcanal area. Details of the fighting still have not been released, but it was the last engagement of a three-day battle between the Japanese and American fleets which ended in ignominious defeat for the enemy. The first engagement between |surface vessels during Japan’s last attempt to recapture Guadalcanal Rear Admirals ‘Daniel J. Callaghan and

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Of Jap Bases

: BULLETIN SOMEWHERE NEW GUINEA, Nov. 20 40. P.) ~American land forces, in action for the

first time south of Buna, smashed their way into the outskirts of the Japanese supply base today and were expected to enter’ the city at any moment. Another allied column of Australian jungle veterans, was hammering at Gona, the other main enemy base on New Guinea’s north shore.

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, SOMEWHERE IN

‘AUSTRALIA, Nov. 20 (U, P.).— Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that American and Australian troops had smashed into the outskirts of Buna and Gona, Japanese bases on the northeast coast of New Guinea and that flying fortresses sank an enemy cruiser and a destrqyer and damaged another destroyer which attempted to relieve the Japanese garrisons. The Japanese troops, pinned along a narrow 15-mile coastal strip extending. northward from Buna to the mission village of Gona, had only ihe sea to their backs and were

Allies Smash Into Outskirts

in New Guinea

expected to resist desperately. But their destruction appeared inevitable unless they were reinforced by sea or air. It was uncertain whether ‘the cruiser and two destroyers which steamed into Helnicote bay off Gona under cover of darkness and with air protection hoped to land fresh troops and supplies or evacuate troops, but the plan Whatever it was, was foiled. The big bombers caught - the enemy by surprise, Gen. MacArthur reported, and, lighting up the target area with flashes, scored direct hits amidships on the cruiser and on one destroyer. : The cruiser burst into flames, shuddering under the impact of a terrific internal explosion and began listing. A short time later it sank. The destroyer was cut in two by a 500-pound bomb and went to the bottom almost at once. & Japanese landing barges which had put out from shore to meet the warships were bombed and raked with machine gun fire. by the fortresses. MacArthur is directing the operations personally.

AXIS TROOPS TRAPPED IN BIZERTE-TUNIS TRIANGLE; RUSS OPEN WINTER DRIVE

On the. War Fronts

‘Benghazi SR Tridtiel By Rommel; Tank Power Cut.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Nov. 20.—An American, army hurled back four German attacks in their first land battle since world war I. driving forward with the British and French hem six axis forces in the narrdw Bizerte-Tunis triangle

for a. “desert Dunkirk.” Allied forces were, within 30 miles

of Bizerte.

Other developments in the Afri-

can theater of action:

1. Berlin admitted the evacuation

of Benghazi.

2. Allied troops marching on Bi-

|zerte knocked .out at least 11 air-

ferried German tanks. 3. The British eighth army de-

y SS

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stroyed an additional 28 tanks in | break-through battles toward the

Gulf of Sirte.

4. American flying fortresses bom- { barded German defenders squeezed

into the Bizerte-Tunis area. Battle Near Zebla

A spokesman for Lieut. Gen, |

Dwight D. Eisenhower rgvealed the U. 8. success in the initial encoun=-

ter with German Jand Wroops in |

Tunisia.

The brief battle was fought near | Zebla—30 miles southeast of Tunis |

close to the Gulf of Hammamet, It appeared that the Americans may

already stand at Hammamet, cut- | ting off Tunis-Bizerte from any land |

connection with the axis in Tripoli. The Germans

launched four |

sharp attacks fon the Americans,

headquarters reported, and were thrown back with considerable losses. Simultaneously a British

| man dead at more than 5000 and with ships of the same size—and| force moving on Bizerte from the {said “several times” that many the American ships came away east smashed da German tank col-

umn, destroying eight of 34 armored machines. Elsenhower’s spokesman said: “There is a big allied surge east

ward with the object of creating a | desert Dunkirk. We have had a few brushes but things are happening |

happen very shortly. The big fight is yet to come¢.”

Nazis Defend Bizerte

The "headquarters reports indi cated the allies rapidly are extending their control to all of Turisia except Bizerte-Tunis where tue

very rapidly oo more is going to

Nazis were hastily erecting a semi- |

circular defense line

radiating |

about 30 miles from the two ports.

The German

admission that |

Benghazi had been evacuated after destruction of military equipment | and facilities made it likely that the |

been occupied by the British—

1 hough an official report to this |

ct had not yet been relayed by Fong It was expected that Rommel will try to stand at El Aghelia if he had enough troops and equipment to make a battle there. However, back s) fast that some experts believed he might withdraw into Tripolitania to accumulate additional reserves and afford time for shipment of more troops, tanks and ammunition , across the Mediterranean. ;

¥ In any event the allied trap was

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HALSEY, DOOLITTLE PROMOTED BY FDR

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt rewarded two of the nation’s most colorful war heroes—Vice Admiral William PF,

he has been pushed

capital of Cyrenaica had once more |

Halsey Jr. and Brig. Gen, James H, =

Doolittle—with promotions today. Halsey, who as commander-in-

chief in the South Pacific directed =

the Solomons naval battles of Nov, 13-14-15 which smashed a mighty enemy armada of battleships lesser craft, was nominated for p motion to the rank of full

Gen. Doolittle, who led the April

18 air raid on Japanese cities and is now head of American forces in North Africa, was promoted to major general. The colorful, hard-fighting sey will be the fifth full

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