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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

h , 9 | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Keep your fingers crossed for three or four days. It’s not all over yet in Tunisia by any means--nor on the Russian front, where Stalin’s armies are (rying to pincer the Germans. Military men see a possibility of bad news. :- Anxiously await developments : 8 2 ” ” n 8 AND DON'T start celebrating the demise of the luftwaffe. New German high altitude piane, probably in production now, may cause us plenty of grief. It's said to operate at 50,000 feet. : a ns a 8 x 8 LOOK FCF a shower of corporation dividends in December to harass the men trying to stop inflationary spending. Most companies started saving for taxes on the basis of house bill's higher rates, have a little extra jicw and plan to pass it out. Neverthel¢ss, big war industries worry about conversion to peace-time pr cluction; say taxes and profit limitations won’t permit them to build ip reserves they'll need when war ends if they are to take up purchase options on government- -built plants and finance change-over £) new products.

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Curb New Public-Power Jobs

YOU HAVEN'T heard the last of that WPB order clamping down on public-povier construction plans. Issue is as dangerous as earlier under-estimates of steel and aluminum needs and will explode the way those dig, some officials say. With TV.\ curtailment ordered this week, power program is cut If this proves a bad mistake, as il 112y (more electric power needed as manpower grows shorter) it ca 1'l be corrected as fast as steel and aluminum shortages were met. It {akes two years to construct hydro-electric plants. o ” ” » ” ” 'MEANWEILE, federa! government directly, and indirectly through war contracts—is now the nation’s largest buyer of electric power. Ther¢’li be more and more pressure for lower electric rates. td ” s » 2 .

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CONGRESSIONAL revolt against gas rationing is partly a ‘‘getHenderson” movement, dates back to his refusal to let congressmen pick OPA regional appointees. Democratic’ national committee, polling congressmen for opinion as to why Republicans made such sweeping gains, finds most of blame laid at Henderson's door, ostensibly for rationing program. Henderson: is expendable, may be eased out eventually. But don’t look for any change in rationing policy. It will go on. Meanwhil2, Henderson looks over the crop of defeated Democrats for one to serve as contact man between OPA and congress, hoping to improve relations with the lawmakers. # ” » » » »

! SENATOR PRENTISS BROWN won’t go back to Michigan when his term ends; he'll be named to an important administrative post before that {ime. He rates high on lists of those planning governmental shake-up. : ei » a 2 x = AND CEARLES MICHELSON'S place as Democratic publicity chief will be filled. He wasn’t eased out for economy reasons. Committee is looking for a topnotcher to take over and sparkplug its publicity as IMichelson once did. » » &

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No New Cantonments Planned

NO SET: UP OF ARMY cantonment construction is planned, according to present indications, despite heavy 1943 increase in size of army. Itmeans rapid movement of troops overseas, observers say. 4 2 » ” » ” CUTS IN PRODUCTION of tanks, artillery, shells, to allow speedup in airplane and ship construction, will be only about 5 per cent below 1042 program. Even the 5 per cent cut means some dislocation of indugtsy, scme unemployment, during retooling. : Airplane qutput, which slipped last month, is headed up again. $i ” ” ” » » oDT ADMITS “CONVERSATIONS” are in progress on a proposed order’ restricting trucks of all types from operating more yap 800 miles from point of origin. There’ll be another wail of protest from the west if order is issued. Texis truckers are already beginning to scream. It's 562 miles from Brownsville to Dallas, 672 miles from Waco to El Paso, more than &)0 miles from Houston to El Paso—all routes over which trucks have done a major part of the buiing® business. v0 » ” ” ” IF FORMER REP. JOHN B. HOLLISTER 2 Cincinnati becomes (Continued on Page Two)

TEMPERATURE RISE | JOHN W, LEE’S TRIAL

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FOR 3 DEATHS IS SET

Enters Not Guilty Plea to Manslaughter Charge.

The trial of John W. Lee, whose car hurtled over a downtown sidewalk, killing three persons and injuring 10 others last July 20, was set for Dec. 16 in the criminal court today after he pleaded not

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guilty to charges of manslaughter and reckless homicide. His arraignment followed three months of preliminary litigation which ended today when Special

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. Judge Samuel Garrison overruled a 11 Inside Indpls. 9:defense motion for plea in abate8 ‘Lucey 9 ment. + 10 Millett sesso. 10) Last week Lee pleaded not guilty 12 Movies 11} to a charge of perjury in connec9 Obituaries ... 5|tion with his application for driver's . 10} license. No trial date has been set veesss 9ifor this case. . 14 . 10 Real Estate | v5 10] Mrs. Roosevelt 9| 10’ Side Glances. 10 4 Society .....6, 7 Haiiees 10 Sports ....... 8 hi.. 13; State Deaths. 5

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U. 8. VESSEL IS SUNK

AN EAST COAST PORT, Nov. 28 (U. P.). ~All except three of a crew of 56 were saved when a medium sized U. S. merchantman was torpedoed by an unseen enemy submarine in the North Atlantic early

this month, the navy disclosed to-

BALL'S DEBT IN RAIL DEAL SET AT 3 MILLIONS

Special Master Fixes Sum Owed to Ohio Banks; Appeal Likely.

By ROGER BUDROW George A. Ball, the millionaire

Pelley’s Daughter Held in Conspiracy

fruit jar king of Muncie, owes more than $3,000,000 to several Cleveland banks as an aftermath of the day| more than 10 years ago when he] tried to help the late Van Sweringen brothers save the giant railroad empire they had built. That was the finding made yesterday to Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell here by Albert Ward who was appointed special master to determine how much money Mr. Ball owed. Judge Baltzell ruled several months ago that Mr. Ball was liable to the Cleveland banks for part of the profit he made in the transaction and asked Mr. Ward to determine exactly how much that portion of the profit amounted to. Calls for Payment In his report Mr. Ward said Mr. Ball should pay the Cleveland banks $2,388,695.85 plus 6 per cent interest since April 1, 1937 which brings {he total to approximately $3,200,000. If Judge Baltzell orders this done, it will cost Mr, Ball something like $15,000 a month in interest to appeal the decision to a higher federal court at Chicago or on to the U. S. shred The case is the only one of four brought against Mr. Ball in federal court here that actually reached the trial stage. The others were settled out of court.

Advertised Collateral Sale

The case revolves about an option for the purchase of some stock, an option that the Van Sweringen brothers, who died several: years ago, never exercised. In building up their vast railroad holdings, the two Cleveland brothers had borrowed $17,000,000 from several Cleveland banks and also had borrowed around $40,000,000 from J. P. Morgan’s bank in New York. In 1935 J. P. Morgan called the loans but the Van Sweringens were unable to pay him. So Morgan advertised that he was going to sell the Van Sweringen’s collateral at auction. . Meanwhile the Van Sweringens interested Mr. Ball in helping them out. The Midamerica Corp. was formed into which Mr. Ball put $2,000,000. There were 15,000 shares (Continued on Page Two)

TONI JO HENRY DIES

William Dudley Pelley, convicted seditionist, and his daughter, Miss Adelaide Marian Pelley, who is in jail here on charges of conspiring to conceal a fugitive from justice.

False Rumor of "Freezing" Jams Gas Stations Here

A rumor that gasoline sales would be frozen today until rationing

starts next Tuesday,

sent thousands of motorists scurrying to their! yesterday.

Rationing officials who issued a denial this morning said they had | no idea how the rumor got started, but that it became so widespread about 3 p. m1. yesterday that filling’ stations all. over the city became

THREATENED ‘BUS STRIKE 13 AVERTED

Agreement Is t fe Reached at Parley With Mayor.

A threatened stoppage of work in the busses of the Indianapolis Street - Railways Co. Tuesday was averted: today, Mayor Sullivan announced after a conference in his office at city hall. : “Leaders of local union Neo. 1070 and 995 of the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railways and Motor Coach Employees of America have agreed not to strike. Company officials say they will adhere to both contracts heretofore entered into,” Mayor Sullivan’s statement said. The dispute centered about seniority among employees of the Indianapolis Railways.

IN ELECTRIC CHAIR

First Woman nan Elecirocuted

By Louisiana.

LAKE CHARLES, La., Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Mrs. Toni Jo Henry died today in the electric chair for the cold blooded slaying of a Houston, Tex., salesman, whose automobile and money she needed. The 26-year-old “tiger woman” who shot J. P. Calloway, to death in a frozen rice field as he plead for his life, became the first woman to be electrocuted and the second to be executed by the state of Louisiana. As she died, her accomplice in murder, Horace Finnon Bruks, sat shivering in his cell a few yards away from the death chamber. Only last week Mrs. Henry signed a statement taking full responsibility for Calloway’s death, which Bruks plans to use in an appeal from his death sentence.

TORPEDO BOAT HERO TO WED, SOCIALITE

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—|

Lieut. Anthony B. Akers, one of the four “expendables” of the Philippine torpedo boat squadron, will be married today to Miss Jane Pope, New York post-debutante. The wedding will take place at fashionable St. Thomas church, only six months after Lieut. Akers was quoted as saying that he had “no time for romance.” He returned to the United States to train torpedo boat crews.

NAMED DETECTIVE

Corp. Ray Moistner, veteran police officer, was transferred today from the accident prevention bureau to the detective department. He will rank an investigator in

The bus drivers have been ordered by their international union to merge with the streetcar and trolley operators’ union hut feel that their seniority rights will be impaired if the merger is effected.

TRANSIT FIRMS HARD HIT

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —The office of defense transportation reported today that one out of every eight local transit companies is faced with a critical manpower shortage.

REPORT 19 CZECHS SLAIN LONDON, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—The Czechoslovakian news bureau reported the execution of 19. more Czechs in Prague.

jammed with cars. Officials of one oil company said | or their 30 stations in the city a sudden rush ‘in business Fro a with cars lining up '10 deep in some sections. One filling station. attendant on {the North side said he pumped more than 800 gallons into car tanks between 3 p. m, and 4 p. m. yesterday compared to about 100 gallons normal. sales in that period. Telephones in the OPA offices and at rationing board’ headquarters were swamped with cdlls, forcing James D. Strickland, state OPA director. to issue a formal statement, denying the report. . It was believed that the rumor was started by persons’ who recalled that gasoline sales were frozen for 20 hours before rationing went into effect on the Eastern seaboard last summer. Rationing officials here said they had no information that sales (Continued on Page Two)’

CAVE-IN OF OLD MINE

TWISTS 200 HOMES

PITTSTON, Pa. Nov. 28 (U. P.). —The most destructive mine subsidence in the hard coal region in several years struck this anthracite city last night and early today, twisting the foundations of 200 homes and sending scores of families into the streets. Fissures, the largest so deep that the bottom was not visible and 170 feet long, lay the earth open in the residential section, setting houses in unusual positions, buckling pavements, cracking lawns and yards, and bursting water and gas mains. No one was reported injured. The damaged area covered a half square mile under which lies the shaft of the Old Eagle mine, unworked since 1868.

Michelson Asks Democrats

To "Drop Me Off Payroll"

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —Charles Michelson, director of

! public relations for the Demec-

cratic national committee since 1929, said today he had “asked them to drop me off the payroll, effective now.” The 74-year-old former newspaperman, who held a key post in the Democratic party in the years of its greatest political triumphs, said “there was nothing formal about my resignation; we'd been talking about it for six months.” Michelson said he just went to the Democratic national chairman, Edward J; Flynn, and told him to “stop paying me.” Although he is no longer on the payrell, Michelson was at his desk as usual at committee headquarters today and said he would stay on the job a while longer although “I have severed my official connection.” Michelson, a familiar figure at all national Democratic gatherings and’ a faithful attendant at

plans to continue in Washington and perhaps “dn a little writing.” He intends, however, to remain on call to the party.

“I have had a very delightful eX. perience in my job,” he said, “and as long as I live all they've got to do is call on me for any ‘service I can render.”

Michelson said he had been discussing his retirement with Flynn for six months. Flynn, he said, had asked him at first to stay on the job until the chairman’s successor was picked—“to get the new man started.” “But Flynn's retirement became more and more indefinite,” Michelson said, “and so I decided I might as well quit.” Michelson was born in Virginia City, Nev. and worked as a newspaperman in San isco, Chicago and New York. did double duty in 1933-34 as director of public 15 ions for the. |

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —The war department announced

fully repulsed an enemy counterattack at Tebourba, 21 miles west of Tunis, destroying 10 tanks. In a communique, the war department said that the enemy was generally on the defensive in the Tunisian area and was attempting to blow up bridges, roads and railway lines,

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspcndent Allied commands cautiously but confidently claimed the upper hand over the axis cn all world fronts today after a week of dramatic movements!

CHARGED WITH AIDING 6 FUGITIVE

1 Claris She She: Harbored Associate of Father in

Sedition Case.

Miss Adelaide Marian Pelley, daughter of William Dudley Pelley, was in Marion county jail today in lieu of $3000 bond on a charge of conspiring to conceal a fugitive from justice. She was arrested at her home in Noblesville yesterday by five FBI agents and charged with harboring Howard Victor Broenstrup, 56, whom the FBI said was associated with her father in the Fellowship Press. Broenstrup was arrested Nov. 23 at New Galilee, Pa. after he had been indicted last summer along with 26 others on charges of seditious activities. Four Others Under Arrest

* Four others also are under arrest on the same charge, according to Julius Lopez, FBI agent in charge here. They are Miss Marguerite Marie Carmichael of Noblesville, Victory Warren Hoye of New Castle, Pa., Frank W. Mariner of Poland, O., and Henry Meine of New Galilee, Pa. Miss Pelley's attorney, Floyd W. Christian, demanded a removal hearing which was set by Howard S. Young Sr, U. S. commissioner, for Dec. 7. Pelley, convicted of sedition as a leader of the pro-Fascist Silver Shirts and publisher of the proNazi “Galilean,” is serving a 15year term in the Terre Haute federal penitentiary.

MME. GHIANG IN U. 3.

FOR MEDICAL CARE

Talks With FOR FDR on Aid to China Expected.

WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. 28 (U. P.). —Madame Chiang-Kai-shek, wife of China's generalissimo and the world’s outstanding stateswoman, was in the United States today for medical treatment and conferences with President Roosevelt on Pacific war strategy. An atmosphere of heavy secrecy was maintained concerning present whereabouts of the American-edu-cated wife of the leader of China's embattled millions but the White House disclosed that she will be Mr. Roosevelt's guest when her treatment is completed. She. has entered a hospital, its location not disclosed, to undgrgo treatment for after-effects of injuries received five years ago in an automobile accident near Shanghai during a Japanese raid. Although the White House stressed that this was the primary purpose of her visit, there was no doubt in official quarters that important American-Chinese decisions—based on her wide knowledge of China's war effort and information she un-

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‘highlighted by fhe self-| destruction of the French | main fleet at Toulon.

The Red army newspaper, Red! fo today reported that Soviet | forces have cut the most important | communications and supply lines of | G the German siege army at, Stalingrad. (Exchange Telegraph quoted Swiss radio reports that the Russians had captured Kletskaya, 75 miles north- | west of Stalingrad, after heavy fighting.)

Hint at Complete Rout

Red Star said the Soviet successes opened the way not only to drive the Germans from Stalingrad, but to turn the Nazi retreat into a complete rout. “Our duty is to drive the enemy from every line,” said Red Star, and “destroy the encircled troops.” Full reports are yet to be received on. the grand coup by the!

American conception that Adolf Hitler, by his savage attack on Toulon, lost one of the most precious prizes of the war. The enraged Nazi master today took over the great Istres air base at Toulon to fortify his positions in the western Mediterranean.

Nazis Demobilize France

The German radio, meanwhile, reported that the demobolization of France's 60,000-man army is proceeding with complete calm although Geneva reported that fighting had broken out in the Cologne-Sous-Sabre on the Swiss-French border between the French and German troop detachments. France's internal situation was further complicated by a Berlin denial that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain “has no intention of resigning.” This was the first report to suggest that there was any possibility of Petain’s resignation and may indicate that the step itself is a prob1 ability. Other developments in today's (Continued on Page Seven)

On the V/ar Fronts

(Nov. 28, 1942)

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AFRICA—Allied forces drive on Tunis with capture of Tabourda, 15 miles from capital; Havas reports place allied spearheads 10 miles from city; allied air power growing; British fleet hunts survivors of Toulon, ready. for battle with Italian fleet.

LONDON-—Believe French warships at Alexandria and British ports may join with allies; Germans reported tightening control on Toulon area with seizure of airdrome and reported arrest of Admiral Jean de Laborde.

CAIRO-—Allied planes attack Dodecanese islands and Sicily.

MOSCOW—Snow and fog hamper operations; Russians capture four some buildings imside Stalingrad.

BERLIN—Russians outnumber axis troops 10 to 1 at some points on Stalingrad front; Soviet toropets offensive still in progress.

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FRENCH SHIPS

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Units at Alexandria, Martinque May Fight Axis.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Nov. 28.—At least one submarine escaped in the self-imposed destruction of the French main fleet

at Toulon yesterday. The underseas craft, successful in a dangerous and thrill-packed dash from the Toulon harbor under the screaming’ guns of Nazi airplanes, reached Barcelona, Spain, today. A Spanish naval officer boarded the submarine and told the commander he had 24 hours in which to depart and avoid internment.

Arrives With Full Crew

The submarine arrived with its full crew and gave. rise to hopes that other French ships had escaped to fight with the allies. There were reports that two submarines and “possibly two destroyers” had made a getaway from Toulon. Powerful Prench naval units neutralized at Alexandrig, Egypt, and Gibraltar Morocco and Martinique were expected today to join the allied naval forces. * British warships searched the Mediterranean in hope that they might pick up and escort to safety any French ships which escaped during the suicide of the main fleet at Toulon. At allied headquarters in North Africa, a spokesman annqunced that any ship of the French fleet

held port on the African coast. News was received that Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, French commander in Africa, made a radio appeal over the Algiers radio last {night for French ships at sea to join the allies, evidently believing that some were at large.

Fighting French Parade At that time, it was indicated, Darlan and allied leaders were still uncertain of the extent of the scuttling. Men of the Fighting French fleet already fighting with the allies pa= raded in the French admiralty courtyard here today and all Fight

of silence in honor of the Toulon dead. Flags at the French admiralty and Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s headquarters were at half staff. : A Vichy Havas dispatch reported Toulon quiet this morning, with streetcars running, after a night in which explosions shook houses and damaged many of them as ammunition exploded in dumps and explosives detonated in scuttled ships. A pall of smoke hung over the city so thick, Havas said, there it was in semi-darkness. Reports reached neutral Switzerland and Spain that the men of the (Continued on Page Seven)

CHURCHILL SPEECH ON AIR TOMORROW

ILONDON, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston Churchill will '|make a broadcast address to the world at 9 p. m. tomorrow (3 p. m. Indianapolis time) on the eve of his 68th birthday, it was announced today. It was believed he would speak on the war generally. In his last radio speech May 10, second anniversary of the German invasion of Holland and Belgium and of his assumptio yo of the prime ministry, Churchill “warned that Britain would use gas if the Germans did.

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