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RUCIAL BATTLE

RAGES IN AFRICA

| Santa Loses His Chocolate Coat

U. S. Bombs Naples as Tempo of Fighting for Tunis Rises Fiercely.

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tivity along the axis Aghelia line on the Liby2n coast was accompa-

attack there, in a renewed offensive

miles westwe rd. Last Sunday Prime Winston Ch

Minister ‘chill promised Italy

south from ile new allied positions in North Africa. : Heavy boners based on Britain

had attacke¢ Turin Saturday night, | before the

speech, and Sunday night, after it but now the attacks on southern Iraly had begun.

Report! Genoa Closed

With Gen according to as the result

port for the : kis troops in Africa. - Though apparently the United States army flying Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle’s 12th forthwest Africa did not join in the attack, it was believed here (hat they too would soon be blastiiig southern Italy. The allied planes had been able to bring Naples within effective range because he eighth army had given them ncw bases by driving

‘ westward through Libya to the

bulge at Benghazi, 700 air line miles

Ander=:n Gets Help Dispatches ‘om northwest Africa indicated that Leut. Gen. Kenderson’s first British army was 1.0W receiving powerful reinforcements in men, weapons and supplies so that it might soon make its big attack on the Germans and Italians in the TunisBizerte northeast corner of Tunisia. * Latest report: were that all German counter-:attacks had been

‘stopped west of Tunis and that the

allied forces, <including about 25 per cent Ancricans and some French, were holding dominant hilly positions in the neighborhood of Djedeida, T-bourba and Mateur which allied leaders were confident they could maintain until the main allied army moved up in sufficient strength to opeii a general offensive. An. American +French victory, in

~~ which American parachute troops

operating as -zround forces aided, had gained the allies the village of Sidi Bou Zid, 75 miles from Sfax on the east coat.

SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY CHARGED IN FBI RAID

MINEOLA, NY. Dec. 5 (U. P.). ~—An undisclosed number of naturalized citizens of foreign birth and enemy aliens were under questioning by federal authorities today, following a one-d:v search of Nassau county by FBI agents for persons suspected of subversive activities. The round-the-clock cleanup, under the supervision of Detective Inspector Harold R. King and a Nassau county alien squad official, included scizure of ammunition, firearms, cameras, radios and German propaganda literature. '®A member of ‘he German-Amer-ican Bund personnel, whose name was not revealed. was held for questioning as a sifting process continued’ today. Some suspects were released while others were turned over to FBI headquarters in Man-

hattan.

METHODIST STAFF ELECTS DR. KERR

Dr. Harry Ker" has been named

president-elect o/ the medical staff of the Methodist hospital for 1944. Staff heads of the hospital are

- elected one year in advance.

Dr. John Whitehead, who was was inducted as hte 1943 president. Others recently elected who alrcady have taken office include Dr. Karl Kooms, vice

president; Martha Souter, secretary-

. treasurer, and I». Harry L. Fore-

man and Dr. Heary F. Beckman, members of the executive council. s

Paul C. Denny . . . yesterday

“ Mext in the series of “Yester‘day and Today” pictures featurag Indianapolis - business men ‘who have had former service in ‘the navy is Paul C. Denny, partner in the Indianapolis Paper Container Co. Mr. Denny enlisted in the navy April 7, 1917, and was re-

He served on the 8. 8. Gopher, Carib, Rotternd the U. 8. sub chaser

closed to shipping, sconnaissance reports ' attacks on it, Naples had become tie chief reinforcement

fortresses of

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U, P.. —American children will do their bit in the war program by sacrificing chocolate Santa Clauses, St. Valentine's hearts, Easter bunnies and eggs and other chocolate novelties. Beginning Dec. 15, use of chocolate is prohibited by the war production board in manufacturing or coating novelty items, coating miniature candy pieces, manufac-

turing chocolate shot, or decorat- |

ing chocolate candy. Because of the shipping shortage, a quota has been placed on the grinding of which are imported to make chocolate. The quota represents 60 per cent of grindings in the corresponding quarter of 1941. The WPB held it advisable to eliminate novelty items in order to conserve cocoa for products such as breakfast cocoa and candy bars, which have high nutritional value for soldiers and defense workers.

YANKEES SMACK JAP NAVAL UN

Force. of Light Vessels Under Plane, Torpedo

Attack in Pacific.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— American dive bombers and torpedo planes struck at a small enemy force of light naval vessels 150 miles northwest of Guadalcanal but results of the attack are not known, the navy announced today. The air striking group operated from Guadalcanal. The attack occurred on Thursday (island time). Navy officers said they did not know in what direction the enemy naval force was heading when intercepted py our airmen. It was presumed that the enemy force included light cruisers and destroyers. : The point at which the attack was made was between Santa Isabel island and New Georgia. The . navy also. reported con-

alcanal on Friday (island time). A marine corps “raider” patrol killed 16 Japanese, captured a mortar, several machine guns and ammunition along the upper Lunga river. ; :

JUNE KNIGHT WINS IN PROPERTY SUIT

HOUSTON, Tex. Dec. 5 (U. P.). —June Knight, as glamorous as when she starred on Broadway, won continuance of a temporary inJunction today to prevent her millionaire husband, Arthur Cameron, from disposing of his property pending his answer to a suit in which she seeks $4000 a month maintenance. Miss Knight, who has made her home here since she retired in 1938 after marrying Cameron, a Houston oil operator, told Judge Ewing Boyd she wanted the continuance pending a hearing on a permanent injunction. She seeks to bring her husband into court in an effort to obtain

divorce suit. . She told Judge Boyd that she had pursued by legal process her wealthy husband—whose income she said was $250,000 a year—from Houston to Dallas, Tex. to Evansville, Ind., and nqw was trying to [locate him in Tulsa, OKla.

10 IN BOMBER DIE IN CANYON CRASH

POCATELLO, Ida., Dee. 5 (U. P)). —All personnel of a four-motor bomber perished when the plane crashed in Wilson canyon near Cleveland, Ida. the public relations office of the Pocatello airbase said today. The plane. carried a crew of 10. Names of the men aboard were not released immediately.

Paul C. Denny . , , today

An active assistant in navy recruiting, he holds an award of merit from the navy recruiting service for his aid. “The navy has been responsible for any success I have attained,” Mr. Denny said. “The time I spent in the service gave /me confidence and the ability to supervise and manage men. The navy also taught me to think clearly’ and speak with intelligence, All these things have keen. invaluable to me in pusi-

cocoa beans,

manpower commission, congratulates Cleo Blackburn, superintendent of Flanner House, after the social service agency received a 99-year lease to a new site last night. Dr. Weaver, principal speaker at Flanner House’s 44th annual founders’ day dinner, discussed the Indianapolis labor situation.

¥his Supply of Labor Here

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ Jobs for Negroes Seen

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American industry was challenged

"Dr. Robert C. Weaver (left), noted Negro mefiber of the war

tinued American activity on Guad-|*

maintenance pending action on her

dampened when they saw educated plant work and said that two local land trained Negroes having to move plants already were following that

| elsewhere to obtain employment. | The manpower commission mem- | ber said that Negroes who had been trained in the Indianapolis schools had gone to Norfolk, Va. to take | jobs, which in-migrants from other cities were coming here to fill. “This is wasteful procedure,” he said. “It means a diversion of critical materials for housing, for schools, for other civilian supplies, which well could go into bombs and bullets and airplanes.” He urged Indianapolis industry to follow the Lockheed-Vega plan of introducing Negroes into skilled

Unused, WMC Member Says

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scheme. He estimated the local | supply of Negro workers available (for industry at 10,900.

| Dr. Weaver called for a “plan of laction,” which included active par- | ticipation by the Negro com- { munity. “There must be no double stand|ard,” he said. “If we are to have equal employment opportunities, we must have equal contributions. Our people must be prompt and industrious and able. Persons who are tardy and inefficient and who have unsatisfactory behavior patterns must be weeded out.”

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: Capt. Victor Emanuel Walton, a former resident of Indianapolis, has been awarded

service cross for extraordinary heroism on Sept. 3 when he participated enemy installations at Kiska, Alaska. Capt. Walton enlisted in the army in October, 1940, in Indianapolis. | Mrs. Walton also formerly lived here ‘and her mother is Mrs. May Terry of Indianapolis.

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‘Directs Finances

| Lieut. Thomas Bugher is com- | manding officer of the finance office at the Alamogordo, N. M,, air base. He recently visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bugher, 626 E. 17th st. He attended Cathedral high school and St. Joseph's college and was employed as an accountant at Curtiss-Wright Corp. before entering the army. ” ” " Seaman Max Myers, formerly of 2315 Central ave., is stationed at the naval reserve air base at Peru. He enlisted- Oct. 27 and had been employed as a machinist at the Lukas-Harold Corp. the past year. His wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Myers, live at Kingman.

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{has reported to the naval armory for duty in the supply office. He will be stationed here until the first of

administration for further training. A native of Columbus, O., Ensign Yankee is a graduate of Ohio State university. ” ” 2

Five Indianapolis students at Harvard university have been sworn into the army enlisted reserve corps. (They are F. W. Flickinger, 5126 N. Pennsylvania st.; F. D. Bixler, 4200 S. East st.; A. W. Greer, 5144 Park ave.; T. V. Keene, 3209 N. New Jersey st, and R. L. Ryan, 1321 N. Meridian st.

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Corp. Robert Biggs has returned to Pine Camp, N. Y., after spending a six-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Minnie Biggs, 801 Division st.

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Draft Board Inductees

Selective Service board 3 announced today that the following registrants have been inducted into the army:

Edward Guthrie, 3433 College: 'Ral Bowstrom, 4440 Marcy lane, No. 137: Ron ert Morris, 2916 Broadway: Russell Davis, 848 W. 43d: Clarence Clarke, 1427 Park, No. 5; Ralph Allen Wooley, 4155 Broadway: Arthur Donovan, 4450 Mary Lane, No. 112: Albert Gandolph, 2010 E. 42d; Robert Davis, 31268 Central; Franklin Adams, 44 Caroline: ‘Samuel Hollander, 3552 Broadway; Holland Elgin, 4545 Marcy Lane, No. 272; Robert Warren, 115 E. 28th; Frederick Pfortner, 2040 N. Delaware; Harold Blank, 426 Burgess, Monroe, Mich.: Robert McGinnis, 4020 Cornelius. Philip Hyman, 6404 13th st., N. W., Washington, D. C.; Robert J. Langle. 3465 College; William Richards, 3761 N. Meridian, apt. 106: Alfred Perryman <r., 4443 Sutherland, and Joseph E. Greskamp, 3819 Boulevard pl.

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The following men from board 11 have been inducted:

Herschel Jones, 2303 Carrollton: Raymond Louis Hart, 457 Haugh; Robert Cur. 1441 Orange; Clayton Carol S. Rybolt; Merrill John hart, R. R. 3, Box 118; Walter Wilson Pyatt, 33 N. Belle Vieu pl.; Harvey Tillman Slaughter, 825 8. Warman; Charles Elbert Schilling, R. R. 1, Box 194, Bridgeport; Roy Leional Wilson, Box 47, Maywood; James Robert Worland, 1422 W. 31st; Jiles Fountain Duthridge, 644 Collier; Charles Millard Sweitzer, 2016 Alton; Wallace L. Byrer, 720 W. 5th, Bicknell; Jewell W. Dalzelll R. R. 18, Box 26 Herbert Wilbur Featheringill, 36490. W. Michigan; Harold Arthur Olson, 5121 W. 16th; Edward Francis Moore, 3346 W. Michigan; Merrill Dewey Shiel, 433 8S. Warman; Bert Marion Lyon, 1144 N. bama; Virgil Collins, 2403 W. McCarty; Melvin Gradey Cunningham, 1004 8. Lyndhurst, and Robert Leon Wasson, 1105 Waldemere, :

John Anthony Rizzi, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Rizzi, 218 8. 5th st, Beech Grove, is tak-

| ing his “boot” training at the i LJ

the distinguished.

in the first pursuit attack made on:

Ensign J. H. Yankee, U. 8. -N. R.,| First Lieut. Thomas P. Goodman,

Pvt. Michael Pvt. Scott

LEFT—Pvt. John Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Michael, 822 E. Iowa st. is studying surveying in a school at Camp Hood, Tex. He took his basic training at Camp McCoy, Wis. He formerly was employed at the Taystee bakery here. RIGHT—Pvt. William T. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott, 911 N. Meridian st., is with army forces somewhere in the middle east.

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Stoddard Gets Bars

William C. Stoddard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Judd, 859 Chase st., has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the army signal corps. He was graduated recently from the | officer candidate school at Ft. Mon- | mouth, N. J.

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—Usually reliable reports said today that Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, had been under near-martial law since Sunday, following the arrest of several army and navy officers and leaders of the National Republican party, who opposed ex-

POST-WAR PLAN

Challenges = Industry to

Begin Reconstruction Work Now.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (U. P)—

by one of its foremost masters today to begin post war reconstruction at once, while the war continues. Henry J. Kaiser, the “miracle man” ship builder, addressing the closing session of the war congress of American industry, urged that the designing and planning and financing skills of industry should labor simultaneously in shaping the post-war world while its production sinews are engaged in supplying the fighting fronts. : He issued these specific challenges: To the automobile industry: To design and offer for sale now the post war “1945 model” automobile, accepting war bonds as down payment for delivery six months after the war ends.

: | Calls for Highways

To general contractors and manufacturers of road machinery, cement, steel, and all highway building tools: to organize, design, plan, and finance now a new nation-wide highway system, construction to begin when the war ends. To real estate men: to organize companies, engage architects, work with banks and building loan associations, to design and plan now 9,000,000 units of housing construction to begin when the war ends, and accept war bonds as down payment. To all industrialists: to organize, finance, and manage medical centers in every industrial community, “where medical service could be purchased on an insurance basis at a cost which would ‘bring notgonly skill and facilities, but all the advantages of research within the reach of the common man.”

AHEAD ON 2 FRONTS

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said. This success followed advances of from 220 to 230 yards yesterday. Northwest of Stalingrad, east of the Don, the Russians captured 20 pill boxes and dugouts, killed 400 Germans and captured seven field guns and other materials, the noon communiqué said. Two German infantry battalions, numbering about 2000 men, were routed in a counter-attack in another sector. Their attack broken, the Germans fled, leaving the Russians to pick up on the field their machine guns, tommy guns and rifles. Repeated German counter-attacks west ,of Rzhev, 135 miles west of Moscow, on the central front, cost ithe enemy 1100 men killed and seven tauks and 120 trucks. destroyed, the noon communique reported. The Germans were making furious attempts to hold their positions on the central front and were pouring in reinforcements to ‘fill gaps hacked in their lines.

REPORT MARTIAL LAW . BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5 (U. P)).

SOVIET FORGES MOVE

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

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tax returns, and escape higher surtaxes. New salary regulations attempted, apparently, to equalize this condition, but didn’t succeed. ” ” ” : #" ” s : Fight against the “lily white” Remocratic primary in Texas is headed for U. S. supreme court. It failed in U. 8. district court in

Texas, U. 8. circuit court in New Orleans. Justice department will | enter the case as friend-of-the-court, try to lift the ban against

Negroes voting in these primaries. o ” ” » ” ” LOOK FOR NYA to join WPA in graveyard soon. If president doesn’t abolish it, congress will. All the steam being generated against WPA will hit youth administration. run by another agency.

Comment of one congressman on liquidation of WPA: “I'm for it |

but it cheats us of some of our demagoguery next session!” tJ ” ” ” ” ” TREASURY STILL has no program ready for 1943 tax bill, still debates within itself relative merits of spending tax, compulsory lending, expenditure rationing. Prospect for bills drafted by congress committees, on their own initiative, increases. ” ” ” ” ” o OHIO’S GOVERNOR JOHN W. BRICKER has canceled a speec before the Ohio society here Jan. 29, making politicos believe the Midwest's leading presidential prospect wants to remain under wraps a-while longer. Governor's explanation is that he’ll be busy with his legislature. :

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Defends Alaska Mail Censorship

CENSOR BYRON PRICE will vigorously defend censoring of Alaska mail when senate judiciary committee question him next Wednesday. Governor Gruening of Alaska is fighting it. Price admits that censorship of mail to and from U. S. possessions isn't yet authorized by law, says it's necessary anyway. Judiciary committee recalled the bill legalizing it after house and senate had passed it. ” ” n ” ” 2

SENATE ADOPTION of the Willis resolution calling for 60-day reports on progress of synthetic rubber leaves rubber director Jeffers power to withhold anything he thinks might be useful to the enemy. Wording was changed so that data is merely “requested.” " ” n " » ”

Milk Cow Slaughter a Worry

THERE'LL BE AN order stopping slaughter of milk cows. It’s necessary, insiders say, to hold off milk and butter shortages. Agriculture already has asked farmers to milk three times a day; tells them English farmers are doing it despite even worse labor shortages

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CLARE BOOTHE LUCE has run into heavy going in her drive for a place on house foreign affairs committee. It already has two Republican women on it; masculine members say that’s enough. ” ” ® vv ” ” ” UNIVERSITIES and colleges, many of them struggling to keep their doors open, besiege the war department “for allocation of army trainees under the new technical-education program to be lanuched about first of year. Si 2 #2 » LAWYERS OF ICC AND WPB are trying to untangle a snarl rising out of removal of unused railroad trackage for scrap steel. WPB asked that the rails be turned im to scrap collections, and they were; ICC attorneys say the trackage is still legally in existence because track abandonments require ICC sanction.

EX-1. U. GRID STAR HELD AS OBJECTOR

Its training activities will be

| SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1942

BETTY BIDDLE

Daugher of I. U. Officer Awaits Orders of Assignment.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 5.— Miss Befty Ruth Biddle, daughter lof Ward G. Biddle, vice president and treasurer of Indiana sity, is this city's .. = newest enlistee ‘in the WAACs. She is awaiting

‘#8 at Daytona Beach, Fla, or Ft. Des Moines, Ia. For the last : § year She had been g laboratory techniMiss Biddle cian for Dr. Irvin Page of the Eli Lilly research labe oratories at Indianapolis. She attended Indiana university and he I. U. School of Nursing 2* Indian apolis.

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The Indiana university women's auxiliary training corps, the first such unit established in an Amerie

so successful that a sister organiza= tion is to be set up at the Univere sity of Illinois. Officials from the University of Illinois advised I. U. officials that 1llinots would establish in Februe ary a womens’ unit of from 75 > 100 coeds. The decision was made upon a study of the results of the program here. Both training programs are dee signed to prepare coeds for admis= sion to the WAACs, WAVES or SPARs.

GENERAL TO TRANSFER

—Maj. Gen, Emil F. Reinhardt, commanding officer of the 76th division at 1. Meade, Md., today was relieved of his command to assume an undisclosed assignment, the war department announced.

NICE PLACE FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN

I'd like to get a responsible white woman to help with meals and housework. Have a man .in once a week for heavy cleaning, and a laundress two days a week. You would have a pleasant second floor room and bath of your own, I have two little boys, both in school, but only one comes home for lunch, Will pay good wages to right sort of person. North Side, 2 blocks from bus. Call BR-2278.

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| WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U. P).

CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (U. P).— Charles A. Steele, 22, former football star at Indiana university, faces grand jury action for refusing to report to a conscientious objectors’ camp. Steel contended he was an ordained minister doing missionary work for the Watch Tower society of the Jehovah's witnesses sect and refused to give up his ministry. U. S. Commissioner Edward K. walker bound him over to the grand jury and set bond at $500. Steele, who was graduated in June, 1942, was known as @& “preachin’ football player” because he preached at various churches near Bloomington, Ind., every Sunday during his three years at Indiana university. As an honor student in the school | . of business, he made the highest scholastic grades on the Hoosier squad. He won honorable mention on two all-America teams his senior year.

the year when he will go to the|field, Ala. He attended the UniHarvard graduate school of business |versity of Texas and Indiana uni-

*tension of the presidency of Hirginio Morenigo.

He is a graduate of the Sullivan, Ind., high school.

on; | of the election in order that our !| candidates can have sufficient time

versity where he participated in tennis, football and basketball. ” ” ”

Corp. William E. Bennett is In

Communiques

the armored force school tank department at Ft. Knox, Ky. learning how to keep an army tank in battle trim. He formerly lived at 114 N. Kealing ave. 8 8 8 Lloyd S. Wright Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd S. Wright, 327 Beverly dr., is now a second lieutenant in the army signal corps. He was graduated Monday from the officers’ candidate signal corps school at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. > 2 8 8 Seen around town . .. 1st Sergt. Edward Krepps, and that gorgeous blond, at the Service club Sunday afternoon. I wish I were a first sergeant. Sergt. Joe Gileno and his gal , . . the best looking couple at the symphony. Charlie Banks . ., . sitting with two WAVES, Saturday night. Leave it to Charlie, I've yet to see him without a gal . . . How about giving a short course of instruction?

WAR DEPARTMENT COMMUNIQUE~NO. 258. (Issued Friday, Dec. 4, 1942)

NORTH AFRICA: 1. In an attack in the southern sector a French and allied force has captured a number of prisoners. Our forces in the neighborhood of Tebourba are <onsolidating their postions. 2. The docks at Bizerte were bombed in the daylight yesterday and both day and night raids have been made on the airfield at Tunis. Our fighters have made sweeps over the forward areas and over coastal areas between Tunis and Gabes. 3. Further reports of air fighting during the last three days show that 13 enemy aircraft have been destroyed in addition to those already announced and that eight of our aircraft are missing,

Text of Navy Communique No. 213:

(Issued Saturday, Dec. 5) SOUTH PACIFIC (All dates East longitude) 1. On Dec. 3 an air striking group of dive bombers and torpedo planes from Guadalcanal attacked a small enemy force of light surface vessels about 150 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. Results of the attack are not known. 2. On Dec. 4:

Cc. 4: (A) A marine corps ‘raider’ patrol on Guadalcanal killed 16 Japanese, captured a mortar, several machine guns and some ammunition in the region of the upper Lunga river. ; (B) Another U. 8. patrol killed five Japanese and destroyed a machine gun position in the. area west of Point Cruz.

“Prohibition Party to Hold National Parley Here in '43

. Indianapolis has been selected by the national committee of the Pronibition party as the site for its convention to nominate a candidate for the presidency. Edward E. Blake, of Chicago, committee chairman, said the convention will be held here Nov. 10, 11 and 12 next year, the hall to be selected later. “We are holding our nominating convention a full year in advance

to reach the voters in all states and raise funds for campaign expenses,” Mr, Blake said. - “The party is now firmly estab-

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lished as the actual third party in American politics,” he “said. “At the last election we polled more

votes than any other minority party and showed a gain in votes last Nov. 3 while the majority parties polled fewer votes than in 1940,” Mr. Blake said that since the war began there has been a rise in prohibition sentiment due to the failure of authorities to curb the liquor traffic at military establishments. : “The Prohibition party is the only medium through which the people can express their opposition to the liquor traffic,” he said.

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