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Republicans Given Jobs in Marion County Criminal

Tribunal.

" Judge-elect. Ww. D. Bain. of :the Marion county criminal court to-: day announced the appointment of 10 active Republican workers to positions in the court, effective Jan. 1. The appointees . were L. T. Glidden,sinvestigator; William G. Shaffer, court bailiff; Omar Layton, ridg b er Petty, grand ‘jury Norman E. Metcalf, court reporter, . and Miss Mildred Chapman, probation clerk. Four pauper attorneys were named. They are John O. Lewis,

and Henry Wilson Sr. Mr. Beane and Mr. Wilson are Negroes,

£: Retain Steger, Cooley

Mr. Bain said that Charles Ste-|

, present chief clerk, and A. G. fo ‘chief = probation officer,

would remain temporarily. The ap-| pointment of a record clerk and|

officer will be an-

Ne agro later, he said.

Mr. Glidden has been an Indian-|

‘polis businessman for 26 years. He

was employed at one time by the.

Capitol Radio dio Supply Co., phy managed the radio departmen of the Pearson Piano Co. for 10 years. He worked for years ‘Was a special investiga- _ tor. for Quigley Highland ' de- ~ fective agency for two years. He is now employed by the F. H. Langsenkamp Co. as expediter.: He is #9, married and lives at 5606 Haver-: ford ave. He is a member of the frabernacle Presbyterian church and. (Continued on Page Two)

STOVE EXPLODES; 1 DEAD SOUTH BEND, Dec. 26 (U..P).

— EE ND. on 3 aml to death yesterday in a gasoline

Be which demolished - his |, ; e. Mrs. Evelyn Roundtree, bho , Was severely b burned.

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the Gibson Co. eight

profit on gasoline and granted an

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$ fablishments to withstand. the im] AACE of war,

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“A Weekly Sizeup ") the Waghingion “Stat of the Seripps-Howard ‘Newspapers

_ WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. _ Don’t axbest w war's: end i in 1943 despite predictions ‘of some politicos. Triumph over Germany.’ is possible—not certain. Defeat of Japan in that time i is unlikely. Informed officials don’t expect it.

But long-range planners in both army and navy worry about what will happen after peace treaties are signed; prepare for head-

~aches they foresee.

. They fear when fighting ends there be- widespread demands io send all the men home immediately; that pacifists and pressure groups - oy ‘to cut off appropriations for: ‘the Sighting forces. But they feel strongly: :

That the United States must never again be left with a paper |

navy, skeleton army; that from now on .both must be big, tough, well equipped; that for years we must. keep armed police forces scattered over the earth. Both services can improvise to fill their ranks; neither ‘can improvise officers, tools, sapasiiy. to “produce quickly. 2 td » #” 8 8

War Department, WPB Feud Revived

: WAR DEPARTMENT and 'WPB are feuding again, this timeover a public announcement of current ‘industrial conversions to increase afreraft and ship production, reduce production of other. items. : Governors of industrial states were called here this- week, told that some war plants in the blueprint. stage aren’t going to be b Also’ they: learned there will be even Jess: material for public cons tion than they thought, # 8 = Es Before the new congress. gots its hat. off, lend-lease will ask it for -11- billion dollars.- But before: it gets the money—as it probably will— lend-lease .will have to answer a lot of. questions, particularly: “U1 Is it true that “lend lease An reverse”—goods moving to us from _ allied nations in return for our: a to them—amlounts to only onetenth of 1 per cent of our 2. How about the .factories ci A has sent to Central and ‘ South America, 0 be Pata for -at from '5.per cent to 35 per cent of their value? Will they éompete with our own industry after the wai? 3. What about the “internatignal agreements” lend-lease is mak(Continued on Page Two) | oY

Fel oil Price Up, Gasoline Station Margin Is Widened

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U.P.).— The office of price ‘administration, moving to protect oil dealers and filling stations - throughout the nation, today established a minimum prior

sulting . “from |

| “emergency contingencles, ? H :

increase in the price of fuel oil. "A regulation establishing a ininimum margin of 3 cents & gallon for retail gasoline sales was extended |, 5 jo filing stations Officials said the |p \@ tl ‘was. part of the OPA'S|eouno: ‘to aid ‘small business es- (in

‘At the same time, Price Admin-

he price advance, which becomes 1

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SATURDAY, ECEHER 26, 1942

RANGE 560 ML T0 GIVE PROOF OF NEW POWER

Score Direct Hit on Large Transport or Cargo Ship At Jap Stronghold.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P. .—

canal have given the Japanese smashing proof of greatly expanded American air: power in the Solomons by carrying out a far-rapging

baul, New Britain, the navy announced today. Winging 560 miles northwest from Henderson field, a flight of fortresses blasted an enemy objective which "heretofore-has been attacked only by bombers of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's South Pacific .command. The great bombers scored direct hits on a large transport or cargo ship, the ' navy said, and reported

"|several near milses on three small

cafgd vessels” The Americans picked Cliristmas (island time) to carrp out the spec-

Pot TS Smet Re i —

Caleb Japs bY Surprise

Hitherto, planes based on Guadalcanal have never ventured beyond the: Solomons area. Recently they had concentrated ‘attacks on a new Japanese airbase at Munda on New Georgia island, only 150 miles northwest of Henderson field. The enemy apparently was caught by surprise. ‘The navy said Japanese fighters got into the air from

Rabaul airfield but did not attack

the American bombers. Rabaul is about 560 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. The island of New Britain is a part of the Bismarck Archipelago.

INLAND- LAUNCHED

$7,600,000 Peto Is ‘300 Feet of Swiss Watch.’

CHICAGO, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—The U. 8S. S. Peto, a $7,500,000 submarine rolled: off an assembly: line 1000 miles from salt waters by farmers and lumberjacks who have never seen the sea, passed Chicago today on the first trip by an undersea craft through the inland waterway to the ocean." The ninth naval district announced that the newest U; S. submarine, which started from Manitowoc, Wis., Friday via’ Lake Michigan, would traverse the Chicago, Illinois and Mississippi, rivers on her “way to the sea to join the “mighty U. S. underseas fleet which already has taken a8 terrific toll of

| axis ships.”

The huge craft, slightly longer than a football field and dubbed by its builders “300 feet of Swiss

watch,” is a full fleet type sub-

marine which can cruise at sea for months without returning to base for Supplies.

BRITTON WANTS 1918 TO HAUNT GERMANS

“LONDON, Dec. 26 u. P.. ~—“Col. Britton,” radib sponsor of the V-for-Victory slogan urged in a broadcast to occupied ‘Europe last night that the people write “1918” in all public places to remind the Germans of their defeat in the last

war, It was Col. Britton’s first broad-

to their homelands thelr nabive tongues,

ready¥. Britton said. JAP ALIEN SEIZED NEWARK, N: J, Dec, 26 (U. P).

U. S. flying fortresses from Guadal--|

attack on enemy shipping at Ra--

SUB PASSES CHIGAGO|

“Great things will happen this| : coming year and. you - must be. py

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Entered as Secind-Class ‘Matter at Postofiic: Indianapolis,

ind, Taxued gaily except Suna.

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PRICE THREE CENTS .

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U.

enemy. Yet at home, too many of

value, the office of censorship says This is the information which

sailors serve. DO NOT TELL the troop units serve overseas,

fronts every day men risk their lives to discover the location and strength of the military units of the

the enemy with information of the same military

individuals are asked not to tell the enemy: DO NOT TELL the names of ships upon which

To Home Folks: Let's Not Of Our Ships or Units of Our Troops

There is no © Jones .is in Aus’ saw action in th

P.).—On battle

us are presenting fighting men in

in a statement. newspapers and the Atlantic. The office of to publish these parents and re! give the enemy

* war!”

in which soldiers

formation which stating that Pvt. John Jones, “Company C, 600th I! fzntry,” is in Australia, or Seaman Tom Brown, “Ab

: srsorship. says: “We ask editors not

‘ell Names

jection to revealing that Pvt. John alia or that Seaman Tom Brown Atlantic, but there is military inendangers the lives.of American

ard the U, S.:8. Wisconsin,” is in

t oops identifications, and we ask tives not to reveal them. Don’t anything that may lengthen the

SOVIETS ATTACK AT STALINGRAD

Open Fifth Front in Factory Area; Advance in

Other Sectors. MOSCOW, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—Rus-

of Stalingrad. ‘While powerful Red armies drove

central - front west of

scene of “the Red Verdun.”

sia’s Red army opened a fifth major| offensive today in the bloody streets|

the Germans before them in the i middle Don, southwest of Stalin-|: grad, in the Caucasus and on the

Russians opened their fifth drive in| the factory center of Siutingrad,

Flays Assassin

"BERLIN, Dec. 26 (German broadcast ‘recorded by U. P.-in New York).~-The German high command reported today thatthe Russians attacked the key German base of Velikie Luki, 275 miles west of Mascow and less than 100 miles from the old Latvian frontier, using tank formations, artillery and planes to support ground forces. The communique said that the attacks, a continuation of a series . during the last week, were repelled in fierce fighting,

Shock troops of the famous guards, attacking with bayonet and hand grenade house by house, opened their attack during the night, the noon comanytigue revealed. Seize 57: Pill Boxes

In the first phase of their attack they captured or destroyed 12 gun enmiplacements and ‘57 pill>boxes. They stormed a big, heavily fortified factory and, wiping out 500 Germans in a fight to the death, took the building and with it 22 machine guns, 108 rifles and 400 hand grenades. In addition to their major drives, the Russians continued on the offensive northwest of Stalingrad and made further progress during the week-end in addition to beating off German counter-attacks. The noon communique disclosed that in the great middle Don offensive, where-they had penetrated (Continued on Page Two)

Funeral services for sandy-haired Vernon (Red) Preble, - 16-year-old Speedway high school youth, characterized by neighbors as “always smiling,” were to be held today at the Herbert Wald funeral ‘home. The youth, ‘who had established quite a reputetion as a war-bond | salesman, was fatally shot. Wednesday by Robert Clegg, 1724 Allison st., who saw. the boy looking Yhrough his front window. Classmates of “Red” at Speedway.

nd high school will setve as pallbearers

{at the burial, which will be in Floral Park’ They are Robert Hart, Micky

PUSH Nel IN IN AFRICA

Americans and : and British Hurl Axis Toward Sea;

: French Active.

LONDON, Dec. 26 (U. P.).—American ‘and British forces in Tunisia

El-Bab, from which they had hurled | the enemy despite heavy rain and | deep mud. - Patrol activity was increasing, indicating that the time may be drawing near when the allies will begin their grand drive to throw the Germans and Italians around Bizerte and Tunis into the sea.” Fighting French .troops were re-

ported continuing. their drive after having routed an enemy ' mechanized force in the Fezzan area, some 500 miles ' south-southeast of Tunisia, in southern Libya.

that Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery’s army had reached Buerrat El Sun, 48 miles west of Sirte, and 175 miles from the main axis AE

|never will be known. :

un-|ed them to oli, a

base at Tripoli.

Hold Rites Today for ‘Red,’ Who Was Always Smiling

funeral home bore evidence of “Red’s” popularity. They were from Speedway high school sophomores, (from other pupils in all grades of the school and from faculty members and custodians. N.' D. Cory, principal “at Speedway, said the ‘boy had a good scholastic reputation and had never been involved in any trouble at. the school. = “Harry Bernhart, Speedway city marshal, spoke highly of the youth and said he was generally known throughout Speedway as “a fine

ness. What boyish whim took him |’ to the neighbor's home Wednesday “Subscribers on

“Red’s” paper,

routs posted the . collections they |"

Would Save gives hii 5 the family, ich and Mss. - Pachie,. includes ave

. md cowardly act, ” said today that | hig FH

Hi snssination, Hull said:

held firmly ‘today a strategic. position six miles northeast of Medjez-

Radio Morocco reported last night

boy,” with only the normal adolescent tendency towards mischievous- |

(OWARDLY ACT. HULL DECLARES

I sserts Chief Thing Now Is Not to Be Diverted From

Africa Objective.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (U. P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull

iescribing the assassination of Adviral Jean Darlan as “an odious

h e all important consideration now | s that we be not diverted for a © et from the supreme objective” ; 1 Of “the African | ontinerit, ; y Asked at his press conference for xmment regarding the Darlan

“The all important consideration s that we be not diverted for ‘a noment from the supreme objective yi the united nations in the present »ttle against the axis forces for :cntrol of the African continent and 1 e Mediterranean. “This battle is still at a crueial ind critical stage. The fullest nzasure of unified support is needed )y Gen. Eisenhower and his assodates. . Quized in De Gaule Visit

‘Of Admiral Darlan, it may be recated that the part he played in {orth Africa related primarily to the a litary situation and was of incalulable aid to the allied armies in ha battle which is still raging. His ssassination was an odious and owardly act.” Departing from usual custom, Il - permitted his remarks to be voted directly. qHall was. asked if he could conrm reports which have been heard ere that- Gen. Charles de Gaulle, ead of the Fighting French forces, '5 going to visit Washington. Hull ehlied that that situation was not lednite enough for comment. 4 appeared not unlikely that

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AMERICANS MAKE NEW GUINEA GAINS

Tweaten to Cut Buna

Beachhead in Two.

(iN. MacARTHUR’S HQRS. in + I'STRALIA, Dec. 26 (U. P). — .&Zierican forces have made a sig1 ilicant ' advance in northeastern llew ‘Guinea and now threaten: to cu the Japanese Buna beachhead | ia two, a spokesman for Gen. Doug118 MacArthur revealed today. i ‘he American advance was on the vrestern end. They drove toward 1 4 coast through government gar-

« e185, southeast. of the Buna mis- |

: io2, on Fhursday. (in. MacArthur described activ-

iy ‘yesterday in one of the shortest |

- cramuniques “he has yet issued in yvstralia: “On Christmas day, our c ivities were limited to routine al ely precautions. Divine services %e ¢ held throughout the command kere possible.” ‘The importance of the advance 11, that it secures a ‘bigger

} el across the entrance of the 2

| (31 nemi) creek and threatens to teal off Japanese positions at Buna |v ii sion from those at Gairopa point a | the coconut grove dispersal bays

: % she northwestern.end of the main|

irstrip,” the spokesman: ssid. .

IRAUD 1S SEEN

AS: SUCCESSOR: IN AFRICA POST

Eisenhower, Other Allied. ‘Leaders Attend Last . Rites for Admiral.

(Giraud Interview, Page Two)

By WILLIAM B, B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec. 26.—The youthful Frenchman who assassinated Admiral Jean

{Francois Darlan was executed ‘|at dawn’ by a firing squad in

compliance with the orders of a court-martial, Radio Al-

\giers reported today.

The execution oecurred as the

| French imperial council- was pre=

paring to meet to choose a succes-

sor fo Darlan. Reports from North, Africa said (Gen. Henri Giraud, who escaped from a German prison ‘camp, probably would be named, ‘but some persons believed Giraud’s’ distaste for politics would cause him to refuse and -devote-all his energies to' heading the French fighting forces. : The identity of Darlan’s assassin’ still ‘was unkriown to the gehieral publi¢, although it was said he had’ made a full confession and had stated that he had no accomplices, His mother was reported to be live ing in Italy,

Allied Chiefs at Rites

The names of Auguste Nogues, governor-general of Morocco, and’ Pierre Boissofi, governor~general of French West Africa, were among those prominently mentioned for Darlan’s post in event Giraud con siders himself unavailable. : Darlan was given a military funeral in Algiers with allied leaders in attendance. Large crowds watched in silence as the coffin was carried into the Algiers cathedral which was decorated with French, | British and American flags. North African broadcasts, de~ scribing the scene in the cathedral, - said Frepch officials, ingluding Nogues and Giraud, sat on the right side of the center aisle. *

Eisenhower Attends

On the left side of the aisle wers allied - officials including Lieut.s Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Amersican commander-in-chief of the allied forces, Lieut.-Gen Mark W. Clark, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cun= ningham, ‘united nations naval * commander in North Africa, U. 8. Consul General Hamilton Wiley ‘and Robert Murphy, American: diplomatic official who attended in the capacity of President Rooses velt’s ‘personal representative. , re The coffin was draped in tri color flags and on top of it was Darlan’s laurelled cap indicating his rank as an admiral of the fleet. Mrs. Darlan sat in front of the choir ang after the service. thé: bishop. who had presided expressed -- (Continued on Page Two)

On the War Fronts

Des; 26, 1942)

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH

AFRICA—French cil meeting to

on other fronts. LONDON-Allies firmly hold