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the Leadership,’ Hoosier Exhorts Party In ‘Address Here.
: By EARL RICHERT : Wendell = Willkie virtually announced ‘his candidacy G. O. P. presidential nomination in 1944 in an address here last night. * “T call you now,” he said to. the| 700. Republican leaders attending a Lincoln day banquet at the Colum-
bia club, “to the crusade. of 1944
“$0 save America.” : Mr. Willkie said he was “honestly
everything we hold priceless rests in the hands of the Republican party between now and the gay after election in 1944. ‘We're the Thinking Party’ “We're the vital thinking party in this country,” he declared. “Let's get on the affirmative; let’s throw off the lethargy and take the leadership. iw : “Why be on the defensive against 8 party that is a combination of Northern political machines of. the worst type and Southern oligarchies that don’t even allow Negroes to vote?” . : It was this part of his speech, made extemporaneously at the end | of = his. prepared radio talk, that brought cheers and prolonged applause .from the crowd, .the largest Republican gathering of its kind in Indians in many years. Particular glee was shown by the crowd when Mr. Willkie referred | to Ed Flynn, the former Democratic
ment -by the. president as minister
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“1 “don’t like 5 get personal those talks,” Mr. Willkie said, “but I get irritated no end when I see the vice t going d the country telling. about the’ desertion in 1920 !of _ President Wilson's
of agrie ings Jul pabinet but Mr. Wallace's own father” Generally speaking, the speech was hailed enthusiastically by the Republican leaders attending the meeting. | "Typical was the comment of one northern Indiana G. O. P. leader who .comes from definitely antiWillkie country. “By golly,” he remarked atter-
‘come a Republican since Elwood. And I'm for him.” “Also high’ in: their praise of the ‘speech were. such Republicans as House Speaker Hobart Creighton and Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson. The only ‘criticism came in connection with Mr. Willkie’s 10-minute ~ talk on Russia before the radio speech. "He emphasized repeatedly in this (Continued on Page Four)
MOUNTAIN TIME LOOMS FOR STATE “Indiana would become virtually & “mountain state” "under a proposal made in the house of representatives today and would operate under a time standard all ‘its own. The proposal was made by Rep. Albert Thompson (R. North Vernon), author of a bill to set Hoosier clocks back an hour and return Indiana to the old pre-war central standard time. In an amendment which Rep.
Thompson proposed and the house adopted, Indiana would be placed
hind the present central war time. but the new standard would be called western central time. :
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or Ernie: Here's Mary—
She! s Working Right Here in ndishapelis and She Wears a Locket With Tom Thayer's Picture i in It; ‘Goes Home to the Farm on Week-Ends.
Mary ‘Scott .'. . a little bewildered over “fame.”
Ernie Pyle, A Forward Alrdrome i in French North Africa: Dear Ernie: . “I've found .the Mary Scott of Shelbyville mentioned in your Monday dispatch to The Times. Fact is, she works right here in Thdianapolis. And listen, you old globe trotter, it’s small wonder
she’s an Arab “pin up girl.” What hier boy friend, Tom Thayer, failed to tell you was « that when he parachuted to safety over there in Africa and ran into those Arabs, he practically lost ‘all four pictures of Mary which he: carried: in his wallet. ° +. Tom’s letter to Mary said he “practically had a fight” on his hands
Fi “Tom Thayer . . . wrote to Mary shout, trl to Biserie
to. .get:her pictures back and finally parted. with one:when it seemed expedient to! do so. .
‘s = i FE = It: Was the Arabs Who, Were Fascinated
‘BY, THE WAY, 1 note in your description of the Hope, Ind. boy’s adventure, ‘you: say ‘that after he parachuted and wandered’ about, “he finally wound up: at a French-garrisoh and that the photograph of Mary: now reposes on a French soldier's mantle. ‘Tom's story to Mary was that it ‘was the Arabs - who were Tasoinated by the American beauty. Except for. that, her account jibes with yours. Tom did: teach at Clifford, Ind., and then was'a deputy auditor in’ Bartholomew county before joining. up. Mary thinks he’s “the best: celestial navigator in his squadron,” too—naturally. “He wrote her: about going on the bombing trip. to Bizerte and the plane: going out of control and how he had to parachute to safety in the rocky hills' of Northern Africa. He related, too, the of ‘the four-days it took him.to get back to his base, his encounter with Arabs and Bis interim stay at the French garrison.
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4 Queer Way to Announce Engagemeni—
‘MARY IS STILL a little bit bewildered at her sudden “fame.”
She never suspected those photographs Tom: carries ‘would come -in
handy. as “pay”. for a little help in getting ‘him safely. back to his
squadron. -- Mary's: known’ Tom over two. years and demurely admits that: you're right ‘when you say “Tom's going to marry Mary the day he gets Home and then start farming” But she still can’t quite get over, the fact of having, ‘her engigement “announced in a syndicated column.” Mary came tp work at’ the employment security division, 14} S. Meridian, st., here. just about a year ago. She’s a sort of bookkeeper “I just thought I'd sit at my desk until Tom came home with‘out’ anything ever happening,” she said. And now, she’s more or less the heroine .of the office. - i. ss .» 8 = 8
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MARY’ "HADN'T ‘said. anything muth aboit their plans for. farm“when: Tom comes home from the war. ‘Now: that you've told the ‘world, she’s uot. going to have to
catalog. - “Just to give you a start,” he said. But: a doesn’t: think she 10 Central ave. and goes home to her family “on the farm” Tom Maes farming too. In Tact, he’s got. one Sia
- Mon afternoon when the paper was delivered at the office, one | mployee jac hess, Shae dos it Beside Wil 8 Bmp, Clapper J Hn mm :
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SOVIET CANNON
Into Triangle; Goebbels Admits Defeat.
By UNITED PRESS
drove on Kharkov, now within artillery range, and other Red army
: forces squeezed the Germans into{ a, small and perilous triangle north-|
east of Rostov. A British Broadcasting Corp.
guns already were shelling “both cities and claimed that five of - the eight Kharkov had been cut. German broadcasts said that the
ported that one Berlin dispatch indirectly © conceded the Schuesselburg, strongest Nazi ‘point on the northern front. ‘Don’t ‘Blame Hitler'—Gaoebbels
Dr. Joseph’ Goebbels, in the weekly -newspaper Das Reich, said .today that it “is not disputable and
{shall not be denied” that the Ger-| §- inl ln BIRT WEIN ' mans “have suffered a setback in ge la Lad ne, soetied. to, FONE 1s ioe. } :
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cessery ‘to deny that Germany's
1 défeat had resulted from bad lead-
ership.” He added that “there 'is’ today nobody in Germany who is talking about yielding or even thinks of it.”
Rostov probably would force the Reichswehr to fall back all the way to the Dnieper river.
- SS Forces Retreat
A pawerful force of SS combat troops, “flower of ‘Hitler's army, was| routed southeast of Kharkov. Before they were defeated, however, they struck out’ with sudden counter-at-tacks designed to halt the advance of Col. Gen. N. F. Vatutin’s forces. The Red army men repulsed the attacks and then moved over to the| offensive themselves: and inflicted serious losses on the SS forces, which finally broke and retreated. The Soviet offensive aimed "af Rostov was fanning cut all around
-{ the gateway city. Attacks from the
region of Novocherassk, at the eastern outskirts, and Kerchik, north of the city had driven the Germans into a small triangle between the Rostov-Voronezh ‘railroad and. the Don river. : Their position there already was under heavy attack from the south. The Kerch strait and Taman peninsula seemed the only means of escape left for the Germans in the northern: Caucasus.
NELSON DENIES PLAN TO RATION CLOTHES
Urges End of * ‘of ‘Runs’ on Retail Stores.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P). ~War Production Board Chairman Donnld M. Neison vigorously reasserted today there is no intention to ration Clothing. in the near future. = “Clothing rationing has not even been discussed or been under consideration in this shop—and that’s a fact,” Mr. Nelson told reporters. He expressed the hope that the recent run on clothing stores would
stop, adding that “runs on stores
are the surest way to bring on ra-
an awful lot of help. . She services
KHARKOV NOW UNDER FIRE OF
Germans at Rostov Pushed}
Four Russian columns today|
broadcast said Soviet long-rangef railroads radiating from|
Russians had renewed their at-|Z tacks in the Lake Ladoga sector|: south of Leningrad. Stockholm re-{?
loss of | %%
The fall of either Kharkov orf,
Killed Boy and. Crippled ~~ Mother.
Police were close on the trail. today -of a hit-run, driver whose car
"struck and killed’ 68-year-old Wil-|
liam Joseph Shields and critically injured. his mother, ' Mrs. Helen Shields, 33, of 524 E. Ninth st. last night. 3 . The car, which was reported traveling at a high rate of speed, struck the. mother and her son at Massachusetts ave. and Noble st. about 11 o'clock. - Witnesses told’ police thie car then swerved east on St. Clair st., and sped out of sight but not before several persons walking along the street had taken the! license number. : x ~ Child Hurled 40 Feet The child was hurled more than 40 feet by the force of the impact and he died at City hospital three hours later. Mrs. Shields was picked up unconscious and taken to City hospital where it ‘was’ found both her legs were broken:and she was suf-
Jfering from severe shock.
About half an hour after the accident an unidentified woman telephoned police officers, informing ‘then "that: they could find the car" “you are looking for in the 1100 block, S. Sendte ave.” A squad of: rushed to that address but found ‘no car there. Records show that the license number was jssued to a Dodge coupe owned by a woman who formerly lived in the 1700 block W. Minne. sota st. ‘Police checked at that ‘addris but found that. the woman had moved several ‘mon Witnesses at the scene sald the driver was a man and police said - they expect to learn his identity as soon as they can locate the woman who owns te car.
Have License of Car: Which|
Death in the form’ of a Bites driver: struck dawn 6-year-old William Joseph Shields (insert, left) late last night as he and his’ mother, Mrs. Helen Shields (insert, right) were crossing the ‘dangerous in--tersection of ‘Massachusetts ave, Noble and St. Clair sts.
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President: Roosevelt Sook: tims ub
~ tom &'busy schedule today to pay homage to another war-time president, Abraham Lincoln. Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, the president drove to the Lincoln memorial, where he stood silently .as an aid, Col. Chester Hammond, solemnly - marched up the memorial’s- long ‘marble steps and placed a wreath at the statute of .the civil war president. A" guard of honor—soldiers, sailors. and marines—flanked the steps ‘and the marine corps band played the “Star-Spangled Banner.” He returned to the executive offices immediately after the ceremonies to put finishing touches on the address he will deliver to the nation tonight. . His broadcast is scheduled for 8:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time) and will ‘be carried by all the major networks. The president has scheduled another broadcast on Feb. 22.
ALL AGES TO RECEIVE EQUAL MEAT RATION
Impossible to Differentiate, OPA Says.
‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P.). —Infants, children and adults all {will be entitled to the same gmount of meat when the meat rationing program starts; probably = about March 28, an OPA spokesman said toda. He explained that it would be impossible 40 | tiate between age | groups because there are no special ration hooks for children, and said that it iva matter of giving babies and children full rations or giving them none at all. “Meat rationing will be carried out in’ much the same manner as the canned goods rationing program
whith Starts March 1,
Lincoln Note to Mother Who
Lost 5 Sons Read i in Senate
(Another Lincoln Story; Page. 1m He
have died gloriously on the fied battle.
Architect Says U.S. Agency Was Too Low .on Esti- - mates, Changed Rules.
“Deficient estimates” by WPA were . partly - responsible ' for the higher than estimated costs of construction of the addition at Julietta infirmary, Everitt: I. Brown, architect in charge of the work, declared today in a statement. . Technical changes in WPA regulations ' also : coniributed. to the] length of time taken to: build the wing, still uncompleted, according to Mr. Brown. Originally designed to cost $263,000- and to have been completed within ‘two years, the construction costs so far have mounted to nearly. $500,000 and more than five years
have elapsed . since ' the building was started.
Studied by Grand Jury
The Julietta job, the sale of meat and milk bo Sunnyside sanatorium, and other county contracts for the ‘last féw years, are being probed . by the county grand jury and Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's office. Actual work by the grand jury has been lagging this week as Mr. Blue's. investigators sought to gather information in the tangled financial maze at Julietta.
after a conference with his attorney, John F. Connor. The archi«| tect this week received a Sots sion as lieutenant, senior grade, in
the navy civil enginering corps, and (Continued on Page Four)
71ST RAF RAID: MADE
Three Bombers Missing in Attack on Sub Base.
LONDON, Feb. 12 (U. P)— Britain’s big bombers blasted Wwil-
raid on that battered German naval and submarine base and royal air force planes ' swept. ge
Mr. Brown’s statement was issued|
ON ‘WILHELMSHAVEN 22:
helmshaven last night in the 71st]
EXPERTS HOL
If Russia Wins Alone, Sta Could Dictate P
By WILLIAM} Scripps-Hows 5
picked for the clon, role and the North African s is' set for the most cruei military operation yet unde taken by the united natiol outside Soviet Russia. Prime Minister Churchill commons yesterday that the ¢ would go up: within nine m
The betting in diplomatic’ q a] however, is that 90 days will nearer the truth. .If- delayed much beyond that, { feeling is that it may be too 1 at least for the best interests United. States ahd Great Bri
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04 the allies cfush the axis Tunisia and open up commun
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French troops. will able to create a real second front Europe and, between them and Russians, grind the axis to pieces. But if the Anglo-Americans lay their arrival in Europe too they may find the cards st Russia may have defeated Germa: alone, or the next thing to it, which case Washington and don, for all their beautiful ple will find they have little : the peace table. Moscow will a position virtually to dicta peace. Should Meet Midway
That is why the little co of Europe—even some that 2 so little—are so vitally inte in the North African prepara They are convinced the. ov will - decide not only the: course of the war but the shsz the peace. Russia is a signatory of’ ! lantic charter, which pledges & adherents territorial ‘8 grandizement. But ' unless pledge is made more specific, ticularly in its application ' { sia’s next-door - neighbors, hardly a country in Euro will feel easy. Unless British and troops meet the Russians midway in Europe, the infiluen Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosev that part of the world may p disappointingly small. ‘ That of F mier Stalin will be correspond great.
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Must Act Quickly
If Great Britain and the States, therefore, really want in the post-war set-up in Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Sir Alexander, Air Marshal Tedder
mier Stalin to. meet Cairo or ‘elsewhere to
eralities set forth in ‘the charter—with special re how it will’ affect Europe. might -help a lot toward war.
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