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* FORECAST: Slightly warmer tonight and tomorrow morning.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1943
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Postoflice Indianapolis, Tnd. Issued daily except Sunday
Jome Elevators in Indiana * : = - - » } ‘Accused of Failing to Pay ~ Premiums to Farmers. "By ROGER BUDROW ; Some Indiana farmers are being fypped on soybean prices by their pcal elevators, Lee Patrick of the AAA charged today. The elevators are getting a sixbent premium for soybeans with ttle moisture content but reports pn three counties show that at some elevators are not passing
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However, if the farmer doesn’t int on getting the premium he is} ptitled to, there is little the gov=| pent can do about it, officials
‘ Dry soybeans, it was explained, preferable to ones with -considwater in them, which was of the trouble with last year's
"Rules Changed For 1943
Last year the penalty of a lower pe was placed on soybeans with |: ge content above 14 per cent. his year, in addition to that price |; ty, a bonus or premium is paid i soybeans with less than 14 per|. nt moisture,
The premium is two cents a': bushe Thus, No. 3 yellow soy-|. beans with 14 per cent moisture get a government support price of $1.80 bushel while those with only 11 cent moisture content get a upp price of $186 a bushel, For soybeans of 13 per cent mois-|: ture content, the support price is @
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Calls for Volunteers in
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‘German armies in the. Dneprope-_Ltrovsk-Zaporezhe bulge and the Cri-
rt Sends Shoe to Dad Overseas RUSS SMASH
BATTLESHIP TIRPITZ, ‘wore CRIPPLED IN DARING RAID
BEFORE KIEV
i Rampant Soviets Also Are
. Closing Trap on Nazis
In Crimea. (Map, Page Two)
« MOSCOW, Oct, 11 (U, P.).—Rus-
‘iglan armies, steadily widening and 1 lengthening
their Dnieper river bridgeheads in battles of unparalleled violence, were reported todiey | to have penetrated. the semi-circu- | lar outer defenses and approached |
‘ithe gates of blazing Kiev, capital
of the Ukraine. ! (London reported that the Nazis! were evacuating Kiev) Assault forces that struck across the Dnieper below Kremenchug, 115! miles downstream from |
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west bank in a race to trap huge
mea, front dispatches said. © ‘Both sides were hurling masses of infantry, tanks and aircraft into battle at focal points in the en-|
a pitch surpassing that at Stalingrad. With the Germans being pushed back beyond artillery range of the Dnieper, the Russians forged that river at a number of intermediate
virons of Kiev and southwest of jyyny had arrived in the Portu{Kremenchug and fighting raged ati... Azores. Azores bases would
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Report Portugal May On th & WwW ar British Craft Slip Into
Give Her Bases to Allies.
MADRID, Oct. 11 (U. P.). —Premier Dr. Oliveira Salazar was reportgd, reliably today to be on the]
{smashed 10 to 15 miles beyond the Point of announcing that Por-| German river line
trality and offering her bases
allies; Unconfirmed reports reaching| Spain said a number of allied war-
enable the allies to increase aerial] anti-submarine patrols on the convoy routes from the United States| and Britain to the Mediterranean and to India by way of South Africa. -
points between Kiev and Kremenchug and fanned out north and
Salazar was expected to an-| {nounce that Potugal is now a|
Antonio de ypaLy—Fifth army units capture
| Nazi Naval Base In Norway.
Fronts
By WIILIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Oct. 11.—~BritPontelandolfo, wipes out 50-mile ' wg tr German salient and crushes ish midget submarines in through Oalore river sector of their first announced action of (the war sailed boldly into a
Oct. 11, 1943
tugal is abandoning her NeU-| pUSSIA—Russians pierce outer de- great naval base in north
fenses at Kiev in heavy fighting | Norway and torpedoed the
throughout the world -to-the ;yGosLAvIA — Partisans force German battleship ~Tirpitz,
back Germans around Susak: sur! 3 ; a DE ei aot leaving her wallowing in thick
rail lines north and west of 0il which spread two miles, Zagreb. | An admiralty communique today
| AIR ‘WAR—Weather enforces tem- Announced the attack occurred on
porary lull after Sunday Amer-|Sept. 22. The Tirpitz, whose ton ican raids in which 102 Nazl nage has been estimated as high
fighters shot down at a cost of as 50,000, was the pride of the Gier= 32 American planes. | | man navy,
PACIFIC — American troops com-| "The bold venture involved “hase
plete occupation of Rolombangard jy of the first order” the ‘ads
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south in an attempt to establish a ,q))icerent adherent of the allies] i solid-line-on-the-west-bank.- {if & Speech before a special-sesston+ um pl wl we oa Nd CB ao a |bridges and assault boats carrying oo SCrecwed for foday. an endless stream of Soviet in-| fantry, tanks and self-propelled guns across the river. |
Posters Are Cheered
Dispatches from Lisbon- said the | | Portuguese legion, a civil organ-
Kiev was reported in flames as (Continued on Page Two)
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War Jobs in Speech Before A. F. of L.
(Another story, Page 2)
BOSTON, Oct. 11 (U., P,).—War Manpower Director Paul V] MecNutt called for volunteers’ for essential war jobs today and offercd the 63d annual convention of the American Federation of Labor a
of peace. Pive points which McNutt listed as “musts” for the speedy winning of the war were: 1. Speed up of transfirs of workers from non-essential ‘dustries to war Jobs. 2. Increased hiring of women. 3. An end to absenteeism. = 4. Increased productivity per worker, 5. Better understanding by management of the withholding of labor contracts from “tight” areas.
Must Convince Them
“We cannot require people to transfer, we must convince them. If they are to take those jobs and stay on them you and the plants which you have organized must
A. FP. of L. convention, McNutt said that at present there are insufficient women workers employed and many
Nutt said, “is one on which you can help. Through your position in the plant you can create the condition which will attract women workers and hold them in the job.” McNutt paid high tribute fo the
five-point plan to speed the coming!
|Sqt. Kesler, Flier, Killed In-Pacific
Dead ‘
T. SGT. JACOB M. KESLER, flight engineer with the U. 8S. army in New Guinea, was killed in action Aug. 31 after four months’ service overseas. T. Sgt. Kesler, who was aa 36, was report ed missing in action early last month, Before entering the army in June, 1042, he had been employed by the Mayflower’ Transit Co. 10 ¥ years. A native of Indianapolis, 1° Set Kesler he was graduated from Hélmsburg high school in Brown county. Surviving are his father, Frank G. Kesler; three sisters, Mrs. Lynn Clark, 737 W. 32d st, with (Continued on Page Five)
ELIMINATE WAKE AS ENEMY BASE
Island Is Made Useless, Raid Witness Reveals. By WILLIAM F. TYREE
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Japanese propaganda.”
ization within the war ministry en. | trusted with preparing the Portuguese home front for national defense, had plastered posters through-out—the-—city stating—that Portugal
“It is possible that Portuguese neutrality will be terminated If dignity and national interest should require it.” the posters said. “Portugal isn't in the war , . . but it canpasses in the
Travelers from Lisbon said the posters were greeted with cheers. f
Hold Blackout Test
~The Portuguese legion, also known | as the “green. shirts,” ordered a permanent blackout of Lisbon and other large Portuguese cities, Lis: bon dispatches said. The first test was held last night in Lisbon, Oporto, Coimbra, Entroncamento and- other towns. Portugal may also sever diplomatic relations with Japan and perhaps declare war on her, The time was believed about up for Japan to answer Balazar's reported demand to the Japanese ambassador Thursday that the Japanese evacuate the Portguese half of Timor in the southwest Pacific and guarantee not to violate the sovereignty of Macao in the South! China sea, Meanwhile, much war equipment continued to arrive at Portuguese wharves and authorities no longer made any attempt to hide it from public view, Portuguese troops already have been mobilized for mil. itary “maneuvers.”
WASHINGTON; Oct. 11 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today asked congress to repeal the Chinese exclusion laws in order to “correct a historic mistake” of the United States and ‘rilence the distorted
Mr. Roosevélt, in a message, indorsed a pending bill that would permit the immigration of Chinese into this country and allow Chinese residents here to become American citizens. The bill approved by the house foreign affairs committee would provide an annual quota of
may “abgndon “neutrality: wa
ALLIES TURNING VOLTURNO LIN
Plunge Across Calore River _To Drive Wedge in Nazi Positions.
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Stall Correspondent ALL HEADQUARTERS, Oct.
in force, has sliced A pocket out of the German line in advances -of five and. one-half to 13 miles, which captured: Pontelandolfo and a dozen other villages, it was announced today. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's troops turned the Volturno line, the main barrier on the road to Rome, by a plunge across its Calore river extension which not only wiped out the
before Benevento but established a counter-wedge in the Nazi positions. Allied artillery was massing along the south bank of the Volturno and pounding ceaselessly at the German defenses beyond the stream and athwart the coastal routes to Rome.
Nazis Smashed Back The line on which Clark's Amer-
into position for the push on Rome
the mouth of the Volturno to Pontelandolfo and San Marco and thence northward to the Termoli area on the Adriatic coast. Along the 50-mile front stretching up to Termoli, Gen. Bir Bernard L. Montgomery's 8th army pushed
F. D. R. ASKS REPEAL hesg at some points between two OF EXCLUSION LAW
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DOZEN NAZI CITIES STILL SMOLDERING
Lull in Air Attacks.
LONDON, Oct. 11 (U, P.).~The allied aerial offensive apparently went into a temporary lull last night due to weather, but a dozen German
1L.~The allied Sth army, smashing mmmrsmoe \ARTOUSH, She. Onlors. rivag. :
German. salient in the allied line]
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during the previous 72 hours, and
“Nations, like individ make uly; high sources said the battle to ' )ften
cities still smoldered from raids)?
‘|eause uner | competition in the search for jobs.
mistakes,” the President said, reback to 1882. “We must be big
enough to acknowledge our mistakes of the past and to correct them.”
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
rounded out Ho suid the uma] gupta youd ii EE ry ei er tta of a at axis Europe, hitting raflway installations at Munster and Coesfeld,
ferring to the exclusion laws dating | Germany for eventual invasion had
American Flying Fortresses one of the heaviest
{miralty sald in paying an unusual ~tribute—to—-the-men-who-hammered [it homé “with success.”
3 Subs Lost
|__Although the communique said the the intricate de{fenses of the German naval base in Altenfjord, northern Norway, Was aimed at “main units of the German battiefleet,” it mentioned no dame
sortie through
age inflicted except on the Tirpits.
in the attack. But a reference In
crews of other submarines
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aerial to the contrary, that the attack E with success,” the admiralty | Alr pictures taken after the showed that the Tirpits, of the Bismarck, had not moved from her anchorage WAS rounded by thick oll w mote than two miles from
sumably incapacitated in that re spect by the British attack. , The admiralty, “to give some ides
the task force sailed 1000 miles
now runs straight from the sea at liom the nearest British base to
the ‘Altenfjord in Finnmark, most [northerly province of Norway and {more than 200 miles inside the |aretic circle. ;
VOTES "RELEASE OF ~ VICTORY TAX CREDITS WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P= to permit all taxpayers to take immediate advantage of the “peste war” credits against the victory tax.
{cent of the victory tax for single
Weather Forces Temporary persons to 40 per cent for mated
Under the present law, the credit
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Oct. 11 (U. PJ.
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of the magnitude and difficulties of icans and British were wheeling this remarkable achievement,” said
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The house today voted unanmiously