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Ene Carrier Fleet Smashed Wake Island"

two-day battering of Wake alive there will have to re-

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but Lewis’ successor is expected, to be revealed soon for the Indianapolis 1 opens its 1943-44 season here 28 against Buffalo, Mr. Lewis’ resignation was tendered to James Norris Sr. owner of the Indianapolis club, who accepted it and wired Herbie:

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ATTACK ON TIRPITZ CALLED A SUCCESS

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Houta today. L-had a birdsieye view of the second from an attacking navy torpedo bomber that bombed and strafed

the enemy base.

Wake has been blasted back to the wreckage that

existed in December, 1941, when the dapanss overpowered

its tiny marine garrison.’

* This was an untried operation on an "unprecedented scale, and it’ demonstrated explosively to the enemy that & new air-sea techrique has been born from increased

Herble Lewis .. +00 Suet fo Tew Bnchey afer’ 20 Journ" :

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Hebi ‘Lewls, maraget-of the. Indianapolis Capitals, hockey teas for the past four years, has hung up his skates “at least for the duration.” . The genial “Duke of Duluth,” who put Indianapolis on the map ns gra

s hockey power in the American league, announced today that be had resigned as manager of the local club and would continue in his war work at the P. R. Mallory & Co. plant, ‘Mr, Lewis recently was promoted

HOUSING PLAN

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- “Local Builders Jiders. Cah Meet All Needs if Givef Priorities’—Paimer. he pu blie housing feature of .the ets ‘mewly-antiounced pro-

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BUREAUCRACY

500 Municipal Members Here Discuss Post-War Era. |

Vexed by problems of post-war, reconstruction, diminishing tax funds and federal government encroachment, officials from 500 Indiana cities and towns convened to talk over mutual troubles today at

the Claypool hotel. The occasion was the 44th annual

The gradual assumption of federal control over municipal government functions as well as taxation brought

note speakers on the thtee-day prom. : In his welcoming address, Mayor Tyndall said: “When I took office as mayor of Indianapolis I thought I was elected to run the government of the city, but I soon found out that there.are few things I can do without first getting permission from some board or bureau. “It not only is the right of the people to administer their local government, it should be their duty to do 80. Any departure from this doc‘trine means abandonment of the principles upon which our institu. tions are founded, and a confession of the infirmity and partial theory lof a representative for mof government.” > Urges Home Rule He warned that unless the present trend toward federal control is halted, “Local self-government in Indians will soon be a thing of the past. I think ' is one of our primary duties as mayors to exert our influence toward restoration of home rule.” ’ , Stressing the importance of civic activity in post-war planning, Mayor ‘Tyndall asserted that municipalities in addition to providing for the conversion of local industries, also should play = vital part “in the moulding of public opinion and in

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vehement protests from several key- |

American strength-—a technique that will be used against them in, Wake island ‘probably could have been captured and ‘the surprised Japanese garrison evidently believed that was our intention, for they hurriedly scuttled a ship in the

channel in order to block a landing. But the naval high command apparently does not want Wake at this time, and there was no landing. We simply bombed and shelled it into uselessness as a threat

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Germans May Collapse

"This Fall, Beattie Says||

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Heavy Swing of Balance ‘to Allies in Last 10 Days Brings Nazi Crisis in Europe, Observers Believe.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Stall Correspondent

_ LONDON, Oct. 12.—Qualified observers said today that the balance of the European war had swung so heavily in favor of the allies during the last 10 days that Adolf

Hitler's continental empire may collapse this fall. A sudden crisis also may develop within Germany itself, they added, but this possibility is more remote. The Russian army's advance from the East, the Anglo-American bombing offensive from the West and South and, unrest inside the “Festung Europa”—none of them new factors in the ccuflict—took on new importance during the last week as the Germans struggled to consolidate somewhere for the winter, Among the latest straws in ths wind pointing to an increasing anti-axis trend inside Europe were these:

1 Reports reached London that the Germans have informed the Vichy government of their intention of imposing even more rigid control over France, including the arrest of all officers of the French armistice army and the disarming of police, presumably to nip any pro-allied uprising or coup coincident with German military ' reyerses. The measures originally were to have been invoked only in the event of an allied invasion,

2 A Budapest report published In Stockholm said the Rumanian government has ordered the Rumanian civil administration in occupied areas north of the Dniester river between the Dnieper and the Bug to return home,

3 The London News-Chronicle said"King Christian of Denmark has refused defiantly to help the Germans form a new Danish government. On the Eastern > front, the Russian army already Is across the Dnieper where the Germans had hoped to halt for the winter, and

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to American operations on the western fringe of Japan's defense perimeter, The Hellcat . fighters, Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger torpedo bombers that made up our aerial striking force flew 830 sorties during the two-day attack. And

CHURCHES CALLED WAR FUND ‘POWER

Dr. Dilworth Lup Lupton Urges. Co-operation of Clergy.

—— Hoosier Heroes — Pfc. Hargis Sends Card

From Reich

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Patriots Cut Belgrade Rail

Line; Foe Razes City. By JOHN A, PARRIS

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the entire task force hurled 7 three coral islets—Wake, W

74 tons of explosives into the ilkes and Peale—that make

up the wishbone-shaped island commonly kriown as Wake. The bombing planes dropped 320 tons of that destrucs

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ZERO HOUR NEAR FOR ROME PUSH

Big Guns Roar Prelude to Full-Scale Assault at

Volturno.

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Oct. 12. Fifth army artillery roared a thunderous prelude to a

{full-scale assault on the Volturno

river line today and the 8th army northeast inched forward against stiff opposition, (Radio Algiers sald latest Information from allied headquarters {indicated the mero hour for “the battle to pierce the German defenses covering Rome” fs im~ minent.

ot OF Capua ha ed Hat west of Capua, where allied patrols

A Cairo broadcast said a

UGAL GIVES SEA AND AIR BASES IN AZORES T0 BRITAIN

| INDIANA CITES | WORRIED OVER

ALLIES S HOLD KEY OUTPOST T0 GIBRALTAR

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fore Commons.

By WILLIAM B, DICKINSON United Press Stat Correspondent

LONDON, Oct. 12,—Portugal has given Great Britain naval and air bases in Azores, the strategic isla which guard the Atlantic approaches tb Gibraltar A Africa, Prime Minist

ston Churchill announced to:

(In Washington the state ment announced that it had been informed of the Britisharrangement and that it approved. Churchill announced the agree-

statement introduced with the assertion that it stemmed from the Portuguese-British treaty signed in 1373, 4 That treaty was reinforced in vas rious forms by subsequent agreements down through the centuries, The old treaties were recognized in = hp pacts concluded In 1004 ahd 2 Churchill quoted the weaty of 1373: “In the first place we settle and covenant that there shall be from this day forward . . . true faithful, constant, ‘mutual and, per=

mutually by ses and by land all men that may live or die.”

Pact Reaffirmed “I have now to announce the latest application’ of these instrus ments. At the outset of the war tk Portuguese government in full

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