Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1943 — Page 1

$2,000,000 Campaign Opening Today.

Doorbell ringing today meant - only one thing for Marion county fesidents—it was time to dig deep ‘ for the $2,000,000 United War fund. Several thousand volunteer workers started the rounds of residential and business districts, soliciting aid for soldiers and. sailors and war re-

torn countries, as the war fund drive i

opened. ~The United War fund is composed | ;

of 65 war relief agencies, principal

of which is the U. 8, O,, which pro- |" vides recreation centers at homeand|

abroad for American fighting men. % Closes November 9

“The campaign will through Nov. 9. Volunteer work-

ers’ will make their first report 3 Wednesday which has been desig-|

nated as Allied War Relief day.

Arthur R. Baxter will speak at the:

juncheon at the Claypool hotel. After the luncheon, the first funds of the drive will be put in the warchest on the Circle. Erected under. the sponsorship of the Indianapolis Press club, it is a replica of a chest for war work funds in 1918. Military and naval shore police will stand guard over the Hanna Drive Chairman Harry chairman, and Perry W. Lesh and Harry J. Herfl, co-chairmen of the campaign solicitation. i Meanwhile, the Butler university ¥.M.C. A. and Y, W. C. A. opened $1000 drive today with the “Give that they may live)” in the Butler drive Is

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The old and the new— : In 1918, Ft. Harrison soldiers and police guarded the first war chest (top) in Indianapolis. - It was kept ih the Circle, day and night, until $3,000,000 was poured into it

chest has again been placed in the Circle. 1t again will be guarded by Ft. Harrison soldiers while it is being filled with $2,000,000 for 65 agencies to meet their needs for one

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (U.P). John A. Danner (R. Conn.) proposed today‘ that the United States predicate its co-operation in post-war peace machinery on a condition that participating nations forego territorial gains as a result of the present war.

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ARRESTS FOR VAGRANCY DIP ON WEEKEND

Drop Follows Disclosure

That Girls Are Held Illegally.

By NOBLE REED

Police department records today showed only 12 arrests on “vagrancy” -charges compared to the usual week-end hauls ranging. as high as 75 persons jailed by meth. ods the courts have held to be illegal, The big drop in arrests followed disclosure by The Times last week that a score or more of girls from respectable families were illegally arrested and held on “vagrancy™ charges without evidence of any law violations. All the 12 persons arrested on vagrancy charges over the week-end {were held in connection with some specific law violation. In 990 per cent of previous vagrancy arrests, police officers offered no valid evidence of specific law violations,

Despite Remy Stand Police officers reduced their vagrancy arrests Saturday and Sunday despite the fact that Safety Board President William H. Remy defended as legal the arrest of two employed Indianapolis girls who paid $250 of their savings in “fees” before they were able to obtain their release from jail on illegal vagrancy charges. He defended the arrest of these

on the ground that they were found in hotel rooms with. soldiers, His report defending the arrests failed to explain what laws, if any, the girls were violating or how they could have been charged legally with vagrancy. The girls were fingerprinted, records

alone, waiting for a bus. She said she was not questioned about any law_violation but was jailed on & vagrancy charge and taken to the

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Advance 50 Miles Past Melitopol in New Drive.

BULLETIN LONDON, Oct. 25 (U. | P.).—Premier Josef Stalin | announced today that the | Soviet army had captured | Dnepropetrovsk.

MOSCOW, Oct. 25 (U. P.). ~Russian motorized units have sped half way down the 100-mile stretch of steppeland from captured Melitopol to the Perekop gateway of the Crimea, front dispatches said today, and Cossack raiding parties already are ranging the approaches to the Black

Sea peninsula. The Nazi command began shifting

On the War Fronts

ITALY American troops beat off four German counter-attacks to capture Sparanise, key town on road to Rome, and make threemile advance. Flying Fortresses and Liberators bomb south Austrina,

RUSSIA—-Soviet army storms Krivol Rog in drive to trap Germans in Dnieper bulge and Crimea.

| AIR WAR—Mosquito bombers raid

Ruhr and Rhineland; American Marauders batter air field on continent.,

JUGOSLAVIA-—Mikhailovitch guerrillas reported in control of northeastern Serbia.

Japanese planes at Wewak,

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its Crimean forces several weeks ago and hurled them into the catastrophic battle of Melitopol, leaving the diamond-shaped peninsula vir tually denuded of troops, military quarters revealed, The entire German position in the southern Ukraine and the Crimea was tottering, the Russians; indicated, and the battle there ap- | peared to be going into its decisive

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Melitopol army below Zaporoshe, .

north and south but still bitterly defended by 14 German divisions, Soviet river craft already are plying long stretches of the Dnieper, the

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500 Planes Took Part in Heavy Attack, Berlin Says,

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Oct, 25 (U.P).~Mediter-ranean-based American Flying For tresses and Liberators blasted Industrial targets south of Vienna yesterday in their third great blow of the war against Austria, climax hg a series of widespread allied raids on enemy objectives in Italy and Albania. An allied airforce communigue

Other raiding formations bombed enemy positions north of the ade vancing allied armies in Italy, strikat Orvieto, Terni, Formia, Frosolone, Pedaso and Ancona, British Wellingtons bombed the

tank |ellway yards and an aircraft face

at Pistoia, 17 miles northwest Florence, last night. British plywood Mosquito bomb the air war into Gers from bases in Britain, poundustrial targets in the battered and Rhineland without loss, r bombers lald mines in enemy waters,) : A communique from allied headquarters said the bombers were es-

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5TH ARMY SMASHES FOUR NAZI ATTACKS

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Races to Safety in Burning Oil As Tankers Collide, 88 Others Are Killed

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PACSFIC-—-Allied fliers destroy 23}

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RUSSIANS CAP DNEPRO

Expect Moscow Talks To Help Determine War's Length.

By UNITED PRESS The Moscow radio said today that Premier Josef Stalin had received Secretary of State Cordell Hull Also present were V. M.’ ‘Molotov, Soviet foreign commissar, and W. Averell Harriman, new United States ambassador to Russia,

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard Voreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — Al though it is conducted with about the same amount of publicity as would emerge from a conference of sphinxes, the -brief here is that

triumph over Germany long way off. Over the Gen. Eisenhower that “it will be a long, long way to. victory over a rough, bitter road.” But Germany political blows soon~if Britain and America the good sense to make full ence will determine that.

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