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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 196

United Press Staff Correspondents LONDON, Oct. 26—~Military experts believe the Ger-

“mans face the certainty of a

‘Ukraine,

great military defeat and the

possibility of a stupendous disaster in the souther ; At most, these experts say, the Germans have nly. a 50-50 chance of extricating even half of their 600,-

000 men now cornered in the Dnieper bend. And, unless the Nazi command can muster sufficient troops to halt the Russian column cutting directly across the German rear below Kremenchug their chances of saving those 300,000 men are less than even. Only a major counter-attack against tie Russian column already probing into Krivoi Rog half way across the

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1943

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Germans Face Stupendous Dnieper Disaster

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE and JOSEPH W. GRIGG .

Dnieper bend can prevent anc If the Germans do not.c

.-be a break-up of the whole German southern army group. If they do counter-attack and fail, the break-up would

be only hastened. That was last November,

If they counter-attack and win, it would be at a cost in

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sther and worse “Stalingrad. n ounter-attack, the result will

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Tomorrow; Adm. King Will Speak.

‘A salute to the “Spearhead of |

Adm. King will be met by a reception committee headed by Governor Schricker, Mayor Homer E. Capehart, state Navy day chairman.

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HOLLYWOOD, Oct, 26.—Victor Mature, who lost one movie redscurried around foday for a license to marry another red-haired star of the films. : - Miss Shirley announced the engagement late last night, went to the Mocambo with. Hunk of Man: Mature, now of the coast

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Bride-to-Be FJ. DEFENDS | DEFERMENT OF

Only 3.2 Per Cent Are Kept In Jobs, President

Tells Congress.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 26 (U. P)). ~ President Roosevelt today deinounced as “groundless” and “irresponsible” reports that the federal government was a haven for draft dodgers, submitting figures io congress. showing that only 32 per cent of the government civil-

pational deferment. | (Mr, Roosevelt offered no male{female breakdown, but. the civil _ [service commission sald about onethird of the people employed fulltime by the government were womjen, That would, in the light of Mr. {Roosevelt's statistics, mean that about 49 per cent of the men em{ployed by the government had reieelved occupational deferments.) 1 The bill coming up in the house lis the so-called draft-deferment bill Ipassed by the senate earlier this month. Originally, it was the senate {bill which would have deferred all pre-Pearl Harbor fathers until Jan- [ fuary 1, but the senate changed it to be a bill to tighten up deferments tin Industry and government, 3 The house military affairs comA mittee has completely rewritten the senate bill, keeping only the provisions for a committee of five

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Provides for Report

It now provides, In addition to national calling up of non-fathers, the removal of war manpower commissioner Paul V. McNutt from the draft picture with final authority transferred to selective service director Lewis B, Hershey, Hershey has heretofore been under McNutt, It also provides that Hershey or his assistant must report: to both senate and house ‘military’ sffairs ittees monthly on in formation pertaining to requests for deferment. x changes the jurisdiction cases from the place of |B. Shpetis _ the registrant's place acute at the time of appeal.

MARRIAGE GOSTS §2, semen CLERK'S Si SIGN SAY s bill, which would not

Tilson Posts Pr Price Es bill but to the selective

service act itself, would amount to Certificate Protest.

a partial labor draft. County Clerk A. Jack. Tilson has w : Ane It would make all posted a sign at his marriage license Men. now. decounter, advising patrons that the “legal fee for miarriage licenses

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Posting of the sign followed recent criticism by the Indianapolis

clerk's sale of fancy marriage certificates at prices ranging $1 to $3

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was learned today. Adolf Hitler was reported reliab Vietinghof as fleld commander In| Italy, Vietingho!, 55, a native of Mauw, was educated in the Prussian military tradition and has as his motto “I lead from the van,” reports of the shakeup in the Nazi command said. He has seen service on the tha jor fronts, the reports said, and has t rank since July 1,

on the an Naz general comsmanded German armies in Sicily and southern Italy, before the Ital-

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CLUE IN. DEATH OF HEIRESS IS MISSING

Pilot Husband.

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (U, P), — Authorities checked the conflicting stories of the estranged husband of pretty Mrs. Patricia Burton Lonergan, slain socialite heiress to brewery: millions, today and searched for his royal Canadian air force uniform in the hope that it would clear up some of the mystery

Toronto, Ont, while in New York detectives looked for the uniform which Assistant District Attorney

over and above the $2 legal fee. Mr. Tilson said he wanted to em-| _ phasize that no person, getting a

into buying a certificate from me.” He added, however, that he would continue to sell the certificales to “We have these certificates available as a convenience to the public as do the ministers, justices of the

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tendent of public instruction,

Lois Hyland, 16, senior, Evansville,

Winning Navy Essayists Will Meet- Admiral King

First place winners in the annual state-wide Navy Day essay contest among high school pupils are Miss Joan Kean, 16, Grade 12, Keystone, and Norman Anderson, 16, Grade 11A; Shelbyville, Dr. Clement T. Malan, ‘superin-

Second place winners are Miss Lois Pink, 15, freshman, Michigan City, and Walter Johnson, ‘14, Grade 9A, Bvansville: third place, Miss

Decatur, The contest was participated in by 3506 high school pupils. The essays were judged by a committee of eight Indianaapolis persons, . . Mirst place winners will be awarded $100 war bonds at the luncheon tomorrow at the Indianapolis Athletic club at which Adm. Ernest J. King will speak. Second place winners will receive $50 war bonds ? ang the third place Winners, 325 bands; The two winning essays are:

announced today.

and Robert Koors, 15, Grade 10,

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MOSCOW, Oct, 26.—Tens

German Retreat From Dnieper Bend Turns

Drive May Push to Rumania.

SHAPIRO RK Correspondent

of thousands of Germans fled

for their lives from the Dnieper bend today as powerful

Marshal Albert Kesselring

Supreme

Commander in Italy, Balkans

LONDON, Oct. 26 (U, P.).—Marshal Erwin Rommel, erstwhile * ‘desert | military observers believe that it may develop into a final

has been given supreme command over axis forces In Italy and | drive to oust the enemy from the entire Ukraine before 1944; the Balkans following & clash that resulted in the recall of Marshal | Albert Kesselring, former German commander in southern Itdly, it

ly to have named Gen, Heinrich von

SEEK ARMY AID IN VICE CONTROL

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Publicizing ‘Illegal Arrest’

Prompts “Attempt to"

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rest” problem arising from the venereal control program in a 20minute public discussion today, the safety board and army officials conferred privately on the matter, In the open discussion conferees attempted to decide upon enforcement procedures which might be substituted for the current use of the “vagrancy charge” as a vice arrest catchall, The conference followed disclos« ure by The Indianapolis Times that numerous persons held in the antivenereal drive are arrested illegally or on false charges, “Criticized for Methods” “We've been criticized for our methods © of handling venereal cases,” Chief Beeker told army offi clals. “You fellows are largely responsible for the prosecution of this program. Is there any way we can improve upon it? Two alternatives to the continued application of the vagrancy charge in venereal arrests were suggested. Col. Robert Rentz, Stout Field commanding officer, recommended {that all suspected establishments be declared “out of bounds” to setvicemen, Safety Board President Will Remy, suggested that soldiers afflicted with venereal aliments be required to file afMdavits against persons from whom they contracted the disease, Chief Beeker explained that army medical authorities recommend vice investigations to the police department on the basis of information gleaned from venereal patients in service hospitals, Referred to Hospital The recommendations are first referred to Dr. Norman Beatty, director of the city isolation hospital, Chief Beeker said. If Dr. Beatty fails in his efforts to solicit the voluntary hospitalization of dikeased persons pointed out by the army, the police are ordered to pick them up. the chief added. “How do you go about arresting these people?” asked Board Member Smiley Chambers. Sgt. Ralph Bader of the police vice squad reported, “We usually arrest then on vagrancy charges and the court assigns them to the city isolation hospital”

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NAVY BURIAL AT SEA[Matr

MIAMI, Pla, Oct. 28 (U. P)—|®

Russian armies crumbled the whole axis southern Ukrainian

{ front and smashed forward at | rolling the enemy back to Rumania and Poland by the end {of the year,

a pace that gave promise of

The German retreat in some sectors-became panicky as demoralized troops abandoned tanks, guns and other arm

| in wholesale lots in their haste to escape through the

| steadily-closing jaws of a Soviet pincers that already was

~+ slashing through the mining

center of Krivoi Rog in the

| north and probing the approaches to the Crimea in the south. (The'Nazi Paris radio said that all fronts in Russia had flared into battles of almost unparalleled violence with the | Dnieper battle assuming “colossal proporticis.”) The Russian army's Ukrainian offensive already has ‘exceeded in proportion the offensive of last winter that carIried the Russians to the east bank of the Dnj eper and

|petrovsk, Russia's “Pitisburgh,”

and Dneprodzerzhinsk yes-

\terday collapsed the defense keystone in the Dnieper bend

(and gave the Soviets unchalle

nged possession of a 600-mile

| stretch of the Dnieper river from a point below Gomel to

lone opposite Zaporozhe with City a The strengthening Soviet

the sole ‘sxeaption of Kiev.

“Shell” drive across the Dnieper bend,

coupled with the breaching of another German defense line | south of Melitopol, to the southeast, brought the entire

Unable to unravel the “illegal ar- circles, It would expose the rest of the the assault that is expected to throw the Germans back least to the borders of old Poland and perhaps to the upper. :

reaches of the Bug river.

ance of a rout. The Russians

a threat of encirclement, Enormous booty of guns,

STH ROCKS NAZIS IN SIX-MILE DRIVE

Several Key Towns Taken In 48-Hour Battle. =

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 26 (U. P.). ~The 5th army has gained up to six miles in general allied advances on the 90mile’ Italian front which captured several key towns and rocked the Germans back te their new defense line, the strongest south of Rome, Allied armies crashed the last formidable barriers’ on the approaches to the German line through Mondragone, Venafro and Vasto, on which it appeared that a showdown battle for Rome might be fought, Pounding the heels of the Nazis as they carried out what appeared to be their final pull-back to their new fortifications, American and

ALLIED WAR RELIEF DAY 1S TOMORROM

Workers Report Progress At Luncheon Meeting.

Crimea and Nikolaev; at the mouth of the Bug river, yonder

threat of imminent capture, » iss win Liberation of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine and Rus third city, was considered a foregone conclusion in 8

Front reports said the German retreat from Dnepros petrovsk and Dneprodzerzhinsk in the northedst corner. of the Dnieper bulge at some places had taken on the appear-

seized the two cities by storm

after forging the Dnieper to the west and south and posing

tanks and other supplies were

captured intact, Dnepropetrovsk, whose pre-war population

totaled 400,000, was little more than a ruined shell Only a few walls remained of the city's 58 metallurgical buildings.

remained to cheer the conquering !Soviet army troops. Most of the

ried off to Germany for slave labor, Others had been killed, cor had starved to death. A Soviet writer estimated recently that 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 more Ukrainians we doomed unless the tempo of the Soviet advance can be acoelerated materially,

were liberated by Gen. Rodion Malinovsky's armies.

2000 Nazis Killed

other: Russian armies through A icon Nazi anaed below Mell on the approaches to the Crimea and killed more

flat steppelands 10.

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The capture of the twin metallurgical centers of Dnepro- =

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able-bbdied civilians had been car