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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 204

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8.29 Supor Bomber. To Be Ready Soon For Tokyo Raids. © WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P).

RUSS ATTACK DRIVES NAZIS | FROM DNIEPER 3:

=Gen. H. H, Arhold, commander |

; of the army air forces, announced “= today that ‘the army's new supers’ bomber, the B-29—heavy. armed air” ‘powered to fly ‘at very high altitudes—will be ready for combat in the “not

battleship of the

now far distant” future. The announcement was consiCered a warning to the Japanese that their period of ‘reédom from

air raids is running out. A major" task of the new boinber will be

bombardment of Tokyo and other major Japanese cities, “When it (the B-20) enters combat,” Arnold said today in a “formal statement, “today’s long range will become medium range and today’s heavy bombers (B17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators) will. consequently become “light BEYER

“A High Fiyer

“THIS BATTLESHIP of the air is armored heavily with multiplegun and power turrets. It can fly at very high altitudes. “Its performance will not be discussed before it enters combat.

rapge substantially greater than the maximum effective range of today’s longest-range heavy bombcrs and it will carry quite sizable bomb loads for that distance.” It was the first time the new bomber has been mentioned by name. Amold emphasized that advent of the B-29 would not af-

tresses or Liberators which is being increased steadily. “Arnold praised the B-17 and | B-24,. describing them as “super- - bombers on the basis of their superb combat record,” but he added: “We now have 4 a third - super-

those two aircraft as they are out

Developed by Boeing

the... B-20--will -have a

“Enemy Troops in

Great Rout.

MOSCOW, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—Saberswinging cossack horsemen brought the Drieper estuary within their

a German army since 1916 into its final stages today with the slaughter of thousands of fleeing survivors of the Reich's once crack grenadiers in the western Nogaisk steppes. Hordes of Germans plunged into the -swift-running Dnieper in a frantic effort to escape the hardriding cossacks, only to be cut down by Russian -machine-gunners and low-flying Soviet aircraft. Front {dispatches said the river was filled with German corpses. The whole western tip of the Nogaisk steppes, from the Black sea to the great sand wastelands below the Dnieper, had become a veritable graveyard of smashed and abandoned tanks, six-barreled mortars and armored cars. Ee

Thousands ‘Surrender

~Not- since Gen. Brusilov's destruc tion of an Austrian army in 1916 has there been a rout to compare with the smashing of * German Marshal Erich von Manstein’s army of the Nogaisk steppes. As in the first world war, the cry, “die cossacken kommen”—the cossacks are wildfire through the fleeing enemy, sowing the seeds of a paralyzing TerTor ‘Such as even tie 300,000 Ger-] mans who were killed or captured at Stalingrad never knew. “The Don and Kuba cossacks who

horses and literally slashed the! fleeing enemy columns to pieces. While sabers were their main Weapons: some carried Aonimy gas which they frequently ‘fired from

grasp and sent the greatest rout of |.

coming--spread like! -

Cossacks Cut Down Crack Siiinee that a mew war. front

‘giers, Nov. 4= {0% P).—The allied | 5th. amy suring. through broken western end of the German line across Italy, has overrun Mas-

mrs

LONDON, Nov, ‘ (U, P.).~The

{ sico-ridge -and:-gained- five to eight 'miles tn a general advance while | Bertin radio quoted Nasi military | [British 3d afin 170dps hive beaten

5 future.”

KUSSIA—-Disintegrated German

ITALY —Anglo- SAmerican 5th army

AIR WAR-—-Big R. A. F. bombing

Pours Through Broken Nazi

giers, Nov. 4 .U. P.).—The British | 8th army captured the vital read’ “junction of Tseérnia today, unhinging the German defense line in ‘central Maly : while: other - ask and give no quarter and dislike! forces overran the shatiered fragtaking prisoners, gave rein to ther | ments of its ween section.

On the War Fronts

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Nev. 4 (U.P). Committee Chairrf ApVpnaav Cannon (D. Mo.) the house today that his com Aol has been given “positive

be opened “in the . Mer.

Nov, 4, 1943

army fleeing across lower Dnieper in worst rout since 1916; Cossacks chop down thousands of Nazi troops in 25-mile advance across Nogaisk Steppes.

smashes western. anchor of German line, gains five to eight miles on main road to Rome.

Democrats, 6489 Behi nd,

| state political tests.

FORECAST: Fair and not quite so cold tonight; tomorrow, increasing cloudiness and warmer.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1943

REPUBLICANS SEE VICTORY IN KENTUCKY

Believe Governor's Seat Is Lost,

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 4 (U. PJ). —8imeon S. Willis; Republican of Ashland, apparently was the winner today 1n his race with J. Lyter Done aldson, Democrat, for the governorship of Kentucky in one of the nas=; tion's most important “border line”

Donaldson so far has concede defeat, but

refused to. Democratic

fleets smash at Rhineland industrial cities of ~Dusseldorf and|

PACIFIC—Allied bombers

wreck| Japanese fleet assemblifig at- Ra-} baul for attack on Americans in! Solomons.

5TH HITS MAIN

ROAD TO ROME

Line at Massico as 8th Stands Foe Off.

| BULLETIN ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-

allied

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Althe

—despite the Opp Hl hetmbent~Was considered significant, hecause | traditionally border line Kentucky | (school at Plainfield. ong has proved barometer of

campaign workers believed that = Willis would win by a majority of | 7000 to 8000. With only 403 of the state's 427 precincts yet--uncounted, but with | 1293" furnishing complete returns, Willis had a majority of 6489. Many of the unreported polling places. normally were Republican. - The count stood at 250949 votes | for Willis and 244,460 for Donaldson. |

Willis’ Ticket Trailing

Willis’ Republican ticket. was |

The!

Donaldson ‘withheld his statement |

on the elections, pending a more | definite trend in the minor races.

Observers believed the Democrats!

would win if the Willis sentiment {aid pot carry the gubernatorial ‘ma- | Jority ‘abové 8000 Votes,

Political observers said that, .if the,

remaining uncounted votes follow the usual trend, Willis is likely tol be Kentucky's first G. O. P. governor | since 1927.

The" strong Republican showing I ition of a powerratio machine

an national

accurate | “political |

Autos

Frankl in V. and George

The Vonnegut brothers . . . on the left is “Franklin V.. not Franklin D.”; on the right is “just George and nothing mere."

Vomegut Brothers, Born Over.

Store, Have Grown With It

By HELEN RUEGAMER

The Vonnegut brothers, born over their father's hardware store ground.” ters, | tra nerally, however, with the More than 80 years ago, are still keeping their eyes on the coun sraling 2 ee slightly anead, the fingers on the pulse of Indiana's oldest hardware concern. for minor-state offices. ior tian was John Fred Williams Franklin D.” was 87 on Oct. 2, while his brother, ‘of Volga, G. O. P. candidate school superintendent, who Ted a small margin over George L. Evang, | Frankfort Democrat,

~Prankiin- Vonnegut; who introduces - msetf- as “Franklin Vv;

more,” turned 83 two days later.

tomers when help is lacking, be-

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice Indianapolis, “Ind, Issued dally except Sunday

Toy “just George, nothing

Mr. Pranklin spends his time at the company's downtown store, 120|

SYOUTH CRIMES

E. Washington -sf., waiting on cus- |

Trickle of Workers

today, 410,000,000 tons of coal, Meanwhile, Coal

his coal mine Workers to pr

wage contract oduce “more

Ickes addressed the U. M. W. policy committee and told | them it was imperative “to get more and more coal out of the That committee ratified the contract drafted by

Ickes and U. M. w. President

U. S. EXPENSES

he he “likes to. Mr. George is an office man, keeps /

straight at the wholesale 402 WwW

| records and warehouse building, "Maryland st. The trim, are rightfully proud of their pioneer’ (father, Clemens Vonnegut, © came to- the -U.. 8 from German’

Stolen, Burglaries - Reported, Stones Thrown By Juveniles.

Juveniles today caused city and

the name. Vonnegu!

*msstoaf- {diana REE Started in 1852 Clemeris Vonnegut started his

Twelve escaped from ‘the boys’

Five others fled rom the state store in 1842, in the block below the farm at Putnamville and pulled a

[courthousé on BE. Washington st. ‘When anyone asks Mr. Frankin|

grey-haired gentlemen | wlio,

{as a velvet ribbon salesman, founded: Congress’ long-delayed /the chain of stores which has made tensive took on grand-scale pro-| SYnouymous state police. more worry than ever! with hardware for Indianapolis and before: Stigma ee

aie Joa shat the Juv. landed, c

> [Er SRR .} -mot eritical”

beneath thelr horses’ bellies in Hollywood movie cowboy style, A dispatch to the communist newspaper Pravda said Russian in-

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fantry following behind the advance guards of cossacks and tankmen

plans, astride the main road to Rome 86 miles from the Italian capital.

Shaken off balance by the allied surge which mounted a strong twin threat against Isernia, central pivot of the falling Nazi defenses, the Germans pulled- out <in a steady withdrawal to-seek refuge in the Aurunci mountains above the Gar-

ae Nazi counter-sttacks, today.

__planes and crews are ready to give

types. “Eventually, however, sufficient

"the “weapon its final test—under eombat conditions,” he said. “That final test of the B-29 is not now

| man guards who were rerding Wem

Greatest Rout Since 1916

Their escape cut off, thousands of Germans perished in dunes and; lagoons at the western end of the! steppes. Other thousands surrendered and trudged eastward in end-! less columns paralleling similar lines. .of civilians. returning. homeward after being freed .from Ger-

igliano. . Quagmire roads slowed the attacks in some seetors.

BIG RAF AIR FLEET

BLASTS RHINELAND

votes with 3200 precincts reporting. May held a lead of 6000 votes yesterday,

Hamilton Moves = To Stop Willkie

“By LYLE C. WILSON United "Press Staff Correspondent

Yu reported go around the burglarized a filling station at 424 ntry omoting a “stop | Shelby st. of gasoline coupons and | Willkie” ; a i and: perhaps | merchandise. {seeking an alternate candidate | lw hom the GOP might nominate they saw a police car approaching, |,

today

filling station burglary - here. - At

a least one of the quintet figured in "lan attempted holdup. -

Ten boys were found in . down town theater—truants. -. There was vandalism by vows, 100. Two homes were damaged. - The boys who éscaped window at the Plainfield institution ranged in age from 15 through 18,

business, .-he answers, "they. dookj: me to the store to weigh me the day after I was born, and I've been there ever since.” From __the time they were big | enough to handle the sprinkling can |

and the broom, the Vonnegut broth- |

Appropriations. Puts Economy Drive Into High Gear.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—

economy of-

portions today with the result that nearly a billion dollars was. lopped) “Irom “a THE Blidget estimate A deficiency appropriagions bill,

meiits, called for $1,108,628,749. The -house appropriations com:

mittee approved only a paltry $167,

| 268,444—a reduction of $041,300, 305 |

how long he's been in the hardware! or n per cent,

Chairman . Qlarence Cannon of the committee, bubbling over with enthusiasm, hailed the committee's action as “a milestone In the history of congressional appropriations the - heaviest reduction ever

Ry UNITED PRESS “a ‘The nation’s coal miners began a slow return to work ending a three-day strike which cost the war effort disrupted production of steel, and [left hundreds of homes without fuel. Administrator pressed confidence that the war labor board would approve

CUT BY BILLION

Committee: the board's formulas word for word.

‘catch all” for government depart- |

third in less than two weeks. 1. School employees later caught six {of the escapees in the 800 block of Woodrow ave. in Wayne park. The others still are at large.

It was the largest break from that penal school in history and the

WASHINGTON, Nov.

NYE SEES NO ‘NEED’ "FOR POST-WAR MOVE silt committee, remarked that the

4 (U.P)—|

«today lauded American rejection | {of the Versailles treaty 23 years

Auto Is Stolen

NEW YORK, Nov, 4-—Former| The five who left the state farm ago and forecast similar action at Republican National Committee | allegedly stole a car at nearby Man-| yo ona of this war unless. a “just Chairman John D. M. Hamilton hattan, drove to Indianapolis and! and honorable” peace is written.

Speaking on a resolution which would place the senate on record] ag favoring United Statés participation in an international organiza- | tion to preserve peace. Nve indi-.

As they left the Afllling station, |

ishould be an .°

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bill by the committee.” | Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indiamap|olis, 3 member of the Appropria-. eduction

represents “immutable

proof” that the economy call hm,

Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N.D) been heard in congress,

He said the bill as it now stands ‘inspiration™ “comfort” to millions of taxpayers! who ‘have the impression that the!

government has wasted money witn.!Cated that mostof the 530,000 strik-

out end. Only the much-criticized office of war. information escaped unscathed,

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and | Placed in effect for the period of -

far distant.”

Lookout, Tokyo!

westward for slave labor. . Advance guards were within 12 miles of the Dnieper estuary port of Kherson, Only in the area below Nikopel were the Germans making any ore ganized resistance.”

-age-and fanatical fury ina desper= attempt to check at least temporarily the Soviet avalanche to permit a fraction of their forces to

| Dusseldorf,

There they{ were counter-attacking with sav:

Cologne Targets of Raid.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 4.—A mighty British air fleet smashed at Dussel.| dorf and Cologne last night in a) double-barreled assault on Ger- | many's great industrial Rhineland

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escape to the north bank of the Dnieper

‘LONDON, Nov. 4 (U. P.)—Air

Hamilton's ficult. The former national

tor president next year,

Wendell L. Willkie’s chances to be! renominated for president when | the Republican national convention | meets, were boosted by a forthright | disavowal by Governor ip = Pevey of ‘New York in the nomination for ar a Dewey's may ait.

statement s reported task rH dif- |

: | they told officers, and three of them | Republican election trends in a fled. The other two are said ‘half dozen states this week set the have stolen another car and drove on its behalf. party political pot Boiling over. southwest on Road 67. They crashed Fann

CONKLE QUITS DRAFT BOARD FIVE POSITION

to | ated he would support it but chal0 enged its need

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YANKS LOSE 3, 126

Casualties

we ems WAR FUND IS NEAR |

IN MEDITERRANEAN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U.P). in the Mediterranean theater since the allied landings in|

North Africa a year ago Nov, 7 have “| been approximately six to one in fayor of the allies, Secretary of War

HALF-WAY POINT

Volunteers Shift Shift Into High As Deadline Approaches.

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The army organ Red Star said the Germans force of planes into the battle of the river crossings, but the Russians cleared a wide stretch of the south bank and began shelling the right bank preparatory to forcing the | Dnieper themselves and closing a trap on perhaps hundreds of thousands of Nazi troops in the Dnieper bend.

EOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ....

threw a considerable!

British fodr-engined bombers | loosed |

observers estimated today that more than 1000 four-motored American and British bombers have been over Germany in the

man was reported in Washington state today, discussing politics after a swing through the, Midwest, including stops in Indiana and Iowa." Hamilton 1s associated

last 24 hours.

to send the Anglo-American seriat}

offensive back into high gear.

Striking only a few hours after! upwards of 1000. American Flying Fortresses, Liberators and escorting fighters battered the big German naval base of Wilhelmshaven in

daylight yesterday, hundreds of

Yank Subs Sink Fliers Blas

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10 Jap Ships; t 26 af Rabaul

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[Hoosier Heroes—

LT. MAURICE BRADEN DIES IN PLANE CRSH

Bomber Crashes into Fog Shrouded Mountain.

| School Duties Take Too

| Indianapolis school board, has re- | signed as a member of local draft “| board 5 because of press of other | business.

{ members who protected at a meetje last week against’ the induction

non-fathers are still in war plants, Me onkle Ja this od nothing |

ha is too heavy to give him al time for the draft board work. He| CHUNGKING, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Motors helped swell yesterday's total] operates the Conkle Funeral home Chinese troops have joined. battle|1t was announced by E:B. Newell, and a farm. | with Japanese forces attempting to general manager of Allison's, and

M. B. Loudermilk, chairman, and central China, a communique re-

Henry L. Stimson said today. Much of Time, He Says.

oe Conkle, president of the he told his press conference, These

and 7966 missing.

ADMITS U-BOAT FAILURE By UNITED PRESS The Nazi storm trooper publica-| ition, Das Schwarze Korps, has ad-| mitted. the failure of the U-boat] campaign and other German set-|

Although one of the draft board |

fathers while single men and

in a broadcast heard by the United | {Press in New York.

a _ oe t his Wom. ro aa $a ag ‘RICE BOWL’ BATTLE OPENS

Other members of Board 5 aré!drive into the “rice bowl” area of

B. Ransom. - ported today.

American losses -in the Mediterranean up to Oct.-29 totaled 31,1286,

included 5539 kjlled, 17,621 wounded

} With 46.1 per cent of the United

backs, the British radio said today

| division.

Goal ............... $1,975,000.00 Reported Jemtoray. .. 187,656.65 Reported fo date . 909,750.97 Per cent of goal ,..... 46.1 Amount needed . . 1,065,249.03 Next reported meeting—Friday

noon, Claypool hotel. | Drive ends Tuesday Night

renEERe

Starts ts Back- to- Pits Move Following Pay Boost in Portal Agreement.

Harold L. Ickes ex and called on the United Mine al, more coal, and more eoal.”

fon L. Lewis to end the strik { 530,000" coal miners; * kes told a press confers. ‘ence he believed the wage agreement was “satisfactory” and would assure increased produce tion. He said hie thought the WLB- | would" approve it because jt followed

U. M. W. President John L. Lewis reatied off the three-day strike last {night after he and Federal Coal Ad- | ministrator Harold 1 Tokes negotts” ated . a “portal-to=portal” wage agreement fixing the soft coal min« ers’ basic datly wage of $8.50, a raise - fof $1.50 to bituminous miners and [ingressing anthracite earnings 70 cents a day.

Thé- war “labor board must ap- | pfove the ‘contract before it can be

government operation, Reports from the coal fields indi-

(ing United Mine Workers would respond to their policy committee's I'back ‘to work order, ending a gen Leral strike that threatened to paralyze war industry and bring cold

Resumption of fuel - output will come too late, however, to avert al« ready announced curtailments of war-vital and steel production, &

survey showed. The Shreeriny walkout dealt a serious blow to the war effort with the loss of about 3,000,000 tons of bituminous coal daily, estimates disclosed. - - The solid fuels administration re« ported that hundreds of coal bins were empty in 30 states, that hospitals and schools were

fuel, and that “a , siagsoring ber of major

War fund goal tucked away, volunteer solicitors shifted into high to[day to meet the deadline next Tues- | day night. Workers reported an wsdditional $187,656.65 yesterday, which boosts i total .to $900,750.97. The goal] $1975,000.— sid gift of $55,000 fram General

D. M. Klausmeyer, plant manager np reales, sommuchal hod

Pets Perish at. His Side as Little Ronald Gray [= Dies in. Fire While Mother Tries to. Save Him

Out in the 2000 block of Luett| . there was sadness today, ......

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