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%0-4hid odd warid T want. to come ‘to London’ again * and stand on a certain balcony oh a moonlit night

and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with is dark bridges. And standing thers, I want te tell somebody who has never seen it how London looked on a certain night in the holiday season of the year 1940. ~

For on that night this old, old

~ tity<~even though I must bite my tongue in shame for saying it— was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen. It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire, They came just after dark, and

Somehow 1 could sense from the

ok quick, bitter firing of the “guns hat there Ham 10h ay Ha / Shortly after the sirens walled I could hear the Germans overhead. In my room, with its

grinding -.- black curtains drawn across the windows, you could

feel the shake from the guns. You could hear the boom, crump, crump, crump, of heavy bombs at their

“work of tearing buildings apart. - They ‘were not too"

“far away.

Vast Inner Excitement

HALF AN hour after the firing started I gathered “& couple of friends and went te- & high, darkened

- balcony that gave us a view of one-third of the

entire circle of London. - As we stepped out onto the balcony a vast inner excitement came over all of us—an excitement that had neither fear nor horror in. it, because it was too full of awe. 4 You have all seen big fires, but I doubt if you have ever seen the whole horizon of a city lined with great fires—scores of them, perhaps hundreds. The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little

fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

OLD INSIDE has won a victory for old Indianapolis. A lettér from J.-P.-H.- Johnson, editor of

the N. W. Ayer directory of newspapers, brings the

information that future issues of the directory will

refer to 8 ndisnapolis as “Approximately in the center of the-state” instead of the. pres-. ent wording: *100 miles “north west of Cincinnati, . Ohio.” Thanks, J. P. H.- That's better. . » . Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker is afraid he may have to disappoint Santa Claus, He can’t find enough people to take jobs at--the postofficer during the Christmas season. He needs 900, and even is willing to take some part time workers who can work -—only-a—few--hours a day. Applications will be received at window 36 in the postoffice. , . . Patrolman Willard Brandt, . handling trafic at Pennsylvania and Ohio, stopped the flow of traffic the other evening to permit a woman pushing & baby in a Taylor-Tot to cross the... .-. busy. intersection. . . .-Another bit of courtesy was sliown by ‘an unidentified policeman directing traffic”

recently. at. the. west entrance to the ¢ rele... INS... the. waz chest

‘policeman had “just shut: ‘off pedestrian: Ara “signaled for the cars to proceed when a grayhaired Yorkinan shouted that he wished to catch the Broad bus, then parked in front ofthe. bus station. -3 policeman quickly stopped traffic and held it until the man got across and caught the bus.

Ring With a History

PAUL BROWN, the new city parks superintendent, wears a turquoise ring that arouses the curiosity of persons seeing it. The ring, about the size of a quarter, has a history. It was given to Paul by a

-- Pueblo Indian family in Santa Fe just before he

left to take the job here. The ring originally was a Navajo eairing and later was converted to a ring, . being handed down from generation to generation

“Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—~The senate could do

. nothing more useful than to bring to a prompt close

its double-talk debate over the Connally resolution by adopting a new resolution so phrased as to constitute 8 vote of confidence in the great achievements of Sec- * retary Cordell Hull at Moscow, It would be irregular for the

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dowia ‘under the Seed’ valor Salo). break out again later. .

would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to: have an angry: pulsation like 8 bee buzzing in blind tury. The bombs did not make a constant overwhelming din as in those terrible days of last September. They were intermittent—sometimes a few seconds apart, sometimes a minuté or more. Their sound was sharp, when nearby, and soft and muffled, far away.

St. Paul's Spires Show Through

THE GREATEST of all the fires was directly in|

front of us. ,Flames seemed to whip hundreds of feet into the air. Pinkish-white smoke ballooned upward in a great cloud, and out of this cloud there gradually took shape—so faintly at first that we

weren't sure we saw correctly—the gigantic dome|

and spires of St. Paul's cathedral. : St. Paul's was surrounded by fire, but it came through. It stood there in its enormous proportions

“growing slowly clearer-atid-clearer,-the-way objects

take shape at dawn. It was like a picture of some miraculous. figure. that appears before peace-hungry soldiers on a battlefield. Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows—the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Later on I borrowed a tin Hat and went out among the fires. That was exeiting, too, but the thing I shall always remember above all the other things in my life is the monstrous loveliness of that one single view of London on a holiday night—London: stabbed with great fires, shaken by explosions, its dark regions along the Thames sparkling with the pinpoints of white-hot bombs, all of it roofed over with a ceiling of pink that held bursting shells, balloons, flares and the grind of vicious engines. And in yourself the excitement and anticipation and wonder in your soul that this could be happening at all, These things all went together to make the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known.

of Indians. . . . Lt. Gerald E. (Nig) Woods, U. 8. navy, is home on leave, accompanied by his wife, Marjorie Binford Woods. From here he reports to the bureau of aeronautics in Washington. . . . Also home on leave is Capt. Ted Lewis, the former assistant state forester. He's stationed with an air fighter squadron. in. Connecticut... . ..- Brig. Gen: Robert L. “Pentg,” whose “duties include ‘public relations forthe marines; will give an off- record, talk at the Press Club Wednesday evening. He's coming here “for the

.civic luncheon that day in observance of the marine

corps’ 168th anniversary. . . . Signs of the times: A load of coal which had been dumped in a yard in the 900 block of N. Keystone. Lucky, even, to get it there. :

Senator Jim's Formula

FORMER SENATOR Jim Watson, back in Indiana to celebrate his 80th birthday, told the boys that the reason for his hale afd hearty condition is: “I never run when I can walk, never walk, a stand, never stand when 1 tan sit. and never sit when I can lie.” He also repeated his oft-repeated ~statement .that the only exercise he gets is ‘serving AS. _pallbearer for his golfing friends. . . . War fund notes: Now you can eave war fund ‘contributions at] circle. Of course you can't per-. sorraily drop your money ‘in with the $50 and $100 and $1000 bills in thé chest, but you can put it in a’ smaller chest which later is emptied into the war chest. + Yes, those machine guns, carried by the military " police from Ft. Harrison who guard the| chest are loaded. And every one of the guards is a marksman. , ,. Included among the bank notes in the chest is an old-fashioned large size dollar bill, printed in 1890. It was contributed by Richard Kiovsky, 1812 Koehne st. . . . Harry. Hanna, general chairman of the war fund campaign, has lost 11 pounds since he started work on the drive. , .. The war fund folder distributed along with contribution cards has on its cover a picture of a man who should be able to count higher than some of us. He has five fingers and a thumb on one hand.

By Raymond Clapper

war. A.door is opened, and we see outside not the distant clouds of a third world war, as so many had feared, but we see instead lying off to the horizon the green, peaceful fields of hope.

Deriding Effects of

Agreements.

By PAUL GHALI Copy hice Chickgo Daily Neve, Tne. -

are becoming vociferous and the Nazi press is almost inarticulate

to undermine German morale, For the first two days following the publication of the Moscow. com= munique, Nazi commentators did their best to minimize the im. portance of the conference present it to the German public as just another allied meeting in which no real understanding was reached. Today, however, they take a much more “serious view of the matter, The Berlin press admits that the “lies” about-the recent deeisions

have one main.aim, to destroy the fortress of German morale, Recall ‘Massacre ’ Berlin attacks are directed particularly against the main points of the Moscow communique: - 1. The treatment to be accorded war criminals, 2. The reconstruction of some sort | of league of nations. . ‘3. The restoration of Austria. To the first point, ‘the German answer summarizes the story of the | Katyn . forest - massacre—rehashing Nazi accusations that the Russiams had massacred thousands of Polish | officers. t Scoffs at League

On the Austrian question,

Berlin ‘Changes Tune After|

BERN, ‘Switzerland, Nov. 4—Nasi| reactions to the “Moscow charter”|

with rage against the allies’ effort]

and|

Souvenirs of war. .

Vulnerable to Attack From Two Sides and Ready To Quit Anyway, By RICHARD MOWRER

“ISTANBUL, Turkey, “Nov. <= Southeastern Europe has become the

: [weakest corner of Hitler's fortress

Europa. ‘Here is why: 1; It is vulnerable and Hable to at tack from. two sides, In .the east

—[thers=are the oncoming Russians,

who now threaten Odessa and whose capture of the Crimea will give them

{air and sea control in the Black sen.

In the west, there are the massed allied forces in Italy. “2. Guerrilla warfare in Greece and Jugoslavia and sabotage all over the

+ « Cpl. Fred G. Malcom (right) proudly displays a Jap hand grenade and

scarf he found in an Aleutians foxhole to his uncle, Pvt. Howard Woodward.

“NAME OFFICERS

Hartsock 0 Be President After Formal Voting In December.

. New officérs for the Indianapolis

| Bar association were nominated at! spe- 'a dinner meeting at the Columbia

cially painful to Hitler, it is simply club last night.

said that the conduct of Austrian

Harvey B. Hartsock, former school

troops during the war is ample proof {board member, was nominated for of ‘Austria's desire to remain united the presidency to succeed Harvey A.

with Germany. As- for the reconstruction of the league of nations, the Nazi press says it “is not even worth discussion.”

‘Grabiil.

‘Others nominated were Jeremiah

Li. Cadick, ifst vice president; Leo Kaminsky, second vice president;

The. Nasi. Iaaders sit)..ssem to Grier M. Shotwell, treasurer; Floyd | cling to the hope that "Germany |W. BUFTiS aiid Kurt Panizer, mem:

may: play on-the allies! divergencieswhen the hour comes for discussing the post-war order. This, at least, is what they point put foretbly to their public today. Inthe Nasi party orgah, Voelkischer Beobachter, Dr, Sundemann, Dr. Paul Schmidt's deputy in the Wilhelmstrasse press section, writes pompously that Germany has succeeded in establishing the *“‘constructive thought of European reconstruction” while the allies have failed to express any real policy

bers .of the executive, commitige. |

‘Witson, 8: Daily, Arthur J. Sullivan, | Mrs. Florence Thacker Bradléy and | William E. Steckler, menibers of the .| committee on admissions.

Vole In December Only one slate of candidates was nominated, and they will be formally elected by association mémbers at the December meeting. Mr. Grabill appointed a committee to co-operate with county com-

concerning - Europe's future during missioners. in providing improved

those very months “might have thought to have achieved victory.” Halled a Success The reasons for this gravity with which thé Nazis are discussing the

when they|JUry rooms in the courthouse and

to assist in removing tons of obsolete records from the fourth floor

- of the-courthouse. -

Commitlee Named Members of the commitiee are

Moscow conference today are plain.| Mr. Cadick, Walter Myers Jr., Rob "1. They obviously hoped for gen-|ert F. Biehl and Anthony J. Kiee.

eral skepticism inh Europe but now realize that apart from the reac-

Judge Robert C. Baltzell of Fed-

Until now victory has been something that would [tion in some incorrigibly conserva-|®®! court, in discussing proposed serve only as a pause before more inescapable War.|tive circles, the conference has been |New rules of criminal procedure in

We had felt imprisoned

LAWYERS HERE ICorporal i in Aleutians Saw

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Remnants o

Cpl. Fred G. Malcom didn't see any Japs at Kiska and Attu, but he | SAW-_ some of. the remnants fleeing; defeated army.

Cpl. Malcom, -sdn of Mrs Helen Malcom, 1038 E. Washington st, is

‘home on a furlough from carrving

precious supplies in a cargo ship to fighting. forces in the Ateutians. At the: northern base he saw two abandotied Jap one-man subs on a beach. He also picked up some discarded equipment from a Jap foxhole: A navy blue slik and wool scarf 10 feel long, inscribed with the owner's-name,-tianslated Toko;

size of ours, and a box Which held machine gun bullets, The 19-year-old corporal, tioned at. Pt. Lawton. Seattle, Wash) has been carrying vital supplies and ammunition - ‘Torthwalty TOE 9

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TACOMA, Wash., Nov, 4 (U. P.);

Mayor Henry Toepfert of Holyoke, Mass, with Instructions to mail

yoke for display purposes. other city would collect as much scrap as Tacoma, Toepfert, who doubts this, Cain,

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and send to me. They are going to prominent street, of course, labelled

from n Mayor Cain of Tacoma.’

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a Japanese hand grenade, half tha

Cain had bet his pants that no| | From Stockton, Cal, Mayor Lewls| slavia with a |A. Lodde. wrote he had no doubt

‘the pants Mayor Toepfert won|

f Fleeing Army

months. were spent « selves: . . “It WAS warm some days: warm and muddy,” he said. “There are no trees. It is a barren land.” A surprise

on the fslands them-

furlough was his uncle, Pvt. Howard Washington street home. in this country and is now

tioned at Pine camp, N. Y. are expert riflemen.

nephews - respectively ‘to Cpl. {com and Pvt. Woodward. Pvt.

Four of those months}

greeted the corporal pro-Russian. on his return home last week. On

There are two other family members- inthe -army; both cousins and {other i the Carpathians and would Mal-| rather fight a private feud than a Jim

Balkans make the ‘Germans’ com{plete military control there impos(8ible. Patriot opposition to the Germans is spreading and is now supported by allied air forces and allied equipment as well as captured Italian arms. Greek guerrillas hold enough territory in the interior to have their own airfields. Balkans Undependable 3. Undependabllity of Germany's Balkan satellites, War-weary Rumariia would quit at the first op= portunity if it could, and may well collapse at the first direct blow uns less propped up by the Gernfans. Bulgaria has refused to accept any military “commitments outside its new frontiers and is not at way with Russia: ~~} has consistently refised to send troops against the Russians and the great mass of Bulgars are ‘Hungary is sitting tight “and at fecting indifference to. the Balkans,

Woodward, who also lived at the|but is scared of the Russians and He has|would served 28 months in the infantry staBoth | Germany's southeastern sutellites,

welcome any reasonable

peace, 4. Bad relations between two of Hungary and Rumania, Both coun= tries huve armies glaring at each

world war. The reason for animosity

{my T. Bartholomew, who also lived | between the two is that Hungary for

“Ma-| at the Washington st. home, is at v-Leer Yag-and Prt. Clinton 82

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seven Bra,

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Tacoma Mayor Loses. Pants, They'll Be Displayed in East" v wae

the pants along any time.

“I'll guarantee they'll be suitably Cain's oldest pair of pants to Hol- exhibited. and then passed on to|gne™ “raliroad runs

|some worthy purpose with the war effort,” he wrote,

that Stockton can outdo Tacoma,

[but he could see little point to get“Please inclose pants in this box ting a pair of pants of unknown ularly, all railroad conne tions be.

size. keep-mine;

jon the Rhine, " he rhymed.

“While the Yoys » we sippy march

years wanted the province of aa Sylvania - which Rumanin- vad 5g finally rec elved it #5 a present Fri

wo vec ioeg rl GEVEIGTIT Naw “Fama wants” Tratisylvania back. It has been Ger- =

man policy during the war. to play two states, one against the other, to. make- them more subservient to

The disadvantage ‘of this game, (however, is that it ties up man-

of the war would rather see on the Russian front, . Mb. Bad ‘communications. Most of tha. Balkans are mountainous. Only through the

Mayor Marvin L. Kline. Min~Mayor Harry P. Cain Nw sent an ie to power which Germnay at this stage received a large empty box from | figures, and told Cain he could

connected | length of Jugoslavia to Greece and

only one iliroad connects Jugowhere else, -Only one ra Jugoslavia to Salot

By bombing Nish a

a and Athens, plje reg-

tween Jugoslavia, Greece a d- Bul-

be on public display in our most| “So you keep your F ph and I'll | garia can be interrupted.”

‘Other roads, although improved by the Germans, are not plentiful, The Danube, the Balkans’ great water highway, will also be obstructed. Winter ice packs will

in a room where there could | generally hailed as a tremendous Federal courts now being considered be no peace, only more war, Now we can see out diplomatic success for the united by the U, 8. supreme-court, said through the door that has been opened at Moscow: the nations. ‘he was opposed to some of ‘the rules broad highway over which we can go forward together 2, Despite the fight censorship|On the ground that some of them into better days. and death sentences liberally pro-|Would infringe upon the constitu-

|cumpel some suspension of navigation... There is. only. one. permanent bridge across the Danube between Belgrade and vicinity and the Black sea—at Cernavoba, near Constanza;

Vote Shows Citizens Tired Of Being Kicked, Farley Says

senate to do that. But the oc-~ casion -is ‘unique. It -is -of- such moment in the affairs of the human race that formal recognition of it by the senate wouid be fitting,

Many senators are urging this be ~—done by adopting the Moscow lan--

At last we have the promise that our men far aWay (nounced on all those who listen to|tional rights of defendants.

are not dying in vain.

foreign broadcasts, the Nazis realize

that thelr sorely tried population PROMISE MOSCOW STATEMENT

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P).—, State Democratic Chairman James!

cans are dissatisfied for any one of

a number of- reasons,” the. former

Pontoon bridges were swung across the Danube when the Wehrmacht

"as. its own statement of Others to Thank, Too yy took over the Balkans, but these are guage ALGIERS, Nov, 4 (U.P) .—The unreliable in the winter, :

is highly receptive to the propa- | postmaster general who managed

By prempt indorsement of the work of Secretary Hull, the senate could add to the effectiveness of the Moscow conference. The force of the declarations Weill be $i the greater if It is made clear promptly that the senate was.in full sympathy with them-—as the comment from senators individually seems to indicate. Also a formal declaration by the senate would take

FS divisive, trouble-making words out of the mouths of

the axis propagandists. They would not then be able

__to create doubt and mistrust by describing the senate:

‘ as Jukewarm, if not covertly hostile to the work of

Statesmen Often Go Unsung

“IT WOULD be fitting for the senate to honor one

oI ho eins and the hots, too, for that

because Hull was a congressman for many "Democracies are generous in recognition of the Yiarie of pilitary men. But statesmen too often go

Ai te Aamnced age of 72 a man flies half-way the world, severely taxing his limited physical And there, where most people thought it impossible for him to achieve much, he parin ong of the most inspiring events of the

iy Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday —I was told a curious congressional official, on being

|g giE

il.

WE HAVE others to thank also. For the almost andy value of the Moscow meeting.

universal American approval of what has been done at Moscow we can thank those in the Republican party

Wendell

credit, ~ Having argued and exhorted, having drama-|chosis” (the Nazis’ own expression) |

French committee of national lib-

As regards the German homeloration announced today that it

front, the Moscow communique whose strong leadership ever since early 1940 has pre- [could not have come at a better

vented making these matters partisan questions. To |moment—just when the country is{position * regarding willkle, as much as to any man, must go/being swept by the “November psy- |American-Russian commission to|

would issue a statement soon on its the British-

be set-up in London as a result of|

tized the issue by his travels around the world, he|and 2,000,000 German evacuees are the Moscow conference.

finally goaded. his party into declarations which sup- {reflecting on their discomforts as

port in principle “what Cordell Hull has done at Moscow.

Indeed, in his recent St. Louls address, Willkle|

recommended exactly what has been done at Moscow.

"He urged that the United States join with the other reports that three big powers in what he called a “joint declaration | troubles have broken out in Berlin of intention” as a preliminary to forming a common |8nd other German towns and that] goancl of the Snived nations and other friendly na- | state of siege has been proclaimed. Rumors are rife however that i

of Minnesota has been second only to [State of emergency has been pros

d eventually of all the nations. Former Govps Willkie in the extent of his ‘activity, Governor Dewey has’ followed somewhat at a distance, as have many

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winter approaches,

day of Stockholm

Report of Sabotage. There is no confirmation here to-

A. Farley said yesterday that the Republican victory confirmed his

the “American people are tired of being kicked around” and that he hoped the administration “will heed the warning given at the polls.” N is. still apparent What Ameri-|

claimed in Flensburg, in province, bordering Denmark, fo

lowing acts of sabotage.

Pupils Have Own War Chest’

previously expressed opinion that|s Kiwanis club meeting

| Franklin D. Roosevelt's first and second presidential campaigns told in his honor. “They have recorded that dissatisfaction. I sincerely hope the results will have a very sobering {effect on those who guide the | destinies of the nation. I hope they ~ give heed to the warning sounded yesterday.” Parley sald he believed next year's national election will be the nation's most important, and that

{voters will disregard party lines in {making their choices.

| “When the time comes, they'll do what is best for the country, regardless of party,” he said. ~ ~ Parley predicted “six months or

- la year” of depression after thé war | land sald it will take “generations

to come” to pay the tax bill. . “It is a question,” he said, “just how much more the American people can stand in the way of

The meeting was a testimonial to were received

i | Farley Messages {from Vice President Henry A. Wal-

lace and Senator Carter Glass, Eugene Casey, a special assistant to President Roosevell, was at the speakers’ table and paid tribute to Parley. Prior to his speech, Farley

NORTH CROW'S NEST BALLOTS TABULATED

residents of . North Crow's Nest

had , declined comment on results| Jot yesterday's elections.

More than 95 per cent of thel|%

Disrupt Communications Bombing and sabotage of the Ger mans’ line of comnranieations fn ths = Balkans would make the rapid transfer of troops and supplies Jom one theater to another difficult, not almost impossible, In view of the Russians’ success lin the South, the Soviet army high _ command may decide to a its full effort in the South and exploit the Germans’ retreat, abandon ing plans if necessary for a winter offensive in the North.

indicated by German Minister of Transport Julius Heinrich Dorp" mueller who made a survey tour of Bulgarian and Rumanian railroads last month to as far as Odessa. :