Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1943 — Page 1
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. Crane fort Wise Ro of ‘Rod’ Still "By MILDRED REIMER. A DEFECT in the American home today . , not enough hick- _ ory trees in the backyard. ) That was one of the things Dr. prominent psychologist, was. going to tell Town Hall visitors today at Epg-
| | Eyewitness—
‘SKY MOONLESS AS WE BLASTED:
Spokesman Tells How U.S. Knocked Out Enemy Fleet |
At Bougainville.
By HAL O'FLAHERTY
| Cory right 1943, by The Indianapoli Times and the Chicago Daily News, Inc.
ADM: HALSEYS HEADQUARTERS, 8. Pacific, Thursday, Nov.
.itory as the battle of Empress Au=
r, George W. Crane’
ats Bit Hits mind* was changed after arriving in the Hoosier city, A mixup in topics... . he thought he was to speak on *Horse Sense In Child Training” « « » Town Hall scheduled the lecture on “The Strategy of Handling People’ and Town Hall won out. Bonz “A good hickory switch, yudictously used, is still the best method of- child rearing,” Dr, Crane -asserted, “Give them two chances, phrase the language so they can
use the hair brush.” " 2 8
Mail Is Heavy
“HE'S TOLD this “to Hundreds | ‘of parents, professional men and educators who write hini ~ 1000 letters ‘a. day. seeking advice on
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Sofas Crane is considered an exin giving advice on. problems and divorce. And he practices -what he preaches. “I brought Mrs, Crane along to prove that I can still hold my women,” he “said, Mrs, Crane * smiled in approval. In relation to the ‘war's effect | on. the home, Dr, Crane stated ~ that the bringing of wives into high-paying jobs is having a demoralizing effect on children. They are not getting the full benefit of parental care, he explained, thus developing into juvenile delinquents,
~ Mothers Burdened
“GROWING UP like Topsy with the chief educational features the movie and radio is not good for any child,” he said. With the number of fathers being drafted, perhaps never to return, the mothers are giving “their childrén a “double dose of | feminine affection,” Dr. Crane | stated. When these war children decide to marry in years to come, it's going to be doubly hard for the wife to “fll the bill,” he added. : Dr, Crane is against “war ar _marriages which sprout up In “in the mushroom fashion.” He also doesn't favor marriages of Amerfcan soldiers and girls in foreign countries because they bring a
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HOOSIERS ASSURED OF SUFFICIENT COAL
Indiana coal dealers were confi-
J. 8. Weber, secretary of the Indina Caal Dealers association, t that it would be two before all miners reand about two weeks coal reaches the re-
of the local coal : jation said that stocks were very low,
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| gusta bay, one of our oldest task | forces met and defeated a Japa« {nese force consisting of two heavy, |eruisers, two light cruisers and [eight destroyers. ithe longest naval { Pacific war.
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{The conflict started at.2:30-a,.m..
lon the morning of Nov. 2 and raged on until 5:40, a. m., with the American task force still-intact. Ac-| cording to Jgpan's own admission, one of its light cruisers and two!
. | destroyers were sunk and others
damaged. 17 Jap Planes ‘Downed (An official communique dated! Nov. 5 sets the Japanese loss at] one cruiser and four destroy £7 sunk and two other ‘cruisers and’ two “destroyers . hit. Seventeen of | 67 Jap airplanes which later took: part in the action were’ brought | down. No allied vessels were lost | through damage and no vasittes | were sustained.) i A spokesman well known ai home, but who must remain anony- | mous for security purposes, gave us| an eyewitness story of the battle. "We were screening a landing of marines on the north end of Empress Augusta bay when word reached us that a Japanese fleet consisting of two Heavy ecniisers,| two. light cruisers and eight de-|
attack. the ships involved in the landing, Tiear Totokina’ Poirit, * aid | the spokesman, “Apparently this enemy fleet was about 50 miles west of Empress Aue! bay. - It soon became plain that the-daps: ‘wera dn V formation, At the point when the Japs came within range, our force suddenly, with almost uncanny precision, changed course and crossed the enemy's T. Yanks Get Advantage “This traditional maneuver gave our ships immediate advantage. As the American ships swung across the oncoming enemy, our destroyers inaugurated the attack. The leading Jap ships sped directly into our new formations, Our cruisers operied up and within a few minutes were right on the targets. One Jap cruiser came on, then stopped. “The night was rent with noise; the horizon colored with fire bursts. Without cessation the American’ ships kept tightly engaged with the enemy, pouring in salvo after salvo. “As the fight moved westward— the Japs now fleeing in desperation | —various- American ships mopped up the enemy cripples. “We pressed onward at highest
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Hoosier Heroes—
i¢ HARGIS IS WOUNDED IN ITALY, OCT. 14
Clerk Here Notified.
Wounded PVT. CECIL FILMORE HARGIS, stationed with the U, 8. army infantry, was wounded in action in Italy Oct. 14. . His father, Bert L. Hargis, 554 N. Belmont ave, yeceived the war department notification Wednesday and will be further advised as reports of his son’s condition are received. Pvt. Hargis, who is 20, has been in the army since March and
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powerful ‘Russ army,
Dr. George Arthur Frantz .. 1 didn’t know I had so many y friends”
Dr. Frantz. Rees
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who miraculously escaped death after his horse
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last Aug. 17; is recovering at his home at 5433 N. Delaware st. and says he feels fine.’ “I've been riding harses since I was four or five and this
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FLEE TO EDGE * OF BLACK SEA
‘Soviets Claim Offensive | Cost German Army 2,700,000 Men,
MOSCOW, Nov. 5 (U, bd out” int i new offensive on.the west bank. {of the Dnieper iver, stormed and [captured ‘two northwestern suburbs fot Kiev, Pusha-Voditza and Gor- | yanka, today. (An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Istanbul quoted Sofia reports, {that German forces evacuating the Crimea have begun to “arrive on "the Bulgarian Black sea coast. ) The Russian break- through [brought Soviet troops and tanks; iwithin: five mites of Kiev proper {and extended the Soviet bridgehead above Kiev eight miles inland from the west bank of the Dnieper.
One Suburb Remains
Streaming from the forest north- | west of the city, the - Russians! smashed across open ground to seize the two “towns; which lie on the \main railway running north from| Kiev; Only one. more important suburb, Priorka—almost on the city | | line—remained between He Soviets| and their prize. ~ Thé successful thrust may be te opening blow of ‘an ‘off roll back the Germans to ite 10 Bug river and came while Cossacks. {to the south were mopping. up: the |
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square miles—ths entire. Ukraine. éast of the Dnieper—in-the Soviet * summer offensive, which cost the Germans 2,700,000 men in dead,
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Wives of Missing Fliers. Meet for First Time Here
FLYING BY DAY LASHES REICH
org Range Fighter Planes Escort Fleets All Through Trip.
LONDON; Nov. 5 (Us Po Big fleets of Flving Fore tresses and Liberators, lashing out in the United States - ‘8th air force's second recofd sassault in three days, fene“trated Germany's most heaves “ly defended area” today. and ~delivéred. a smishing blow: at.
A important target: .# Never before had any force of day / bombers even approaching compare fable fize struck at an interior target in Germany. Upward of 1000 heavy “bombers and fighters struck at the Reich on Wednesday. The ralding force faced attack by German fighters almost from the ‘moment it crossed the coast of the continent until it had delivered its bomb load and reached the sea on the way back.
Fighters Made Trip
Today's rild was different” from {previous attacks on the interior of et Germany bong range fighter planes swarms of Lightnings and Thun rderboltssiwere able to-go Ail the vay. | with the bombers, : A headquarters anfiouncement of the attack said it was aimed ab ‘western Germany, -
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now lost over battlefields in SICNY*"", they brought two wives together indicated the anti-airéraft. Sram Hiformation on. their m husbands. / ght P. Morgan, pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber, | Sgt. Alexander Holliday, assistant engineer gunner, went down
heavy on the targets. Bue they sid and 8 the fighters provided magnificent on their protection against the Nazi attack.
Parents of Former Drug
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was the first time I ever got hurt,” he said. “I hope to ride again.” His only exercise now is a walk of | several blocks in the morning and afternoon, . Dr. Frantz was in the hospital for seven weeks after the accident and during the first week he ‘Was not expected to live, While no bones were broken, he suffered severe in-| ternal injuries. It took 20 persons
given him. “I guess I must be pretty tough or else the Lord has something for me to do,” the 55-year-old minister smiled. or “I Didn't Know” He said that his son, John, a medical student at the University of Rochester has detailed to him. just al all could have happened to
him from the accident and that Pe;
felt very fortunate. Since his accident he has received | over 2000 letters and messages of | good wishes from friends from all| corners of the world, some from even as far away as New Zealand. He and Mrs. Frantz are still sneering) them. y “I am perfectly amazed at “the. number of kind-hearted people in| bo the world,” he said. *I didn’t know I had so many friends.” His doctor tells hin that‘he can't go back to the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church until at least the first of January, - In the meantime, he is reading a lot of new books and is listening to the radio more than he ever has in
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Listening to the radio, he said, makes him “realize just what our people are soaking up.”
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WAR FUND TOPS FIRST T MILLION
Workers Speed Effort to Raise $890,672 Still Needed.
Reported to date ..... 1084,321.91 Per cent of goal ..... 549 Amount needed ...... 04780 Next report. ; .. Monday Drive ends Toesday Night
sheen
— The United War Fund total [climbed over the $1,000000 mark | | today as workers made an effort to| {reach the $1,975,000 goal by ue | day night. At today's report meeting at id Claypool hotel, an‘ - additional $183,333.11 was -tallied to raise the “I red mark on the- progress chart. to 54.9. . . Final reports will be tallied Mopnday noon and Tuesday night, Executives and employees of the Citizens Gas & Coke utility yes-| terday subscribed $10855 to the! drive, a 100 per cent contribution. Other 100 per cent donations in-| clude Western Union Telegraph Co. $1047; Indiana Lumberman’s Insurance Co. stract Co., $2554; Indianapolis Morris Plan-Schloss Bros. Investment Co. $3631; Paper Package $2734; Zimmer Paper Co, $640; Shell Oil Corp., $1711; Gibson Co., $4810; Farrell- Electrigy Co., $304; Graybar Co, $181; Maytag Co., $100; L. E. Morrison Co., $654, itd Central Rubber and Supply Co.,|
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Nazis Counter-Attack ; [Peggy Holliday, Milwaukee, Wis,
Field reports said the Germans wo U tat sunwere draining off strength from | Ty LIE Uns raves Rare ‘they Sth Braves Flooded Plains To Break Through
other fronts to rush all available | knew each other by their silver Nazi Defenses.
men and machines into frantic wings. By HARRISON SALISBURY
wounded aiid prisoners,
over the city for weeks.
FOR REVEALS NEW |: CAMPAIGN ON JAPAN
u.s.,, British, Chin Chinese Agree ~ At Chungking Parley.
WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. § (U. P.).— President Roosevelt sald todaysthat {an- American-British-Chingse- con- | ference in Chungking had reached
through the German lines last On these past few months. Letters month reported that the axis had have passed back and forth from crew made up’ in the United States, [8cross Italy on the miarch to Rome. | It was strange that the “air” Driving forward seven miles on
counter-attacks north of ‘Kiev, : where the new assault holds a po- | Started Writing tential threat of splitting the Ger “They started” corresponding soon man armies in Russia in two, ‘| after their husbands were reported The initial thrust yesterday | missing In fact, Mrs, Holliday sent overran Dimer, 22 miles northwest the first word here that Lt. Morgan | | of Kiev, and at least seven other ‘was lost. Mrs. Morgan's selegram | strongholds. {was lost by the war department, Russian refugees who stipped | A lot of writing has been going United Press Staft Correspondent evacuated Kiev, and that smoke the Morgan Home to hs Holliday ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-| hovered | residence an rom th these | ... o } places to mothers, sisters, aunts and | gters, Nov. 5.—Anglo-American 5th crew members of the two missing AMY troops completed the smash-! {ing of the German “Little Rommel” The wives also have written to [line today by swarming across other crew members not in the fooded piatns tothe mouth of the same ‘bomber. that went down over Garigliano river as a concerted ad- | N Seen but members of the origina] Y&nee sent allied forces forward all \wives had not met before. They the Western end of the front from Isernia to -the ‘sea, the troops | i Continued on Page. 16—Column 4) reached the south bank of the | lc. I 0. - Garigliano to strike the forward | N barrier to the new Nazi defenses In ! €0 VENTION high ground to the north, RE-ELECTS MURRAY | Ja the center, American forces ssed the upper Volturno and PHILADELPHIA, Nov, § (U.P). rt their way into the outskirts
{complete agreement. on joint opera-|—Philip Murray, president of the of Venafro, last enemy. bastion on!
tions to be carried out in the forth- Congress of Industrial Organiza- the old line, and cut off the escape oming Torrie campaign tions was re-elected to his fourth 2f the German garrison there by $ The president said the meeting, 'e™™ 88 C. I. O. president today. | Cassino. Vilistupa. on ing Youd © brought together Lord Louis Mount-| Murray, who is also president of | supreme commander for the United Steel Workers, was first | southeastern Asia; Lt. Gen. Joseph [elected C. 1. O: chief in 19%, A 15| British 8th army troops, blasting iL. Stilwell, Maj. Gen, Claire Chen- minute demonstration followed his back German tank forces,~won San | |nault and Lt. Brehon B. Somervell, | | nomination‘ by Van A: Bittner, as- | Salvo, beyond the Trigno river on commander of the American army sistant president of the steel work- [the Adriatic coast, with aid of a supply forces. Ts. naval bombardment,
Win San Salve
These men, the president said, No other presidential nominations| Official reports said the Germans, conferred with Generalissimo | Were offered at the C. I, O.'s sixth|who flooded the Garigliano plains annual convention. The vote was|trying vainly to impede the 5th (Continued on Page 16—Column 4) | unanimous, surge, were digging into the southern
~ The infant, Lou Costello Jr.
laughed, as loud as he could on copst-to-coast radio broadcast.
party for his son's first
drowned in: the family swimming
pool three hours before his father brushed the tears from his eyes and
Costelo, Grieving at. Son's s Death, Fills Radio Role of Tragic Clown
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN - —Cnited- Press Hollywood Correspondent .
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5.—~Lou Costello's
- [slopes of the Aurunci mountains {across the river for a stand that may rival that on the Volturno above Naples, | The toughest battles on the line | i i
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WLB RULING WAITED; ON MINE PAY PACT
Increase in Coal Held Inevitable.
: By UNITED PRESS 3 The war labor. board expects 10
that have brought the two oldtime burlesque -comics fame and large fortunes. “I just took a shower with 1 my shirt socks and underwear on” screamed Costello in the highpitched voice that is his trademark. . “Why?” Abbott demanded. “Do you know any better way of getting your laundry done?” Cos- : tello asked, “Then the band “thumpety-~ thumped and the father who'd spent the morning buying & birthday teddy bear for his son slid into his chair on the stage.
Prices
rule today on the wage contract for va
ro keeping most of them sway. he bomber formations, from 4 dogfights occurred. along ithe raiding route, and several Gers iman fighters were shot down,
Losses ‘Reasonable’
Fortress and Liberator losses were considered reasonable in view of the apposition; - But the percentage probably was somewhat higher than that of the Wilhelmshaven raid Wednesday, when only five bombers were lost, Though only light bombers participated in last night's raids, watchers on the English southegst coast sald they swarmed out across the English channel in strong force, | Four planes were lost in the raids jand in subsidiary mine. laying 1 operations. == | The German Transocean agency in _& Berlin broadcast said allied nuisance ‘rardérs scattered bombs over a wide area of western (Germany, :
FINNS DENY RUMORS OF PEACE MISSION
‘Brand ‘Newspaper Account
As False in Helsinki.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 5 (U.P) The newspaper Social Demokraten {sald today that Finland had named (a three-man mission to Moscow, | presumably to seek a separate peace {with Russia, but Helsinki authors ties bluntly denounced the depors ‘as false, A United Press dispatch from Hel|sinki quoted authoritative sources as saying that “all rumors circulating abroad” that three Finnish delegates had been instructed and were
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(Oficial circle tn Londen sid they had no knowledge of any in the Pinnish situation, but added that Finland unofficially Jang has been attempting taiget ont. - of the war)
OFFICIAL COUNT OF KY. BALLOTS ‘BEGUN