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Two deputy state fire marshals | today were assigned to investigate last night's fire at the Rosswood | sanitarium, 54 N. Main st, Souths port, in which two patients died and from which Hips others were rescued. The office of Coroner Roy Ra _Biorms announced that an inquest | would be held early next week. Those rescued included a woman! Who was 98 years old today and who| vowed that “I wasn't the least bit| scar The operator of the institution, Mrs. ‘Jane Smith, 62, four oe

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tried frantically to assist in the Fescues at the risk of hér own life and four: times was escorted from the flaming building, The dead were: James Noe, 74. Edwin M. Jackson, 78 Those rescued from the building, | besides Mrs. Smith, were Mrs. Dora Reno, 98 today; Miss Anna Gallegher, 83; Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy, both 76; Mrs. Anna Two--hill, 66; Clara Warren, 78: Frank Bunch, 78; John Tellis, 75, and Frank Nassoy, 68.

Makes Routine Check

Mrs. Smith made a routine check| Carried to safety from the flames which destroyed the Rosswood anitatiom in Southport last night, Miss Anna Gallagher, 83, Hes, in bed and is comforted by Mrs. Jane Smith, superintendent and owner.

at 8 p.m. of the main building “of 10 rooms and an adjoining cottage| occupied by the two men burned to death. ; Shortly. after 9 p. m, she if flames in the cottage." “Fire, fire!” she screamed and) attracted the attention of a LIN THREE os neighbor, Mrs, Laura ga] Mrs, Hancock called Paul Dicker- : . son, who rents part of her home, and he summoned Perry township| War Fund Drive Drive . Specied ‘volunteer firemen; the Indianapolis “firé department - and Sheriff Otto : As Fi inale Approaches; : Peli he Se the. volunteers, dep- Workers Confident. ties and city firemen under di. rection of Battalion Chief . ang Geal

Workers " United War " campaign for = $1,975,000 against time ‘today to ‘reach goal by. next, Tuesday night.

. Yesterda report of $184 847. guished, rescuers went in’ and found ou a i an he 1 al ¢ in the ‘ashes the bodies of the two more pledg

“Our workers are driving hard and making good gains, and we are confident that the citizens who have

gheriffs| have hraug 1s § Harry 8. Hanna,| and carried out’ thiee| general chairman, said today. led a crippled man. to Race Against Time

Deputies who completed the res-| Now on It 15 a race agains

— | ues were Melvin Lobb, Harry Fox. | itn the task of raising utronted NAZIS CLAM: PLANES,

worthy and Robert Imhausen. They carried out Mrs. Reno, Mrs. esting in’ two ‘more report conti Whee! chair They] PV. Robart. Skil, New. Yor,

vy Cpl. Jerry Pavelchek, Yonkers, |: helped Mr, . Murphy hobble out on |: Ns Y. h: Stationed:. at Billirigs |

BOMB VATICAN omy,

“Mrs. Rene "Wasn't Seared at yesterday's report meeting, when |

The five others in the bullding|U- S. O. day was observed. Are Responsible. were able to walk out unassisted. _ a ig Severs! lat LONDON. Nov—B..cl. Po. Taal Mrs. Hy ely of Pa Nazi-controlled Rome radio said to-

{| Pavelchek was at the piano. bet hom jo dirs, Smith and _— Harry Reid, president of the In-|day that unidentified planes dropped Taken to ing howie at Mis. Sein diznapolis Service Men's. centers, {four heavy bombs last night on 4 e. | Vatican City, causing Sevideralie

idegpened, . ¢ 7 5 id tion of any allied raid on Rome and wasnt i seared 2 et ne ant “oad spe: le, pours clo ip ne bi

that if bombs actually fell on Vatl-|:

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Dazed by the sudden tragedy of fire, James Murphy Sr. 786, leans on his crutches and closes his eyes to shut out the flaming scene,

SENATE Backs

, 210,000 NAZIS FACE TRAP;

: BULLETIN —« LONDON, Nov. 6 (U. P.). Premier Joust Stalin said | tonight that “Finland is on the point of abandoning Hitler.” He also said that the Russian army killed at least 1,800,000 German troops in the last year, and, by its vie tories at Stalingrad and in the Ukraine, had “decided the

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‘Showdown Fight May Soviets Score Victory On Anniversary Of Revolution.

Determine Control of South Pacific.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U. “My UNITED PRESS %.).—An air-sea battle which| Marshal Josef Stalin

may be the biggest since the| [touched off Russia's celebralidway engagement was pe- tion of the 26th anniversary eved in progress today be.|°f the Red revolution with tween American and Japanese | the announcement today that in the Southwest| he Soviels had . recajtured Hiv, capital of the Terai

{ Military and naval experts, who ANd the biggest city taken by {believe that the opposing forces|the Germans in their eastern {already have joined hattle, said: campaign,

there appeared no doubt that the | £ Japanese were making an all-out Stalin, in . ringing order of the

[effort to halt the allied drive aimed, 447, hailed the troops who sto at Rabaul, key enemy stronghold 'Kiev at dawn and swiftly stamped {on New Britain island, lout the last. German resistance. He They said It was possible that said the great city and its military

ie various Japanesé naval elements |,0. “has the greatest importance: potted en route from-*the enemy $ im

1 aval base at Truk may be the for; othe a ios 3 th the Germany. [ward or screening forces foy a big- Soviet. f roy olumne Aa” hd | wei battle force. | ying ans tha |

whipped around the western outs

" Yank Fleet Strong skirts of Kiev from the north cut

GOP Sort. Foreign Policy Meanwhile, there “was no._com- | [Ne TAllroad running southwest te

[FMastov and struck toward the Dnie ment In the navy aepartment on LIADRDSSE CIRENE EhT ~Thili "Raval [PET In osm eflort Ie ep

Knocked Ott: as -Cam: » cked: torpedo planes sank two American |MUCh as possible of, the = Gers | arr fers and four other warships|MAn garrison of 14 divisions—nor-

aign Issue, aig [ Friday. night In - the vicinity “or mally 210,000: men--before i ean WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (U, P).—| Bougainville tsland In ihe noth Withdraw over” the two in: : ie 85 to 5 senate vole advoeating | western Solom . "Khe EERE cir i

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won “for e she had escaped without nar. for his parents caught in the blaze.

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MOSQUITOES. WORRY. AR-POUNDED REICH

= Strike in Bombing Raid Yet,

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Phen he approfiihed the Bel. [ers pounded western Germany last

wrought by 3500 to 4000 Anglo American planes across axis Eu-

eagt- during ~ previous 60 hours in ; st alr assault in history. ws el /8nHnounced. The. iad — quitoes’, Tetured to’ their ‘ bases without the loss of a single plane, {but a coastal command Beaufighter! was lost ring 2 night patrol over!

the Noth’ The ry raids followed “the

heaviest American daylight assault d

of the war on inland Germany. | More than 400 Flying Fortresses and Js wiLiberators, with an escort of perx 8 haps Thinderbolt and Lightning | + v8) flehters, hit syuthetic oll plants at’ : 12} Cittstukinchen tnd railway yards at | Munster yse y. 3M Omly 48 hats SAAleE other fof mations of’ JAentolt I heavy bombers

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Wilhelmshs ven in northwest. Ger-four-engined: bombers through Wednesday “night 3000-ton raid on Duesseldorf diversionary stgaon, on}

| unanimous vote late yesterday on | {a resolution proposing - the estab

international _organidation to pre- order 10 “fish” for Information. peg a

a long ‘way ean naval fore ral tor i antry tuto eign policy ‘ms & 1044 presidential ypen are in sufficient strength to] battle straight from the march fn {campaign issue. {cope with almost “anything the d frantic but apparently. _. | H so, It plays directly into the g,.my can throw Into the fight, | attempt to stem the ar {hands of some Republican leaders | Both sides have land from] 2¥Alanche. All coutithr-attacks who would like to challenge Presi- whieh alrcralt oan be ed, al. | 1ePulsed and 3000 - Clermans were dent Roosevelt next year on) h the enemy's Te close. | Filled yesterday alone, = I strictly domestic. issues. the! sooné of AVA buses The destruction of 38 enemy tanks - The senate bestowed the almost) snd dozens of guns testified to the Rabaul Is. Vital fury o of the fighting. lishment, at the earliest possible task date, of an international organize~ the tion for the maintenance of intgy

security, an | os On the. central fron. the |

China and the United States in the liam r Maia Jr. navy Adm. Wi. slans: captured

pact of Moscow, Those who voted resolution were Senators Hiram

get of the South Pacific| owns south to lle teal io an a reported of x whal in thet oi ar presence of & whal- | border. ' Some 1 Johnson (R. Cal); William, Langer In ‘ane of the Japanese killed, including the entire (R, N. D.), Robert R. Reynolds (D., moving toward ~ Rabaul{of the defense base of Yermos N. = CJ, Henrik Shipstead, (R. |. ‘the curiosity of naval ex-| (The Stockholm newspaper | Minn.) and Burton K; Wheeler (D. pris“ here. One suggestion was|ska Dagbladet said that rg Prot: Wits, wise T1Eh8t 1t was being used to transport near the Latvian border = r, ’ tinued on 2 (Ghniinued on Colm p Cuming’ su Taps 3~Caunst (Con Fe oer

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| KNOX MUST PEDDLE | “OYSTERS IN A HURRY;

‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (U, P| Frank Knox, secretary of the navy, got a new Joh’ today. He's going to

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night to add to the dévastation! peddie oysters—and: he'll have to-do

1 Quickly. Zi w ifc, Nov, § (U. P| nese apparently were ens - President Roosevelt yesterday Southwest Pag to retrieve the i signed a bill. ii orl him “to! Big ‘Japanese copvoys, inchiding as and were “utilizing to the remove, transplant , . ; and offer many as 15 warships, were reported |. oucity for aii for sale” oysters from the York headed toward Rabaul and the Rabaul, on New: river and Queen creek near Canip| Solomons today for. what may de-|poy peen the RY. 1A Sate base: velop into the showdown phase of Dredgi begin immedi. | the southern Pacific struggle. ately, navy off F sald, because! Gen. Douglas MacArthur's comthe hivalves &re infdanger of oon- munique- said long lines of enemy) gq tamination from se ships were sighted near Kavieng,|, New Ireland. Some of them were from the big Japanese naval basse, ‘Hoosier Heroes— at Truk, in the Carolines. A spokesman said ‘the enamy's

I. : SHEETS purpose was: not known, but the! (Continued en Plén 3—Cotuma

NG IN IN AcTIoN Yanks Seize Nazi Defense Hub

‘Sergeant: Was on : Raiding

Mission Over Germany. : Si ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, brought to eight the ‘umber ‘Algiers, Nov. 6 (U. P.).—American fact ad ri

DI musing since Oct. 30 in & Paid ver

Germany. “He ts the son of Carl R. Sheets,