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= “Br MILDRED REIMER FOUR PACKAGES ‘marked Fragile” and “Do Not Open Until Christmas’ were dropped into the ‘mail bag at the post office today ++ «all going to WAC parents as Substitutes for their daughters. The senders, four WACs sta---Hloned at the ‘women’s army- re-
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owe of the 140 patrons of Pvt. Elisabeth Waterman . ng 3 model In the Art studio
eral building, took time off from recruiting duties to record their Christmas greetings to the folks back home on the recording machine at the Indianapolis service men’s center on N. Illinois st. - They're helping with. the all-
state WAC recruiting drive in In-
back in Pennsylvania > éruiting Retquarters n the- fede i
diana now’ 500 wollen in Indianapolis, 2000 in Indiana, and 70.000 in the United States before Dec. 7, Is the quota. Assisting Lt. Catherine C. Brown of the WAC recruiting office here in getting more Women to join: the
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Privon Doors Yawn for Four ot 'BADOBLIO’
- Youths, Another Waits Trial PUSH IN IN FRANCE
By ‘SHERLEY UHL
Iron-handed treatment today was meted out to juvenile criminals]
with the sentencing of four under-age lawbreakers to stiff prison terms Petain’ S
and the continuation of the trial of another, charged with attempted robbery.
In opening the trial of the pistol- wielder who was accused of having pulled the trigger within point-blank range of his victim's head |
INDIANA UNDERDOG IN BUCKET BATTLE
Irish and F fowas Pre- Flight Clash at South Bend.
Purdue's Boilermakers, with an undefeated, untied season behind them and an eye on at least a share in the Big Ten football crown, battle arch-rival Indiana today in an attempt to regain possession of the “Old Oaken Bucket” which has hung in a well at Bloomington since 1940. The Lafayette, Ind. gridmen, who started out the season studded with naval and marine trainees which made them one of the nation’s most
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3 Governors. Heed Willkie Advice, Bow Out of '44 Race
CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (U. P)— Three state governors withdrew names as Republican presi- ~ possibilities today, on the heels of & warning by Wendell 1
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Criminal. Court Judge William D.| copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times
Bain remarked: “In view of the recent. publizity given juvenile: prosecution procedures, I hope the defendant will not be pliced in the position of having his case held up as an example. “I have repeatedly emphasized that each case before this court must-be-tried on its own-merits, but there comes a time when the interest of the individual should se made subservient to the interest of |- the community, “I have sent 17 and 18-year-old boys to the penitentiary before, and I will do it again if the facts warrant such decisions.” : His statement was in reference to recent Indianapolis Times disciosures of a serious breach between.
local police and court authorities
over methods of disposing of juve-. nile crime cases. Police and safety officials have criticized the courts’ probation policy as being “excessively lax.” = Prior to that the judge had sentenced two “habitual” teen-age offenders terms of from one to
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jorated private information, _ {such thrust against Laval has been
and the Chicago Daily News, Inc BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 20— Fear of a “putsch” from above, on the “Badoglio pattern” had long been feared by. collaborationist circles in France, it was revealed here today following reports of Marshal Petain’s miscarried attempt to deprive Puppet Premier Pierre Laval of succession to authority in France. The Basler Nachrichten, Swiss newspaper, amplifies the reports of Petain’s activities with. the statement that Marcel Deat, editor of the collaborationist newspaper, on Sept. 26, said in a Paris speech: “We. in France must hinder at any cost any such betrayal as Marshal Badoglio Insti gated in Italy.”
The newspaper adds, on unelab“some
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TERMS SUBSIDY ONLY
|ANTI-INFLATION PLAN
Bowles Says OPA Has No ‘Secondary Line.’
said today that. OPA has “no secondary line” of action in prospect to prevent a rise in food prices if subsidies are stopped by congress, He expressed his views in a press conference as indications continued that the house will vote by a big
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WORGENTHAU'S TAX PLAN GETS SLAP IN HOUSE
Committee Terms Plea for
$10,000,000,000 Boost ‘Exaggerated.’ WASHINGTON; Nov,
‘1==The house ways and means com: |’
mittee, in a formal report to the Louse on its new $2,140.000,000 tax |
“ibill, said today “the need for addi- | tional revenue has apparently been
exaggerated.” Its “criticism of administration
lestimates was In effect levelled at| Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor- |
genthau Jr. and other administra- | tion officials “who had submitted]
“recommendations for at least $10,-
500,000000 in new taxes, only to have the committee cut them down. A simultaneous companion report, which subscribed In general to the!
_Pration. concerning .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P).—| .|Price Administrator Chester Bowles
ma jority report, committee's 10 Republicans and said | [“there is a limit to what can safely [be taken from the people in taxes, {even in wartime,” and “we believe this limit bas been substantially reached.”
Notes Differences
The majority Democratic report noted “considerable differences” statistics presented by the administhe ipfiation problem and concluded :
the part of the consumer is con-
[siderably more important than the 5 :
ie sin Abed ml a | |ministration’s demand for $10,500, % 000,000 in new revenue this year..
Urge Economy The ma jarity report said the com- | mittee was firmly convinced that the | proper psychology, could be maintained only “by strict economy .a government expenditures, through effective price control, rationing, Land wage control.” The Republicans termed conof the past 10 years—they have “increased twenty-fold, from $2.000,000,000 to more than $40,000,000,000" —a “hopeless effort to keep pace with the extravagant and wasteful spending” of the: Roosevelt admin istration. The Republicans said “obviously” the administration had -- overesti~ mated expenditures for the current year and underestimated total revenues, and the majority report agreed substantially with this contention. Estimate Increased
(The treasury on Thursday increased its estimate of the 1944
$2,000,000,000. And some officials today estimated wae— spending would be at least $8,000,000,000 under budget estimates.) The ma jority report sald changes indicated the deficit for the year may be reduced from the budget figure of $66,000,000,000 to not ‘more than $57,000,000,000, “Therefore from the - revenue standpoint, the need for additional
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'McLAGLEN TO '0 WED HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 20 (U. P.),— Husky Victor MeLaglen, portrayor of two-fisted movie parts, announced last night he will wed his secretary of the last six years, Suzanne Rockefeller Brueggemann, 21, either today or tomorrow. McLaglen is 56>" His first wife was Enid Lamont, ¥ho died two years ago.
For Subsidy
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P.).
20.-¢U. PD}
“A Weekly Sizeup by the
WASHINGTON, Nov, 2 .. and “wor
general offensive—from the e: air—designed to blast Nazi G
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ment of the pgoper psy AOARY, and freedom. from. .fear of - inflation -on
stantly mounting revenue measures |
yield of present taxes by about|
their foundations. German people may be give nac
| and his gang, to save their country
blackened from one end to the othe But Germany under control of as much as countries conquered hy there's no well organized
Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers .
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! . ~Next world-rocking event
will be the long-heralded meeting between Stalin, Churchg { ill and Roosevelt . . The big three will put finishing touches on a four-way
ld-rocking" is meant literally.
ist, west, south and from the ermany and her vassals from
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hance to purge themselves of Hitler from being “seared and scarred and re” S88, is an occupled country alinosl fts army. Best information Is that ound movement,
how bad morale is in Germany—and there's every indication it's bad
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ss m= # SOVIETS WINTER drive
freezes. And the Anglo-American
vassal states will be stepped up steadily
making Germany break. Big push on the ground will Tike Ba'kens simultaneously. »
CONGRESSMEN WITH important sources tion say Jap claims of enormous damage to our fleet are propaganda to impress a series of Pan-Asiatic conferences being held in Tokyo. Last
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—only the army will have power to toss out the Nazis, have-to be licked worse than it has been 80 far
“will gain
in violence as the ground | aerial offensive. over. Germany and It's. still the best bet for
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Ss aa SHER srg. EIARS
LONDON, Nov. 306.~Reports of conservatives seeking. to ward off spread. today as an early meeting
but at present they seem more log{eal than over... Informed Germans realize that the prospective meeting of the “big three™ will knit the efforts of allied armies and European undergrounds [into an assault that Adoif Hitler will be unable to withstand and they fear an appeal by the three states direct to the German people over the heads of the Nazi government,
One Move Reported
One report was that Hjalmar Schacht, German financial expert, Baron Franz von Papen, German ambassador to Turkey, and Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, former commander-in-chief of the German army, were behind the latest effort to sound out the allies on the prospect. of peace, A man claiming to represent Schacht tried several days ago to contact Americans in” Switzerland, but succeeded only in talking to a non-official, it was said, while hints of attempts at eontacts also were received from- Stockholm and North Africa.
The peace feelers presumably were based gn the theory that, if the united nations could be eonvinced of the “conservatism” of the sponsors, Germany might get an “honorable peace” under whieh she would abandon her conquests but maintain her army for “internal order.”
Nazis Must Ge
Obviously, the answer to any such approaches will be in the negative. However, the revival of peace talk at this time is symptomatic of the degree to which a growing number of influential Germans want_ peace, It would indicate & potentially strong group inside Germany has made up its minds that the war las been lost and wish to salvage what they can, saving a nucleus from which the Reich may rebuild her armed might as she did following
Kansan Scolds First ody. ‘Betrayal’ Talk
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favored the subsidy program, Htermied “typical” the
world war I.
the people . . . rather than private interests”—with the inference that private interests directed the antisubsidy fight—also drew criticism from Mr. Hope. “The people are not sold on subs sidies,” he said. “They are worried about the enormous public debt, and they can see no reason for adding to it the grocery bills of a eration that: has the highest
Hope “sald: congress had received little. indication that the people
Baw Carve
i=! issued at his home here, said:
Report Nazi Peace Feelers Meeting Looms
that no matter |
And (it will |
Air War
liter lin Still Burning as Record Air Blows Reach New High.
LONDON, Nov. 20 (U, P).| Another big fleet of British | hombers, sending a
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record |
(100-ton-an-hour allied air of-
[lensive against Germany ‘through its third night, blast‘od ~the Reich's’ largest sul-
lhe acid plant [ast night ini
a blockbuster #Rsault that! may have foosed poison gas ori? {the area, Sweeping Berlin \T hursday’
the Rhineland | burned from! rald, the Royal Alr Force’ s heavyweights bombarded ithe LL 6. Parben plant at -Lever'kusen, a suburb of Cologne, with!
over still night's
while
(hundreds of tons of explosives and.| [fire bombs, Polson. gas components were man- | ufactured at the plant and it was considered possible that the blast iof the British two and four-ton! blockbusters, one of which could | devastate a city block, might. have | released some of the deadly vapors
Five Planes Lost
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The. attack, carvied out. despite. ‘clouds whith obscured observation | of results, sent the bomb tonnage | for the three nights and two. days of. the current: non=stop offensive
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Al HEATHER cc SITE XS TH ge gS Rak A I peace [eelers. by self-styled German the punishment awaiting Germany among President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. loomed,
Such reports ® been circulated periodically, ey 8 the liberation: of a the course of the War. un se he Jr the
NAURU SMASHED BY TASK FORGE
Carrier Based Planes Raid Jap Island Base; Gilberts Attacked.
PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 20 (U.P), An American carrier task force pierced the Japanese shield of midPacific bases Thursday to send out planes tliat bombared Nauru island and joined army bombers in a non. stop offensive against the Marshalls and Gilberts, Pacific fleet; head. quarters disclosed today, (Tokyo radio sald the attacks on
seventh day Friday when “several score” planes - raided the islands. Twenty of them were said to have) been shot down, A retaliatory Jap-
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Hoosier Heroes—
PVT, HARGIS SENDS. PURPLE HEART HOME
Wounded Infantryman Lies In Italy Hospital.
Honored
PVT. CECIL F. HARGIS, who was wounded in action Oct, 14 while serving with the infantry in “Italy, has been awarded the purple heart, according to word received by his father, Bert L. Hargls, 554 N King ave. today, Pvt. Hargis has written home that he is still in a hospital re-
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BARUCH DISCLAIMS QUOTES ABOUT WPB
NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (U. P)~ Bernard Baruch, chief of the reconversion unit of the office of war mobilization, last night denied published reports which quoted him as saying, that the war board u Donald M. Nelson should be in charge of postwar planning and conversion.’ Baruch, in a formal statement
“I am making studies of the methods of adjusting our ‘ecdriomy {from war to peace-—from mobiliza~
He ‘easel of Rep.
the Gilberts continued into their|
ry than that only 24 hoiirs . before devas tated vast aréak of Berlin and Ludwigshafen, but nevertheless probably was. suMciently heavy to kbock huge 1. G. Farben sulphuric acid plant out of production st least temporarily, -Only five planes were: lost in the assault, which encompassed other key objectives in Germany's great industiial Rhineland. Leverkusen had been the main {target in R. A. F. raids only three | times previously, the last Aug, 22, but presumably was hit severely many times during the 124 attacks on the Cologne area.
' Yanks Raid Reich
On ‘the twg previous nights, the R. A. FP, also concentraled a heavy weight of bombs on chemical | plants, bombarding the huge I. G, Farben works and a ‘big gas works at Ludwigshafen on both occasions, Crippling blows on
serious shortage of explosives for the” Nazi armed forces. Poison gas components also were manufactured at Leverkusen, The almost astronomical 50-hour { British bomb tonnage total of 5000 ~an average of 100 tons an hour— jcompared with the grand total of “1500 tons of bombs dropped by German planes on London during the entire ll-month “blitz” of 1940-41, The Leverkusen attack followed by enly a few hours an American daylight raid yesterday on western Germany without loss: Specific targets were not disclosed.
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| Rumania-
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Satellite Reported to Have Made ‘Deal’ With Hitler.
By ALDO FORTE United Press Saft Correspondent BERN, Switzerland, Nov, 20. Highly reliable reports reached here today that Rue mania is withdrawing all her (troops- from. Russia -under-an--lagreement - res ached last week at a ¢onference between Adolf Hitler and lon Anto \nescu, Rumanian chief of state, In exchange. for permission to pull out of Russia, Antonescu was - junderstood to. have committed Rus ‘mania to hand over to Germany darge stocks of grain-and petroleum which: had been earmarked for Italy . Antonescu ‘went to Hitler's heads quarters to bargain for .the privie Hege of withdrawing from the ons flict in the east. for which the Rue marrians have shewn no stomach, -
according to advices described as of + “excellent” origin,
Civilians Flee _
(von,
The Rumanian evacuation from Russin. was understood to be 1a full sanding today The first of “Seven [Rumanian divisions which had been stationed in Russin were reported fmovitig westward, One already had arrived at Odessa by the Black soa alter y funning, Lhe dangerous Ue : walters
“the 1000-plane atteekda yes
Rumanian -civillans from the Bessarabian area toward which the Russian army wus pe in its . . :
{An Istanbul dispately’ sald panie _ [Pad broken out in Rumanian financial quarters as a result of Soviet gains, and Rumanian business men were trying to dump their stocks and merchandise in Istanbul at any price.) ‘Hint Port Evacuated
(The Calro radio said the Black sea port of Varna just south of the Rumanian border had been evacuated, German troops replace
Ing Bulgarian units.)
* "The Rumanian divisions in Ruse sla were reported to comprise one cavalry, one armored, one tank, two infantry and two light mixed divie sions, About half of the men were tine derstood to be in the. Crimea,
Germany's | rapped save for whatever evacuas chemical industries would cause ation they can carry out with stricts -
ly limited Tne
On the ‘War Fronts
Nov. 20, 1943
ITALY —8th army advances five miles to capture Perono in. Adri “atic sector.
AIR WAR-—Royal air force bombs chemical plant outside Cologne,
RUSSIA — Russian army ‘braces for stand before Zhitomir after losing northwest Ukraine base to powerful German counter-assault,
‘troops battered westward through
dental to the Russian army plan the border, Significantly official accounts of from Zhitomir, the capture of Ovruch to the north, and a new | crossing of the Dnieper at Chey kassy—referred confidently to operations in the “Polesia direction,” the area between the present. front line and the borders, In pulling back the southwestern tip of his left flank from Zhitomir, Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin unly gave the foe a temporary respite, au thoritative information said. Hammer Russ Flank For a whole week seven German armored and infantry divisions— potentially more than 100,000. men ~Hhad been hammering the Soviet | of flank in a desperate effort to force Vatutin to reduce his pressure to the wes! where his spearheads were
Russian Paratroops Enter
‘Bitter See-Saw Fighting
MOSCOW, Nov, 20 (U. P.).—Russian forces paced by sir-borne, military’
the Ukraine today and
sources said the loss of Zhitomir was ofily a temporary setback inci
to hurl the Germans back across yesterday's action—the withdrawal
ALLIES ADVANCE | NALS" ITALY FLA
New Drive Follows Lull Caused by Weather. i ee giers, Nov. 20 (U. P).—Allied Heaps have advanced on both énds
the Italian front to break & week's lull, it was announced tos
within some 50 miles of the old SH