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te. 5 of Nan seures—sowarnll VOLUME 54—NUMBER 220° ingles of the — ! Beauchamp ie pe ; =: Times Opens ow with the Harrison, at r any uid ob . olites Were > ‘By HELEN RUEGAMER ight diffepeint SANTA CLAUS, as symbolized by The Times Christrptian. SOvth. _ mas Fund, will have two packs on his back this year. , Italian and =| . -- One. is for children. The other is for wounded and Beh wes into : hospitalized soldiers of world war Il. vho returned : The annual Clothe-A-Child drive, which year in the provides warm clothing for the city’s needy brine children, will be conducted exactly as in in computing the past for the 14th consecutive year, thing was the In addition, funds will be collected to ® ket up, but provide gifts and stage a Christmas party lions were in for wounded men and other soldiers conor pyramidal Se fined in the three Marion county military i hospitals— Billings hospital for wounded soldiers, Ft. HariD PARTY rison station hospital, and Stout field station hospital. ill hold a card Thus, through Clothe-A-Child, Indianapolis people will norrgw at its have the opportunity of filling a need that extends through ppt BF the winter months. Also through the war hospitals con Tackitt. oe
tributions, they will be able to demonstrate how solidly the community stands behind the men returning from or
-preparing to go to the battle fronts.
: . # 2 : . » » THE MONEY contributed will be collected as one ‘fund. Children needing clothes will be cared for first. Then the donations will be used to provide presents and Christmas entertainment for the three military hospitals. Any funds remaining, and that will depend on the generosity of Indianapolis and Marion county givers, will be used to purchase permanent gifts for the war hospitals —such as radios, pianos or the like—anything which the hospital officials feel will help lighten the burden of the men who-are going all-out for Uncle Sam. The Times Mile-of-Dimes also will be conducted as usual on the sidewalk in front of L. S. Ayres & Co. - Money from the Mile-of-Dimes will go into the general fund and be used either for elothing children or entertaining soldiers.
Clothe-A- Child-War “Hospitals Campaign
CHRISTMAS FUND TO BRING CHEER TO CHILDREN AND SOLDIERS IN MILITARY HOSPITALS
HOW MUCH MONEY will it take to make these two Christmas projects successful? Frankly, The Times does not know. The need for clothes for children may be less than last year. Yet investigations by the welfare groups
“and the Council of Social- Agencies indicate there may
be between 1500 and 2000 children, perhaps more in dire need of adequate clothing. These are children whose fathers are dead or unable to work. ‘Their plight is much more serious this year because welfare and other allotments do not increase With the cost of living, So there js no limit on the funds. All the money remaining from Clothe-A-Child will be used for the welfare of our soldiers.
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organizations
HERE contribute:
individuals or may
All contributions received will be placed in The Times Christmas Fund unless otherwise earmarked. ne If you prefer that your contribution be used for one purpose, either Clothe-A-Child or war hospitals, then indi cate plainly which beneficiary you want your money-used - for. If the contribution is not earmarked, : it-will be deposited in The Times Christmas Fund to be used both for Clothe-A-Child and the war hospitals. Address all communications to The Times Christmas Fund, 214 W. Maryland st., Indianapolis. Make checks or money
orlers payable to The Times Christmas und. » . » . »
ONE OF THE unique features of the Clothe-A-Child campaign has always been the opportunity for those who desire it to shop with a child personally. This policy
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Post Only Because of Valuable Service; ~ Compelled Apology to Nerve Patient.
+ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 23 (U. I). —Lt. Gen: George S. Patton Jr. struck a shell-shocked soldier! twice in a Sion een tent last August but apologized:
revenion officially today. Re : ...Abigh staff officer in disclosing. the incident, said Eisen: however explained in reprimanding Patton that the only | reason the chief of the American 7th army was not relieved | of his command immediately was that army commanders | ~ were hard to find and the services Patton was performing: were valuable. | The revelation of the personal exchange between Eisen_hower and Patton showed that the general, known as “Old Blood and Guts,” was ordered to clear himself with all the troops under his command on pain of losing his rank. The incident, the officer revealed, occurred last August ‘when Patton called the soldier “yellow bellied” and berated : him as he wept. Investigation showed the] 24-year-old soldier twice re-| fused to leave front lines and
finally did so only upon orders | and was back in the fighting a week | after Patton saw him. ' The officer said Patton was not relieved of his command because of
'| Got Sloped. | | Hoosier Writes
MISHAWAKA, Ind. Nov. 23 (U. ‘ P.) —Relatives of Pvt. Charles Herman Kuhl, Mishawaka, said today “they believed Kuhl was the soldier reportedly slapped by Gen. George | Patton, in a Sicilian hospital. Herman FP. Kuhl, father of the soldier, and the soldier's” wife, Luretta, said they based their con- * clusions on a letter written by Pvt. Kuhl from Sicily on Aug. 4. - “Gen. Patton slapped niy face yes-
for
WASHINGTON, Nov, 23 (U.P.). ‘==The war department today said there was no comment on the Patton |ncident, that it was » theater problem and that all details would come trom Gen, Eisenhower's _eadquargers. :
the episode or. senilinanded formally by Eisenhower because he was “necessary and valuable” to ailied operations in Sicily and because of his record. % Eisenhower did, however, obtain a- full report and “took the hide” off Patton for his action, the officer said. Patton apologized at once to the hospital commander, a nurse and a dector who watched the - episode: This apology was witnessed by C. R.- Cunningham, United Press corpais iy He also apologized to
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(Photo, Page Three) THREE HOODLUMS, 16 to 20 years old, added another vicious incident to juvenile crimes here last night.
Jury Names Unwed Parents; Julietta Infirmary
Record Cleared.
The Marion county grand jury returned a first degree murder indictment today. against George Lowe, 18, and Betty Jean Long, 16, unwed parents of a newly born in< fant which was found dead inj White River two months ago. The jury also filed its final report in connection with the six months’ investigating into the Juli--etta_ infirmary. construction project, declaring that “the county has received Tull value for the sums.paid out by it for the building” and asserting that “no evidence of irregularities in the pufchase of materials was found.” Investigation of the poet ‘was started last February following dis-| closure that the cost of the project had reached nearly $500,000, compared to the origina) estimate of $263,000. © “From our own OWN _knowleage and
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POLICEMEN CHARGED WITH ENTRAPMENT
Judge Assails Disguise by! Vice Probers.
other and a boy and threatened a woman, ‘John Riley, 62, had Just closed his restaurant at 4022 E Washington st., when he heard someone kicking the door. “Opening it, a youth demanded coffee. Mr. Riley informed him he had none, that the restaurant was closed. “This is a helluva place, we'll wreck the joint,” the youth threatened. ss = 8 A FEW MINUTES later, three youths kicked. at the door. - When Albert Childress, an employee, “opened the door, they came in and beat him. When Mr, Riley intervened, ohe af the hoodlums, a pretzel in his hand, scratched Mr, Riley's face and threatened Mrs. Riley. At this point, 13-year-old Billy Goldey, a nephew of the Rileys, ran out to go to a telephone to call police.” One of the youths struck him a glancing blow as he ‘ran oul. The three fled. Mr, Riley described ‘them as “well dressed, good looking.”
Landis Dismisses
Phillies’ Leader
CHICAGO, Nov. 23 (U. P)—
Says Invasion sino Gilberts’
[Knox said today that the American invasion of the Gilbert | marks the beginning of a new drive aimed directly at Japan across the
I Bringing: an increasingly heavy
BLOW ANED | DIRECTLY AT JAPAN -KNOX
Rycwitnes | Fire Visible 70 Miles After Bombs Blast Reich Capital. By GLADWIN HILL Representing the Combined American Press AN RAF BOMBER BASE IN
THE MIDLANDS, Nov. 23 (U.P,).
Berlin 3 Bs LAL reat sea of Gnd XP one through on solid overcast could be seen 70 miles by filers return
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Ks Begining of =: Gl New Drive. : - ui PRESS Lo Secretary of the Navy Frank
ing 1 heaviest allied air attack of th WAT, The fliers, some of whom went through the London blitw and were getting their first chance to pitch back at the German capital, commented that they didn't see how any city could hold out under many such bombardments, And their success in executing the raid despite what were once regarded as impossible conditions, pointed only to one thing; such raids are going to be continued, probably in constantly increasing force until Berlin ‘and the Germans are through.
islands
Central Pacific.
This revelation of strategy came as marine veterans of the Solomons expanded the mid-Pacific offensive today by storming a third Gilbert islands atoll, - Other forces slowly crushed the bitterly resisting Japanese on Tarawa and Makin,
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edi What was probably the. bombardment was packed into just over 30 minutes begin
City Frond Center to
Its Industrial Suburbs.
LONDON, Nov. 23 (U. P). Upward of 1000 British hombers struck the heaviest blow of the war at Berlin last night, dropping 2800 tons of explosives and setting off one
larget., The air ministry, giving the ft détails of the supreme allied blow ‘at’ the hedrt of the Nkzi wir machine;
ning at 8 p. m., and left the city glowing through a broken cloud cover “like a terrific sunset.” - teports from neutral sources told of vast damage: aid - mentioned a strong possibility that the crashing explosive had found buildings housing the Nazi government, Allied day bombers took over with daylight, giving Europe no respite. - Big forces swept across the channel repeatedly, Watchers on the southeast coast said brisk aerial traffic was of near record proportions.
How Can Berlin Stand Up?
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» weight of | ght-of men, ships und planes tw THE RAF'S remarkable path- |
They beat one man, struck an- |
*! night when a
bear on Japan's cracking ocean out-
landing on Abemama, 80 miles;
south of Tarawa. } ‘We Have Landed’
Their success was announced by | the unadorned statement, “We have landed on Abemama atoll,” included in Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's Pacific fleet headquarters communique. Knox told a news conference that the new drivé had two immediate strategic objectives; Pirst it is de. signed to drive the Japanese out of the mandated islands; second, it!
CHARLES RAY DIES:
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 23 (U. P), —Charles Ray, star of the silent
Lébanon hospital of a mouth and throat infection.
actor after he had beer bedridden for six weeks. Doctors gave up hope for his ‘life last week. The
and died shortly before 10 a. m,
Hoosier - Heroes—
LT, JACK A. MORRIS
Held Here Friday.
Killed SECOND LT. JACK AROESTI MORRIS, a member of the army quartermaster corps, was t injured fatally Priddy @
jeep ‘in which
post system, U. 8. commanders sent | marines of the 2d division to win a|
EARLY MOVIE STAR,
films, died today at the Cedars of
Death came to the 52-year-old
actor weakened gradually last night
DIES IN JEEP CRASH
Military Service Will Be
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finder system, by which the bomb-
| ers arrived over Berlin to find | thelr target plainly outlined in | flares -dropped by the. advance planes, furned once - hampering Sn to advantage, The clouds were so thick the Germans were unable to get their fighters off the ground and figured it usless even to try their searchlight barrage. The returning bomber crews hadn't seen a single German fighter. __ All Berlin could do was cringe and take it, tossing up a great
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FOR PRESENTS POST-WAR PLAN
Consideration of Program To Aid Soldiers After Conflict Urged.
WASHINGTON; Nov, 23 (U.P.).— President’ Roosevelt. today asked congress for “immediate” consideration of a ~ three- «point, federallyfinanced program to tide over service men and women in “the difficult periog of readjustment” after the
N eclating that the’ nation ‘must “give notice to our armed forces that the people back home do not propose to let them down,” the chief executive, in a message to the house and sendte, recommended legislation and ‘the provision of federal funds for: _1. “The payment of a uniform, ‘reasonable mustering-out pay to all members of the armed forces upon
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* |ADMIT SAMOS’ FALL ° IN AEGEAN ISLANDS|
CAIRO, Nov, 23 (U. P).~The British. middle eastern command today announced the fall of the]
— {liers returned from the raid said they did not see how Berlin could stand up under many such bombardments. Reports from Stockholm said there was a “strong possibility” that government buildings had: been hit and one of the most heavily damaged sections of the city -was the Alexanderplatz where the gestapo prison is located. The possibility that German government quarters were hit, Stockholm dispatches said, was strengthened by the fact that the Swedish Match Co. offices on Hermann Goering Strasse, a few hundred yards from the Reich chancellery, was destroyed. The propaganda ministry, the foreign office, and the air ministry are situated in the immediate vicinity. “A Berlin report to the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda said the Freidrichstrasse was hard hit, Thotigh it did not so specify, the report could include the Friedrichstrasse rail station, a key junction of east-west traffic. Indications were seen in Stockholm that Prinz Albrecht Strasse, in which the headquarters of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler are situated, probably was hit. Some Swedish accounts said the Finnish legation, around the corner from the Swedish legation, was demolished, and the Danish-and Hungarian legations were damaged.
Devastate Block After Block Striking under cover of fog and cloud while the sprawl
ing city still smouldered from Thursday night's heavy raid, the armada of Britain's biggest bombers devastated block
Aegean island of Samos. and indiSte that the allied Wire) hd
after block in the “nerve center” of German military and industrial might. " Only 26 planes were lost in the raid and in subsidiary : Mosquito attacks on western Germany and mine-laying operations, the smallest casualties proportionately yet suffered in a raid on Berlin. Four of the missing Aircraft were Canadian. German radio reports hinted that virtually every section of the city, from the Unter den Linden and the. Wilmstrasse in the center to the greatest concentration of war plants in . Germany on: the | outskirts, felt the impact of ‘allied block busters, ranging up to four-tonners. - Returning airmen reported conflagrations’ engulfing
a Whole clusters of buildings WwW ‘ I and ” some sections apon the bg onts peared “seas of flame.