Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1943 — Page 1
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Ft. Harrison station hospitdl, ~. came. the. following statement of
“true spirit of the holiday season:
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Amusements .
Hospital Officials Laud Times Christmas Fund Clothe-A-Child ‘and War-Hospitals Campaign Are Commended as Expressing Yuletide Spirit.
By HELEN RUEGAMER
The officers in charge:
of “Marion county's libre
hospitals today announced their whole-hearted support of the double-barreled Times Christmas Fund. : ‘Excutives of Billings General hospital
and Ft. Harrison and Stout field station hospitals voiced their appreciation for the fund, which will include the annual Clothe-A-Child and the new wartime project— the War Hospitals campaign. Through this fund, Indianapolis péo-
ple will provide the soldier-patients with a “Merry Christmas” and protect the city’s needy children from the cold
winter ahead. Lt. Col. Guy Owsley, executive officer of Billings, reminded the people at home that “there was no
-~Christmas- spirit, -no—‘peace on: earth, good will toward men’ in
the foxholes of North Africa, the"
jungles of Guadalcanal, or in the skies over Germany.
; s = “AMERICAN SOLDIERS,
wounded on all battlefronts, have ‘come to. Billings General hospital to recuperate,” he continued.
“Many of them are physically others -heartsick and. weary. But none will feel that their efforts were in vain when expresses its’
Christmas Fund. n Maj. Rankin ©. Blount, base surgeon in charge of Stout field station hospital, stated that the fund “will make Christmas a day of gaiety and good will rather than one of loneliness and pain for the men. While the patients receive expert. medical attention, __the generosity of Indianapolis. citizens in remembering them
during the Christmas season is seam to boost their recovery.”
- approval: - “The plan 1s very eat
_ able and has my complete in-
- dorsement. It will convey the
80 many of our soldier-patients in army hospitals will be miles away from their families and loved ones at this time of the year. Anything that could be done to remind them that someone in the world is thinking of them will be very beneficial. The Ft. Harrison station hospital is
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BRITISH ADVANCING IN CENTRAL ITALY
8th Forges Ahead 6 Miles
To Occupy Highway.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
‘Algiers, Nov. 24 (U. P.) ~The Brit-
ish 8th army has advanced its left wing’ six miles in the mountains of
© central Italy to occupy the strategic
‘Highway junction of Alfedena on an inland road to Rome, it was announced officially today. . Alfedena, northwest of Isernia on the route through Avezanno and on
to Rome, had been destroyed by the
Germans, & communique said,
_ Earlier reports from the front said
the town had been fired. The British entered Alfedena without opposition, finding it de-
_ _ serted and demolished.
. Another six-mile advance above _Alfedena carried the British through San Angelo, eight miles west of Castiglione,
'BEAVERBROOK IN CANADA By UNITED PRESS The British radio said today that Lord Beaverbrook, lord privy seal of the British government, and Jord Leathers, minister of war
transport, have arrived in Montreal:
They are expected to visit
Ottawa and then on to the
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Sam....2 10am... Tam...2T Ham... 2 Sam. NM 12 (Noon)... 45 30 1pm... 46
ISSUE WARRANT IN GUN BATTLE
Crazed Man Wounds Three - Officers, Badly Hurt Himself. (Photos, Page 3)
A warrant charging him with as-| sault with felonious intent was is-| sued today “for Charles W. Reese Jr, 29, as a result of a four- hour | gun battle in suburban “Indianapoli last night in which he and four officers were wounded, Reese, under guard as a mental case, is in serious condition. Three state troopers and a deputy sheriff are recovering from minor wounds, The spectacular battle occurred when Reese barricaded himself in the family home on 91st st., a half mile east of Meridian st., and withstood - bullets returned by about 30 officers. : The officers were armed with machine guns, shotguns, revolvers,
NE 5 while the nent
rifle, - {caught fire as a result: of thaver: bullets, and Reese's blind father, and his mother, who is hard of hearing, wee rescued from the
| basement where he had locked them Ofcers.
up. Wounded Three Times
- Reese, who is in City hospital, was wounded three times, Deputy Sheriff Lonnie Grimes is in fair condition at the same hospital with a hip wound. State Troopers Jack Hester, wotinded in the leg, and Lawrence Broderick, wounded in the arm, were treated at the hospital for leg
wounds and discharged. .
State Police Detective Fred Morley’s arm was grazed. Leading to the gunplay was the visit of Reese, whom authorities believe to_be of unsound mind, at the nearby home of Leonard Hanger, For six weeks he had prowled about the house, police were told, insisting that the Hangers move out, and once he fired through a
tear gas, and some wore bullet-|-
5 Sor TERRY are Weiitied “dawn by FE As the battle ended, the house|C°TD for the welfare of their sons,”
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FORECAST: Fair with ite diange in temperature tonight and 1 tomorrow.
PROBE PATTON CASE, SENATE | ™ ASKS STINSON
= WEDNESDAY, "NOVEMBER 24,1043
Bntered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffies
mdianapolis, Ind. Tasued daily “except Sunday
~ ADDS TO FLAMING DEVASTATIO
PRICE FOUR CENTS
‘Clean Up the Mess or We - Will,” Is. View of Committee.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U, P), ~The senaté military affairs committee today voted to ask Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson for “a full report” on the “slapping of a shell-shocked American soldier by Lt. Gen, George S. Patton in Sicily last August. One committee member, Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D. Colo.), said the committee itself would make a full investigation unless the war department “cleaned up the mess.” The committee's request to Stim- | son was the first positive congressional action on’ the long-hushed incident. Patton's recent nomination by President Rogseyelt. for Pro~:. motion from.the peimanent rank of § colonel to: major general is pending | before the senate group. - ; Asked if the action called for a committee investigation at this time, spokesmen said it did not. -
Want All Facts “But,” they added, “if Becretary, Stimson is to present all the facts: in a report to the committee, he! {undoubtedly will have to make some | |sort of investigation. The committee “merely wants all ‘the facts = ue Senator Styles H. Bridges be ..N..H.), a member. of the come iy had proposed that the coms! mittee inquire whether generals, ton | might not fall victims to “battle fatigue.” He suggested that Pat= ton might have been so suffering | when he struck the soldier, { In the house, Rep. Charles B. Hoeven (R. Ia.) demanded that the house military affairs committee in- | vestigate the incident. Chairman Andrew J. May (D., Ky.) of the - “house group-had-indicated; however, that his committee probably would not conduct an inquiry. -Néw Worry for Parents “The fathers and mothers of AER ITAL ns PNG
GOP yl
For Senate
By EARL RICHERT LT. JAMES M. TUCKER, 35-year-old former secretary of state who was wounded at Salerno and now is regarded as the likely organization choice for the G. O. P. senatorial nomination, has been returned to this country. He landed in New York Sunday night and is undergoing treatments at a navy hospital on Long Island. His wife, Eleanor, joined him in New York yesterday. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Tucker of Paoli, expect him to be given a leave shortly. His return to this country increases speculation among Republican leaders over the possibility of his discharge from the navy—men in the armed services are always returned to the states before being mustered out. He is
i Hoeven told the house. “Now they will have the added anxiety of wondering whether or not their sons are being abused by hard-boiled
“*Perhaps we have too much ‘blood | and guts’ now. I feel that the entire matter should be investigated by our committee ori military affairs. Apparently Gen. Patton is getting off with an apology. If the soldier had struck the general it would have been a different story.” Hoeven told reporters later that a
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INDICT ‘MEAT FIRMS IN PROBE OF PRICES | Charged: With Operating’ Huge Black Market.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (U, P.).—
bedroom, the bullet barely missing The Liebman Packing Co. of Green Charles Hanger, 18 months. Yester- | Bay, Wis, and 38 other individuals day he entered the home and made] |and corporations. were indicted to-
recovering from the arm wound received at Salerno but is also suffering from bronchial asthma.
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a lunge at Mrs. Hanger. Her) screaths attracted neighbors who! summoned state police.
Reese Starts Firing
Two state police, Richard Wedekind and Fred Leé, answered the call about 4:30 p. m When . they approached the Hanger home, Reese fired three times, one bullet striking the side of their car and two others hitting the Hanger home, The deputies were some distance
{Continued on Page 3—Column 4) | yi00t at 2 cents and working up to La Er — | 15—were collected by brokers and returned to the Wisconsin
36TH IN ITALY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 2¢ (U. P.).—The 36th division of American infantry, composed of men from Texas and southern Oklahoma, is in action in Italy,
| day by a federal grand jury oni. » hd
charges of conspiracy to violate - OPA ceiling prices in what was > G. O, P. leaders generally agree termed the largest black market that his, candidacy depends upon
ti ince th inning of ® discharge but some talk of runSperaiion sihee e Jog >. ning him regardless of whether he
Harold M. Kennedy, U. 8. attor-| Bets a discharge. They point to ney i the *enpegys dirt de-| the presidential ‘boom. for Harold scribed the Liebman Packing © E. Stassen, former Minnesota gov-
Co. f th t packing firms| ©T0OT, Who is now serving as an 38 Dok of Se turgest xia 1 officer in the navy.
in the count said it acee iioForan ord 1" whole. | Lt. Tucker, who left the states last April, was second in-com-sale dealers and distributors in al q h devious ‘scheme whereby gradually many of a Jang ng boas fy on Te rcharges—start, nded iece i Increasing overehar ing on I His boat was the only one in
his particular group that succeeded in getting to the shore and landing its men. He also took part in the Sicilian campaign. He resigned as secretary of state over aesyear ago to enter the navy.
Assistant U, 8, Attorney James C. Scileppi, who conducted the investigation, sald that approximately $500,000 in black market money was taken from housewives in this’
Hoosier Hetves
Hoosier on 150 Pacific Raids
oe INVASION REPORTED | NEARING ZERO HOUR
Conference of ‘Big 5h Not Involved.
the final stages with little prospect conference will alter or speed then, The date for the opening of a second front was fixed Jong ago and at that time Premier Stalin accepted
{it as the earliest-possiblé moment at which the allies can move across
Lt, Tucker Back in U
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LONDON, Nov. 24 (U. P.J).~Com- | |
that any Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin
the English channel ‘or North sea, |
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Ee and Mrs. James. M. Tucker... photographed. in-their-New York hotel room,
cin A canteens
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Vote on roe Reverie Bill Scheduled
Congress ey WASHINGTON, Nov. 24
ers of the house ways and means | committee today defended their rejection of the %10,500,000,000 administration tax program and charged ‘it would have been destructive to middle-class, white-col-lar workers, The committee's own -$2,140.000,C00 measure is based on higher excises, postage rates and corporate excess profits taxes, It is expected to be passed before nightfall.
- Post-War Peril Claimed .
Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C) in attacking the administration program declared: “In- my opinion, such a crushing
|burden of taxation would be far
worse than any real or fancied danger of inflation now facing our country.”
500,000,000 program-—termed by t
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NEW CARS POSSIBLE
IN 90, DAYS—WILSON!
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U, P.). —C. E. Wilson, president of General
loose” he could be producing some new cars in three months and quantities within six months, Wilson made the statement before thé senate Truman committee during a hearing on post-war conversion problems in answer to an hypothetical question by Senator yTom Connally @. Tex).
BATTLE IS WON
ithe Gilberts. {of the U. 8.
‘complete confidence,”
(U. P| —Democratic and Republican lead- |
Republican tax spokesman Harold! Knutson of Minnesota said in a statement prepared for delivery on the floor that passage of the he -|
Motors, said today that if the war ended next week and he was “turned
GILBERT ISLES
BY U.S. FORCES
Experts Estimate 25 to 30- More Major Bombings Needed to Hamburgize Nazi Capital.
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; ‘American Casualties Light:
Not a Single Ship Lost
In Offensive.
By WILLIAM F. TYREE |
United Presa Staff Correspondent
PEARL HARBOR, ~ Nov: 24:- _ Powerful. American. forces secured!
“victory in the Gilbert islands today ‘and defied the Japanese to stop their rolling offensive on the midPacific sea toward Tokyo. Only 80 hours after troops ‘stormed islets in the coral chain on
route
| Japan's outer line of empire defenses, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander, announced were -in the firm. grip
“While. it isn't a rosy road to Tokyo, we face ‘the future with he sald, "We went prepared to meet attacks.” American attack units will consolidate their positions for further operations, Nimitz sald, adding they iwere ready to meet the Japanese fleet any time,
Isles Vital to Japs °
LONDON, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—An hour-long parade of dritain’s biggest bombers—only a few hundred short of the 1000 which hit the city 24 hours earlier—all but paralyzed ‘battered, burning Berlin last night with another 1500 tons lof explosives in the third assault of an offensive to smash
‘the Nazi capital,
Swedish sources estimated that approximately 10,000
|persons were killed or injured in Monday night's raid alone,
“which feft the city stunned and bewildered: Sheer panic today impelled thousands of residents to flee: The R. A. F.'s four-engined heavyweights: stoked “fren still raging from previous raids, set new conflagrations and wrought further shattering destruction all the way from the
center of Berlin to its industrial outskirts,
BASSAI i
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 24 (U. here today that 25,000 Germans were killed in the last two British air raids on Berlin, but. they were treated with considerable reserve pending more authentie corrobo. ration, An Aftontidningen dispatch datelined Bern estimated ihe Berlin dead at 25,600, but execitives of the newspaper were skeptical of the figure even though they published it.
major raids to wipe out Berlin to the extent Hamburg was
naval spokesman as. acknow ledging that the islands were in Japan's main defense line across the vast] Pacific, adding that the chance for| a naval “showdown” was welcomed, Yd ‘spokesman predicted ‘ureii ~ SeaCpitties. oe oe dats held By U°E Wl said 5000 casualties were suffered by American forces during the recent-battie”- off -the Gilberts [in which Japanese planes allegedly sank a medium-sized carrier and a destroyer, damaged three other car(riers, a battleship and a transport and shot down 125 planes.) Nimitz spoke to newspapermen yesterday evening shortly after his daily communique reported that 27th army divisions troops from New York had captured Makin Atoll, that marines were: slowly,
-4Tokye radio - quoted: a Japanese |
blasted, little doubt was held here that Berlin's life has been 'shatfered at least temporarily with traffic brought to a standstill, water, electricity and gas service disrupted and food |supplies endangered.
Monday's Fires Guide R.A. F. Armada -
to a a co Hs ac MAH Fight it Tir wa HERR we Ried 10] Perkin by
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[the glow of fires kindled in Monday night’ 8 raid, “thie heaviest lever made on a single Ger man city, and still visible above
Though experts estimated it will take at least 25 to 30
P.).—Reports reached a
ein ;
The dull red glow "outlined the streets of the capital |
“Just before we bombed; there was a large explosion, not as large as the one | saw the night before, but still big enough to light up a great part of the sky. The glow lasted four seconds.” (A London broadcast heard by the United Press in New
but surely cleaning out Tarawa and York said entire districts of Berlin still burned fiercely today
that the situation on Abemama Was | “well in hand.”
Carriers, Planes in Team
The communique also disclosed that carrier-borne aircraft from the | big fleet which accompanied the in- | vasion forces were teaming with
Pacific in continuous blows against;
Gilberts. The Marshalls may be the | next invasion objective, The offensive so far, Nimitz said, cost only light casualties on Makin and somewhat heavier casualties on Tarawa. Not an American ship | had been lost up to the time of his| report, The Japanese had tried
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‘BOMB HITS FUNNEL OF LARGE JAP SHIP
treasury an “irreducible minimum-| SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, | NL
(Nov. 24 (U. P.).—A lone American Liberator bomber, on Fecomni is: sance 600 miles from its ba | day, dropped a- 1000- a Sa: {down the funnel of the largest ship in a Japanese convoy, despite protecting planes which attempted to defend it. The Liberator was piloted ‘by 1st] Lt. Heston McDonnell, of Lamesa, Tex. Also. aboard were 2nd Lt. John W. Hassard, of Bayside, N, Y., navigator, and 2nd Lt. Don P, Scurlock, of Butler, Ala, Second Lt. Elwood '. Hisey, of Harrisonburg, Va. shot down one of eight Zero fighters] which attacked with a Japanese float plane. The convoy consisted of three ships. and destroyers,
North Africa and Italy.
Jil she
quotes Mr. Jolson as saying:
Ernie Pyle Is on His Way Back to Mediterranean
Ernie Pyle is on his way back to the wars—back to the Mediterranean theater, - The columns currently appearing in The “Times-| were written before his departure. will shortly be sending his copy by wire
At Miami, where he stopped on the way overseas, he was interviewed along with Al Jolson and Walter Winchell by the Miami Herald, which
~~ “Everywhere I went in Africa and Sicily soldiers’ told me how wonderful Ernie Pyle
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| battle as a showdown test for the
land that the city’s fire-fighting services were unable to cope with the situation.) “First reports show the bombing again was concen‘trated and effective,” the air ministry announced.
“terror” attack and said numerous districts were ‘“‘devas-
army Liberators from the Southiy, 4» The (jerman account made no mention of casualties, the Marshalls to the north of the but Swedish sources estimated the death toll in Monday
‘night's record assault at 10,000 persons. Nazis Threaten Terrible Vengeance
adio Berlin, obviously smarting under the terrific offensive against the city the Nazis said never could be 'hombed, threatened “terrible vengeance” against the British {*“for every woman, every cliild, every man killed and every lcultural monument destroyed.” “The German armed forces will carry out that retribu‘tion on the enemy as soon as they receive the order to do so,” the broadcast - said. “This retribution will be a hard, but a i = just, penalty for the horrors
NAZIS FAIL TO SPLIT come bth Brie STUBBORN RUSS LINE =. 2 ast
‘land Samos In the Aegean sea.
Cloud thinner for the Giant Sivioied Battle Enters. yombers ast night and they ran
Tenth Day. lin assault and in MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (U. P).~Thelquito attacks on B Mibsiainey Mus {biggest armored battle since the
breaching of the Dnieper line continued into its 10th- day on the Ukrainian plain east of Zhitomir
{today with massed German forces | striving futilely to. lay open the south flank of Gen: "Nikolai PF. Vatutin’s Kiev salient. After a third withdrawal Jrom the Zhitomir corner of the 'Kiev bulge, the first Ukrainian army was reported battling the German armor to a standstill some 42 miles southwest of the Ukrainian capital. Military quarters described the
the offensive against
with an attack on anh _— convoy off the Dutch coast late yesterday,
escort vessels were fired and three
initiative in the northwest Ukraine which probably will decide the course of the campaigning for the| next few weeks. “(A German communique sald that west of Kiev a German enveloping maneuver resulted in the en-
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itself and enabled the pilots to pinpoint their new targets. “Soon there was a big area of new fires;” one pilot said.
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{into night fighter opposition, but 5 only 20 planes were lost in the Ber- =
Germany, British Beaufighters gs out Europe
A large tanker was left sinking, two
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The official German news agency called the raid a new a
Radio Berlin professed to. |