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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1043

= Py zaowarnl VOLUME 54—NUMBER 225

CITY FACTION

SEEKS TO EASE

‘LID’ ON BINGO

6.0.7. Councilmen Study

Cincinnati Ordinance For ‘Loophole.’

By SHERLEY UHL City council sentiment in favor of a relaxation of the current enforcement “lid” on bingo games and ‘affiliated amateur chance-taking

enterprises may be crystalized in an!

ordinance tentatively scheduled for council introduction. -—Jt was learned today that Re-

publican councilmen, all of whom|’

are reportedly out of sympathy with _the present crack-down on chiirch bingo games and lottery bazaars, aré scanning a’ “sample” measure adopted this year by the Cincinnati “council.

| This ordinance, it was pointed .out, provided Cincinnati legisla_fors with what was termed. a “legal loophole” enabling them to sidestep state gaming regulations as they applied to churches, scheols ‘and similar non-professional game sponsors.

New Ordinance Studied

A representative of city council, it was learned, personally consult:d Cincinnati authorities as to the - workability -and legality of -the-new} bingo ordinance in that city.. ° Adoption of the Cincinnati .ordinance early this year touched off a protracted wrangle between city councilmen, the city administration and various church congregations. Local politicos predict a similar controversy here should councilmen decide to take the “pro-bingo” step. It was understood that should an ordinance lifting the bingo ban fail to win popular support immediate: ly, that the council might pass a resolution which would have the effect of leveling pressure against Mayor Tyndall and Safety Board President Will Remy for a more lenient law enfarcement policy. A poll of majority council mem->-bers today revealed: w unanimeus. ‘feeling in favor of a general loosening of the rigid gaming clampdown. : Mayor Tyndall and his law enforcement officers quashed hinge playing here at the start of the administration’s anti~vice crusade last January. Before that time, however, more than a dozen reguheld by churches and schools throughout the city. Effect Seen on Voters ~~

Councilmen reportedly have ‘been struggling with the bingo problem since last summer. Ore majority member admitted that several “side-stepping” méasures have been _ considered, but not introduced because of a general fear that the “legal loopholes” would not hold ter,

“The same councilman stated that majority members, all of whom are supporters of the regular county G. O. P. organization, have expressed disapproval of the rigid - anti-gaming policy. “In many cases,” this person sald, “stringent measures taken by the police department have alienated * the liberal vote in Indianapolis.” ‘Today's developments bring out into the open another issue over which the regular organization and the Tyndall Republican faction hold differences of opinion. It has long

Hoosier He:o

Lt. Jack E. Volz , . . missing in the Pacific.

Lt. Volz, Bomber Pilot, Lost In New Guinea Action, Army Reports. Missing --FIRST LT. JACK. E. -VOLZ, command pilot on a Liberator bomber, has been missing in action north of New Guinea since Oct. 27, the war department announced today. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence D. Volz, 58 N. Audubon rd; The casualty list also included

2d Lt. William J. Shryock of Ho-

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WARN NURSING HOME OWNERS

Governor Says ‘Says They Must

Comply With New State Law.

Governor Schricker today warned

{operators ef.nursing. homes through-, out the state that they must com- | ply with the new nursing home and make applications for ot at the state board of health. The governor said the health department had informied him that only between. 40 afid 50 of the 275 nursing hom Indiana had yet Miike for . The new law licensing has beén in ef “Since Nov, 3. J situation would seem to im(ply that many of operators are contemplatirig going out of business,” the governor said. “We do not want to embarrass anyone with a criminal prosecution if he hasn't had time to make the necessary arrangements for going out of business.

Must Assume Guilt

“But we must presume that all nursing home operators who have not applied for licenses are violating | the law.” Persons guilty of violating provisions of the law are subject to a fine of $500 or six months imprisonment or both. Dr. Thurman B. Rice, director of the state health department, who was present at the governor's press conference, said that his department had received many complaints about the section of the new law prohibiting the housing of nonambulatory patients on any but the ground floor of a wood-frame build-

been known that regular organiza- ing

tion paliticos favor a more liberal enforcement policy. . Councilmen agreed, however, that | any relaxation of gambling enforce-. ment procedures should apply to amateur ventures only. No general ~go ahead signal to professional pool operators and dice PRIDIEtOrs 4 is in- - tended, they warned. : Ee ——— ‘POPE PLANS BROADCAST . . STOCKHOLM, Nov. 20 (U. P.).— Pope Pius XII will Proadcast a mes-

“Too Stringent’ -

He said .that several fine homes (10 or 12 in Indianapolis) had been found where there was not sufficient space on the ground floor to house the non-ambulatory patients and that these operators had said they would have to go out of business if this provision of the law were strictly enforced. ; “I think that provision’ of the law is a little too stringent,” the governor remarked. Following an attorney general's ruling, the state fire marshals office

i” is designating as wood frame build-

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the name of Lt. Volz's bombardier, |

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{defeat for the Democrats.

SEEK ELECTION

Many Say He Won't Run If

Defeat Is Certain; « Others Differ.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Wheth-| | TUR}

jer President - Roosevelt. will. [again is becoming a betting proposi-

ition around town once more. A few weeks ago it was taken for

Just Before

granted that he would be a candi- | *§

{date for a fourth term. But {change has occurred. Doubt now | begins to percolate info conversa- | [tion about politics. What has happened to cause the | {shift? A number of things are cited: The

| Republican tide running; the possi- | | bility that the war in Europe may

{recent elections. showing a strong |

| be over by the middle of next vear, | “ge

| the absence of so many young men lin the service who are counted as|

leaning more toward the President | {than toward a Republican, and the | camouflage over his helmet, the president's son was about to embark on the invasion trip to the Jap-held | difficulties of their voting; the dis-| Gilberts when photo was made.

satisfaction with the administration | lon the home front, among women who will play a] major role in the next election, per-_ haps a decisive one.

See Trouble Ahead All of these add up to trouble ahead for Mr. Roosevelt if he runs for re-election. The clincher to one side. of. the argument..is. the, Pres- | dent will ‘not run’ again Wt he ber Hieves he wii be defeated, - Which .is logical ah, it. you accept the signs as foretelling sure But MARY «are still reluctant to. .count Mr.» Roosevelt out, having a wellfounded respect for him ad a politician. “There are so many imponderables in the months ahead.

fidently that Mr. Roosevelt will not run even if he were fairly sure he could be re-elected. Even if he ran and should win, they point out, he is bound to have a hostile congress; and his hands would be so tied inrdealing with the terrific problems of the postwar period that he would be able to accomplish little and would go out of the White House a discredited figure. ’ Won't Risk a Fall Mr. Roosevelt, they argue, is very {conscious of his place in history, and would not risk a fall from the pedestal when he could quit still in the glow of glory, having broken the two-term precedent, having left on the statute books a long record of social and economic reforms, and having been the commander-in-chief of the nation's greatest war. He could step out, they say, to

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Indianapolis Times and Chicago Daily New correspondent,

James Roosevelt Escapes Injury Twice in One Day

Death

James Roosevelt (left), U, 8, N somewhere

Col.’

By B. J. MceQU AID

Roosevelt, who landed with the first (day, had two hairbreadth escapes ashore.

regimental commander, Col. James ‘City, was leading echelons of forces |

western end, toward a junction with those which later established | beachheads to the northeast. A strong concentration of snipers met the group at a hend in the rough coral road connecting the two beachhead areas. Conroy, in civilian life a wellknown New York gftorney, was killed instantly hy a bullet which struck him squarely between the | eyes. Col. Roosevelt was within a few

Conroy, a veteran of New York's | famed fighting 69th in the last war,

low-flying - bombers

Chicago. Daily News, “Ine

wave of assault troops here yesterfrom death in his first 24 hours

The first occurred while a group including Roosevelt and an army

Gardiner Cc. “Conroy of New York |

inate pockets of resistance,

I witnessed Roosevelt's second vive their $10,500,000,000 new reve- Gen. in the senate, de-| exempt | high gear today by sending heavy | second straight night.

| close shave this afternoon from a | distance of a couple of hundred feet. |

This came about. when one of our almost 9,000,000 more persons from bombers of his United States 8th| its income tax, and renewed their op-|air-force to attack military targets bombers engaged in routine mine-

misjudged target angle and released a daisycutter bomb prematurely planes had been summoned to pro-

| | {

2 a Spokebion: Stage a-Last« vo

The |

Challenged Them

Propaganda |

Reports. Nov. 29 of State today that are

WASHINGTON, (U. P.).—Secretary Cordell Hull said recurring

peace rumors ,

E |, . false and are being circulated

pending

YoiCrerman”

hy enemy sources

overconfidence among the al-

lies and thus impair the allied Twi ar effort. I The secrétary made his statement | moment when Washington

al A

speculated as tor whether the im-

outline people

conference might not appeal to the German overthrow Adolf Hitler, Hull was asked at his press ference comment on from various neutral sources that spokesmen are sounding

an to

con-

‘out allied leaders on the possibility

1. C., is shown with B. J. McQuaid, in the central Pacific. Wearing

TREASURY PLAN: FACING DEFEAT

Ditch Stand

Program. | WASHINGTON, Nov.

for

0 (0 PH.

which had landed at the island's of directing tanks forwaid to elim- —Treasury spokesmen today began

jan apparently hopeless fight to re.)

nue program

| fended their proposal to

| position to a sales tax. Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr, !first witness at senate finance com-

of a negotiated peace,

from his usual custom, allowed the following romment to be used as a direct quotation: “I think 1 would be safe in authorizing you to put me entirely in the negative about such rumors very day's conference until hati you to the contrary. “They are evidently put out, most .of the time, with a view to creating over-confidence among the allies in carrying on the war ‘to a suc cessful ‘conclusion, and in that way

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wee

Yoyrw

to ereate, Churchill

the way to_meet them.

Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin |

reports |

origin,

REPORT E.D.R. AND CHURCHILL IN CAIRO; ~ ‘GERMAN PEACE RUMORS FALSE--HULL

y SOME DOUBT | THAT FDR WILL

————

En Route Parley.

LONDON, Nov. 29 (U. P.). Travelers reaching Lisbon reported there today that President Roosevelt and Minister Winston had been in Cairo several - davs and that Stalin was on:

Prime

for Premier Josef

A travelers

Lisbon dispatch

Stalin

quoting the now is In proceed to Frypt tor a meeting at which hé, Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill would formulate demands for the imnye« diate, unconditional surrender of Germany (The Lisbon dispatch relayed through the British censorship was the mast forthright of many circulated

sald

Teheran and would

regarding a

| Roogevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. He said his answer would be en-? tirely in the negative and, departing

Others have been largely of axis obviously not dependable a propaganda nature,’ Press report from Lisbon regarding the purported conference did not identify the travelers say where they came from It mentioned both Cairo and Alexandria as possible meeting places of the allied “big three.” An earlier Nazi broadcast heard in Stockholm sald the three already are proceeding with the momentous conference, Though the “broadcast

and of T'he United

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U.S. Bombs Reich. Beliium: Air War Back in High Gear

LONDON, Nov “U. P).~Lt Ira C. Eaker a the record)

allied aerial offensive back into

in northwest Germany. American Marauder

bombers simultaneously raided the

medium)

against Ciermany as fog grounded the R. A. PF. bomber command's four<engined heavyweights for the

All returned safely, as did other laying operations,

Reports from Europe indicated the Germans finally had controlled

vide close-in support for our ad- mittee hearings on the house-ap- German air fleld at Chievres near huge conflagrations kindled during

vancing troops in the area domi-

{nated by Jap snipers. I was with a party from a war- {he declared that more taxes were thrust by British Mosquito bombers the mammoth

feet of the regimental commander. ship which had come ashore on an ‘needed to absorb the “inflationary

|inspection trip and we

had just

| Nazis, Fearing

KIEV, Russia (via Moscow), called the Baby Yar.

REVEALS NAVY USES SECRET WEAPONS’

there were 60,000 . in th Yar, a ravine. Bahy Yar! I stood by the pit and stirred the sand which covers the mass.

Admiral Says Developments Once ‘Impossible.’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. PJ. —Rear Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, chief of navy ordnance, said today that the navy has developed new. secret weapons which “will rank as high {or higher than the German radiocontrolled bomb and the acoustichoming torpedo when the story can be told.” At a press conference on the eve of his departure for a sea command, Blandy said that “one or two of our developments will be . called ' ‘romances of science’.” “One development now in’ use was once proclaimed ‘impossible” by-for-eign scientists,” he continued. In a review of his term as chief of the bureau of naval ordnance since February, 1941, Blandy revealed that American torpedo production has been increased 4000. per cent since that time. ! “Some of the merchant vessels in rthis war are better armed than some

“day that the nation which : The assertion was made w

of the fighting ships of the last)

Only a little stirring uncovered strands of human hair, fragments of human skulls and other bones, children’s’ shoes. And then I stirred -the mem oriés of men who could testify ity ot. the mass murders that took place there.

. » - FIRST THERE was Nikola: ‘Bajan, poet and worker who is vice poet and worker who is vice president of the Ukranian council of people’s commissars, who told me how it began. And then I talked with three living witnesses of thé German effort to exhume and burn every body in this charnal mass to obliterate the evidence of the crime before the Russians recaptured Kiev. These men were Yefim Vilkys, 33, a former porter; Leonid Ostrovsky, 31, cap maker and Viadimir Davidov, 28, a builder.. All Russian army lieutenants—and like .most of the victims in Bay Yar, Jews. - » » - THIS 1S their story. Near the end of September in 1941; guerillas stole into Kiev and dynamited the Serman Sn commandant’s

headquarters, starting fires and damaging bulldings.

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Wictory o or Perdition ‘Hitler

' LONDON, Nov. 29 (U. P) Geran radios quoted Adolt Hitler tothe war “will have ended its existence.”

Hitler spoke tg 20/000 ofMoer eandl-

dates en Nov. 20, the broadcasts said.

|RUDY VALLEE PLANS TO WED THURSDAY

Kiev Hor ror

Discovery, -

Ty to Burn 100,000 Bodies

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent Nov. 28.—There is a place in-Kiev

Before the Nazis came it was a peaceful place. Today it is the name of a Russian sorrow and a Russian hatred. It is a curse upon the Germans who hurled in wholg families until . 70,000 . .. perhaps e even 100,000 -clvilian bodies |

HOPKINS TO LEAVE | ~ WHITE HOUSE SOON

Residence at Gi at Georgetown

Ready for Tenants.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 290 (U. P). ~The widely-heralded moving day, of 1600 Peninsylvania avenue's star | boarders, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hopkins, is about to arrive, Mrs. Hopkins, it was learned today, will formally take possession tomorrow of the eight-rooms-and-three baths Georgetown residence

which she chose last fall as a new|

home for herself and husband. Hopkins has lived with his boss, President Roosevelt, at the White House since 1940, and when he married the former Louise Macy last year, she moved in too: ~Exactly when the Hopkinses will

move out of the executive mansion]

has not been divulged.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 39 (U. P)— Rudy Vallee, former crooner now a coast guard lieutenant, will marry Bette Jane Greer, Washington, actress, Thursday in the Westwood village community chapel, the couple said today. tf

- - os © JAPS CLAIM U. 8S, SEA/TOLL : By UNITED PRESS The Japanese high command said today that five American aircraft SATIS AT) TDiCrulsete Were suk off the

“i is madncs to expect Ary from tebe Buk. victory

[proved $2,140,000,000 bil,

[fiscal picture has improved.

gap” which may lead, to “black markets, ruptured ceilings and substan-

was absorbed at the time in the job (Continued on Page 3—Column 1) tial increases in the cost of living.” ” o

Senator Arthur. H. Vandenberg | (R. Mich.) asked Morgenthau which {he would prefer: A $2,140,000,000 bill similar to the house bill or the house bill plus a sales tax Morgenthau: dodged a direct (answer, asserting he was opposed |to a sales tax because it would fall {chiefly upon low income taxpayers |and, after exemptions that he as{sumed would" be made, would yield | only $800,000,000 a year. Other committees members at- | tacked treasury proposals to exempt { 9,000,000 low income taxpayers from | { Income taxes. Morgenthau told Senator Harry |F. Byrd (D. Va.) that “simplifica[tion of the tax program” was the reason; that those 9.000,000 taxpaylers would pay $1,149.000,000 in excise. taxes even if they were ex|cused from paying income taxes. Chairman Walter F. George, (D. | Ga.) rétorted: v “If those 9.000000 persons you

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MORE NAVAL AID. IN S. W. PACIFIC LIKELY

Joins MacArthur.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Nov. 29, (U. P.).— Additional naval forces are in prospect for the Southwest Pacific, Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, new_ allied naval commander under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, indicated today. Asked ata press conference whether he expected larger naval strength for this area, which has

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“SHOPPING

SIAL

at western Germany. Fighter planes supported the U. 8 heavy bombers, The speedy twin-engined Mos- | quitoes, picked up the offensive ~

glers, Nov,

larmy - forces have smashed into the, the Sangro river near Archi, the German miles inland. it was an-

| Adriatic. anchor of winter line in Italy,

said the the south Belgian city of Mons. 'T he| the RAF's record nine-day offensive But daylight attacks followed a night against Berlin and were turning to

task of restoring | transportation, “water supplies and gas and electricity services. The Berlin correspondent of the

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New British Drive Smashes : Nazis' Anchor on Adriatic

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Al-| Adriatic; and other 8th army troops 2. (U9 P.).—British 8th threw a second bridgehead across

A communique said the British,

| nounced today as an increase In!Indian and New Zealand forces land, sea and air action indicated were making “good progress” in the lull in the battle toward Rome, heavy fighting. : was ended. As the British struck in early The Nazis used flame-throwing morning darkness yesterday, Ameritanks for the first time in Italy in |can forces forged a slight gain in a futile attempt to stop Gen. Sir | high ground on the 5th army sector Bernard L. Montgomery's veterans, and allied bombers ranged ndrth to

Kincaid, ‘Big Ships Man,|

an earth-shaking aerial bombardment. In the first lunge, a foothold in

artillery

MOSCOW, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—Ger:

“man troops routed from Gomel were

in panicky flight toward Zhlobin today under a shattering hail of Russian artillery fire which completely spanned the —-19-mile wide corridor between the jaws of a Russ army trap, The course of the disorderly Nazi flight through lower White Russia was marked by abandoned arms, blown up bridges, and hastily sown

‘Soviet pursuers.

ITALY—Eighth army gains in new attack on Adriatic flank of German winter line; British wars ships bombard enemy rear in ik Sais

who plunged forward with aid of Trieste and railroad. .

| On Saturday, British warships bombarded the enemy's rear lines

the enemy's line was gained near in the Gulf of Gaeta on the west Castelfrentano, just inland from the]

coast the second time in six days.

Panicky Germans Flee Gomel ~ In Deadly Russ Cross-Fire

The. Russians sped 12 miles along the Gomel-Zhlobin railroad in a single day to within 18 miles of the latter point, ‘a vital junction west - of the Upper Dnieper.

Rokossovsky's trap closed to within 19 miles of each other, enabling his heavier guns to lay a barrage across the Nazi line of retreat and compel the scores of thousands of Germans to run a deadly gantlet. Whether or not the Germans

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On. hei War Fronts

(Nov. 20, 1943)

AIR WAR—Allied daylight bombers raid continent after RAF Mos Quito. mid on. Wester: Gerais; Berlin given rest,

PACIFIC Another 1000 Jipanese

“Secretary Hits Stalin Believed

report--so-Iar——

sald the

to cut the Austria-Italy

The jaws .of Gen, Konstantin