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s-sowann] VOLUME 54—NUMBER 226

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1943.

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Hitler, Facing

“By, LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

ADOLF HITLER'S latest message to the German E

people, with its reiterated warning that surrender means doom, gives a clue to the real reaction of Nazi leaders to

‘the course of the war.

Intended for domestic consumption, the-version broad- -

«cast to foreign countries was edited of some of its gloom.

DAUGHTER IS DEAD AFTER FIRE RUINS DUNWOODY'S HOME

Officer Hurt in Leap:

Wife Taken to Hospital.

His daughter was burned) fatally, his wife seriously and Patrolman Alexander Dun-! woody was injured in a leap, ro ‘the second floor and al ‘dash to. summon when flames swept his home!

€arly today. The daughter, Mary Agnes, 23, a

~ social worker for the Travelers’ Aid,

was carried from the burning home

unconscious and died in City hos-| ©

pital shortly after 9 a. m. today. The officer's wife, Lula, 53, is in| City hospital with second and third- | degree burns from head to foot. |

Drops 20 Feet |

Officer Dunwoody, .more than 20 féet from the window of his hedynom. . iat 1 WR,

En a neighbor, his leg and ar nk e injur . from the fall.

Just five minutes before the fire | started, the officer's son, David, |

firemen |.

who dropped! |

was picked up by fellow workmen ==

to drive. to his defense Job at Al- | lison division. Patrolman Dunwoody worked yes-| térday from 3 to 11 p. m. Then he

returned to his home; the 117 side | 3

of a double house he owns at 117119 N. Sherman dr.

Went to Sleep

“1 sat in my favorite arm chair | for about five minutes,” he said. | “Then I put away my uniforina, | club and gun and went to my! back room upstairs and went to sleep. “1 was asleep only a short time | when awakened by shouts of my wife: ‘Alex, the house is on fire!’| “1 jumped out of bed and tried to

" get out of the room, but was driven | J

back by the flames in the hallway.| I shouted an alarm to my daughter | who was asleep in the middle room| and pleaded with my wife who was “in the front room to crawl out the; window and onto the porch ang told her not to jump, because she is| heavy and I feared she would be hurt, Turned in Alarm

. Clad “only in pajamas and in his barefeet, the patrolman dropped out of the window and made a dash | 100 yards away to New York sl and | Sherman drive to turn in a-—fire “alarm. i No. 12 company was first on the, scene. Lt. Edward Belton ana Fire-| men James Gyner and Clyde Stew- | art raised a ladder to the roof and assisted Mrs. Dunwoody to the

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6am.... 32 10am... 32 Tpm....32 lam... 32 $a m.... 32 "12 (Noon), 36 am, ... 32 1pm... 3 TIMES FEATURES |

ON INSIDE PAGES .

Amusements... 12, Jane Jordan.. 18 isvsses 20|In the Service *9 Clapper ...... 15 | Millett....... 16 Comics ....... 2¢ | Movies ...... 12 avs 13

renen 18 erie 19 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Mrs, Ferguson 18 | Side Glances 16 canes 25 Simms ...... 16 16 [Sports .... 20, 2 ~ Hold Ev'thing 15 State Deaths. Homemaking, 19| War Living.

Inside Indpls. 15) Wom. News.. 18

i 3 4 i

to commit national suicide i

dream of conquest to what is to him its logical conclusion. For Hitler and his cynical-criminals at the head of--the Nazi hierarchy-have no o thought for the German people

Help Came Too Lateto

Save House

From Blaze

A blanket wrapped around him, Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody | sorrowfully stands beside his ruined home, swept by flames this morn-

ing. leaped to safety.

Mary Agnes Dunwoody pis her burns prove fatal.

Patrolman Dunwoody stands below the window from which he ‘time of unprecedented high

David Dunwoody .. . he - for work before the fire.

Christmas Gifts Ease Pain Of Wounded in Hospitals

IT WAS Christmas eve, 1942. A young married oouple Inughien and: chatted in the quiet of their home. . Sitting in front of the gaily lighted Christmas tree, she shitied her gifts—soft, filmy personal things—with murmurs of joy. He ran his hands over the shiny new tools—a saw, hammer, chisel and lathé— just what he needed to putter around the house. .

They closed. their minds to the

over them. ; Then spring came and Harold Fleenor—for that was his name— marched away to. war, —Joann, his wife, rénted their home. She stored their furniture and - the tools with which he had just com-

bh with her parents, Mr. and Be Kroetz, 1229 W. 34th st.

J » » FOUR MONTHS later he was

in North Afriea. She was in the

a er SF 8 WONT, gir Leu

moved’ fnito battle. This week she. received the dreaded

Atterbury

Donors

The Indianapolis Times Christmas fund: was boosted to $172 today with additional contributions totaling $55, W. A, Brennan headed today’s |

‘shadow of war which hovered

— Ht with a $25 gift to the general

fund, The donors: TIMES CHRISTMAS FUND Indianapolis Spencer club.. 2.00 CLOTHE-A-CHILD

ES Huggins .............$ 10.00 Travelon elub............ 1090 Elizabeth G. Bispham..,.. 5.00 —

Total oes sein 55.00 rans.

{—Leaders of two of the nation's

" lunnecessary,”

master of the | irecommended senate passage of a

“Tafter Dec. 3.

{be increased to meet rising labor

Doom, Is Willing To Destroy Own People.

The Spesth was in sharp contrast to the assiduous peace feelers being circulated abroad. Hitler, knowing that Germany cannot win the. yictory he called for, has in effect asked the German people

other than as an instrument * for power. This hideous p

not only Germany but all E and ruin. Himmler, ( wholly joined forces with the

n carrying out his shattered

REPORT F.DR.

vealed in Hitler's writings and speeches. The Nazis are determined,

Ww hether Ilitler and such men as the murderous soerjng and a few ofthe army leaders who have

NAZIS CRACKING SOUTH OF ROME

this fate themselves is highly questionable. They know that neither the Nazi party and iis powers ful gestapo, nor the army can arrange a negotiated peace. The doom of these leaders has. been irrevocably pronounced by the allies. » It is foo easy to assume that suicide is the only way out. for them when the crash comes, or that - they ical

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to satisfy their private lust hilosophy is unwittingly re-

if they are beaten, that urope shall crash ‘into flame

inner coterie intend to share

ENROUTE T0 IRAN;

FARM LEADERS [FLAY SUBSIDIES ON FOOD ITEMS

Demand Lifting of - Price Ceilings to ‘Meet

Increased Costs. 3 (U, P).|

| | : " WASHINGTON, Nov.

{large farm organizations today de- | manded adjustment of price ceilings [to offset increased production costs ‘and elimination of consumer subsidies on food items. { They called the administration's rollback subsidies “inflationary and and said they were al attempt to’ relieve the public of its-gracery hill at a time when the peaple. are most able to pay,

the American Farm Bureau Federation and Albert Goss, | National Grange, WS. — Twe old Civil war ve ‘together back in 1930. J

house-approved measure that would oh 8.

ohibit consumer subsidy payments

Subterfuge Charged

Goss charged that the administration resorted to subsidies to circumvent a provision of the 1942 stabilization act that prices should

G.A. R. Lotar ‘and other costs and to increase pro-

Occupied Desk uction, | 4 on submitted a statement, 4n | At Statehouse

‘lleu of a personal appearance, inj which he said house action against | i subsidies was “significant of the

+p epee

Joseph B. Henninger, Civil war

|rising trend of public sentiment [veteran who was a familiar figure |

against subsidizing people's food | in his office at the statehouse many |

J. B. Henninger, 95, Dies 1 "LONDON, Nor.

posed for probably their last pleture | OME.

Burbank, Cal, is at the left. On the right is Oscar Wilmington, who lives in Tevitgin ang still is a re figure in ndistiupatis,

PUBLIC REPORT

BULLETIN 30 (U, P.).—A German DNB news agency dispatch datelined Amsterdam today quoted what was described as a Reuters report that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had just conferred at Cairo and now are on the way to meet Premier Josef Stalin somewhere in Iran.

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Sth Army Gains President Will Along 12-Mile Meet Stalin, Front. Nazis Say.

ALLIED HEADQUAR-| LONDON, Nov. 80 (U, P.).

TERS, Algiers, Nov. 30 (U. —Allied observers speculated P.).—The British 8th army today that President Roosetracked the German winter velt and Prime Minister line across Italy near the Churchill may ask Premier

TAdriatic in a savage 36-hour Stalin at their prospective battle, ¢ ven. Dwight D. Eisen: conference for the eventual towers OBAGI vo Re: noe albases: inSiberik inctheecas Inounc ed today, and is pound- war against Japan. ’ : -ling forward in an offensive to . Axis sources have suggested that

| , the meeting of the “big three” al‘smash “open the roads ta, ready has begun, but this WAS nob

{confirmed in official allied quarters: Crashing through up to four miles, With plans for the opening of a [past the Sangro river bridgeliead on second front and the defeat of Gers ja 12-mile front, British, Indian and| New Zealand veterans stormed a nigh ridge deep within the defenses | {of the bitterly-fighting Nazis and | [the communique sald tersely: “Our advance is continuing.” While there -were no signs of a |general attack on Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's 5th army ‘sector In western |

Henninger, who died Saturday at

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UNIONS OPPOSE

LONDON, Nov. 30 (U, P= Prime Minister Jan C. Smuls of South Africa was reported re. liably today te have been desig« nated alternate chairman of the

British war cabinet -in an unprecedented move that would permit an “outsider” for the first

Metropolitan Opera. Also italy, American troops made & one=| time in history to head Britain's mile gain, capturing Castelnuovo, | government, Assails Provisions in [northwest of Montaquila, and heavy | {fighting was In progress, Tax Bill. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's many presumably well advanced. the .

of support of floor prices on farm him for advice. It was after the ; {exemption on. the grounds that it | Efreducty at levels adequate io assure] {last war conference Prefident Lin- was an educational institution and

bills out of the public treasury in a! years as a G. A. R. died | _ |troops swept through the town of Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting - 0 in-| saturday in He wisn INGTON, Nov. 30 (U, P);rMozzagrogna, three miles north of was expected primarily to deal with comes. was 95. : | —Labor unions today opened their the Sangro and western hinge of the post-surrender treatment of the O'Neal said the Commodity Credit| Mr, Henninger, who lived in In- drive to have the senate finance [the contested ridge which extends Reich and its satellites, post-war Jerp. should be permitted to “adhere |dianapolis 30 years, recited the | committee strike from the house-| .. _.._ __ —— to its basic purposes—to help stabi- | Gettysburg address at many a Me- | approved tax bill the “sleeper” pro- (Continued on Page 11—Column 6) | (Continued on Page 11—Column 5) {lize and safeguard “farm prices and|morial day ceremony at Crown Hill | Vision requiring them to file returns . 8 a : help assure stable supplies instead He was the only survivor of his com= lon their financial and investment |of using these funds tv subsidize pany of the 11th Pennsylvania in-1get- ups. grocery bills.” But, he added, at-| |fantry in the Civil war. John T. Corbett of the Brothertempts have been made to use the] On his 92d birthday, shortly be- | hood of Locomotive Engineers, the | corporation for subsidy-paying pur-ifore he left to live in‘ Burbank, |first witness at today's tax hearing poses “not intended by congress,” A R. quartermagler | {sald the provision, unnoticed by

i {the Indiana G the objective apparently. being 0 general recalle! some of his war/ex- union spokesmen until after house +t time, he said he | {action on the $2,140,000.000 tax bill, |

maintain “bargain food prices” periences. At 1. rather than “to obtain adequate had. thought he was the only

leader, Burbank, Cal.

America's Heavy Bomber

Attack Reich Second Day

a oF Jon ax p LONDON, Nov. 30 (U. P.).— England saw a 45- minute procession ) «would upset present officer-election | American heavy bombers attacked! of heavy bombers stream toward IDs, of Jou 40 on the publican in the statehouse,byt had | procedure, making it impossible in| targets in Germany for the second the continent, and two hours later OCC 4% Joa Santa aus ro | been told there was anothers~“that | his unien for men who run locomo- | straight day today after British big aerial forces roared over Lon- » 2 ebates an i nuses 10:young Tucker.’ 7 tives to be officers at the same time. [jjght Mosquitoes had struck by don, ..- ithe public whether they need them | His favorite war story, which he | | | The Mosquito attack on westars i

lor not” The Metropolitan Opera Co, also night at the Reich, Both men called for continuation som 0 JEU ith a smile, was about | {opposed a house bill provision On| Some 24 hours after bombing Germany a short time earlier also e last - time Gen, Germany's second port, was. the second in as many nights.

Grant asked | fe deral admissions taxes and asked | | Bremen, four-motored planes of the United American, R. A. F., Dominion and » States’ 8th gir force returned to the | allied fighters supported the United - [not * ‘Just an amusement.” Tis case|poich to attack targets in Western | States heavy bombers,

was presented by Edward Johnson Germany which were not identified : of New York, who said the Metro | y ¢ ie no en Intruder aircraft pounded out the

{ production. i O'Neal denied administration as- | (Continued on “Page 5—Column 1)! Isertions that living costs will jump

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[$10,000000000 to $15,000,000,000 if; i subsidies are banned. Costs woul | rise no more than $1,500,000,000,. Je [fan

His Doctor Bans

Debating Question

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (U. P.). —=Sen. E. H. Moore (R. Okla.) millionaire- conservative, said today that he doesn't dare talk about such things as food subsidies. " During a round-table discussion by farm state-senators of corn price ceilings, Sen. Arthur Capper (R.

Kas.) asked Moore what he thought |

about the government's subsidy pro‘gram, : Moore tensed and replied: “My doctor has forbidden me to talk about that subject.”

LEGALIZED’ BINGO

"PLAN DRAWS FIRE!

_{ Police,

Church Leaders Insist on Ban.

‘By SHERLEY UHL oity counell's proposal to legalize

| mer’s wife, Mrs. Lois Zimmer, 3243

Hoosier Heroes

Bain Harold “Red Timmer... 7 killed" In line of 4uty,

2 Dead ENSIGN HAROLD “RED” ZIMMER, former Indiana university football star, died Thanksgiving day as a result of accidental gunshot wounds receivédd while on duty with the Atlantic fleet, He was 26. This word has been sent by the navy department to Ensign Zim-

Park ave, His parents are Mr. and

of the elassics.” Problem for Engineers Corbett - sald the financial

conditions it was difficult enough to get men who operate locomotives to take the time to be union officers,

well-backed attempt would be made to incorporate a sales tax in the

—senate version of the house bill

This was indicated by Senators Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich) | and Harry" PF. Byrd (D.Va), supporters of the sales tax plan, who said they probably would mot try | to Incorporate it | it in the legislation.

ARE TO BE REDUCED

- WASHINGTON, Nov, 30 (U, P). ~—Ration points for almost all meats will be generally reduced next. month, it was learned today, Price administrator Chester Bowles is slated to announce the reduction tonight. in his weekly radio speech,

Fb rey i t—

TRAUTMAN HEADS A. A.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (U. PJ). American association officials re-

Sora

politan Opera Co. was “a depository

re-

Virus shusiemnint for SEL White Clad Russ Close In

motive engineers’ union to get its | members to serve as officers. He sald that under present wartime

Meanwhile it appeared that no:

MEAT RATION POINTS | .

immediately,

Coastal observers In. southeast! (Continued on = 11=Column 1)

For the Kill Around Gaomel

MOSCOW, Nov. 30 (U.P.).—Whiteclad Russian troops plowed through snow blanketed swamps and forests south of - Zhlobin today to within gunshot of that strategic railroad junction and encircled several Ger{man garrisons which were marked {for death or surrender. Gen. Konstantin : ° Rokossovsky’s Front dispatches from White Rus- forces were entrenched firmly on |sia reported steady Soviet advances both banks of the upper Dnieper, {which threatened Zhlobin, crossroads the Sozh and the Berezinia rivers, of of the Leningrad-Odessa and Go- which Zhlobin, Bobrulsiiand Gomel

mel Minsk trunk railways; Bobruisk!| (Continued on Page 11—Column 2)

lower reaches of the Pripet marshes. (Moscow reports relayed by the British radio said the Russians were within seven miles of Zhlobin and had virtually completed the mopping up of German remnants fleeing toward that base from Gomel)

{to the northwest, and Mozyr on the

Tommy Harmon Does It Again, He's Reported Alive in China

th 8 4TH AIRFORCE 'HEAD- base as yet and full details were not QUARTERS, China, Nov. 30 (U. P)./known. The fact he was able to ~Lt. Tommy Harmon has come /walk out of the Chinese hinterland back safely from his second aerialiand reach some point of contact brush with death in sevén months— would indicate he was not injured.