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Unrelated Episodes Reveal

Technique of Old-Line Party Leaders. By THOMAS L. STOKES. Thues Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. — The

“Stop-Willkie” movement has generated so much ‘heat and energy of

. late that it has’ become a major

political development with important portents. It has long been obvious that many old-line party leaders were

. opposed, some rabidly, to the re-

nomination of the 1940 Republican candidate. But recently they have begun to work at it seriously and to come out into the open. They are laying their lines and seeking recruits, Three developments here this

‘week are symptomatic, though un-

related to each other. ‘Landon In Capital ‘Alfred M. Landon, the 1936 can-

over (here, ig

Wool bring cheet to 8 wounded soldier here for her injured Bushand

buy. presents for soldiers in Marion county's hospitals. totaled $166 yesterday, the largest single day's receipts. ' More than $400 Bireydy has been received. ~ Meanwhile, the purchase of presents for the hospitalized soldiers was proceeding and plans

wrapping them. ss =» = HERE IS HOW The Times Christmas fund works: The fund consists of the annual Clothe-A-Child drive and the War Hospitals campaign. . Your contribution will be placed in the general Christmas fund and used for both projects unless you earmark it one way or the other, If you want your money to be

mark it “Clothe-A-Child.” If you prefer that your donation buy a gift for a hospitalized service man, mark it “War Hospitals.”

{ If you have no preference, your

money will be used for both, (Address your contributions to The Times Christmas fund, 214 W. Maryland st. Indianapolis. Make a check or money order Christmas

{1 payable to The Times

fund.

=. WIFE OF BATAAN

HERO SPEAKS HERE

Believes War Wor Worth Price if - Independence. Is Won.

By JOAN HIXON Mme. Vincente Lim, petite and courageous wife of Brig. Gen. Lim,

were completed for packing and

used to clothe a needy child; |

[70 Children Are Outfitted "By Times Clothe-A-Child Seventy needy children were clothed during the first two days of the 14th annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. . The first direct donors of the campaign took children to the stores today after making appointments to meet the youngsters at the

Clothe-A-Child office, 212 W. Maryland st. Contributions to Clothe-A-Child and the War Hospitals fund to

~ ss » Donors -FIMES CHRISTMAS FUND {O. H Myers ................ $ 50.00, {Gus Persons .»........... .. 1000

Golden Rule auxiliary,

O. E. 8. : 5.00 Local 30, ‘Brotherhood “ot Railway Shop Craft of America ............005,. 5.00 CLOTHE-A-CHILD |L. E. Winkler... ............ $ 50.00 {Department 174, first and second shifts, Allison division, Plant 1............ 26.00 Martha and Jon......cee... 20.00 .Total ......... sesnues $166.00 Previous receipts ..........$266.00 TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS $432.00

TO DATE .............

Handshake of = Friend Fatal

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—~Three weeks ago, Carl Lagerstrom, 67, met an old friend, Charles Nelison, and they shook hands vigorously. Soon afterward, Lagerstromi experienced a pain in his right arm. Hospitalized, he was found to have suffered a compound fracture. “An infection developed and sonay he . died.

| Indianapolis people to be the dimes which, this year, will both clothe a child

(TELLING NAZIS {QUIT OR DIE,

Stalin Reported in Meeting 8

{following the Roosevelt-Churchill-

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943

| front of L. S. Ayres & Co. Co.'s 5-&-10.

“There was a

and make a soldier happy.

By HELEN RUEGAMER THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES’ Santa Claus—the Mile-Of-Dimes—took up his usual Christmas stand today on the Bldg wl in

scramble among bighearted first to contribute

Sidewalk

and S. S. Kresge

Pelton and Mrs. Gladys

Entered as "Second Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis, Ind, Issued dally except Sunday

ens—It’ s Your Sidewalk Santa

OFFICIALLY the starter was an anony—mous donor who mailed five dimes to The Times some time ago “in the name of those who have died that American traditions might live.” contributor then niade a plea: “Those who pass — give a dime. to. the mile for. the heroes who cannot. n =tinofficially the-starters were: Miss Josie Mae: Blatterman, Kresge em= ployees who hear the bells ring out for the Mile-

Of-Dimes day in and day out,

PRICE FOUR CENTS |

THEN CAME Mrs. Mable Metz, 283 West: dr., Woodruff Place, who added 11 dimes to the mile to bring cheer to a wounded soldier here for her husband, who has been wounded over . there, Pfc. John L. Metz will spend his Christmas in a hospital in Egypt, recuperating from shrap“nel wounds received in the Malian invasion, = Lie’ll long for Christmas at home as will the wounded soldiers at Billings General hospital

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RAF TURNS BOMB-GROGGY BERLIN INTO CRACKLING OCEAN OF FLAME

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With Roosevelt and Churchill.

(Other reports on developments at three-power parley on Page 18.)

~ LONDON, Dec. 3 Istanbul dispatch passed by the British censorship said today that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and {Premier Stalin, in s dn Tri were drafting ani: ultimatum to Germany to surrehder unconditionally or suffer total destruction by bombing, The dispatch, bearing the censor ship notation, “passed for publication,” was carried by the British Exchange Telegraph agency and said that, according to news from Ankara, the “big three” had begun their historic conference at Tabriz, 350 miles northwest of Tehran and only 60 miles south of the Russian Caucasian border, A broadcast by the Nazi Vichy

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radio also said the meeting had begun at Tabriz and asserted that Mr. | Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill were accompanied by Gen. Sir Bernard L.: Montgomery, tomfmander of the

British 8th army now in Italy. - ‘Squeeze on Balkans’ {

There has been widespread spec- | {ulation that the three heads of | {states would discuss details of an allied squeeze on the Balkans with| British and possibly American troops | hopping off from Italy, the Levant | or Africa and the Russ army thrusting from the east. Mont. | gomery’s troops now hold Bari and]

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southedstern Italy from which Italy! began her invasions of Jugoslavia,! Albania and Greece. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied commander - in. the Mediterranean, presided over meeting of some of his Mediterranean staff in Egypt immediately

Chiang conference, but there has been no confirmation that Montgomery was present. - A United Press dispatch "from Ankara said the newspaper Ulus, organ of the Republican People's party, was speculating that - the

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All-America

The 1943 United Press All-America football team, chosen by sports editors and writers from coast fo coast, appears on today's sports page.

ARDS, who had been missing In action with nine other B-17 crew members, was killed while on a

mission against the enemy in- the South Pacific Sept. 8, 1942, News that the wreckage of his |

| Plying Fortress had been found

near the island of Rendova in the Solomons was received yes. | terday by the air hero's wife, Mrs. Frances Richards, 5015 Central ave, And the message that the victims of the tragedy had been buried by the natives on the sandy

SULLIVAN, COUNCIL |

member of the city council, is| critically ill at City hospital where | he was taken last night following a lapse into. unconsciousness at his| ‘home, 1415 Central ave. Mr. Sullivan had been suffering from a cold which had kept him confined to bed for three days during the past week-end. The 76-|year-old councilman has been | actively “engaged in politics here for the past 30 years.

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By HENRY J. TAYLOR “Times Special Writer LISBON, Dec. 3—The balance , of pougE ‘in foreign affairs has

and lace, Ince, spoke of her native coun- passed from Britain to the United States for this century, according TIMES FEATURES (Continued en Page T-Column §) | C322, FL Minister “Antonio: Be . | Oliveira Salazar. Portugal's strong ON INSIDE PAGES man made this statement to me in the first interview he has given any axis or-allied newspaper man war. : Because all European nations | are involved in the dilemmas of | the past, he thinks the future area beacon of foreign policy can came only from the Dnited States,

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POLITICIANS HoT OVER INSURANCE

Old-Fashioned Party Tiff Develops Over Otherwise Dull Report.

By SHERLEY UHL

{ A routine and statistically dull [report of Mayor Tyndall's insurance | committee today has precipitated {a good old-fashioned Republican | Democratic ‘spat, something rare in (a. 0. P.-dominated Marion county {these days. Democrats, who sensed in | report asperations against their {past administration of municipal {affairs, were. quick to take up the political cudgel. | Chief bone of contention was the statement that the Tyndall insur. ju iLLiee, while tion on city property by as! To as $2,164,150, had affected a| saving on premiums paid out by $3082.11. The report was given at & dinner

the

} | MEMBER, STRICKEN, meeting last night under the spon- |

{sorship of C. A. Huff, chairman of! the mayor's committee,

Democratic Leader, 16, ¢. Welch, insurance . funder former = Mayor Sullivan, | Taken to Hospital. |charged, “impossible. How, ir? this! Willie B. Sullivan, Democratic |

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On the War Fronts

(Dec. 3, 1943)

MIDDLE EAST — Hoosevelt, Churchill and -Stalin reported in Iran’ drafting unconditional surrender ultimatum to Germany.

AIR WAR — Hundreds of RAF bombers set Berlin afire again.

ITALY=Cermans pull &it of winter line toward Pescara after 8th army break-through along Adriatic- coast; 5th army gains on west flank, face

RUSSIA—Red "army breaks into

“1 LONDON, Dec? 3 (UTP {back to Berlin last night and,

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All Street Trattic Paralyzed.

Or Ek lectricity;

V.—The royal air Tores swarmed crashing through intense German opposition,.droppéd- more than 1500 tons of bombs which, according to neutral reports, left the surviving two-

(thirds of the capital “completely paralyzed.”

Unpward of 600 British planes struck through the moonlight, the beams of hundreds of searchlights, a curtain of anti-aircraft fire and massed German fighters to deliver another staggering blow at bomb-groggy Berlin, o Forty-one bombers were lost in the Berlin raid and sup- - plementary operations. The main bombardment left the city aflainé and belching smoke whic h towered three miles high,

the air ministry announced. Dispatches rejayed through | Gi ad mast ie - fishing Sweden described” the raid as, desperate effort to save fit from “truly devastating.” They suid at| further devastation, least 30 blockbusters were umong! Lanes of flares to serve as quidethe hundreds of bombs dropped on|posts for the fighters were laid as the city, many of them around the [much as 50 miles from the capital Potsdamer Platz, the Anhalter rail [and up to the city itself, the air station, and the northern and ministry sald. In addition, the [Southern Juctory districts. ralders ran into a forest of search~ is without gas, water.or| light beams and intense ground fire, |The Sy the Swedish reports] Bucking through the strong de‘sald, and in effect it Is “completely Tense shield, the British bombers paralyzed, Street tiaffic was blocked, | hammered home their attack, which and no newspapers appeared. began a few minutes after 8 o'clock The Nazi-controlled Scandinavian And lasted just over half an hour. telegraph bureau reported from! “When I reached the city the atBerlin to Stockholm that biggest tack was just ending,” a Lancaster and most violent air battle - ever pilot skid. - “Pires were burning fought over German territory took | fiercely below us, and’ the smoke {place over the capital last night. The air ministry said the Ger-| (Continued on Page Column 8

Allies Hack Out New Gains Despite Resistance in Italy

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‘nounced today that he just had

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Alglers, Dec. 3 (U. P.).~Gen. Sir | Bernard L. Montgomery has con. gratulated the officers and men of the Sth army on their “great | success” in the battle of the San- | gro river and expressed himself as “delighted with the whole business,” it was revealed today.

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giers, Dec. 3 (U, P.).—Allled troops |

Today, Leo have hacked out gains in a rising | chairman | | tide of battle on both flanks of the lin th

[Italian front, it was disclosed today, | as alr fleets operating non-stop: {pounded apart the German pesi-| [tions on the main road to Rome. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mango.

On 'Big 3'

CANBERRA, Dec. 3 (U. P)— Prime Minister John Curtin ane

completed an “important confers ence” with Gen. Douglas MacArthur

light of the “crush Japan” decisions at Cairo, Curtin indicated that new allied

suburbs of Znamenka, threatening key Nazi nilvay line in| Dnieper bend. |

PACIFIC—Marine raiders kill 200) Japanese in foray behind enemy | -lines on Bougainville; U. 8. planes | sink loaded troop transport and hit two destroyers in Bismarck sea, .

{FILMS OF TARAWA DUE;

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U, P.) — Director Elmer Davis of the Office of war information said today that and Makin islands were now en

were

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (U, P).—

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offensive blows keynoted the con.

{ference, which was held at Mac|

| Arthur's headquarters “somewhere [in Australia.” “The war effort of Australia is

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-|

MacArihar Curtin Confer -

at which Southwest Pacific strategy | { presumably was discussed in the ih

now entering upon A new phase,”

‘Russ Pin Nazis Back Again

ery's British 8th army captured the i strongly-fortified town of Oastel« {Trentano in a 24-hour fight and {lunged up the Adriatic coast in a drive to complete the turning of 1" Nazi line across the peninsula. On ths western end, allied air{craft went to the 5th army's ald | with a day-long bombing and straf{ing attack which, coupled with artillery blows, rained destruction on enemy gun positions holding Lt. Gen. Mark W, Clark's troops at bay e heights above the road to { Rome from Capua. { On both ends of the front the | Germans put up the strongest op-

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