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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 246
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1943
Entered ‘as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Tua mapats, Ind. Issued dally except Sunday
President Roosevelt Wants Term ‘New Deal’ Discarded
this latest move will be quite in keeping with-his increasing friendliness toward advisers of a more conservative
By DILWORTH LUPTO LUPTON Cleveland Press WASHINGTON, Dec. IEE . Roosevelt would
Hike to have the term “New Deal”
* While in Washington I have visited the White House with Ned Brooks of our Washington staff and I can make this statement with complete authority. ~*~ On one of these visits, the y weekly news conference, I had the opportunity to meet aud converse briefly with the President. not at liberty to report his observations, I am convinced
there is a real probability that
near future will state publicly—perhaps in a radio address or press conference—his desire for burying the hase
F.D.R. RACING AGAINST TINE
IN RAIL CRISIS
Summons Operators and
Union Officials to White House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt,
{dent's ‘little labor cabinet.’ “Rail labor chiefs declared the controversy should never have been tossed into the Presidents lap. He has just returned from overseas and
knows little about the merits or}
complications of the case other than what has been handed to him by his advisers.” Denounce Vinson ‘Labor said the dispute could have
the companies and the operating unions resumed efforts to find a way of averting the strike. Before the were 2 fusnagsment offer, endorsed by President Roosevelt, to raise the employees’ wages
ter-proposal calling for wage adJustiments at least twie the amount
Conferees refused go discuss what transpired at yesterday's four-hour
racing against time to avert a general railroad strike scheduled for Dee. 30, today summoned rail officials and presidents of the five operating unions to a conference with him Mobiliza
discarded.
occasion of the semiWhile I am
WASHINGTON, about a Scripps-Howard news story that President Roosevelt wanted to abandon the term “New Deal,” White House Secretary Stephen T. Early today sald this is so. “The phrase was born back In the days of 1932 emergency and it was the slogan threugh the campaign,” Early said, adding “this Is now 1943."
Dec. 23 P.).~Questioned
stamp.
Mr. Roosevelt in the
structure
igencies of world conflict as contrasted to the narrower objectives of domestic social and economic reform. The world today, Mr. Roosevelt believes, is in so convulsive a state that no one could prophesy accurately the futuie
of our social life.
This plan to scrap the term “New Deal” ts of more significance than appears on the surface. . Left-wingers will interpret this news as further evi-
Music for Our Wounded
Stout field men, confined to their beds during the holidays, will ‘be entertained tomorrow aftermoon by Catherine Cornell Prall (left), accordionist, and Donna. Dale Wagoner, violinist. They will stroll through the wards at the base hospital as a part of the Christmas activities provided for the patients through The Indianapolis Times | Christmas Fund and War Hespitals campaign.
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hundred other needy children. on the traditional Mile-O-Dimes.
HULL REPORTS STUDY OF BOLIVIA REGIME
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U. P.).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that the American governments are exchanging information
the- subject have been carried out thus far. “os Reporters “raised the question in view of Montevideo reports that the
ognition of the new Bolivian govern-
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Adequate Youth Recreation Sought in Experiment Here
The first step in a five-point ex-| Al movement to help hoys and girls find recreation
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[1000 Children Are Clothed: There’ s Still Time to Help
(List of Donors, Page Three) ALMOST 1000 children have been clothed during the 14th annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign and there still is time to contribute to the fund which is attempting to care for several
Cash contributions total $13,267.78, including the estimated $4700
The dimes will be
counted at 6 p. m. tomorrow and contribtions will be accepted un-
til that time.
The freezing temperatures have made the plight of the children yet uncared for even more serious and it will be a serious blow to both children and their parents if they cannot be provided clothing
with adequate ‘Christmas.
Act now. Several hundred desperately needy children are count-
ing on you.
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IN EISENHOWER
‘lke’ Reportedly Is Choice To Lead Attack on
Western Europe.
By LYLE WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—President Roosevelt has decided to keep his joint chiefs of staff intact and the interested powers have agreed that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower shall lead the allied invasion of Western Europe. The enormous responsibility thus confided in Eisenhower is indicated by well-sponsored warnings now circulating here that American war casualties next year will be severe One high government official pre{dicted last night that American
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WASHINGTON, Dee, 23 (U.P).
of staff, has returned to Washing - ton from his round-the-world Inspection trip, the war department | revealed today.
missing and prisoners, which now stands at around 132,000, would well |
{exceed the 500,000 mark.
‘Ike’ Visits 5th Army (Radio London" said Eisenhower
to command invasion forces pleased the army and navy. From several sources today it was learned that the decision meant the four-man team which has been directing the strategic conduct of cur share of the war will continue
«Gen. George C, Marshall, chief | Tod:
Some of the right-wingers will point to the dropping of the term “New Deal” as proof that Mr. Roosevelt is acknowledging the error of his ways. Other right-wingers will think it just a trick to catch votes. Because of their fixed: biases, however, neither leftist "not rightist critics will be able to discover the motives in the Rresident’s mind. Put yourself in Mr. Roosevelt's place. returned from the Cairo and Tehran conferences which dealt with matters that concern the life and death of
He has just
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Funny Money
| Indiana Farmers Get U. S. Checks but . Wonder Why.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Weiter
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—
have been sent to farmers, without explanation, from the treasurury’s Chicago disbursement office Officials here are busy trying to answer the question, “How come?” Farmers have written to senators and congressmen calling then “gift checks.” Agriculture officials think maybe they are AAA payments, but are not sure. They have taken the matter up with the treasury, but treasury officials tell them their Chicago machines are turning out miliions of checks and they have no facilities for informing each recipient what his check is for, They are certamly AAA checks, however, the treasury said.
® =» » { - FARMERS" IN Grant county, | Indiana, have complained to Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. member of the senate
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FAIR, WARMER
FORECAST: HERE
Weather Bureau Will Not
Promise Snow for
Christmas. LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. .... § 0am . 7am... 5 11am sf Sam... 5 12 (Noun) . 11 Sam. 4 1pm. . 12
While Indianapolis and the state shivered in bitter cold which will continued through tonight, the | wéather bureau today issued a wel- | come “fair and warmer” forecast for tomorrow, A steady decline of the mercury)
on that job. The four, comprising the United States joint chiefs of staff, are: Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of staff to Mr. Roosevelt. Marshall, chief of stall, U’ 8. army. Adm. Emest J. King, commander in chief, U, 8. fleet, and chief of naval operation, Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general, army air forces, “Big 4 to Keep Posts
The joint chiefs of staff was ors ganized in January of 1942 and has been composed of Leahy, Marshall, King and Arnold since March of that year. It appears now that those four men will continue to make their headquarters in Washington at least until the European phase of the war is ended. The major argument against shifting Marshall to an invasion command was that his staff job of helping co-ordinate a global war was of much more importance than the leadership of any one invasion effort, including that aimed
Hitler is licked, it is not unlikely
at Western Europe. The same ap- broadcast circulation of any speech plies to King and Arnold. ‘When he has ever made.
that all three of those men might for 2 p. m. (Indianapolis time) from : his home at Hyde Park, N. Y. It It was announced yesterday Will be carried by all American upon Gen, Marshall's return from networks, the entire system of the a tour of the Pacific fighting fronts|British Broadcasting Corp., the netthat he had told troops: “We've works of Australia and New Zeagot the Japs beaten but we have land and radio stations in Algiers,
which began yesterday dropped to
a. m. today, At municipal airport | at 7 a. m. the thermometer regis-| tered 2 above. The weather bureau said maps, showed no indications of snow here through tomorrow) but that it stil) was too early to predict the possibility of snow on Christmas. The weather provided excellent ice | skating at three city parks. Lake! Sullivan and lagoons at Garfield and ‘South Grove parks were glistening, smoothly frozen slabs.
east and south coast states, grip-| ping most of the nation, Canton, N. Y., was the coldest spot with 25! below zero, Roseau, Minn,, recorded 22 below.
FOR WILL ADDRESS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (U, P.. ~The White House said today that President Roosevelt's radio address to the nation and the armed forces tomorrow will have the widest
| Thousands of government checks
The frigid wave moved Into the
WORLD TOMORROW
{German defenses in Italy crumbled
ORTONA ALONG
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‘Reporter Passes Graves of the Rocket Coast,
Britons Sprinkled With Wild Flowers.
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Stall Correspondent
| layed.) —We jof German pangzers, past the fresh-| {ly painted crosses over Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's gallant tankmen who helped to blast them acide, and reached the gates of Ortona today Our car was unable to enter the]
still were holding out
contesting the 8th army's crushing assault upon the Adriatic anchor of the “winter line.” We had passed the first houses,
{had just finished with them, and {swung into the main street leading ‘into the town when a rattle of gun- | | fire halted us.
Down the road dashed a military
car carrying a young Welshman. (He stopped to caution
continuing, . Cheats Machine Guns
He had gone into Ortong to estab- |
lish an observation post and was driving down the apparently de-| |serted street when Germans opened > on him with machine guns from e upper stories of a house. ew caught me by surprise,” he sald, “but I got the car turned and came through the fire safely.” |. He told us that the Canadians, | meanwhile, had commenced to come | into the town from .the seacoast |road with tank reinforcements and were winking out the Nazi diehards, one nest after another. . Ortona has suffered greatly from day and night shelling by our artilollery and from Nazi sabotage, but °lits ruins are unimpressive compared {with the path of fire, death and |destruction along which I drove to {reach the ‘embattled town. The last lap into Ortona is known ito the 8th as the "Road of Five |Graves” because a few hundred | yards beyond the red-tiled roofs of
! Sess np sat
ALLIED CAPTURE OF ORTONA SEEN NEAR
DEATH'S ROAD
city proper because some Germans) in houses! converted into blockhouses, bitterly!
{which looked as if a wrecking squad |
us about
BRITISH CONTINUE AIR BLITZ THE ROCK
Secret WW capo
Bombard
LONDON, London newspapers s called in carried ‘western France since 1940 wel
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AGAINST
Dec. 23 (U.P)
COAN
1 DROVE INTO Germ ans Reported Setting Up
1s in France o = England.
British bombers, in what banner headlines “A Blitz On he heaviest assault on Northe Linto its fourth day today with
‘heavy smashes at areas where the Germans have been res i » {ported setting up secret weapons to bombard England.
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HEAD OF WORKS |
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Campbell Yielding Under const Political Pressure | to Resign.
By SHERLEY UHL Works Board President Campbell, vielding under concerted. ly applied political pressure, will re {sign his $3000-a-year job sometime laround the first of next year, it was {learned today,
| Campbell is expected ta make public & report purportedly indicating that works board operation has not been what it should have been due to methods used by certlin administra« tion department heads and politi(clans. Blames ‘Politicians’ On the other hand, administra{tion leaders have been criticising Mr. Campbell over a period of six months for allegedly “obstructing” the efficient functioning of the board which controls the spending of mil fions of dollars in city funds. Mr. Campbell asserts that “this unpleasantness has been provoked by politicians who are constantly trying to find fault with my independent supervision.” Most works board friction has! been between Mr. Campbell and Purchasing Agent Edward G. Hereth who has blamed Mr. Camp-
bell for frequent delays ‘n the ac- (a a low of 4 above in the city at 9 | (Continued on “Page 3—~Column 3) | [quisition of city materials.
Other | | criticism of the works board chief {has been levelled by the adminis-
tration’s Victory organization, com-!
} | posed of political policy-makers, | who contend that Mr. Campbell has | {been aligned with the regular G. O. P. organization with whom they
. lare at odds.
Canadians, Nazis Battle
House to House.
By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL|{GIERS, Dec. 23.~Canadian assault forces have carried the bloody battle of Ortona into its final phase, driving the Germans from most of the Adriatic port into its northwest outskirts in house-to-house fighting, iit was revealed today, - | While the Adriatic wing of the under British imperial pressure, American troops -battling to lay open the Rome road slogged through the rain-soaked mountains above
Mr. Roosevelt's speech is timed
to keep pushing.”
{Tyndall Creates 5-Member Bi-Partisan Hospital Board
Palermo, Bari, Naples and India,
Cassino to eapture two more com-
Huff May Get Post y Although Mayor Tyndall, because | of illness, has not been available for comment for the past week, he is expected to hand over the words board presidency to C. Huff, now serving as chairman of his post-war committee. The mayor is especially pleased with Mr. Huff's
reported to have been saved. Members of the city council and | certain administration “bigwigs” are touting Dr. Walter Hemphill, now the board vice president, for | the president's post. They believe his year's experience will provide the impetus to lift the board out of its present - “administrative lethargy.”
mandiug heights, French forces manning the Sth army front northwest of Venafro, came back strongly after suffering | a slight reverse and scored new | gains in the 3000-foot mountains.
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‘Hoosier Heroes—
DALLAS PENDERGAST
Mother Notified : Marine Corporal ‘Injured. Wounded
CPL. DALLAS E. PENDER-
South Pacific, was wounded in hetion Nov, 21, The war department announcement was received Mon « | day by his mother, Mrs.
| Harmon
At the time of his resignation Mr.
survey of city insurance premiums | by which considerable money is|
sources said e
‘the southeast coast sald vivid _. | plosions PUL the Right aky
| On the War
GAST, marine stationed in the STALY-Canadiabs caplute
This afternoon great formation of aircraft; flying above
the straits in the direction of
WITH THE BRITISH 8TH Dunkirk, and R. A. F. typhoons, carrying hpmbs, swept out ARMY at ORTONA, Dec. 22 (De- toward France flying so low that they appeared to be huge swept past a graveyard | ono the water.
For the last 9% hour s the R.
A. F. has been hammering (hard at the Pas de Calais area \where, according to neutral | dispatches, the Germans are
: preparing . batteries of rocket ‘BOARD TO QUIT su» | London ’
newspapers referred to the fortified area of Northwestern France as “the secret weapon
Raiders Suffer No Loss
Earlier today medium bombers (ook up the attack on the “rocket const’ which R. A. FP heavy ‘bombers carried through last night, An alr ministry communique cove ‘ering last night's operations sald |only that bombers raided objectives
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 23 (U, P.). :
| —Berlin tehes reported today an olfclal. prediction by a Wh spokesman brought upon London within two or three in retaliation tor allied air
in Northern France and Western. Germany without loss, but watchers on the English southeast coast ree ported tons of explcsives were dropped on the Pas de Calais ares across the channel. It was the second time in seven nights that the air ministry hus announced raids on Northern France and coastal reports indicated addie tional attacks had been made In recent nights, though not reported In"communiques, _ Approach 1940 Vielence | The offensive appeared to be ape | proaching the violence of that which wrecked German preparations for n invasion of Britain In 1940. Bus {allied authorities have not specified {either the targets or the intent of | the, present series of raids, Dispatches from Sweden and | Switzerland have reported that the {Germans were building [emplacements in the Pas de Calais area for rocket guns, the secret (weapons with which many quarters {believe the Germans hope to ree |tallate for the allied air offensive {against Germany. Descriptions of the rocket-driven {projectiles have varied. One Swiss [report said the rocket shell was bee ‘i lieved to weigh 50 tons, though care {rying only 10 tons of explosives, | The other 40 tons were said to have {been required for the glider itself and propulsion apparatus. a Report 75-Ton Shell Another report was that the shelly weighed 75 tons, including 65 tons of explosives. Though this repres sents an extremely high proportion lof propulsion material, munitions experts said the extreme /would be worth while if it the Germans to score hits in the {center of London. Most observers were skeptical of {the value of such rockets because of ihe difficulty of controlling them. It
ve radiorcontrinied but allied a be ra but counter-mease
ures were at hand. : <ul A United Press
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