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HERE'S WHAT YOU D0 TO HELP

Tie Your Bundles Neatly and Have Them

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The collection of waste paper, the No..1 war shor

SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1944

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind, Issued daily except Sunday

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It Your Street Looks Like This Tomorrow, You Will Be a Model Participant i in Indianapolis’ Waste Paper Drive

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LEGION URGES FREE ECONOMY, WORLD ONT

In Program.

A program for post-war readjustments, embracing international

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REPORT YANK PATROLS GERMAN 7TH FACING

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material, from your curbs will take place ‘rain or shine’ tomorrow, and volunteer workers from civic, labor and business groups will tour all streets within the city limits in the

co-operation and a domestic policy of free enterprise for full employment, was outlined here today in 2

. and will be shipped to various paper

"corps drivers, 100 trucks by volun-

one-day, city-wide waste paper collection drive. Here's the way to help the war effort:

in bundles 12 to 15 inches] high. | Tie books and magazines if bundles 12 to 15 inches high. Flatten paper cartons and tie ‘in bundles 13%0 15 inches high. Place loose scrap.paper in bag or carton, pack in firmly, Place Scrap on Curb After these instructions are followed, just have the donations on| the curb by 9 o'clock tomorrow morning and the volunteer workers] will do the rest. But just one more thing will help, them along and help keep the city] clean , . . tie the bundles tightly | and with heavy string. | Remember the men making this! collection are volunteers and will be] working hard enough without hav-| ing to pick up exceedingly heavy) bundles or papers scattered through- | out the streets because strings have broken, 1000 Volunteers More than 200 trucks and almost] 1000 volunteer workers have been | recruited. An additional 100 men are needed | as a workers for four houts| . tomorrow. Volunteers should report| to the War Memorial Plaza by 8:20! am ‘ The paper will be collected and]

stacked inside the fairgrounds, along!

railroad sidings. Beginning Monday, the paper will be placed in box cars,

mills. City firemen and other guards will be present at all hours at the fairgrounds to eliminate any danger. Auxiliary firemen also will be on duty. The Red Cross clubmobile will be Bet up at the fairgrounds and will serve cold drinks, coffee and food to the hundreds of workers. Miss Georgia Connelly will be in charge:

Army Trucks Used

Among vehicles to be used in the tollection will be 25 army trucks driven by OCD drivers, 25 army trucks driven by Red Cross motor

teers from the Teamsters joint council 69, A, F. of L. City street commissioners are providing 30 trucks and 100° workers; the Loysl Order of Moose, 100 workers; the Junior Chamber of Commerce, 110 workers; Curtiss-Wright employees, 60 workers; the Indiana State guard, 50 workers; the C. 1. O., 100 workers. Many private truck owners will drive their own vehicles and volunteers also will come from utilities and firms. Beech Grove is included in the local drive,

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preliminary report issued by the

Tie newspapers american Legion commission on

post-war America. Eleven recommendations were

Explosion Gives

Clue to Fireball Landing in State

HOOSIERDOM'S newest class of treasure hunters, in search of the remains of the giant meteorite which streaked its Way across central Indiana skies yesterday, were warned today that weeks and even months of scientific investigation may be required to jocate the remains of the ubiquitious fireball. Emsley W. Johnson Sr. of Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Astronomical association, said

Col. Louis Johnson, Clarksburg. W Va., former national] Legion commander and former assistant secre-

tary of war. List 11 Points

an efiduring peace and a sound and expanding national economy. 2. Employment fostered by a system of free enterprise embodying the greatest encouragement to individual initiative and to every sort of sound business leadership along with an effective imple- { mentation of a nationgl program of {fair and impartial treatment for both management and labor.

{ him at that address. He wired

3. Prompt settlement of terDr. Charles P. Oliver, president of the American Meteor society, whose address is Flower Observatory, Upper Darby, Pa. would like to have persons who observed the phenomenon write te

dures substantially: in accord with those recommended in the BaruchHancock report. 4. Disposal of surplus war mai terials and properties in accordance with. the principles set forth in the { Baruch-Hancock report. of

The Times that he is seeking information concerning the course the meteor followed, its size, shape, height above the earth, type and color of smoke or fire left in its wake and any sound it made.

5. As rapid abandonment

! materials, prices and wages, as is {safé to the national economy. 8. Revision of federal taxation to maintain a high level of business activity so there will be encourage-

ment for the employment of venture capital in risk enterprises.

Urge Bank Credits

7. Availability of bank credits to qualified returning soldiers and sailors and without federal guarantees or participations to industrial firms trying to resume the production of civilian goods, in order that growth of small businesses may be encouraged. 8. Retention by the United States of such island outposts and bases ss are essential to national security. 9. Prosperous agriculture through

that experts from scientific agencies undoubtedly will be sent here to search for the remaing of the phenomenon, and that a concentrated search will be conducted. Intricate meteorite detecting devices may have to be put to use in discovering the fragments which remain of the celestial skyrocket, he said.

Mr. Johnson hazarded the guess that the resting place of the fireball may be in the near vicinity > Brazil, Ind., 35 miles west of Indianapolis. He based his guess on stories on reports from Indiana towns where the phenomenon was sighted. “If reports from these cities can he believed,” said Mr. Johnson, “Indianapolis residents saw the meteorite to the he Weg, while Vin-

and forest conservation program, | vigorous development of home and | | foreign markets and of new uses; ! for agricultural products. 10. Immediate enactment of =a | peacetime universal military train- | ing act in order that the nation |

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Westbrook Pegler Leaving Scripps-Howard Papers

“Decision not to renew the contract between the World-Telegram

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Announce- |

{ment was made here today that] {and Westbrook Pegler was by mu-

Westbrook Pegler, World-Telegram |tual consent. Any Scripps-Howard columnist, is leaving the Seripps- |editor in whose city the column may Howard newspapers at the termina- be available is of course at liberty tion of his present contract to {6in {to purchase the feature if he s0 the Hearst papers, which will syn-|desires.

made by the commission headed by |

minated war contracts by proce-|

| wartime controls over commodities, |

an effective and efficient soil, water |

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Watch the Balkans for sensational events. First peace overtures probably will emanate from there, as in world war I. Churchill did not go to Rome just for a vacation. Nor did the military situation in Mediterranean call. for his presence, - What did summon him, we're-told, was the: political Situation’ scioss the Adriatic. in Bulgaria. Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Yugoslavia, He has there as emissary of the Big Three. While Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary are believed seeking a way out, they fear the Nazis, Se Yugesiavia and Turkey, aided by the allies, may soon apply military pressure fo speed up a German withdrawal,

That would account for the presence in Rome—along with Churchill—of Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, Undersecretary of War Pat-

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Dewey's Aid and Hull Seen Near Accord Before Parley

By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The prospects of keeping foreign policy out of the presidential political campaign were considered brighter today after Secretary of State Cordell Hull agreed to confer with Governor Thomas E. Dewey's foreign adviser “on any date or dates convenient to him.” Dewey's riser, John Foster Dulles, is expected to besome secretary {of state if the Republicans win the »

| electi fal ection this fall. or 'Ludwell Denny’ Says:

JR Ts SECRET PARLEY BREWS TROUBLE

men of long international experi‘Excuses for Closing Doors

ence whose views on how to keep the peace after the war on the basis When Big Powers Meet Termed Invalid.

On only one major point to they show next Monday, correspondents

of their public statements are in virtual agreement. On the basic framework of an international security organization they are in full agreement. Dulles already has con-| appear to’ disagree, Dulles has in{dorsed a plan embodying an inter- By LUDWELL DENNY {national air force, the personnel of Scripps-Howard Staff Writer which would wear united nations| WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The uniforms, operate from bases ceded -public is to be barred from the {to the international organization Dumbarton Oaks conference. at Police reported today that Alice Marie Bixler, 20, of 621 E. New York talk ee ne Sessions nop st., had returned safely to her home. | A democratic world peace system Yesterday a rescue squad dragged ; supposed to blossom from ‘the White River near the 10th st. bridge | dunghill of secret diplomacy, It fearing that she might have | (Continued on “Page 2—Column 4)

| ferred with other state department post-war planners. | which the big powers will draft the (Continued on “Page 2—Column 7) post-war world security organizadrowned. . Mother, Sister, Two Children Stricken by Food Poisoning

International Air Force I ‘DROWNED’ GIRL RETURNS [tion. After a meaningless first-day physician, - neighbors

A mother, her two children anda private

{ liberated by Maquis troops, calm [reigns today, with sunburned, tough-

{through tank traps and barbed wire

dicate his column Uyrough King Features. In response to a request for comment, Roy W. Howard, editor of the World-Telegram, said:

her young sister were in fair condition at City hospital today after suffering an attack of food poison-

ing while ealing breakfast this morning. Mrs. Rena Mae Reynolds, 28, wife

“The termination of ScrippsHoward's sponsorship of the Pegler column is not an incident—it's a

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Amusements 6 Eddie Ash ... Churches .... Comics ...... Crossword ... Editorial# ... 6 Ernie Pyle . Peter. Edson . 6 Radio ‘Financial ..... 10 Ration Dates 3 Forum 6| Mrs, Roosevelt 7 ‘Side Glances.—..6. “Inside Tndmls, 3 ‘State Deaths. . 4

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104 Ruth Millett. 8 | Movies 4 | Music 9 Obituaries ..3, 9. Pegler

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of Charles Reynolds, 530 Lyndhurst dr, their two children; James, 8, and Marcia, 6, and Mrs. Reynolds’ sister, Virginia Kate Nation, 11, who is on a visit here from her home at Frankfort, were the persons stricken. Mr. Reynolds had gone to work at the Bridgeport hemi ‘Co, -before the’ others becaine | The Nati Nation’ child # the cottage to a Shouse neigh

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called police and a fire rescue squad was dispatched to the address to check for escaping gas. Two ambulances added to the vehicles in front of the residence drew a throng to the usually quiet’ neighborhood. City hospital physicians said that illness was dye to food poisoning and employees of the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility reported, following a close examination of gas connections in the home, that there were no gas leaks, - 3 Following an examination of the remains of the breakfast the fam. |

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‘AFTER 4 YEARS, | SAW PATRIOTS FREEING FRANCE:

Reporter Tells of ‘Quiet, Dignified Joy" in MaquisLiberated Area.

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER, OUTSIDE GENEVA, Aug. 19.—All along the Franco-Swiss . border,

looking lads of 20 to 25 in uncontested control. » With the dark gray uniforms of the Wehrmacht no longer disfiguring its landscape, France is récover-

ing its usual face, the face of a free}

country, in quiet and dignified joy. This was the scene I witnessed last night when, after witnessing for

ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—Resistance has collapsed in Annecy, last Nazi stronghold in the Haute Savoie and 1200 Germans have surrendered, Maquis officers here said today. }

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From Rest of France; S. S. Men Lead Flight.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F,, Aug. 19.—Reliable reports reaching headquarters said American armored | patrols may have entered Paris today as allied planes, tanks and infantrymen chopped the remnants of the German 7th army into a disorganized rabble and herded its survivors eastward toward almost certain annihilation on the Seine, American tank columns already were reported stride the Seine river crossings more than 40 miles abové Paris and squarely across the path of the Nazis fleeing from the allied ground and air forces in Normandy. The battle of Northern France had degenerated into a Tiessaere and the enemy retreat had become a wild race

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toward the Seine and abane doning regular German army Fall of South France Port Expected Within a

troops to the pursuing allies, Few Hours.

Headquarters spokesmen disclaimed all knowledge of the By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

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running roughshod through the | suburbs and might: now be inside

four years the German yoke being | . ever tightened on a gallant nation, | was able again to set foot on a tree France. A Swiss patrol escorted me onto French soil.. There the first man I met was a Maquis (underground) liaison officer seated on a brand-new motorcycle who shook hands and demanded news of friends in Switzerland. His description of the exploits of the Magquis was surprisingly modest.

s Nazis Demoralized

“We managed to accomplish what we did,” he said, “because of the utter demoralization of the Germans.” But he was most emphatic in complaining that the Maquis lacked arms, especially machine guns and tommy guns. Parachuted equip- | ment was insufficient, he attested. “We have ‘not enough weapons | to arm all the lads who apply to! Join us,” he said, When I asked what he and his! men would do next, he promptly replied, to throw the Germans out of France.”

Then, apparently headed for fur- |

ther tasks elsewhere, our Maquis ‘|{riend turned to a Frenchman near-

that he was all right. It seemed that» though she lived only three miles away he had not seen her for months, ‘Crosses Border

And as it was beginning ‘to get dark and my patrol was becoming restive, I said farewell after this brief excursion into France and crossed back into Switgerland. Enheartened, the Maquis army of the department of Haute Savoie is eagerly pursuing its successes of yesterday. Bitter fighting was reported still | in progress early today for the final possession of Annecy, the famous lakeside resort and one of Savoy's chief towns. The Maquis has taken over the ration of liberated areas

[to within perhaps 25 miles of Mar- [miles

“We have but one idea— |

by and asked him to tell his wife]:

situation inside Paris, but it was acknowledged the Americans were ROME, Aug. 19.—American ai-|tphe capital. sault forces broke into the outer (The Vatican official newspapee suburbs of the great naval base of | | Osservatore Romano said today

{ Toulon today and a front dispatch | ‘that Paris had been “occupied” by predicted its fall this week-end. the Americans, but it gave ne (A correspondent for the com-, g

bined radio networks broadcast source for the report, which ape from the Mediterranean theater peared premature.)

that the allies “are aiming at the | (NBC Correspondent Robin Duff { broadcasting from Normandy late today reported that the French Maquis ‘were in “fairly general tone trol of Vichy,” and that they had set up courts of their own in the city.) ‘

PORT BOU, Spain, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—The Germany army was reported reliably today to have withdrawn its troops from the entire Franco-Spanish frontier, Spread Out Along River

gates of Toulon and I wouldn't be! The sudden American thrust te surprised if it falls in our hands in the Seine northwest of Paris was a matter of hours.”) | disclosed by the German high While American tanks and tn-{command early today in a brief fantry drove to within five miles or | announcement that fighting was in {less of Toulon in an assault from | progress around Mantes, 30 miles the northeast, another’ American |above the capital, and Vernon, 13% ‘column outflanked the base from the, miles, farther to the northwest. {north and threatened it with en-| Allied headquarters said only that !circlement in a lunge that carried one American unit advanced 18 from captured Dreux to 'seille, Prance's largest port and | | within five miles of the Seine in second largest city, against feeble the Mantes area, but it was ine resistance. | dicated the 'doughboy columns ale United Press War Correspondent ready were fanning out along the Reynolds Packard, in a dispatch river bank to establish a strong dated “seven miles from Toulon,” | bieck against the fleeing Germans

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Russ Pour Across Vistula In New Threat to Warsaw

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 19. — Marshal | Ivan 8. Konév's 1st Ukrainian army, pouring across the Vistula river on a 75-mile front, by-passed the German stronghold of Radom in a lightning advance up the west bank {to within 45 to 50 miles south of Warsaw today. The new, drive, remizitscent of the American breakthrough in Nor mandy, set the stage for a coordinated two-way assault on the Pulich cdp

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apital from the south .and’

was no word yet that Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky’s troops and tanks had yet forced the narrow, shallow stream, ‘The Germans were reported hurling : fresh reseéfves daily from central Germany into the battle on the border of East Prussia, * On the Baltic front, the Gere mans hammered two wedges inte of [the Soviet line west of the Lithue Lanian cormunications hub of Bisii« lial in an effort to break Shrotight