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FOR VAGUE ON FUTURE ROLE FOR NELSON
Says WPB Chief May Not Return to Post; Krug Pinch Hits.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. P). =Pregsident Roosevelt told his news conference today he- did not know whether Donald M, :Nelson would resume his duties as chairman of the war production board after his trip to China, which begins todey. The President explained that it was difficult to say what was going to happen in the future, _ The President's statement came
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Let There
By THOMAS
of the current preliminary c
Great Britain and Russia. around this town in many months.
laying the basis for a future intern
Reporters Barred Too Often, Stokes Observes, Suggesting That Diplomatic Secrecy Racket Must Be Broken Up.
Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—A much bigger issue is involved than might appear on the surface in the secrecy
ton Oaks among representatives of the United States,
Newspaper correspondents covering the state depaviibent are trying to lift the veil and let -in some iight. question of getting “news” as such, though it is the biggest news
the world right now—as regards the future. The issue is that of informing the people of this country and the world how their representatives are carrying out their trust in
zation js primarily to keep the peace and preserve justice, but in this
Be Light
L. STOKES
onferences here at Dumbar-
But this is not a mere
It is, in fact, the biggest news in
ational organization, This organi
objective, it will have many other things to do. It will have to break down the discriminations and
har which
-EOmdri—Jd—A—Krug,—once—a—WPBvice chairman and now just returned from a navy assignment in Normandy, to take WPB and “run it” in the absence of Nelson and ‘the surprise resignation yesterday of Executive Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, former General Electric president. Mr. Roosevelt was asked, whether he contemplated that Nelson would resume his’ duties as head of WPB after the trip to China which Nelson
J. Hurley on a mission assigned to them by the chief executive,
Leaves Today
He replied that Nelson was leaving today and that the mission was very important. He said the question was almost iffy and he did not know. He went on to say that it is sort of iffy to say what's going to happen in the future, And again, he said he did not know. Under questioning he said that Nelson was still WPB chairman although an acting chairman—Krug —went in today to occupy the top WPB spot while Nelson is in China. Nelson saw the President yesterday and a short while later the White House announced the resignation of Wilson, who accused Nelson of having interfered with the reconversion program and said members of Nelson's staff had inspired unfair attacks on the executive vice chairman,
with reluctance, ‘Mr. Roosévelt ap-|
pointed Krug as acting WPB chairman in Nelson's absence but there
was considerable speculation as to}
whether Nelson would return as head of the agency. . = Denounces Nelson Krug told the United Press that he was not advised during his talk with the chief executive whether, his assignment was temporary. Wilson, the former $175.000-a-yrar president of General Electric, who was called into the WPB to break bottlenecks in plane and ship building, followed his resignation with a bitter denunciation of Nelson, leaving high and dry the congressmen and others who had been protesting
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Nazi Heckler: ‘Lies, Fables’
By UNITED PRESS The newscaster on the German domestic radio network was delivering his regular fare last night, when & voice broke in: “Paris has\fallen . . . We will lose Warsaw, t00.” A short time later, the voice again interrupted: “Our fatherland is a field of ruins.” When the announcer tried to read the German high command communique, the heckler added: “Lies, fables.” The broadcast was recorded
FOR ‘IN TOUCH’ WITH WILLKIE
President Admits ‘Private’ Contact but Spars Off
Questions.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. PJ. ~—Commenting that he sees lots of people privately, President Roosevelt said today that he had been in private contact with Wendell L. Willkie. Mr. Roosevelt, under news conference questioning, said he knew of no plans for a “private” meeting with the 1940 Republican presidential nominee, Then he went on
that no date had been set, ‘ Asked whether he had been in touch with Willkie, the President said, “Well, yes; privately.” “Does privately preclude any...” a reporter started to ask. But he was quickly cut off by the Presi. dent who said yes, it precluded. °
Terms Matter Personal
Mr, Roosevelt was asked at his Aug. 18 news cohference whether
Shortly. after the first reports of a presidential invitation to Willkie, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the 1944 Republican candidate, made a similar bid to- Willkie. asking him to visit Albany to discuss foreign .policy with him and John Foster Dulles, Dewey’ s foreign | affairs adviser, Willkie, instead, elected to see Dulles alone in New York,
NEW YORK. Aug. 25 (U. P)— Confirming reports that President Roosevelt had invited him to a conference, Wendell L. Willkie said’ today that he would prefer such a meeting after the election, but that if Mr, Roosevelt wished to see him sooner, he would comply.
HULL, DULLES NOT IN FULL AGREEMENT
(Earlier Details, Page Three)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull and John Foster Dulles, foreign policy adviser to Governor Thomas E. Dewey, issued a joint statement today indicating lack of complete agreement on the question of nonpartisan discussion of means of attaining a lasting peace. The joint statement said that they had agreed on “num aspects” of the subject and would continue to confer about develop-
by FCO monitors,
ments as they arise.
Councilman Brown Backs
Plan for 'K-9 Bill of Rights’
Canine veterans are going to be {reated dog-gone well in: Indianapolis if City Councilman William A. Brown can swing Times’ Column. ist Lowell Nussbaum’s pet idea. Councilman Brown said he cer-
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tainly would prepare an ordinance exempting discharged members of the K-9 corps from payment of city dog license fees for the remainder of their lives, as suggested yesterday in. Nussbaum'’s column, “Inside
. | Indianapolis.”
“As a matter of fact,” Mr. Brown
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some people in some parts of the world to live and which lead to wars, and make it easier for people everywhere fo trade with one another, which fosters peace.
Represent the Public
80 WHAT is involved is not just a battle between some reporters trying to do their work and recalcitrant officials. The reporters represent the public. It is their they are very much alive to it—to let the public know what it should know, so the people may have some voice in their future; so they will not wake up some morning and find that a little group of men sitting in seclusion somewhere; have “sold them down the river.”
This has been widely heralded as a “people's war.” Certainly lots of people are mixed up if it. Certainly lots of people’ are going. to be affected by what comes out of it. Reporters covering these conferences are representing them, It is no new experience to be’ “shut outy But it is getting 106 common. °, Reporters have been
" barred from many conferences in ‘the last year or twn and have seen the glint of bayonets carried by’ soldiers patrolling fancy hotels and resorts where the diplomats have gathered. It all smacks too much of what we are fighting
here is making, And now, in the. opinion of many, lias come -the, time to maké a stand Spats,
They to sit around a diplomats, just as they dont go in | and sit with legislators: who are: writing Jaws at the capitol. But they: do expect to be informed :-of what decisions” are. made, and learn something of tire considerations involved. ’ . They are not getting" that op--portunity here-now: - Diplomats have a cult of their “own, It has grown up through . the cenfuries. It is all wound. up with * protocol. They get to believe all of it, and get to take themselves very seriously, as a class apart. - They can be trusted up to a point, but ‘not foo far, They are sure ‘of their own right-
of wrongness. By nature get too much in the habit of worshiping the old forms, the old ways of doing things. It's about time the racket was busted up.
NO SURE POLIO OUR, RESEARCHER WARNS
Here for Session, Dr. Lavan Sees Progress.
“There is no preventive, no serum, no: vaccine or ‘miracle drug’ for infantile paralysis. Our only present weapon in fighting the disease is public education.” This was the picture presented today by Dr. John L. Lavan, research director of the National Foundatoni for Infantile Paralysis. He is in Inidanapolis for the twoday sesion of the Indiana committee of the foundation, which convened today at the Claypool hotel. Although research has : deter~ mined that the disease has virus and carriers, the mode of contagion has not been isolated, Dr. Lavan said. : “We have found the virus in several agents—fly, man, and others,” he said. “But we face a riddle similar to the hen and the egg. Does the fly contact the virus from man, or man from the fly?” Dr. Lavan said recent discoveries have enabled doctors to prevent the disease in experimental animals,
man benefit, He explained the animal éxperiments are vastly different
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make it hard-for I~ —TONDON, Aug. 25 (U. | |
eousness, and it often covers a lot |
but that this has redounded to hu-|the
FRIDAY, AUGUST
NAZIS
Romania Hinted
Declaring War
On Nazis.
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P.).—The British Broadcasting Co. heard : radio Cairo broadcast an announcement today that the new Romanian government had declared war on Germany. The German Luftwaffe bombed Bucharest late today, BBC said.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
broadcast said today that German forces had begun a withdrawal from Romania and Cairo heard they also: were abandoning Bulgaria as the. result of Romania's capitulation to Russia. “The entire Balkans were reported in a turmoil over: Germany’s ‘setback in “Romania and
to southeastern . Europe. Slovakia was Teported to ‘have proclaimed
radio called on the Hungarian army 0 revolt sgainst the: Germans. -
{today said: the -Hungarian governiment is now being: “reshuffled.” quéating the ‘German foreign office as-its ‘authority; . The Berlin: foreign fr also asserted that “measures indicated by the developments in Southern: Susspe> “have ‘been taken
Romania, where the front was. “dis[integrating under the impact of troubles and treason.” his cliques is causing.us some wortinue to do so until ‘the situation has’ been secired again by prompt! action, as it was in Ttaly,” he said. Romania's surrender: followed the
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the growing Russian .army threat|-
martial law and .an underground
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service radio commentator, acknowl=| edged in a Berlin broadcast that] {German troops were pulling: out of|
: “We do not want to dény that. the : treason of the Romanian king and}
ries and difficulties and will con-},
, Diplomatic circles in Ankara said}:
failure of Germany to promise mil-}
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PORTED IN FULL FLIGHT INELAND FROM N. ABANDONING ROBOT BOMB BASES
“Armed / amie Jacksonville |
Jer ; JACKSONVILLE; Fla. Aug. 25 (U, P.).—~Inmates of the Duval county jail surrendered - to strong forces of military _ ~and civilian police this after - ' noon after barricading them- ’ selves in the building and ex- - changing - fire with officers who laid ‘siege. . The * surfender came, ac- . cording sto the military police - office here, before it was necessary to fill the jail with . tear gas. . ’ Authorities fook possession of the building and said conr ditions “had been Tegiored to normal, to ’
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Declares Army Sees October End in Europe
WASHINGTON. Aug. 25 (U. P).—Chairman Clifton * A. .. Woodrum (D, Va.), told the house committee on post-war, military policies today ‘that army “tentatively” estimates that “ the ‘war against Germany will end in October. - His statement came as President Roosevelt declined - at his press- conference to make any guess on when Ger- ' many will collapse or how long the war in the Far East will last. } It followed by 12 hours a statement by Secretary of ° Navy James Forrestal quoting Gen. Dwight’ Eisenhower as saying there was no rational - way to predict when the Germans could be finished off. Woodrum declined to expand on his statement. But the committee heard Rear. Adm. James H. Irish, who was testifying on disposal of surplus property, declare that the navy is “assuming that the war against the Japanese will proceed on at least until the |
} ment refused to negotiate grievances |.
41and Park walkout had no conneé-
F000 STRIKE WS. PLANE. ENGINE WORK
2800 at’ Detroit Protest Pay
Classifications.
DETROIT, Aug. 25. (U. P.).=~Production of Pratt -& Whitney airplane . engines was “halted at the Ford "Motor Co." S. Highland Park plant today - when 2800 members of the Tnited Automobile Workers union (C. I. 0.) walked off the job ‘in protest of pay classifications and lay-off procedure. ; William Oliver, U. A. W-C. IL 0. local’ 400 secretary, said that “although the -grievances” are ' justified” union leaders Were. attempt-
to. their jobs, Oliver charged that the manage-
with union representatives. : Oliver indicated that the High-
tion ‘with charges by -another U. A. W.-C: L O. local that “fifth column elements” were. fomenting
end of 1945."
By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Aug. 25.—~American forces captured the Riviera resort city of Cannes today and were reported battling the Germans only. 15 miles below Lyon, big Rhone valley industrial center, 170 miles inland from M coast, A United Press dispatch from Annecy, capital of Haute Savoie province, said an American flying col-
Americans Capture Cannes After Bitter One-Week Sioge
Rouge plant.
~LONDON, Aug. 25° (wv. P= French interior forces. entered Lyon yesterday, F.F.L headquar‘ters announced in a, special communique today.
already had reached ‘the ‘Swiss border at St. Julien, 16 miles farther north, and Evian, 25 miles northeast of St. Julien. . ‘The Rome newspaper Il Tempo id an American frmored column
‘The Fighting Isn't Over
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Rear ‘Adm. Arthur s. Carpender and Governor ‘Schricker «++ lhey're pretty Tow of Indiana's war effort. but “the ging jim over,”
DISTRICT CHIE
Carpender Warns Against Relaxing Before Japs . Are Crushed.
By MILDRED KOSCHMANN
crushed, Rear Adm, Arthur 8. Carcommandant - of . the 9th naval district, said today, citing the
. danger of a peace psychosis on the ‘house-to-house battle against stub-. u
‘home: front.
ties: and. war plants. | “You can't turn the spigot off |
pan,” Adm. Carpender explained. “The fighting isn't over.” ‘He said that there is a misunderstanding among the people back home as to how quickly the mate-
cific .area and then put into oper ation. . ~The . physical movement of ma-
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Hoosier Heroes—
SOLDIER AND SAILOR KILLED IN ACTION
..Iwo.in Pacific,
has ‘been killed in France. Eight
included on today's hero list, six
who, have had’ their status changed.
KILLED Pvt. Robert N. Gentsheimer, formerly of 3007 N. Delaware st., France,
Pharmacist's Mate 2-c Edmund H. McAtee, 1517 Hoefgen st. South Pacific.
MISSING.
st., in France: WOUNDED: Pre, Charles: §. Wetnight, Alton ave., in. France: T. 5th Gr. Alvis K. (Jake) DeRee, 2321 Hoyt ave. in France. Pfc. Jeremiah Mahoney, 552 N. Lynn st, on Saipan, Pfc. Arthur. PF. Townes, in BE Morris st, in South Pacific,
3 N
Lawton, in France, - 2 PRISONER
1. Sgt.” Branton Veteto, 333 8.
nce Randolph st., of Germany. ‘ SAFE
‘German 7th Reduced to Disorganized
{line and the Rhine, under savage attack of allied palnes.
| | broken remnants of the enemy's Tth army below the Seine,
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Continue your war effort 100 per cent until the Japs are completely
* The admiral, who was in com- ters sources indicated, the complete into the Latin quarter, where regus mand of naval forces and activities liberation of the city was How ‘8 lars of the French 2d armored di= in the Southwest Pacific for a year! matter of hours: - and a half, is.in Indianapolis on | An unidentified announcer, rean inspection tour of naval facili- | ported. to be an American war cor-
in Europe and immediately in Ja-|
rial in Europe can be transported “{more than 10.000 miles to the Pa-
Three Wounded i in France; the barrage balloons.
, workess’ apartments in one south= |
Fightin in the South Pacific has taken the life of one Indianapolis | man and a former focal resident
other Indianapolis men are also « = = I of them new casualties and two in in
Pte. Bri F. Babbs, 2026 Ruckle
Pvt. Robert E. Scheigent, 1518}
FRANCE,
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| Rabble; Last Ditch Fight on Reich Border Predicted.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY _ United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Aug. 25.—The German armies of Northern France were reported in full flight for the Rhineland today, abandoning their Seine-river line from Paris to the sea and the robot bomb bases along the channel coast. With their 7th army reduced from a first-class fighting machine of some 450,000 men to a disorganized rabble of barely 90,000 in the disastrous battle of Normandy, the Germans appeared to be pulling out of all Northern France and moving back for a last ditch fight on the borders of their homeland. The Nazi 15th army in the Pas de Calais area, stripped of much of its armor and artillery to reinforce the 7th army, was reported racing headlong toward the Marne river
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Four Allied Armies Close In Simultaneously, four allied armies crushed in on the.
converging on the great channel port of Le Havre. Canadian troops swung eastward along the channel coast to capture Honfleur at the mouth of the Seine and less than five airline miles across the estuary from Le Havre, and headquarters Soler on .|dawn Saturday the allies would be said-the survivors of the Nazi| compiete masters of the south bank army were penned into a boX of the Seine.
Word of the mass enemy withe Peiwecn the Riste any Seine| dy a 4 . Yers, barely 15 miles deep an | quarters by allied airmen, who re miles long. i ported the roads leading east and The wp was RE witty south from Dieppe, Amiens, Beau-
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Report Yanks Pouring Info Heart of Paris i in Hot Battle
ter of ‘the. city, sald the Yanks stormed. through the Orleans gate lon the south side of Paris at 10:40 this morning and fanned out swiftly
i By JOHN A ‘PARRIS United Press Stall Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 25.— American tanks and, riflemen were reported | pouring into’ the heart of Paris to- oe. the main avenues, : day to join French regulars and’ a A few minutes later the spokes {motley Parisian street army in a! man announced that doughboy columns had reached the. Luxembourg | born German troops; and héadquar- gardens and had gone on beyond
‘| vision already were attacking Nazi strong-points. The German: D.” N. B. news | respondent, broadcasting from -a agency said the Americans broke | secret Fighting French transmitter
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Robot Attacks on England Resumed After Night’ s Respite
LONDON, Aug. 25 (U.-P).—Flying bombs" believed directed from sites in France, Belgium and Holland: again fell ori-London in daylight today after a night spent in uneasy anticipation of. Berlin's promised e unveiling of the new Nazi secret weapon, V-2, Ee Not even one of the familiar V-1 projectiles reached. London during darkness—the first such respite in a week. , The Nazis made a heaty. attempt to saturate the defenses . yesterday evening, however, with wave on wave of- bombs coming over during the daylight hours. Fighters and ack-ack gunners
report to ‘commons on Aug. 8 on the buzzbombs said that a total of 17,000 homes had been destroyed and 800,000 damaged to that date. | brought down many of the pilotless (The British information’ service Iplanes and others were caught “by in Néw York said last night’ ‘that.’ A block of |“the fury of the robot bomb attack ‘on England. has now reached such m En land business district ‘was a pitch that houses are being deth a. |stroyed, or. damaged at the rate a) Gasuaities and damage ‘were of 17.000 every ‘24 “hours. ; There | caused. was no. substantiation of hig rePrime Minister Churchill's ot in London.) X
Will Paris Be Burz-Bombed? Germans May Sek Revere
". By PETER: EDSON NEA Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The possibility ‘that’ Paris will “be robot ; bombed by the Germans is giving military people considerable caus 4 for speculation. } © It may never come off. From the standpoint of. waging affective psychological warfare, there are good reasons why the Nazis’ should not buzz-bomb Paris, and equally good reason why they might be. expected to do so. f ; The dose of robot bombifig which * But if the Germans at Ist realise. the Germans have poured out > that they are about'to be defeated, London ‘has .not had the Nazi de- there every reason’ for sired effect of making the British would be jor
people cry out for-an end of the war, From that angle, robot bomb | they tould from the pn, warfare lias been a- failure, though by sparing their capital ! the average bomb kills one, wounds | ravages, : three, wrecks. three houses and Head Stages 100 Wire in + fous doek aaving