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SCRIPPS = HOWARD * VOLUME. 55—NUMBER 156

Nt Press Cracks Down On Nervousness Among German Masses

falling morale. The arrival of the first beaten Wehrmacht

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Times Foreign Correspondent

BASEL, Switzerland, Sep

t. 9.—There is so much nerv-

ousness and anxiety among the Gérman masses and so

many rumors of “peace talks

” in the wind that the Nazi

press today issued a general warning to its readers. The warning, which is published in that once most dreaded organ, the S. S. Schwarze Korps, is very out-

‘spoken. It says that any “G

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Goodby With '73 and 30'

By WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—This will be my last piece for the Indianpapolis Times and in parting I should like to say some things about Roy Howard (president of the Indianapolis Times Publishing Co.), which, so far as my knowledge goes, have never been written before.

Mr. Howard is a liberal news- -

paper publisher and I would point out that a liberal publisher is dne who permits the expression of views contrary to his editorial policy in his newspapers. Often 1 have written matter which I knew to-be in disagreement with Mr. Howard's ideas and have seen it in print, nevertheless, and Heywood Broun was, for all

have his say down to their parting, » few days before Heywood died.

By contrast, consider the attitude of the Daily Worker, which fired a movie reviewer because he refused to follow the Communist party line in his review of “Gone With the Wind,” and of those butchers-paper “intellectual” week - lie which publish nothing for which they cannot assume editorial sponsorship, except as “communications,” in which cases they reserve the last word for themselves.

‘Editorial Courage’

Or study the many Communist and less violent left wing publications, most of them published by the unions, and observe, as yo. must, that the more liberal they pretend to be in the political sense, the more bigoted and un_truthful they are editorially. Mr. Howard showed editorial oourage in permitting me to develop the subject of crookedness. sand Communism in the union movement and to point’ out, long ago, when the menace of union sub-government was unseen by most of us, the developments which are taking place today in the corrupt alliance of the national government with-unscrupu-lous men, some of them ignorant, some of them shrewd, and many of them \ criminally crooked, against the human and constitutional rights of the whole American people.

‘Few of Us Knew’

Up to that time, in a violent and thoughtless emotional reaction against the abusive customs of many employers, most of the American people thought of unions as organizations almost sacred.

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FORD WORKERS RETURN

DETROIT, Sept. 9 (U. P.).—Ford Motor Co. officials said that between 1000 and 1300 of the 2000 crane operators and riveters who struck yesterday at the Willow Run

plant were back on the: job today

and that production of B-24 Liberator bombers would be resumed on as nearly a normal scale as

possible. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

‘I bankrupt and that we will have to

{the armed forces home &s soon as

erman worthy of the name”

FOR. FLOUTS CIVIL RIGHTS, BRICKER SAYS

Republican Editors to Hear Candidate Tonight at | French Lick.

By EARL RICHERT Times Political Writer MITCHELL, Ind. Sept. 9.—Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice presidential nominee, today charged the Roosevelt administration with “threatening, apusing and trammeling” essential American ‘liberties as guaranteed in the bill of rights. ! Bricker, en route to French Lick, Ind, where he formally will accept the G. O. P. vice presidential nomination in an address before the Indiana Republican Editorial association tonight, told a group of Republicans here that the G. O. P. was campaigning against an administration which was “conceived in defeatism.”

a mature economy-—that there are no more frontiers—that America is

liquidate our liberties and be regimented into a socialistic, totalitarjan bureaucracy,” he said. G. 0. P. Aims Defined “The crowning admission by the New Deal of its own failure,” he added, “is its proposal to keep untold numbers of men in the army after the peace has been declared as a means of meeting a post-war

Deal expects to have:to face” The objectives of the Republican paty, Bricker said, were first, to win complete victory over Germany and Japan and to bring members of

possible; second, to make sure that these young people and their children shall not be called upon to fight another war and third, to build a post-war America in which there will be jobs for everyone and a high standard of living. At a press conference at French

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NON-PARTISAN PEACE PROPOSED BY DEWEY

‘Favors Force, Fair Treat-

ment for Small Nations.

By JOHN L CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN TRAIN, Sept. 8.—~The Republican party was pledged today by presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey ‘to nonpartisan efforts to shape and maintain world peace. Dewey voiced the pledge last night in a nation-wide radio address, the second of seven major speeches {scheduled in a three-week coast-to-coast campaign tour. He spoke before the closing meeting of the Republican Women's Clubs biennal convention augmented by an audience which packed the Louisville, Ky., national guard armory to the rafters and was estimated by G. O. P, national committeemen at 18,000. Today he headed for Michigan for conferences at Lansing’ with party leaders and labor, agriculture, Negro and veterans groups and a week-end visit with his mother,

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‘is forbidden to speak of the end of the war or to allude to any- compromise peace as there is no possible peace for Germany beyond that achieved bya German victory. Any German who is “discovered envisaging other possibilities

will be considered as a traitor.”

That this threat, coming as it does from the'S. S.,

carries as much weight as in bygone days is very doubtS. can still bark—loudly. Its bite, however, is

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WASHINGTON

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Don't Took for the Dumbarton Qaks peace plan to. state definitely whether the senate shall or shall not decide on use of U. S. troops to help quell aggression in the post-war world. The agreement is expected to say, Herely. that each participating state shall meet its responsibility through the operation of its own constitutional processes.

This, if it occurs, will leave the question open for senate debate. And chances are, the debate will focus on a reservation tothe treaty, requiring that before American soldiers can be used to keep peace, the senate’s O. K. will have to be secured. Senate foreign relations commitiee will get its report on Dumbarton Oaks next Tuesday from Secretary Hull

SENATE DEMOCRATIC leaders are considering creation of a stand-by squad, some member of which would be present constantly in the senate to meet expected sniping attacks from isolationists, on the proposed international organization. : Democratic leaders were caught fiatfooted a few days ago by the speech of Senator Bushfield of North Dakota—apparently the open ing blast from the isolationist gromp. Their squad would marshal arguments and information on the question and be ready at all times for a challenge.

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INSIDE VICHY—

time capital)

to Germany—a prisoner,

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'l Saw Petain Call Hitler S

Emissary a Liar to His Face’

(The following dispatch, the most autheritative and detailed account to date of the last days of the collaborationist regime in Vichy, was filed by the first American reporter to reach the French war-

By DANA ADAM SCHMIDT .. < United Press Slaft Correspondent VICHY. Prance, Sept. 7 (Delayed.)—Aged Marshal Henri Philippe i Petain wanted to surrender to an agent of Gen. Charles de Gaulle on Aug. 21, just before the fall of Paris. He had a violent quarrel with Adolf Hitler's agent and called him “a liar.” But at thé last magment he gave in to a German threat to shoot 100 Frenchmen and was carted off

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I reached the capital of rationist France through the assistance of the French underground— the first American reporter here. Vichy is controled by French’ forces of the Interior—allied armies have not yet taken over.

The regional commissioner of Gen.

{De Gaulle, Henry Ingrand, a former

Paris surgeon who has been directing the Maquis in the Massif Central for two and a. half years, told me the story of Petain’s last days in Vichy.

After American «forces broke out of the Normandy peninsula and began their drive on Paris, Petain opened negotiations with Ingrand with the view of surrendering himself to the French patriots. “If Petain had not been made a prisoner by the Germans on Aug. 20, I am sure he would have surrendered to me the next day,” Ingrand told me. “I was still with the Maquis

Walter Stucks came to me with Petain’s proposals. It was a question of whether he should surrender uncogditionally, be placed under arrest in his home or what. “I learned that on the night of Aug. 19, German ambassador Dr. Cecil Von Renthe-Finck called. on Petain and insisted that he leave for an unnamed city in the East, where he said Pierre Laval wanted him to form a new French government. “Petain had asked Stucks and me to be present to witness the pressure he was under, “At that moment an emissary whom Petain had sent to contact Laval the day before, returned with a letter from Laval stating he had

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Brown haired, brown-eyed Mary Didion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph X. Didign, 417 E, Ohio st. {earned today that the stories about hard-boiled police and newspapérmen belong with fairy tales and myths.. The 12-year-old victim of the 18test candidate for “meanest

station grief-stricken to report the theft of her doll.

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A few minutes later she left’ in the arms of policemen and reporters on a “doll buying” tour. The girl, accompanied by her “13-year-old brother Robert, had hurried« to the missing person's bureau to report the loss of

thief” title went to the police

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Are Police Hard-Boiled? Well, This Girl Came in to Report the Theft of Her Doll-

initial gift and. things already were looking brighter for the bereaved doll-owner. Mary was taken fo a downtown department store. In less than one minute Lorelda’'s successor had been chosen. “And she's even better than Lorelda,” Mary said. Back at the police station for an introduction

near Mont Dor when Swiss minister} .

Hoosier Heroes—

KRAMER KILLED, BREEDEN MISSING

Maclean, Johnson,

mons Wounded in Action.

Action in France has claimed the life of another Indianapolis man, while one is missing-as a result of submarine action and three have been wounded. KILLED

Pvt. Rex. Kramer, 1417 Oliver ave., in France.

MISSING

Electrician's Mate 3-¢ Charles Edward Breeden, 6112 Estate st. at sea.

WOUNDED

Pvt. John M. Maclean Jr. 2816 N. Illinois st. in France. : Cpl. Paul W. Johnson, 1432 College ave. in France. Pfe. Glenn W. Timmons, formerly of 36 W. Morris st, on Saipan.

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REPORT NAZIS LEAVE RHODES

ROME, Sept. 9 (U. P). — The Germans have started evacuating tie Island of Rhodes in the Aegean sea off Turkéy, the newspaper Risorgimento Liberale reported today.

to her godfathers, the doll was

A -neighbor. told police a woman had gone up to the Didion porch and taken the doll after the children had entered the house earlier today.

‘End May Come by October

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s urlits are on various borddikes they can against the

Two thousand persons have been interned recently

from Berlin alone because of ions.”

Bad news from all fronts

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FALL OF NAZIS SEEN TIMED BY ALLIED BREAKS

Or Be Delayed Until

Next Year.

By LYLE C. WILSON _ United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Hard fighting on the European front through the winter and into 1945 is a possibility seriously and constantly considered here today despite spectacular allied advances in France. The individual your correspondent and many others regard as the best informed in Washington on the European military situation puts it the way:

AR DT amie An opinion on the date of Germany's collapse and - unconditional surrender must at this time be largely speculative because it depends on several factors, none of which can be calculated precisely. If we get the breaks in all respects, Germany might fold within three weeks—say by Oct. 1, That seems to be the earliest expectable date and it is not improbable. But unfavorable weather ‘ conditions or bad luck might easily prolong the European war into next year. Armchair strategists attempting to judge the approach of Germany’s unconditional surrender should consider these factors: 1. Except in the south where the yport of Marseilles is open and relatively undamaged, the vast allied armies in France are being supplied through Cherbourg, an inferior port, and “over the beach.” Ports Urgently Required The allied thrust in the west urgently requires -the capture of Brest and its clearance for traffic. 2. Consolidation of the allied position in France requires a firm joining and amaigamation of the invasion forces which hit France from the south.and speeded up the Rhone valley with the invasion forces that hit from the west near Cherbourg. 3. Any German collapse within the next three or four weeks would almost inevitably have to be accompiished by substantial destruction of German armies in Italy and by a major Russian army offensive in the viciinty of Warsaw.

Sinatra Berates

Films and Quits

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 9 (U. P.) — “The Voice” is through with the movies. No longer will swooning Bobby soxers clutter up uu the theater isles as the picture of j Frank Sinatra flashes across the screen, From: now on,

acy of their own homes. 2 “Pictures 3 stink,” The Voice said today, in no' Frank Sinatra uncertain terms. “Most of the people in them do too.” It was the second emancipation proclamation for big-eared Sinatra, whose off-key groans have earned him a sizable forturie in radio and

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in the movies. He asserted his independence the first time when he declared himself free from Maestro {Tommy Dorsey. “The man the microphone made” said he loved radio as much as he

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units in towns of western Germany were a tangible evidence of defeat. Te Ill-shaven and ragged, with half of their material lost,

they made a strange contrast with the youths, spruce in their well-cut uniforms and top boots, who strutted . through the Rhineland towns only a year ago on the way

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(ERMAN BID TO BREAK CHANNEL TRAP; IMAX NEAR ON MOSELLE

Reported Driving Into S. Poland.

BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 9 (U. P.),—The Ankara radio said tonight that the Russians had marched ‘almost across Bulgaria and were | approaching the Greek frontier. |

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By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 9.—The Berlin radio reported today that the Russian army had opened a powerful offensive aimed westward through Southern Poland toward Krakow, last bg defense bastion

cE man Silesia less than 50 miles to the west. The entire Russian front appeared stirring with new life after a relative lull of more than a month. A United Press dispatch from Moscow reported a “lull before the storm” along the East Prussian border, where the Russian army was drawn up for a smash into Germany proper. Radio France said the Germans were evacuating Praga, the Warsaw suburb on the east bank of the Vistula,

"Reported in E. Prussia

(The British radio broadcast what it described as a report from Moscow that the first Soviet patrols had crossed the East Prussian frontier and returned with prisoners.) The D. N. B, news agency reported the new Soviet offensive in the area of Pryemyl, old Polish citadel captured by the Russians in their summer sweep through Poland, and Krosno, 46 miles west of Przemysl. “The Soviets won -initial successes,” D. N. B, acknowledged, in

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‘IKE’ GIVES PLAQUE

Ousted on Saipan

GEN. SMITH OF

Ground Chief on

{ing officer operating under the

Maj. Gen. Ralph Sniith

ARMY RELIEVED

| lane) Holland Smith.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. PJ). —Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith, commanding general of the Saipan operation, said today that “circumstances forced me” to relieve army Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith from his post as commander of the army ground forces on Saipan. “As you well know,” the marine general told a news conference today, “one of the many prerogatives and responsibilities of a command-

principles of unity of command is the assignment and transfer of officers commanding subordinate elements in any operation. “Unfortunately, circumstances forced me to exercise one of these prerogatives and I did relieve Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith.” Smith declined to elaberate further upon his statement.

‘Not a‘Buck-Passer’

“I am not given to passing the | buck” he said. “but as you seek details concerning this incident, I remind you that Gen. Smith is an army officer and I must refer you to the

Frees

Thousands Turned

Back in Major Attack.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Sept. 9.— A desperate . break-out attempt by tens. of thousands of Germans trapped along

the channel coast has heen thwarted, it was revealed today as the Battle of the Moselle roared toward a climax. Supreme headquarters announced that the trapped Germans were stopped cold when they threw everything they had into an effort to blast open an escape corridor

concealed most of the operations on the battlefront curving within less than 20 miles of the German border as long ago as yesterday. A front dispatch, however, said thefmext two days should resolve the issue in the violent fighting along the Moselle valey, where the Nazis battled to guard the approaches to the Siegfried line,

Aims to Shatter Nazis

United Press War Correspondent Robert C. Richards reported from the 3d army front that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's basic aim was to

shatter the Ge forces massed in the heigh e Moselle, and his f ‘were gathering in the val for a full attempt

to engulf the defenses between Metz and Nancy in a swift pincers blow. Unofficial front reports said the British 2d army had smashed across the Albert canal in a second crossing at Gheel, 12 miles from that i at Beeringen. Headquarters sources reported that the Nazis were fighting ferociously to contain the beeringen spearhead. The German break-out attempt as the British and Canadian forces

war department — The war department, however, refused to comment, referring in-|

10 PEOPLE OF PARIS

Crowds Jam 7 Champs Fon

‘At Impressive Ceremony.

PARIS, Sept. 8 (Delayed) (U. P.). —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in an impressive ceremony beside the grave of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, presented a plague bearing the supreme headquarters’ flaming sword of liberation to the people of Paris today, to commemorate the city’s liberation. Pariisans jammed the Etoile and lined the Champs Elysees for a glimpse Of Eisenhower and other ranking officers who took part in the ceremony. They included Air Marshal “Sir Arthd# Tedder, Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay, Alr Marshal Sir Arthur ‘T. Harris, Lt. “Gen. Carl Spaatz and Air Marshal Sir Trat-

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quiries back to the navy on grounds it was in charge of that eater. Army Gen. Smith, 8 nativé of Omaha, Neb., w command of the army forces ol nouncement has been made that he had been relieved. Rumors of a clash between the two generals have been heard since the Saipan operation, however. Earlier this - year Gen. Ralph Smith received the legion of merit for his work as commander of the 27th infantry division in the capture of Makin in the Gilbert islands and EniWetok in the Marshalls,

ITALIAN LINER DESTROYED ROME, Sept. 9 (U, P.). ~The big Italian luxury «liner Rex, former queen of the Trans-Atlantic pas-

total loss today after two attacks by rocket-firing R.A.F., planes that left the ship burning fiercely and two-thirds submerged in Trieste harbor.

ford Leigh-Mallory.

Preparations for an unforgettable V-day holiday, tempered with the solemnity of prayer and patriotism, are gaining momentum here. Under plans how formulated, ‘thousands of workers will be freed to celebrate the minute word of

aledholic stimulation the outlook is dry unless private kitchen-cabinet supplies are available.

“Some ak of» V-day parade i . s{all the vicinity |

Preparations Made Here For Unforgettable V-Day

Legion posts, but nothing definite has jelled yet.

signments.

OCD auxiliary police also will be

pan. No an-

senger runs, was written off as. a!

Parade or no parade, Police Chief Clifford Beeker said he will rope off" the mile square, re-route traffic around that area and muster all police on the force for special as-

tightened the noose on them was i described officially as a “major” leffort. They were halted, a headquarters spokesman said, and toe | day were squeezed evan more tight= ‘ly in the bag.

Specific Size Undisclosed

The specific size of the force involved, in the abortive break-out and the extent of its progress into {the allied communications line {were undisclosed. However there was every indication that it was the last desperate bid of the thousands of Germans—the number was estimated at more than 100,000 earlier this week—to escape death, capture or surrender. The garrisons of Calais, Boulogne,

ing out. Canadian troops probing the coastal stretches befween the

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QUEBEC PREPARING FOR FDR-CHURCHILL

QUEBEC, Que., Sept. 8 (U. P).— Several American, British and Ca=nadian officials were .today laying the ground work for the coming

Le Havre and Brest still were hold=