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LEWIS CALLS FOR DEFEAT OF F.D.R.
Tells U. M. W. That President ‘Publicly Kicked Every Miner in Face;’ Makes No Mention of Dewey.
(Another Stery, Page Three) CINCINNATI, O., Sept. 12 (U. P.).—United Mine Workérs President John L. Lewis, charging that President Roosevelt once had “publicly kicked every miner in the
face,”
today called for the President's defeat in the November elections,
Speaking before delegates at the opening of the u. Mu
W's 10-day biennial conven:
tion, Lewis said that if the miners vote for President Roosevelt in November they will receive “the same kind of treatment” in their contract negotiations as they received in 1943 and 1044 Lewis traced last year's contract negotiations with mine operators and the work stoppage throughout the nation's coal fields. He said that. Pregident Roosevelt “publicly had kicked every miner in the face by asking us to call off the strike over the radio after that afternoon the policy committee had called off Contract Expires Next April *How did you like that?” he shouted to the 2700 delegates. “Well, vote him into office next November and I think that you will have some more of -it in April” Lewis added. The present contract between the
miners and operators expires April|
1, 1945. In an attack upon an insurgent group of delegates seeking autonomy for 21 of the 31 U. M W. districts, Lewis charged that “Roosevelt, Browder and Hillman had hired themselves a man to dethrone the ‘ald man.’"” “Yes,” said Léwis, “they furnished him with some money to publish some smear literature and get some interviews in the press. Well, while
.all that's going on, just what in the
hell am I supposed to be doing?” The attack was aimed at Ray Edmundson of Springfield, Ill, a candidate for international president
. opposing Lewis. A meeting held
by a group of autonomists led by Edmundson was broken up yesterday by a number of Lewis supporters. Lewis made no reference as to whether he would support Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Republican presidential nominee.
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Today's Politics Are Highlighted By Texas Split
By UNITED PRESS
Developments in the presidential election campaign were highlighted today by the contest between pro and anti-fourth term forces at the Texas state Democratic convention. At stake in the bitter split between Texas Democrats was all or part of the state's 23 electoral votes which could possibly decide the election in event of a close count in the electoral college. On the Republican front, Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the presidential nominee, carried his campaign into Nebraska. He charged in Iowa yesterday that the Roosevelt administration had failed to prepare the country for war and would be unable to cope with postwar problems. ® . ‘In Chicago, hare he conferred with party leaders from the Midwest and the South, Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan denied G. O. P. charges that he had been told by Mr. Roosevelt to “clear everything with Sidney” ~—referring to Sidney Hillman of the C. I. O.—at the Democratic national convention. And--for whatever it may signify in the coming national election —Maine Republicans made a -clean sweep in the state election there yesterday.
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NYE CHARGES $110,000 PLOT WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (U. PJ). —Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.), charged today that Joseph B. Keenan former assistant attorney general, offered a disabled veteran of the first world war $110,000 to run against him for the Republican senatorial nomination this year.
City Expected
to Settle
For Disputed Job Service
PROBABILITY THAT job surveyor Fred Telford will be paid for his ex-officio services to the eity despite: a recent controversy
; ,, over the legality of his status
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Editorials .....10/Ration Dates. 3 Fashions ......13|Earl Richert . 6 | Mrs. Roosevelt al Freckles ,,....15|side Glances ..10
Forum stesnaes 10 Wm. P. Simms. 10
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loomed today following a closed city council session last night at the Indianapolis Athletic club. It also ap likely that Mr. Telford will be further retained to oversee the start of the newlycreated city personnel system and effect budget-economy moves. Mr, Telford has remained with the city on an uadeingd ss ever since his former , Municipal Consultant J. L. Jacobs, terminated municipal survey duties in July, Mr. Jacobs also has a $3000 bill pending before city council for “extra services” in connection with the city job review. This, too, probably will be paid, a councilmanic spokesman said today. ; Mayor Tyndall was to consult |
university Checking class schedules for freshmen Patty Fults (center) and Marilyn Totten (right) is sophoUpper classmen registered yesterday. Classés will be staried tomorrow.
FREED HOOSIERS DUE HOME SOON
On Gripsholm From
German Camp.
Some of the most thrilling firsthand stories of this war will be told when 232 American war prisoners, one of them from Indianapolis, ar-
<Mr, and Mrs. Ayres received two special delivery letters from two persons in the East who had heard
to be broken and reset. After his wounds were healed, he was sent to Stalag Luft 3.
Holder of Ald Medal
jlisting in the R. A. F. and then erring to the American Eagle squadron, Lt. Ayres flew numerous missions over France and Belgium before bailing out over enemy territory, He holds the purple heart, the air medal and two oak leaf clusters. Although last October the news that-Sgt. Cloud was a German prisoner and had not been killed seemed the best ever, his parents can't wait until Sept. 25 when the exchange ship arrives in New York. Sgt. Cloud was listed as killed in
Hoosier a : TWO LOCAL SAILORS DIE IN SEA BATTLES
Flier Reported Missing; Two Soldiers Wounded.
The torpedoing of one ship and the sinking of another, both during battles in the Atlantic, have cost the lives of two Indianapolis men and a local airman who was wounded in Italy now is missing in action, Today's casualty list also includes two local wounded.
KILLED Quartermaster 3-¢ Julian J. Commons, 1 N. Tremont ave, in the Atlantic. . Machinist's Mate 3-¢c Alonzo Richard Kashner, 1027 Dudley ave., near Ireland. ” MISSING. 8. Sgt. Marion Dale Eyster, 232 N. Belmont, ave., Rd Yugoslavia.
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WOUNDED TIC Lami Hower, 120 Olive st.
Lt. Ayres Returning Here
a raid over Germany in July, 1943,!
"61 Planes in. " Attack on
fleet and the Far Eastern air . | Philippines, where warships,
The warship and carrier
closure that Adm. William F.
destroyed.
Allied bombers followed up the attack Saturday night with a raid on Zamboanga harbor at the southern end of Mindanao, scoring direct hits on two 7000-ton cargo ships. The Tokyo radio reported 400 planes attacked Davao and Cayagan on Mindanao Saturday and 180 planes hit both points again Sunday. Adm, Chester W, Nimitz in an-
nouncing the fleet raid which deentire convoy said
force attacked Celebes island, 200
‘Imiles south of the Philippine is-
lands, again Saturday and other
"ibombers continued steady attacks
on Halmahera east of Celebes. Fighters hit airdromes at Ceram
{and Boeroe islands to the south.
Army and navy Liberators bombed Paramushiro in the Kurile islands in the far north Saturday and Sunday. Two more attacks were made on Iwo Jima in the Volcanos. Troops of the 14th army captured an important crest in the Mayu range, southwest of Buthidaung in Southern Burma, a com-
.jmunique said.
American Liberators bombed the Maymyp railway station, marshal ing point on the Mandalay-Lashio railway for Japanese men and supplies for the Salween front in China’s Yunnan province, ° RAF rocket-firing. planes dispersed at least 15 Japanese merchant ships, believed carrying supplies to Burma, in a 33-hour attack on shipping in the Adaman sea Saturday and Sunday.
EXPECT HURRICANE TO HIT IN 48 HOURS
Storm 500 Mi. From Miami; Entire Coast Alerted.
"continued to move slowly toward the mainland coast today, with the possibility that it might strike the eastern seaboard within the next 48 hours. The weather bureau reported at noon (Indianapolis Time) that the storin was located 500 miles east of Miami, moving westward, and that winds near the center were estimated at 90 to 100 miles per hour. Hurricane warnings were ordered over the northern Bahama islands, and residents of the coast between Miami and Cape Hatteras, N. C., were alerted. »
Judge Orders
IF THE BRANCHES of one of your trees extends across the property ling and your neighbor objects to them you would have to . saw them all off under the law, according to "a ruling . handed down today by Judge Emsley Johnson Jr. of superior court 3. In a lawsuit tried three months ago Robert E. Guild, 758 N, Bancroft ave, ‘demanded that overhanging Branches of trees on the property of his neighbor, Fred 1 Mayes 762 N, Bancroft ave, be.
bombers smashed 91 Japanese ‘vessels and 61 aircraft in a joint attack which the Japanese radio said continued into a third consecutive day Sunday.
the war against the Philippines and brought the first dis-
as commander of the 3d fleet. Halsey sent the fleet steaming close to Mindanao, southernmost of the Philippine islands, Friday, to strike the greatest single blow of the war against the Japanese merchant fleet, At least 89 cargo ships were sunk or probably
No Japanese ships challenged the attack and only eight Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground.
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 12 (U. P).—A' great hurricane over the Atlantic
To Settle Neighbors’ Row
First Sea-Air Mindanao.
By UNITED PRESS
The combined striking power of the U. S, 3d Pacific.
force was aimed today at the] carrier planes and land-based!
plane attack was the first of
Halsey had returned to action
FOR, CHURCHILL OPEN MEETINGS
Quebec Conferences Seen Pointed at Invasion of Jap Mainland.
By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent
formal business session today on new plans for the final destruction of the axis The President and the prime minister met in their quarters in. the old Citadel overlooking the St. Lawrence river this morning, and prepared for a larger conference with the Anglo-American combined chiefs of staff this afternoon, ° The basic subject of the conferences was the Pacific war. Plans are expected to be made for a direct
QUEBEOD, "gop, 42. president] Winston rn Cintelll Tod tte art
(assault on the Japanese homeland, ‘and a unified command to direct it.
Keeping Chinese Informed White House Secretary Stephen {T. Early, under questioning, said that although the conferences
did not know whether Chinese representation here had been sought. He added, however, that the Chinese government would be kept informed up to the minute on the proceedings here, The President, the prime minister, Canadian Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King and their parties had dinner last night with the Canadian governor general, the Earl of Athlone. Afterward Mr. Roosevelt: and Churchill went to their individual quarters in the Citadel and retired early after examining the latest dispatches from the active war theaters. Today in a face-to-face session they worked out a general plan for
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| 'U. S. SUB GUDGEON LOST, NAVY REVEALS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (U. P.). ~—Loss of the 1475-ton American submarine Gudgeon, presumably in the Pacific, was announced today by the navy. The undersea craft was the 20th American submarine lost since the beginning of the war, the navy said. Skipper of the Gudgeon, Lt. Cmdr. Robert A. Bonin of Milwaukee, Wis., is listed as missing in action together with the normal eomplement of 65 crew members, The Gudgeon held a presidential unit citation for sinking 19 Japanese | ships, including one submarine, and ! damaging three more.
Trees Cut
limbs of Mr. Guild's trees hanging over the Meyer property also be trimmed away. At the time of the trial Judge | Johnson urged the litigants to compromise their differences and settle the case qut of court. i But after three months of dickering they couldn't agree, so today Judge Johnson ruled that both of them would have to start
pointed primarily at the Pacific, he |
Yanks in Alps; Grandstand Seat; Toulon Incident
IN THE ALPS—A Yank patro} works its way back to its own line after an encounter with the Germans near Briancen, France.
TOULON — A Sapiured Nasi gun is wheeled around to fight | the Germans. The body of a dead Nazi is in the foreground. |
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RHONE RIVER — Wrecked bridges, bombed by the allies at Tarascon to halt . retreating Nazis, dramatize -war's destruction,
MISSES ENGLAND — Almost intact, this flying bomb missed fire, traveled only a short way fiom its French launching site.
< Say PARIS — German prisoners march, without fancy goosestepping, through Paris, ‘under’ the iron guard of French police,
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the frontier.
RUSS STORMING EAST PRUSSIA
At Frontier Fortress;
Patrols Cross Line.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, Sept. 12—Waves of] {Soviet tanks and infantrymen at-| {tacked the fortress town of Lomzha | | today in a drive threatening to roll into East Prussia, which already 'has been invaded by vanguards of powerful Russian forces massed {along the Lithuanian-Prussian frontier to the northeast. Coincident with the disclosure of the American invasion of Germany from the west, Moscow's early morning communique revealed that patrols of the 3d White Russian army in Lithuania entered East Prussia before dawn Monday on a reconnaissance raid. They crossed the Szeszupe river
: about 40 miles southwest of Kaunas]
after nightfall and shot up a de-| tachment of German bomber guards,. killing 16.
Across Since Aug. 17
Military spokesmen revealed that similar raiding parties have been operating on Prussian soil since Aug. 17, when Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky’s 3d White Russian army reached the Szeszupe. The disclosure, coming as Gen. Genrgi Zakharov's 2d White Russian forces opened a full-scale offensive against Lomzha, 21 miles from the southern border of East Prussia, appeared to foreshadow a great two-way drive into Germany's easternmost province. Russian heavy artillery opened a furicus bombardment of Lomzha as the ground troops closed in, and it was indicated that the fall of the town, the last important stronghold below East Prussia, was imminent. There was no word on the progress of the fighting around Warsaw,
LONDON, Sept. 12 (U. Py—
British warplanes
by the Nazi air force.
ANKS TAKE WEST WALL FORT. STAB DEEPER INTO GERMANY; U.S. FLEET HITTING PHILIPPINES
Adm. Halsey Destroys 91 Nip Ships, ‘WAR NEWS REEL—
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Eben Emael, Scene of Blitzkrieg’s Start in 1940, Falls to Hodges’ Men.
BULLETIN LONDON, Sept. 12 (U. P.).—Supieme headquarters broadcast a warning by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to the people of the Rhineland and Ruhr today that their areas already are near zones of combat and “very soon may become a theater of war.” ; “Rear communications and remnants of the German army retreating into Germany will be subjected to aerial bombardment of a destructive power and effect like that before and during the allied operations in Normandy,”
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Sept. 12.—The first phase of the battle of the Siegfried line opened today, when American troops out-flanked its outpost of Trier in a drive more than six miles into Germany and captured the “mystery fort” Eben Emael on its northern approaches. United States Marauder and Havoc bombers heavily plastered a long stretch of the Siegfried line between Aachen and Saarbrucken while American 1st army guns pumped shells into Germany from newly won positions just west of
Far to the west, the great French port of Le Havre was reported to have surrendered about noon to British troops of the Canadian 1st army, giving the allies control of one ofi the most valuable gateways to France. United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported in a dispatch from Germany that an American armored division was | Stabbing + ever deeper into the Reich after establish«
ing itself on German soil in | force. Supreme headquarters {lacked further information
{on the penetration of Germany, | which was reported to have flanked
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| the ancient city of Trier and won
a springboard for a full scale push toward the Rhineland, While the advanced 1st army spearhead was probing the fortifi« cations before the Siegfried line, other elements of Lt. Gen. Courtney { H. Hodges’ army to the north were i fanning out from Liege. They | seized a number of points almost
ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE, Sept. 12, 6:30 p. m. (U. P.).—A group of American soldiers stood within 2000 yards of the concrete pillboxes of the Siegfried line today, but the Germans did not fire a single shot at them. The officers/of the group slowly and carefully studied the
woods and terrain -around the Nazi defenses and offered ample any itchy-fingered German. But not ence was the observation interrupted.
on the German frontier, and smashed to within one mile of the Dutch border near the great fortress city of Maastricht. It was in the extreme east tip of Belgium below Maastricht that = the Americans seized Ft. Eben Emael. There the Nazis unveiled their “blitzkrieg in the west” in 1940 and swamped the fort in & mysterious manner never fully exe plained. : Start of ‘Blitzkrieg’ With Eben Emae! and its adja cent fortifications overrun, and with Maastricht set up for frontal as- : sault, the barriers before the German frontier in the Aachen area were crumbling. The Nazis offered comparatively light resistance at Eben Emael, which was held strongly by the Belgians in the first phase of the
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3500 Allied Planes Crush Luftwaffe, Hit Oil Plants
Another force of approximately
from bomhed ‘synthetic oil plants England, Italy and liberated French Scholven-Buer and Wanne-E airfields at German interior and|in the Ruhr valley, while a ieet front line targets today, crushing|up to 500 American heavy b a desperate last-stand opposition | flew pu nd to attack
Seven American task lofces ior Gluing