Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1944 — Page 2

. . edge only that they're investigat-

REPORTS from tion was announced, _ Fighting men in the Pacific,

think reconversion will mean a longer war for them.

Talk of discharging men from

resentment.

forces. Gen. Lear, new head of the ground

Lear's determined to get all available army men under 45 out of cushy jobs in this country and into the fighting in Europe or the

Pacific,

B. L. Y. M. is about to start operations in Pentagon building.

the Lear

Also, young commanders in their sorrow—that when Gen,

expects them to know the men in their outfits by name.

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i V the DEMOCRATS are organizing what is tentatively known as Thousand - Dollar club—a thousand members at a thousand dollars each. Plans were discussed at the Midwestern-states meeting in Chi-

cago this week.

Tt is designed along the line of the $100-a

ners, except that the fee is 10 times give . Democratic Treasurer Ed Pauley a million for campaign

S. One rich Democrat who has al- ~ feady kicked ii his Thousand said he understood & buffet supper at the White House was part of the

pay-off,

” 4 » They'll Take More IF IT develops that more than a thousand want to join, the membership list will be lengthened—with gusto. First to be let in will be West coast Democrats. National Chair= man Hannegan and Pauley proceeded there from Chicago. Meanwhile Democratic women more modestly talk about $1.50 from each precinct, mile of dimes, and fruit-jar penny Jalehers, s ”

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT will e truce with war contractors by withholding many of its . domestic anti-trust suits until . after the war. : But Trust - Buster Wendell Berge Is ready to shoot now with court actions aimed at breaking up international cartels. In West coast speeches he's saying well lose the peace unless cartels, which he believes weakened U, 8. and helped bring on world war II, are eliminated from

. world economy. Justice officials will acknowl:

ing, but leading Wall Street investment bankers ‘have learned they'll be named in forthcoming anti-trust action charging monopoly in securities underwriting business. Suit will climax campaign of Midwestern banking groups, encouraged by New Dealers, to break “domination” of security markets by eastern syndicates and to force competitive bidding for some types of securities. = s 5 DONALD NELSON'S trip to China may deal with other matters than the war, according te Capital Hill reports. One plan believed under discussion Is to transport semi-obso-lete machinery from U. 8S. mills, particularly textile mills, to China. This would accelerate industrialization there, and give American manufacturers an expanded domestic market for new machines,

» » » FOURTH-TERM managers are disturbed by vigor of attacks on C. 1.0. Political Action Committee by other labor organizations, and are trying to keep P.A.C. alliance at arm's length. That's why Democratic Chairman Hannegan denied F.D.R. ever told him to “clear everything with Sidney (Hillman).” Democrats had hoped G.O.P. would forget that catchphrase, and they ignored it until Bricker

repeated it in Indiana speech.

: A Weelly Sizoup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers |

“B. LY. M. Furor Hits Army _

THE B. L. ¥. M. is causing some consternation in army ground

It’s the Ben Lear youth movement, and it draws its name from Lt.

negan’s discomfort and, true or false, you'll hear the phrase -through the campaign,

SERVICE BOARD, congress to help returning service men find jobs, has agreed to look into congressional complaints that war manpower commission has pre-empted the board's. functions.

through U. S. employment service, is requiring some veterans to submit themselves to civilian job referral program, under which they're supposed to take jobs assigned them by USES.

placement board to remove USES authority over vets.

from some foreign shores have reported they were required to accept a ballot application or be punished by confinement to quarters.

does not mean that any effort is

the application or to vote.

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Pacific indicate morale slumped

there when Byrnes’ plan for reconversion to consumer-goods produc=

who have always felt neglected,

army in other theaters adds

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forces,

field are learning—sometimes to comes around on inspection he

-plate Jackson day dinas great. If it goes over it will

‘miles northwest of Antwerp.

fantrymen.

fication of field reports on the breaching of the Siegfried line did not identify the positions taken by

belt, where Hodges’ vanguard was less than 30 miles from Cologne, industrial capital of the Rhineland and Germany's fourth city.

officially as not yet on an extensive scale. But indications gave promise that it might be soon. If was regarded as doubtful whether the

Pour Through Widening Gap In West Wall; Patton Assaulting Metz.

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Belfort through Mountbeliard, Villersexel, Vesoul and Langres. On the opposite wing of the allied front, Polish patrols struck 2%

advance to the area of Hulst, 16

Westward 22 miles, Canadian assault forces seized a new bridgeread over the Leopard canal in the region of Secekloo, and tanks rumbled across the barrier before the Dutch frontier to suppert the in-

Secrecy Veils Gains

The supreme headquarters ampli-

he Americans beyond the fortified

The breakthrough was described

G. O. P. is delighted with Han-

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WMC-USES Reports

VETERANS’ PLACEMENT created by

~The Banish freedom council “hag proclaimed & general strike throughout Denmark beginning at noon and lasting until noon Monday, the Danish press service reported today.

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 16 (U. P.).

w Congressional critics say WMC,

Congressmen say they created i = 2 ” SOLDIERS WRITING HOME

b War department explains this being made to get men to mail in

The soldier-vote law requires that each service man be given the application card; procedure followed is intended to see that the law is carried out, officers explain,

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Scotch Kaiser Rumor DISREGARD RUMORS that Henry J. Kaiser will take over War Mobilizer Byrnes’ job. Kaiser plans to be too busy creating post-war jobs, Among his latest production enthusiasms— helicopters, dishwashers, bricks out of smoke (condensing silicate from fumes).

Other Kaiser enthusiasms: Byrnes’ proposals for depreciation of new machinery in the years in which it is purchased. (It would facilitate bank loans, boom private enterprise). # » »

NOTWITHSTANDING senate commerce committee letter to President Roosevelt saying no final decisions on post-war overseas air policy should be made until congress makes up its mind, civil aeronautics board is clearing decks for hearings on applications for top-value flying rights “across the North Atlantic. Hearings on Caribbean operations will begin Monday, those on North Atlantic Oct. 18, South Atlantic Nov. 1. All these mean grand scramble by a majority of U. 8. airlines to get into international air transport, and there'll be a corollary fight by steamship lines to get ocean air rqutes,

G. O.P. Factions Unite Here,

Name Committee on Policy

{Continued From Page One) { backing of the regular county ol ganization, Gen. Tyndall, backed | by Charles Jewett and others, also entered the primary race, and won the nomination. Mr. Ostrom thén| _ accepted appointment as county chairman, helped to conduct the! successful campaign in which Gen.

Tyndall was elected mayor, and in| Beeker, which virtually all of the regular!

county organization candidates for|...cions and it continued, in spite

county office also were elected.

Many of Mayor Tyndall's sup-|

porters believed ‘the county organization had been lukewarm in its support of their candidate, even

after he had won the party's nomi-~|

nation, “Regular” organization men, on the other hand, saw their dreams of city patronage fade as Mayor

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Tyndall took the helm at. city hall and made his own selections for city jobs. The breach grew wider. Friction developed between city and county departments, broke into open wrangles between County Prosecutor Sherwood . Blue of the county organization on the one hand and Safety Board Chairman Will Remy and Police Chief Clifford both Tyndall ‘ appointees, {on the other. It had other reperof various efforts to bring the two groups together,

Democrats in Marion county, in|

{of victory this year on the belief { that these two Republican factions | would destroy each other, leaving ithe Democratic candidates a di- { vided opposition up to the very day of election. : Republican leaders last night were {enthusiastic about the new setup {Ie not only brings together, in a isingle, unified group the ‘top lead|ers of the two factions, but it pro- | vides, in Mr. Wainwright, a leader who will put new vigor into the | party here, they said.

flor the scope of its operations. It is understood by Republican lead |

The cominittee itself has so far made ho announcement of its plans

ers, however, that its authority will be supreme in the county, in direc-

Germans gyere in any shape to effect

strength to stem the American advance,

‘low the Aachen sector.

of bureau reported violent street fightng in the suburbs of Aachen, and said the battle had “entered its decisive phase.”

(fact, have based their chief hope!

tion of the fall campaign, its meth-

n elastic defense in sufficient

miles into Holland in a four-mile}

Henry Ostrom, county G. O. P. Charles A. Huff, a Republican : chairman :

Victory committee leader.

These four men are members of the new Marion county G. O. P. policy committee, of which Guy Wainwright is chairman.

Headquarters released no new ord from the 1st army front beA German roadcast said the allies had crossed

the Our river on a broad front. One stretch of the river forms the

order between northwestern Lux-

embourg and Germany.

A Nazi-controlled Berlin dispatch the Scandinavian telegraph

On the Americans’ northern flank,

veteran British troops streamed across their Albert and Escaut canal

ridgeheads into Holland in a fast-

developing threat to the relatively weak Siegfried forts along the North sea coast,

To the south, Lt. Gen. George S.

Patton's 3d army forces rolled eastward in great strength from captured Nancy and Epinal, threw an armored hook against the fortress

ity of Metz, and struck down oward the Belfort gap to join with

the American 7th army in a drive agains that gateway to southwestern Germany.

Million-Man Army

The German Transocean news agency said the assault on the 3elfort gap already had begun, asserting that “several enemy divisions are attempting to thrust directly against the gap,” presumably American Tth army troops advancing from Visoul, 20 miles to the southwest. With the incorporation of the U. S. Tth army into his command, Gen, Dwight D: Eisenhower now had three allied army groups numbering well over a million men on the march against Germany, probably the most heavily armed if not the largest invasion host ever gath-

ered under a single commander.

Hodges’ 1st army veterans made

the most spectacular gains yesterday and early today, virtually surrounding the big German border city of Aachen, while their armored and infantry spearheads were tearing open the Nazi fortifications to

the east. x The breakthrough disclosed in a front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell, put the Yanks in the open more than seven miles beyond Aachen and astride a great fourlane motor highway running to Cologne and other key areas of Germany's rich industrial. Rhine and Ruhr valleys.

Cologne Seems Doomed

turing and communications center lying mostly on the west bank of the Rhine, seemed at the mercy of Hodges’ hard-driving spearheads. Gorrell reported that the Americans effected their breakthrough with only a few casualties and met but weak resistance from scattered pillboxes beyond the main Siegfried works. . ‘The fall of Cologne, whose prewar population of 768,000 was exceeded only by Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, would give the Americans one of the richest prizes of Germany. Its vast engineering and chemical works, railway yards and river port facilities were the first target in the Reich to be singled out by the R. A. F. for a 1000-plane hombing. Use Flame Throwers

Doughboys of a crack American {infantry division teamed up with {combat engineers, tanks and mobile artillery for the drive on Cologne. Giant flame throwers and 155millimeter guns mounted on tank chassis literally blasted ga path through the Nazi line, demolishing pillboxes and blockhouses protected by 10 to 15 feet of concrete. American 1st army infantrymen closiig in on Aachen ran into stiffer resistance as they fought their way to the edge of the town. The Nazi Transocean news agency said the Americans were at the ‘southeastern and southern outskirts of Aachen and attacking “ruthlessly” = despite heavy casualties. : German reports reaching Stockholm said civilians were evacuating

ods, its-objectives, its finances overall policies, es

Cologne, a sprawling manufac-|

Aachen and other unidentified

V-Day in October? That's What 'Spidergraph’ Says

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that occurred in 1917. But more of that later.

Mr. DeRee was pruning his garden last week when, lo and behold, he sighted what he thought was most assuredly a web with a message. In the silken strands of the large net (the spider, a yellow-striped character, was dozing in the middle) was embroidered: “WWI October.”

ANYWAY, Mr. DeRee is pretty sure that’s what it said. This cryptogram he interpreted as a portent that V-day is due either next month or some October following. e amazing phenomenon, he pojnted out, was clearly decipherable until Wednesday morning when. the spider rose from his’ noon-day slumber to engage in a little tussle with a butterfly which the spider promptly ate. Today, if you're not too picayunish about legibility (as President Roosevelt might say), you can still detect a bare outline of the WWII, but what once was supposed to have been the word, October, is distorted into an irregular series of ups and downs resembling the cardiograph of a jittery bridegroom. “The butterfly,” Mr. DeRee hastened to explain, » 2 2 ANY WAY you look at it, reading webwriting is all done with mirrors, Mr. DeRee says, because spiders apparently crochet their predictions upside-down or insideout, or both. But to get back to the illustrious forerunner which once made Irish Hill spider conscious, we'll refer you to newspaper clippings of October, 1917. -. Mr, and Mrs. DeRee were living at that time with their daughter at 119 8.

Flier Survives

Mid-Air Blast

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through the uncharted wilderness, 150 miles south of Anchorage.

* = = THEY HAD no food but moss berries. They faced some of the roughest terrain in the area and some of the worst weather to be found anywhere. But by sticking together they came through alive, Other survivors are Lt. Robert D. Moss, co-pilot, Chicago; Lt. William J. Grace, photographer, Buffalo, N. Y.; Sgt. Martin Woogen, engineer, Bronx, N. Y, and Sgt. Oscar Windham, instrument operator, Butler, Ga. - ” s tJ

SMITH DID NOT have time to buckle his chute straps before the explosion hurled him through the top of the fuselage. “I jerked my rip cord and then put both thumbs in my mouth and bit them to hold my hands together,” he said. “This way I was able to keep the chute stra on my shoulders.” . Smith said he counted: seven parachutes in the air besides his own, which raised hopes that two more airmen may be recovered from the mountain widlerness. After the survivors landed on the wildly-broken mountainside, they found they had three sticks of gum, four pieces of mint candy, and a hunting knife. no firearms. ; ..n 8 © THEY FOLLOWED the course of a stream in rain, snow and windstorms and covered 150 miles in six days, a feat which would

fessional Alaskan woodsmen. When they reached the Indian

village. of Old Illiamna on the

{ing nine villages and launching a

They had :

have taxed the endurance of pro-

Well, world war I did end in November, of course, but it was a year later, in 1918. armistice day an enterprising - reporter thought about the DeRee spider and forthwith wrote: “ ‘America Win! Nov. “Such was the message Mr. and Mrs. Edward DeRee, 119 8. Davidson st., were able to dedipher in a spider's web in their yard more than a year ago. Hundreds of the neighbors also saw and believed, etc.” t J ” . TODAY THE DeREES have good reason to hope that spiders are psychic. They have two grandsons in the service, Alva K. DeRee, in the army in England, and Clarence DeRee, a marine at ‘Oceanside, Cal. “I'll keep the spider in alcohol if he’s right,” exclaimed Mr. DeRee. Mrs. DeRee, a- native of Elwood, Ind, knew Wendell Willkie quite well, she declares. She said, no, she didn’t see any spider predictions when Wendell was running for president, which may or may not prove that spiders aren't so dumb.

BRITISH SCORE GAINS ON ADRIATIC FRONT

ROME, Sept. 16 (U. P.).—~British 8th army troops advanced along the whole Adriatic front today, captur-

battle for the strategic airfield three miles below Rimini, gateway to the Po valley. Vie Resistance stiffened on the western end of the front where American, British and Indian troops were engaged in flerce fighting with the Germans within the depths of the Gothic line. Only small gains were made in that sector on the right flank of the U. 8. 5th army. Although the Gothic line has been breached and 5500 Germans have been taken prisoner since the offensive started on the Adriatic front 31 days ago, Field Marshal Albert Kes selring still was concentrating his forces in that sector to prevent the allies from perfecting the breakthrough and pouring out into the broad stretches of the Po valley

northward. i DEWEY IS URGED AS

FOE OF CROOKEDNESS

BLOOMFIELD, Ind. Sept. 16.—In Governor Dewey, the people have an opportunity to elect to the presidency a man who abhors deception and one who has a record of fighting crookedness, G. O. P, senatorial nominee Homer E, Capehart declared in an address here last night. “The voters must decide whether the economy of that period is to be dictated by foreign-born Sidney Hillman, by Earl Browder and their fellow travelers or whether the get up-and-go policies of Thomas E. Dewey are ‘to .be put into effect, he said. :

he riliged

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towns and villages in western day, .bush Pilot’ Loen AlsGermany on orders from the Nazi| worth, searching the area in a high command. - ~~ | ted them

and guided them to

Aaron Huegenard, South Bend, 3d

Clarence R. McNab, Ft. Wayne, 4th

Cfers, Lebanon, 6th; Joseph Kim- Cele of 28 scacms as mel, Vincennes, 7th; Carl Gray, hse - persons 8 Petersburg, 8th; Ivan C. Love, Sey- the rehearsing a. ul Sugimer under

rt Winslow,

: Gilbe mour, 9th; G! George Dailey; |

field, 10th, aed Indianaolis, . : Many party leaders believed that

"yo sha

William Jones, Marion, 5th; Ben]

Green-|

Civilians “Moved

Out in Davao; Marines

Widen Palau Hold.

| Washington, told

are -wanted -and- needed to make AA

DeRee. She remembered, , that quite & few of the girls from |$43.000.000 surplus in the state] Other Russian the old National Biscuit Co: fac- EE ore Foland fanned ou > e tions Slovakia bid % Day re post-war era. He said he favored |and unconfirmed pie lpr plese the removal of the hospital for the [trols already by a photographer to illustrate criminal insane at Michigan City Housiainons

cker-Jackson clubs would ihe. She same beneficial results as did the independent willkie clubs of 1040 for the Republicans. Senator Samuel D. Jackson, who . is morning from griived hers 68 Democratic editors at a business meeting that the feeling among Democratic leaders in the capitol was ‘that Mr.

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wey hasn't gotten up nearly as much Steam as Mr. Willkie had at Fallen Suburb. . same time four years ago.” 3 Sie oa senator said that he had (Continued From Page One) promised by Senator Harry . ran, Democratic vice presie| the remaining German positions on

dential nominee; Governor Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma and Vice President Henry Wallace that they would come into the state if they

Predicts Party Victory

State Chairman Fred F. Bays, In addressing a business meeting of Democratic editors here this morn-|i, ing, predicted a Rooseevit victory in Indiana. : “The Indiana Democratic organ ization is all out for President Roosevelt and the state ticket, Mr. Bays declared. “We feel it would be a political make a change in the White at this time. “Increasingly I find all over

Praga fell after a four-day battle

the great

try at the peace table.” Schricker Maps Program

Governor Schricker, in & non. political address,: told the ed! that $10,000,000 to $15,000,00 of

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affairs.”

tion of voters that is now taking

since the “Democratic wards will stay Democratic.”

Big Registration Hailed Referring to the heavy registra-

heavy registration is always a Democratic registration.”

He said that a poll of 48,000 voters

in heavily Republican precincts gave the Democrats a majority of | prise

1872 and that there were 7551|six years under the supervision of doubtful voters, most of whom un-|{gelen Eder.

‘He said this meant a sure victory

Rumors on Petit Meanwhile, Marion county Demo-

that James L. Bradford, 11th district G. O. P. chairman, had “dumped” Sheriff Otto Petit, Republican candidate for re-election. Sheriff Petit made a brief bid for election as a “compromise” county chairman early last summer. The Democratic nominee for sheriff of Marion county is Lewis Johnson, former city police captain, A capacity crowd gathered at the hotel early Priday and it seemed that the Democrats would have as large, if not a larger crowd than the Republicans did last week-end. “Re-elect Roosevelt” buttons were in evidence everywhere. Governor Schricker and Senator Jackson, the party nominees for

dresses will be broadcast over station WIRE in Indianapolis from

8:30 to 9 p. m. STATE GUARD WEEK BEGINS TOMORROW

Governor Schricker today proclaimed the week beginning tomorrow as Indiana State Guard week,

strength. - Information folders on the guard

recruiting booths throughout the state. Men between 17 and 55 are eligible.

KIEL, BERLIN RAIDED

For all six, it was their: first |

which is to be devoted to building the 47 Indiana companies to full

will. be available at armories and

LONDON, Sept. 18 (U. P)—| | Nearly 1000 R. A. F. heavy bomb-| raided the big

mile stretch of the Tarnavamica valley railway and took Cioc, 16 miles east of Targu-Mures, a main line rail and highway center 48 miles southeast of Cluj

HIGH SCHOOL GIRL

ee” The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al bert Zimmerman, 933 Belmar ave. Zimmerman has taken dancing

Run prky., was selected for second place honors.

23 IN STATE NAMED IN U. S. INDICTMENTS

crats here were putting out the word| myenty-three persons in the Ev-

ansville and Terre Haute areas were indicted by the federal grand jury yesterday. Judge Robert C. Baltzell set arraignments for Sept, 23. The grand jury will report on cases in the Indianapolis and New Albany areas next week, B. Howard Caughran, United States district attorney, said.

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Morotai, sald the landing was made without opposition, on two beaches less than a while apart. Pita airstrip, only 1000 yards from the

state that the people are coming 104, which Josses on both sides said Japan may attempt to the conclusion that Governor Dewey | neqvy, with the Germans losing some of these onto Pelelin, is too young, too rienced and |yijled and 400 captured, in operation

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