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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 170
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1944
Entered as Second«Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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PRICE FOUR CENTS
PROMISE
~ BY GOV.
At Hometown of Candidate's Wife.
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Saft Correspondent SAPULPA, Okla., Sept. 26. =~Governor Thomas E. Dewey
dential campaign into his wife's childhood home town today, asking Republicans and *good Democrats” to join him in a gsomplete housecleaning of the fed-
The New York governor followed through on last night's request for glection to the presidency “to restore integrity to the White House” by promising anew as he campaigned across Oklahoma that if his bid is successful, there would be a complete housecleaning in the national capital. “With the help of all Republicans and good Democrats, we will start achieving that pext Jan. 20,"
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of the Oklahoma City Municipal suditorium, was the most boisterously responsive of any along the §700-mile route.
store integrity to the White House #80 that its spoken word can be trusted again.” The New York governor spent most of his half-hour speech from Oklahoma answering Mr. Roosevelt's opening campaign bid of Saturday
Dewey said the President’s speech
sompletely ignored his pledge on a.
acceptance of the 1944 nomination that he would not campaign in the usual sense and was one. of “mudslinging, ridicule and wisecracks.” “It plumbed the depths of demogogy by dragging into this campaign the names of Hitler and Goebbels; it descended to quoting from Mein Kampf and to reckless charges of ‘fraud’ and ‘falsehood,’ ” be charged. “Disdains Such Tactics”
Dewey promised that he personally would .not resort to such tactics. “The winning of this war and the achievement of a people’s peace are too sacred to be cast off with friveJous language,” he said. “I believe
are dying on the battlefronts of the
CoP Coma Tegh POLITICAL SCENE—
IVEN DEWEY
"You're One, Too’ Stage Is Reached In the Campaign
. By THOMAS L. STOKES Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WITH DEWEY PARTY, Sept. 26.—This 1944 presidential campaign apparently is going to be the dirty affair that many people feared. Who is to blame will be argued from now until Nov. 7 by the partisans of President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey. But, however that may be, it is obvious that the campaign is headed for the “you're another” level » » » THIS WAS MADE certain when the G. O. P. presidential candidate, nettled by President Roosevelt's campaign address last Saturday night—which patently disturbed the Dewey high command-—rolled up his sleeves, dug his pitchfork into the Roosevelt record, and made the dirt fly, with a blunt: “He asked for it. Here it is.” = » 2 GOVERNOR Dewey's charge in his speech that the President's ing to prepare the defenses of this country for war has cost countless American lives” and “untold
Safety Board Members Act On Mayor's Request; Politics Hinted.
Mayor Tyndall today requested the safety board to withdraw from city council its controversial ordinance suthorizing police to issue $1 traffic stickers against jay-
The mayor declared that he desired the measure to revert back to the legal department “for further study.” However, it is generally understood at City hall that administration politicos fear that the ordinance contains “election dynamite” which might adversely in-
“Isn't it true that those elements are largely political?” asked Safety Board Vice President Paul Robertson. Mr. Erug replied that the city legal aids were not sure whether the measure infringes upon state The board withdrew the ordinance only after that it had introduced it into city council on approval of the legal depart-
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HITLER WONT
Allies Will Take Steps to
“sad record of fail- |g
‘ized powers can contemplate.”
By REVEL 8. MOORE United Press Saft Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 26~Gen,
"Charles De Gaulle’s warning to
French troops not to expect German collapse before spring was accepted here today as a concrete acknowledgement that allied leaders have scaled down their most optimistic hopes for an early victory.
- De Gaulle made his statement Sunday while on his first visit to troops in the Belfort gap
Onigter & > jabs same me 1 Was ack-
nowledged, however, the struggle might go on through the winter if the Germans exerted the maximum resistance within their power and if the allies ran into mixed fortunes or adversity. » » . IT IS CLEAR now that the hope of the allied command for a quick flanking movement around the end of the Siegfried line through Holland has not been as
fully realized as it might have been. That is not to say the bridgehead across both branches of the Rhine may not be established ultimately through Nijmegen and Arnhem with further effort. The news dimout on this area imposed by the supreme command may indicate a new effort is now being made.
Gen. De Gaulle Reflects Drop In Allied Optimism
THE GERMANS have suevesded in establishing stable "defenses along the Siegfried line and the, Moselle. When authorities’ were speaking of a victory in October, they were open-minded on the ability of the Germans to accomplish this, The Germans’ last desperate mobilization efforts which followed Hitler's purge of some of his leading generals apparently
mounting pressure,
has not been wholly unprodyes tive.
2 x THERE ARE still plenty of opti mists who are not discouraged by the week’s delay in Holland. : They feel that while the Germans have been able to make a firm stand so far, it may still - prove that the Nazi defenses are. brittle and cannot stand the.
FIND A HAVEN, | BRITONS TOLD,
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Block Escape, Churchill Says in Commons. LONDON, Sept. 26 (U. P)—
Prime Minister Winston Churchill,{ appearing in commons a few hours after his return from his Quebec
Churchill, replying to questions concerning Hitler's post-war fate, said it was not the government's intention “to allow the escape of these men to be effected without exerting every resource which civil.
He was asked by Sir William Davison if it was not essential that , the United States
upon the subject.” Another member referred to Napoleon, who was kept a.prisoner of Britain for several years, and Churchill said Napoleon's case was different, because Napoleon “threw himself upon the mercy of Britain and was kept for the rest of his life as a prisoner of state.” >
world—men and women who are praying daily for the return of their
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MERCURY DROP DUE BY LAST OF WEEK
The five-day forecast issued today by the weather bureau predicts near norma] temperatures for this week with showers Thursday and Friday. It is expected to be cooler Friday and Saturday,
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HOOSIER HEROES— 5 Local Soldiers
Killed in Service; . Four Wounded
A bomber crash at a United States training base today had caused the death of one Indianapolis soldier. Four other local men had been reported killed in action and four servicemen have been reKILLED : ‘Second Lt. Orville A. Higgins, 2327 E. Minnesota st., near Casper, Wyo. Pfc. Armand J. J. Heritier, R. R. 18, Box 648, on Guam. Pvt, Dale Sexson, 3711 Watson road, in the South Pacific. Lt. Harley xB Hornbeck Jr. 6338 College ave., in France.
in France. WOUNDED Cpl. William Floyd Ross, 1318 OI. ney st., in the Sgt. Box 267, in Burma.
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WCARTY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NEWS| =
Executive Editor to Fill Fairbanks Vacancy.
Japs Admit Slight Damage, pan 13 Superforts
By UNITED PRESS Japan announced that more than
industrial cities of Anshan, Penshihu and Dairen in southern Manchuria and several Japanese-held cities in China Tuesday, inflicting “slight damage.” The enemy claimed 13 of the big planes were shot down or damaged
Taming at 1:30 p. m." Tokyo said.
70 B-29 Superfortresses raided the!
over North China before and after|
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Planes Diop Supplies to Paratroopers in Holland
BF Russians Forcing
| | will place the Nazis at the mercy
A British soldier stands guard over the Nijmegen bridge across the Rhine river in Holland. Note Hitler photo inside sentry box.
Gen. Bor Revealed Now as
Career
fficer of Poland
LONDON, Sept. 28 (U. P.).—|brought his Warsaw army out of “Gen. Bor," Se hie] of ‘hiding on Aug. ‘1 and engaged the
Tadeusz K cer since 1914 who in 1939 commanded & cavalry group in a Vis-
tula sector.
Komorowski had been command-er-in-chief of the underground army since the summer of 1943 when his
He used “Gen. Bor” as a nom de predecessor was arrested by the guerre to conceal his identity from| Germans in a roundup. He had
beén deputy commander since 1941. Polish government sources said {three dvisions took part in the fight.
and underground | ing in the Warsaw area. They were Cordell Hull has branded a- Fascist army in ‘the ates of Krakow. He! the 8th, 10th and 28th.
our Friends Go Under That Gets You
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‘really gets you, though. You've got a friend and he is standing or lying beside vou one minute and © then he is dead and bleeding all aver you. “Perhaps he got it from a grenade or perhaps from a burp gun, but just the same he is dead, see. I think you never get over that”
New Nazi Tank: One Man Steers, Four Others Pedal
®r UNITED PRESS
THE GERMANS were The American broadcasting
today to have developed a
Ts “new secret weapon™ as the result of a gasoline shortage.
lation ih Burops quota the Paris :
| Baltics has begun the evacu-
1via, against which Russian
{sian air force was pounding the sec- || ondary roads over which the Ger-
| | Riga area as the Nazi command
f | armored and mobile forces were i racing toward Riga from the east,
od capital. } | nearing the main airdrome in the
t {ing the eastern approaches to Riga.
{tually ended yesterday, except for
1U. S. PLACES EMBARGO
NAZIS LOSE 800,000 SINCE D-DAY; ‘BIG ALLIED PUSH BELIEVED NEAR
Eastern Front—
Evacuation of
Riga.
By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, Sept. 26. — The battered German army of the
ation of Riga, capital of Lat-
troops were closing from three sides, the Soviet army organ Red Star reported today. Front dispatches said the Russians had won complete control of all rail junctions and main highways leading out of Riga. The Rus-
man garrison was fleeing. Big air battles raged over the
threw in strong fighter formations in a desperate attempt to shield the hard-pressed ground forces:
Nails Fighting for Time Red Star reported that Soviet
beating back the German rear guard which was fighting for time to evacuate the main garrison from
Russian tanks were reported Riga area, the capture of which
of Russian assault planes. ! In a climactic drive to wind up the Baltic campaign and free their full striking power for an all-out offensive against East Prussia, the Russians seized one of the two escape ports still open fo the Germans in Estonia, herded the surviving enemy divisions. against the seacoast, and broke open the longprepared Nazi “winter line” guard-
The battle of Estonia was vir-
mopping up operations.
ON ARGENTINE PORTS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (U. P). —The state department announced today that after Oct. 1 American ships northbound from South America will be prohibited from stopping at Argentine ports. The department said the diversion of ships from the Argentine run was a result of war requirements for those bottoms in other areas. It added, however, that countries which have been contributing to the prosecution of ‘the war will continue to. get sympathetic consideration with respect to use of United States ships for’ their domestic needs. The state department announcement did not tie the decision in with the economic warfare against Argentina, which Secretary of State
government,
*YOU LOOK all right to me, lieutenant,” I said. But still he wasn't listening. “1 don't mind any of the rest of it.” he continued. “Hell, it's fun killing Germans. © “And this stuff about sleeping in fox holes doesn’t bother me either. I've had worse times on Tennessee maneuvers, “It's seeing your friends go Jee that gets you. You sit here and think and tell yourself ‘they'll never come back’.” : * = = -» “JUST THE same, lieutenant, you. look okay to me,” I said. He smiled. “Do you Tally think so? You
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Western Front—
Sky Troops Hold On in Arnhem Pocket.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUAR-. TERS, A. E. F., Sept. 26.— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters announced today that the German army had suffered casualties estimated at more than 800,000 since D-day during the allied march from the Normandy beaches to Germany, : The official estimate of more than 500,000 German troops cape tured, 100,000 killed and 200.000 wounded seriously was announced
Arnhem eyewitness story, Page s.
as American and “British armies
Hitler's inner citadel, Supreme headquarters clamped s seeurity censorship in the wild bate tle in Holland and the fate of the force of airborne British Red Devils trapped at Arnhem, which Berlin claimed had been “completely Hee uidated.”
Pocket of Strangulation
Latest reports from the fleld said only that the Arnhem force again had drawn in its perimeter and was huddled in a pocket of strangulas tion under heavy pressure. The security blackout obscured the situation elsewhere in Holland, but cryptic field dispatches said the British 2d army was wheeling east ward against Germany on a 30-mile front below Nijmegen, at the north end of which the border had been crossed in a direct threat to the Siegfried line anchor post of Kleve. More than 1100 American heavy bombers swept over Germany ahead of the land armies again today and hammered three big centers vital to {the Nazi front line troops—Osngbruck, Hamm and Bremen,
Round-Up of Fronts
Meager reports coupled with Nazi propaganda broadcasts gave the following picture of the battle« fronts:
ONE: The Arnhem had lost the north end of the Arn. hem bridge across the Neder Rhine and the bitter fight was continuing some two miles to the. west, ac cording fo late accounts. :
TWO. Lt Gen. Sir Miles C, Dempsey's troops swinging eastward into the Dutch borderland fronting Germany captured the hig bases of Helmond, Deurne and Mook, and fanned out beyond them as much as eight miles to the areas of Oploo and Liesel against spotty opposition, THREE: Li. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ U. 8. 1st army was reported by Berlin to be massing formidable concentrations in the Aachen area for what the Nazis called a prospec tive attempt to breakthrough to the Cologne area of the Rhineland.
FOUR: Lt. Gen. George S. Pat= ton’s 3d army battered forward from the Metz-Nancy sector of the Moselle valley, beating off sporadic counter-thrusts. Berlin reported a big scale attack in the Epina«