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MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 1944
Entered as Becond-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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spectacles.
“Incidentally, I might remark, just in passing,” Hugh’ Baillie, resi I uit remark, Just 5 Jussipe” Husk Balle many women in Paris and Bfussels are one of the war's strangest
“They appear about a foot high and are réminiscent of Carmen Miranda, although without bananas,” ~~
manner, but his steely glance and precise exact language, Lever lacking or groping for the word best suited to express his definite
. Later, inside his caravan, or frailer as we say in the United States, he showed me two colored pictures of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, hanging at the foot and alongside his bed. Both pictures of Rommel were “captured” as he followed Rommel’s retreating armies over two continents. One showed Rommel
some’ time later, Showed Jin loakitg tagsard, bu
glamorized, looking pleasant. The other. captured
fact he said face to face discuss their battles and ascertain how Rommel's mind worked, causing him to commit so many mistakes. In the midst. of our conversa-
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Boy, 16, Critically Wounded *
After Neighbor Hears
Noise on Porch.
‘Mistaken for a burglar, William Verence Dill, 16, R. B. 10, near Julietta infirmary, was shot and critically wounded in the head early today by a neighbor, Arbie Hill, 34, Highiway 52 ang the German Ghuren
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'G. 1'S GET PRIORITIES WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U, P)~
ance fo discharged world war II Jeterans for. buding or remedeting their homes.
Union Dispute Forces Radio To Cancel Political Speech
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 2 (U. Py to-
TIMES INDEX
Aniusemerts . :6|Danlel Kidney 10 Eddie Ash.. + 6/Charles Lucey.10 Barnaby .
s| 70-year-old ex-governor's improve.
bribe Edward H. Halpin, OPA price
Condition Grave
ed “by mistake.” ;
BROWNS WIN 1ST PENNANT
Last-Day Victory Carries Them Into Series Sentimental Favorites. By LEO H. PETERSEN
United Press Sports Editor ~ BT. LOUIS, Oct. 2.—The Bt. Louis
AL SMITH REMAINS
17'S WALL ST. VS. MAIN ST. PEPPER SAYS
‘Sole Issue’ Senator at Press ~ Conference Here.
By EARL RICHERT Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, top-ranking New Dealer, declared at a press conference here today that the issue of this campaign “stated simply is Wall Street vs. Main Street or the country club vs. the country.” “This Sample is 1920 all over
became a candidate. He charged that Mr. Dewey now was “saying anything to get votes.” Charges McCormick Deal
“What I am interested in” he continued, “is what did Mr, Dewey say privately to Col Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribune to get his whole-hearted support. The colonel just isn't that kind of fellow who would suport ardently a man who believes in ‘international co0 a 7
IN GRAVE CONDITION
Status Unchanged After Day, Of ‘Real Improvement.’
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P.) ~The condition of former Governor Alfred E Bmith of New York, critically ill at the Rockefeller Institute hospital, was reported “unchanged” today after 24 hours of “real im-
provement. Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan, Smith's physician, announced the
ment late yesterday and his daughter, Mrs. John Warner, said she was “definitely encouraged” over his condition. Smith has been in failing health since the death of his wife several
Sept. 22 for special treatment.
CHARGE ATTEMPTED BRIBERY WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P).— A federal grand jury today indicted Norman G. Becker, 46, former OPA official of New York City, on a charge of attempting to
analyst, in an effort to obtain higher ceiling prices’ for a New
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York rayon firm Becker repre-
canceled ‘because .of the station's
canceled because of objection from the’ Central Labor union.
“Since the C. L. U. has in ~ candidates,” Humphre dorspa
“I had no choice but to rescind our selection of KSTP to carry our
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Senator ‘Pepper said it was “obvious that the . collaborationist{minded Republicans do not trust Mr. Dewey's foreign policy” The best example of that is the re(cent statement by the forthright Senator Ball of Minnesota that he cannot support Mr. Dewey at present. “And it is an obvious fact, too” he continued, “that Willkie doesn’t trust Dewey's foreign policy.” Urges Schricker Election
Senator Pepper said he was interested in the election of Governor Schricker, the Democratic senatorial “nominee, to the U. 8 senate. * It the Republicans win control of the senate, Hiram Johnson of California, “an isolationist,”
months ago and entered the hospital wilh
control of the house of representatives, heaven forbid,” he said, “Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York will become chairman of the ways and means committee.” He said that Governor Dewey
was “more. and more sinking to]
personalities.” “Dewey Has Tasted Blood”
“He now has tasted blood,” he said of Mr. Dewey. “And he hears the cheers of those who hate Roosevelt. So now his sole platform is ‘turn them. out.’ : “Well, they turned them out in 1920 and the result was uncontrolled inflation while wages ‘were going of our resources. “It seems to me,” he concluded, “that the American people would be unwilling to turn the country over to a leadership that brought about the last depression.”
30-DAY ' SUBMERGING CLAIMED FOR U-BOAT
! Times Special
d A Japanese Domei dispatch
from Berlin, broadcast by Tokyo radio, claimed today that German ‘U-boats have been equipped with a
{new device which enables them to ; Temain submerged for 20 to 30 days
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¥ ! : 14,800 Ballots for Fighting Men
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NORMANDY BEGUN NORTH OF AACHEN
ROW AT SCENE
OF PRESIDENTS
TALK RELATED
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And Friend ‘Attacked’ By Labor Delegates.
WASHINGTON, Oct: 2 (U.P.).—
| Lt. Randolph Dickins Jr. 23, said ¢ today that he and a friend battled
a group of teamsters union dinner
‘guests at the Statler hotel on Sept.
28, shortly after President Roosevelt
made his first 1944 campaign speech!
at the banquet, because they. were! | attacked for refusing to state their
- political affiliations.
, 6 feet 2 inches tall and
a hero of the Battle of Midway, has
been. a patient at the naval medical hospital in suburban Bethesda, Md,
| since July 18.
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as many of these 't
He told his story in one of the conference sooms at the naval med.ical center to a. group of newsmen The navy, he said, had left up to him the decision whether he wanted to tell about the incident,
| Tells of Threat
Dickins said one of the men in
| the group that attacked him and his
dramatic, ‘but this scene is historic in that it portrays the first court- friend—whose name he did not dishouse staff devoted to fhe task of Jesting willis Salle abroad. |close—had charged him with beat-
Rush of Applications Makes “~Gr-t- Vote County "Mystery"
By NOBLE REED
Soldiers’ vite applications in Marion county reached 15,300, making the military's part in the local election Nov. 7 We biggest single “WYs: tery” factor in the whole ballot picture. . Machinery to: hatidie the-rush of “applications has been increasing every week at the secretary of states
where a staff of a dozen or more hours a day, getting the ballots malied to the four corners of the world. At the present rate of applications, election board members are predicting that the total soldier vote in Marion county alone will exceed 20,000, four itmes more than any political leader expected two months ago. |
14,800 Ballots Mailed |
Ballots have been mailed to 14,800 of the applicants, and between 3000 and 4000 have been returned voted. Every day several soldiers, sailors and uniformed women home on furlough file into the newly established soldier vote headquarters on the second floor of the court houle and cast their ballots on the spot. These are sealed and filed away by precincts; based on the voter's original residence before joining the armed services. On election day the sealed ballots, probably 20,000, will be digtributed to the various precinct election boards to be tallied with the Must Be Cleared
Soldiers’ vote applications first must be cleared through the secretary of state's office for checking against ' duplications or “phony” names.
Then they are mailed to the respective county clerks for distribution of ballots to the applicants. The secretary of state's soldier vote staff reported that approximately 135,000 applications have been ved from Indiana's soldiers and sailors and they still are coming in. Election officials predict, however, that not more than 75 or 8) per cent of the applicants will actually get their marked ballots back.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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office and at the courthouse workers are kept busy eight 10 10
Hoosier Heroes—
THREE LISTED DEAD AND FOUR WOUNDED
Lt. Ingels Reported Missing |
In South Pacific.
Three more Indianapolis soldiers have been killed in action, and a third is missing after service with the marine air corps. Four other local servicemen have been wounded
KILLED
Sgt. J. Bernard Lewis, 4343 Winthrop ave., in France. Pvt. Virgil V. Bryson, 1334 S. Richland, in France. Lt. James H. Wangelin, 1304 Edwards ave, in France.
MISSING Lt. Charles L. Ingels, Davis rd, in the South Pacific. WOUNDED Sgt. Raymond A. Brown, 2428 Park ave, in the Marianas. Pfc. Gene Potter, New Palestine, in. France. ; T. 5th Gr. Charles K. Heckman. 516 E. Raymond st., in France, Pvt. John O. Tames, 831 Eugene st. in the South Pacific. (Details, Page Five)
WARREN, TRUMAN, TO SPEAK TONIGHT
By UNITED PRESS Today's campaign speeches: Governor Earl Warren of California, speaking at Minneapolis in behalf of Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential - candidate, Mutual network, 8:45-9 p. m., Indianapolis time. Senator Harry S. Truman, Blue network, 8:55-8 p. m., Indianapolis time. 3
RE Take LR of
New Ruling
‘ Continuous lines of eight to 10
while tellers cashed a sizeable chunk of their war bond savings. 4 The rush at the banks began at 9 a. m. when all banks
today deemed 15 bonds for one person.
to Cash Bonds
bonds cashéd by each bondholder| .
The ‘majority, : smaller denominations, mainly series E with a maturity value of $25. Meanwhile, business dwindled at!
ing up "a personal friend of the President's” and threatened that higher authorities would punish him severely. It had been reported that Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Team-
“Iebers urion; was” the melee. Dickins. however, said that he was not aware of the identity of any of the six men he remembered striking in self-defense. Tobin, in New York, described as a criminal falsehood” reports that he or his aids had been involved in the altercation.
Photo Fails to Register
A picture of Tobin was shown to Dickins but he said the likeness did not register and that he did not remember hitting any man wearing glasses. Tobin wears spectacles. Dickins told his story slowly and in a straightforward manner as though he were making a formal navy report. : “At about 23'30 (11:30 p. m.) my friend—TI am not going to mention his name—and I arrived ‘at the Statler hotel with the intention of going to a naval officers’ dance which we understood was being held on the mezzanine lounge of the hotel,” he began. “Upon arrival we perceived sev-
_|eral hundred men congregated out-
side the ballroom and upon inquiry we found that the dance had been postponed in preference to a speech which had just been made by the President.
Target of Questions
“While we were on the mezzanine lounge inquiring as to. the whereabouts of the dance several of the group of men accosted us telling us that they were members of the teamsters’ union and that the President had just made a fine speech. : “They then asked my friend and I what political party we belonged to and who we would like to see get elected in November. “We retorted that it was none of their business; that it wasn't their affair. They then seemed to get rather angry at the fact that we didn't come out and state that
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CHINESE NOW MEET AT DUMBARTON OAKS
Initial Security T: Talks Begin
Among Leaders.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P)— Chinese’ delegates, bent on finding a serviceable definition of aggression and a formula for throttling it at birth, begin their part today in the Dumbarton Oaks interna-
Undersecretary of State Edward R.
Cadogan will leave for London before the talks conclude and the Earl
{CHINA BLAMES LAGK 2
.| Belgrade-Athens railway today in
Stettinius Jr. for the U. S. and Alex- [Germans in the southern Balkans. “ander Cadogan for Great Britain.
Americans Charge With Bayonets Into Human Wall of Nazis in the Siegfried Line.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Sta Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F,, Oct. 2.— American 1st army assault troops smashed foward toward the Rhine on a 20-mile front above Aachen today in the biggest attack since Normandy, driving across the AachenDusseldorf railroad and the Wurm river for a maximum gain of two miles by early afternoon. Attacking after a two-hour bombardment by hundreds of planes and big guns, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ assault forces battered forward through the Siegfried pillboxes. United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the 1st army front that the Americans were advancing in the general direction of the German towns of Merkstein, 7 miles north of Aachen and two miles beyond the border, and Herzogenrath, near the border two miles I~" © Merkstein. : Charge With Bayonets “As this is being written,” Gorrell reported, “Yank infantrymen are tackling with bayonets a human wall comprising hundreds of foxholes occupied by crack German reserves, Seen from the air, this wall of foxholes behind the Siegfried fortifications resembles a Braille board.” First advices did not specify where the Aachen-Dussel-dorf railroad and the Wurm river were crossed. The railroad angles northeastward from Aachen into the Rhineland, and the river winds in a general northwest-southeast direction above Aachen.
: Bombers Blast Ruhr Four hundred medium bombers following up more than 100 dive bombers took advantage of the first break of the weather in many ¥ days to kiek-bff the big attad "Rife y Rhineland —. the breaches knocked in the first wall of : Siegfried fortifications east of Aachen. ~ Massed artillery in the frontier area joined in the saturation bombardment, and the avalanche of bombs left many of the German defenders dead at their posts. The array of g guns included eight-inch ois pw firing from Hol, land.
OF AID FOR LOSSES
Claims Her r Supplies Would fantry want over the top, the gains
‘were approximately two kilometers, Not Supply Division. or nearly one and a third miles. - By UNITED PRESS
Spectacular Display While American forces tightened
The inhabitants of the pictur. their offensive arc around the Phil- esque little town of Heerlen, in the ippines, a Chinese official spokes- | Dutch “appendix” near the German man, stung by the loss of a 4th frontier, were treated to the most U. 8. air base in China, charged to- | {spectacular display yet.seen by the day that the allies had failed to pro- i Hollanders as the bombers dropped vide more than a “pitiful” amount thousands of pounds of high exof “token” assistance to China, { plosives ° on the heavily manned The Americans held "control of | Siegtried pillboxes. the southern Palaus, with three air-| Up to late afternoon, supreme fields within three hours’ flying headquarters had received no oftime of the Philippines, after 19 ficial account of the 1st army ofdays of bloody fighting in which fensive. Pending receipt of word they killed more than 10,000 Japa- from Hodges, headquarters spokesnese. {men warned against interpreting Over the week-end, marines and army’ units “secured” five of the (Continued on. Page 5—Column 4)
WAR FRONTS
herded surviving Japanese into two (Oct. 2, 1944)
small pockets. one on Peleliu and WESTERN FRONT—Yank 1st army
one on nearby Angaur island. An estimated 2000 Japanese held out in starts biggest assault since St. Lo on Sigfried line in: Aachen sector.
the pockets but a communique said RUSSIA—-Russians advance nearly =
“elimination of the defenders conmile an hour across Yugoslavia,
tinues.” Strong Japanese forces were beITALY—Americans capture Monte Cappella.
lieved still entrenched in northern islands of the chain, BALKANS—British liberate three Greek islands.
The Chinese spokesman, answering - Prime - Minister Churchill's AIR WAR--Yanks bomb Cologne, Kassel and Hamm in Germany. ‘
statement last week that China PACIFIC—Americans secure souths
had suffered severe military reverses despite “lavish American help,” said. the amount.of American supplies given the’ Chinese since Pearl Harbor would not have supported a British or American division for one week. J He asserted that the ‘only real aid given the Chinese armies in Eastern China came from the U.S. 14th air force, whose efforts he nraised ighly.
in southeastern Kwangsi.
Russ Closing Balkans Gate
Of Escape on 200,000 Nazis
“MOSCOW. Oct. 2 (U. P)~The Nis, junction of the Belgrade- Athens Russian army, advancing nearly a mile an hour across Yugoslavia,
slashed to within 40 miles of the
a drive threatening that main artery of escape for perhaps 200,000