Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1944 — Page 1
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P.A.C. Spurs
Party Hope | Lo : For Victory By DANIEL M. KIDNEY *C LEAR Everything + ~ With Sidney” seems to be gratefully accepted as at least a symbolic slogan by . the professional Hoosier Democrats. For they ‘are counting on P. A. C.-C. L O..and other union labor leadership to win the election for them. : : Whether they
doubtful as of today. But the well-heeled and well organized labor leadership has given the somewhat moribund Democra~tic organization Mr. Kidney hat seems to be a new set of life-giving glands. There is no open pre-election discussion of what the doctor's bill will be should the Democrats be elected. ” » » HOW LARGE a part labor plays, however, was demonstrated early this week by Senator Claude Pepper's (D. Fla) visit to the state. He addressed a luncheon in Indianapolis and two meetings at Anderson. All were labor meetings organized for the Democrats. Another factor is the speed-up in registration of voters in the industrial areas, which has exceeded Democratic ‘hopes and is credited to the P.A.C. "ol mm
ing Dewey to slump somewhat and Roosevelt to rise.
» ” o POLITICAL observers here re fuse fo say that this situation, as of today, puts the state in the “doubtful column. They still think the G. O. P. presidential candidate lead,
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F. Schricker for the senate is admittedly strong. 3 Schricker-Jackson organiza-
that the majority of the farm vote is lost. They console themselves by saying that when an Indiana farmer gets back in the bucks he just naturally votes Republican.
SIEGFRIED LINE
Blazing oil Jl Driving Nazis From Casements of
. * Metz Fortress.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Stall Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F, Oct. 4.— American troops stormed the Nazi citadel of Ft. Driant to-
out of their casements with blazing oil, and on the Aachen
open country under sunny skies. The break in the weather enabled the Americans to send their massive air strength into the break-through battle.
blowing the German gunners out of their machines, First army troops jammed through the hole that had been torn in the Siefried belt at Ubach. They spread out across the open country both north and south of Ubach, 10 miles to the north of Aachen. Advance Rolls On
The advance rolled forward despite repeated Nazi counter-
On the War Fronts
An exception to this is Floyd Hemmer, candidate for lieutenant governor, A former state senator and now head of the state penal farm, he has been taking: the back. roads in an offensive
Street Car Ads: $1300 a Month
THOSE RED, white and blue
8polis street cars are costing the Democrats $1300 per month. This is the first time in recent ¥ears that Indianapolis Railways, Inc, has carried such political advertising. It was bought by the Democrats through Harry Reid Jr., who handles such advertising through= out the state. He says he also tried to sell the Republicans, but failed to do so.
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TIMES INDEX
Amusements ..16 Eddie Ash ....18
Jane Jordan. 21 Mauldin ......11 Lee G. Miller .12 Ruth Millett ,.11 Movies .......18 Obituaries ....10 Fred Perkins..l1
David Diets S11 ‘Editorials .....12 Fashions ......17 Financial ..... 8 Forum abennsr ld Freckles a1 Meta ven
Houeaking v2
Ernie Pyle ....11| 21
BULLETIN LONDON, Oct. 4 Berlin reported today that Russian troops had reached Noveselo, 18 miles northeast of Bel. grade, indicating that the German defense are northeast of the capital had collapsed, enabling
the Soviet army to advance 18 miles in 24 hours.
WESTERN FRONT —American troops capture Ft. Driant, push through gap in Siegfried line toward Cologne.
PACIFIC—American Liberators deal crippling blow to Japan's fuel resources in raid in Borneo. ¥ - »
day, burning the Germansj
front beat off stubborn German] cotnter-attacks and fanned into the
Siegfried |
P-47 Thunderbolts roared out in} force, dive-bombing Nazi tanks and |
By FRANK FISHER United Press Staff Correspondent BREENDONCE, Belgium, Oct. 4. ~The Germans killed more than 120 persons a month here, the guide said as he led the way to a courtyard where, when tortures had failed, the victims were shot or hanged, There was the gallows where
men dropped through trapdoors so shallow that their necks didn't
and they just dangled reat, strangling slowly. Around its base was a mass of flowers, piled there by relatives of the dead. ss =» THE BELGIANS are going to preserve Breendonck. When peace
‘ comes again, tourists will be able
to drive out from Brussels to this low-lying fort near Antwerp and see just how the Gestapo tortured 164 victims,
Breendonck--120 Died Each Month
The trading irons will be there, and the pulley by which men were lifted from the ground by their ankles and dropped down in sharp jerks for hours, and the wi room and the steel rods with which the whipwas done, and other torture ” . ¥ BREENDONCK is not a pretty sight, but the Belgians intend to keep it as a reminder after the
war when memories grow dim that these things did happen; that this was the enemy. . » THERE was nothing. subtle about the methods of the gestapo torturers, nothing fancy. : When they burned a body with hot irons, they heated the irons in a little stove within a few feet of where the victim lay strapped
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Naval Medical
Corps Lauded
Mal Gen. David N. W. Grant. army sir surgeon, Washington, D.’ C. (left), who addressed state medical convention members on
medical aspects of high altitude
was accompanied by one of
flying, was his principal co-workers, Brig. Gen. Eugen G. Reinartz, commandant," school of aviation medicine, Randolph field.
SEA HOSPITALS | WELL SUPPLIED
State Doctors Get Report Of Giant Strides in Military Service.
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Never once has it been said that
family stock in the world, a group|®
which in the future will become our physicians,” he said, “Many is the time spirit has run so high among our nurses that I| have had to order them from duty. Otherwise they would have collapsed.” Until recently Capt. Ceres was commandant of the hospital at
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Just a Reminder: Thanksgiving Sef For Nov. 23 Here
BECAUSE of so many queries, the governor's office today repeated its previous announcement that Thanksgiving would be observed in Indiana on the fourth Thursday in November, the 23d. Ray E. Smith, secretary to the governor, said that this date was fixed by a congressional resolu-
tion passed in 1941.
AL SMITH DIES AT 70 WITH A PRAYER ON LIPS
Body to Lie in State Until Solemn Requiem Mass Saturday Morning.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (U. P.).—Alfred E. Smith, “the Happy Warrior,” "a leading figure in national Democratic politics from 1920 until 1932, four times governor of New York state, and candidate for president in 1928, died at 5:20 a. m. (Indianapolis time) today. The man in the brown derby, who rose to power and fame from the poverty of a New York City
slum, took His last breath with a prayer on his lips, fully conscious it was his last, just as the Rev. John Healy, his parish priest, entered his room at the Rockefeller Institute hospital. A solemn requiem mass will be
| [celebrated for Smith at 11 a. m.
Saturday at St. Patrick’s cathedral,
. {with burial in the family plot at
|Health Insurance
Plan Proposed of Doctors’ Session
As an antidote to the bitter governmental “pill,” the permanent study committee on health insurance of the Indiana State Medical association tossed a voluntary in-| surance-based plan into the laps of convention delegates at the Murat | theater. Committee members, headed by Dr. W, H. Howard, Hammond, ad-
mitted they expecied fireworkers as
fellow doctors‘get heads together to study the plan and foresaw the possibility that commercial insurance companies might cry “monopoly,” if
certain features of thé proposal were |
adopted. A prepayment medical and surgical plan, it would be left to the individual to subscribe to the insurance policy which, it -is hoped, will be coupled with the Blue Cross Hospital Service of Indiana, a similar project designed to handle hospitalization costs, Maintaining that ‘it would reach 75 per cent of the people and retain the old personal doctor-patient relationship, Dr, Howard claimed the
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Calvary, Queens. Rites to Be Simple
Preceding the mass the body will
lie in state at the cathedral from 2 p. m. Friday. Th ; The funeral will be simple. There “at
pital lobby where reporters were his death. “This is the last of a great man” he said. great father, a great American.” Dr. Sullivan said he had had “a severe relapse” at 4:30 a. m. Indianapolis time, “accompanied by acute heart failure.” Hospital authorities sent at once for Father Healy and Smith’s children. Healy arrived just as he died and the children—Mrs. John Warner, Mrs. Francis J. Quillinan, Walter Smith, and Arthur Smith-—came a few minutes later. His sister, Mrs. Mary Glynn, and his old friend, John J. Raskob, the motor magnate who helped him finance the world’s tallest structure,
the Empire State building, was with (them. A third son, Alfred E. Smit®
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WEATHER CLEAR FOR
FIRST SERIES GAME
Early Crowd Small Due to Rain Threat.
By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor SPORTSMAN'S PARK, ST. LOUIS, Oct. 4—The Cardinals and the Browns met in the opening game of St. Louis’ first intra-city world ‘ series today under clearing skies after rain had threatened in the morning to wash out the contest. Manager Billy Southworth of the Cards sent mound to oppose Denny Galehouse, husky right hander of Luke Sewell's American league standard bearers. : The rain thinned the crowd and less than 5000 persons were in the park two hours before game time. The Cards were 1 to 2 choices over the Browns. With the fast-balling Cooper going, the Cards were 11 to 20 to win the first game although Mort always has had trouble against American league hitters. Both Southworth and Sewell pronounced their clubs fit and ready, although the Cardinals, battling to get out of a late season slump, still had a number of players on the
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NAZIS IN GREEK TRAP FAIL TO SURRENDER
Times Foreign Service CAIRO, Oct. 4—Despite the fact
“He was a real man, a
Mort Cooper to the]
In Happier Days
Al Smith . ... This photo was snapped in 1940 when he celebrated his 67th birthday at his Empire State building office.
Arms
ported that a survey of the
DEWEY AIMS AT HIGHER INCOME, REDUGED TAXES
Candidate in Radio Talk Calls for Revision of
Fiscal Policies.
ALBANY, Oct. 4 (U. P.) —Governor Thomas E. Dewey continued his attack on the Roosevelt administration today as he placed before the voters a six-point victory tax program “under which America may once again live and grow.” The Republican presidential nominee proposed the tax revision program last night in a nation-wide
radio address from the state executive mansion—from the same room
~iMr. Roosevelt used as his study
when he was governor, Assajling “waste: and extrava-
& aor’ of the prose present jpponal ad-
miisiratios, Dewey sad yer and the nation’s tax structure simplified
{if the country is to prosper in the . { post-war era.
He said it was “far better” to
{have low taxes and a national income of $150,000,000 rather than
high taxes and $76,000,000,000 national income’“as we had under the New Deal at its peace-time best.” Business, Wages Involved
The Roosevelt tax policies, he said, have discouraged business and
The mercury hovered in the 90's during his press conference on July 30, 1940, when he told reporters he would support Willkie for President.
As he appeared on the balcony . of the English hotel when he spoke here in 1928.
MATURE PHONES TO GIRL PATIENT
Gives Promise of Visit After
Operation.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 (U. PJ). —Eleven-year-old Eunice Kinzer, cheered by a 10-minute telephone conversation with her pal, screen star Victor Mature, underwent a serious brain operation today after Mature tried unsuccessfully to postpone the operation so that he could be with her.. Grounded at Indianapolis because of poor weather which canceled all plane flights east, Mature, now a chief boatswain's mate in the coast guard, tried to have operation put off until tomorrow, when he plans to visit the girl at Allegheny General hospital. But Funice's physician advised against a postponement and the brave little girl, still smiling after her talk with the handsome movie star, was wheeled out of her room and ‘taken upstairs for the op- ~ |eration. After Mature's conversation with |
“{the doctor had ended, the telephone |,
high wages and were responsible for prolonging the depression. The “highest New Dealers,” he coni tinued, “at last admit that this administration has created an impesi sible condition which urgently needs { repair.” The New York governor's progam included: ONE—Revision of personal income taxes “so that a man who makes as little as $11 a week no longer has an income tax taken out of his pay envelope.” TWO-Lowering of personal in-
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Front line fighting and aerial combat have added 18 more soldiers to Indianapolis’ casualty list.
KILLED Pvt. Chester L. Finchum, 2834 Forest Manor ave., in France. MISSING Pfc. Harry D. Sullivan, 2174 N. Talbott st., in Italy. Pvt. Robert W. Zwyers, Standard ave., in France. 8S. Sgt. William D. Dennis, 969 English ave. over Germany. Pfc. Harold J. Thompson, 2132 W. Minnesota st., in France. Lt. John J. Sullivan, 232 Hendricks pl.. over Germany. Lt. John B: Stewart, formerly of 3715 N. Meridian st. over France. WOUNDED Pfc. Roy B. Ridgeway, 148 W. 0th st., in France. Pfc. Jack S. Fuller, 612 E. 13th st. in Italy. Pfc. Delphord F. Scofield, 2026 W. orris st., in France. Pfc. Raymond Glen Jerod, 1208 N. Tuxedo st., in France. Pfc. Harry H. Miller, 6102 E. 10th st., in France. S. Sgt. Kenneth K. Millholland, 3940 Rookwood ave., in France. T. Set Ivan Bvide, 319 N. Arling-
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rss: Job. & Ritter sve, in Italy.
PRISONER 8 Sgt. Glen P. Knupp, 320
DETROIT, Oct. 4 (U. P. workers spread swiftly to 20 Detroit area armament plants today, halting or crippling production in 11 of them and affecting more than 35,500 other employees. The army’s 6th service command procurement unit res
"DETROIT WA UTPUT INC BY WALKOU
Maintenance Workers Threaten to Close All Industries in U. 8. Center.
).—A strike of maintenance
situation shortly after noon ‘showed eight plants closed = ‘and that at least three others (would shut down this afters ‘noon when parts on hand at assembly stations become exe
Six of the closed plants were operated by the Briggs Manufags turing Co. and two by the Chrysies Motor Car Co. ; Production was expected-to soon at Chrysler company’s tank arsenal and two plants operated by the Packard Motor Car Co. Bohn Aluminum Co., the army re ported. : Companies Affected
Other plants where work wi crippled by the strike and whe production also may stop t were listed by the army as oper ated by the American Metal Prods ucts Co. Continental Motors Gar Wood Industries, Inc, H Motor: Car Co., Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., Zenith Carburator Co. Moto: Products Co, and L A. Yo Spring and Wire Co., and a fo Chrysler plant. Because the strikes in many e affected only certain departments 0 plants, the total number of worke involved could not"be dete with any degree of accuracy. situation was further. complic when ‘many workers returned their jobs after being counted as strike. : Ford Threatened
At least 35500 other workers sent home by plant manageme when production lines were h by the lack of key men who joi: the strike, voteq by members of maintenance and powerhouse works ers council, United Workers (C. I. 0). Threat of a walkout at the Ford
od
plant and its main River Rouge plant was lifted temporarily in mid= morning when council members there voted to resume work. Reports were rife of ether plants going on strike and of other works ers deciding to stay on the job, mak= ing determination of the situatiom difficult. Grave Union Plea
The workers’ struck at the exe piration of a 24-hour ultimatum 18. the national. war labor board manding that a panel be sent here from Washington to investigate what they declared were unfair wage rates, They contend produc tion workers rates are unfairly higher than theirs. The walkouts began despite pleas to local leaders. by interna= tional officers to postpone such drastic action pending a second WLB meeting on the matter toe day at Washington. In taking their strike vote Mon= day, council members asserted such action was necessary to focus ate tention on grievances dating back several years. ; The council is protesting a wis order of October, 1942, widening the difference in wage rates betwesn tool and die workers and maintes nance workers, leaders
tenance workers.
FOR ASKS PETRILLO
Urges Action in ‘Interest
Orderly Government. »
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U. President Roosevelt, tHe House announced today, has ei on James C. Petrillo, president the American Federation of Muy cians, to accept “in the interest orderly government”