Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1944 — Page 1

Proponents of Direct Method Claiming Support.

the Indiana Republican party with

the election so close, all signs point to a first-class explosion’ on the

direct primary issue soon after|

Nov. 7 if the G. O. P. wins. Rep, Jess Andrew (R. West Point), one of thé most influential

present convention system of nominating candidates for U. 8. senator, governor and other state offices.

nents will run into strong opposition from the G. O. P. party leadership At a recent hearing before the election law codification committee director

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“A direct promary.” said one of Is. G. O. P. legislative backers, “is One Way we can straighten out some of the kinks that have been hurting our party.” 5 Several direct primary

Willing to Fight

They think that Senator Willis cannot win renomination in a direct

They say, toa, that they will “fight the thing through” even against the expected opposition of Gates, who they presume will be In the

hearted support of who in the past sessions have introduced direct primary measures of their own, only to have them get no place because they were mindrity

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‘PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5~~Political repercussions are awaited today from a remarkable statement made by a federal grand which has heen receiving

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Retiring president of the Indians elected officers as closes. who will assume office in 1946 (left), and Dr. A. F. Weyerbacher, Indianapo Not present is Dr. N. K. Forster, Hammand, past president-elect; who will assume full duties

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Detroit Strikers Vote fo End War Plant Tieup Immediately

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eo. REMEMBER FRITZ MANDL, . the munitions maker? He's riding high

e SHALL VETERANS have absolute rights to their old jobs regardless of union contracts? Fred W, Perkins, Scripps - Howard staff writer, tells of possible impending conflicts, on Page 17.

®¢ YOURATTENTION also is called to the col umns, “ .

Grand Jury Probing Strike In Philadelphia Raps C. 1.0.

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_ FORECAST: Partly cloudy and warm tonight and tomorrow.

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URGES CHANGES

INHEALTH BOARD

More Liberal Budgets Are Suggested for State And Counties.

By VICTOR PETERSON The | "of delegates of the

Indiana State Medical association

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Take Air Fields, Fight Inside Big Port.

By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff "Correspondent

ROME, Oct. 5.—Allied troops, opening the second battle of Greece, have invaded the Greek mainland by air

{and “sea, seized several air-|

fields and driven into the fortified medieval port of Patrai, a communique announced today. Virtually the whole of the Peéloponnesus, comprising a quarter of the Greek mainland,’ was believed already in allied hands or under allied control. Embattled Patrai, on the north coast of the Peloponnesus, was described as one of the enemy's last strongholds on the peninsula. The communique reported merely that “land forces of the Adriatic” had entered during Tuesday night, and it was possible that the port, once the principal seat of Greek commerce, had since been captured.

Cutting Escape Routes

The invasion opened the final phase of the liberation of the southern Balkans, completing a threequarters encirclement of some 100,000 Germans in Greece, Albania

and Yugoslavia. Russian forces and! Marshal Tito’s Partisans in Yugo-!

slavia rapidly were cutting across the enemy's last routes of escape to the north.

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FOR CAMPAIGN TALK ON THE AIR TONIGHT

Speech at 9 P. M. May Be His Last Before Nov. 7.

paign to urge Democratic party RuFera to “get out the vote” on ov. 7. " :

The President's speech will occupy

onnesus, on Sept. 16. Follows Albanian Invasion

It also followed by only a week announcement of allied landings in Albania and on the Dalmatian islands on the western flank- of the Germans in Yugoslavia. No opposition was encountered in the early stages of the invasion, but the communique said the land forces now were in “contact with the enemy.” The Germans previ-

viously had been reported withdraw-

ing from the Peloponnesus northward in an attempt to escape the closing allied trap. (A Cairo dispatch said there were “reliable indications” that the Cor-

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Willkie Reported Still to HI for

Role in Election

; WENDELL L WILLKIE. who was stricken at Rushville on Labor day and speeded to a hospital in New York, still is too ill to take any part in the political campaign, according to reports received by friends here. His doctor has ordered that he remain in the hospital for at least another fortright and then go away for an absolute rest of at least four weeks. This would carry his convalescence beyond Election day,

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| seen the gruesome remnants of some

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

YANK TANKS BURST 0 ALLIES INVADE GREEC

WAR FRONTS

(Oct. 5, 1944)

WESTERN FRONT — Yank tanks break out onto Cologne plain,

BALKANS—Allies invade Greek mainland.

RUSSIA—Nazis say Russians start new offensive in northeast Lithuania.

ITALY—Americans and British within 14 miles of Bologna.

‘ATR WAR-More than 1000-U. S. bombers blast Cologne. PACIFIC — American bombers hammer Japanese - bases and shipping along 4000-mile front from Kuriles to Dutch East Indies,

OF 2800 PEOPLE

‘Talent of Poe’ Needed to Depict Horrors of Nazi Atrocity in Estonia.

By MEYER HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent’ TALLINN, Estonia, Oct. 4 (De-| { layed). ~In a wooded glen about 25 southwest of here I've just

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lay hundreds of bodies burned as cinders. At another point three great pyres upon which the Germans had burned many of the bodies. 19 Camps in Estonia

The Clooga camp was one of 19 in Estonia operated by the Todt labor organization and policed by] the gestapo.

light resistance. reached the

PRICE FOUR CENTS

British Push Within 2 Mi. of Arnhem Bridge as Patton Smashes Into Cave Areas of Metz Fort.

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constructed obstacles.

the north.

American advance.

army front.

in vain.

out of their concrete caverns of Metz. Lt. Gen. H. D.

BELGRADE SUBURB Report Lithuanian Drive Has Started.

LONDON, Oct. 5 (U. P) ~The Berlin. radio reported today that Soviet forces had attacked Pancevo, Belgrade suburb across the Danube

Also

capital.

Most prisoners in the camps were remnants of the Jewish ghettos in|

cities. Survivors told us German tommygunners went from room

at point-blank range. The survivors said that on the day of the execution groups of about 100 prisoners were led into a two story eight-room house. When one room was filled the Germans tommygunned the prisoners, then brought another group into a second room and so forth, When the house was filled with dead, the Germans poured gasoline on it and set it afire. One boy and two girls leaped from a window and escaped.

Other Victims Burned

Other victims were burned on three pyres. A fourth pyre was built but not used. Survivors said the victims were forced to lie face down on a layer of logs, forming a great square. Gestapo men then shot each in the head. A second group of victims was then forced to cover the dead with another layer of logs on which they were made to lie. The second group was then shot.® This went on until there were four to eight] layers of logs and bodies. When the pyre was completed, gasoline was poured on and the victims were burnt.

By FREDERICK WOLTMAN Scripps-Howard Staff Writer - NEW YORK, Oct. 5~The day after this article, “The New Com-

munist ," appeared in the current Reader's Digest, ‘the office of services dismissed A) Barmine, for-

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Charge Bureau Fired Anti-Soviet Writer

His magazine article dealt with the American Communists. It charged that a vast Communist conspiracy existed’ in this country, one phase of which was “fo gain dominating power in the Demo-

"cratic party” through the C. I. O.

* Political Action Committee.

berless ways the success of this conspiracy,” Mr. Barmine wrote, “That is, why, by orders from’ Moscow, the Communists are all out for the fourth term” at Mr. Barmine's. registered

gest, containing the article, went on the news stand Sept. 27. The official reason given for was “continued absences.” : He called this “completely false and preposterous.”

room, shooting down the “prisoners

The Nazis also said that the Russian army had opened a power-

Wilno and other east European fu] offensive in northwest Lithuania | Cologne and Rheine, 23 miles north- | west of Siauliai, transport center 65

{ ‘miles from the frontier of East | Prussia. | From the area of Siauliai, which {the Russians captured last summer, | {the front swings northwestward to] {the East Prussian. border area. The | {town is 80 miles east of the Baltic} {sea, and a westward thrust to the. sea would cut off the last of the] Germans in the Baltic area. Moscow reported that the Russians swept to within 10 miles of Belgrade today. bringing the Yugoslav capital within range of mobile artillery.

11 JAP SHIPS SUNK

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P.).— American submarines have sunk 11 more Japanese ships, including three warcraft, the navy announced today. The announcement brought to 772 the number of enemy vessels

United Press Staff Correspondent i HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Oct. 5.— American armored forces burst out onto the Cologne plain behind the Siegfried line 35 miles from the Rhine today in a two-mile advance beyond Ubach through a maze of newly

Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st army, extending and broadening its break-through north of Aachen, captured Beggendorf. two miles northeast of Ubach, and was closing in on Geilenkirchen, big transport center three miles to

The Germans were battling desperately to stem the The two-way bombardment mounted to the tempo of a giant machinegun fusillade, United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported

Renew Arnhem Drive As the thundering battle spilled out onto the plain stretching eastward to the Rhine, British forces to the northwest pressed a new offensive on a six-mile front in Holland below Arnhem, driving within two miles of the Rhine bridge beyond which the Red Devil paratroops fought

On the other wing of the battlefront, Lt. Gen. George S..Patton’s 3d army shock troops stormed into the underground chambers of Ft. Driant and began routing the Nazis

G. Crerar’s Canadian 1st army smashed northward from Antwerp beyond its perimeter forts against Dutch border, and came within

nine miles from the heart of the}

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in the stronghold southwest

seven miles’ of cutting escape route for the Germans manning the islands on north side of the Schelde

tuary. Extend Dunkerque Drive

The truce in the battle of Dun-

bombed Cologne. te The heavy bombers, escorted hy some 750 fighters, hit rail yards at =

west of Munster, and airdromes at Handor{, Lippstadt, Paderborn and Munster-Loddenheide. ~~ = Simultaneously fleets of R. A. FP, Lancasters with fighter protection attacked the German naval base of Wilhelmshaven. y : “Our tanks have penetrated the edges of the Cologne plain,” Gore rell said in a dispatch filed from the front north of Aachen at §

m. Tank Battle Growing : United Press Correspondent Jack Frankish reported the capture of Beggendorf this afternoon in a dis patch from ist army headquarters, and added that German armor was engaging American tanks in a growing battle at that tip of the wedge driven through the Sieg« freid line. : . Kerkrade, on the Dutch side of the Siegfreid line about five miles north of Aachen, was occupied by

sunk by U. S. undersea craft.

In the Reader’s Digest article, |

Mr. Barmine asserted that the

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