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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1944

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

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giving the mayor's new office of

Authority for ‘Co-ordinator’ Unit to Be Asked at

1945 Assembly. |

By SHERLEY UHL The city next year may have a new administrative authority known as the budget officer. ‘Establishment of such a post, which presumably would be one of the highest paid in the municipal government, is among city-spon-sored legislation to be introduced in the 1945 general assembly, Job Surveyor Fred Telford announced today.

VOLUME 55—NUMBER 18 °°

By WALTER COLLINS : : * United Press Staff Correspondent Fa CAIRO, Oct. 13.—A resurgent army of patriots has liberated Athens, it was announced officially today, ending a 42-month Nazi occupation of the ancient Greek capital and foreshadowing the imminent allied occupation of all Greece and the eastern Mediterranean islands. German troops who marched triumphantly inlo Athens on April 27, 1941, after crushing a tiny Greek army and an outnumbered British expeditionary force in 21 days, abandoned the city and’ its neighboring seaport of Piraeus. They fled northward under savage attack by planes of a British carrier force standing offshore in the western Aegean, First official accounts of the liberation of Athens, the seventh allied capital wrested from the German grip since the start of the Anglo-American and Soviet summer campaigns, gave no details of the partisan attack. It was indicated, however, that the main German garrison had been withdrawn from Athens and Piraeus

Athens Is Liberated By Resurgent Greek Patriot Arm

several days ago, sparking a patriot uprising that swiftly overwhelmed the weak enemy rear guard left to cover

the retreat. An allied communique iss earlier revealed that

Khalkis.

Athens.

News of the capital's liberation touched off wild demonstrations among the large Greek colonies in the Middle East. In Alexandria, 50,000 Greeks swarmed into the streets for a jubliant victory parade. Greek flags appeared on halconies and roofs throughout

the city and Greek restauran doors to the celebrants.

(Continued on Page

low-flying British warplanes, launched from escort carriers, bombed and strafed two large concentrations of German shipping near the port of

The British destroyed many small boats, which apparently were trying to make a run along the coast to Salonika with troops and equipment evacuated from

ued in Rome several hours

Thousands of

t owners threw open their

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A view of modern Athens, showing the world-famous Acropolis.

Purpose of this innovation, said Mr. Telford, is “te co-ordinate the

The job surveyor, who is with the city in a temporary advisory capacity, outlined these other municipally- ted legislative pro-

‘

| 1 Adoption of a statutory clause

personnel legal!

2. Legislative changes placing the | fixing of salaries of non-elective officials under jurisdiction of eity| council rather than under ceiling limitations defined in the state law. If these are made in the 1943 assembly, Mr. Telford said, higher salaries for. certain department now regulated by ‘statute would “become effective immediately.” Mayor, Council Affected

Should the Telford amendments be made, only the elective officers (the mayor and @ity council) would be subjected to statutory wage ceilRS. ; Mr. Telford slso disclosed that certain recommendations included in the J. L. Jacobs & Co. survey of the health department would like-| wise be incorporated in legislative amendments. . ‘ Chief among these is abolition of the hospital board and creation of a joint health-hospital board. Acdual supervisory powers would be

vested in two administrative divie| ten |

sions — preventive and curative —! headed by Health Board Secretary Herman G. Morgan and Hospital! Superintendent Charles W. Myers, respectively,

TYNDALL REPUDIATES RESIGNATION RUMOR

Mayor Tyndall today flatly repudiated a report, circulated freely in local political circles, that he would accept the post of adjutant general in the state administration if Re(publican Nominee Ralph Gates is elected governor, * : Terming the rumor “entirely spurjous,” the mayor, a retired major general, denied that ‘he ever had considered resigning his municipal post.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements . 28, Jane Jordan ..34 Eddie Ash ... 30! Charles Lucey .20

LUCE, WALLACE

Vice President on WIRE at ' Friday He ph 10:45 A. M., Clare at Uniled Press Stat Correspondent i CPL GREAT LEIGHS, Essex, EngTabernacle at 8 P. M. land, Priday, the 13th. —It's hapBy EARL RICHERT pened again--the Witch of Scrap-

‘ |Coffey st. in Germany. + Plc. Terrence J.. Gaughan, 262 was Thomas L. Stokes, of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper |Allianc®. The result of the poll on this and other questions, conducted by the Saturday Review of Literature, was an-

Scheduled for Speeches Here -

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Luce . .. opens counfy G. O. P. makes three radio speeches in campaign at Cadle Tabernacle busy day in Indiana tomorrow.

1 I'M NOT IN'—

‘Witch’ Breaks

DUE TOMORROW Out Again—On

faggot Green broke out of her grave last night for a Priday-the-13th prowl. This morning a group of workmen arrived at the green to lay some drains and they found the massive stone which was supposed to pin the ghost in her

will be treated to a brilliant array of forensics by nationally known leaders of both parties over the week-end. Vice President Henry A. Wallace will speak ¢ver radio station WIRE! 200.year-old grave had been

| Red army opened the battle

RED INFANTRY

OPENS ATTACK

ON E. PRUSSIA

Tilsit Is Initial Target: Three Columns Reach Border.

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—The

of Tilsit, first German city to! feel the impact of Soviet! arms, today with land forces!

smashing toward the East Prussian rail hub from positions

reached on ahead to batter a broad belt of German soil. of

gens Nyheter reported in a Berlin armored column had smashed across | the East Prussian frontier and was approaching Tilsit.) Front dispatches said the Nazi! command was throwing everything | it had into a desperate defense of East Prussia. The Germans lost a

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LONDON, Oct. 13 (U. P.).~The |

at 10:45 a. m. tomorrow, at a noon; pushed out of position. luncheon of labor and farm leaders, s = = at the Claypool hotel; at Anderson yop wag that all from 5:30 to 5:45 p. m., at Muncie peop Jay across the top of tomorrow night and at a giant Democratic rally at Gary Sunday night,

gnarled oaks across the road had

Brewster at Shelbyville | The Republican party's top woman ! orator, Congressman Clare Boothe! Luce will reach Indianapolis tonor- | row afternoon, only & few hours after Mr. Wallace's departure, and will formally open the Marion county G. O. P, campaign with an address at 8 p. m. at Cadle Tabernacle, *QCrickey,” the foreman said. Her talk will be broadcast over| “It's the witch who isn't in. This station WIBC from 8:45 to 9:15! is a matter for Mr. Sykes.” p.m. { ® » = tn Luce wil ones: tanigint] THE FOREMAN tried to get Blue network.) ! In touch with Warden NS. bri e proprietor of Ye e Queen SMO Quen Browse x Maine | Anne's Castle inn, who collaborBeit orator. in the op 3 party t ated only yesterday with Harry ° will tonight at Shel. | Price of the London Council on i inp speak Dt at Gacy | Psychical Research to put the byville and tomorrow night at Gary | stone back in place. Unfortunate-

(Continued an Page 8—Column 7) 'Y Sykes had gone grouse shooting. However, Price was reached at

words: “Non in sum.” Hardly had the workmen made their discovery when Cpl. John P. Israel, Muskegon Heights. Mich. passed by on his way to town from camp.

know my high school Latin those words mean ‘I'm not in’ Who isn't in?”

Hoosier Heroes— fo on Page 8—Column 8)

: SEDATIVE KILLED AIMEE HART KILLED WHILE | OAKLAND, Cal. Oct. 13 (U. P). the Alameda county coroner's jury 2) NGE =: today Aimee Semple McPherson,

—A formal pathologists’ report to famous Los Angeles evangelist, ‘died of shock and respiratory failShotts, Gaughan Missing; ure “due to an overdose of a seda-

’ tive,”

| that the last rear guards in the | | ! A broken

the stone snd faggots from the |

| been placed to spell out the Latin |

“By gosh,” Israel said, “If I |

have evacuated Riga, announcing |

west bank of the Dvwnia river. Most of Riga lies on the east bank of the Dvina. : ! {

counter-attacked 30 times ip a futile effort to block the Soviet. breakthrough to the frontier, the dispatches reported. The vanguard of massive Soviet forces moving against East Prussia was reported in the border area east {of Tilsit and jammed against the | {frontier at three other points to the | {north and south. | The Red armies of Gen. Ivan C. {Bagramian and Gen. Ivan D. Cher{niakhovsky were hammering the! {border itself below Memel, west of | |Kaunas, and south of the Kaunas- | Konigsberg railroad. Sra

Tanks in Counter-Blows i

| Squads of 30 to 50 German tanks | {led the counter-blows by three in- | | fantry and one panzer divisions { which failed to stem the Soviet ad- | vance. The Nazis finally threw 160 | tanks and self-propelled guns’ into ‘a climactic thrust, but lost 50 ma-| jchines and then fell back to the { frontier, The government newspaper Izvestia said the Russians were near- | (ing the border in the Tilsit sector | {along a broad front. The roads | (were jammed with Soviet supply | columns carrying a tremendous |

(Continued on Page 8—Column 4) |

Lo. . less than 12 miles to the east while! : artillery and planes bombarded it. 3 Russian assault forces reached ™ ctl 0

the East Prussian frontier at three al ¢ { {continuing 24 hours later. Formosa. is. © points and neared it along a = MEDAL OF HONOR The stunning -blow at Japan's. rm | TERS, A E. F. Paris, mile front while big guns and planes ‘ fae military and naval base out- ITALY —British roll back German 13.—American troo

{today was commended for his ex-; {treme gallantry beyond the call of German D. N. B. mews agency |quty while in command of the battle over Formosa still was conindicated today that Nazi troops |leathernecks on Tarawa. |

jof Tarawa, Col. Shoup has been

: decorated with the medal of honor. city have been withdrawn to the He is the 25th marine to receive the

Cal Soup Cited 35 JA SHIPS KNOCKED OUT AT FORMOSA

221 Planes Also Destroyed By Task Force 58

Carrier Fliers. By FRANK TREMAINE 2:

RESISTANCE

WEAKENING AT AACHE

United Press Staff Corresp PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 13. 1—Swarms of carrier planes from America’s famed task

Americans Swarn

WAR FRONTS

force 58 sank or damaged 35 enemy ships and destroyed 1221 aircraft in a smashing . | assault on Japan's great island for-

BIVE | tress of Formosa Wednesday, a

Col. David M. Shoup . . . he holds the medal of hemor for winning the battle of Tarawa.

| communique announced today, and | Tokyo said the attack still was

side home waters cost the Ameri{cans 22 planes—a loss of. 10 to 1--

(The Stockholm newspaper Da- Marine Commander's Fam out of s force estimated by Tokyo{GBEECE—Athens Is liberated by|east toward the heart.

, variously at 1000 to 1100 bombers

WESTERN FRONT — Americans

PACIFIC—Carrier planes sink or

Toward Center Of City.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUA

(Oct. 13, 1944)

drive several blocks into Aachen proper, .

damage 35 Japanese vessels and destroy 221 aircraft in raid on

Adriatic flank. {swarmed in from north

Greek patriots. Aachen against sof

{ and There was no ‘to American surface ships.

“ily Learns of Reboghition For Tarawa Victory.

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN. | from the Philippines to hit Formosa, Col. David M. Shoup, the tough Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's task force,

marine officer who saw hundreds Taised its toll of enemy sea and air)

“good part” of four divisions which jof his marine “lads” g0 down in one lof the bloodiest battles in history,

By Science Service

radio reported the great aerial

tinuing last midnight Indianapolis

Credited with winning the battle |

medal in this war and his is the forces In three days io. at least 93 : . ships and small craft and 30! third such award given for service planes. at Tarawa. | And there are no prouder Hoosiers than his parents, Mr. and Mr John Shoup, Covington: his sister, Mrs. Randel R. Shake, 820 N. Grant

Jap Toll at Formosa At Formosa, the enemy's shipping loss was: SUNK—Two large cargo ships: (Continued on Page 13—Column 7) two medium cargo ships; 12 small

bi . ; cargo ships. UNEVEN WEATHER |

DAMAGED—Two large cargo ‘ships; seven medium cargo ships; SEEN FOR INDIANA 10 sman cargo ships. Another week of rising and falling! DESTROYED—124 planes in air mercury and light rainfall lies in| 30d 97 on the ground. store “for Indiana ° residents, the; Mitscher’s bomb and rocket-car-| weather bureau predicted today. |rying planes also “extensively”! Temperatures will average above Gamaged hangars, buildings, oil normal in the northern section of | 4Wmps. warehouses, docks and in-| the state and near normal in the|dustrial works at Einansho, Oka-| southern portion. The extreme|Y3ma, Tamsui, Heito, Reigaryo and north section will experience cooler| L2ichu. All are towns along Forweather tomorrow, with little OS8's west coast and on or near change expected over the remainder ‘he north-south coastal railroad. of the state. No Mention of Takae Saturday's cool weather will be followed by a rising trend Sunday as IN uch ap the, and Monday, with a relapse into cool weather again Tuesday. Pre-|F Takao, on the southwestern tip cipitation will total less than one- o Formosa, which Tokyo had fourth of an inch, occurring as light dentified as one of the targets in|

the opening assault. | showers Monday night and Tues-|™gp,q15 Tokyo, which claimed 10]

American planes were shot down the first day, said the attack was still continuing Thursday (Friday,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

(pmo Mam es Coll | PR . 110 . S$a.m... 47 12 (Neon) . 64 AhBough the’, communique re Sam...3l (Continued on Page 8—Column 5)

5 Wounded Listed. | Infantry pushes in France and| Germany have left two Indianap- | olis men missing in action. One was killed in France and five have been wounded.

result of a poll conducted KILLED Pvt. Gilbert "A. Hart, 3328 Brookside pkwy., in France. MISSING — Cpl. Lynn Allen. Shotts, 631 ability to analyze the news.

Pershing ave, in France. WOUNDED ~~ Marine Pfc. George H. McGinnis,

Tops in Washington—Stokes,

EW readers of this newspaper will be surprised at the

among members of the con-

'gressional press gallery to determine’ who, in-their opinion, is the Washington correspondent “who does the, best allround job as measured in terms of reliability, fairness,

i The man who got the biggest vote on that question

Euclid ave. on I Pvt. Jam

Wells, 213 E: 19th

‘Comics ...... 34 Movies ....... 28 ~Alab . sath. | ROUNced yesterday. : ; : ON 3 Ouiaaties © 13 i Sola gt. 1 the Sa Tom Stokes’ dispatches have been appearing in ScrippsEditorials .... 20| Ernie Pyle , _ 19 oie BR Alan LE Hussion, 1360, Howard newspapers since 1921, when he went to work for \ veer 24 Radio ....... | 0 00 re ae Mariana is- ),, United Press in Washington. (He switched from U. P, Financial .... 35] Mrs. Roosevelt 181" po oo T. Carroll, 3142 N.'to Scripps-Howard’s own Washington bureau in 1933.) So

from the days of Harding and Teapot Dome, from the Madison Square Garden brawl of 1924 through every ‘national

political convention since, from the itiv ‘of 23 “I lea ce

we have known him well and favorably for a long time—.

newcomer |

Old Friend of Times Readers|

from Georgia that there were two parties,” he says—to the seasoned yet uncynical reporter of today. = " » = ¥ . HE WOULD have a good right to be cynical, at that. He has brushed up against a 16t of cynical public men in his time—in 1938, for instance, when he exposed the political dragooning of the Felief vote in Kentucky, and was denounced as a faker by Harry L. Hopkins. The Sheppard committee of the senate investigated, and upheld Stokes. He got his Pulitzer prize for that one. He wrote a book called “Chip Off My Shoulder” —hence

who use politics to enrich themselves—as various pretentious figures in Washington have found out. He is a “leg

Beart, and he'uses both. .

of ¢

| In striking within 700 miles « FOR MAY MAKE {Japan's home land and 100 miles ny ‘ : | : » spokesman said late today. The Japanese-controlled Saigon ‘Not Frightfully Interested, The drive to clean up Aachen

| President Roosevelt discussed sev- said the “mop-up” of the city eral topics at his news conference Proceeding satisfactorily. today, including politics the may | {make more speeches); food (he has! ‘asked for more farm machinery); doughboys went over the top

| Petrillo problem) and foreign af-| at 9:30 a. m. and swarmed west

his small son's nickname, “Chip”—but he still wears chips!

on both shoulders for demagogues and windbags and men|

man” in the old tradition, who goes to the source for his| | ‘news. But he is more than that. He has a mind and a}

‘spotty resistance today while the northeast U. S. artillery rocket-firing planes had a fi : : iday blasting German tanks mas MORE SPEECHES =: an expected attempt to i the city.

“The Aachen picture looks pre bright,” a 1st army headq

gan in crisp, perfect weather wh shock troops struck across the

He Says; Keeps Abreast road into Aachen proper from Forst-Aachen district. Later

. Of Stalin Talks. other force moved in from WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (U. P.).—! north, and tonight front dispa

Nazi Tanks Gathering Lt. Gen, Courtney H. Hod

music (he’s studying the James C. their Forst-Aachen entrenchm

fairs (he’s being kept abreast of the through the streets of the ancies Stalin-Churchill talks). city for early gains of several big POLITICS: Mr. Roosevelt said [To0t dispatches reported. he was talking about plans for mak-! Ualted Press War Correspo oe ing as yet unscheduled speeches be- Jack Fran ich Shosted “18 : a 0 fore Nov. 7, but added that he could, "aK afer the rst wave of Mat not get frightfully interested in the 35 Aache in Boe matter. {of machinegun and rifle

: ' the north and east. When a decision is made, he The greatest concentration added, it probably will be an- 5 : +. German tanks yet thrown in nounced locally or through the ; ; : path of the 1st army was gath Democratic national committee : White H . ing northeast of Aachen for wi Tather than at a te House news. .; reporters described as a p! conference, At present, his only... offort to crash through scheduled speech is an address io American siege lines. the Foreign Policy association in Capt. Ozell Smoot of Oklaha New York Oct. 21. City led the first American unit FOOD: The President disclosed scramble over the railroad ¢ (Continued on Page 13—Column 2) (Continued on “Page 8—Column

U.S. Strikes Hard in Pacific. Eas 5

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