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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1944
FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow, slightly cooler tomorrow; light frost tonight in outlying" sections.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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DRAWS A BLANK—
LaFollette's
PAC Reward Is 'Brushoff’
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY . ‘Times Staff Writer
JE VANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 14.—Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, who gained national prominence by following “labor” rather than in congress, returned here to
Republican leadership find he drew a blank,
Although. indorsed by national
labor leaders and the P, A.
high command, he learned that ’ local union leaders are more interested in places on the Democratic ticket than the high principles which Mr. LaFollette said he was voting for in Washington. And it turned out that his tic op-
Mr, Kidney mora ponent, Charles J. Eichel, as Van-
De: derburgh county chairman, was
boss with sufficient power to give the labor politicians any place
they might choose, ~ » » MR. EICHEL tell the
ticket shapes up like this:
State senator, Charles F. Lietz, union, A. F. of L; State representatives, Walter Hayden and Charles E. Wright, United Electrical Workers, C. L © 0, and Leo A, Meagher, Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen,
In return, P. A. C. in Evansville
A VISIT to their headquarters confirmed this stand. John Sterna~ man, head of the Vanderburgh county C. I. O. council, was in . He sald the local P. A. ©. |. Em Ea ae wearing an Eichel button at the .
charge.
content with
1h
R.
I. President Murray, Indian
MR. EICHEL, who looks like the proverbial politico, explains that *Labor wants to keep President velt in because they know he
will protect them in the courts.”
Mr. Eichel calls himself a “labor He represents some
sitorney.” unions here. When he saw a case
hardened reporter wince at such
remarks, he added:
“You know, appointments and
things like that.”
IT TAKES money to run a campalgn—even with union’ support. Mr. Eichel, an old hand st such matters as fund-raising, has solved
that problem.
Just two doors away from his spacious Democratic county headquarters there is another large building with the whole first floor given over to the Young Democrats club. An electric sign above
the door says “Playland.”
An afternoon visit there failed to unearth any “young Democrats.” Intsead one of the biggest bingo games was going on. Mid-dle-aged women were packed by the dozens at long tables covered fat fellow sat on a perch calling out numbers. They also are flashed on an
with bingo cards. A
* electrically lighted board.
_ So it's bingo that brings in the
dough. »
BECAUSE
in “clubs.”
Mr. Eichel contends that ReHe says they have about $100,000 to spend in the Vanderburgh county estimates the Democratic kitty at $40,000 and
publicans are rich anyway.
campaign. He
admtsi they want all they can get. Here is how he explains why:
“You see we will have to pay more for votes this time. We used to buy them for $2 or $3, but this time it will take at least $5.”
story Quite frankly, It was verified by union leaders themselves. The latter asked for all the Vanderburgh county seats in the Indiana Jeuhisture, Mr. Eichel was glad
to oblige, Consequently the Democratic
Mr. LaPollette will have fo indorsements A. F. of L. President Green, President Whitney, C. IL
te P. A. C. leaders Powers Hapgood and Walter Frishie, none of whom has a vote in this district.
Republican Mayor Manson L. Reichert doesn’t call out the police, cynics have suggested a one-third’ take from the Democratic setup. The legal explanation is that gambling is okay
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: TIVES INDEX Amusements . 4 Mauldin ..... Eddie Ash . 8|Ruth Millett. . Barnaby «ess. T{Moyles ...... Srches +oys 10{ Obituaries ... «vases 9 {Fred Perkins. iy Sin) 7| Ernie Pyle cee Crossword ... 9{Radio ...... Editorials .... 6 Mrs. Roosevelt , Peter Edson '. 6 Side Glances. 3 | Financial seen 4 Wm. P. Simms Forum, ...... 3 Sports... 5 . +n. 3 0 Lie Williams
Listed for Rally
PARTY NOT RUN BYP.A.C. SAYS WALLACE HERE
Asked if Truman Was ‘Cleared,’ He Tells Scribes To ‘Ask Sidney.’
Vice President Wallace arrived in Indiana today for a busy schedule of pep talks in| industrial areas where the C. L 0.s Political Action Com-|: mittee flourishes. At an early morning press conference here he readily admitted that increased Democratic registrations largely have occurred in places where P, A. C. predominates. But he does not think P, A. C. has taken over the Democratic party yet. The two are analogous, but not identical, he declared. Out campaigning for the man who declined to demand his renomination in Chicago, Mr, Wallace said he saw favorable signs for President Roosevelt's re-election in up-
per New York state, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
Doubts Political Deal
Under the cross-fire of reportorial questioning, he asserted that he does not believe that any political deal was entered into by the Democratic high command and P. A. C. nor did he know whether or not his being supplanted for second place on the ticket had been “cleared with Sidney.” “You have to ask Sidney that,” he laughed, Queried about the origin of the phrase, “Clear everything with Sid-
Orson Welles
TWO OF Hollywood's most famous personalities, Orson Welles and OQlivia DeHavilland, will speak in behalf of the RooseveltTruman ticket at a giant Demo~cratic rally at the Cadle Taber-
ney,” Mr. Wallace suggested that| nacle on Oct. 25. the question be directed to “an- James Beattey, Democratic other distinguished visitor here to-| county chairman, said he ex-
day.” He didn't need to mention Clare Boothe Luce by name. Wearing his best Chicago convention speech smile, his hair awry as
pected the Welles-DeHavilland program to draw one of the big~ gest crowds to a political rally in the history of the county. The program is scheduled to begin at
enjoved ery minutes of it. To the Hoosier newsmen he demonstrated that here is a man who believes that democracy need not necessarily mean a capital D. A leading corn geneticist and two-term secretary of agriculture, Mr. Wallace, with his advanced social’ views, is being used to tubthu for fourth-term votes in the P. AT C. areas. For he was the SL D-s rel Shoict Sot xe Sorina | away, both major parties hurled R., according to the luke-warm Chi- Charges of dishonesty at each other cago letter today and the Democrats accused | Asked about the alleged mass the Republicans of starting a whis- | movement of the farm vote into the pering eauipaign 8 the phsidents| Republican party, Mr. Wallace, a health. e Republicans de one-time Republican himself, and Assistant Secretary of State A. A.
Berle accused G. O. P. Presidential | son of .a Republican secretary of agriculture, said: Candidate Thomas E. Dewey of be
“ . | ing “surprisingly dishonest” in sayar cs Ohio un the tarmel 08 SBE Ae he crats. after being off the reserva- establish a Communist system here. tion in 19040. The White House issued a list of “I believe that a majority of the| [acts” seeking to refute 10 specific farmers who supported President|DeWeY charges against the adminRoosevelt in 1932 still will stay with | istration. : him this year. For they do not| IR Albany, Dewey announced he want 20 cent corn in the post-war would discuss “the urgent need for world.” honesty and competence in our national government” in his broad{cast from St. Louis Monday night.
“Whispering Campaign” In New York, Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan charged the G. O. P. with starting a whispering campaign concerning the President's health. His statement. followed one by presidential physician, Ross T, McIntire, that Mr. Roosevelt is in basically good health and organically sound. Hannegan's charge was denied by G. O. P. National Chairman Her-
Berle Denies GOP Assertion That New Deal Aims at Communist State.
By UNITED PRESS
“No 50-50 Break”
He admitted, however, that in the Midwest the Democrats have no state with an assured 50-50 break in the farm vote. The highest estimate he would make would give the Democrats 45 per cent. A reporter asked about post-war world problems and the four freedoms but the Vice President declined to discuss them. He predicted that President Roosevelt
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ACCUSES FOR.
US, DIPLOMACY
Sen. Brewster Says Chaos|
At Home Succeeded by
Chaos in Foreign Policy. By EARL RICHERT
United States Senator Owen
RECORD B-29 TASK FORCE ROCKS JAP FORMOSA BASE IN FIFTH DAY OF ATTACK
Brewster of Maine fired the opening salvo in a heavy barrage of Republican oratory that was loosed on Indianapolis today by charging in a radio speech here at noon that “the diplomatic conduct of our foreign policy has been tragically mis-
RED SCARE— Nazis Defied By Populace
3000 TERRIFIED GERMANS FLEE
Japanese Lose 227 Ships, 530 Planes in’ | First 4 Days; Superforts’ Raid Called Success.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent
With election day only 24 days]
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
bert Brownell Jr. Additional speeches by the Pres-
6am.....48 10am....5 ident were in : prospect as he reT7am....48% lam... 62 h f $a.m.... 48 .12 (Noon). 66 | ied he was discussing plans for 9am....52 1pm... 67 [((Continued on Page 3—Column 1)
WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—The campaign today: Governor Dewey’s political advisers—as distinct from policy-and-speech braintrusters—urge him to make a slam-bang, hard-hitting series of speeches in last three weeks of the campaign” and avoid what they call the “scholary” addresses of the West coast trip... G. O. P. leaders from all parts of country send in this advice, warn that only an aggressive attack will win votes. Indications are the advice will be heeded, that
York Tribune, Ine., which publishes
handled.” The senator, who is one of the
best women speakers in the Republican ranks, Clare Boothe Luce, who will broadcast from a rally at Cable Tabernacle from 8:45 to 9:15 p. m. over WIBC.
radio address that the
our foreign policy was caused “by the same intermeddling by White
that has be-deviled our domestic difficulties.”
U. 8. Asks: ‘What's Wrong?’ “Republicans,” said the senator,
American people constructive $e Ae to meet the challenge of these trying days. “America is properly asking what is wrong in Washington and how it can be remedied. “One of the best informed Democrats in Washington has wisely said: ‘The President is one of the greatest politicians and one of the worst administrators the world has ever seen.’ “That tells the story of 12 years of frustration culminating in a world war. Chaos in domestic affairs at home has been succeeded by chaos in our diplomatic affairs abroad. The military conduct of the war has been all that could be desired or at least expected by a | peace-loving people.”
G. O. P. state committee, Capt. William E. Jenner, candidate for the short U. 8. senate term, declared that “the Presijent of of he
United States has let people down.” “In eight years,” he said, “Mr. Roosevelt, with all the resources of the United States treasury at his command, did nothing to solve the unemployment problem, Caravans Converge Here
“And now, although I hesitate to {say it, because I know something {of the horrors of war, we must ad{mit that only another national catastrophe 85 was touched off at! 1 Harbor came to Mr. Roose- | velt's rescue and put our .people to | work.
“The fact remains that none his promises has been kept to a American people and it is time that | we attack his integrity at the polls Nov, 7." : Caravans of Republicans from throughout Indiana converged on Indianapolis during the day for the rally tonight at which woman Luce is to be the featured speaker,
by train this afternoon and be met by a reception committee at the union station. Other speakers scheduled on tonight's program at Cadle TaberRacle include State G. O. P. Chairman John Lauer, Senatorial Nominee Homer E. Capehart, Gubernatorial Nominee Ralph Gates, National Committeeman Ernest M. Morris, Vice Chairman Mrs. Eleanor Snodgrass and Superior Judge Judson L. Stark, nominee for congress from the 11th district.
F.D. R, SAYS ‘NO’ TO FORUM WITH DEWEY
Declines Bid to Share Platform With Opponent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (U,. P.).— President Roosevelt bas declined an invitation to share the speaking platform with Governor Thomas E. Dewey at the closing session of the New York Herald Tribune forum next Wednesday, the White House disclosed today. He was invited by Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New
the Herald Tribune, to speak at the forum, but turned down the bid in a brief telegram last night, White
top orators in the U. 8. senate, will be followed tonight by one of the
Senator Brewster declared in his “mishandling” of the diplomatic conduct of
House favorites behind the scenes
av the responsibility of offering
of young Republicans and the
The congresswoman was to arrive!
Speeches will be barbed from now on. Look for a caustic attack
by Governor Dewey on New Deal bungling gnd bickering in his Monday _hight St. Louis speech.
Dewey advisers consider this one of the. best issues of the campaign, one on which President Roosevelt. is especially vulnerable and without convincing answer,
Dewey is expected to show New Deal as “House divided aaine
Maglf” WHE long Ust of New Deal feuds for imckirop, ‘Some auviséss sigs :
Sacsanateawes
Of Budapest
By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Correspondent BERN, Switzerland, Oct, 14.— With the rapid approach of Soviet troops to the Hungarian capital, the situation in Budapest is described as chaotic, Demonstrations for peace occur daily. Large scale sabotage grows apace, Factory workers have been ordered to cease work during air | raid warnings so they can be used for sabotage purposes. Anti-Horthy tracts are being distributed openly in the streets to such an extent that the government has threatened the distributors with death. = = ~ A FEW DAYS ago Hungarian patriots blew up the statue of the late war minister, Gen. Julius Gomboes, who initiated the policy of alliance with Nasiism. Regent Nicholas Horthy is being accused of being the main obstacle to peace by the men-in-the-street. Incidentally, it appears that this particular “obstacle” will soon disappear, for news reaching here today says that the “admiral is preparing to depart for Germany. His former premier, Doeme Sztojay, has already arrived in Ber-
Hungary from up the sponge and capitulating to, the allies, the Nazis decided to stage a putsch in the capital, according to information reaching Hungarian dissident circles here today. The S. 8. (Elite Guard) Chief Gen. Winkelmann and the Hungarian Nazi agent, Count Franz Szalassy, head of the Arrow Cross, pro-Nazi party, instigated the putsch. An 8. 8. division was sent to Budapest a week ago, ostensibly to reinforce the German garrison there against the oncoming Rus-
(Continued on Page 2—Column 6) | HOOSIER HEROES— Marine Officer And Seaman Die On 2 War Fronts|*
Navy and marine action in! [France and the Pacific have cost the lives: of two Indianapolis men. One other is missing and two have been wounded. KILLED Seaman 1-¢ Elmer Marion Shelton, 1912 W, Michigan st., in France. Second Lt. Philip E. Mendenhall, 3762 Ruckle st, in the Pacific, MISSING T. Sgt. Winfred Manship, 575 Vinton st, over Czechoslovakia.
WOUNDED Pvt. William G. Lower, 551 N. Keystone ave, in France.
Seaman 2-c Raymond E. Shipley, Carmel, in France,
ho INA last-minute attempt nl prevent
RUINED AACHEN
Pass Into Allied Lines as Yanks Fight Nazis
In Streets.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Paris, Oct. 14. —Thousands of terrified | German civilians fled from Aachen to the safety of the!
American lines today as me SOVIET S STORM TRAPPED NAZIS
doughboys fought their way steadily through the Nazi street barriThree Huge Armies Tear at Baltic Pocket in Prelude
cades and captured most of the To E. Prussia Drive.
eastern half of the city. “The civilians of Aachen have had By HENRY SHAPIRO, United Press Staff Correspondent
cessfully attacked the vital J
A 20th air force commun
proper.”
reported that more than 100
PEARL HARBOR, Oct, 14.—The largest task force of American Superfortresses yet sent into action today sue-*
ply depot at Okayama on Formosa on the heels of carrier planes which destroyed or damaged 227 enemy ships and 530 planes in four days of raids on Japan's inner bases.
“considered the most important air target south of Japan
The raiding force must have comprised well over 100 of the giant Superfortresses, inasmuch as the 20th air force
apanese repair base and sup-.
ique said the B-29 target was~
participated in the Sept. 26 raid on Anshan, Manchuria, It reported that the weath« er over the target was good and visual bombing was ace “eomplished. No report is yet available on enemy opposition to the raid, the communique said, but none of our aircraft thus far has been reported lost, It said initial eyewitness ree ports of the returning crews indie: cate ‘a successful attack. i
Say Battle Continues
enough,” United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported! MOSCOW, Oct. 14.—Three huge Red armies, backed by planes, guns,
in a late dispatch filed from the outskirts of the blazing city, in which he said that civilian casualties were reported to be high. Half of . Aachen has been destroyed by the bombs and shells that have been falling almost continually and warships, stormed the Germans’ Baltic pocket from three sides today | in a bid for speedy liquidation of | nearly 100,000 trapped Germans | preparatory to a final assault on East Prussia, . Quickly expecting their capture
on the city since Wednesday morning when an American ultimatum of Riga, capital of Latvia and main fortress in the pocket, the 2d and
was rejected by the German com- | 3d Baltic armies smashed at the
mander. doomed enemy from the north and east, while the 3d Baltic army stabbed into the southwest flank. Soviet warships and
Seething Cauldron The first German refugees began pouring out of Aachen about 2:30 this afternoon, Gorrell said, and by 4 o'clock more than 3000 sobbing, frightened men, women and children had passed through the American lines, “Aachen was a seething cauldron of fire. when the civilian refugee column first was seen running the gantlet of oven-hot, blazing buildings, whistling bullets and exploding mortar shells and grenades,” said. Meanwhile, the American infan-! trymen continued their slow, steady advance through the eastern section of the city, and a high army spokesman said the mop-up was going ahead “from attic to attic, sewer! {to sewer, house to house and block by block.” No Counter-Attack
The expected German counterattack from northeast of Aachen | has failed to materialize in the past 24 hours, the spokesman said. He acknowledged, however, that stiff resistance had prevented the Americans from closing the narrow escape corridor northeast of Aachen. Lt. Col.’ Derril M. Daniel of Geneva, N. Y., commander of the 1st army troops striking into Aachen proper from the east yesterday, said the drive was proceeding satisfactorily. German armored forces were re-
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BULLETIN
ROME, Oct. 14 (U. P.).~Up to 250 American heavy bombers from Italy attacked Nazi synthetic oil plants at Blechhammer and nearby Odertal in German Silesia
he | bombs and at the same time main- | tained a tight blockade over the jenemy’s two remaining evacuation ports, Liepaja and Ventspils, Yes-
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YANKS, BRAZILIANS SMASH TOWARD PO
5th Battles to Within Nine Miles of Valley.
ROME, Oct. 14 (U.P.).—American troops of the 5th army battled through fierce German resistance along a 15-mile front straddling the main Florence-Bologna highway in Northern Italy today, swinging the eastern anchor to within less than! nine miles of the’ Po valley, With improving weather, Brazilian units of the 5th army also advanced northward on the western end of the allied front, while Canadian troops of the 8th army pushed westward from the Adriatic coast, + Headquarters disclosed that a unit of the American 34th division in a recent surprise attack seized the headquarters of a German com-
|dianapolis time) said the aerial bat«
planes | {backed the attacks with shells and)
today, while other raiding formations. bombed communications targets in Czechoslovakia, Hun-
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The right of newspapermen to freely investigate public emergencies and institutions was upheld here yesterday by Municipal Judge John L. Niblack in his conviction of two nursing home proprietors on chaiges of attacking an Indianapolis Times photographer. Because they forcibly ejected the cameraman, Lloyd Walton, from their blast-ripped nursing home at 1336 N. Delaware st, Oct. 14, George Gifford and his wife, Marjorie, each were found guilty of assault and battery, malicious trespass and disorderly conduct.
gary and Yugoslavia.
Rights of the Press Upheld
In Nursing Home Conviction
Judge Niblack meted out fines totaling $30 apiece, with the admonishment, “You're both lucky you're not in jail.” Testimony indicated that Mr. Walton was accosted by both of the Giffords and his camera smashed when he approached a room that had just been damaged by a gas explosion. “The evidence plainly shows,” said Judge Niblack in handing down his decision, “that this was an unprovoked assault upon this
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Complete i in All the regular nd the
This edition of your Saturday Indianapolis Times is
{Ionian sea off the Greek-Albanian
pany, capturing the commander and 24 personnel. The location of the headquarters was not given, A dispatch from United Press Correspondent James Roper revealed that a large contingent of Brazilian troops, numbering “many” thousands, landed at a western Italian port Wednesday and Thursday.
(A Japanese official announces {ment issued at 5 p. m. Saturday {Tokyo time (3 a. m. Saturday Ine
jtle of Formosa was continuing wit! {the Japanese air force “still attacks {ing the enemy task force np! \ waters east of Formosa.” The ¢ munigue, recorded by United at San Francisco, said three afl carriers, three unidentified ws land one destroyer of the task force were sunk.) The Superfortress raid carried ine to the fifth day a sustained came paign that smashed Japanese dee fenses from the Ryukyu islands, within 200 miles of their homeland, through Formosa and the Pesca= dores to Luzon, the heart of the. Philippines.
Take Terrific Toll
In the first four days of the ofa fensive, Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitsche er's famed “task force 58,” waging the greatest carrier strikes in Pacific warfare, took a terrific toll of enemy sea and air resources. Those losses were: Seventy-three ships sunk: 67 ships probably sunk or damaged 78 small craft sunk; 9 small craft probably sunk or damaged; 244 planes destroyed in the air: 249 planes destroyed on the ground: ne
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WAR FRONTS
(Oct. 14, 1944)
WESTERN FRONT—Thousands of terrified Germans flee ruined Aachen to safety of allied lines.
RUSSIA—Three Red armies storm German Baltic pocket from three sides.
ITALY—Americans battle through German resistance on 15 mile front.
AIR WAR—More than 2000 allied bombers blast Cologne and Saar basin,
BULGARS, YUGOSLAVS UNITE LONDON, Oct. 14 (U. P.) ~The free Yugoslav radio said today tha§ representatives of the Bulgarian pae triot front and the Yugoslav come
Roper said that the new contingent more than doubled the size of the Brazilian force in Italy,
ROME, Oct. 14 (U. P.).—Allied troops have liberated the island of Corfu, it was announced today, while partisan forces on the Albanian mainland occupied Delvine, seven miles inland from captured Sarande (Perto Edda). The liberation of Corfu, a 271-square-mile Greek island in the
Allies Seize Island of Corfu; Albanian Patriots Win Town.
mittee of national liberation had agreed on military collaboration against Germany,
There were no’ details of the cape. ture of Delvine, a small town
border,
was completed virtually
news of the day are conthis
of the German garrison had fled. to the mainland. "Headquarters revealed that BritHsh troops landed ‘on the island after
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without opposition after the bulk ;
the inkiebitents had J, oul white} flags