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PPS = HOWARD § VOLUME 55—NUMBER 187
U. S:- Communists, Once Foe of War Effort, About-Faced
By FREDERICK WOLTMAN
Seripps-Howard Staff Writer
. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—But for Hitler's invasion of Russia, President Roosevelt would today” he without the support of the American Communists. Instead, these selfproclaimed superpatriots would be silenced and languishing behind prison bars and the Siockades of the intern-
ment camps.
Sidney Hillman’s C. I. O. would lack a substantial bloc
Political Action Committee of its noisiest tub-thumpers
and many of its most diligent $1:for-Roosevelt collecting °
unions would be leaderless.
The Communists’ current
strategy of moving in on the Democratic party under
A Pummulberry Tree Grows in Indianapolis
DEWEY ON AIRAT 8 P.M. TODAY
Major Address at St. Louis; Bricker and Truman In California.
By UNITED PRESS The political campaign entered the final three weeks today with the voters promised a heavy schedule of speech-making. Governor Thomas E. Dewey delivers a major address from BSt Louis at 8 p. m. today (Indianapolis time) (N. B. C. and Blue networks). His running mate, Gover-
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Oct. 16 (U. P.) ~Governor Thomas E, Dewey said today he was “quite happy” about the heavy registration of voters in New York city and did not subscribe to theory that such | a situation was to his disadvantage.
nor John W. Bricker, speaks today at Santa Barbara and San Diego, Cal, while Senator Harry S. Tru-
tial nominee, makes his first major address tonight at Los Angeles. The campaign, meanwhile, was running true to advance predictions that it would be one of the roughest in recent years. Mr. Dewey, responding to the week-end White “House refutation of his Oklahoma City charges, charged that Mr. Roosevelt: was resorting to “slippery tactics the New Deal has always employed.” ‘Chairman Herbert Brownell, Jr. of the Republican national committee, said the facts cited by the White House in its reply “serve only to substantiate the points made by Governor Dewey.” James P. Clark, chairman of the
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The Hoosier Poet Just Didn't Know His Pumpkins.
WITH SINCERE apologies to the Hoosier Bard, James Whitcomb Riley, he didn’t know his pumpkins when he wrote: “A pictur’ that no painter has the colorin’ to mock . “When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock.’ ” ” » - FOR WHOEVER heard of pumpkins growing in a cornfield, when everyone knows they grow on a pummulberry tree? At least they grow on a pummulberry tree in the back yard of Mrs. Sarah Barnes, 1010 N. New Jersey st, and she has all the evidence in the world to prove
zy
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WILLKIE RITES
‘Rushville
it. "For the last four years Mrs. Barnes has been getting the finest of berries off a tree which she presumed was a mulberry tree. You see, she got mulberries, 8 s =
WELL, this year she got her mulberries again and then the tree started bearing a second crop of something or other which she was sure she never had before. Elephant-like leaves began to sprout, and with them a yelloworange fruit, Then came the revelation. Pumpkins on a mulberry tree , the tree must be a pummulberry, s r » “I KNOW .I didn't plant any pumpkin seeds,” Mrs. Barnes said. “Someone else must have put them in and when the vines began to grow they twined themselves around the tree and followed out on /the branches. “It certainly is different, but it is a lot easier picking pumpkins from a tree than having to bend over and pick them off the ground.”
YANKS GET LEAVES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U. P.). ~The army reported today that approximately 30,000 men a month are being returned from overseas stations under the troop rotation program, but warned there were no
immediate prospects of increasing
the number to amy substantial” degree... CW... Senter ———— WAC CHIEF RECOVERING
WASHINGTON, Oct. 168 (U.P.).—
tion- and will be back at hér desk within a few days, the war Sepatt. ment reported. today. :
SWEDES END NAZI TRADE" STOCKHOLM, Oct. 16 (U, Pls office
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American Communists, by utilizing their technique of infiltration, have burrowed into American labor unions, kidnaped the American Labor party in New York, dominated the C. I. O. Polit ical Action Committee and made strong inroads into the New Deal
Today these Communists stand as the greatest menace fo American democracy. Communist infiltration into the Democratic party is to such a degree that may make their future extermination impossible. Believing that many Americans are not fully aware of the Communist threat to democracy, the Scripps-Howard newspapers assigned Frederick Woltman, one of its staff writers, to present the facts about the Communists in & series of articles of which this is the first.
the guise of a “political association” might never have been conceived. - For persons serving time for treason
don’t have the opportunity to participate in presidential
T0 BE TUESDAY
Expects Crowd to Attend
Funeral,
Services for Wendell L. Willkie will be at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the! Wyatt Memorial mortuary in Rushville. Dr. George Arthur Frantz of the' Pirst Presbyterian church of Indianapolis will officiate and will be assisted by the Rev. C. E. Reeder, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Rushville. Burial will de in East Hill cemetery east of Rushville and eight of Mr. Willkies { tenants will be the pallbearers. /
Arrangements for the services had been delayed to enable Mr. Willkie's only son, Lt. (J.g) Philp Willkie, to attend.
Roosevel'. Sends Plane
Lt. willkie was picked up at sea where he was on naval convoy duty and was flown to New York last night by a plane under orders from President Roosevelt. The lieutenant his mother, Mrs. Miller Hamilton of Indianapolis who is Mrs. Willkie's sister, and a party of 20 friends and relatives will leave New York at 4:33 p. m. today on a special car attached to the Spirit of St. Louis train and will arrive at Dunreith at 8:33 a. m. tomrorow when they will drive to Rushville. Although the final rites will not be private, the mortuary will seat only
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BIG BRITISH FORCE MOVES INTO ATHENS
Ready
Huge
to Clear Greece
Of Germans.
ROME, Oct. 16 (U. P.).—A strong British - expeditionary force landed at Piraeus and moved on into liberated Athens today and prepared to take over the job of clearing the remaining Germans from Greece and administering relief to the starving Greek people. The British cruisers Orion, Ajax, Aurora, and Black Prince, along with several destroyers and other units of the royal navy and the
‘last night, each carrying British troops slated to form the main oc: cupation force in Greece. (The German Transocean - news agency. said Nazi forces were evacuating Greece {o stabilize the - {Balkan front, and Cairo dispatclies said the ‘Germans now held only Rhodes, western Crete, Leros and
Greek navy, anchored off Piraeus|
Ly CoD. he Srotk Plumas ie the Aegean eastern Mediter-|
campaigns: And our great body politic might have missed that injunction to “Clear everything with Sidney.”
Until the very night Hitler tore up his mutual non-
Hungary—
Reds and Patriots Poised to Attack "Capital.
By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 16.—Nazi
sympathizers today appeared
verge of imminent attack by Red | army forces and possibly Hungarian |
Horthy's whereabouts were Whe}
had been taken prisoner by the) Nazis and their Hungarian Arrow Cross sympathizers, The status of the armistice which Horthy was seeking was equally un- | certain but usually reliable quarters here said it actually had been] agreed upon by Hprthy and the allies before the coup: d'etat in Budapest yesterday. Like Austrian Coup
The Budapest coup bore a close resemblance to the Nazi coup in Austria at the time they seized the country and imprisoned Austrian chancellor Kurt Schuschnig. It was reported the Hungarian armistice terms carried a provision for Hungarian forces to join with the Red army in attacking the Germans in a manner similar to that in the Rumanian armistice. Soviet reports said the evacuation of Budapest by the Nazis and their sympathizers was underway and that vanguard elements of the Red army were less than 50 miles from the capital. Fuller accounts of the fadio speech of Horthy yesterday before the coup revealed that he told the Hungarians that Germany had betrayed the country and was enengaged in looting it of its re-| sources. He also said he had reliable information a coup—such as actually occurred—was being planned.
Report Fierce Fighting Horthy said this information led him to decide to -take Hungary out of the war. Immediately after Horthy’s broadcast the. coup was staged. Radio Moscow said Horthy's son had disappeared, “probably” having: been kidnaped by the gestapo. The German frontier as) been closed, it added. Bern also reported fierce fighting | between German forces and anti-| Nazi Hungarian troops throughout western Hungary, where it said the wehrmacht had occupied Kormend, Kupuvar and Ergerszeg. Exchange telegraph agency dispatch = said. Heinrich Himmler, chief of the gestapo, had flown to | Budapest with 15 high associates to stamp out all traces of a peace movement in the capital.
forces and their Hungarian.
to hold temporary control of | & Budapest but the Hungarian | | Es
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capital was believed on the, :
cerfain and there were reports he!
Nazis Fight to
Win She Ree. ule 2 miles from: Dulapést. as shown:on the | above map, Germans and Hungarian Nazis are reported to have de- | posed Adm. Horthy’s peace-seeking government in the capital
Save Hungarian Ally
Nazi Tanks Licked
Inortheast after beating off three
Serre
PRICE FOUR CENTS
ward, America’s Communist union and other satellites
For 21 months, from Aug.
a8 their contribution to the Nazi-Soviet pact, the Communists resorted to every tactic known to world communism to undermine America’s frantic, last-minute attempt to build a defense wall against the Nazi horde. To them the war was merely struggle,” a “war of Hitlerism versus Hitlerism.” Presi-
dent Roosevelt was a “warmonger” and “dictator” to these (Continued on Page 3 —Column 6)
BATTLE OF FORMOSA IN 7TH DAY: YANKS CLOSE AACHEN CORRIDOR: NAZIS TAKE OVER IN BUDAPEST
Western Front—
In Attempt to Break Siege.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUAR\TERS, A. E. F., Oct. 16.— The United States 1st army completely isolated besieged Aachen today by closing the Nazi escape corridor to the
counter-attacks by massed German armored forces. American doughboys
“ w Overnight aggression pact with Stalin and turned his armies east- «
was engaged in a sabotage drive against the nation’s defense efforts.
party, inclinding its trade-
23, 1939, to June 22, 1941, °
a “second imperialist
Pacific Front—
B-29s Rip Island
Second Time in Three. Days.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent
PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 16, —The battle of the Western Pacific raged on into its seve enth day today with Ameri can B-29 Superfortresses smashing again at Formosa while the American 3d fleet appar ently was slugging it out with Jae pan’s air forces and perhaps her susive fleet in a showdown struggle. +A war department communig
Wurselen, three miles north of Aachen, and stormed forward to! break the shell-swept corridor out | of Aachen while a Nazi attempt to] break out of the city was thwarted. To the south Lt. Gen George 8S. Patton’s 3d army forces withdraw
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city is reported to be surrounded by Hungarian patriots who are ex-
pected to attack momentarily.
{from their foothold in the key | Metz outpost of Ft. Driant and | Pranco-American troops of the 6th army group attacking on a 60-mile {front drove Within ty two miles of the
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NO HOUSE INTACT— Yanks Roll Into
Livergnano, Red With War Dead
By JAMES E. ROPER United Press Staff Correspondent
LIVERGNANO, Italy, Oct.’ 15 (Delayed). — American infantry and armored rolled into Livergnano tbday—a village of caves and corpses, a town without a single house intact. The white gravel of the main road was stained brown by blood, German and American dead. In one tiny room on the outskirts of town were 16 American bodies, while German dead were strewn through the caves and tumbled down houses. s ” 8 THIS BARRIER, blocking the highway to Bologna, was known to the Germans as the Caesar line and ‘the ,doughboys who took it said it was tougher than their section of the Gothic line: At the bases of cliffs, rising 50 to 100 feet on each side of the town, were a chain of caves, now blackened and bloodied by five days of American artillery fire. They were natural positions and the Germans used them craftily.
2 » » ON THURSDAY, the Germans permitted two companies of
Yanks to creep into town and up the long ramp on the cliff. Then
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Times Takes
as the presidential election
- The first results of this poll, _ will be published Wednesday. On.
day in
Straw Yofe
‘of Marion County
8 Marion county goes, so goes Indiana, at least in so far
is concerned. In other words
since 1900 the county has been an accurate index of the state's preference for presidential candidates. In line, therefore, with The Indianapolis Times’ policy of presenting the best all-around political coverage in the state and the nation, a postcard ‘straw vote .is now being taken in the most reliable possible cross-section of the community.
which includes a straw vote in
the presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial and congressional races,
ensuing days, the strength of the
_ candidates for the four top offices can be measured as additional A returns are received. Walch Jof the fist siry on the Pol, Welnes:
Yanks Withdrew From Toehold on German
Bastion.
By ROBERT W. RICHARDS United Press Staff Correspondent
Metz, Oct. 16.—Lt. Gen. George S. {| Patton's headquarters announced] today that the biggest little battle, |of the western front had ended {when American troops withdrew
fromm a shaky toehold in Ft. Driant | because the promised reward was not worth the cost in casualties.
Driant, key outpost of the Metz fortifications, under cover of darkness last Friday after three weeks, of weird and heavy fighting, “If it had been thought wise, the
frontal assault,” a 3d army. spokes-
(Hoosier Heroes, Page Eleven)
{ man Said. worth the necessary casualties in {view of the fact that Driant was {under the direct fire of neighborling fortifications.”
Casualties Light
The Americans suffered numerically light casualties in the attack on Ft. Driant, which carried atop the stone ramparts and into the underground chambers,
was in action against Driant at one time. The attack gained much
struction of the forts in the Metz area, he added. The Americans withdrew under orders, and not because the Germans forced them out.
tunnels. The underground thrust
After combat engineers had attacked several of them; the Germans. made a further advance
COST T00 GREAT FOR FT. DRIANT
Patton's doughboys pulled back] from the southwest corner of Ft.
fort might have been taken by!
“However, it was notj :
The spokesman revealed that| :}. never more than a single battalion| i}
valuable information on the con-|:
The Ger-| ¢ mafls now occupied their former| | position atop the fort and in its] :
was |. hampered by a series of reinforced . | steel, blast-proof doors.
WAR FRONTS
(Oct. 16, 1944) {PACIFIC—Tokyo claims again at Formosa. (Page One.) WESTERN
corridor, (Page One).
haven ablaze. (Page Three).
Japan's fleet in action as B-29's smash
FRONT—Aachen completely isolated as Yanks close
AIR WAR—R, A. F. sets Wilhelms-_
said the Superfortresses carried the second attack with “very good i bombing : results” on the Okayama and Heito aircraft repair and supply | bases. No B-29's were lost and {two-thirds of the Okayama base was destroyed, including 37 build ings destroyed and 16 heavily dam aged. Tokyo said the Japanese fleet
were so indications here that the report might be true. Powerful Japanese air formations already were known to have coune ter-attacked the 3d fleet, which had destroyed or damaged 227 ships and 621 planes in five straight days of destructive American raids in their home ‘waters.
Military Targets
A war department announcement in Washington disclosed that the giant land-based Superfortress had carried the offensive into its seve enth day with their second raid in |48 hours on Formosa, previously lattacked three and perhaps four
WITH U. S. 3D ARMY, Before| {RUSSIA — Yugoslav and Soviet straight days by Halsey’s carrier .
troops virtually complete libera- | planes.
| tion. of Belgrade. (Page Five).
fortress of Livergnano. Five).
as patriots prepare to attack city. | (Page One).
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The Superfortress hit “military targets” on Formosa today, Washe
ITALY—Americans capture German | ington and Tokyo time ¢Sunday, (Page pear] Harbor time),
and further details will be announced later. { Washington said. More than 100
HUNGARX—Nazis hold Budapest | Superfortresses atta attacked the For«
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“at last” had gone into action
against Adm. William F. Halsey's fleet off Formosa and though this = was not confirmed officially, there =