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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 188

Communists Pla

(Second of a Series)

By FREDERICK WOLTMAN Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—It was after the American Communists got orders to drop their sabotage of this country’s defense preparations and back his administration that President Roosevelt released their leader, Earl

Browder, And, with the

from Atlanta prison. Communists riding high on the fourth-

term bandwagon, a New Deal board recently legalized

Tax 'Break’ Being Asked By Industry

By ROGER BUDROW Times Stall Writer

VV ASHINGTON, Oct. 17. —Henry J. Kaiser calls it “a tremendous idea that would. give this country a great push toward lasting prosperity and abundant employment.” Other industrialists are en-

thusiastic about it. Bernard M. Baruch favors it. James PF. Byrnes, the President's -director of war m o bi lization, has it ofMcially. Elsewhere in the administra tion, however, it meets apathy

ability of allowing to depreciate new substantially in the years in which such machinery is

- And what has that to do with prosperity and jobs?

. » r a tat we ; s plan ngls precise Forel

D, Rt WILL SPEAK AT PHILADELPHIA

Schedules Campaign Talk For Oct. 27.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U, PJ. «President Roosevelt will make a campaign speech on the night of Friday, Oct, 27, at Shibe park in Philadelphia, David Lawrence,

committee, announced today after a conference with the President.

Lawrence visited the White House

speak at 8 p. m. Indianapolis time,

a political rally sponsored jointy the Democratic city commit-

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DEE HL NEW CHARGES AT ROOSEVELT

Declares Foreign Affairs Suffer From Bickering Within New Deal.

By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Stall Correspondent

ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN TRAIN, Oct. 17.—Governor Thomas E. Dewey added today to his charge of Roosevelt administration failures at home an accusa-

prospects of economic and industrial dislocation at the close of the WAr are so grave and the social consequences so far-reaching that a policy of orderly, gradual, and if necessary, delayed military demobilization has been strongly advocated.” : The crowd, estimated at 15,000 which packed Kiel auditorium loved it. When he asked whether

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Broadcasts Slated Yonight In Wake of Election Charges

By UNITED PRESS The election campaign grew increasingly bitter today as Repub-

. licans and Democrats exchanged

new charges of “distortion,” “falsehood,” and “buck-passing.” With the election just

TIMES INDEX _

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. Governor Thomas E. Dewey's St. Louis speech on foreign affairs was

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER

y Pied Piper, Tell U. S. How To Vote

the residence here of his wife, Mrs. Raisa Browder, an | important Communist in her own right.

It acted despite

adverse recommendations by the. war and navy depart-

ments and the FBI.

The steps against the Browder couple—the passport fraud conviction and the deportation order—were taken while the Communists operated under different orders. Then, as their contribution to the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact, the orders were to scuttle America’s de-

fense plans.

JOB SURVEYOR IS OUT OF JOB

Councilmen Reverse Field And Vote No Pay for ~~ Mr. Telford.

city hail fortunes are as varied as

previous committments, city council last night cut Mr, Telford off with-

*{ out a cent by defeating, 6 to 2, an

ordinance which would have paid the job surveyor $2000 for “advisory” services to the city from August to December Today, groping his way through unaccustomed atmospheric and administrative smog, Mr. Telford, a Washingtonian, said only that he had “understood” that city fathers had originally mandated his prolonged stay, adding, “I'll have to find out now what they want me to do. . . . If they still want me to stick around, o. k. If not, I'm on my way.” In a closed meeting in the mayor's office last month, most councilmen agreed to retain Mr. Telford at the

$2000 salary, but somehow, some-|’

where there's been .a slip. Last night, only two councilmen voted “yes” on his salary appropriation, John Schumacher and Herman Bowers. ; The only excuse nay-voting councilmen ventured was that their investigations had disclosed that the ordinance was an “illegal negotiation,” an opinion readily affirmed on the council floor by Corporation Counsel Sidney S. Miller, who added:

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HARNESS LASHES AT P. A. C. OPPOSITION

Fight Against Him Centered

At Anderson.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer 3 KOKOMO, Oct. 17.—Rep. Forest A. Harness 5th district Republican who co-authored the Smith-Con-has

litical Action Committee attempts to prevent his re-election. Here in his town town, P. A.C. has practically folded up and the only

won by 17800 two years ago, his majority this time will be a minimum of 25,000.- ° - The fifth is a Republican disand this is a Republican year

Townsfolk Pay Last Respects to Their Neighbor

RS

~ Still hanging in the lobby of large pictures of Wendell

17, 1944

These shifts from anti

nothing new to the Communists after 25 years of dancing to the tune of a foreign master. : Today, playifig Pied Piper for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket, they are telling the American people how to vote, And they're warning them, in Browder’s words, that a Roosevelt defeat and a Dewey victory will destroy world unity and plunge Europe “into the most devastating civil. war.” Four years ago, their headquarters, the Commu-

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

to pro-administration were

PRICE FOUR CENTS

JAP ARMADA

LEES YANK

SEES WORLD

WAR FRONTS

AS MONUMENT FOR WILLKIE

Dr. Frantz Pays Tribute At Rushville Rites for

Statesman.

By EARL RICHERT Times Staff Writer RUSHVILLE, Ind. Oct. 17~The world will suffice as the monument

to Wendell L. Willkie, Dr. George Arthur Frantz of the First Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, said today in tribute to the Hoosier statesman who went to his final resting place this afternoon. “If men ask, ‘Where is his monument’ let them but look around at a world, one in integrity like his own; one in courage like his; one

as burned in him; sionate dedication to freedom like that which consumed him,” Dr. Frantz praised. “We the people of his own state and community, who knew him best and so love him most, bring now our thanksgiving that God gave him first to us . . . we gave him to the nation and the nation gave him to the world.” .

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the Lollis hotel, Rushville, are the Willkie, and highlight photos of the

campaign 1940 effort. Today the large picture is draped in crepe in the same hotel he used as headquarters four years ago.

Germany's Future Seen Controlled By Super-Robot

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (U. P).— Robot bombs more destructive, more accurate and larger than those introduced this year by the Nazis, will probably be used against Germany if she fails to honor the coming peace, according to Willy Ley, authority on rockets. In an article in the November issue of Mechanix Illustrated magazine, Ley predicts the robot bomb will become a ‘‘persuader” against surreptitious construction of munitions plants in Germany or any other aggressor nation, and an eradicator if such plants materialize. Ley discloses that the U. S. navy, in 1918, built robot bombs superior to those of the Germans, but didn’t use then.

SHOG SETTLES ON INDIANAPOLIS. AGAIN

Sun Eclipsed by Blanket

Over Downtown.

If the city’s full-time smoke observer saw anything from his vahtage point atop the Merchants Bank building this morning, it was smog, Smog, SMOog. This season’s first assault wave of the grimy smoke-fog mixture blanketed downtown Indianapolis in the early morning hours like the dew proverbially covers Dixie but it wasn’t nearly as refreshing. The sun was a dull, orange blob that looked like something about to go into, or come out of, an eclipse. A five-day weather bureau forecast for Indiana said the temperature will average above normal; cool, clear nights and warm days through Thursday. Warm nights at the end of the five-day period with little or no precipitation.

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN

lish theater Thursday night, she'll

-| be singing her favorite role as the lovely Violetta in “La Traviata” , §

But before she changes into her

“the biggest and best steak” she can find.

ing actresses, arrived in the Hoosier capital during the wee hours yester-

come,

When Miss Nadine Connor makes her Indianapolis debut at the Eng- 3

silks and ruffles, she’s going to eat § Miss Connor, unlike most lead- |

day morning, three days before the | performance. ‘And she got a very sleepy wel-

Nadine Connor, Diva, Arrives In City for Op

era Opening

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{large spray of yellow chrysanthemums bore a card “With sincere sympathy” from Governor and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey from New York. Another from President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek bore the message “With deepest. sympathy.” This spray consisted of roses, chrysanthemums. and pompoms. A huge wreath of roses was signed by the Willkie tenants and another beautiful floral offering came from the girls of the officers’ club in New York. Members of Mr. Willkie's New York law firm sent a huge spray of Edith Willkie roses and orchids. The roses named after Mrs. Willkie were developed by the Hill green‘houses in Richmond. There were

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Topnoteh Writers Analyze Politics For The Times

® The presidential campaign is in high gear. Daily the top-notch political writers and analysts in Indiana and the nation are bringing to Indianapolis Times readers the latest up-to-the-minute news of the campaign.

¢ THOMAS L. STOKES, , Voted by Washington correspondents last week as the fairest and most reliable of the news analysts, is in * Massachusetts, a key state. His article appears on Page 12.

® DANIEL M. KIDNEY, The Times’ Washington

® EARL RICHERT, Times "political writer, tomorrow will give. the first results of The Times’ Straw Vote Marion county. ° :

o Your attention also is = called to the first of a series

PACIFIC—Units of Japanese fleet

AIR WAR-U. 8S. 8th air force

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(Oct. 17, 1944) retire without firing shot.

throws 2100 planes at Cologne.

RUSSIA—Berlin says Reds open new East Prussia drive,

ITALY—Americans meet all-out German defense of approaches to Bologne.

WESTERN FRONT — American siege forces rooting out remaining nests of resistance in Aachen.

HINT GERMANS GIVE UP ARGHEN

Signs Indicate Hitler Has Abandoned Garrison in Doomed City.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E P, Paris, Oct. 17—Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ headquarters reported signs today that the Nazi command had written off Aachen and abandoned attempts to relieve the city. as American doughboys blasted out nests of dwindling resistance with 155's fired point blank, United States 1st army front dispatches estimated that the doomed Aachen garrison had been reduced

hurled 8700 rounds into the massed

forces east of Aachen, apparently squelching at least temporarily a threatened full scale counter-attack. On the Dutch front north of Aachen, the British 2d army out-

(Hoosier Heroes, Page 9)

flanked the stubborn anchor post of Venrai in a drive through Vierlingsbeck, three miles to the northeast, almost to the Meuse river, and a front dispatch said violent fighting raged throughout the night in the outskirts of Venrai. On the opposite flank of the battlefront in Eastern France, the Germans mounted “many” counterattacks in the Vosges foothills in an attempt to stem the FrancoAmerican flanking drive north of the Belfort gap.

2100 YANK PLANES

Halsey Now Free

FROM FLEE

To Strike at the | Philippines.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent

PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 17. —A strong Japanese naval force turned tail and fled rather than risk an engagement with . the rampaging American 3d fleet, a coms munique announced today, but China-based planes caught an enemy naval convoy west of the Philippines and sank a cruiser and probably a destroyer, American B-28 Superfortresses, also from China, blasted the great Einansho air base at Tianan today in their third attack on smoldering Formosa in four days. An official spokesman at a Superfortress base said, Formosa now could be cons sidered knocked out as a major res = pair and staging center for the = Japanese air force. E American forces had destroyed 870 to 885 Japanese planes in the week-long battle of the Pacific, and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said 73 ships had been sunk. : Pacific fleet headquarters dise closed that Japanese surface forces, finally goaded into action by a recs ord series of destructive raids om their inner bases, had sallied inte the Philippine area to challenge the 3d fleet, but retired without firing shot on learning the overwhelming strength of American forces.

Caich Up With Convey

A 5170-ton Natori class cruiser was blown up, while a destroyer of the Terutsuki class probably wi sunk by a direct hit or near miss, the communifue said. fo (A Chinese central news agency dispatch from Chungking said allie

Other Liberators and Mitchells, escorted by Mustangs and Wars hawks, pounced on enemy shipping which had fled to Hongkong to ess cape the 3d fleet.’ Enjoying a field day, the bombers sank more than 30,000 tons of shipping and prob= ably sank another 16,000 tons, the Chungking communique said.

List 60 Bombers in Raid

SMASH AT COLOGNE

Near Record Daylight Raid Drops 2600 Tons.

LONDON, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—The U. 8. 8th air force today carried out possibly the greatest daylight

gle German city, throwing upwards of 1300 heavy bombers with an 800--plane fighter escort, against the battered Rhineland center of Cologne, just behind the Aachen front, The air armada dumped an estimated 2600 tons of high explosives and incendiaries on the Rhine city. This brought tonnagé unloaded on Cologne since Saturday to more than 8000 tons—the greatest amount

planes in so short a time on a German city. Thirteen bombers and three fighters were missing in the Cologne attack. : The daylight air assault followed a night attack upon Cologne by R. A. F. Mosquitoes.

From Starving

By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent

air attack of the war against a sin-|

of bombs ever droped by American;

—A Shriveled Apple, Hone

Tokyo said 60 bombers and fights {ers participated in the raid on | Hongkong. { Tokyo also reported that China« based American Liberator and

this afternoon, {bombers and their fighter escorts | were driven off. | (Seven and possibly eight more {Japanese vessels were destroyed by bombers of the U, 8. 14th air force in an attack on Kowloon, just north of Hong Kong, a Chungking coms munique reported. The raiders caused heavy’ damage to the Kow= loon dry docks and port facilities and shot down one intercepting fighter.) } Halsey's fleet, meantime, already had turned its full strength against the invasion-threatened Philippines after reducing some of Formosa's key defenses to smoking ruins and destroying 870 to 885 Japanese planes in seven days of offensi and defensive forays. A Tokyo broadcast said 150 rier-based American planes bad raided Manila, capital of the Philip

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