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TIMES STRAW. POLL OF MARION COUNTY— “First Returns Give Dewey 61 to 39% for FDR; Gates, Capehart and Ludlow Lead

By EARL

First results in the® Indianapolis Times’ straw poll of Marien county voters today gave the following:

Republican Democrat President ....... Dewey... 61 % Roosevelt 39 % Senator ........Capehart. 583 % Schricker 47 % Governor .......Gates.... 59.5% Jackson.. 40.5% Congressman ,..Stark.... 405% Ludlow.. 59.5%

The return showed Gov

popular Republican candidate in this area and the veteran Democratic congressman, Louis Ludlow, the most popular on the Democratic side of the ledger. President Roosevelt received the fewest votes cast for any Democratic candidate and Superior Judge Judgon L. Stark, the Republican congressional nominee, was

running far behind the top

AS THE ABOVE percentages show, the Republican guber-

natorial nominee Ralph Gates

Dewey, and Senator Samuel D. Jackson, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, is running slightly ahead of President Roosevelt. Although running eight per cent ahead of Mr. Roosevelt Gov-

ernor Schricker is shown to be Homer E. Capehart, The Times’ poll was taken b

cards to persons listed in the latest edition of the city directory.

» » = : NAMES WERE selected at directory lists, By this method it is believed . city's residents was obtained.

Not represented in the poll

moved into the city since the directory was published in 1943. nor men and women in the armed services, nor farmers living outside

the city limits,

POLITICAL leaders here presume that the Democrats will benefit most from the votes cast by the migratory workers and the service men and the Republicans will get a majority of the

county's furm vote’

Records of the past elections show that ‘Marion county has given a majority to the presidential candidate who carried Indiana in every election since 1900 and has given a majority to the winning senatorial candidate every time since the state started electing its

senators in 1916. Ea

THE COUNTY has been twice since 1928. In 1928, Frank

torial nominee, carfled the county when Harry Leslie was elected governor and in 1040 the county gave a small majority io Glen . Hillis, the Republican nominee, when Henry P. Schricker was chosen

governor,

Only employees of The Times were excluded.

Cards were malled to day laborers, janitors, bank presidents, clerks and voters in every walk of life.

“wrong” on

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RICHERT

ernor Dewey to be the most

men on the G. 0. P. ticket.

is running slightly behind Mr,

behind his Republican opponent,

y mailing several thousand post-

w 8 = regular intervals from the city

that a good cross-section of the

are the war workers who have

gubernatorial candidates Dailey, the Democratic guberna-

.|Havana Bows Under Wind

HURRICANE DUE

T0 HIT FLORIDA LATE TONIGHT

Traveling at 160 M. P. H. Speed.

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— A roaring Caribbean hurricane moved into the Florida’ straits between Havana and Key West today, the

weather bureau recorted at noon, and reports from the tiny naval base island stopped abruptly as communications failed. ‘The tremendous air mass, swirl ing at speeds which reached 160 miles per hour over Havana earlier in the day, continued northward, the latest advisory said. The storm was expected to move through the keys and up the western coast of Florida tonight, { “The last report from Key West! was at 11 a. m.,” the advisory said. 2 “This reported winds in gusts to about 70 miles an hour and pressure! 20.73 inches. Communication lines! on the Keys have failed since that time.” :

Report Contact The telephone company here however, reported that it still was puttingpalls through to Key west, | although a delay of four hours was i probable because of the crowded | ines.

but only after most residents had been -evacuated, | A report here said the overseas highway linking Key West to the

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— A report telephoned from Key West to the United Press at 12:30 said indications were the hurricane moved up from Havana would pass 10 to 12 miles west | of the island at about 8 o'clock (Indianapolis time) tonight.

mainland had been closed, but only

“Dally stories will be printed on the poll until the returns are in.

C. 1. O. AS BAT-BOY That's PAC Role On South Bend's Democrat 'Team'

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

SOUTH BEND, Oct. 18.—8t. Joseph county Democrats are pere fectly willing to let the C. I. O.Political Action Committee play on their team. But they have heen assigned the KF wie w bate Unlike Vanderburgh coun-

not giving them. There is no intention among old-line Demo‘crats here to let the tail wag the dog. Democrats customarily triumph here by bloc voting. Among the major blocs are the Polish and Lithuanian populations. They largely are working people and many belong to P, A. C. in the Studebaker, Bendix and other war plants here. LJ

BUT “working long before their C. 1. O decided to put them into politics with P. A, C. They held precinct posts and. turned in results so effective that in some precincts on the West side the Republicans received only a “token vote” so far as the final count was concerned. 80 when the P. A. C. entersa the field, under Roy Larson, Unit ed Auto Workers-C. I. O, union ‘ head at the Studebaker plant, these Democratic workers treated the political actionists lke oud settlers usually treat the Johnnie-come-lately. “Who is that guy?” they would

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JAPS REPULSED IN CHINA CHUNGKING, Oct. 18 (U, P).— Chinese forces have repulsed a new Japanese drive toward Kweilin in northwestern Kwangsi province after two days of heavy fighting, a communique said today.

TIMES INDEX

Inside Indpls. 13

Amusements.. 8 Eddie Ash ... 18/Jape Jordan.. 31 Barnaby ..... 13 | Mauldin ..... 13 Business ..... 10{ Ruth Millett . 13 Comics ...... 21/Movies ..... . 8 Crossword ... 21 Obituaries ... : David Dietz.. 13|Fred Perkins. o Fashions”. . Ye 14 Breia Prie ve 13]

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{Dewey to Discuss Issue a

(FOREIGN POLICY | VIEWS SLATED

t 8:30 P. M. Today; FDR Talks Saturday.

By UNITED PRESS

Questions of foreign policy overshadowed domestic issues today in the bitterly contested presidential race between Franklin D. Roosev elt and Thomas E. Dewey. The Republican party's nominee speaks on foreign affairs at the New {York Herald Tribune forum tonight. The speech, beginning at 8:30 p. m.

by the Blue network.

ing to issues raised by Dewey, on Saturday when he addresses, the] Foreign. Policy association in New York, “White House Jitters”

Other campaign developments: It was announced in Washington

27, thus personally going after the {Sates 35 electoral votes,

national chairman, said the Presi-

vania indicated that the “jitters in! the Democratic high command” had reached the White House. He sald the Republicans would carry the state, In New York, ‘Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan charged that Dewey had refused to argue any “real” campaign issues and that he would “promise anything if he thought it would get him votes.” Truman In Oregon The two vice presidential candidates continued active on the west coast. Senator Harry 8. Truman carried the Democratic standard into Oregon after telling a San Francisco audience that Dewey was guilty of “chicanery” in quoting excerpts from the senate Truman committee reports to criticize proses cution of the war. Governor John ‘'W. Bricker speaks before a Los Angeles audience tonight. He said im a San Diego speech last night that the New Deal had made a “grotesque monstrosity” of the federal government. And in his first formal campaign appearance in his home state, Viee President ‘Henry A. Wallace told a 1{ Democratic rally in Mason City, Iowa, that thé Republican party “down through the years had opposed equality for agriculture.”

ne ——————— ar SHOE RATION TO REMAIN | ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 18 (U. P)—

it 3 William A. Molter, national director Sice Sanoes! 14

(Indianapolis time), will be carried:

President Roosevelt also will dis-| cuss foreign policy, possibly reply-:

that Mr. Roosevelt would speak in| Shibe park, Philadelphia, on Oct. |

| Herbert Brownell Jr, Republican

| western Europe to the end of AugJi casualties to British imperial| JDiaiad 103.045: of Whom 10. ¥ wounded and}

after 90 per cent of the ee ‘along the keys had reathed’ { Florida coast. | The main power switch at i pest was raed this morning as a

precatttion against “fre. afters feral circuits had been blown down, 4 i (Tides over the Florida keys largely responsible for loss of nots than 400 lives in the hurri which struck on Labor day, 1835.)

Evacuate Residents i 4 The lower Florida keys extend | southwest of Miami for 150 miles. a’ long string of small, low islands. | {The normal population of the! string, except for Key West which {is largely a naval base and whose {population is not given officially, is! about 3000. Residents were being evacuated by a highway, opened only a few months ago, which re-; placed a. railroad dessroyed by the 1935 storm. “Winds will increase elsewhere over south Florida this afternoon with approach of the storm. Hurricane warnings are displayed from

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U.S. COMMUNISTS— Browder Urged Revolution in '36,

Now Backs FDR

(Third of a series)

By FREDERICK WOLTMAN * Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Scorn of free elections, contempt for!

tolerance for fascism, when expedi- | ent, have marked the EETpEnUnS | ‘history of the Communists whose | American fuehrer, Earl Browder, is; throwing his party behind Sidney | Hillman's C. I. O. Political Ac! tion | Committee and the fourth term: campaign, For the purpose of re-electing]| President = Roosevelt, the Browderites have suddenly fallen in love with America's institutions—or so they say. It wasn’t always so. Last May 20 Browder, whose fouryear federal prison sentence had been: commuted by President Roosevelt after 14 months, predicted that Roosevelt's retirement at the end of three terms “would be a disaster for our country.” He deplored “our rigid constitu tion” which requires elections “at set intervals” A presidential election this year, he warned, “would put-a dangerous strain on the national unity” Nevertheless, he manfully surrendered to the fact of free elections and pitched in, In 1936, however, with the New Deal at its zenith, he yearned not for Roosevelt but for revolution.

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BRITISH WAR TOLL LISTED

LONDON, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Deputy ‘Prime Minister Clement Attlee. revealed in' commons today that from the opening: of the campaign in

Aad killed, 63,193

The overseas highway to the | jisland previously had been closed,!

| Wendell L. Willkie yestetday.

FORECAST: Fair with mild temperature tonight; partly cloudy and cooler tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944

With the bright October sun ‘shining through the golden foliage, Dr. George Arthur Frantz conducted. final rites for Wendell L. Willkie at the East Hill cemplery at Rushville late yesterday. :

Mrs. Willkie and her son, Lt.

Loaisville flett And Ed of Chicago (right) as aly bet the graye.

Rushville: Bids Farewell fo o is Ore-World Statesman AIRMAN KILLED

Hy JOHN W. HILLMAN

The brown Indiana‘ earth which he loved took back the body of| But even death could not crush his spirit |

nor loosen the hold he had on the Americans.

Scenes Marking Final Chapter in Willkie! s Career

Entered as Second-Clags Matter at Pdstoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

Philip Willkie, were assisted by Mr. Willie's two. Brothers, Fred of

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HILIPPINES

BULLETIN

LONDON, Oet. 18 (U. P.).— Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight that the Red army had forced the Carpathiam mountain passes and advanced 12 to 31 miles into Czechoslovakia on a 170-mile front. ] Gen. Ivan XY. Petrov's 4th army of the Ukraine made the drive into Czechoslovakia from the | _ north, Stalin reported in an order of the day broadcast from Mos-

Invasion Defenses Of Japs Grow Weaker.

By FRANK ' TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 18. IT he greatest American air{sea offensive of the Pacific {war went into its 10th day to‘day with angry swarms of |carrier-based planes blasting |censeiessly at Japan's weakening jane invasion defenses in the

Philippines. The Japanese-controlled Manila {radio, in a broadcast recorded by ALL MANPOWER the FCC in the United States, said 80 American carrier planes attacked - (the Philippine capital in three {waves at 10 a. m. Manila time to*Must day, while other aircraft raided | nearby Clark fleld and Legaspi in 3 | southern Luzon. Sixteen planes were J shot down and three others dame a aged seriously, the broadcast said.

The passes included the famous Tatar pass through the Carpathians between Poland and Czechoslovakia,

Indicates Germans Fight On Until

‘Certain Peace.’ “Fully on Guard LONDON, Oct. 18 (U. P.) Adel] Hitler today ordered all able-bodiew;, Tokyo said Japanese army and /Germans mobilized into “people's navy circles were emphasizing the storm units” to fight a last desper- | need to be “fully on guard” against ate battle in defense of German tan American invasion of the Philipto win Pines despite fanoiful . earlier rea stalemate peace. {ports that American warships asGestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, 'signed the task of landing troops broadcasting from ° Soviet-threat- Dad been defeated and dispersed. read Hitler's Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, comdecree calling on all men between Mander in chief of the Pacific 16 and 60 to rally to the .defense 71°¢% announced. in a communique of the fatherland soil “with all {last night that aircraft of Adm. weapons and by all means,” | William FP. Halsey's vast 3d fleet “Every block of houses of every. were “continuing to attack ob | jeetives in the Php but house; every ditch, every bush, win 27S no detalls.

His failure to by men, boys and old: If” NeceseaTy by woinen | O50 targets lay ‘on--battered

and girls’ Himmler, commander | hers and most port 8) posOf the ‘German home army, de-! uit: thay the carrier planes were extending their trail of destruction Decree Flamboyant south toward Mindanao, already In a flamboyant decree creating within siriking range of American the plain-clothed “Volkssturm.” Hit- invasion troops and land-based ler said the purpose of sending all! planes. : men to the barricades with what- BR ¢ ever weapons they could muster was, Manila - Aftached A roundabout Japanese report

first to break what he called the allied determination to annihilate said carrier planes had attacked the German nation. | Clark fleld near Manila and the The second aim, he said was! Legaspi area of* southern Luzon “keepinig him (the enemy) away Monday (Tuesday, Tokyo time). ’ from the Reich until the future; A late communique from Chungof Germany, of her allies and thus | king raised to 20 ships sunk or dam= tof Europe, is safeguarded by a cer-/aged the toll exacted by the China {tain peace.” * based American 14th air force in its destructive raid Monday on Hong

He did not say what he meant

hearts and imagination of his fellow

Two Local Sold Soldjers Killed

That truth was written in the faces of the quiet Indiana people who!

lined the streets of Rushv ille yesterday as a mile-long line of cars fol-|

JOHNS. KNIGHT BUYS :

GHIGAGO DAILY NEWS

Gains Control trol by Purchase

"Of Knox Interest.

CHICAGO, Oct. 18 ‘w. P).—

Probate Judge John F. O'Connell |

today - approved the sile of the

{controlling . interest in the Chicago |

| Daily News to' John S. Knight,

dent's decision to speak in Pennsyl-| smerican democracy and a cynical | | publisher of newspapers at Detroit,

| Akron, O. and Miami. Mr. . Knight purchased the interest in the Daily News which was held by the late Secretary of ‘the Navy Frank Knox beforé his {death last April and also the in{terest by Mrs. Knox for $2,150,000. Mr. Knight will become president land publisher of the Daily News.

URGES WAR FUND "AID

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt has called on all Americans to demonstrate that there is “no let-down in the spirit and unit of this country” by contributing more than ever before to the national and community war funds,

BUSINESS . . . By Roger Budrow Encouragement to Replace - Over-Age Machinery Urged

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. —*“If the government wants American industry to provide plenty of good Jobs after the war, its tax policy must encourage industry to buy new, efficient machinery instead of to keep old, . inefficient ‘machinery.” — 5 That's from Henry J. Kaiser, calling for prompt action on the “suggestion recently advanced by James F. Byrnes, the President's director “of war mobilization, dat, Sa

In France, Two {lowed Wendell Willkie's casket] {down ‘a tree-arched road’ to ‘the in Italy. East Hill cemetery. . For this was Indiana's day to say | An Indiapapolis airman has been | farewell to the boy from Elwood killed in China, two soldiers have! who caught the vision of one world, | lost their lives in France and two! a world that should be like Amer- | others in Italy. Meanwhile Se a free and strong. | servicemen have been wounded. This was Rushville’s day to pay | KILLED tribute to the man who carried that! pvt. Bruno A. Floreancig, vision to the far corners of the Holmes ave. in Italy. earth, the man who won the respegt| rt Robert. Clayton Purvis, nephand friendship of the mighty yet ew of Miss Mary Purvis, 1402 N. remained to the end one of the Alabama * st. and son of Mis. simple people who. called Rushville gjanche Purvis, Kokomo, in China. ! home. Pvt. Edward L. Roney, 1250 S.| Marked vy Simplicity

| Talbot st, in Italy. Indiana and Rushville paid their tribute to Wendell Willkie quietly.|ave., in France. There was none of the fanfare or | 8. Sgt. Walter David Franklin carnival trappings of that great Knop, 2038 N. Dearborn st, in notification day in Elwood. There France. : was no pushing crowd, little out-| WOUNDED ward display of grief | Sgt, Albert Kogan, son of Joseph You only noticed that it was very Kogan, 1128 N. Mount st., in Gerstill. Even the half-masted flags | nfany. along Main st, hung limp against | First Sgt. “Winfield Scott,” 2239 their staffs. {Park ave. in France. It was on the set faces of the] Marine Cpl. Charles Kilgore, people you met that you saw the 5532 University ave, on Guam. mark of affection and respect for; Pvt. Clarence C. Austin, 1110 Wendell Willkie. These were sober Burdsal pkwy. in France.

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faces. | Pfc. Henry Duvall, 1802 ‘BroadPerhaps they were. thinking of Way, in France. 1 that electric night when they First Lt. Robert F..Gardner, 929

Broadway, over France. ay Pvt. Joseph A. Para,” 806 *N. Goodlet ave, in France. Pvt. Arlie Feltner, formerly of 1005 W. New York st. in France.

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32 MORE JAP SHIPS ‘SUNK BY U. S. SUBS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (U. P.).— Secretary of the Navy James For|restal disclosed today that the U. S. 3d and 3th fleets have destroyed 3080 enemy planes and blasted 905 enemy ships since early June. © At the same time, Forrestal released to a news conference a navy communique that U. 8S.

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in which such machinery is purchased.” ; Saws Mr, Kaiser: “Tens of thousands of machinés in this country’s factories are over 20 years old. They are keeping productions up: If they remain where they are after the

war, they will keep prices of civile “fan goods up. -And they will {Submarines have = 32 more keep jobs down... | - | Japanese Sige; ine ding , seven “For only the most efficient ma- combat ships. SLATE chines possible to obtain can en- - Soe able industry to observe the LOCAL TEMPERATURES Ls

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Pvt. Jack Brake, 3255 Central |

by “a certain peace,” but the obvious | Kong harbor, where Japanese vesséls connotation was that Germany| had sought shelter from the ravages , would fight on with the aim of|of the 3d fleet. i {draining allied power until the allies| Eight ships totalling more than

ik tired and agree to make peace.; 40,000 tons were sunk, seven totalling 23,000 tons were damaged and five others probably were damYANKS STALK FOE IN aged. Another freighter was skip AACHEN CATACOMBS Fighter planes from the South« | west Pacific command of Gen. Doug~ las MacArthur, who has vowed to return to the Philippines at the head Gain Along West West Wall on or a uberating army, joined the | Philippines assault with a series of * {low-level raids on northern- MinE. F,, Paris, Oct. 18 (U. ee! : {ican dive-bombers, troops and ar-| Roaring in over the enemy motor | tillery stalked the German garri-iconvoy on a highway north of = son of Aachen through city’s burn- | Valencia, the fighters destroyed 62 ing streets and - cellars today as! trucks and six staff cars and disallied forces to the north and | | persed mounted cavalry troops with south shoved slowly into the Nazi! {many casualties, then went on to west wall along a 250-mile front attack Cagayan and Matina airThe massive allied armies, racing installaf “damaged and against time to beat the first. winter nearby small craft were hit. storms inte the German homeland,| Cagayan is a major air and naval were wheeling into position for a base on Macajalar bay on the great fall offensive and hacking out | {northern coast of Mindanao. ; limited gains against stubborn and! Nimitz's South Pacific forces were skillful enemy resistance. | revealed belatedly to have strengths of ‘ancient: catacombs beneath the {unopposed landing ‘last Sept. 20 and city streets. A front dispatch from !21 on Ulithi ‘Atoll, ‘a coral- -ringed United Press War Correspondent island group 900 miles east of MinJack Frankish said most of the danao and 400 miles northeast of eastern half of the city was. in American-occupied Peleliu in the American hands late ay. southern Palaus. ds Fight Hi Reds Fight House-to-House MOSCOW, Oct. 18 (U. P).—S0- country Front dispatches fo 8 viet forces massed today on the! newspaper Pravda reported the R northern and southern frontiers of air fleet was attacking Memel eastern _ Czechoslovakia, slashing ihe key German supply Jie their way deeper into Belgrade | rig in East Prussia. 30 in - house - to - house fighting and en a launched a powerful aerial offensive] wo mo Fig interfering

{bombed off Hong Kong island and Heft sinking. 250-Mile Front. UPREME HEADQUARTERS, 5. T2028 Meniday; 8 | Fighters Blast Convoy from ‘the Dutch seacoast* to the | dromes. One enemy bomber was Vosges mountains. | destroyed on the ground, airdrome Inside Aachen, American 1st army lened their hold on the eastern ap= troops moved slowly through a maze proaches to the Philippines with an In Belgrade; Raid E. Prussia n belgrade; Raid LC. Frussia (Map, Page Nine) The Russians were { about three miles a day in d against the Nazi defenders of The | Nuss concentrations of East Prussian border. *