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TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 19° (U. B.).—A tropicdl hurricane battered a destructive path across Central Florida's rich citrus fruit belt today, causing heavy damage § to srops, property and communications. Heavy rain squalls, riding the crest of 100-mile-an-hour winds, lashed inland along the West Florida coast and Tage ogth 204 Tortheastward toward Jacksonville, mow-
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ing down thousands of citrus trees. Damage to the crop was expected to run, into millions of dollars.
Jacksonville already was
lashed by winds of 65 miles
an hour at 9 a. m. (Indianapolis time) ‘and power had failed there. Torrential rains fell, and the weather bureau warned of high tides from Dayiona Beach to the Georgia
line.
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FORECAST: Fair r tonight and tomarrow;. cooler Sonos with’ frost; warmer tomorrow.
Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
‘base of. Jacksonville were shut down and city officials estimated 150,000 were off the job, boarding up dwellings and preparing to meet the full force of the blow. (The weather bureau in Washington invoked “hurricane alert orders” from Cape Hatteras, N. C., to the Black Island Rd., and said the storm was expected to “move up along the South Atlantic coast probably -with somewhat diminished intensity.” The bureau warned
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small craft not to venture any distance at sea.) The down and only one radio station in the city still was operating—radio station WJAX, a municipal station which has its own power plant. ; At Savannah, Ga., the captain of the port said all small vessels in the harbor and surrounding waters had
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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES STRAW VOTE—
Stark Registers 5% Gain; Dewey, Capehart up +%: Gates, Jackson Unchanged
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BY EARL RL RICHERT TODAY'S RETURNS from The Indianapolis Times’ straw poll of Indianapolis show a gain of five per cent for Superior Judge Judson L. Stark, the Republican congressional nominee. But he is still nine percentage points behind his Democratic opponent, the veteran Congressman Louis * Ludlow. Each day’s returns are averaged with those returns already in.
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Republican Democrat President ....... Dewey.. 615% Roosevelt 38.5% Senator. ......... Capehart 53.5% . Schricker 46.5% Governor .......Gates.... 59.5% Jackson.. 40.5% Congressman : ; ‘ Stark. . . 45.5% Ludlow.. 54.5%
. TODAY'S RETURNS ificreased by one-half of one per cent
the standings of both Governor Dewey and Homer E. Capehart, the Republican U. 8. senatorial nominee, but made no changes in the standings of -the two gubernatorial candidates, Ralph Gates and Samuel D. Jackson. The poll was taken by sending several thousand postcards to persons names were selected at regular intervals from the latest edition of the city directory.
RALLY TONIGHT FOR JACKSON
St. Joseph County Prepares For ‘Biggest’ Event of Campaign.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer SOUTH BEND, Oct. 19.—Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic nee for governor, will speak here tonight at what is billed as the “biggest St. Joseph county rally
FORTUNE POLL— Roosevelt Leads In Pennsylvania
By 53.2 Per Cent NEW YORK, N. Y, Oct. 19.— Pennsylvania shows a 532 per cent majority for Roosevelt as of Oct. 1, but the majority is not a firm one, the Fortune Magazine Survey of Public Opinion reported today. To questions asked in the survey, 50.1 per cent answered in favor of President Roosevell to 44.1 per cent for Governor Dewey, leaving 5.8 per cent in the “don’t know" category. \ ® ” r Political Action Committee has had THOSE with no opinion nothing to do with it, were left out and those with opinDemocratic leaders from South! ions were taken as 100 per cent, Bend and Mishawaka will be there.! the resulting figures were 532 But they may have to hold hands per cent for Mr. Roosevelt to 46.8 to keep from hitting each other.| per cent for Mr. Dewey.
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HOCKEY TO OPEN | Eom sine smc SEASON TONGHT
burgh areas with the anthracite Expect 8000 to to Attend at
area around Scranton and Wilkes Barre which gave Roosevelt a maFairground Coliseum, By EDDIE ASH
jority in 1940 now leaning Beavily Times Sports Editer
toward Mr. Dewey. » " . “THE WAR in Europe is still Ihdianapolis® 1944-45 ice hockey season will be ushered in out at the state fairground Coliseum tonight
TOR'S FOREIGN POLICY COSTS LIVES-DEWEY
Charges Administration Has Bungled Foreign
Affairs.
By CHARLES T. LUCEY __Scripps-Howsrd Staff Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Two days before President Roosevelt comes here to discuss America’s role in foreign affairs, Governor Thomas E. Dewey has confronted him with a stinging chapter-and-verse indictment of alleged mistakes in American foreign policy to which a presidential answer appears almost inescapable. .
drubbing the Republican nominee has been giving the Roosevelt ad-
domestic side. But he has recognized that many people, although conceding the New Deal has made home-front mistakes, believe . the President should be supported because of handling of foreign affairs. Last night's speech by Mr. Dewey
ment. The G. O. P. candidate called a Lege Italy, GerFrance, Romania—in citing i tsaaces’ Tn rah he said the Roosevelt administration had bungled foreign policy, or had no foreign policy at all
Sees Nazi Program Lacking Bluntly he laid at Mr. Roosevelt's
must not be subjected to reserva. tions which would hamper it in maintaining peace and halting ag-
toward satisfying those who have
lieves is the myth of a particular
made arguments in this speech which may have special political effect. with certain foreign-born groups. He criticized sharply the administration's handling of affairs with Poland and Italy.
lined his insistence that small na-
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{planning the peace, politically im{portant among many smaller for-jeign-born groups. He took issue {with those who, like Senator Joseph
tions be given full recognition in}.
{H. Ball (R: Minn.), have insisted
{that commitments be made now on|
{certain final details of such organization. Cites Oaks Parley
On this point he said that “there are already those among us who want to attack the wprk that was done at Dumbarton Oaks, becalise it did ‘not go far enough,” and he insisted that “extremists on both sides have missed the point.” The surest way to invite disaster,
Heretofore most of the oratorical
ministration has been aimed at its}
was aimed at meeting that argu-}
door a charge that “we are paying} in blood for our failure to have}
ready an -intelligent program for} Germany.” |
gression, Governor Dewey went far|
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the key factor in the election,” said Fortune, “in Pennsylvania as in the rest of the nation. If, bewhen the hometown Caps fake on the Buffalo Bisons, American league defending champions,
fore election day, it looks as if Germany is actually ‘collapsing, a After brief opening night ceremonies, the teams will face off at
great many lukewarm Roosevelt 8:30 and start firing the puck
supporters may shift over to the Republican side.” around the smooth rink and let the ice chips fall where they may. This is Indianapolis’ sixth season of proféssional hockey and a capacity ¢rowd is expected to turn.out for the lid-lifter, Dick Miller, Coliseum general manager, predicted the attendance would soar over 8000. In four of the five previous seasons, the Hoosier Caps were good! enough participate in the nostseason offs and the third year they won the championship. They also won the western division title twice in regular season play. Between the first and second periods tonight the chamber of commerce athletic committee has sponsored a special $100 war bond relay
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he said, is to insist that everything be perfect from the start. The important point, he contended, is that a beginning has been made. Mr. Roosevelt's “secret diplomacy” in the international conferences was scored repeatedly, as was his reliance on Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau and Harry Hopkins, By UNITED PRESS President Roosevelt's decision ion © Sequred Bie i make personal appearances in New |jn ead of Secretary of State Hull
York, Pennsylvania and Mas- |; shuts lody emobasiaed 1 4 | "ot irgeinas, ian or ol
cisive nature of the combined 99 war Germany (to force it into ap
FDR to Speak at Boston, New York And Philadelphia
electoral votes cast by those three | .oricultural economy) caused. a.
states. .. | “first-class cabinet crisis,” Govers In the campaign for those votes, | 3 Mr. Roosevelt makes two appefr- | Devey charged, and it was ances in New York on Saturday and invades Pennsylvania next week with an address in Philadelphia’s Shibe park. | New York has
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‘Objectives Must Be Known, Approved by People’—Dewey|:
and Romania. as “examples” and
mans into fanatical resistance,” he said. This failure to have an ef-|
“Our objectives and our methods must be known to our people and
TIMES INDEX = By JOHN L. CUTTER Amusements ..23) Ruth Millet. AT United Press Staff. Correspondent Fxdie Ash 26 Movies ......: 22 ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 19.—Gover- , Barnaby ......17| Obituaries .:5, 13{nor Thomas E. Dewey, accusing Business . ’ ..17| President Roosevelt of handling forComics .... 17 eign relations on a "basis of perCrossword ....31|Radio ‘........ 81 {sonal secret diplomacy,” promised
‘RE-INVASION’ OF PHILIPPINES
STARTED BY U.S, INTS LANDING ON TINY ¥ ISLAND
pe Taps Claim Two Great Yank Armadas
Roosevelt flair in foreign affairs, he| Hi
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REPORT SOVIETS
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Attacking Under Aerial Cover; "List Spruance as Chief.
. . By FRANK TREMAINE
United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 19.—The Japanese said today that powerful American fleet and task forces under coms mand of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Vice Adm. Raymond Spruance of Indianapolis, have commenced the “re-invasion”
lof the Philippines, breaking into Leyte gulf in the Central
Philippines with a possible landing on tiny Suluan island, 425 miles from Manila. There was no confirmation of the Japanese reports from,
{either MacArthur's headquarters or Pacific fleet headquar(ters here.
Come From New Guinea ~The Japanese accounts asserted that two great Amer ican invasion armadas had borne down on the Philippines under air cover provided by land-based planes from Morotai in the Northern Halmaheras and Peleliu in the Palau island
group. China-based aircraft, the Japanese said, were aiding in
; the attack. “Toltye claimed that virtually all American forces
lithe Pacific had been massed ‘for the assault with the exs ‘ception of our famous task force 58. The Japanese said American forces, presumably MacArthur's grouping, approached the Philip pines from the direction of New Guinea.
At the same time the Domei news agency reported that American naval forces had broken into the Leyte gulf and were hammering the shoreline with a furious bome bardment. This report said that
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AIM AT DANLIG
Germans Reveal Reds Gain-| ing in Drives Across Border
Into East ‘Prussia.
By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Corr dent ~ LONDON, Oct. 19. — Berlin reported today that the Red army | had smashed into East Prussia,! American invasion troops “seem to
forced the evacuation of the Ger- have landed” on tiny Suluan isman town of Eydtkuhnen, and !8nd Which les at the entrance to
opened a new offensive against the! | the gulf. Junkers province from the south in ‘a bid to break through to Danzig. The German high command reported the evacuation of Eydtkuhnen, 40 miles east of Insterburg on
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{que did not mention the possible landing, but said the American fleet, accompanied by transports, ‘entered Leyte gulf Oct. 17 and opened up a {bombardment to which Japanese
by warplanes of the U. S. Pacific fleet. The large hangar shows the effects of the attacks. ' Industrial shed in the upper left of the phote billow clouds of smoke as bombs explode from warcraft just pulling
out of its dive.
More than 97 planes were destroyed on the ground during this day of raids.
ONE-STOP 6. I. AID UNIT OPENS MONDAY
Returning Service Men to
~ {two “surprise developments,” is“un-
Take Problems to Agency.
Plans to open Marion county's one-stop G. I. information center Monday in Room 320 of the K. of
P. building were completed today at.
‘WAC Murder Probe Reopened
By 'Surprise Developments’
By JOHN L. BOWEN A new ihvestigation, based upon
der way in the murder of WAC Cpl. Maoma L. Ridings in her room at the Claypool hotel on the night of Aug. 28, 1943, it was learned today. The inquiry reportedly is being
an executive board meeting of the conducted by deputies from Marion
citizens’ advisory committee, Following the Monday opening, all returning dischargees requiring spe- | cial rehabilitation assistance, will be! channeled through the agency, for-, mally known as the Veterans Information and Referral Service.
Establishment of , the ' center
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ARMY LOSSES SINCE D-DAY ARE 174,780
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (U. P). -~U. 8. Army casualties exclusive of air forces in France, Germany and the Low Countries from D-day through Oct. 3 totaled 174780, the war department announced today. These included 29,842 killed, 130,227 wounded and 14,711 missing, Casualties of the 7th army which {idnded in Southern Prance are in-
{County Sheriff Otto Petit’s office who decline to reveal the ture {of the “surprise developmen but {nonetheless indicate that new in'formation holds a possible solution to the crime. These deputies have revealed, un‘officially, that they have been in
seized upon by the German propa-, {marks the most revolutionary de- | contact with the mysterious womganda machine to “terrify the Ger-| mobilization step yet taken here, an-in-black who actually was seen
{in company with Cpl. Ridings in
her room, 729, approximately two and one-half hours prior to the murder. Also revealed by the deputies is the fact that they are seeking custoday of a man who figured in the original investigation but who, at that time, was not presumed to have any connection with the killing.
This man is not now in Indian-':
apolis, but efforts will be made to return him here as quickly as possibly.
In connection with their vestis| gation, which they are conducting |
wtihout the assistance of city police, the county deputies visited Room 729
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U. S. COMMUNISTS . . . By Frederick Woltman Browder Sets Up Campaign Pattern, P. A. C. "Fills Bill’
“This election,” thundered Browder on last 20, “must not be
May left in the hands of the old party achines of piuiessional poiiieians. The emergency as for an extraordinary manner of
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.It was the American Communists who set the pattern of Sidney Hillman’s C. 1. O. Political Action Committee, President Roosevelt's loudest backer
in the fourth-term campaign.
{handling the election, that it may
the trunk railway to Konigsberg. Later Nazi broadcasts said the Germans had “disengaged themselves) {to prepared positions” south of : | Eydtkuhnen. {way for a drive across the central “Northwest of Eydtkuhnen, strong | iislands, isolating Japanese ‘forces German panzer forces after a six- around Manila on Luzon fo the
hour battle closed some of the gaps orth from forces in the southern island of Mindanao which lies
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army and naval units were replying, An American landing in Leyte gulf, it was noted, might open the
1700 HEAVIES RIP REICH
LONDON, Oct. 19 (U. P.).—More |nila said 270 American carrier planes than 1700 American heavy bombers |attacked the Philippines capital and and fighters attacked Mainz, Man- | | nearby Clark field, striking in four heim and Ludwigshafen area of | Southwestern Germany today.
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