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"CLEVELAND, Oct. 21 charred wood and twisted most devastating fire in its
the tomb of 70 known dead today while police reported that 69 persons were “missing” and indicated the toll
would exceed 120.
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Mayor Fiorello H. la Guardia, wearing the biggest and blackest hat in town, made the estimate of the Ebbetts field crowd. Other estimates were somewhat lower, but the
square apartment of Mrs. Roosevelt where the President will rest during the afternoon. Tonight he de-
protect the presi-
United Press Staff Correspondent
Police officials said that “many” for the reported miss-
~The, smouldering acres of dead.
metal—scene of Cleveland's 148-year-old history—became
burned out by roaring flames.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1944
ing persons were presumed to be among the unidentified
Detective Lt. Martin Cooney, head of the police department homicide squad, said he believed that at least 100 persons, none of whose bodies have yet been recovered, were trapped in the 50-block East Side area which was
The area was an industrial residential section bound-
Roosevelt Braves Rain For Tour of New York City; Dewey Rests After Charging 'One-Man Labor Rule’
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoftics Tadianapolia 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
70 Dead | And 69 Missing As Cleveland Fire Toll Grows
By LEE LINDER
ed by the Lake and St. Clair sts. between East 55th and
East 65th sts.
Forty-seven bodies, many of them small children,
were at the county morgue.
Police said that most of the victims were recovered late last night from the fringes of the fire area. An additional 23 bodies—mostly charred remains—were reported
still at the scene.
Candidates Come to Grips With Voters Day and Night.
IPF GOVERNOR SCHRICKER |
dates are doing plenty of handshaking. as they tour the highroads and byroads of Indiana
been doing it for years, both in | season and out. In four years as governor and four as lieuten-
lic office for the first time, is busy catching up with his opponent. He is following one of the most gruelling schedules ever laid out
Haney. and Homer Staging Handshaking Contest
Governor Schricker . . . follows speech at English by talking with town. folk on the street.
RAILWAY CASE DETOUR’ CITED
PRICE FOUR CENTS
The volunteer searching
supervision of Coroner Samuel Gerber, divided into groups of five and at dawn began to probe systematically from one . pile of rubble to another for bodies. Rescue workers asserted that there are “rlenty of
bodies lying around” in the
party, organized under the -
smoldering, ashy ruins of
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BY CANDIDATE
GOP Nominee Call Calls for End of Play for ‘Political
Cash and Power.’
By JOHN L. CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent
"ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 21. —After charging that President Roosevelt was attempting to establish oneman rule over labor, Governor Thomas E. Dewey returned to Albany today for a quiet week-end. The Republican presidential candidate, who accused the Roosevelt
speech from Pittsburgh last
“That sort of business must come
{to an end in this country. Political {bosses and one-man government {must not be allowed to keep a stran|glehold on the rights of our working | people.”
The crowd, which braved the first
rain Dewey has encountered in six {weeks of active cheered him often and lustily,
campaigning,
Decides Stage Is Set
Reviewing the railway labor case from its start, Mr. Dewey declared
~ {that the regular mediation processes lof the 1926 railway labor act were
being followed until “the grasping hand of one-man rule reached in and set itself above the law.” “Mr. Roosevelt's economic stabilization director (Fred M. Vinson) completely destroyed the effectiveness of the railway labor act by setting aside the recommendation of the mediation board for an increase of eight cents an hour,” Dewey said. “For six months last year, while uncertainty and tension increased,
shaking hands again. He shakes hands up and down the main street in that town. This continues until night, when the visit is climaxed by a banquet and speech. » = » . MR. SCHRICKER spends the mornings at his office in the state house at work. Then about noon he Je leaves for a luncheon or afternoon speaking engagement. He usually ends his day like his opponent, by speaking at a banquet. After he finishes, he shakes hands with everyone thére, usually being the last to leave.
WAR FUND DRIVE
By EARL RICHERT
in the poll up-to-date.
INDIANAPOLIS TIMES STRAW VOTE—
Ludlow Gains One Per Cent: Dewey 61 .5%-F. D. R. 38.5%
- Louis Ludlow, the veteran Democratic congressman from Indianapolis, gained one per cent in today’s returns from The Indianapolis Times’ straw poll to make his current standing 56 per cent.
Congressman Ludlow is the only Democrat leading
Today’s returns, averaged with those already in, give the following results in perveniagess)
jential route on this first wholly Republican # Democrat rue i, Desi] NEARING ITS GOAL President .........Dewey... 61.5% Roosevelt 38.5% may influence the extent to which|~« : Senator ...........Capehart. 53 9% Schricker 47 % She President will show himself on : Governor .%........Gates ... 58 % Jackson.. 42 % already scheduled In Philadelphia $1,163,305 Reported With Congressman ......Stark, .. 44 % Ludlow.. 56 % Boston ve dates in : . = 8 ss » a Chicago, Cleveland a De Deadline Wednesday. THE ONLY other change made by today’s returns was to in-
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TIMES INDEX
Contributions to the United War and Community fund are close to the goal of $1,975,000 which must be reached by Wednesday when the drive closes. Volunteer workers meeting in the hotel
through yesterday. the same as yesterday.
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crease by one-half of one per cent the standing of Governor Dewey, who had 61 per cent of the votes cast in the poll for president up
Standings of the gubernatorial and senatorial candidates are
Mr. Roosevelt did nothing but wage a war of nerves against the railway workers. Finally he decided the stage was set for making political capital. He called the union leaders to the White House. They met there four times. Mr. Roosevelt demanded that he, instead of the legally established ‘mediation board, be selected as the final arbitrator.” “Finally Mr. Roosevelt seized the railroads to forestall a national disaster which he himself had prepared. After that he graciously {gave the very wage increase to which the railway workers have been entitled for over a year.”
Political Cash, Toe
Then Mr. Dewey swung into the part that Flynn, Bronx county Denseraie chairman, played in “Political power wasn't the only profit in this case,” he charged. “There was political cash too—for one of the New Deal city bosses.”
WASHINGTON
is only the beginning.
come. There'll be more.
prevent this, Japan will bring out
life, accentuated by war, which should not b& allowed to slacken in peacetime,” Mr. Kuhn said. “The new generation of industfial management has found this a good community in which to produce its goods for many reasons. We face a period of fundamentally good and full industrial employment and hence of prosperous conditions for the entire community.” The purpose of the meeting, Mr. Block said, was to give city leaders “the opportunity of glimpsing a vision of what our town can be, and of what it must be, if we will all accept the responsibilities and help to lead Indianapolis on to those goals.” Other speakers included Fred
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E. PRUSSIA FRONT ‘CAVING, NAZIS SAY
Claim Reds Aim to Flank
Masurian Lakes Line.
LONDON, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—German radio reports indicated today that the Red army is caving in German East Prussian defenses in 4 drive to flank the Nazi security
LONDON, Oct. 21 (U. P)~ Berlin reported that massive Russian armored columns had smashed 20 miles into East Prussia and reached a road due south of Gumbinnen, a town only 16 mijes from Insterburg.
He said that because the proceedings were “obviously of a very special sort,” the Railroad Brotherhoods “were forced to hire some one who knew his way around the White House.” Mr. Dewey said Flynn received a
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ported $1,163,305.13, '
$50,000 “In behalf of its operations in Indianapolis.” The announocement was made by E. G. Newill,| general manager of the Allison division, and D. M. Klausmeyer, man-
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Complete i in One Section
All the regular “mes. features and the news of the day are con-
[Negroes might swing the state for
With Negro
F. D. R. and Eleanor still are 4magic names with many voters and if Indiana didn’t appear to face a landslide for Dewey the
a fourth term.
ete OL the Republicat party 10 ure them ‘back by
line of the historic Masurian lakes by slashing west to the north of Rominten Heath. Rominten Heath lies just beyond the Suwalki triangle which Adolf Hitler annexed in 1939 and while
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Roosevelt Name Still Magic
Elements Here
Alihough there have been predictions made that the Republicans would get a 50-50 break in the Ne-
gro vote in Indiana, a 30 or 40 per| -
cent cut would Please the profes-
side more than in any of
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers |
“There. are factors which likely| will up the percentage on the Re-| publican
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The Philippines invasion
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Two weeks ago we said: “Big developments are brewing in the Pacific , . . watch for the Jap fleet to come out and fight before winter ends.”
Big developments have
A landing on the Asiatic mainland is just a question of time, cutting Japan's South Pacific empire in two. To
her entire fleet and air force, for
American victory in the battle now begun will spell Nippon’s doom. ” » BUT DON'T minimize developments in the European theater.
Anything can happen as a result of the Red army push up the un- : (Continued on Page 2—Column 1)
Are Drawn at Civic Dinner
The industrial future of Indianapolis, is given half a chidnée, can be brighter than we have ever dreamed, George A. Kuhn, chairman of the Mayor's Post-War Planning Committee, told 200 of the city's leaders at a dinner given by Meier S. Block, vice president of the Wm. H. Block Co., at the store last night. “There is both new blood and a new spirit in Indianapolis industrial
BOWES SPURS VETERANS’ JOBS
Own Organization Will Set Up Group of Ex-Soldiers
In Business.
Robert M. Bowes, Indianapolis manufacturer of tire repair supplies and backer of a number of cars in the “500” race, believes businessmen should plan opportunities now. for returning war veterans to keep them from having to sell apples on street corners or go on government leaf-raking projects. To explain what he is doing and to persuade others to do the same, Mr. Bowes gave a dinner at the Columbia club last night for business and civic leaders. He explained that his organization is training a selected group of veterans and will finance them and set them up in business as distributors of the company's products. Salesmen Needed
“Production alone will never make America tick,” he said. “Wants have to be stimulated. Salesman are the key to mass production. I had to pay $840 for a crankshaft in a race car once. Only a few days before I bought a DeSoto for my wife for $870. The difference was that there was only one order for that crankshaft but millions of orders for DeSotos.” Mr. Bowes said his firm will spend $100,000 on his plan and that it is no “help the poor soldier” idea. “We expect to benefit greatly by#® the transfusion of fighting blood into our organization,” he said. Among the other’ speakers were Robert M. McMurray of Chicago, who is making selection and training tests for Mr. Bowes: Robert K. Burns of Chicago, former regional war labor board chairman and now head of the WLB newspaper panel, and George Agnew, assistant to Mr. Bowes.
‘The Candidates *You’ll Vote For—
YANKS SHOVE JAPS BACK WITH TANKS, FLAME- THROWERS
Yanks Take Road Hub, Storm Tacloban.
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent
GEN. MacARTHUR'’S HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Oct. 21.—The biggest American invasion army of the Pacific war, attacking behind tanks and flame throwers with the cry of “Remember Bataan,” seized the road jurittion of Dulag and possibly two airflelds on the east coast of Leyte today against stiffening Japanese resistance.
At the northern end of Leyte, 6th army forces were storming the defenses of Tacloban, capital of Leyte and 350 miles southeast of Manila. Unconfirmed reports filtering through from the front said
LONDON, Oct. 21 (U. Pl The London Evening Standard quoted the New Delhi radio foday as reporting that the Americans had captured Tacloban, capital of Leyte island in the Philippines.
troops had captured Tacloban air field, on a peninsula three miles across a bay from the city. (A Mutual broadcast from Leyte said Tacloban airfield was in American hands.)
No Word on Airport
Doughboys thrusting inland from the central beachhead seized Du-
There was no word on the fate of Dulag airfield, which was bombed heavily by American carrier planes on invasion day, but the lightness of initial opposition in the area indicated that it, too, Hay have been ‘over-run. Occupation of the two ‘airfields in the Central Philippines would enable land-based fighters to auge ment carrier-borne planes in constant patrols over the fighting area and would bring the entire Philip
(Hoosier Heroes, Page Three)
pines within easy range of army bombers. ‘Tacloban airfield has several 6000-foot runways. (A Japanese communique acknowledged for the first time that American troops, which {it said were drawn from the U, 8. marine
communique said the Japanese were “cutting deep” into the American beachheads, but acknowl edged that the invaders were “headed toward Tacloban.")
Doughboys Vengeful »
The attacking doughboys wers digging the Japanese out of theirfoxholes with bayonets and blasting their strongpoints with fire, shells, bullets and grenades, spurred by the knowledge that their opponents were from the hated 15th Japanese division which tortured their buddies of Bataan during the notorious March of Death two and a half years ago. Swarms of carrier bombers and fighters roared out ahead of the advancing troops, strafing every possible target, while the big guns of the American battleships California and Pennsylvania—damaged in the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Haripr—and { other warships
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lag, 20 miles south of Tacloban.
corps, had landed on Leyte. The -