Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1944 — Page 1
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ya 0. SOVIET RUSSIA' = | PALD, SECOND [RS wr | 1 CITY ON LEYTE
4 OF Consolidate 20-Mile Front ST To Minimum Depth of ot Ave, Five Miles. in & CKINS Hey and By WilLiaM 8. BICRINSON y GEN. MacARTHUR'S TER HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, St Oct. 23.—American troops, slashing westward from their P.M : 20-mile beachhead on Leyte, teed ‘Q° today drove the Japanese to-
ward the interior hills and jungles ° and consolidated a continuous coastal zone to a minimum depth r | st of five miles all the way from Dulag north to Tacloban. Capture of Palo, Leyte's second city, was accomplished Saturday in A 8 whirlwind drive by less than a ] battalion of American infantrymen " 4 who drove forward so fast they 1 didn't even take time out to send back a progress report.
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STATE TICKET PLUG FOR FDR
‘Scratches Threatened Unless Schricker, Jackson Play Up President.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY
| ship, which is following the Political || Action Committee party-line, today 4 lis demanding that the Democratic
® | state ticket “get hot” in talking up
velt for a fourth term. Dan Tobin's teamsters are saying |that unless Schricker and Jackson | “s@ind-off” more for F. D., they will pass the word down to their locals ‘to “scratch the state ticket.” | Mr. Tobin is head of the labor | division of the Democratic National Committee for the fourth time. P. oe rs A. C. and other union leadership OLOMON 15. | AN\\Farthest Jop advance | || hich is tentatively Democratic in : Approximate limit of || Indiana are more concerned over Rocsevelt'§ re-election than whether
E 1 ‘Capture Hill 523 — Sn A . ; or not Governor Henry PF. Schricker
(A German D. N. B. dispatch
ond or even third landing” in the| oo 0
The map above shows how the continuous, ever-forward pounding of American forces in the Pacific becomes 3 United States Nheior from Tokyo said the J ese ex.| has broken up Japan's formidable empire of conquered islands and made possible the invasion of the |SenAtr . becom AACATIE fo attempt oa sec.| Philippines. Only a few isiands remiin under Jap control within the peet we, P advance, and these are all vulnerable to American air and sea attack, as are the Japanese home islands
former limits of her farthest |BOVErnor. Gi Resent Billboards
* Philippines. ‘There ihdica- : gl ; They resesit the billboazds scat-| Ball, a strong advocate of close ELEY B tions that the Ameritanie were come} =x: = _— ; STE nen tered about the stats With the pic-| international co-operation to main- | soememec==r RUSSIA CITY Supreme Court Reverses [srs Srimrt ers io Sm mn vo TONARY ¢ dis said) iY / and bearing the | . or | 1 e an TE ’ he two and a half miles) ' n up 2 ’ i > two straight-thinking Americans.” {said the answers to them would
and had been the last Japanese stronghold on the east coast road.
¥. A inland from the coast and about six mies south of San Ricardo. TAKEN BY RUSS : 1 It is a city of 25000 population |
cans also captured Hill 522, a
Russian forces pounding westward
across German soil along three
shore plastered the Japanese bat- burg and the great supply fortress
of Japanese’defense remnants be-ip,.o prussia ig a broadside cam. tween the town and the beachhead. paign to open the way to KonigsUnited Press War Correspondent p..o and was ripping up the Nazi Richard W. Johnston was with 2l4efenses in a battle of mounting battalion which attacked these rem- | ferocity. i nants with machinegun and ar-/ The reported fall of Goldap, key tillery fire. anchor of the German positions The Japanese had built a series northeast of the historic Masurian of piliboxes along the river which jakes, apparently cracked the
the pillboxes had been worked over Insterburg, 30 miles to the north-
personal command of Lt. Col Ross,
inched forward and finished off the reports told of violent house ‘to Repair Airdromes
MacArthur's forces now were es- | Southeastern East Prussia. {1043, tablished along a continuous 20-| Neither the Soviet press nor the!ypa;
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the loss of the East Prussian rail court for a rehearing on the motion
. . | politics. Some of the old-line men for dismissal. ; DIES IN CHICAG ‘are saying he can see nothing but Hoosier Heroes, Page Three and highway hub of Goldap to The opinion stated that the court i ying othing
“does not order appellees (de-
eruisers and destroyers lying off i : _ | fendants) to be tried on the indict-| ny: 14 : "appears in the Indianapolis Capitals main railroads leading to Inster. fendants) ended that ge. Director of ‘News Ill for appe poils Cap
by the artillery and infantry, under | west. Early,
pro-Roosevelt professional laborites REED recall that this is the first time the By NOBLE President hasn't been played up by
= i : i A Marion county criminal court order dismissing the cases against, Democratic party in the state. In clearing out Palo the Ameri- Nazis Admit Loss of Goldap ,,,, deputy county clerks charged with embezzling some $45,000 of | sAhesggrr Lowi Tle any
commanding height at the northern As Soviets Pound { public funds was reversed today by the Indiana supreme court. | ried a pleasing picture of the Presiend of the beachhead from which ; The defendants were discharged last Jan, 17 by Special Judge dent coupled with the plea that a jue Sanasese hag Toured mortar Westward. : Harvey Grabill on defense attorneys’ argument that three terms of | Democratic ims be elected 10 a e invasion R "Hill 522. which dominates “Red By ROBERT MUSEL - court had elapsed without the case being set for trial, contrary to the Changes Poster Beach” where the northernmost United Press Staff Correspondent statute of limitations. | : landing was made on Leyte, was| LONDON, Oct. 23 ~The German | The supreme court ruled that the MRS F AIRB ANKS ; Democratic State Chairman Fred taken with little difficulty after 1ich command today acknowledged | case should be sent back to criminal! I¥ ' Bays is rated as the most pro-
{Roosevelt leader in Indiana party
{labor's viewpoint in this campaign.
A little demonstration of this
Hockey club “Coliseum Sports Re-
teries and navy bombers knocked] . o fense attorneys produce more evi- ; view” where Mr, Bays’ name as out the Japanese emplacements. Nai EY 5 indicated the Red | dence on the reasons for the long; Last Four Weeks. state chairman appears below the Captufe of, Palo trapped a group}, .;v had driven some 25 miles into | d€/ays in the case. Mrs. Ethel C. Fairbanks, a di-| pictures of Schricker-Roosevelt-
Suggests Probe rector of the Indianapolis News, Jackson ir an advertisement with
died yesterday in Passavant hos-|the label “Three Straight Thinking ecommended 3 g : Eo, the case, in-|Pital at Chicago, where she had Americans” The ad ls in direct cluding two who refused to serve Deen a patient-the last four weeks.|
| contrast with the billboards empha-
i ¥ She was the widow of Warren C.! sizing “two.” uf EE Signed. be questioned Fairbanks, former president and| Two meetings were held at’ the lative to reasons for delays and Publisher of the News. Claypool hotel yesterday which setting them for trial. - A Chicago resident since her hus-| dramatized the impact of labor on The four former deputy clerks, band's death. in 1938, Mrs. Fair- the Democratic party in 'the state, runs into Leyte gulf at Palo. After| strongest core of resistance below wiiam R. Beckwith, Philip L./banks was a trustee of the Passa-|On the mezzanine floor Marion
Frank Lyons and Thomas E. vant hospital, a member of the county precinct committeemen and were indicted on charges of {board ofthe Children’s, Memorial women met under the lively leader-
A Berlin communique said Goldap | embezzli unty funds by the hospital at Chicago and was active|ship of County Chairman James George H. Chapman, Laramie, Wyo, | had been evacuated and other Nazi grand pr ony ny 2, 1941. y {in other civic and benevolent! Beattey. They heard a pep talk by Four months later Dewey Myers, '8roups. Senator Jackson, who stressed the Japanese. house fighting in the rail junction.| former criminal court judgs, dis-| A native of Pittsburgh, she at-|need for adequate party leadership. Its reported fall released the Rus- | qualified himself in the case. Sub-| tended public school there, later|It was purely a Democratic talk. With the Japanese fleeing to the Sian besiegers to swing north to-| sequently two special judges selected being graduated from Miss Hazen's Closed to Reporters interior of the island, MacArthur|Wward Insterburg and Konigsberg or | decline to serve and finally on May school at Pelham Manor, N. Y. She said their plight would soon become South toward Lyck in a bid 10/33 1942, Fae Patrick qualified as Was married to Mr. Fairbanks in| At the same time P. A. C. and “acute” due to lack of supplies. collapse the German defenses of gnecial judge but resigned April 17,/1903, moving to Chicago and later other union leadership supporting
without setting the cases for to Indianapolis. ° the Democrats this time met downServices will be held tomorrow stairs. They also were addressed
official Russian communique had| Later defense attorneys filed a'at Chicago. Burial services will be | by Senator Jackson. yet reported the offensive which!motion to dismiss on the ground | held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in| Both meetings were closed to reGerman reports indicated had |that statutory three terms of court the Crown Hill chapel, followed by | porters.
SHOE STAMP THREE penetraied bb 2 miles inside had elapsed without trial. [Pure] in the amily plot there ¥ later in sn interview, Senate ceens 1:30 A. ML e r, ; Special Judge Grabill's dis he ———————— ackson q r———— - IS VALID ON NOV. 1 AEA Sipaich from Henry Sha of the defendants was appealed to. oi" raised as lo his Sale Speschies ® ot Midnight. " Ss stall correspond-|the supreme court by - Prosecutor CLEVELAND. DISASTER : ressing the fou : A ASHINGTON. Ot, 3 (U. 2 ent in Moscow, said battles “of Sherwood Blue who contended that | enough. : | : irplane -8 3p res a ration| far-reaching consequence” were be-|the many months’ elapsed time due : | “I told the labor group that if I _ book Sars y 2 va a for shoe|ing fought in East Prussia and that |to refusal of two special judges to TOLL MAY REACH 20 | were governor I would see that they NAZARENE buying erectve toy 1. the office of lan announcement appeared. immi-| qualify should not be counted under get a fair deal in Indiana, just as . pre It will be on ood to- | nent. the statue of limitations. : : jihey have zeesived Fader Giovermior Sr ————— : Schicker,” Senator Jackson said. : o . oe oo » x 112 Bodies Already Found; “I also told them that would go room Tree |G. I. Aid Unit, Anticipating | = 67 identified, | thiter sows and eres rch, Evangelisk | 8a. m.,... 2 10am... 51 5 . I > i entitied. the state.”
{ HESERENE) V-E Day Rush
p South Denison St. ; - rhe | With" an eye to the future V-E, At present, it was pointed out,/into the ruins of Cleveland's worst! that “while he had heard some of 0 wok Sk - - TIMES INDEX day in demobilization boom, Marion [hardly mbre than 50 veterans affire for additional victims, Coroner the teamsters’ complaints he feit o. . y {
BRA) Amusements , 4|Jane Jordan. . 15| Referral - Center
Services ; 0AM. = 10:45 A. M. Eddie Ash... 12|Ruth Millett. 9|foday in Room
CLEVELAND, Oct. 23 (U. P)— Hapgood Satisfied
Opens H ©/F'©! As firemen and volunteer .workers| Indiana ©. I. O. head powers
resumed the task of probing deeper Hapgood said after the meeting
county opened its official Veterans week report back to Marion county Samuel Gerber predicted today that | {nat Jackson and Schricker are dodraft boards. Upon conclusion of the death toll might reach 200, ~~ ing very well in campaign talks for the European war, however, some e 112 persons already were pr. D. R. id 50,000 dischargees will pour intojknown to have been killed in the! mar] Collins, Evansville, Brother
P.M. = T:30P, M. Business ....' 6 Movies ...... 4|320 of the K. of Bi |Indiana in a comparatively short/disaster, Dr. Gerber pointed out! hood of Railway Trainmen who eter a— Comics ,..... 15 Obituaries .. 7|P. building. .. . JES (time, selective- service officialy| that “at least 30 or 40” more bodies heads the labor division at DemoCHURCH _ Crossword ... 15/Ernie Pyle .. 9| Only a trickle estimate. _ “ {alone would be found in the|cratic state headquarters, cited IAZARENE David Diets . 9|Radio ....... 15/0f. Hssharied : servicemen
snd HOLMES AVE. tessenasses 9:30 A ML serdnacniny : AM, A 6 . i
“Editorials ... 10 /Ration Dates 8 Peter Edson , 10 | Earl Richert.. 2|through the Ed. A. Evans. 9 Mrs. Roosevelt m ...... 10|{Side Glances. 10 11 | Wm. P. Simms 10 opeting
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~ Not until then. does the G. 1 wrecked buildings of the East Ohio {speeches to prove that the state business. | Gas Co. where a storage-tank ex-| ticket heads are backing the Presi-
set ‘the torch to a dent's re-election.
Some of the Indiana labor leader- |
the re-election of President Roose- |
POWER OF LEAGUE AGENT NEW ISSU
GOP SENATOR
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| Senator Joseph HY Ball (R. Minn) said today that on the basis of | President © Roosevelt's stand on
{foreign policy, “I»shall vote for and support Mr. Roosevelt” in the Nov, 7 election. .
President Roosevelt's picture {s determine whether he would vote
Dismissal of Deputies Case conspicuous by its absence, These|for Mr. Roosevelt or for Gov.
President's Foreign Policy
THomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee.
urday night speech capped this record (American leadership in the war) of action by meeting squarely
BALL EXPLAINS BACKING F.D. R.
Declared More Clear
Than Dewey’s. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (U. P) —
“President Roosevelt in his Sat-
TODAY'S RADIO SPEECHES By UNITED PRESS Senator John A. Bankhead, (Blue) 11:30-11:45 p. m., WISH. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, rebroadcast of Pittsburgh speech (Mutual), 8:30-9 p. m. WIBC.
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and unequivocably the two vital and controversial. issues on which the isolationists kept us out of the {league of nations and will fight our entry into the united nations security organization,” Ball said in a prepared statement.
delay but has not met 3 : i the second vital issue. He has !he group which is planning the
The Candidates You'll Vote For—
@® As a public service for Marion cotnty voters, The Times today begins the first of a series of articles on the candidates for county, state and legislative offices in the November election.
@® Turn to Page 9.
J, $. RECOGNIZES DE GAULLE RULE
Provisional Government of France Is Given Official Status.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (U. P.).| —The United States today recog-| nized Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s re-| gime as the provisional government | of the French republic. = . 2. {London, Moscow and Ottawa an-| nounced similar action, Radio Mos- | cow said that Alexander Bogomolov| had been named ambassador to Paris. Bogomolov formerly was Soviet envoy to De Gaulle.) i The announcement by Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., brought to a close a long! controversy over diplomatic recog-| nition of De Gaulle’s group.
‘De Facto Authority’
“He insisted that the united na-
itions organization be formed with{out delay, before hostilities cease, {and that. it be granted power to use military force against future aggressors without requiring individual approach of each member nation. { “Governor Dewey has opposed Ment would be given a place on the squarely | European advisory commission—|
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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES STR
iselves as the provisional govern-
allies grant them such recognition. { Announcement of the recogni{tion immediately raised the ques{tion whether De Gaulle’s govern-
tretament of Germany after the war.
AW VOTE—
Schricker Up One Per Cent: Dewey Maintains Wide Lead
By EARL
RICHERT :
“Governor Schricker, the Democratic U. S. senatorial nominee, gained one per cent as a result of today’s returns in The Indianapolis Times’ straw poll of Indian-
apolis residents.
This narrows the margin between him and his Republican opponent,” Homer E. Capehart, to 48 to 52 per cent, Mr. Capehart
being ahead.
” IF, AS SOME experts advise
” » for this type of poll, 4'2 per cent
should be deducted from the percentages of all Republican candidates to allow for the people in the low income group, usually
Democratic, who seldom vote in a
postcard straw poll, the governor's
present standing would indicate he would carry the county. Throughout the poll, the governor consistently has run nine percentage points above President Roosevelt, who is trailing the
Democratic ticket. The three other Democratic
candidates listed in the poll all
‘gained one-half of one per cent as 4 result of today's returns. ” s =
THE TIMES’ POLL, as of today, shows the following percentages: - Republican Democrat
President .......Dewey ... 61 % Roosevelt. 39 %
- Senator ........:Capehart
. 52 % Schricker. 48 %
“Governor .......Gates .... 57.5% Jackson.. 42.5%
Congressman ....Stark .... 43.5% Ludlow... 565% { p
; ! SR BOTH G. 0. P. Gubernatorial
» Te Nominee Ralph Gates and the result of the three
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Stettinius said that Jefferson Caf-!and the party's advocacy of fery will, if agreeable to the pro-| vincial government, assume the! force go to the lengths to w duties of ambassador to France. je. Roosevelt now has commi
After De Gaulle’s visit to Wash-| This opens a great subject for d \ington last July, President Roose- Pate for the remaining two weel velt announced ‘that the United of the campaign. States would recognize De Gaulle's| It is not a simple question, es group as “the French de facto resolved, for it involves the pow authority.” to declare war granted solely by Since then De Gaulle amd his Constitution to congress. How far ‘associates have considered them.|CODETESS, itself, can delegate this
ment and, have urged that the]
Plan Seen as Aci Test of Future Actions.
By Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—President Roosevelt has thrown a size zling issue into the campaign at the eleventh hour. This is his proposal, in his N York foreign-affairs speech, that our representative on the projected world organization council of nae tions be delegated with broad authority to act for application of force to quash aggressors without the necessity of going back to ¢ gress in each instance. : This is the one big issue which the batile in congress the world organization of n and its powers will revolve. h already is certain. Isolationists rallying on the other side. dent Roosevelt has chosen to in the issue baldly into the campai for a mandate by the American people. He is making it the ac test as to whether the United Stat is to do its part to create a effective organization to keep t peace, with power to act promptly.
Up to Governor Dewey
This puts it squarely up to Gow: ernor Dewey and the Republicans to specify whether the candida:
world organization and the use
himself and his party.
{power is in issue. In his speech {President said the United States {representative “must be endowed in ,advance by the people themsel 'by constitutional means, throu their representatives in the cone !gress, with authority to act.” That does not answer the quese [tion clearly, but obviously the Presi= {dent could not go into detail at thi { time. ) ! Amendment Difficult Can congress delegate this thority, or is a constitution amendment required? A consti tional amendment is a slow p and has the added handicap consent of two-thirds of ° branch of congress is necessary beyond approval by legislatures three-fourths of the states—so th a minority could be obstructive § as in the league of nations fight {the senate 25 years ago. . That would lead into the blind alley. . "President Roosevelt, it is ¢ tain, could not, countenance a tion that would permit that. Congress has delegated a numb: of its powers, such as its railroad rate-making authority to the integs state commerce commission, its tars iff-making power to’ a degree the reciprocal trade pacts and {the U. 8. tariff commission, and lon. It°still retains the power {course. It merely grants the p
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