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PH ADELPHIA, Nov. quadruple.

, born to Mrs. Joseph ' C1

1 (U. ” ~The’ Cirminello

Darby, Pa, ina ‘history-making Caesarian multiple delivery, basked through their first hours of life today in incu-

-bators i . hespital.

B® special nursery at the Philadelphia Lying-in

: The three girls and a boy, delivered within two minutes of each other, were reported by Dr. Ralph M. Tyson,

‘ DEWEY PLEDGES ‘GREATES

U.S.

| HOUSECLEANING

Calls for 2- Term Presidential - Limit,

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

WITH DEWEY PARTY’

Nov. 1.—Tom Dewey was moving his hard-hitting campaign across Massachusetts today and, preparing for an attack tonight on the link between the Communists and the New Deal, was carefully fitting his subjects to his audiences. In Boston, with its large Irish Catholic population, there is a

particular aversion to communism. The point is one on which the Re-

J Vitliom presidential nominee has|-

TODAYS RADIO SPEECHES:

Today, Mr. Dewey was to pour it n the New Deal at Pittsfield, gid and Worcester before heading for Boston, Saturday, Mr. Roosevelt will Boston in an appeal for votes, that shows how worried he Supporters are about it.| ago the president . was state almost handsnot now.

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campaign windup Mr. Jarruping the Roosevelt

He aon. the New Deal again last night in Buffalo and, address-

ington’s “biggest housecleaning in history,” next Jan, 20, “VU. B. Not for Sale” Mr. Dewey J proposed a constitu“tional limit of two terms for the presidency Announcing the subject for Roston, Paul E. Lockwood, Mr, Dewey's secretary, sald the candidate would

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2 Major Parties Slug If Out With Six Days to Go

. By UNITED PRESS _ WITH ONLY six days remaining before the election, the two

major parties were slugging it. out toe-to-toe today with hundreds of thousands of printed and broadcast words.

G. 0. P. vice presidential nominee John W. Bricker makes several |

rear-platform talks in his home state of Ohio’ with a state- wide broadcast In Toledo tonight. ?

I= » For the Pemocrats, Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes carry the major burden today with speeches at a Harlem rally in New

York arial 1 Pe - Indian-

_congra 1 War +1 ‘Director James F. Byrnes on his

Monday speech and “expressed his

own on why he thought Mr, . ire-elected.™

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WEDNESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 1, 1944

pediatrician who. attended them after birth, as appearing

“perfectly healthy, and had good color.”

Their mother,

an attractive, dark-haired 118-pound “woman whose only other child died following a Caesarian delivery four years ago, was reported in a good condition. Three special nurses were assigned to the quads’ spot

in their own nursery.

The operation, believed to be the first Caesarian de-

Santa Promises Surprise Toys

the U. 8. A. vs. Soke Besante

ROOSEVELT IS READY: FOR DRIVING FINISH

Blast at Dewey Expected in Boston : Saturday.

WASHINGTON , Nov. 1 (U.P). ~—President Roosevelt today mapped strategy for a driving finish against Governor Thomas E. {Dowels the Republican je, in the closing rounds. of the 1044 presidential campaign. . Mr, Roosevelt planned. to devote most of the to finishing and polishing’ the radio address he makes from ‘Washington tomorrow night, * He also delivers four speeches Saturday in a brief tour of Connec- |°®

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: Here Are the Highlights of BY Dewey’ s Speech at Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y, Nov:1 Wu, P). ——— Highlights of wGovernor Thomas E,

| Dewey's speech last night: "my opponent has offered no

hire were Nels Yin 10:000,200 Ameri "apt or te pledges. 1 have

"|nounced that

| house, 1t was disclosed today. Election = board officials ana double staff of clerks was rushed into action yesterday, working throughout last night in an effort to untangle what

istration errors.”

Many thousands of voters were found to be listed ‘in the wrong precinct, with ‘registration receipts showing scores registered to vote in one precinct while actually they

should have been in another pre

cinct, New Voters’ Lists Muddled

Also discrepancies were being found in connection with new voters who « registered for the.first time but transferred their. residence to another precinct: before the regis- | 'tration_deadline, Oct, 9. Several precinet workers reported that many veters.they knew to have been properly were not on the master file of their particular) precinct. fee Flection board officials said, however, that they expect to get most of .the efrors corrected “before Tuesday's election. -

Provide AMdavits

In event all errors are not caught, election precinct clerks will be provided with affidavits author. izing all eligible voters to cast bal-

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was described ‘as “thousands of reg.

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40k the ts : {ers were being filed

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| Smokers Hunt

livery of quadruplets in the history of obstetrics, was performed by Dr. John C. Ullery, 87. Dr, Ullery, who performed the operation while Mrs. Cirminello was under

continuous spinal anesthesia; cations.

The entire operation, at 11:12 a. m., took ‘approxi- . mately 15 minutes, Dr. Ullery said; and was witnessed by

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|CIGARET STOCK

HERE REACHES

‘Any Old Brand’; Will. Women Take to Pipes?

| friends soon may be faced with a

W a) king Duck, : Othe

Novelties fo Fill His. Sack.

up few packs of the bot $0 well i

y of thoes desigaed Indianapolis, a, CliiStinas or=as early as June and toy i officially opened a month earlier than

: | here may lead wo

| problem as controversial as past

issues of women's suffrage, hobbedhair and cocktail-drinking. The acute shortage of cigarets n to do what] those elsewhere have done—take up pipe-smoking a a “Dogpatch” style. “No cigarets” signs appear in local

i | storés daily as smokers scamper

from one tobacconist to another in search of “any old brand.”

Rock-bottom Shortage

. Reports from over the nation indicate thatthe cigaret shortage had hit rock-bottom. United Press reporters in major cities found it ivirtually impossible -to buy popular brands or, in some cities, any cigarets at all,

women in Cleveland to buy on the campus of the

icago’s loop turned

ROCK-BOTTOM

Indianapolis husbands and boy

The cigaret shortage was causing |

Che F in had no pra of any. kind, and the rest had tiny ghocks of less well-known brands. In Gan Francisco, “no cigarets today” signs were being displayed by| gar stores through all of the bay

Entered aa Second-Class Matter at ‘PostomMce Indianapolis 9, Ind. Tssueg dally except Sunday

“Caesarian Quads. Born To Pennsylvania Mother

said there were no compli

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Kaiser Here Soon |.

HENRY J. KAISER, above, | West: . coast. shipbuilder whose tradition-breaking feats have earned him the title of “miracle

builder,” -ds-4o-spalt.dn tadian. 1.

apolis Dec 1 at the anual mem= bership ‘meeting of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, Dean +H. Mitchell of Hammond, president of the Chamber, announced today. ; The: location of | Khe meeting is

SUPERFO! RAID TOKYO,

| | ITALY—American and = Brazilian

PRICE FOUR ENTS

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WAR FRONTS

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PACIXIC~One or more American B-3 Superfortresses over . Tokyo, Japan says.

RUSSIA — Three Russian mobile columns race toward Budapest.

WESTERN FRONT-—American and Polish troops sweep across Mark| River and: Canal, last natural defense barrier to- Holland,

AIR WAR—Mote than 500 British heavy bombers blast Cologne.

forces repulse German counter- | attacks.

RUSS CLOSING ON BUDAPEST"

Swift Columns Race Toward City: From. Three Directions. MOSCOW; Nov. 1 (U. F.).~Three Russian mobile ward Budapest today in a converg-

CLAIM

Say Huge Boriilors Also Attacked Yokohama.

LAN By UNITED PRESS A A Torn, of American B-29 Superfortresses raided Tokyo and the adjoining. seaport city of Yokohama today, radio Tokyo announced, in the first strike at the Japanese capital since the ‘carrier-based Doolittle attack more than 23 years ago.

There was no. immediats. allied. . confirmation of the enemy ans

WASHINGTON, Nord (U. 2), The war yn to-

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columns raced 10 | cee

northeast, and front

ing drive from: the south, veast nd the. fall of the; Hungarisn

lwas a ‘matter of days.

GIVES 60P FUND

AILholgh Bae “Stil find” hi gowaies w slectrical

and metal toys, wholesalé and retail dealers are selling wood and plastic toys which have never

been on the market. » » »

NO TRICYCLES, roller skates, metal wagons, automobiles, side-

walk bicycles, electric or spring

‘powered trains, metal construction sets, doll .buggies and other metal toys have been manufac-

tured for almost three years. Efforts of manufacturers make “big” presents of wood

other permissible materials admittedly have been inadequate though they have provided an

abundance of small presents,

Already the 1,000,000th walking dog, a new oy on the market, has

been manufactured and his com-

Panion is a walking duck, a pull toy,

iid 5 F>Boston ercRRTtS We Une Sriort {age Hever Had been so severe. Thep

had few cigarets of any kind. Bought Three Cartons

never had seen him before. merchant had plenty of. cigarets.

Big Five” turers told the United Press that a

EX-BELLBOY TO FACE

Paradoxically, a reporter in Co‘Humbia, 8. C., bought three cartons .|—cartons, not packs—of a well known brand from a merchant who The

A high executive of one of “the of cigaret manufac-

to flourishing and growing black marand ket was at least partly responsi he

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LUALLEN'S EX-WIFE

» » " ANTI-AIRCRAFT guns on trucks, -built so that the gun revolves and makes noise, am,phiblous ducks, helicopters, trains b which ‘can be taken apart and tractors are among the newly-de-signed toys for boys. The girls, however, have been “neglected,” local toy dealers said, and the only new toys on the market this year for them are doll beds with mattresses and costume jewelry sets from which they can make glass bead ang flower ornaments for their dolls and for ves. In the reading .ine, there are many clever and realistic

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am....50 Wa m. Ta m.. vee 58 a m.. 6 Sam... 58 12 (Noon) .. 71° fam, ...60 1pm..."

WAC. Case Continued De-

spite Convict’s Denials.

Efforts to determine if Mrs, Wy-| nona Kidd Luallen was the mys-| terious “woman in black” in the WAC murder case were continued today despite repudiation of all “confessions” previously made ‘by William (Larry) Luallen, ex-<hus-band of Mrs. Luallen, A former bellboy at the Claypool hotel was being brought back to Indianapolis from Maryland today to giek Mrs. Luallen at. the county

: Fo will be asked to determine if Mrs, Luallen resembles the “woman in black” he saw in the hotel room of WAC Cpl Maoma Ridings a couple of hours before she was found slain Aug. 28, 1943. “The former bellboy, Alfred Bayne

G. 0. P. POLL SHOWS

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Nazis Punclure Food Tins of American Prisoners

“Beg & prisoner of war is a grim business.” That sentence line in the War Department's pamphlet dealing with

‘of captured Yanks.

war prisoners in Germany, and tells you how the Swiss government put into effect

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Here, Peter: Edson discusses the

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Fictory Cities Hands @use Over $2500 to County : /

Organization.

The Republican victory committee, eity hail fund-raising group; handed over $2500 in campaign contributions yesterday to the Marion county G. O.'P, organization, It was the first tangible evidence of financial harmony -evinced- by the victory committee, which, until recently, collected and spent campaign donations on its own hook. The victory committee waged a torrid but losing ‘primary election’ battle with the county G. O. P. orgahization last. spring, but agreed to co-operate with organization Republicans following formation of a Republican policy committee headed by Guy Wainwright. Victory Committee President Charles A. Huff tendered the $2500 check to Republican County ChairHenry E. Ostrom. The money nad been collected from city hall

| employees who have been asked by

the committee to donate “volun-] tarily” one week's salary to the | G. O. P. election furid.

SURE VICTORY-—LAUER

G. O. P. State Chairman John Lauer today said that the Republican._ party's 30-day poll showed “that nothing can stop Dewey in Indiana now.”

He said the poll also showed that |

Ralph Gates will be elected governor and Homer E. Capehart will be elected senator by large majorities and that the election of the remainder of the state ticket is a certainty.

bar chocolate, chocolate hard candy, half a pound of sugar, two | ounces of coffee, biscuits, liver ‘paste, five packages of cigarettes. "Bome 48,000 of these cartons are now packed ebery day at four cenjers in Brooklyn, New Philadelphia and St. Louls army furnishing the food. Red ' Cross volun 3 dome the pack

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‘Violent fighting

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while other 1 , e embattled to #0 ‘miles or less/of Budapest.

the ca ‘I'beyond within

forces, the Russians were moving (up great , quantities of supplies and

Rsges from the East Prussian

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Allies Swarming Ashore on Island |

PARIS, Nov. 1 (U, P,).—Allied amphibious forces swarmed today on the south and west coast of Waltheren island, key to. the schelde estuary and last barrier to reopening of the big port of ‘Antwerp. to allied ships waiting ‘to «pour sup plies into western Europe for a grand offensive against Germany. The troops began landing early this morning near Flushing, and tonight had: captured Westkapelle at the west end of the island, after an all night allied artillery bombard-

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Schricker and

One-Half of

By EARL

apolis Times’ styaw poll.

The Times’ straw vote.

races, .

President ...... Dewey. . Senator . ivrveen Capehart. Governor .......Gates., Congressman . . vootark.

President Roosevelt ran ahead of of voles received today was not

nent, Ralph Gatbs,

‘Close “behind thelr advancing)’

Key to Antwerp ,

¥ The total poll to date shows the following percentages: Republican

os r In foday's returns,” for the first time since the poll started,

standings of the presidential candidates. - C. ' The same was true. of the gubernatorial race, where Senator i : “ggmuel D. Jackson received more votes than his Republican oppo- !

jeautpment. Jc tor. he: fina) asomds- co 2d

planes” direction of the ‘Marianas and it was “almost

plosives on the enemy may have heen engaged naissance for later strikes. Japanese stations sald metropolltan Tokyo had the “thrill” of wit

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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES STRAW VOTE~' ~~

Ludlow: Gain One Per Cent

RICHERT .

Governor Schricker, the Democratic senatorial nom-., inee, gained one-half of one per cent today, bringing him up to 49 per cent in his over-all standing in The 1ndian-

This is the highest mark the.governor has reached so’ ‘far In :

per eent. There were 10 changes in the k Sunde § or gubernatorial.

Democrat : Roosevelt 41 % Schricker 49 _% Jackson., 44 % Ludlow. . 56 %

59. % 51 % . 56 % % » Govertor Dewey. But the number sufficient to change the over-all |

Today's returns alone give the following percentile. I Republican. ~~ = President see sisiDewey, - 48: ; |, Senator ......,..Capehart. Gates. “rn 48

45 ‘%

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