Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1944 — Page 3

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EXPECT VOTING ~ TIME EXTENSION

GOP - Talks Compromise On 8 P.M. Closing -

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of Indianapolis, contended that the keeping open of the polls for two or three more hours would have no

effect upon the total result,

Frightened at Prospect : But other Republicans were

"frightened at the prospect of giving

the C. 1. O.-P. A. C. two or. three more hours to get war plant workers, most of whom Were presumed to be Democratic, to the polls. Their comments were off the record, of course, re ig Democratic leaders were enthusiastic over the prospects of having

‘the voting hours extended. Demo-

cratic State Chairman’ Fred F, Bays and others have contended since the start of the - campai that the Democrats will win if the maximum

‘vote is gotten out.” And some Re-

publican leaders agree with this viewpoint. A group of Republican leaders, including Lt. Gov. Charles Dawson and House Speaker Hobart Creighton, met at the Claypool hotel last

‘night to discuss the special session.

They agreed to have a bill drafted by Attorney General James A. Emmert prior to Saturday, but said final decision on what to do on the governor’s proposal would be left up to the caucus of Republican legislators scheduled here at 9. a. m. Saturday. They sald that their decision fo draw up a bill was only to facilitate

the procedure before the legislature

and that they were in no way doing anything to bind the members of the legislature, Some of the Republican legislators said they were sure that the governor had been “pressured” into calling the special session by the P. A. C. '

‘ Tells of Michigan Bill

Governor Kelly of Michigan, who spoke at a G. O. P. rally here last night, told the legislators of the bill drawn for passage in the Michigan special session. Mr. Bradford said that. any extension of voting hours would make it more difficult to find people to work on precinct election boards on

election day, since they already

have to work 12 hours. Some Republican party leaders

thought that the legislature should

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appropriate additional funds to pay the election board workers for the added work. The governor, in announcing special session call, said he did 'n see how the Republicans could refuse to pass a bill extending voting hours ‘after the action taken by Governors Dewey and Kelly, He said he had been informed that thousands of workers “will be unable to vote during the hours now fixed by law for voting without doing serious injury to. the ouput, of

war plants.”

G. 0. P. Sees Benefits

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“The map above shows where have made landings on Walcheren at Flushing and Middleburg which have been harassing shipping on the Schelde to Antwerp. The map also shows the British drive to

the Meuse (Maas) river, chasing

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NEW COLOGNE

Yanks Push 2 Mi. Toward ‘German City Under Heavy Barrage.

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numbering well over 1100 Flying Fortresses ‘and Liberators and 900 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters, fanned out over the Reich, , » Synthetic oil refineries in the Ruhr valley and at Merseburg in central Germany, the Bieléfeld freight yards on the Rhine and other unannounced targets in the western half of the Nazi homeland came under the American bombsights,

Clouds Obscure Targets

Dense cloud formations obscured most of the targets, forcing the raiders to drop their bombs by instraments, but it was indicated shat the attacks were concentrated and highly effective. Speedy R. A. F. Mosquito raiders struck Berlin and heaped two-ton blockbusters into the still-burning rubble of Cologne. Thundering out through thick cloud formations blanketing the Ruhr, some 500 giant Lancaster and Halifax bombers cascaded a great weight of high explosive and fire bombs ‘on: Oberhausen in a swift, concentrated assault that set great fires leaping through the city’s war planty and railway, yards, Swarms of German night fighters rose to challenge the raiders and a communique said three of the enemy planes were shot down in a furious gunfight over the target. Seven bombers were -lost in the Oberhatsen assaiilt and %he diversionary raids on Cologne and Berlin,

Nazis Using 'Ear’ And 'Ulcer' Units

This ~ sTtaaion - peratng partic

larly to the workers-who drive from} 50 to 80 miles to work in the Charleston ordnance plant, the

"Kingsbury loading plant and the

war plants in the Calumet region, Republicans believed that an extension of the voting hours would benefit them too in making it possible for more farmers, most of whom are believed to be Republicans, to get to the polls.

Teamsters Ask

- Schricker Support

Following Governor. Schricker's call of a special legislative: session yesterday, Thomas E. Flynn, acting president of the Teamsters’ -union, sent telegrams to all local unions in the state urging support of the governor in his campaign for the U. 8. senatorship. “This action by the governor,” the

- telegram read, “entitles hi mto the

support of every working man. He has demonstrated the liberal spirit that we need in a senator in these

- critical times.

“Please call to attention of your members the importance of voting, not only for President Roosevelt, but for candidates for congress who will support him. These candidates are to be found only on the Demo-~ cratic ticket. Only by success of the entire Democratic ticket can we be protected against a return to the days of Herbert Hoover.” Some members of the Teamsters’ union had threatenéd recently to scratch both Governor Schricker and Senator Jackson, the Demo-

‘ eratic’ senatorial nominee, on the

grounds that they were not sup-| porting President Roosevelt strong-

TT WITH U. 8 —POROES IN HOLLAND, Nov. 2 (U. P).~The Nazis are using some strange - battalions on the western front— units composed entirely of men with physical infirmities. American troops recently came across the German “ear” battalion—men partially deaf or with chronic ear ailments. Then there was the “stomarch ulcer” battalion, of which all mémbers receive special white bread. There also have been indications of at least one garrison unit composed of men with wooden legs. In addition the Germans have formed several penal units, including one battalion in which all men were civilian felons.

LOCAL GROUP. HEARS DR. CLEMENT MALAN

Dr. Clement T. Malan, public instruction state superintendent, spoke on “The Unchangeables in a Changeable World” at a luncheonmeeting of the Indiana Society of

tion held yesterday in the Columbia club, Carleton W, Atwater, president, presided at the meeting.

MARTIAL LAW UPHELD LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (U, P.) ~~ Validity of recently lifted martial law in Hawail was upheld today by a unanimous ruling of the U, 8. circuit court of appeals which ordered two Honolulu cividans re(turned to army jurisdiction to coms

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‘the Canadian and British troops island to cut off the Nazi garrisons

the Nazis in south Holland to” a

refuge over the Waal Rhine. The insets show ‘the action ys in”

Sinking Saddens Brother's Quest

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“inform you that “your son, Pfc. William P. Phillips, was in this lattér group. Because of the war department's lack of definite in formation concerning Pvt. Phillips, no change in his prisoner of war classification is being made at this time.” eB . THE 22-YEAR-OLD marine was being moved out of the Philippines with several hundred other prisoners following the allied invasion of the island. Meanwhile, news of the ship sinking was mailed yesterday to who has been overseas since Oct. 1, 1944. “In his last letter home James had written: “Mom, it will be.only a short time until we take that place,” referring to the prison where his brother was held. "qn »

MRS. PHILLIPS has received only three form cards from William since he was captured. The last one, in March, 1944, said the usual, “My health is excellent . , I'm well . , . Don’t worry ,,.” but was not signed. Enlisting in the coast artillery ‘Feb. 1, 1941, William' was graduated from Holy Cross grade school and Technical high school. James, after enlisting in April, - was graduated from the marine aviation supply school, San Diego, Cal, in November, 1043. He is 20 and also a Technical gradu;

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reconnaissance, Kumagai cognizable that the tendency fo

|carry out raids against Japan is ever increasing.”

Jap Beinlorooments Rush to .Philippines ALLIED BEASGESRTERS,

Philippines Nov. 2~~Japan; her navy crippled in a futile attempt to smash the American invasion, rushed air reinforcements into the Philippines. from her dwindling reserves in the homeland today. The Japanese command obviously was gathering all available aircraft to support a final, desperate stand on Luzon, site of*the capital city of Manila. (Tokyo radio - said today that a “small” American task force has been sighted 200 miles east of Luzon island in the Philippines. There was no elaboration on the enemy report recorded by United Press in San Francisco.) An attempt to delay as long as possible American liberation of that stepping stone to Japan itself is

One Japanese pilot who parachuted into the Leyte area ahd was captured said he had left Japan only six days before, Enemy aircraft were known to be shuttling "into Luzon from Japan, presumably by way of Formosa and other intermediate bases.

Front reports said ‘terrain dificulties were slowing construction of

American airfields on liberated sections of Leyte, but it was expected

plete prison sentences,

be elected govern

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| STATE BACKING

Only 3 Candidates Get Out: right Support; Others’ ‘Favored.’ ‘(Continued From Page One)

nor the integrity for the office : JE is seeking.” “Senator Jackson,” " the, ’, A. C. News concluded, “should” certainly

‘mer, lieutenafit - governor and ' Charles Fleming, secretary of state.” Co-incidéntally it was disclosed that lip-up had occurred in the 8th. district where the Evansville a Union‘ council had indorsed Republican Congressman | Charles LaFollette for re-election. This action was “entirely unauthorized,” declared Walter Frisbie,] state C. I. O, secretary, today. In a telegram to the Evansville Industrial Union Council, a C. I. O, agency, Mr. Frisbie stated:

C. 1 O. Policies Cited

“Local organizations making political indorsements fail to observe C. I. O. policies. No local organization, under these policies, may make a political indorsement. “p. A. C. is making no indorsement in the 8th congressional district race. - P. A. C, is interested in the election of Roosevelt and Truman. Congressman LaFollette's record on the issue of international peace is clouded by his support of Dewey and Bricker.” Six congressional nominees, all Democrats, rated by P. A, C. as “desirable,” are Louis Ludlow, 11th district; - James Otis Cox, second district; Marshall Kiser, third district; Bennett Rockey, fifth district; George W. Elliott, ninth-dis-

trict. On ‘the official P. A. C. black-1ist are the following congressional candidates, described ominously by the P. A. C. News as “isolationist and reactionary.” Charles Halleck, second district; Robert Grant, third district; George Gillie, fourth district; Forrest Harness, fith district; Noble Johnson, sixth district; Gerald Landis, seventh district; Earl Wilson, ninth district, and Raymond - Springer, 10th district. All are Republicans.

Urge Straight Ticket

The P. A. C, said Mr. Frisbie; is plumping primary for straight Democratic balloting, with no scratches, although he admitted that. Governor Schricker and Senator Jackson are heing soft-pedalled to the interest of President Roosevelt. ~ * While making no predictions, the state C. I. O. secretary said he felt that if Roosevelt fails to carry Indiana, noae of the other Democrats will pull through either, including Governor Schricker.

He said P, A. C. is prepared to put the great majority of its election- § coring eggs in ‘the following coun-

st. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Madison, Howard, Delaware, Vigo, Vanderburgh, Clark, Floyd. Block-by-block get-out-the-vote CRMpEIRS RYE Ee mapped in Tis (dianapolis, South Bend, Anderson, Evansville, Lake county and Terre Haute, -he added. But most of this digging, he added, will be concentrated in Begvily industrial sections,

will Mobilise 300

In Marion county at least 300 election-day workers will be mobil-

tions to restrict their efforts largely to “four of five populace wards.” He said P. A. C. has 150 full-time workers in the state and has distributed a million and a quarter pieces of campaign literature, Optimistic over the heavy registration, he said P. A, C. leaders hope ta vote 90 per cent of the total labor population of Indiana and feels sure that a minimum of 70 per cent of this turnout will ballot for Roosevelt. Through the distribution of Iit-

has also endeavored to T the farm vote, Mr. Frisbie added, but ‘he conceded that virtually no stumping ‘inroads had been made into the white collar class,

QUESTION OF SHEETS REMAINS UNSETTLED

NEW’ YORK, Nov. 2 (U. P).— One clean sheet a week, or two? A sheet manufacturer surveyed American housewives’ opinions and came up with virtually deadlocked results today. Forty-six per cent of the women canvassed sald they change one sheet and 47 per cent replace twa. “For your information the aver-

rotates five sheets on each of them.

ly enough.

Halloween Passes, But Pranks Go On

EVEN THOUGH the day of ghosts: and goblins has passed, Indianapolis Halloweeners were still pulling "their pranks last . night.

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| Abraham Hall, 43, at 210%; W. New York,

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DEATHS

Rens Connerley, 64, at 801 N. Tuxedo, carcinoma,

Norman,

acute cardiac dilatation. Julia And

Case, 71, at Methodist, appendicitis, rew R.

Dick, 82, Central Indiana, sate Durham, 4 a, at city, powel obsttucGarfield Marker, 49, at St. Vincent's, Walter Hutton, 78, at Marott hotel, cardiac

Brown, 60, “at gf éarcinoma, —— ae 7, at 630 N, Livhronie myoca:

ocarditis Veaver, 86, at 801 Guilford,

-cardio Scar renal, - J » 32, at. City, cerebral

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Luallen will be given a preliminary ring at 7:30 o'clock tonight before Paul C. Wetter, Beech Grove gistrate. ‘Meanwhile, sheriff's authorities and police were ‘planning to search the White river bank near Broad Ripple in an effort to find ‘the blood-stained skirt of the WAC. Luallen.. stated. that. after he murdered Cpl. Ridings, he threw bits of a broken bottle and the skirt on the river bank near the end of the Broad Ripple car line,

May Ask Indictment

It will be decided at the hearing tonight whether the evidence warrants ‘submitting the case to the ‘Marion county grand jury for a murder indictment. The state prison inmate had made a preylous confession of the murder, later repudiating it with the claim that it was made only to “take the heat” from his exwife, Mrs. Wynona Kidd Luallen, pretty 23-year-old Knoxville (Tenn.) “laundry worker. She had been returned here as .a suspect following her former husband's accusation - that she had confessed the murder tp him. Other developments in the case Tircluded the return to Indianapolis of Alfred Bayne Jr., a former Claypool. hotel bellboy now with the navy at Bainbridge, Md.

Bayne Views Prisoners

Shortly after his arrival here yesterday afternoon, Bayne was ‘taken to the county jail where he was asked to view all the women prisoners. He' said he did not see among them the “woman in black” who he has said was in the WAC's room when he took “cokes” there shortly before the murder is thought to have occurred. Mrs. Luallen was among those in- the group Bayne saw yesterday, Later, she was pointed out and he was asked if she were the “woman in black.” Bayne said she was not. Judge William D. Bain of criminal court yesterday denied a petition of habeas corpus filed in behalf of Mrs. Luallen by her sister, Mrs. Ruth Beck, - The latter came from Knoxville to assist in the defense,

Luallen Exonerates Ex-wife Although generally considered no

~~tionger a suspect in the murder case,

Mrs. Luallen still is--being held ‘under: $20,000 bond’ on "tio charges of first-degree burglary. In his statement yesterday, however, Mrs. Luallen’s former husband declared she was not guilty of burglary. Police have said Mrs. Luallen served as “lookout” for Luallen and two others accused of having burglarized over 150 homes in this vicinity. It was this series of bur-

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glaries, police said, that led to Luallen’s conviction. on burglary. charges and his subsequent sentence to 10-20 years in’ state prison. “I want to stay in jail until this whole thing is cleared up,” Luallen’s former wife sobbed in criminal court. “If I'm released now om bai, people will point at me and belisve I'm guilty.”

It's His Second Confessioh

Luallen’s second confession des scribed in detail the events preceding the murder. The ‘convict, described by Tennessee police authorities ag “one of the worst house-breakers seen. in: these parts,” said his acquaintance. with the WAC began a week before the murder, : Luallen said he “picked up” Cpl. Ridings near the Claypool hotel either Friday or Saturday of that week. They took a taxicab, he stated, going to the Aristocrat tavern at 654 Fairfield. ave; but left soon because the WAC told him she had a date and had to return downtown, The confessed murderer, whom police authorities -have considered a possible psychiatric case, declared that Miss Ridings displayed a friendly attitude—and wrote down the telephone number of Dainty Maid bakery where he was working. . .Luallen told authorities he could prove this because the WAC told him she had just had her watch repaired at™a jewelry store near Illinois and Washington sts. -— - -

Knew Woman as ‘Dorothy’

A “week later, the confession stated, Luallen-received a telephone call from a girl friend. of the WAC—this was the night.of the murder—and at 6 p, m., he went to Room 729 at the Claypool, where he met “for the first time the “woman {in black.” He said he never heard her last name mentioned at any time and knew her only as “Dorothy.” The convict told police .he went into the lavatory shortly after arriving - and was there when a bellboy arrived with six bottles of “coke.” He said he and the two women had-a few drinks from a bottle of whisky sitting on the dresser, Cpl. Ridings later telephoning .for more liquor and ice. " “We are going to have a hell of a party,” Luallen quoted the WAC as saying. The three of them were in the lavatory when the bellboy arrived, he sald. He added that Miss Ridings opened the door of the lavatory slightly and told the bellboy he would find money on the dresser. ‘Woman in Black’ Irate

More drinks were consumed, he said. Meanwhile, the three had be-

come intimate. The “woman in

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stated, Se made certain) suggestions, ” iG: wag sald she would go for more whisky. She was given Miss Ridings’ purse, Luallen/ said the corporal , then made further advances toward him| and became angry when he resisted. She picked up- a whisky boftle and struck him, Luallen claimed. = At this, Luallen told police he picked up an empty “fifth” and struck at the WAC, knocking some of the “coke” bottles onto the floor. In ‘the scuffle .that followed, he Struck" again -and smashed the whisky “bottle in. her hand. The convict said he hit her only once.

Dorothy Leaves Room

Dorothy ran from the room during the fight, Luallen stated, and after ¢he WAC fell he looked out the door of the room and saw that the “woman in black” had disappeared,

Luallen noticed for the first time that his hand had ben cut by broken glass.-- Returning to the room, he said he thought of ¢alling for help as it dawned on him that the WAC was dead.

Luallen said he took a piece of broken bottle and slashed the girl's throat and a wrist to “make it look like suicide.” He then thought of the slip of paper in the WAC's purse with his telephétie ‘pumber cori “it. He went through her purse to find it, then went to. the lavatory and washed his hands, : Before he left the. room, he pulled the body out of ithe blood and wrapped the bottle\ and piece of glass in ‘her skirt, These he took with him. Luallen said he lett the hotel by the Washington st. exit, bought a newspaper at a nearby stand in the Indiana theater building and wrapped the bottle and broken glass. / Goes to Broad Ripple

He took a Fairgrounds streetcar, |’ transferring at College ave. and Fairfleld ave. to a Broad Ripple car, the statement continued. . Riding to the end of the line, Luallen told police he left the car and walked back along the White river’ bank, where he threw the

river. He didn't look to see if the package went into the riyer, he said. In conclusion, he declared that his former wife had not participated in the burglaries with him. Detective Sgt. Elbert Romeril and Virgil Quinn, sheriff's investigator, took the confession, which was notarized by Agnes Ostermyer,

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DETROIT, Nov. 2 (U. P.).-It wasn't the money she minded-it was the fact that she was a halfhour late anyhow that :bothered Mrs. Luella MecCartor, Detroit, whose alarm clock failed to ring and made her miss her share-the-ride car to the Willow Run bomber plant. She grabbed a cab and rode the

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After Arrests in ‘Terre Haute.

An Indianapolis police detective and an investigator from the OPA ; district office here left this. morning for Terre Haute to bring back two 20-year-old youths arrested there yesterday after a quantity of gasoline coupons was found in their possession, . Possible “big-scale selling of cous pons was hinted with the arrest of Ernest Boram, 212 Hancock st., and Francis O. Oxley, 645% Massachusetts ave, who told police they . bought gasoling coupons from a man who was peddling them in the terminal station here. . Find “AY “or Coupons . Found in their possesison were a number of “A” and “C” coupons. An OPA spokesman said the “A” coupons were traced to a Delphi woman, whose car was robbéd hers recently while on a downtown park. ing lot. Chief McMurtry. said Boram and Oxley were employed until recently at this lot. Police at Terre Haute arrested the . youths after noticing that they were driving an automobile bearing Cali-" fornia plates,

NUDE SECT MEMBERS HALT HUNGER STRIKE

KRESTOVA, B. C., Nov. 3 (U. P), ~—After wandering in the nude and. without food through a cold, damp house for almost four weeks, seven members of the Doukhobors sect were fed by friends here yester-

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