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Don VOLUME 55—NUMBER 208

Vo te List Errors Cleared, Tilson Says

By NOBLE REED

AFTER THREE all-night work sessions County Clerk A. Jack Tilson expressed his belief today that the, several thousand voters’ registration filing errors have been. corrected. : Earlier this. week it was discovered that clerks had made thousands of errors in the listing of voter's names in the master file ‘of precinct registrations, Hundreds of voters whose addresses were listed .in one town-

ship were found to. have ‘been filed on the poll books of another township or in the wrong city precincts. The errors were made, Mr, Tilson believes, due to the use of “abbreviations in the names of “townships. He said he found hundreds of voters whose township was designated by the abbreviation “Wa.” Confusion resulted, of oourse, because of the fact that Wayne, Washington and . Warren town-

ships began with the same two letters. Also many hundreds of other voters’ names were found to have been inadvertently listed in precincts where théy: do. not live, These errors, if not found, would result in unprecedented confusion at the polls next Tuesday when the voters whose names were misfiled would be refused their right to vote if their names did not appear on the poll books of their home precinct.

“All of these: errors are going to be found and corrected before the election,” Mr. Tilson promised. As. a precautionary measure election board officials said they would provide each precinct board with. affadavits-—certificate forms—that can be filled out to authorize a voter to cast: his ballot if it is proved that he has a receipt showing#proper registratiofi even if his name failed to

appear on the poll book. é

GIVE WORKERS TINE T0 VOTE, FDR. TOURGE

Will Ask Employers to Make It Possible for Men To Reach Polls.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent WASHIGTON, Nov. 3. — President Roosevelt told his news conference today he was preparing a last-minute appeal to employers

to give workers time off to vote,” %

He said thai such gn arrangement is more necessary than ever this year because so many workmen live and vote long distances from their plants, Mr. Roosevelt said he planned to issue the statement this afternoon. (Indiana law provides that em-

is needed.) Meantime, the ‘President said, he

He was asked specifically about:

ONE. A statement by Rep. Walter H. Judd (R. Minn.) that Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, recently relieved as Far Eastern American commander, was an agent of the White House Spd gave Generalissimo | the

forces to h TWO. That Vice President Henry

-A. Wallace would succeed Secretary

of State Cordell Hull after the elecThe President said of both reports

Denies Hull Report

Asked whether he had any indi-|

sation that Hull planned to resign, the President said no. He was asked whether he had received any, word from Senator Carter Glass (D. Va.) that Glass

Press Secretary Stephen T, Early said that after a speech by Byrnes advocating Mr, Roosevelt's re-elec-tion, Byrnes’ office sent Early. .a saying that among who telephoned Byrnes congretulations on his speech was Glass who said, according to the memo-

The President also was asked about a published report that Greal

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First Interview

4 Governor Dewey's presidential cam-

Gen. Francisco Franco . . . He asks “Fair Play.”

FRANCO DENIES HE'S AXIS ALLY

‘Spain Not Fascist,’ He Says In Bid for Collaboration With United Nations. By A. L BRADFORD United Press Staff Correspondent MADRID, Nov. 3.—Gen. Francisco Franco said in an exclusive interview today that Spain had never

been Fascist or Nazi and never had n allied z i

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with the rest of the world: ~~ - Pranco said Spain could not ally

country which was not guided by the. yrivciplon of Suthuitién,

ra Cyan “He S80 “THARS-VAS. i SIAN,

to collaporation. “with the ed powers, including Russia, but t there must’ be no interference in Spain’s internal affairs. the presence of the Spanish Blue division on the Russian front, Franco said: “This involved no idea of conquest or passion against any country but rather a: definite anti communistic purpose in accord with the tradition of foreign legions.

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EXCLUSIVE IN The Times-—

'® “THAT STILL FLOWING TIDE of soldiers and sailors , . , the little dra-. mas of war . , , they begin » to get into you. . . ."” Read Tom Stokes’ : column today on Page 18.

® “SO LITTLE TIME. , , . Can we put our hearts to the great task-ghead. . not as bitter partisans but as united Americans, free and strong?” See John W. Hillman’s “Reflecticns,” on Page 18. ® Your attention also - is called to the statements of the four top candidates in the Indiana election next Tuesday, on Page 17.

Hint Luallens May Rewed; 2 WAC: Being Investigated

By JORN L. BOWEN

‘The first name of one of the WACs under investigation is Dorothy, the same

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rider Washington was a place in

itself with Germany or any other|

WEY TOURS AL TOWNS,

PLEDGES 10BS

People Give Him Friendly Greeting as He Bids-

For Mine Vote.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ALBANY, Nov. 3.—For a huhdred miles, along the railroad tracks as

paign train rode through the hard coal country and into Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, the people stood in

fours, They were workingmen and their

families, farmers and miners and small townsmen; men in overalls

TONIGHT'S RADIO SPEECHES . By UNITED PRESS Leo T. Crowley, Washington (WIBC), 7:15-7:30 p. m. : Governor Leverel{ Saltonstall, Springfield, Mass. (WISH), 7:308:00 p. m. Daniel Tobin (WIRE-WLW), 3330 p. m. Governor John W. Bricker, Philadelphia (WISH), 8:30-9 p m.

and rough Jackets and caps, their

or a presidential candi-

the headlines and fpt many, even in a modern way, the world ended beyond the second range of hills, But the train was a symbol to them. It was a piece of their America and so ‘they stopped a moment $0 Wate +

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= x Some of ioe men dood quiet] hands in pockets. For years a large section of them, men whose dollars came by hard work, had counted Franklin Roosevelt their new friend. Many of them still do. About Mr, Dewey they were curious. Some others, standing alone beside weather-beaten houses hanging from steep hillsides, men who would never see Tom Dewey _took ‘off their hats and waved them in a slow, friendly way. In the towns there were big crowds and generally they were good-natured and friendly, yet in this hard coal country there was more booing and more cries of “We want Roosevelt” than had been heard anywhere else ih the campaign. It was bard, tough campaigning, six meetings in a day that did not end until "nearly midnight. Most of the time heretofore the Republican candidate had done little back platform speakifig, but, fighting now

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little groups of twos and threes and | -

[PROFITS IN GRIEF—

Racketeers Here Prey on Soldiers

And ‘Next of Kin'

Toner: Overley . . . Wars on Wars ~~ time Rackets By VICTOR PETERSON. _ WAR-TIME RACKETS, bred of loose money, grief and general

| confusio, are swamping the country as simrpers go to work

with a will on their “sucker lists.”

of the most despicable is called “following the os and operators in this prey. upon the emotions of next of kin after disaster. One, recently spawned in Indianapolis, is under the critical eye of the Better Business bureau, according to Toner Overley,

ang manager.

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SORELY» + the parents of wife of a ‘service ‘man are notified of his death there often is

AD Stamps $0 sella pin in, hofior

of his memory. “This is a perfect example of capitalizing an grief,“ Mr. Querley said. Another racket is to call on a

Person “aTter “the 106s of a loved | Sen rg SNE Wage. de. ® Wed ink

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VOTE HOUR CAUCUS SCHEDULED TONIGHT

GOP Legislators Plan Speed On State Revision.

Republican legislators will caucus informally here tonight on Governor Schricker's proposal, to be taken up at the special legislative session here tomorrow, that the polls be kept open until 9 p. m. Tuesday, three hours longer than customary. No definite decision will be made by the Republican majority in both houses, however, until the formal caucus at 9 a. m. tomorrow, one

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INDIANAPOLIS TIMES STRAW VOTE—

Dewey Keeps Lead In Final Tally, But FDR Shows Gain

By EARL RICHERT

“FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1944

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postofice Indianapolis §, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

REDS NEARING B -B-29'S BLAST

YANKS SMASH 10 MI. INSIDE SIEGFRIEDLINE

Schmidt, “Highway Town, Taken in Developing Offensive.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov. 3.—American dough-

southeast from Vossenack en the Aachen front today and captured the highway town of Schmidt, ‘10 miles inside the Siegfried defenses and 27 miles from Cologne. United States 1st army headquarters dispatches revealed that Lt.

veloping steadily after 24 hours of fighting on the rim of the Hurigen forest. German resistance was stiffening amidst the West Wall fortifications] guarding the Cologne plain and approaches to the Rhineland. To fhe northwest the Dutch. city of Flushing fell to British commandos, and the commander of the

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Nazi garrison, Lt, Gen. Reinhard, was captured along with many prisoners. Other British forces captured Domburg in the swift qver the island of Walcheren, og dbl to {he “frée ‘aiffed Antwerp after the last German resistance was crushed in the pocket across the Schelde estuary. United Press Correspondent Jack Frankish, in a dispatch from 1st army headquarters, reported ‘the capture of Schmidt, strategic town.

ofthe Roer- rived

The battle for ‘Vossenack, first prize in the offensive which began yesterday, was a. house te house fight, with the Americans driving in from the south and north, and clearing the way for the stab to Schmidt, Farther south, French-American troops of -Lt. Gen. Alexander M, Patch’s Tth army southeast of Nancy captured Baccarat, a town of 5000 athwart the approaches to the Salles, Ste, Marie’ and Bon Hommes passes through the Vosges mountains, The Canadian 1st army was revealed to have captured more than 12,000 prisoners in wiping out the German pocket south of the Schelde. Both ‘the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and nearby Knocke; last centers of enemy resistance, were firmly in Canadian hands.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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boys advanced two and a half miles

Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ new of-| - | fensive southeast of Aachen was de-

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YANK JUSTICE— Former-Attorney Here Now Trying German Civilians

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Lt. Col George S. Wilson

A FORMER Indianapolis attorney now a lietitenant colonel with the army in Belgium is a mili. ‘tary’ judge participating in the trial of two German civilians accused of harboring German soldiers. A dispatch from. -Willlam H Stoneman, Indianapolis 51 and Chicago News foreign core respondent, received today tells of the part Lt. Col. George 8.

Wilson, 2327 Broadway, is play ing 3: the rial

tm, Karl factory manager, & sre being tried

“Closer U. S. Ties.

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN As a nation, the Canadians would like to get a word in edgeways, Napier Moore of Toronto, editor of MacLean's magazine; said here today, Mr. Moore, who recently ecompleted a tour of

at the Town Hall * meeting in the English theater. “In Canada, it is the hope of the people that the influence of the United Stateswill Mr Moore be thrown on the side of the concept of an expanding world trade,”

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on high ground ovérlooking the headquarters i

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Congressman ..,.Stark.... 39.8% Ludlow. .

PERCENTAGE RESULTS in the total Indianapolis

Times straw vote which ended today are as follows:

Republican President ,......Dewey... 58.5% Senator ........Capehart, 50.7% Governor .....,.Gates.... 55.5% Jackson.., 44.5% Congressman ,...Stark.... 443% Ludlow.. 55.7%

Deducting 4% per cent from the total percentage standings of the Republican candidates, which some experts say must be done for this type of poll to allow for the people in the low income group, most of them presumed to be Democratic, who do not vote in a postcard straw vote, the poll shows the following results: (The 4% per cent taken off the Republicans is added to the Democrats.)

Republican ei Democrat President .......Dewey... 564 % Roosevelt 46 %

Democrat Roosevelt 41.5% Schricker 49.3%

Senator ........Capehart, 46.2% Schricker 53.8%

Governor. .......Gates,.., 51 % Jackson.. 49 % . 60.2% . "on :

THE POSTCARD ballots cast in ‘The Times’ straw vote showed

. 805 per cent to 305 far the President.

‘fourth, and Governor Schricker, the Democratic benatorial nominee, Him. ’ Seco Samuel. D. Jackson, the Democratic gubernatorial nomSuperior Judge Judson L: Stark: the G. O. P. congressional received the number of votes to. tle for sixth and |

straw poll, that any of the Democratic candidates can overcome this. Many people who .want- to scratch their tickets actually do not inside the voting booths becausé of inexperience in using voting machines. However, if the voters have made up ' their minds to scratch anywhere near the extent shown in the straw vote, both Governor Schricker and Congressman Ludlow can win in this county despite a Dewey majority of 20,000. : . % =» THE TIMES makes no claim for its poll. It was done as a public interest feature. 8ix thousand postcards were sent out to persons whose names were selected at regular intervals and: entirely by chance in the latest edition of the Indianapolis city directory. A high proportion of them were returned and the percentages shown in the first table above were figured from the postcards that were actually received in the’ straw poll. President Roosevelt has run ‘4 per cent better in The Times’ straw poll since he began his late campaign with his foreign, policy speech in New York Oct. 21, Since then Governor Dewey has received 565 per cent of the total votes to 43.8 per cent for Mr, Roosevelt, ‘ » . »~

IN THE TOTAL number of straw votes received before Mr. Roosevelt began his active campaign (which comprise approximately two-thirds of the total votes received in the poll, Mr.”Dewey received

Governor, Déwey ‘received the most votes cast in the straw

vote, with Congressman -Leuls Ludlow second. Ralph Gates, the

0G. O. Pl gubernatorial] nominee, received the third highest number of votes cast; Homer E: Capehart, the G. O. P. senatorial nominee,

-geventh place in the | number: of votes received.’ President

Cossack Patrols in

By HENRY

ern half of Budapest.

resistance. was distintegrating, and - Berlin said Nazi troops had fallen

‘|back 14 miles south of Buda-

pest. Ahead of the main forées,

| Cossack horsemen raced across the

wide Hungarian plains to:sight the spires of Buda on the Darube’s left bank.

Southern columns from Yugoslawere also moving north toward ted the city” was doomed. : prisoners were streamThe German-Hungarian as sald to have lost almost motor transport. ° -

force half

Two hours after the original com

“there were no losses as a result of enemy action.” Rangoon, capital of Burma, is lo-

Sight of Spires in

Eastern Half of Hungarian Capital; Fall Near.

hin SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondent

MOSCOW, Nov. 3.—Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s Cossack patrols today swept within Sight of Pest, the east-

Panic was reported within the Hungarian capital. Hundreds of merchants and wealthy industrialists were fleeing. Front reports to the Soviet press said that German and

Huyatian capital. The re-}q

munique ft was announced that]

lower Burma Peaiia and is the

Eliminated in

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. 3.—Reconnaissance pilots reported today that remnants of the Japanese garrison in northwest Leyte have begun to flee by sea. American invasion forces had cut the island in .two and were closing in on the Japs from three sides, ““The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced jubilantly in a communique. “The final remnants of the enemy's forces (on Leyte) are now being driven into a small and confined sector where they are enveloped on all three land sides by our ground forces.” i More than 30,000 Japanese have been killed, wounded or captured in the 13-day central Philippines campaign, MacArthur said. (A Japanese communique, recorded by FCC, said Japanese planes raided American shipping in Leyte gulf and Suriago strait ia daylight Wednesday and again at night, , It claimed that “two criiisers, three destroyers and one transport were sunk, and one battleship, one

progress on other fronts. . The usual rumors were circulating in Moscow that announéements of ime portant victories were being withheld for the Nov. .7 celebration of the 27th anniversary of the Russian revolution. To the north military operations were being affected increasingly by the descent of early winter, Cold and heavy snow now is gen

eral from the Ukraine northward. correspondent

: No news on Russian foorts

MacArthur Says 30,000 Japs

the Philippines

{battleship or cruiser were damaged.

The report was not confirmed by allied sources.) The final battle for Leyte was

the jaws of a mighty American pincers. Reconnaissance pilots said small boats were leaving Japanese vessels in Ormoc harbor empty and returning from shore 1aden with troops. Up until two days ago, the Japanese had been rushing reinforce-

the Camotes sea, Japanese planes continued to attack American shipping in Leyte gulf off the east coast of the island and MacArthur's communique acknowledged that they “some damage”. American fighters shot down 27 of-the raiders, American Liberator bombers

bivouac areas on neighboring Cebu west of Leyte, dropping 90 tons of bombs. Nine planes were destroyed on the ground and a 10th was shot down in combat. ‘Other American bombers hit Negroes.and Mindanao islands and sank a 7000-ton tanker off Tawi

cruiser, one i and another, ¥

plunges deeper into Germany's west wall defense belt southeast

miles inside Siegfried line, as Baccarat falls to U. 8. 7th army, «

AIR WAR— American and Britis}

“handful” of votes separated .the

of Aachen ard takes Schmidt, 19]

Tawi, *

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On the War Fronts

. (Nov. 3, 1944) WESTERN Solan: 1st army

PACIFIC-India-based B-29's blast Rangoon, capital of Burma; Gen. MacArthur reports end of Leyte Samar campaign in sight in Phil= ippines; Chinese Saptire Lung=

ments into Leyte from Cebu, across =

struck at Japanese airdrome and -