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NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, D-Day Plus Two, June, 19441 took a walk along the historic coast of - Normandy in the country of France. It was a lovely day for strolling along the seashore. . Men were sleeping on the sand, some of them Tn sleeping forever. Men were floating in ‘the water, but they didn’t know they were in the water, for they were dead. The water was full of squishy little jellyfish about the size of . your hand. "Millions of them. In thé center each of them: had a green design exactly like a four‘leaf clover. ‘The good-luck emblem. Sure. Hell yes. I walked for a mile and a half along the water's edge of our many-miled invasion beach. You wanted to walk slowly, for the detail on that beach was infinite. The wreckage was vast and startling. The awful waste and destruction of war, even aside from the loss of human life, has always been one of its outstanding features to those who are in it; Anything" and everything is expendable, And we did expend on our beachhead in Normandy during those first few hours.

Museum of Carnage

FOR A MILE out from the beach there were scores of tanks and trucks and boats that you could no longer see, for they were at the bottom of the water ~swamped by overloading, or hit by shells, or sunk by mines. Most of their crews were lost. You could see trucks tipped half over and swamped. You could see partly sunken barges, and the angled-ub corners of jeeps and small landing craft half submerged. And ‘at low tide you could still see those vicious six-pronged iron snares that helped snag and wreck them. On the beach itself; high and dry, were all kinds of wrecked vehicles. There were tanks that had only just made the beach before being knocked out. There were jeeps that had burned to a dull gray. There were big derricks on caterpillar treads that didn't quite make it. There were half-tracks carrying office equipment that had been made into a shambles by a single shell hit, their interiors. still hoiding their “ useless aipage of smashed pewsiiars, telephones, office files. There were LCTs turned complebely upside down, and lying on their backs, and how they got that way § Son's knows There were boats stacked on top of

"Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

' WE'VE HAD NOTHING but favorable comment lots of it—since we brought up the subject of startdg 3 zoo for Indianapolis. Most, everyone seems to want one, “How come we've gone all these years without one?” is the usual question. y ' ‘We don't know the answer to . that question. But we do know that Indianapolis can get one— and easier than most folks realize, Last Tuesday, we told you how we went on safari to Toledo’s zoo. * Well, while we were at it, we took in the fine zoo at Columbus, O. Unlike Toledo's, it’s strictly a zoo “ —has no museum, aquarium, rep- * tillum or botanical gardens and Sonseuetlly it's. even less costly ial to operate — only $35,000 a year, | we're told. Veh nia i Darts, the 200 director. He, gave. us lots of encouragement and offers of help, v “About all you'd have to have to start a zoo in Indianapolis,” he said, “would be a location and some

cages! Your state conservation commission can give

you many animals from its stocks. And some of the poos in other cities will contribute spare animals to get you started. Expansion can come gradually.”

‘16 Miles From City

AS IN TOLEDO, the city of Columbus finances

the zoo's operating costs, while the zoological society

has the responsibility, for furnishing animals and buildings. | © The Columbus 200 is, 16 miles from the city—too an hs, S00 28 Samii 2 be surprised to find how many people’ have passed through the turnstiles this 'year—80,000. . The 2z00 charges an admission fee of 10 cents pe car and 10:

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can lay down more than 3% tons of smoke-producing |

“SMOKE GETS In -your eyes,” said the famous gong. The idea in war is to get the smoke in the enemy's eyes. Doing that is the chief job of “The Goon,” as our soldiers in Sicily christened the

43-inch chemical mortar in 1943, But it has other ‘uses as well, This weapon was used so successfully at Mt. Fratello or- Hill 175, to lob both phosphorus shells and = high explosives into the enemy lines that the fight became known as the “Battle of Goon Gun Hil” The) mortar, developed in 1942 by the chemical warfare service, is more portable, quicker firing, and handles larger loads than similar weapons, according to Maj. Gen. Willlam N. Porter, chief of

the service, Firing phosphorus shells which are incendiary shells, it can spray an area with a veritable storm of tiny burning particles of phosphorus that drive troops out from behind barricades or other shelters. When loaded with high explosive shells, it has ripped up pillboxes and knocked out tanks, according

to Gen, Porter. In one engagement, he says, a company of our men armed with “Goons,” took on a battery of German 88-millimeter guns and knocked them out:

Shielded Volturno Crossing

HOWEVER, they have proved their greatest usefulness in putting down a smoke screen by firing shells Joaded with smoke-producing white phosphorus. For "example, a smoke screen to hide the crossing of the Volturno river was put down with these chemical mortars. Gen. Porter says thal a battalion of these mortars

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday — Yesterday Miss Thompson and I came to New York City, and. in the evening I went out to Rockville Center, L. I, to speak st & meeting. “This is, of course, a rock-ribbed ReUblicatt ages, bub there Seemed to be » few Demo,

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‘this wreckage was the greatest armada man has ever

“Cleveland, and a dozen others. We'd especially like - to be assigned to visit the San Francisco and Los

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“SECOND SECTION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1944

knocked off, . In this shoreline museum of carnage there were

abandoned rolls of tarbed wire and smashed bulldozers THE CANDIDATES you' LL Vor FOR" AT NOV. 7 ELECTION — NO.

4 Top State Candidates Present Views

ACQUAINT its readers with the views of the four top state candidates of both major parties, The Indianapolis Times asked them to prepare formal statements. The statements of the four, Governor Schricker and

and big stacks of thrown-away life belts and piles of shells €till waiting to be moved. In the water floated empty life rafts and soldiers’ packs and ration boxes and mysterious oranges. On the beach lay snarled rolls of telephone wire and big rolls of steel matting and stacks of broken, rusting rifles. On the beach lay, expended, sufficient men and mechanism for a small war, They were gone forever, And“yet we could afford it. '

We Had Our. Toehold

WE COULD AFFORD IT because We -Were on, we had our toehold, and behind us there were such enormous . repldcements for this wreckage on the beach that you could hardly conceive of their sum total. - Men and equipment were flowing from England in such a gigantic stream that it. made the waste on the beachhead seem like nothing at all, really nothing at all, A few hundred yards back on the beach is a high bluff. Up there we had a tent hospital and a barbedwire enclosure for prisoners .of war. From up there you could see far up and down the beach, in a spec tacular crow's-nest view, and far out to sea. And standing out there on the water beyond all

seen. You simply could not believe the’ gigantic collection of ships that lay out there waiting to unload. Looking from the bluff, it lay thick and clear to the far horizon of the sea and on beyond, and it spread out to the sides and was miles wide. Its utter enormity would move the hardest man.’ As 1 stood up there I noticed a group of freshly taken German prisoners standing nearby. They had not ye been put in the prison cage. They were Just standing there, a couple of doughboys leisurely guarding them with tommy guns, The prisoners, too, were looking out "0 sea—the same bit of sea that for months and years had been so safely empty before their gaze. Now they stood staring almost as if in a trance. They didn't say a word to each ‘other, didn't need to. The expression on their faces was something forever unforgettable, In it was the final horrified ‘acceptance of their doom. If only all Germany could have had the rich experience of standing on the bluff and looking out across the water and seeing what their compatriots saw.

cents for each passenger ‘on Suisdays and holidays. * The Columbus zoo was started almost accidentally. The Columbus Dispatch bought some reindeer for a Santa stunt one Christmas, and after the holidays, put them in a park, along with a few monkeys. Soon folks were donating pet, animals and they had the makings of a zoo. In 1925, more room was needed, so they moved out to the present site along the banks of the Sciota river. Well = to - do- businessmen have given the money to pay for various buildings. 5 Most of the animals have been donated by various Individuals and business firms, Names of the donors are carried on metal plates beneath the cages.

Animals Go to Schools

THE COLUMBUS ZOO has a traveling zo0 — a hare cor trailer — with cages built in the sides. This zoomobile is kept busy taking collections of animals around to the various schools and playgrounds. ‘The children love it. . The Columbus baseball club has an annual zoo night, donating the gate receipts to the zoological society for- purchase of animals, The same thing probably could be arranged here. That pretty much winds up our report on Toledo and Columbus’ zoos. But there are a lot of other zoos we'd liké to visit, For instance, Cincinnati, Evansville, Lafayette, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit,

Angeles zoos, but we have our doubts about that. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Zoological Society board of directors will ‘meet Saturday to study the

- facts Savetped thus far ang*p-work-‘out organiza-| ; setinging. , Bub. Sa'd.. Hon giana for

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ey - none will be thade until the society has made further Sudy of. the situation.

By David Dietz

white phosphorus in two minutes. The mortars, incidentally, have a range of 2'% miles. A chemical battalion has. 38 of these mortars, each capable of firing a 25-pound shell every 15 seconds. It can build up a smoke wall three miles long and nearly a thousand feet high and maintain that wall of smoke for 18 hours. That is getting smoke in the enemy's eyes, you'll agree,

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diminish our faith in the power and virtue of our type of government. It will never be surrenordered to any othér form of. government so long as we adhere strictly to. the fundamentals of our “republic and utilize them in providing ample o p por tunities and security for all of our citizens. This is still a government of, for and by-the people, and we cannot safely ignore the welfare of any considerable group or segment .of our population without doing serious injury to the whole structure.

Mr. Schricker

s 8 ” DURING MY term as governor, I have tried to administer the duties of chief executive in an honest and upright manner. Any failures or mistakes during this rather trying period must be attributed to the mind rather than to the heart. If I.should be elevated by the people to represent them in the United States senate, I shall continue to adhere faith-

racial and religious differences.

lic intelligence with their appeals to fear and their concoctions of - taisehood

It is my earn~ est and sincere belief that the most important matter before us is the reelection of President Roosevelt :yhose “manifold essdnme of

i ment’ Mr. Dew-, ~ Mr. Jackson oy has so une

hesitatingly adopted. In these crycial times we should rot change tried and true leadership for an inexperienced politician. » 1d » THE CAMPAIGN in Indiana has developed some interesting aspects. My opponent is trying to “anti-New Deal” his way into the governor's office. Everybody whose attention has been at-

's mofives are. They perceive strategy. But, nobody, much, seems to be misled or even im-

GEN, PORTER explains that sometimes a smoke pressed by the performance.

screen is put up to hide troop movements. At other times, the smoke screen is a decoy to worry the enemy and draw his fire, The army's biggest smoke producer is the mechanical smoke generator which resembles one of the old-fashioned horse-drawn fire engines in appearance, It is, however, mounted on either a truck or a trailer, This “engine” can blanket an area one mile square in 10 minutes, Gen. Porter tells. It is particularly valuable in making it impossible for enemy planes to bombard ports. Vital ports in the North African and Central Mediterranean theaters were protected with such smoke machines starting in 1942. Algiers was so well protected that during a period of 14 months with shipping entering and leaving the port almost daily, no vessels were sunk and no serious damage was done by enemy bombers. For emergency use, the chemical warfare service has developed pots of various sizes. One of the handiest weighs 11 pounds and burns for about six minutes. The largest pot weighs 35 pounds and burns for 20 minutes. Gen, Porter says that the service has also developed a ‘smoke pot that floats for use in operations on the water.

, ~By Eleanor Roosevelt

will either be a landslide for the President which will carry everyone else with him, or it will be a landslide the other way and we will be completely Republican!”

.I burst out laughing, because”it' sounded like.so|

many of the prophecies and polls which are conI could think of was: “Well, I

It is apparent that my opponent, hopes to pass his group into the statehouse by means of a back door. His admission ticket consists of those annoyances sO many of our people have experienced by those regulations which = have been found necessary to the winning of the war. His passports will not be honored by the voters Nov, 7. He, like his running mate, the Republican candidate for the senate, unencumbered by official responsibility, indulges -in abusive criticism of the administration at Washington; which has had the burden of war production,

like, Such men have nothing constructive to offer, They do not tell us what their leaders would have done, or would do, to. cor~ rect or improve the situation, 2 . . » . oy BUT IT appears that the Republican nominee for governor does not want the spotlight of public inspection to fall upon him, He, therefore, prefers to direct attention to matters and considerations outside the state and beyond the proper scope of a state cam-

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By GOVERNOR HENRY F. SCHRICKER

IN THIS final statement of the campaign, I wish to pledge anew my unswerving fidelity to American principles and institutions, and to say that their preservation will be my foremost concern as a member of the United States senate, if the people of Indiana elect me to that high office. Properly applied and honestly administered, these sacred principles and institutions offer the only real hope for the solution of our domestic and international problems of tomorrow, The accomplishments of our people and the progress of the war during the last three years has served to strengthen rather than to

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fully to the same Meals and purposes. It is generally conceded that the next senate will be Democratic regardless of results in several doubtful states. Indiana is entitled to have a representative on the majority side of that important legislative body. As a member of the senate, I will strive earnestly to support the President in winning the war and in securing a just and durable peace. o . LJ FURTHER, I shall give my

best efforts to an early demobi-

_ lization of our armed forces, the

rehabilitation. of our. returning veterans, the speedy and orderly reconversion of war . industries, the greatest opportunities for full employment, drastic reduction in the cost of government and taxes, ample encouragement. to business,

“ both large and small, and ade-

quate price support for the great agricultural interests of our country. All of these important problems

can and will be solved if we will «

avoid. the danger of allowing polities to supplant patriotism in our joint endeavors. To that end I that I have in order to justify the faith and confidence of our people.

By SENATOR SAMUEL D. JACKSON

MY APPEAL to all Indiana citizens who believe in, and long for the continuation of good government in the management of state affairs remains the same appeal to

reason with which I opened my campaign. 71 realize that a great deal .of hysteria has crept into the final campaign statements of numerous speakers from the opposition, They - have been asking voters to crusade against the New Deal, but to agree with Mr. Dewey that everything it stands for will be ‘preserved. They have conjured up bogey men of communism and have appealed to They have many times insulted pub-

“good Foveém-

price fixing, rationing, and thé

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tracted at all understands what

baign. We shall not permit him to dodge the issue. That issue is: “Which one of us, upon the basis of character, background and associations, gives the greater assurance for the con-

_tinuation of wholesome state gov-

ernment in Indiana?” Vast are the duties of a governor and great.his responsibility. What type of influence will you | have: exerted by and through your. Cage eam gevint. aa, Sau shief executive? °° *

The issue is clear. It, is here at home. It is government at your

doorstep. It affects your self-re-spect, your homes, your children, your schools, your daily lives. ” 8.» * IT IS NOT a question of politics ‘in the sense of blind loyalty to the two great national political parties, but it is a matter of com~ mon sense selection between men —men close enough to you that

"by their fruits you. can know

them. 4 If I may be given a commission to serve as your governer, I shall sustain the present clean and wholesome standards of government that now sets Indiana apart

among her sister states. With a

state ticket and a general assembly to support me, I assure you that I shall not fail you. 80, in this race for governor, let us continue to abstain from personal name calling. Let us as candidates not malign our respective candidates- for President and try to win that way. As voters, let us face the facts as they are in time to save the ideals we love,

Sundlor Samuel D. “Jackson, the Democratic senatorial and gubernatorial nominees, respectively, and Homer E. Capehart and Ralph Gates, the Republican senatorial on gubernatorial nominees, respectively, follow:

By HOMER E. CAPEHART

WITH THE government of the United States and the welfare of its people facing the greatest crisis which . have confronted since the days immediately preced-

fas the Civil war, there is a crying need for the election of Governor Thomas E. Dewey as President of the United States, It will serve as a warning to those who would inject the philosophies of government which come from foreign shores that there is no

place in this country for any kind of government but plain, old-fash-joned American government of, by and for the people. The American people. are Patient.

waited and hoped that their government would once more be turned back on the path of that kind of government. founded by Washington and Jefferson and preserved d own ‘through Lincoln and McKinley, They have waited patiently, but in

vain, s » » MORE AND

Mr. Capehart

more they have seen the ship of state steered farther and farther to the left. They have seen the land of freedom slowly transformed into a land of opportunity for a selected” few. Under the same divine guidance that has been given the American people since the founding of our pation, I am confident their decision next Tuesday will be one that will open new vistas of opportunity for all. But Thomas E. Dewey must have the help of a friendly and co-operative congress. There is no doubt but that Republicans will control ‘the lower house of the next congress. Twelve additional Republican senators are needed to give President Dewey the aid of that body.

By RALPH F. GATES

FIRST OF all, let me say to The Times readers that 1 am indebted to the fairness of your newspaper for an opportunity to make this brief statement in these closing

days of the campaign.

It has been a source of satisfaction to me and to those supporting me to know that we have been ablé to go through this campaign without vindictiveness or bitterness. The issues in this contest are of such tremendous importance that they have completely transcended those minor irritations which result in bitterness and exhibitions of

spleen. New Dealism as opposed to

Americanism has been the one

great issue in this campaign. I am quite aware that our opponents have carefully attempted to steer “clear of this all

attempt has

e failure,

Mi. Gates ~~ THEPEOPLE of this state are determined fo know what

philosophy of government each candidate professes. They want to know whether ‘or not we are to have one-man rule, bickering and bungling of domestic affairs, hostility between the congress and the chiéf executive, communism dnd its disastrous effectsyin the next four years of national administration. . Our ‘people. here in Indiana, straight thinking as they are, will know this type of government in Washington imposes - the cold

hand of bureaucracy and its at-’

tendant evils upon our schools, upon our churches, upon our farms and into the very ranks of labor, to which it professes friendship. They clearly realize that the most effective bafrier against this un-American form of government lies in building up our defenses here at home, Everyone in this state, I believe, knows exactly where I will stand as governor of Indiana on this one ahsorbing question, They know I will fight to keep out of

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Indiana must provide one of those senators. It is not a question of individuals; it is a question in the election of a United States senator of whether that senator will support the construc tive policies of Governor Dewey and the forward-looking program of the Republican party.

INDIANA MUST choose between a candidate who has pledged his support to Governor Dewey and another candidate who has pledged openly his support to the New Deal. As United States senator from Indiana I shall give whole-heart-ed attention to the problems of the veteran, for I am one of them; I shall protect the interests of the farmer, because I was born on a tenant farm and now operate a farm; I shall guard the American institution of individual initiative and free enterprise, and the rights of labor to collective bargaining and of all the people to the social security _which is rightfully theirs, 1 shall oppose the un-American philosophies of the New Deal and fight to the last breath any en~ croachment of communism into our scheme of representative government. I shall vote to keep this a free America. :

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the government of this state those undemocratic principles which this paper, among many others, is fighting tooth and toenail ” » »

IN THIS campaign I have discussed many state issues and I summarize some of them here. Fam a firm believer in the doc--trine that the crux of good state government lies in high grade appointments by the chief executive, 1 have therefore pledged “many

rity, high ‘standing in their communities—each of whom is well qualified by experience for the" positions to which they are appointed. The Républican legislative record of the last two sessions is a matter of pride to all Republicans and I pledge a continuation, in so far as it is within my power, to add to this great record. : I shall uphold the provisions of the state merit law; I shall appoint to the labor commission, men and women from the ranks

for all. I shall uphold the high standards of the department of conservation, with all of its ramifications, established in this state years ago. I shall do all those things which a long experience in the affairs of returned veterans teaches me are needed by returnIng veterans and their families, particularly in co-operation with the provisions of the G, I. bill of rights, I am for a continuation of the policy established by the state board of finance, under Republi« can control, which has resulted in the stabilization of teachers’ salaries in Indiana and which has proved of great value to our fine educational system and has resulted in a reduction of property taxes. I am for the present gross income tax law and against any increase in late taxes. ~ ~ 1 HAVE Propored a Conpieisn sive program ‘of post-war *fin< . provement. for our pénal, charitable and benevolent institutions, based on a study of such conditions by the - legislative budget committee, with such physical _ improvements as may be deemed " hetessary to adequately house our unfortunates. ment plan for state employees . and for increased pay where gross

My views have often been expressed toward the furtherance of the programs of our higher edu‘cational institutions, I propose, as needed, to use for all state institution building or

Home-Rule Issue Enters Mine Battle

By FRED W, PERKINS

GRANTTOWN, W. Va., Nav. 38 ° A factor in the fight over whether coal miners are going to vote for Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dewey and possibly swing the electoral votes of the doubtful states of West Virginia and Penrisylvania is Joe Zieminski, ‘Joe is presi= dent of Local 4047 of the United, Mine Workers and has been the chairman of the forces working within the miners union to bring about home rule for the union or= ganization in which most of the district officers are named by President John IL. Lewis. - Joe Zieminski said that 90 per cent of the coal miners in his Iocal are going to vete for President Roosevelt, just as they have three times previously. : s » 8

JOE. paid tribute to John L. Lewis as a union leader and a bargainer with the coal companies, but when it comes to politics—well, Mr, Lewis could vote for Dewey if he wanted to, but not Joe Zieminski or his friends.

All of the local unions involved in the home-rule fight have declared for Mr. Roosevelt. So it would seem that the home-rule

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John lx Lowls in bis presidential Preference.

But Roosevelt supporters in the Fairmont district don’t want to put it on that basis. They say Mr. Lewis may be right in his policy of appointing officers for districts unable to select the right kind of officers for themselves, » » .

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iN By RUTH MILLETT DON'T GET upset, girls, over the census bureau's recent, and at first glance alarming, figures “in regard to the eligible-man | ; shortage.

know the figures by heart -~but if you don't, the census bureau’s vital statistics

there are only 1,700,000 unmarried men between the ages of 20 and 34 ‘In. eivilian life, and 4,000,000 unmarried women in the same age group. That, alarmists have been quick to-point out, is only 425/1000 of a man apiece, if all the girls have matrimony on their minds.

. Ruth Millets

» =» } BUT EVEN though the census bureau can’t promise you a whole man for your very own-—don't feel that you are, therefore, the lost generation,

gots a whole man. She discovers that half of him belongs to his business or profession, or she finds to her amazement that a good part of him belongs to his guns, or to his fishing tackle; or to his poker gang. She may ecen find In time that she is sharing her man with an other woman, or with polities or even . 8» AND certainly a big part of the average man belongs to his em= “ployer or to. his clients. This is most noticeable when a woman makes plans for a vacation or a party, and then has to call it oft because her: “husband's. business interferes.

So any honest wife will. tell you that, if the census gives you hopes of having 25/1000 of & man, you aren’t too badly off.

Those figures might even make enough not to

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