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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 204

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1044

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday *

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Governor Schricker calls upon the combined legislative bodies, meet-

ing in the house of representatives, may get to the polls.”

GERMANS

COLOGNE

Gain Back Area From 1st Army in Tank And Infantry Counter-Attack Below Aachen.

PARIS, Nov. 4 (U, P.).—German tanks and infantry eounter-attacked the American spearhead probing into the Cologme plain below Aachen today. ’ ph They regained nearly half of the 215 miles won by, the 1st army in a thrust southeastward from Vossenack yesterday. The highway town of Schmidt, captured by the Amer-

fcans at the high water mark of their three-day-old attack, fell into the hands of the Germans striking back to blunt

an incipient threat to Cologne, 27 miles to the northeast.

swarmed to the support of Lt. Gen. Courtney: H.. Hodges’, forces’ and |’ knocked out three of 10 German tanks, ; Moderate to heavy resistance was being encountered in the Schmidt area. American forces cleaning out Siegfried line pillboxes in the woods northwest of Schmidt said the enemy was resisting stubbornly. In- southwest Holland, other American troops linked up with the British to form a solid threemile bridgehead across the Mark river within three and a half miles of the Holland Deep. The battle for Walcheren island. in the Sghelde estuary went into its final stages with British eommandos merging their beachheads

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RAINY ELECTION DAY

IS PREDICTED HERE

The weatherman today tossed a wet. blanket over the smouldering political scene, + He warned that Hoosiers had better dig out the raincoats <and umbrellas for, Tuesday's election. General rains and cooler weather were predicted, but an “if” was thrown in. The weather is dependent on the movement of a storm ‘en route to Indiana.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES ‘"Sam....4 10am... 51, Sa. m..... 47 lam...) 51 Sa m..... 47 12 (Noon ., 51 fam....48 1lpm...S5

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= Thandsrvolt gir anben] ;

to extend voting hours “so that all

BLUNT ASSAULT

1100 BOMBERS LASH WESTERN GERMANY

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Plants, Rail Yards.

. LONDON, Nov. 4 . 'P) More than 1000 American heavy bombers smashed today. at oil plants, rail yards and other targets scattered through western Germany from the Baltic coastal area to the French border without opposition. The great force of Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by upward of 800 Thunderbolt and Mustang ‘fighters, hit synthetic oil plants and refineries in the area

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ROME, Nov. 4 (U. P.).~American heavy bombers today attacked Regensburg, Munich and Augsburg in southern German, and Linz, Austria,

of Hamburg and nearby Harburg and at Gelsenkirchen; unidentified objectives at Hanover, and rail yards at Saarbrucken. The Foriresses and Liberators dropped about 2500 tons of bombs through the clouds over Germany, nearly half of them on the Ham-burg-Harburg oil plants. Today's multi-pronged bombardment was the first major attack on Germany by Lt, Gen. James H. Doolittle's 8th air force since Thurs-

showdown battle with American

‘diers, ‘but the units reorganized and

ion Taina Hm wo #raiieol. af -the..reliaf Aorce.. haw-

at the Capitol as Assembly Convened i in’ Special Sousion.

Lt. Gov. Charles M. Dawson raises his gavel to call the joint session of the legislature to order today to vote on extending polling hows Tuesday.

SHOWDOWN ON LEYTE NEARING

Newly Landed Jap Armor Moving Toward Yank Forces.

By UNITED PRESS A Japanese armored relief column moved north along the west coast of Leyte island today for a

invasion forces pressing toward the conclusion of their campaign in the Central Philippines. American fighters «dispersed the column yesterday after If had] landed by night at the Ormog| coast: base, wrecking 30 trucks and two tanks and killing many sol-

resumed the march. The American invasion. forces had overrun virtually all the north and east coasts of Leyte. Remnants of the Japanese. garrison were _ falling. back toward Ormoe:

0 Iverest’ fighting of the campaign.

'U. S. Ships Damaged

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz admitted in a communique that Japanese planes had damaged several American ships in an attack on a carrier group of the 3d fleet Wednesday. He said light Petite nel losses were caused. Location of the raid, in "which 10 of the Japanese planes were shot down, was not disclosed. Nimitz also reported that American fliers shot down three of nine Japanesé bombers which attacked airfields on Tinian and Saipan in the Marianas Wednesday night. Four Americans were killed and one wounded when one of the bombers crashed on one of the airfields. o

Widespread Air Attacks American planes continued attacks on widespread enemy bases, hitting Paramushiro in the northern Kuriles; Haha Jima in the Bonins; Yap in the Carolines; Babelthuap in the northern Palaus and Pagan and Rota islands in the Marianas. Air patrols, fanning out from

on Luzon, Negros and Cebu islands. A Japanese communique claimed

day, when it dealt the Luftwaffe! one of its heaviest blows of the war in a record air battle, The synthetic oil plants in the

Hamburg-Harburg area below fhe, western: tip of the Baltic and at| Gelsenkirchen have been among the most consistent targets in the allies’ winter bombing campaign.

‘Budapest Totters as Russ

Smash Into City Outskirts

MOSCOW, Nov. 4 (U, P.).—80-|lite capital well may be decided in viet armored spearheads smashed the next 72 hours.

through’ disintegrating enemy lines into” the southeastern outskirts of report attributed to Ankara that

today,

(The Brussels radio broadcast a the Hungarian government had or-

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WAR FRONTS

°| efforts to be all things to all men.”

Leyte, attacked Japanese positions

Japanese airplanes set afire or

Bricker Closing 16,000-Mile Tour In Ohio Tonight

‘ ABOARD BRICKER CAMPAIGN TRAIN, En Route, to Cleveland, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio ends his eightweek 16,000-mile campaign tonight at Cleveland with a speech in the Music Hall. The G. O. P. vice presidential nominee made his final nation-wide radio speech last night at Philadelphia with a summing up of his canipaign in which he said that Governor Thomas E. Dewey “deplores one-man government” while President Roosevelt, “wants wv go it alone.” On his way throiigh Ohio, Bricker speaks today at Youngstown and Akron, and makes Trear-platform talks at Niles and Warren. | Bricker’s speech at Cleveland tonight will be the 170th he will have delivered since he began his campaign at French Lick, Ind, Sept. 9. He stumped the nation from ‘Maine on to California,

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NOBODY FOR DEWEY, > ACCORDING TO ICKES

Asserts Votes Will. Answer

‘Reckless Charges.’

BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 4 (U, P.). —Calling Governor Thomas E. Dewey “the man nobody is for,” Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes said here last night that “the anger of the American people” would answer at the polls Dewey's “reckless charges, crooked talk and

Speaking under the auspices of the Maryland Committee for Roosevelt and - Truman, Ickes said the issues of the day were “too important for the American people to listen to (Dewey's) falsehoods with equanimity.” He said if Mr. Dewey were elected he would ride into the White House astride a Trojan horse inside which would be “whinnying” Col. Robert R.-McCormick, publisher of the Chi-

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TITO REPORTED WOUNDED LONDON, Nov. 4 (U, P,) ~The Bvening Standard quoted the Ger-

Marshal Tito, commander of the

(Nov. 4, 1944)

pet; FV W

Reich on 1st army front,

RUSSIA — Soviet armored spearheads smash outskirts of Buda-

. ~ WESTERN FRONT-—German coun-ter-attacks push Americans out of village of Schmidt, at the point of their deepest penetration into

PACIFIC--Japanese armored relief columns move north along west coast of Leyte island for showdown battle with American forces.

Yugoslav army -of liberation, was

FOR SAYS GOP

Charges Plot to Panic U. S.

VELT's CAMPAIGN TRAIN EN

are sorry- for before they die.”

could not talk about his oppohent

man radio today as reporting that

OFFERS “WILD, WEIRD FUTURE’

On Stumping Tour of New England.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Siaff Correspondent

ABOARD PRESIDENT ROOSE-

ROUTE TO BOSTON, Nov. 4— President Roosevelt carried his campaign into the heart of New England today, charging as he traveled through Connecticut and Massachu-

offered nothing but “some kind of a wild, weird future.” He also accused the Republicans of “a deliberate attempt to panic the American people.” He spoke first to a cheering crowd at Bridgeport, Conn.

President Scornful

The President was particularly scornful of -politicians—"“men and women” — who ~ “work themselves into such an emotional state that they say things that I-hope they Mr. Roosevelt Added that he —Governor Thomas E. Dewey, whom he did not mention by name

STAMFORD, Conn, Nov. 4 (U. PyeAN suxiliary _ policemin President ‘Roosevelt's special train here was killed at about 6 a. m. today and another auxiliary seriously injured when a New Canaan-bound {train ran over them in the fog.

—as he would: like to because Be, Mr. Roosevelt, was a Christian snd’

mer “om ‘Bridgeport’ the President moved on to Hartford and ‘Bpringfleld, Mass, heading for Boston where tonight he takes a bareknuckled swing at Dewey and the Republican party in a 45-minute address—the last major speech of the President's fourth term cam-

In a rear platform address at Hartford, Conn., to told a station throng that he wanted to say a word “about the campaign of fear which some Republican orators are seeking to spread among holders of insurance policies.”

‘Rebuked’ by People

“It is,” he said, “much like previous Republican campaigns. “Today, as before, they are saying that unless this administration is removed from office, the insurance policies of the peéople of the United States will be worthless.” The President said that type of campaign has “been rebuked by the American people at the polls before ~—and it will be again.” He also charged that “time and again the Republicans in the congress voted overwhelmingly against

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SEYMOUR MEN KILLED SEYMOUR, Ind. Nov, 4 (U. P.). —Burl williams, 55, and William J. Zickler, 53, state highway workers of . Seymour, were killed instantly today when. their light truck was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train a mile west of

wounded by Serbian nationalists,

here,

By JOHN L. BOWEN City police, re-examining their records of the original investigation into ‘the murder of WAC Cpl. Ma~ oma Little Ridings at the Claypool hotel on Aug. 28, 1043, today dis-

Find Flaw in WAC Dorothy's Story: Second WAC Sought

covered a discrepancy in the story

hi The fate of Germany ast satel- | dered the evacuation of several -dis-

tricts of Budapest, and the fall of TIMES INDEX

the city was considered ‘imminent.

fighting was expected to start mo4 {mentartly in

susasuSonawas

told at that time by a Camp Atterbury WAC by the name of Dorothy. When questioned in August, 1943, WAO Dorothy stated that she had

AIR WAR-—Néarly 2000 Yank warplanes again blast Nazi synthetic oil plants, rail yards after R. A bi J Mowuitoes raid Berlin again,

This, edition of your Saturday % Indianapolis Times is :

Complete in One Section

remained at Camp Atterbury throughout the Saturday night on which Cpl. Ridings was slain, Sources at police -headquarters today disclosed

Columbus, Police |

0 PASS BILL EXTENDING OTING HOURS TO

setts that his Republican opposition | also wants to be sure .that no one. votes twice,” said Mr. | Dawson, commenting on the bill to create the senate investigaitng committee.

tending voting hours pro_{vides:

sold ike.-to. — . Deaver Home) $5 Soi: i a

that the camp's week-end pass-out sheet for the 28, 1943, showed WAC

sheet, WAC Dorothy had signed out for a trip to

are ‘anxious to learn she went to Columbus or

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ATOR

PREPA

G. 0. P. Caucus Rejects Move to Keep Polls Open Until 9 P. M.;

Schricker Delivers Message.

The Republican-controlled

prepared to pass, under suspension of rules, a bill to extend the voting hours next Tuesday from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. The G. O. P. pre-session caucus voted down the proposal to extend the voting hours from 6 p..m. to 9 p. m., the period requested by Governor Schricker in his brief special message which the chief executive read to the combined session shortly after it opened at 10 a. m. Also scheduled for passage at the special s session was a bill empowering Republican Lt. Gov. Charles M. Dawson to name a special committee of five senators to investigate any reoprted election fraud. This committee was to be given $10,000 and ‘power to subpena and act upon any election fraud discovered.

The G. O. P.-drawn bill ex-

An appropriation of $400,000 to reimburse the counties for the additional expense caused by keeping the polls open longer. That the election board workers shall be paid for a full extra day's work, at the present rates, for the extra time worked on election day.

That taverns be closed until the polls close at 8 p. m. _ Democrats Offer Bill “That each party be “entitled to place an additional watcher if each precinct, That the polis shall close at-8 p. m. Central War time where that time is used and 8 p., m. Central Standard Time where that time is used, . The house quickly passed a bil}

Soaps ee iy he

# “RIOTENPOATAONE TEENY in each house to extend: the voling hours in order to speed passage. The Democratic minority in the house introduced bills . to - extend the time for voting from 6 tQ. 9 p. m. and ta close taverns i 9 p.m on election day. After introduction of bills, both houses recessed for lunch,

Rumor Is Killed

Before the governor delivered his message, there were Tumors, coming chiefly from Democrats, that the Republican-controlled . session was lot going to permit the governor to speak. But. G. O. P. leaders quickly squelched this and the Democratic chief executive was escorted to the platform by the customary committees, composed of members of both parties, There was mild applause - when he ascended the rostrum in the house. ‘I'ne governor called upon the session to extend the voting hours un-

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Hoosier Heroes—

PILOT AND SOLDIER

By EARL RICHERT

appropriating $10,000 for expenses if :

general assembly today was

ARMY TO RUN 8

White House Orders Stimson to, Take Over Toledo

Factories.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 4 (U, P). ~ President Roostvelt today ordered Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to take over and operate attempt to break up ‘a strike by g| members of the Mechanics Educational Society of America in those factories and 41 others in Ohio and Michigan. The Toledo workers had left their posts in support of a strike started. by. ME. S. A. at the Auto-Lite Co.'s (Telaca. lent

ANAT RE wae. tm

parently because 6nly a few members of M. E. 8. A. are employed by the company, and its plant .is still in operation. Stimson was directed to ‘seize the Toledo plant of the Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., manufacturers of army jeeps; Baker Bros, Inc.; Great

TIME-OFF-T0-VOTE PROVISION CHANGED:

Some Employees From ‘Asking Excuse.

ployers must give employees four hours off on election day to vote, if that is necessary. It is up to the individual employer whether the employée is paid for the time taken off to vote. Some employers pay for the time off, but most of them, particularly those employing labor by hourly wages, do not, The bill to be passed by the

FROM HER HERE DEA

Two “Listed as as Missing And Five Wounded.

Anzio beachhead until

Jand five have been wounded. DEAD

54th st., over France, MISSING *

Gray st., over Austria. Torpedoman 3-¢ Allen H, Carr

Pacific, WOUNDED

8. Sgt. Roy L. Wright, 1242 W. 10th st. in Europe. Pvt. Guy G. Stfrvant, 2860 N.

Sgt. Morris W. Ott, 3048 X. Park- | France.

A missing pilot is reported killed and another soldier has died in a German prison camp after having manned an observation post on the he was wounded and captured. Meanwhile, two other service men are missing

Pvt. Thomas C. Ahern, 5740 College ave, in a German prison camp. Second Lt. Harry B. Noon, 509 W.

8. Sgt. Elmer Christensen, 23 N.

1130 Westbrook ave., in ‘the South

| session today retains the four hours jot provision, excepting those per who, now that the polls are

oe. longer, have four . successive

hours outsic~ ment in wi

their time of employ= 1 they can vote,

M.ES.A. PLANTS|

TSompRiIes: taken over, however, ap-|,

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Barred

In other words, no employee can demand time off to vote if there are four successive hours in the voting

8 P. M.

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DEWEY MAKES

CLIMAX’ TALK ONAIRATS:30

Madison Square Garden Speech Will Stress Need for Change. " By CHARLES T.- LUCEY

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ALBANY, N. ¥,, Nov. 4. — Tom

Dewey rides down the Hudson river

today for a Square Garden speech tonight, end-

climactic Madison

ing a presidential campaign which —win or lose—will have provided a laboratory test in American politics to be talked about for a long time. . It will be the 17th major speech since the Republican candidate began his campaign in mid-Septem-ber. It will summarize much of

TONIGHT'S SPEECHES By UNITED PRESS

(WFBM), 8-8:45 p. m.; (WIRE, WISH), 8-8:30 p. m : Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, New York (WFBM, WIRE), 9:30-10 p.m. -

thé case Mr. Dewey has made and emphasize, it is expected, the G. O., P. theme that “It's time for a change.” The address wil be broadcast

P dianapc has been toward chaiige, and Shey sought to keep out of the governor's speeches “me, too,” stuff that would have people saying he stood

only for the things Mr, Roosevelt stood for,

Favors Social Advances hones wn or WO ia

his later campaign. : But even then he was charging the Roosevelt administrafion with bad administration of the new labor laws and with not going far enough in social security protection. The Dewey and Willkie cam=paigns have been vastly different. Take the business of ad libbing a speech. Many of Mr, Willkie's best. speeches came when he tossed his manuscript away and words spilled over in ardent, intense pleas to audiences. Talking off the cuff is all right in a sheriff's campaign, but it can be dangerous in a presidential race. Mr, Willkie found out quickly that mistakes made in such talks could

|come back to haunt him. oe Indiana - law provides that em-|

Sticks to His Script

Governor Dewey has stuck chiefly to written speeches, and when speaking extemporaneously, gen= erally has stayed on themes known well from earlier addresses. He has found, too, that off-thes cuff- remarks can be used by his opponents. President Roosevelt, in a speech, reminded’ him of a press confers ence remark about inadequate supe plies having been sent Gen. Macs Arthur earlier in'the war, and of® still another off-the-cuff comment in St. Louis to the general effect that there weren't more than five competent people in the whole Washington administration. Governor Dewey has sought to

day when he is not on his job.

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WASHINGTON

A Woaekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard

WASHINGTQN,. Nov. own. Who are we to offer

can’t get together? But here's one safe bet:

decisive factor.

Now add the soldier’ 65 per cent of the civilian vote. ‘state we're jniking Suppose this

f 137.00; Dewey 8,000.

You can discount predictions that the soldier vote will be a We It's a mathehatical - possibility, but. a remote one..

Servicemen's votes will change the result only in states where the : civilian vote is closer than 51-49 per- cent. For example, take a state with’

divided 0-40 tor Rissvelt. The

Washington Newspapers . | 82

4.—Election: You're on your -

a predicilon if the poll-takers

a wi ve et That would make 195,000 in

President Roosevelt, Boston 5

en LT a 182 pr

oir om the fist that gn 3

ry pa y

in laying a necessary foundation for 3

3,000,000 civilian votes. and assume ' 'l Dewey's vote is 51 per cent, Roosevelt's 40 per cent. In’ ‘votes, ‘this “gd

would be Dewey 1,530,000; Roogevelt 1,470,000. . Best estimates gre