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Unknown Soldier of World
War I. That wreath is a mark of a nation’s homage not only to the man who rests below, but to the other thou-
sands who died that others
might live. That wreath
is a symbol, a token that America remembers. In Indianapolis today, Miss Mary Lu Marshall re-
membered another unknown
soldier—an unknown sol-
dier of world war II. That unknown soldier is the man
who somewhere, in the Phi
lippines, on the plains of
France or the shell-swept heights of Italy, will live to
see another dawn because a pint of her blood.
girl in Indianapolis gave a
AS WE BOW our heads in prayer during that hushed moment this morning, we shall all remember the
Unknown Soldier who died in world war IL.
And let us
remember algo’ the Unknown Soldier of this war who,
too, is facing death that thi Let us remember him with
s nation may remain free. our blood—given that the
the Unknown Soldier of world war II may live.
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But today Indianapolis is lettin
war II is paying with his life.
Figures at the Red Cross
blood bank center in the Board of Trade t to Indianapolis citizens as “50 per cent Americans.” That is because a steady flow of blood is needed at the center to
U. S. Honors War Heroes; Blood Donors Letting Down
Today the nation honors and remembers the heroes of world war I
g down—and the soldier of world
For more than two weeks donors
have. been scarce; although a few
in all the months since Pear! Harbor combined.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Next conference of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill will probably be the most fateful.
Investigation. It was reported at Washington
The Big Three will discuss organization of the peace; try to reach agreement on points not settled at Dumbarton Oaks. Outcome may determine whether we have just one more Armistice day—like today—or a permanent world order. They may discuss Asiatic problems--Sialin's recent slur at Japan is a broad hint—and that includes both the war against Japan and the future of China. Also on the agenda: Problems connected with the defeat and post-war disposition of Germany, world oil reserves, world aviation. » . » REGARDING OIL: There's nothing cooking now but some oil men recall, in connection with the situation in Iran where Russia is seeking concessions, that. Secretary Ickes’ projected government-owged pipeline across Saudi Arabia was never killed, It’s still on ice and some factions are glad of it,
The pipeline was suggested as a government venture for two reasons: To assure that concessions of Ameriean companies in Saudi Arabia would not be disturbed; to help convince Britain that she should co-operate with us in international oil. ‘The Anglo-American oil treaty, which resulted, is also on ice in the senate.
today that the justice department has received a request to investigate numerous complaints received by the U. 8. district attorney’s office here of irregularities in Tuesday's election, The request was said to have been made by Fred F, Bays, Democratic state committee chairman, to James P. McGranery, assistant to Francis Biddle, attorney general. Neither Mr. Bays nor Mr. McGagnery could be reached for comment this morning. However, attaches of the latter's |office at Washington insisted that Mr. McGranery had made no announcement that his department is making any investigation. A Washington newspaper carried a story that in addition to the request for an 4nvestigation into alleged irregularities here a similar
request also had been received from Ohio.
2 BOMBING FLEETS FIRE GERMAN OIL
Hit Almost at Exact Hour Of 1918 Armistice.
LONDON, Nov. 11 (U.P. —~Powerful formations of American and British heavy bombers, striking almost on the hour of the armistice that. ended the last war 26 years ago, bombed and burned German oil and railway targets in the Ruhr and Rhineland today. More than 450 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, covered by about 370 fighter planes, touched
Labor Problem Early on F. D. R. Agenda
STRONG SIGNS indicate one of F. D, R.'s first important domestic jobs will be to reorganize and co-ordinate the department of labor and other labor agencief, which Governor Dewey made an issue. The President, said to have been uninformed about some of the evils charged by his opponent, has started inquiries, and is reported to. .have found enough basis to justify changes.
Secretary Perkins is reported to be slated for an important post connected with the international labor organization. For her suc-
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Has Hitler Been Eased Aside To Cover Mental Illness?
LONDON, Nov. 11 (U, P.).—A new account was added today to the growing list of explanations for Adolf Hitler's mysterious dis appearance from the official German limelight. At the same time, a former French diplomat has disclosed how easy it would have been to eliminate the Nazi menace 22 years ago for a paltry $35. The latest of the Hitler stories was given by the Daily Mall in an article on a report by a psychologist)
lives in world war II
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Hoosier Heroes—
CLARK AND BARNES KILLED IN EUROPE
A Noblesville pilot has been killed over Germany and an Indianapolis man has been killed in Europe. Meanwhile an airman is missing over Holland, three servicemen have been wounded and one is a GerWan prisoner. : ' KILLED Second Lt."George N, Clark, No-
R. R. 14, Box 325, in Europe: MISSING Flight Officer Robert Paul Davis, 1816 Ruckle st., over Holland. WOUNDED 8. Sgt. Everett J. Tackitt, 234 N. Sheffield ave, in Germany. Pfc. John H. Stokes, 1217 Nor- * man st. in France. Pfc. Gurney O. Kincaid, 1302 8. Belmont ave., in France, PRISONER Pfe. Albert Selke, formerly of ‘ 814 N. Metidinn st, of Germany,
Oxford, described Hitler as a para-
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who has been studying the fuehrer’s mentality for 10 years and has advised the British foreign office from time to time on "Hitler's condition. ; ‘The psychologist, Dr. William Brown Wilde, director of the Institute of Experimental Psychology at
nolae, suffering from a persecution mania, and believed Hitler may now be approac the final phase of his mental illfiess, the Mail said.
Hitler . , . “the Legend”
Wilde classed Hitler as “hysterical in the medical sense,” and said he could be of little use to the Nazis in public life in the future. As a
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off the daylight afsault with a twin raid on Gelsenkirchen and Koblenz. An’ estimated 1000 tons of high explosive and fire bombs ripped through the Gelsenkirchen synthetic oil refineries and the Koblenz freight yards—barely 100 miles ahead of the American armies at Metz, A strong force of fighter-escorted
American blow with a raid on a big synthetic oil plaint at Castroprauxel, nine miles northeast of Gelsenkirchen; * First reports from returning American crewmen said a few German fighters were sighted, but they failed to‘thallenge.
Mrs. Van Orman Sues for Divorce
’ Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. 11.—~8uit for divorce was filed yesterday
former lieutenant governor of Indiana and head of the Van Orman Hotels Operating Co., by his second
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days ago America’s casualties in this war passed the half million mark, Last month more casualties were returned to this country than
Armiiice Day Being Marked Today and Tomorrow Here
Indianapolis bowed its head today in. silent tribute to its dead war heroes . . . those who fell on the battlefield more than .26 years ago and those who are sacrificing their
Andon this Armistice day Amer= jca mourned the lossof nearly three times as many of her fighting men as were lost in 1917-18. While simple prayers were offered in the privacy of many homes, joint memorial services, war veterans’ programs, the annual Armistice day parade and other events marked the holiday observance. ‘A tribute to men and women in the Irvington neighborhood who have died for their country will be paid at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow in Howe high school auditorium during the annual gold star service of Irvington post 38, American Legion, Indiana war dead also will be
At Tomb of U
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (U. PJ). —President Roosevelt stood today before the tomb of America’s Uns known Soldier of the last war to give silent expression to the nation’s Armistice day remembrance of its fallen dead, A brisk wind snapped the Stars and Stripes as the President, standing at the side of his car, watched Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, his military aide, ‘lay a wreath of chrysanthemums on the tomb. It was the nation's 26th observance of the end of the first war in
anapolis blood bank. than 600 are received.
16. p.m. tomorrow.
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Roosevelt Leads Memorial
Twelve hundred pints of blood are asked for every week of the IndiOften less
How many more pints a week will American youth spill in battle?
honored at a memorial service in the recreation hall at Stout field, headquarters of the I Troop Carrier Command, at 2 p. m. tomorrow. The Veterans’ hospital Armistice anniversary program will begin at and-wilk-be
cast over the public address system at the hospital. In the Irvington program various churches of the East side will cooperate and approximately 120 gold star citations will be presented. Commemorating about 75 deaths, flags will be given each family of a man or woman who died outside the continental United States. The Rev. James W, Moore, of Our Lady of Lourdes church, and the Rev. Clarence A. Shake of the Irvington Methodist church will speak. Officers of the army, navy,
nknown Soldier
In the brief ceremony, the com-mander-in-chief took the lead in observing the third wartime Armis-~ tice day as an array of military and nayal honor guards stood at attention,
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Patton Shifts His| Attack From Metz.
By I EDWARD MURRAY
United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov. 11.—Lt. Gen. George S. Patton swung his entire front below Metz mortheast toward the German border today and two
columns leaped- ahead to within 25 miles of the frontier bastion of Saarbrucken. Berlin said the first armored battle of the four-day-old offensive had broken out near Delme, 17 miles southeast of Metz, with an estimated 400 to 500 tanks participating, but this was not confirmed by any allied source. Another German broadcast sald the soil of Lorraine was trembling under the thunder of countless heavy guns. .
Nazis Bring Up Reserves
Patton has thrown a sixth armored division into action and now was trying to break through south of Metz with 600 tanks, the broadcast said. It added that German reserves had been brought up to the front,
A military band played the National Anthem and the gathering, including several hundred specta-
National cemetery amphitheater and | grounds nearby, joined in the minute of silence at 11 a. m. which recalled the end of the last war at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the)
Europe.
A plea that the United States’ accomplishments to date serve “not as feathers in our caps, but as spurs in our sides,” sounded the keynote as the 6th war loan campaign for $239,000,000 opened in/ Indiana today.” The appeal was voiced by Lt, Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. marine corps, one of the principal speakers at the war finance committee chairmen and workers’ luncheon at noon at the Claypool hotel, Exhorting Hoosiers to continue their record of supporting war bond campaigns, the commandant stressed that this nation “must not
the 24-hour day. in battle, and blood, and death.
Vandegrift Sparks Opening -Of 6th Loan Drive in Indiana
dwell on the joys of victory while our fighting men are still expending
Claude H. Vickard, secretary of agriculture, directed an appeal ‘to the - farmers of Indiana “to join with the town and city peoples of
11th month of 1918,
the state in going over the top in the 6th war loan drive.” The cabinet member not only urged the buying of war bonds as “a strong link between the home front and the fighting front,” but as a precaution against inflation, which again threatens American farmers. ' “The yeast of inflation is again leavening the land market, Both the rising price of land and the increased numbers of farm sales signal the danger,” said Mr, Wickard. “I sincerely hope the trend will stop in time to avert a repetition of the farm foreclosures and the
308.” Both speeches were over the NBC network. Robert W. Coyne, field director of the war finance division of the treasury department,
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ROBOTS RIP LONDON ON ARMISTICE DAY
Consors Bar Any Mention of V-2’s in Barrage.
11 (U, P.,). ~The
LONDON, Nov.
barrage of robot bombs against London and southern England early today. Censorship, however, prevented disclosure whether they included any of the huge new V-2 rockets. Night fighters, anti-aircraft guns and even a gunner aboard a North sea trawler destroyed many V-1
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SAN CARLOS, Cal, Nov. 11 (U. P.)~Lt. Col. Albert Stevens, U. S$. army; retired, said today it is “very doubtful” if the Nazis could hit New York City with their V-2 rocket bomb with which they have been bombing England. © “It is very doubtful ® rocket pombs could be aimed from Europe to hit New York, except by accident,” he said. “The slightest miscalculation or interference would’ throw them off their course.”
Armistice Day: All Wet on the Western Front
Times Foreign Beryice AACHEN, Nov. 1.-~Armigs" tice day, 1944, is just another wet and miserable day on the western front with an occa~ sional plop of shells and mortars and an odd burst of ma-chine-gun fire to show that the war still is going on,
FRANGE INVITED T0 JOIN ‘BIG 3’
Gets Equal Voice on Plans For Reich in War
And Peace.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (U. PJ). ~The United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union today invited Gen, Charles De Gaulle's provisional government of France to become a full member of the European advisory commission now formulating surrender terms for Germany and planning post-war treatment of that country. The announéément was made simultaneously by the three present members of the commission shortly after British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden . arrived in Paris, Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. made the announcement here for the United States. France Again Great Power
Today's action in effect raises France again to her former position as one of the great powers, The arrival of Churchill and Eden in Paris, the invitation to France, to join the European advisory commission and President Roosevelt's forthcoming visit to Paris were expected to set off a series of discussions on the following subjects: ONE-—American and British help in rearming France, TWO—Allied relief measures for France this winter. . THREE—Extent of French military participation in the final phases of the war against Germany and the occupation of the Reich. FOUR~Cieneral plans for the reconstruction of Europe and organi-
zation of an international security
B-20'S RIP NANKING; 3D ARMY 25 MILES FROM SAARBRUCKEN
Nips Report Blow
At Shanghai,
By FRED sopERr LIA
a Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov, 11.— American Superfortresses attacked Nanking, puppet capital of occupied China, for the first time today and by Tokyo account bombed the Shanghai area and Southwest Japan proper. A series of Tokyo broadcasts fol. lowing the Washington announcement of the Nanking raid indicated that several forces of B-2098 were in action over Japan and Japanese~ held territory in perhaps the most extensive operations so far by the Superfortresses. The Japanese reported that “several” Superfortresses in “wave-type formations” dropped bombs at a number of pointson the outskirts of Shanghai, and that 80 of the B-20's bombed western Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands, and Saishu islarid 175 miles to the west. “Reconnaissance” Flights
Still another Tokyo broadcast reported that planes of an unspecified type flew over “the Sanyo area of Japan,” apparently on reconnaissance, The Sanyo area includes the southeast coastal region of the main home island of Honshu, im which the cities of Kobe and Kure are situated. Domei, in a broadcast dispatch recorded by the PCC, quoted an army-navy press release in Shanghal as reporting the attack on that city. It said the Superfortresses hit about 8:50 a, m. (6:50 p, m. Friday, Indianapolis time), an hour and 10 minutes before the reported 10 a. m. attack on Kyushu and Saishu. The Japanese attached the customary claim that air raid de fense units “repulsed” the bombers over Shanghai and said “extremely negligible losses” were suffered. A Japanese communique reporting the Kyushu and Saishu attacks said
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FINN SHAKEUP REPORTED STOCKHOLM, Nov. 11 (U, P) ~~ The Morgan Tidningen, in a Hel« sinki dispatch, reported last night that Finnish Premier Urho Jonas Castren had resigned and that former Premier Juho Paasikivi was expected to be asked to form & new government, - Paasikivi, a vet eran Pinnish government official, helped negotiate the recent armise
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the sea, touching off “speculation that some of the planes from which the Germnas have been launching V-1's recently also had been ‘shot down.»
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PARIS, Nov. 11—Prime Minister Winston Churehill, in Paris for the first time in five years, received one of the most tumulfous welcomes of! Soior "
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