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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 211

| Ernie Becomes ‘Do

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 13.—Ernie Pyle became Dr. Pyle at his alma mater today. % More than 4000 Indiana university, high school and grade school students and Bloomington townspeople

packed the university's audi as the famous Indianapolis

torium at 11:15 a. m, today Times columnist received a

degree of doctor of humane letters.

IN THERE PITCHING—

The Times Poll Rings Bell on 4 County Races

By EARL RICHERT HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES straw vote correctly indicated the results of all the four county election contests to which it _ was applied, and hit within 4 per cent of the actual vote in three of the four races, tabuls tion of final official returns showed today. Final poll figures indicated that Governor Dewey, Governor Schricker, Ralph F. Gates and Louis Ludlow would carry Marion county, All four did. . In the Gates-Jackson race for governor the final straw vote figures were within one-tenth of one per cent of the actual result. 8 » - WIDEST MISS of the poll was on the contest for congress. Final adjusted figures on the straw vote indicated Mr. Ludlow would carry the county with 60.2 per cent of the total vote cast. He actually carried the county with 51.2 per cent of the vote cast, an error of nine per cent. Heavy “straight-ticket” voting on election day probably was re sponsible for this wide variance between straw vote and actual

vote totals, \ * 8 =

THE STRAW VOTE error on the two presidential candidates was 1.8 per cent. The poll indi. cated Governor Dewey would re- . Selva 34 par Sumi uf the sountys

He actually ‘received 52.3 per cent. Hu The poll, of course, could not measure, the soldier vote. Error on the Capehart-Schrick-er contest for senator was 3.2 per cent, The poll indicated Governor Schricker would receive 53.8 per cent of the county's vote. He actually received 50.8 per cent, Final poll figures also indicated Mr. Gates would get 51 per cent of the total vote. He got 51.1 per cent.

” 8 o THE POLL WAS conducted entirely by mail. Return postcards were mailed to lists of thousands of names selected by a fixed pattern from the city directory. Each mailing went to approximately three names from each page of the directory. Above 30 per cent of all cards mailed out were returned with election preferences marked on them. Actual count of the ballots returned showed higher percentages for the Republican candidates; which would have changed the predicted result, however, in only one of the four -gontests, ’

. gy 8.8 SINCE EXPERIENCE of other straw vote polls had revealed that certain proportions of straw vote ballots distributed at random . went to the people in the low income group and others unlikely to return them, the result

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HOAX SEEN IN NAZI , LISTING OF DEATHS

By UNITED PRESS Recent reports of the deaths of Many Nazi party officials may be part of an elaborate hoax designed to mask the formation of an undermovement that will continue to fight after Germany has been de-

feated, the Stockholm newspaper

Aftonbladet said in a dispatch reported to the office of war information today. Swiss ol ted from Basle, believe that the

number of obituaries of Nazi ' Jeaders published in German newspapers were faked and that the party chieftains actually were going false

into hiding and names,

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IS. SENATE AI PROBES VOTING CHARGES HERE

Tilson and: Leaders of Both Parties to Be Quizzed This Week.

By SHERLEY UHL County Clerk A. Jack Tilson and other Republican and Democratic politicians are to be questioned this week by Harold Buckles, U. S. Senate investigator, who today launched a probe of election disfranchisement charges. Mr. Buckles, chief investigator for the senate’'s campaign expense committee, said he was here chiefly to ferret out facts about the registration mix-up last Tuesday in which hundreds of would-be Marion county voters were challenged at the polls because their names were not on the registration files, Co-incidentally Mr, Buckles said he would examine campaign expenses of U. 8. Senator-elect Homer E. Capehart, who has been the target of various “high spénding” charges hurled by the Democrats.

Capehart Answers

Today Mr. Capehart disavowed any knowledge of Mr. Buckles’ intentions, but asserted that “we spent very little money in this campaign, probably the .smallest amount ever spent on a senatorial campaign in the history of Indiana.” In connection with state-wide 11

retary of State Rue J. Alexander. He added that he would especially investigate the Marion county registration confusion by interviewing 11th District G. O. P. Chairman James L. Bradford, G. O. P. County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom, 11th District Democratic Chairman Henry O. Goett and Democratic County Chairman James L. Beattey. High-ranking Democrats here accused Republicans of deliberately annulling voting privildges by challenging hundreds of would-be balloters on election day. Although most of these had registration receipts, it was found that their names were not on the official registration books. -

Blame Inexperienced Help

Republican authorities, including County Clerk Jack Tilson, have attributed the widespread vote-jam to registration errors committed by inexperienced workers. Describing..his current activities ag “strictly preliminary,” Mr. Buckles said the senate campaign expenses committee, which he repressents, is non-partisan, Hedsaid he was empowered to probe disfranchisement charges by broad “public interest” clauses under which the committee operates,

DAVIS, 2 OTHERS ON WLB WANT TO QUIT

Chairman Hopes to See Steel Case Settled.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (U. PJ). —~Three members of the war labor board, including Chairman William H. Davis, want to quit their jobs, it was disclosed today. Mr. Davis said at a press conference that he hopes to resign by Jan. 1 but has not yet scheduled an appointment to discuss his desires with President Roosevelt, Dr. George W. Taylor and, Dr. Frank P. Graham, public members of the board, also have written the President asking to be relieved. White House Press Secretary Stephen T. Early had revealed earlier that Davis asked on Aug. 29, his 65th birthday, to be relieved

Appeal for Blood, Plasma in Pacific

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FORECAST: Scattered showers and warmer tonight; tomorrow, showers and a little cooler.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1944

Ernie first was “doctored,” as he terms it, when the

University of Mexico conferred upon him the degree

of doctor of letters Oct. 235.

"The largest. crowd ever to witness the conferring of a

degree in Indiana university's attended today’s ceremony.

big million-dollar auditorium

Bloomington schools were dismissed as were classes at Indiana university to permit students to attend the

Spur Loan Drive

Dorothy Sarnoff

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“POP CONCERT

Free Sunday Program will Feature Metropolitan

Opera Stars.

A free popular concert by Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis symphony orchestra will spur the sixth war loan drive Sunday at Cadle tabernacle. Solos by Dorothy Sarnoff, young Metropolitan opera soprano, and Leonard Warren, Metropolitan baritone, will headline the program with the two singing “Sweethearts” as a duet, , N Another highlight of the program, in which work of Amercian com=~ posers only will be played, will be the world premiere of Nat Shilkret’s “Serenade Rhapsodie,” written for the banjo. - Rex Schepp will play the banjo with the ofchestra. 3 Among numbers to be sung by Miss Sarnoff are “Carry Me Back

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HOOSIER HEROES—

Gallamore, Scott |

And Eagan Killed; 4 More Wounded

Two Indianapolis infantrymen have been killed in Holland and Italy and a former resident has been killed in France. In addition, four soldiers have been wounded in

Europe, KILLED

Chief Warrant Officer Gerald Eagan, formerly of 310 N. Holmes ave, in France. : Pfc. Orville B, Scott, 1208 Central ave., in Holland. : Pfc. John E. Gallamore, 1650 Astor st, in Italy. WOUNDED Sgt. P. Tobias, 2951 Ruckle st., in France, 8. Sgt. Everett J. Tackitt, 234 N. Sheffield ave, in Germany. Pfc. Roy A. Simmons,

AIR ACE, MISSING

LONDON, Nov. 13 (U, P.)~Col. I Missoula, Mont.

STATE SOCIAL

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Ne. Baldwin said Indiana's nurs-

SERVICE UNITY BEING MAPPED

Adjustments to Soften Blow Of Post-War Dislocations Studied by Parley.

By NOBLE REED Groundwork for a state-wide social service program designed to cushion the shock of post-war dislocations in Hoosier family life will be laid here this week. Details of the planning will be outlined at the 54th annual. meeting of the Indiana State Conference on Social Work, opening today at the Claypool and Lincoln hotels. The first step in the program will be formation of a division of state organizations, comprising representatives of all private and public welfare agencies, to provide a clearing house for all ial work and to coactivities in all parts of the state.

Bradshaw to Preside

This division, to operate as part of the state conference on social work, will be outlined at a dinner meeting tonight at ‘the Lincoln hotel with Wilfred Bradshaw, former Marion county juvenile court judge, presiding. ; Leading the dicussions on the co-ordination program will be Richard Eddy, superintendent of the Illinois training school for boys, who will give a lecture on the “Challenge of Working Together.” . Joseph E. ‘Baldiwn, conference president, said leaders at other sessions of the convention will outline other social work ‘under the general theme of “The Challenge of Peace.”

War Plant Problems

Most serious of post-war problems confronting social workers, he said, will be the rehabilitation of migrant families who have moved into the state to work at war plants and readjustment of thousands of women who will be laid off their war plant jobs at the end of the war, Also to be discussed at the conferenges, continuing until Wednesday night, will be increased facilities for the institutional care of aged persons, regardless of their financial status.

ome facilities are inadequate in every respect to care properly for aged persons, even those financially able to pay well for good care,

New Hospitals Planned

“A program that eventually may bring about establishment of special hospitals for the aged instead of the present infirmaries will be outlined,” Mr, Baldwin said. Other branches of the conferences will discuss juvenile delinquericy problems, regarding health, social welfare, education and safety. Mr, Baldwin said the conference is expected to adopt a resolution, urging the juvenile court laws be retained essentially as they are with some possible improvements in court operations on more modern lines

More than 1500 social workers

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

event. Standing beside President Herman B Wells of I. Us, frail and small Ernie, garbed in his academic gown, received the degree. on But still the same shy Ernie, the war correspondent sat very uncomfortably on the auditorium platform during the remainder of the program. He came to Bloomington this morning from Dana with his father, Will Pyle, and his Aunt Mary, who both I

HOME |

sat proudly in the audience to his alma mater,

PRICE FOUR CENTS

ctor Of Humane Letters’ At I U. As 4000 Look On

see their Ernie honored by

“The job which Ernie Pyle has done and. is doing is unique,” Dean Fernandus Payne of the graduate school

said. “Il is distinctive.

It stands apart.

“By his actions and writings he has made a signifi- i cant contribution to the maintenance of morale at home and

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Is Fuehrer lll . . . Dead... Insane?

~ HIMMLER TALK

Nazi Spokesmen Fail to Explain the Whereabouts of ‘Absent’ German Leader.

LONDON, Nov. 13 (U. P.).—Berlin spokesmen, struggling to counter world-wide rumors that Adolf Hitler is ill, dead or insane, declared today that he is in “excellent health.” However, they carefully refrained from disclosing the whereabouts of the mysteriously-silent fuehrer.

of speculation caused by Hitler's prolonged silence, the German Transocean news agency broadcast a statement by “competent German quarters” denying that anything untoward had happened to the Nazi leader. Transocean cited the Hitlerian language of the proclamation read to the German nation by Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler yesterday as “proof” that the fuehrer was alive and functioning as leader of the Reich.

Follows ‘Uusual’ Procedure

“Adolf Hitler has never read proclamations in person, but always had them read by his ministers,” the agency added in answer to one rumor that he had been unable to deliver the address personally. Earlier, a Berlin radio commentator, reiterating Hitler's boast that the Nazi regime would not repeat the surrender of 1918, admitted that the fuehrer had been “compelled” to turn over to Himmler and other party leaders the task of rallying the German nation for the final phase of the war. The commentator, Rudolf Semmler, told the German public in a nation-wide broadcast that the decisive hours of the war are at hand, with the mysteriously -silent fuehrer still absent. “Within a measurable space of time,” he said, “the question will arise: Do we capitulate in front of superior enemy odds in men and material, or will they capitulate as they see our unshakeable determination ?” Surrender ‘Ruled Out’ Semmler declared that surrender ha8 been ruled out by the Nazi leaders, and he exhorted the people to rally to the newly-organized “Volkstrum,” the people's army. “Our leaders,” he promised, “will not let the German people down as did the cowardly governor of 1918.” Then, attempting to explain Hitler's singular absence from public life at this critical hour, Semmler added fresh fuel to the world-wide speculation that the ‘fuehrer was sick or dead, or had been driven insane by disaster. “If the fuehrer spoke so seldom during recent months and was compelled to pass on the task to his nearest collaborators, we know all the same that every single word of his has special importance,” he said. “The whole world realizes this.” Himmler Actual Ruler? Semmler made no further mention of Hitler, in whose name a proclamation was read yesterday calling on Germany to fight against enemies within and without the nation. London observers speculated that Gestapo Chief Hein-

BRITISH TANKS NEAR RAVENNA ON ADRIATI

ROME, Nov. 13 (U.P. —British armored forces of the 8th army,

crossing the Ghiaia canal,

| stallations.

LONG BEACH, Cal, Nov.

a trunk, He was imprisoned in “trailer-home, while police scoured however,

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SVING Bo ons luvs Ad nls | mestic situation in Germany also... . eoaring to assume the job of | and a half of Ravenna today after|"®3 deepened by:

The 5th army front still was con- | : fined to patroling, although two or Poned observation of the Munich 404 like a poor imitation of three Gierman planes made several sorties over the sector, bombing and strafing highways and forward in-

Bourbonnais threatened today to bop a playmate on the nose and dunk his head in an ofl sump for leaving him locked seven days in

COL. ZEMKE, YANK Bu! n the trunk within 100 yards of his parents’

rich Himmler might be emerging oR — : tual ruler of Nazi Ger-| THREE—A frank admission by 3: the ae a ¢ i” hrewd “hang- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of many and tha $ stir ngs propaganda and total war mobiliza-

‘Taking cognizance for the first time of the recent flood |"

Himmler the Hangman .,. is of Germany?

Take First

battle of almost encircled Metz. In

man defenses of northern France, to a mile and a half.

American successes in the storming

WAR FRONTS

(Nov. 13, 1944)

PACIFIC—Tokyo reports lone B20 on another reconnaissance flight for expected major aerial assault on Japanese homeland while invasion forces on Leyte progress against increased enemy resistance. £

ITALY-British 8th army ade vances north up Adriatic coast to within mile and half of Ravenna. Ee *

HITLER IN ‘EXCELLENT HEALTH, BERLIN REPLIES T0 RUMORS, BUT SPURS MYSTERY

he emerging as the actus]

Yanks Open Battle of Metz,

of City's Forts

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent a

PARIS. Nov. 13.—American 3d army assault forces today opened the

the initial onslaught they captured

Ft. Verny in the sprawling maze of fortifications anchoring the Ger-

and four towns in advances of up

Dispatches from Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton’s front reported initial

of the Metz fortress, the toughest nut the 3d army has tried to crack since the St. Lo break-through on the other side of France. German resistance was reported stiffening along fhe 3d army front as the Americans clamped an assault arc against Metz and nar rowed the Nazi escape corridor east of the city to less than a dozen miles. Over-run Thionville

North of Metz the Americans | captured most of ancient Ft. Thionville by storm and won a new bridgehead across the Moselle, while to the southeast Patton's right wing wheeled forward six miles to within 18 miles of Saarbrucken. Nazi broadcasts said the Yanks

RUSSIA—Soviet armored forces on 25-mile front step up offensive wa Budapest with one salient reatening big communications center of Jaszber-

Iman” was seeking only to preserve the Hitler legend while establishing {tom that the European war was "

itl m “a | No. 1 Nazi, ONE—~Hitler'’s failure show | mmo . { proclamation, read by Himm- | himself yesterday eveh for the post-|,.. y," o yoice that occasionally

beer hall putech anniversary. | Hitler's, was based almost entirely TWO-The fact the fuehrer’s on an attempt to preserve the Gerproclamation was read by his Ges- | tapo Chieftain Heinrich Himmler.

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Boy, Locked in Trunk 7 Days, Ready to ‘Bop’

David was locked in the footwide trunk at Los Cerritos trailer camp last Sunday, He said the older boy tossed his coat into the compartment on the rear of the. trailer and when David climbed in to get it, shut the door. David's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Almeric Bourbonnais,” were too happy at his safety to think much about the other boy, they said. Mr, Bourbonhais, who received shrapnel wounds in his back".at

13 (U. P.)~Nine-year-old David

the countryside searching for. him. .

of the trunk and he lapped up the pools of water to quench his thifst.. : i» ol "David is at Seaside hospital's. navy elinie, where. doctors said his condition was “fairly good,” ‘although he was weak from hyn-

ger and shock. 7 the battle of Tatawa, was released "David's principal worry today from a Long Beach naval-hospital was his missing collie, Lady, who to aid the search, ola ‘wandered Saturday while = ‘David said he couldn't remem-

his fof David.

eny, 31 miles northeast of capital. ;

Smoke Drea:

COLUMBUS, 0, Nov. 13 (U. P.) ~We swear it's true. An agent for a leading cigaret manufacturer today went through Ohio State university's fraternity row. distributing free samples, .

. Guilty Pal sald. “And then when I'd hear someone walking by, I'd pound and kick on the door hoping they'd hear me, None of them did until that man found me.” Neighbors at first thought his cries were those of a child being chastized. wis : But Robert W. Brooks, resident of a nearby trailer, finally traced the call to the tiny stor- _ age compastment. There he found David, who was shivering in only

a_ pair -of lightweight coveralls :

“Inthe damp trunk.

It was his own healthy. o

which made it possible for him ‘to survive, physicians said. “I'm glad we always kept him

had broken into the citadel of | Thionville in viloent fighting, and {with its key defense. post of Ft. | Thionville nearly captured, the Tate of the by-passed city on the west bank of the Moselle seemed to be

; sealed.

Front reports said Patton surged across the BSaarebourg railroad 30 miles southeast of Metz in a sixmile advance that almost enveloped the strategic road and rail junction of Benestroff and gave the 3d army an almost solid 20-mile front aimed

|'squarely at Saarbrucken,

20-Mile Swath

The spearhead thrust northéastward from Rodalbe carried 23% miles past Benestroff, while other units cleared the forest of Bride and Coecking in a push within a ° mile of Benestroff from the south, . The 20-mile swath cut by Pate ton's right wing now was within medium gun range of the first forts . of the ol being ‘plished toward Saarbrucken now: stretched from Bermering, 12 « miles northeast of Chateau Salins," to the Benestroff area and on to.

where

Maginot line. The line