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CIGARET ANALYSIS — Shortage of Help Causes 'Fag' Famine
By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staft Writer
IX7ASHINGTON, Nov. 7 14.—~Charles E. Cage, war food administration tobacco boss and chief of the agricultural marketing administration’s tobacco branch, is a man of philosophjc mien. He moves by easy stagés from smoking a handsome, autographed briar to cigarets and back to common corncob. Today, at a moment when it seemed almost as many govern - ment agencies were concerned 4 about the cigaret shortage as Mr. Lucey oith fighting the war, he—like millions of other Americans—was smoking a brand almost nobody ever heard of and sizing up the situation this way: “We'll have to weather the
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tle, I guess.” tvs» ACCORDING to some estimates, nearly four billion packs of cigarets are going abroad, including those to U. 8. armed forces. But Mr. Gage points out that save. for 1943, the natiofl domestically is now smoking more cigarets than ever — 181 billion (cigarets, not packs) in the first nine months of 1944, Last year in the corresponding period it was 187 billions and. two years ago 172 billions. > “It's strange,” said this man whose life for many years has been tobacco and who has written authoritative tomes on the subject, “that a smaller figure than we have this year did not represent a shortage just two years ago.”
account for 85 per cent of tobacco going into cigarets. Mr. Gage says the U, 8. has less tobacco on hand, in relation to consumption, than it normally
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Wynona Luallen Leaves County
Jail Tomorrow
Mrs, Wynona Kidd Luallen, former wife of William Luallen, confessed murderer of WAC Cpl Maoma L., Ridings, probably will be iisasta tomorrow from the county ' 8 hearing in criminal heliowie 3 > Judge William D. Bain indicated he was going to release Mrs, Luallen for insufficient evidence. However, the prosecutor's office insisted she be held until it could be determined whether Mrs. Luallen was at work at Knoxville, Tenn., when the series of burglaries with which she is charged were committed.
Luallen Clears His Wife Yesterday, Luallen told the court
diana's only congressional change, election of a second Republican Senator, when Capt. William E. Jenner of Bedford took the senate oath to
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WAR VETERAN
JENNER TAKES SENATE'S OATH
Republican Winner Moves "Into Jackson's Seat for Short Term.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov.
14. —Inwas carried out today
fill out the short term ending Jan. 3. He succeeds Senator Samuel D. Jackson, defeated Democratic candidate for governor. Senator Jenner’s Democratic opponent in the short term senate race: was Core nelius O'Brien, Lawrenceburg businessman. After Jan. 3, Senator Jenner will be succeeded by the successful longterm Republican, Homer E. Capehart, who defeated Democratic Governor Henry F. Schricker for the senate seat. This is the first time both senate seats have been Republican since the Democratic landslide in 1932. No changes occurred in the house.
Becomes Youngest Member
Senator Jenner, 36, is the youngest member of the senate. He told reporters he realized there was little he could accomplish in such a short time but his primary interest was in the establishment of an economic and social program for the benefit of service men and women, € He was an elevator operator in the Capitol in 1930. Four years later he was elected to the Indiana state senate, where he served until he resigned on June 25, 1942, to enter the army. He received | a medical discharge as an army air corps captain last Oct. 7. Capt. Jenner arrived here yesterday accompanied by his wife and
his secretary, William Murray. They spent last night at the Ward-man-Park hotel,
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ito the senate offices of Senator
willis and arranged to be sworn in. His certificate of election was brought here today by Lisle Wallace, Sheridan, Jenner's campaign manager, wijo will be his secretary. Capt. Jenner also called on retiring Senator Jackson and announced that he expects to retain Miss Wilma Aber, secretary on the Jackson staff, who at one time worked for Rep. Raymond 8. Springer (R. Ind.)
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PATROLMAN LOSES PANTS PLUS COSTS
City
Rules Compensation Not Forthcoming.
out one pair of trousers,
the incident.
of trousers ripped in line of duty.
RAINCOAT WEATHER
Saturday and Sunday,
As a result of his ripping pursuit of a purse-grabber up an alley near 22d st. and Central ave. last week, Patrolman Henry Long today was
Patrolman Long, who split his pants at the seam while chasing the culprit, was thwarted by the state board of accounts in his effort to obtain $11 restitution for
The accounts board, in an opinion to City Controller Roy Hickman, said there was no legal way to compensate Patrolman Long for a pair
OVER BY TOMORROW
Raincoats and umbrellas needed for today's rain can be left at home tomorrow. The weather bureau in its five-day forecast today predicts considerably cooler weather for tomorrow and Thursday with precipitation occurring mainly as showers
This week's temperatures will average near normal and precipita-
5 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1944
Rotary Hears
By MILDRED KOSCHMANN
id * The man who “practically laughed in Der Fuehrer’s face” and lost all “interest” in the Nazi youth movement when he saw Herr Paul Goebbels’ looks is in Indianapolis-today on a nationwide speaking tour. He's Louis J. Alber, who-has been arranging for lecture tours of world celebrities for the last 40 years. Mr, Alber, who spoke before thé Rotary club meeting today on
“Hitler and the Junkers,” met Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1929 before the dictator came into power. While he was attempting to get celebrities in Germany to come to the United States and lecture, he was called upon by Herr Goebbels, who wanted to lecture on the Nazi youth movement. “Just one look at him and I knew he wouldn't do for a lecturer,” Mr. Alber said. “He has a most unpleasant looking face, the most arrogant manner I've ever seen. The caricaturists certainly have done him no wrong.” The Hitler youth movement was being organized in the same hotel
Louis J. Alber
INDIANA SETS THE PACE— . New Legion Commander
Pledges Efforts to Keep National Offices Here
By KENNETH HUFFORD ; “I am determined to keep the home of the Ameri-
can Legion in Indianapolis.” This pledge was made by Edward N. Scheiberling, national commander, at & luncheon given in his honor this noon in the Indianapolis Athletic club. Paying tribute to the advantages of the city and the hospitality of its citizens, the national commander declared “the American Legion has never regretted making Indianapolis its national home, “We share with you the: pride over the achievements of the Indiana department of the legion. It has always been one of the best departments and is providing many of the national . leaders of the legion. “Indiana is setting the pace for the American Legion nationally in the enrollment of world war II veterans,” National Commander- Scheiberling asserted.
© ..posts enrolled 60.19 per cent of all service men and wom- ’ en discharged in the state cided since Pear] Harbor, he added, The luncheon was sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, It was the opening event of the three-day annual conference of department commanders, adjutants and Legion officials.
GEORGE 8. OLIVE, ireasurer of the Indianapolis chamber, presided at the luncheon and introduced Mr. Scheiberling. Other guests at the speakers’ table were introduced by Vayne M. (Army) Armstrong. De Witt C. Mallory, national chaplain, gave the invocation. Buglers from Manual high school presented an opening fanfare for the national commander, . Anticipating. a Legion membership as great as 7,000,000 within the next few years, Commander Scheiberling pointed out that the Legion is critically in need of more space, “We were informed that Indiana is making plans to erect other buildings to provide the additional space made necessary by the great expansion of the Amerjcan Legion. Indiana will un-
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rooster wexoss— | CONGRESS FOCUSES 4 Added to List
Of Dead, 3 More Reported Missing
Thre& more Indianapolis men and a former local man have been added to the list of world war II dead, In addition three local men are missing in action and one has been wounded,
Full Slate.
By JOHN L, CUTTER United Press Staff Correspondent
78th congress began its last, or lame duck, session today with a fairly crowded legislative slate—including a proposal by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg .(R. Mich.) for a fourth freezing of social security taxes at their present rates, About 50 senators and 150 representatives showed up for the session opener. After transacting a minimum of business, members of both houses recessed until noon Thursday. : Each house swore in one new member. In the senate, the newcomer was William E. Jenner (R. Ind), elected to serve out the unexpired term of the late Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.). The new house member is Ralph H. Daughton (D. Va.), replacing Rep. Winder Harris, who resigned a ew Ses ago. Daughton also was ‘le the 79th congress which WOUNDED convenes Jan, 3. Pvt. Henry Willhoite, 3811 Terrace] The house devoted much of its ave, at Aachen, time to eulogies of ‘the late Chair-
KILLED
Pfc. Gaylord L. Anderson, 45 W. Morris st., in France. Aviation Machinist's Mate 3-¢ William .Ernest Lexow, Detroit, Mich., formerly of Indianapolis, in the Central Pacific. _T. 4th Gr, Robert B, Miller, 2303 Hillside ave., in France, Pvt. Roy N. Murray, formerly of 1718 N. Alabama st, in the European theater, £4
MISSING
Pvt. Irwin L. Allee, 546 N. Sheffleld ave, in Italy. Pvt. Earl H. Meyer Jr, 2838 N, Chester st., in Holland. Flight Officer Earl R. Huehls, 305 N. Kealing ave, in Holland.
.|the Yanks encountered opposition
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Returning Lawmakers Find
1 WASHINGTON, Nov, 14. — The
in which Mr. Alber was staying and Herr Goebbels wanted the American to meet his “chief.”
really wanted to lecture, but just wanted to know “what ‘Alber was up to.”
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Man Who ‘Practically Laughed’ In Hitler's Face
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However, the lecture manager
has booked some very pleasant and famous persons for his tours.
His favorite stories are about
Prime Minister Churchill with whom he “practically lived for six months.”
“I tried for 20 years.to get Mr.
Churchill to come over here,” Mr,
“I had an awful time trying not to laugh,” he said when he was introduced to Hitler, “He was just another Charlie Chaplin comic and with an apron on he might make a good barkeeper.” “The two Nazi leaders looked like a couplé of German comedians trying to play big shots,” he
agent in London cabled Mr. Alber that “Churchill was badly stung in the stock market crash in the United States in 1929” and that
Alber explained, “but he always said he was too busy, and said he had his career in England to look after.”
In 1930 an American newspaper
laughed, adding that they never “maybe now he would want to
made his lecturing list.
Mr. Alber later learned that neither Der Fuehrer nor Goebbels
PATTON TAKES 20 OF 9 FORTS GIRDLING METZ
Doughboys. Battle Through Bone-Chilling Rain, Heavy Mud.
By EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov, 14—Ft. Yser, the second of nine great forts girdling Metz, fell today to American troops. The doughboys drove up from the south through bone-éhilling rain to within 3'% miles of Metz, Other units launched a frontal assault four miles west of the city. A regimental combat team of the 5th division of Lt. Gen. George 8: Patton's 3d army smashed northward from Verny through the village of Orny and about a “mile northwest to seize the Yser fortress group. Earlier front dispatches identified the captured fort only as & major one in the Orny area, and
headquarters sources subsequently identified it by name as Ft. Yser. As Maj. Gen, ford Li.”
assault forces drove the wedge deeper into the Metz fortifications, other 3d army troops battered forward against sporadic counterthrusts all along the line.
Aerial Support. Weak
in’ driving rain and over soggy fields that clogged their boots and the treads of ‘their vehicles. They had neither sufficient aerial support nor artillery observation, since visibility was 1000 yards. Early reports did not say whether
at Ft. Yser and its surrounding casemates. But. there was speculation at headquarters that it fell as easily as L’Aisne in the Verny area to the south did yesterday. The ‘Nazis apparently were falling back into the inner core of Mets defenses, : Frontal Assault
In a concerted action, Maj. Harry Twaddle’s 95th infantry division attacked the outer defenses of Mets in the area of Chatel 8t. Germain, about four miles west of Metz, Early reports said they were moving directly toward Metz for the first onslaught from the west, but lacked specific word of the progress. The entire 3d army front was reported swinging northeastward toward the Saar,
The doughboys were advancing gecount of the bombing that stripped
Minister Winston Churchill .re-
Southeast of Metz,’ the 6th armored division advanced a mile northeast of Remilly to Vittoncourt, 12 miles below Metz, The 8th division on its right flank moved up a mile along a branch of the Metz-Saarebourg railway to the village of Arriance on the south side of the Remilly forest. Above Metz it was the, same story of steady if limited! gains all the way to the region of captured Thionville, on the Moselle. The American Tth army simultaneously stepped up its attacks along a front stretching 27 miles south from the Chatea Salins area. Leintrey, 11 miles east of Luneville, was seized in an advance to within 16 miles southwest of Sarrebourg, gateway to the Saar valley,
CHURCHILL ENDS PARIS VISIT LONDON, Nov. 14 (U. P.) ~Prime
turned late today from Paris, where he conferred with Gen. Charles de Gaulle and took part in the Armis-
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tice day celebration,
Cpl. Ridings as well as participating | tion will average light, The weather in 150-odd burglaries, completely will be warmer Friday and Satabsolved his former wife. urday. Sherwood Blue, county prosecu- yo 7 — tor, requested Judge Bain to dels; LOCAL TEMPERATURES Mrs. Luallen’s release until he could| 6a. m.,... 53 10am... 53 the clock records of the dry| 7a. m..... 58 11am... 54 a establishment where she| Sa m...., 53 12 (Noen).. 56 was employed. 9am..52 1lpm...5 Judge Bain asserted, however, : that he would have to release Mrs. | ¥ y C. OTHMAN
War Being War, Senatorial
The sand ‘man also the snuff boxes, which are dainty looking oriental dinguses fitting into the wall on either side of
Sand Man Uses Ersatz Sand
I had lunch with the representatives, most of whom were
" |state and Marion county last Tues-
come to America to lecture.”
“Mr. Churchill was sore as a
goat because he didn't get into
HITLER SILENCED BY THROAT OPERATION, HIGH GERMAN SAYS
BOMBERS FROM RUSSIAN BASE DOOMED TIRPITZ
R.A.F. Raiders Made Use of Refueling Station Near
Archangel.
LONDON, Nov. 14 (U, P.). — The R. A. F, filers who sank the 45,000 pitz in her Norwegian hideout above the Arctic circle Sunday morning revealed today that their final attack was launched from a hithertosecret refueling base at Archangel, Russia, . - In the first detailed eyewitne
Germany of her last major fighting ship and ended permanently the Nazi naval threat in the west, the British airmen disclosed that the Tirpitz went down under four direct hits and six near misses from their 12,000 - pound earthquake bombs, Flatly contradicting repolts that the one-time queen of the German battle fleet was a helpless cripple as a result of seven previous submarine and aerial attacks, the fliers said the Tirpitz fired salvo after salvo from her giant 15-inch guns and secondary batteries before she turned over and sank, Last Daylight Chance The final strike against the Tirpitz wis ordered for Sunday morning because the R. A. F. command realised that it probably would be their last chance to finish off the dreadnaught before the Arctic sun went down, blacking out the Nazi hideout.at Tromso fjord for the winter.
the force of 29 Lancaster bombers flew almost 2000 miles to their secret refueling station at Archangel,
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LEGAL AID CALLED IN ELECTION PROBE
Complaints Swamp Chief Of Senate Group.
Swamped with complainants and interviews in his Marion county election probe, Harold Buckles, U, 8. senate investigator today said he had summoned an assistant from Washington. Mr, Buckles, chief investigator for the senate’s campaign expenses committee, said he was occupied all day yesterday in conference with persons who either wanted to protest alleged election malpractices or who wanted to “advise” him on the situation, He asserted that he will call in senate legal counsel on the case in order to “facilitate the preliminary investigation.” He's probing Democratic charges that thousands of persons were unable to vote in the
day because their names were unaccountably not on the registration | lists, Most of these would-be voters, who were. challenged at the polls, carried registration receipts. At ‘Attor-
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York, he tried to find the of Bernard Baruch, became gusted when the taxi driver not locate the place (he
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Louis J. Alber, who knows every world celebrity except
Stalin, has been arranging for had given the wrong address) and lecture tours of famous per- got out of the cab to find Mr, sons for 40 years, Baruch’s home by foot. He was He has more than 1500 per- struck by an automobile on 5th
sons on his list and went to Europe about every other year until 1936 when his trips stopped. : ,When the war with Germany is over, he plans to go immediately to Russia to meet Mr, Stalin,
Although the accident delayed . Mr. Churchill's lectures, it helped Mr, Alber in getting acquainted with him. “Whatever will Alber do now,” was Churchill’s second thought when he gained consciousness in the hospital after the accident. His first was to ask how his wife was and his third, earth. did Mr. Baruch live, Mr. Alber still keeps in close contact with the British prime minister and saw him shortly after
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the British cabinet,” the lecture manager said, “and the market crash and his being left out of the cabinet together made him gladly accept my invitation.” However, only three days after the British leader arrived in New
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Swiss Hear Old Ailment Develops Into ‘Dangerous’ Tumor; Story | Seen Plausible.
By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 14.—A “high German personality” reported in Switzerland today that Adolf Hitler had undergone a throat operation .at Berchtesgaden after a dangerour tumor had developed from an old ailment. The mysteriously absent Hitler now is at his Berchtesgaden retreat in the Bavarian Alps, a United Pr
Fon 8 ie Bho in dispatch from ‘ quiof “WAR FRONTS (Nov. 14, 1944)
WESTERN FRONT-—Pt. Yser, the second of nine forts girdling Metz, falls to Patton's 3d army; other}: ‘units launch assault four miles west of city,
RUSSIA-~2d Ukrainian army outflanks enemy stronghold of Jaszberény and sends armored forces within 16 miles of Budapest in converging drive on Hungarian capital already besieged from south,
ITALY—British troops fan out from Bologna highway west of captured Forli and nack out gains up to two miles against bitter German resistance.
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ON BUDAPEST NAZIS
Reds Outflank Germans’
Jaszbereny Base, MOSCOW; Nov. 14 (U. P.)~The of tle conditions in Getunits, 2d Ukrainian army outflanked the reservation pending more authorie enemy stronghold of Jaszbereny t0- |tative information on the German day, people’s acceptance or rejection o ; Armored forces pushed to within the Nazi hierarchy’s desperate ef 3 Jess than 16 miles east of Budapest forts is Josey resistance against in a converging drive on the Hun. |the allies’ winter campaign. no garian capital, already besieged German industrialists arriving Bi: from the south. Switzerland told RewSpupSren that = The offensive past Jaszbereny, the no So : Fret by second launched against Budapest , —.i.. of foreign workers and es by the Red army, was taking &|....4 prisoners of war terrorizing heavy toll of German and Hun- the countryside, y garian forces, A communique said Trouble in Stuttgart
that 1200 enemy troops were killed and 1000 others captured yesterday| rng workers and prisoners, Swiss
on the eastern approaches to the capital. i (The Germans reported that Red ustrial Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had oes lndust rt er I thrown 100,000 men into the battle|. saving the entire Hitler youth east of Budapest, They also claimed | 0 nization in southern Germany the Russians, in an attempt 10|3,q4 peen ordered to the front to reach Budapest from the rear, Had| so trenches, and all camps and i made suother crossing ef ‘thelhoarding schools had closed. a Danube at Batina, Yugosla Special trains carrying 3 miles south of the Hungarian capi- 3 Ware lng
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. 14 (U, P)~ American invasion forces threat-| ened to cut the Japanese front in northwest Leyte in two today