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VOLUME 55~NUMBER 216 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1944

NEW WELFARE PLAN UPHELD BY CHAIRMAN

Report Is Misinterpreted, Teckemeyer Says in Answering Critic.

Rep. Earl B. Teckemeyer, chair man. of the welfare investigation commission, today replied to charges made by the League of Women Voters denying that the commission had suggested , either an administrative board or the removal of county welfare directors from the merit. system, Mrs. John K. Goodwin, president of the league, said yesterday that the group would oppose the creation of a three-man, full-time board to run the state department of publie Welfare. The commission's report was submitted Thursday to ~ Governor Schricker and will also be submitted to the 1945 legislature, along with bills making the recommended changes.

New Plan Explained

The text of Mr. Teckemeyer's reply follows: “As chairman of our comrhission I feel called upon to say that we have not suggested an administrative board for the public welfare program in Indiana. “Our recommendation calls for retention of a director which means that the administrative work would be handled, as it is now, by one individual and his staff, Properly interpreted our recommendations simply means that a five-man, part-time board would be replaced by a three-man, full-time board so that when they formed policies they could do so based on an actual Yorking knowledge of the program next that you.lave gobs rather than upon hit-or-miss inneu, my friend. continued joke |{OTmAtion sifted down to" them by ely subordinates as has been the praecAt that Viktor pulled a Staling- |'10¢ since 1936. grad medal out of his pocket and Merit System Upheld

pinned it on his chest. “ My friends invited him into The new board would spend all thelr room for fea, and he ace its time on the job, really getting cepted gladly » the facts and observing the work : being done in all the 92 counties. The following night they Yook | “roy oir 1 oard cannot do the

him to the American embassy , job as the citizens of Indiana are movie to see ‘Mickey Rooney and entitled to have it done.

es a si sig |. 12,1 mrs re a ew ever since. rectors the .report speaks for itself. On page 25, recommendation No. - 13, it says: “‘It should be noted that we do not recommend abandonment of the merit system for the Alling of this position.’ ———— “What could be platter than that? This recommendation, ‘read in its entirety is self-explanatory, clear and definite, and actually strengthens the merit system.”

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Ghali: ‘H ysterical Hitler Still Was Alive 5 Days Ago’

By PAUL GHALI Times Foreign Service BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 18.-— Adolf Hitler still was alive in Berchtesgaden five days ago. But Germany now is being ruled by a council of four top Nazis composed of Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and Gen, Heinz Guderian. ‘ This news has just reached me through . unusually well-informed private channels,

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BOY OF MOSCOW — | Hero Needs

Chaperon to See Movies

By LEIGH WHITE », Clermont, Times Foreign Correspondent

after serv- : O0SCOW, Nov. 18.—I Bel, have just met a Red | army sergeant named Viktor Sofonov. He is a veteran of Stalingrad and is now a patient at a Moscow hospital, recovering from some cuts and burns he received when his motorcycle overturned the other day on the East

Prussian front. Viktor is 13 years old and about four feet six in height. What annoys him most is that though he has spent 2% years at 2 the front, he is not allowed to attend a movie in Moscow after 6 p. m. unless he {is accompanied by an adult. Some friends of mine picked him up-.in the E . lobby of the ~~" Hotel Metropole Mr. White a few days ago, as he was attempting to persuade the one-armed elevator man to let him operate the lift, viktor was indignant when one of my friends asked him what right he had to be wearing a uniform, and moreover the uniform of a sergeant, “Because I am a sergeant!” said ' Viktor, drawing himself erect. “Do you want to see my papers?”

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At-the moment, therefore; it would be “a mistake to describe Himmler as having already stepped into Hitler's boots, But being the most powerful member of the council he soon may use the situation to further his own ambitions, Because of Hitler's delicate health he is being kept in a sort of mental straitjacket, completely in ignorance of the state of- affairs in Germany, It is true that he has been suffering from an infection of the larynx which prevents him from speaking publicly or

broadcasting, but it is his mental condi= tion—deteriorating rapidly--that.is caus ". ing his friends the gravest concern, according to my informant. Der fuehrer has fits -of uncontrollable rage and violent outbursts of hysterics. Indeed, such a bad effect does the mere presence of his No, 2 man, Hermann Goering, have on him, that the bemedaled dignitary has been completely banished. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler is returning to the joys of his youth-—architecture and painting.

He has engaged an ‘enormous staff of, architects who, under his guidance, are planning at Berchtesgaden the reconstruce tion of demolished German towns. This unfortunate greup works 24 hours a day, for nobody knows when der fuehrer will appear with a new inspiration, Then the old plans are torn up and new. ones made, destined to meet the same fate on the morrow,

PATTON SMASHES INTO GERMANY, ENTERS METZ; NAZIS SHOW SIGNS OF CRACKING ON AACHEN FRONT

WASHINGTON NAVY SAYS NIPS A Weekly Sizeup by. the Washington WONDER WHAT

Staff of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers HIT THEIR SHIPS

‘Losers of 14 Vessels Now May Have to Fight British Sea Units.

By COURTENAY MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent “WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — The Japanese fleet, driven into hiding by victorious American forces, today faced the unpleasant prospect of having to cope with sizable British units as well as the huge U, 8. fleet, During three days in October U. 8S. units sank upward of 14 enemy warships and damaged at {least 34 others. British officials have indicated that sinking early this week of thé 42,000-ton German superbattleship Tirpitz will release appreciable segments of Great Britain's sea power. Some of those ships, they hinted, may wind up in the Western Pacific. Large British naval forces ~taiready are harassing ‘the Japanese from the Indian ocean.

Jap Losses Recapitulated

The extent of the great American victory in the three-day second bat-

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If rumors are true, Adolf Hitler suffers from all the ailments shown in the above picture of Der Fuehrer. Your guess is as good as ours as to “what's holding him up?” ”

-|REPORT FUEHRER IS KEPT SANE BY STREAM OF LIES

Special ‘Good News’ Edition Of His Paper Said to Be Printed Daily.

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspo LONDON, Nov. 18. pv AT Hitler

is kept from insanity only by a fantastic stream of false news reports telling of Nazi military ‘“victories” and imaginary demonstrations of loyalty to the fuehrer by the German people, it was reported today. (Stockholm press reports said Heinrich Himmler, gestapo chief and commander of the German home army, had issued an order strictly forbidding the Germans to discuss Hitler's health, according to the FCO.)

Wall of Silence The Exchange Telegraph, quoting information just received from a neutral capital, said the Nazi party chieftains had erected an elabo-

Clear Skies Enable Dive-Bombers to Join Assault as ‘Victory Now’ Offense Gains Momentum.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Nov. 18.—~American 3d army forces crashed into Germany and Metz proper today. Two other United States armies slugged toward the Rhine on a broad Aachen front. German resistance showed signs of cracking under the heaviest "|sustained artillery bombardment of the war in the Aachen area. First army front dispatches reported “very light” opposition east of Aachen where Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ forces were spearing into the heart of the Rhineland under clearing skies. Dive bombers joined the assault on the German positions west of Colonge. Pick Up Momentum Hourly

Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower's “Victory Now” offensive picked up momentuin-by the hour. = p The British 2d army swung up against the Meuse in force above the Aachen front. American and French troops broke -open the Belfort Gap approach to the upper Rhine. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton launched the climactic assault on Metz, sending his vanguards-into the city itself from the north and South. Simultaneously he swung his 3d army’s left flank into the Perl area of Southwest Germany some 15 miles south-

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—This is IT, on the Western front. " We're throwing everything we have into the big push, and best informed congressional sources say there's a chance we might defeat Germany in 30 days. But don’t count on it. It's a faint hope, they admit. If we're slowed down, have to mark time till spring, it will be harder to advance than it is today. Best guesses in that case are it would take us till late summer or fall to defeat Germany, We're using the port of Antwerp, though the channel is not entirely. clear. But it's not the first time we've done more with poor ports than the enemy thought possible. If no big drive develops on the Eastern front remember this: Presence of Red army on a line from East Prussia to Budapest immobilizes twice as many German soldiers as are fighting in the West. Germany's biggest advantage: The eight or 10 million slave faborers manning its industries. They release for the army every German able to walk, But balance against this the need for feeding the extra mouths. Informed guessers think Germany can’t do it more than eight months longer. Evidence accumulates here that the Volkstrum, new German folkarmy, is primarily for pelicing, intimidating these slave laborers. rate. wall. of silence around Hitler. ih 8 ler in ihe saddle, home front Is in less danger than On the advice of Hitler's physi- , cians, a special news staff was said » to have heen set up at Berchtes- CONGRESSMEN who made it a point to find out are not worried

gaden under the personal super-| about Leyte. It may be a hard fight, may develop to something like vision of Ernst Kaltenbrunner,

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VIKTOR says that he would like to marry a girl like Judy some day, as soon as he has be“come an automotive engineer; and if his mother were still alive, he says, he would do just as Mickey dia’ and promise to make her a queen.’ Both of Viktor's parents are

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dead. His village, near Tula, was occupied by the Germans early in 1042, One day, as his father lay sick in bed on top of their tile stove, some German soldiers came in and demanded a pail of milk, is mother went next door to the neighbors and brought them back a small pitcherful. They dashed it to the ground, Insisting that she bring them a pail of milk. * 8 =

AT THIS his father rose up in bed to protest. One of the Germans picked up a chair and hit him on the head. When hig mother attempted to intervene they shot her. Then they shot his father, They would probably have shot

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REPORT ALLIES SET TO BRIDGE RHINE

LONDON, Nov, 18 (U. P.).—A Daily Express article said today that the allied drmies are reported to have. prepared huge bridges to be thrown across the Rhine and other rivers barring their path into Germany. The Express pointed out that the width of Rhine at Dusseldorf is 1050 feet; at Cologne, 1140 feet, and at Bonn, 1200 feet.

YANKS SEARCHLIGHTS TOO BRIGHT FOR FOE

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 18 (U. P.).— A Berlin report to the Degens Nyheter said today that the American 8d army at night is using searchlights so numerous and powerful

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three have been wounded. KILLED

of the late Lt. Col, Ogle, in Italy.

side ave, in Germany. MISSING

in the South Pacific. WOUNDED Delaware st., on Palau. 3606 Balsam ave. in Germany. 10th st., in France. (Details, Page 3)

JACKSO (U, P.)~Twen injured, several seriously,

Ga., today.

had been killed.

KILLED IN EUROPE

Two more Indianapolis men have died in Europe-while another local man {s missing in the Pacific and

Pfc. William Strickland Ogle, son Kenneth L.

Sgt. John Simmons Jr., 3422 Hill-

Machinist's Mate 1-¢ Herman (Dick) Jones, 232 EB. Merrill st,

Sgt. Sanford C. Metcalf, 1980 N. T. 5th Gr. Charles G. Young, Pfc. Robert L. Latham, 244 E.

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Himmler's right-hand man and chief of the Reich security office, to edit a special “good news” edition of the Volkischer Beobachter.

Tells of ‘Loyal’ Reich

Printed daily, the Berchtesgaden edition of Hitler's favorite news-

the most favorable “news” from She fighting fronts, Carefully-doctored stories plete the German people as fanatically loyal to their fuehrer, it was said. The Exchange Telegraph account said Hitler had been more or less confined to his mountain hideaway at Berchtesgaden sipce the attempt on his life last July 20. Nazi party leaders are reported becoming in-

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MUNSTER IS RAIDED

LANDON, Nov. 18 (U. P)—A strong force of British heavy bombers attacked the Ruhr stronghold of Munster today and about 400 American fighter .planes shot up railway oil tank cars around Mus+ nich, Ulm and Hanau in one of their deepest penetrations of Germany.

20 Injured as Crack Train Leaves Rails in Georgia

Fla, Nov. 18 y [passengers were en the fast Tamiami Champion of the Atlantie Coast Line railroad de-’ railed between Jesupyand Nahunta,

ney for the railroad, said the train derailed for no apparent reason. It had left Savannah, Ga., at 4:53 a. m. (Indianapolis time) and was due in Jacksonville at 7:30 a. m. (Indianapolis time). The wreck occurred at 7:20, indicating that the train was behind schedule, The Red Cross at Waycross set up an emergency camp to care for

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passengers in distress. News from the wreck scene was delayed because the derailment tore down a long streteh., of telegraph poles and wires. First report of the accident came when a flagman from the derailed train walked a censiderable distance with a portable telephone set and informed the Jacksonville division offices of the wreck,

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CONCERT CROWD T0 HEAR PILOT

Operg Stars Also on Symphony Program Tomorrow For War Loan.

Two opera stars and an overseas veteran will appear at the free, allpopular concert to be presented by the Indianapolis symphony orchestra at 3 p. m. tomorrow at Cadle tabernacle. The concert will herald the opening of the 6th war loan Monday in Marion county.

Lt. William H. Hewitt, Cleveland, O:., Flying Fortress pilot, will relate the experiences of a combat pilot captured by the Nazis. Other guests will be Miss Doro-

and Leonard Warren, Metropolitan baritone, who will appear under treasury department auspices, . Recovering From Burns Lt. Hewitt ¢s at Wakeman hospital, Camp Atterbury, recovering from burns received when his plane exploded in mid-air,

will take place,

ushers.

“Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,” “Miranda,” “At Dawning,’

Mandalay,” _ Lay, Little ‘Bit Heaven,” and “The Lord's Piuyer,

thy Sarmoff, Metropolitan soprano,

Other speakers will be John A. Schumacher, president of the city council, and Willlam A. Trimble, county chairman of the war finance committee, While the concert is being sponsored by Indianapolis in the campaign to raise $67,250,000 in the county, no bond solicitation

Doors of the tabernacle will open at 2:30 p. m. and a portion of the program, from 3:30 to 4 p, m, will be broadcast by WIRE. A color guard from the 798th military police at Ft. Harrison will present colors to open the program and members bf the Indiana state guard will be »

Several numbers on the concert

and “Kiss Me Again,” all solos by Miss Sarnoff; and “On the Road to o'

Bertita Harding Fears Ruining of

Tourist Meccas

By DONNA MIKELS “The role Americans are playing in Europe is a tragic paradox,” said Mrs. Bertita Harding today as she came to Indianapolis preparatory to) the release of her latest book, “The Lost Waltz,” Monday. Mrs. Harding, a biographer of the house of Hapshurg and a countess in her own right, pondered the outcome of the war in Europe, pointing out, that the very war which will) develop transportation to permit more people to go abroad is de-| stroying the attractions Europe! holds for tourists. “Even at a’ time when we are concerned with the destruction of Europe, every American has a latent hope that some of its beauty and charm will emerge unscathed,” she said. “Unfortunately, the war will destroy beautiful structures and ideals treasured by a beauty-loving Amerfca. It is a tragic paradox that the Americans who so love and perpetuate beauty must destroy it to obtain the highest of beauties—peace.” Mrs. ‘Harding, who formerly resided here, spent the last year with

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MOSCOW, Nov. 18.«Powerful formations of Russian planes smashed today at German and Hungarian positions around Budapest, softening them up for the final assault on the Hungarian capital, (A Nazi broadcast said the defensive front in Hungary was “torn open hy the Soviets at some points, but was closed again by German and Hungarian counter-attacks . yesterday.”) The Nazi comand threw aerial reinforcements into the defense of the Hungarian front looping around Budapest. Big - air - battles . were fought as Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's : troops hammered - the outskirts of the ity. The air attacks were focused near

h| the center of ‘the 100-mile front the world Steutaning ‘northeast from. Buda-

hey wire dognad to svar Malinoveky's drive to

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Russ Bombs Smash Budapest In Prelude to Final Assault

tle of the Philippines and the breadth of the damage wrought upon the Japanese fleet were re-

night in a long communique, In language unusually forceful for an official communique, the navy said, among other things: “The victory may turn out to be among the decisive battles of our times, . . “The Japanese are still wonder-! ing what hit them, , .. “The enemy fleet sustained losses and damage which materially weakened their over-all naval and air strength against the final drive of the United States forces against the empire.” ‘Seen to Go Down’

“The victory,” the navy said, “not only made possible the continuing supply of men and munitions to MacArthur's successful in. vasion forces, but by its magnitude can conservatively be said to have

{casualties in both men and waterborne equipment,” The navy listed as “seen to go down” during the battle, two Jap-

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WHEELER SENT TO BURMA

KANDY, Ceylon, Nov, 18 (U, P.). —Lt. Gens, Raymond A. Wheeler of the U. 8. army yesterday was named deputy to Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia, succeeding Gen, Joseph W. Stilwell, recently recalled from that theater.

the rail and highway routes between the enemy forces in the capital and northeastern Hungary. Improvement -in the weather,

which had turned Hungary's open plains into quagmires, enabled the Soviets to throw large air forces into the offensive. A communique disclosed that Russian pilots shot down 36 German planes yesterday. (An Istanbul dispatch” said reliable reports from Budapest disclosed that the Hungarian cabinet had decided to move the government to Shopron, 112 miles west of

milés from the Austrian border, (Berlin reported that Soviet forces, besides increasing their offensive ' gast of ‘Budapest, also were attempting to", drive west~ ward from a bridgehead over the|

Budapest and seven and a half |

east of Luxembourg.

Upi met “very light opposition.”.

in company strength, both of

The weather cleared on the Aachen front for the first time since Thursday. Under cover of heavy air and artillery bombardment the doughboys sprang forward east of Aachen from positions 28 miles short of the Rhine.

Counter-Jabs Easily Crushed

Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish, reortifg from southeast of Aachen, said a continued advance

In the first phase of the re-

sumed push the Nazis had mustered only two counter-jabs

which were easily crushed.

Below the deepest spearhead in Germany east of Aachen, other 1st army shock troops chopped through barbed wire entanglements in the northern part of thé! Hurtgen forest.

From the forest itself United Press War Correspondent Henry T, Gorrell reported definite signs that the Nazis were wearing down, Frankish sald United States tanks were mopping up an unidentified town southeast of Aachen. Else

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