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SCRIPPS ~ HOWARD § VOLUME 55—NUMBER 218
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1944
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They're Still Wearing Their Victory Smiles
These Republican leaders haven't had patronage troubles long enough yet to lose their “victory” smiles, Left to right, Rep. J. Otto Lee, head of the Republican labor division and slated to be named state labor commissioner; State Senator John VanNess of Valparaiso, senate president pro tem; Governor-elect Ralph
Gates, and Jess Murden, Mr. Gates’ campaign headquarters manager,
GATES STUDYING DISTRIBUTION OF GOP PATRONAGE
No Committee to Be Formed To Handle Jobs for
Repiblican Term.
By EARL RICHERT Governor-elect Ralph Gates said today there likely would be no committee created to handle patronage when the Republicans take over
complete control of Indiana's state
government on Jan. 8. Final decision on patronage handling, however, was fo be made at a meeting of the Republican state committee here this after ROOM, = Ti iis A It was belleved that Mr. Gates snd the newly-elected Republican officials would handle patronage directly, minor appeintments being made by department heads, Sees Reorganization Bill The governor-elect said he also believed it was necessary to pass some form of a reorganization bill to co-ordinate departments left dangling by the supreme court's ruling invalidating the 1941 G. O. P. “ripper suit” decision, It was ‘reported that such a bill is being drawn now. Whether various state departments will be taken out from under the control of the governor, as they are at present, and placed under state officials will be decided at party conferences later, There is considerable sentiment for: placing the
state gross income tax department under the state treasurer,
Legislators to Meet
Mr, Gates said he was anxious to have a meeting of legislators here soon in order to start drafting legislation for presentatibn to the 1945 general assembly. ‘A legislative steering committee will be set up to draft the legislation. “All. legislation,” said Mr. Gates, “must come from the legislators not from me.” He said he expected to announce appointment of an executive secretary next Monday and that he probably would announce no other major appointments until he takes office Jan. 8,
TOKYO CLAIMS CHINA
By DANIEL
- Giant Weapons Seen in Making
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. P.)~—Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson warned today that - many modern weapons are still in their infancy and that in any future war an aggressor “will strike even faster than in the past and with ten-fold fury.” He mentioned rockets, jet propelled bombs and guided missles, and added “most of them are still in their infancy.” If war should come again they will be full grown and will be directed by far better controls, with range, speed and explosive power of far greater proportions,” he said. He ' urged congressional establishment of a permanent military research committee under the organization of the National Academy of Sciences “to keep us strong and enable us to maintain the peace.”
Trial of Dorsey Delayed a Week
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 21 (U.P.).— The trial of Band-Leader Tommy Dorsey, his wife, and their friend, Allen Smiley, on charges of assault against Actor Jon Hall was oontinued today until Nov. 27. Superior Judge Arthur Crum called a recess in a murder trial long enough to decide the Dorsey case could wait until next week.
CUT IN TWO BY JAPS
By UNITED PRESS Tokyo. radio claimed .todgy that Japanese forces pushing southward through Kwangsi province in China have achieved a junction with north-
'Isolationism Dead in Indiana, ‘Capehart Tells Capital Press
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M. KIDNEY
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Isolationism is dead in Indiana, as where, Homer E. Capehart, the Republican senator-elect from Indiana, told a press conference here. He said he favors world co-operation to enforce peace, including the use of force against aggressors. Mr, Capehart said the 100,000 Dewey majority in the Hoosier state was not based on international affairs but “on administration failures
else-
which our farmers and small-town people do not like.” In reply to questions about his campaign expenditures, Mr. Capehart said he did not come here to see Senator Green (D. R. 1), chairman of the senate committee on campaign expenditures. Nor did he express any concern regarding disclosures which might be made by committee investigators, who have been working in Indianapolis since the election. A Hit With Reporters “I know nothing about the Green
Democrats nor the Democratic national committee are interested in
he said. and going out to Senator Willis’
hotel to see him. . Dressed in a pro double-breast-
tie, the somewhat portly 47-year-old
took the broad-beamed ' chair
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Hoosier Heroes—
SGT. HASKEL WELCH
On Casualty List.
casualty list. KILLED
1227 Bellefontaine st., in France. - MISSING
N. Delaware st., after naval action.
WOUNDED Pfc. Vanser Welch, formerly of
committee investigation, except that I am gure that neither Indiana
doing anything to unseat me after being duly elected to the senate,”
He made a hit with reporters by leaving ‘his Mayflower hotel suite
office to see them—rather than having them come downtown to the ed suit and wearing a red-striped Hoosier farmer-manufacturer who will begin his 6-year term Jan. 3,
at Senator Willis’ desk and facing a
KILLED IN FRANCE
Ten Indianapolis Men Are
Ten Indianapolis men, including’ two brothers, are on today’s
Sgt. Haskel Welch, formerly of
Ensign Joseph Thomas Gates, 5537
PARIS, Nov. 21 (U. P.), — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said today that the only sensible course open to the German army is to fight to the bitter end west of the Rhine. Gen. Eisenhower suggested inferentially that he expected the final battle of the European war to be fought west of the Rhine, where six allied armies were waging the allied grand offensive and hammering the Nazis back along a 400-mile front,
But the battle will not be easy, the supreme commander warned at a press conference. To win the victory and peace, he said, “We've got to fight like hell for it. Now let's do it.” : He called on his armies and the home fronts behind them for ever greater effort, and warned that unless every element of. the united nations “keep on the job everlastingly and with mounting inten-
Indianapolis 9, Ind. ‘Issued daily except Sunday
Fisenhower: ‘Final Battle Will Be Fought West of Rhine’
sity, we are only postponing the day of victory.” “We are keeping the pressure at maximum strength all along the front,” Gen. Eisenhower
everything we've got—and finally the breaking point will come,
“The pressure must go up, both |ters. at home and on the front, and|in his frank and forceful manner continue to increase so that the made what amounted to an appeal highest point is on the day Ger-|against any feeling that the war is won.
many surrenders.”
than he is getting, and the soldier wants more than he is said. | getting, “The German has to be hit with future,”
respondents at supreme headquar-
He said he wanted more supplies “I think both now and in the
Gen. Eisenhower received 200 cor-
He looked fresh and fit, and
“but I hope I can prevent myself from becoming complacent.”
“I'am optimistic myself,” he said,
While his appeal for more supe
plies fitted in with his appeal a day earlier for more ammunition, Gen. Eisenhower emphasized that he intended absolutely no criticism of the home front but simply wanted the men at the front to have everything possible to hasten
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0, 3. MOVES 10
CURB MIDWEST PHONE STRIKE
Spread to Seven Other States.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 21 (U. P.).— The government sought today to prevent a general strike that would disrupt radio network and news wire transmission service as. well as long-distance telephone lines in sev= eral Midwest states and possibly New York. Possibility that the strike of tele-
to. New York, Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Washington, D. C., arose as the war labor board de-
tinuation of the walkout. John J. Moran, national president of the Federation of Long Lines Telephone Workers, said union members voted “overwhelmingly” last night in favor of respecting picket lines of Cleveland's striking telephone operators and maintenance and plant men.
Hints New York Strike
Mr. Moran, who also is a vice president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, said he “wouldn’t be surprised if something
bers. 550, including 500 here. A delegation of union officials was to leave here by plane for Washington at 10:44 a. m. (Indianapolis time), but they were expected to be late for the WLB show-cause hears. ing which is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. (Indianapolis time). Olfio union officials claimed that service from 58 operating centers in the state was virtually paralyzed. Officers and delegates representing 4500 members of the Connecticut union met today in New Haven, Conn., to consider a resolution indorsing the Ohio strike. Meanwhile, R. L. Barber, Ohio Bell vice president, reported that American Telephone and Telegraph workers, members of the “Long
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THANKSGIVING TO BE CLEAR, COOL HERE
Ohio Tieup Threatens to
phone workers in Ohie would spread |
mande an’ explanation for” ¥on-'
happened in New York,” where the | “Long Lines” union has 6000 mem- |&5 Its membership in Ohio is
Dream Comes True Momentarily
Elinor Cinelli . . . she wears
'BRAVE MEN’ Ernie's. New Book Termed Clearest Picture of G. I.'s
By HARRY HANSEN Scripps-Howard Staff Writer A FEW DAYS AGO the president of Indidna university gave Enrie Pyle, an honorary degree and draped the doctor's hood over his shoulders, Maybe he even saluted Ernie in Latin, but if he did Ernie simply accept ed it as ane
other of the many dialects he meets on
his travels. If Ernie was true to form he
the fabulous Jonker diamond, |
"FORTUNE IN GEMS ON DISPLAY HERE
World Famous Jonker Diamond Shown.
At times a girl's dream of being resplendent in diamonds comes true. Elinor Cinelli today gracefully modeled $1,147,625 worth of the glittering jewels now on display in the Wm. H, Block Co. auditorium, About her neck ‘she wore the fabulous Jonker diamond, world’s fourth largest, valued at a million dollars. The engagement ring she wore is a 24.36 carat Vargas diamond worth $120,000. The earrings she wore are valued at three thousand dollars; the bracelet at $18,126 and the clips .on the formal
Yanks Destroy 53
German Planes; Hit Refineries.
By LEO S. DISHER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 21.—An armada of more than 2350 planes, more than half of them Flying Fortresses and Liberators, lashed at German synthetic oil plants at Hamburg, Merseburg and Harburg and Hamborn today. First returning pilots , reported heavy air battles over the targets. As many as 200 German planes, most of them FW-190's, attacked at one point over Merseburg. Early information indicated that at least 53 enemy planes were shot down. The heavy blow at the fuél sources for the German war machine was delivered by more than 1250 Liberators and Flying Fortresses of the 8th air force, covered by the great« est fighter protection force ever put into the air, Approximately 1100 8th.and 9th air force Mustangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings accompanied the bombers, far exceeding the previous record fighter cover of 950 planes. The heavies concentrated on the Leuna plant at Merseberg, where almost three weeks ago the war's greatest air battle was fought
against 500 enemy planes, of which 183 were shot down.
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Clouds Cover Targets
Clouds "covered the targets and the bombers dropped their explosives by instrument. Other scattéred targets in Western Germany also were hit, The Merseberg plant is one of the three largest synthetic oil works in Europe, and in addition produces chemicals in a plant nearly two square miles in area. The daylight assaults followed other attacks on Germany during the night by R. A. P. planes. More than 100 Mosquito bombers, carrying two-ton blockbusters, raided. Hannover while a force of four-
ALLIES DRIVE RETREATING NAZIS N EAST FRANCE TOWARD RHINE; AIR BATTLE FOUGHT OVER REICH
French Rolling Up Southern End of 125-Mi. Front.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Nov. 21.—French mobile forces rolling up the south end of a 125-mile front along which the Germans appeared in full flight from Eastern France today speared into the Mulhouse area. A Swiss dispatch said the Prench had ceptured Colmar, 23 miles farther north. : The German defenses of the upper Rhine valley west of the river fell apart. Gen. de Lattre de Tassigny's forces were streaming northward at
a lightning clip in the wake of the routed enemy.
Supreme headquarters reported that advanced ‘French patrols had reached the region of Mulhouse, fortress city 20 miles northwest of Basel, The Berlin radio said Prench tanks already had reached the city itself, The entire front angling across northeastern France swayed back under the driving impact of the French 1st, American 7th and Amer ican 3d armies. Lt. Gen. George 8S. Patton's troops drove into the reversed forts of the Maginot line at two points. Dispatches from the Aachen front sald indications increased today that the Germans were pulling their general Rhineland defense line back to the Roer river 20 miles from Cologne.
Find Light Resistance
U. 8. 1st army troops ‘storming Eschweller found resistance lighter than expected. The German garrison appeared to be pulling out. The dispatches said it Was possible that a defense line anchored on the stronghold of Duren, 20 miles southwest of Cologne, would give the Germans the advantage of a straightened front. Clearing weather over the Aachen
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U, P), —A big task force of B-29 Superfortresses, perhaps 80 strong, bombed the Japanese home island | of Kyushu today for the second time this month. Their target was the airplane works at Omura. They also attacked - Nanking and Shanghai in China.
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C.l 0. Convention. Hears Wallace Suggest Tax Revision as Spur fo Goal for Postwar Jobs|
McNutt C alls for Strengthening of Social Secuiity | in Talk Before Meeting: of A. F of L.
“CHICAGO, Nov. 21 (U. P.)~Vice| people. Little men with big idess President Henry A. Wallace told the must be given a chance to employ souvesive <f She Coghot af Loo lor To Steet is problems esha
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successfully only if our sense of responsibility meets the challenge
Lo. SWarming in for battle a nr pinned - against Baltic
Tokyo reported the targets were {the important {industrial centers of Nagasaki and Omura. Tokyo said Japanese fighters intercepted the four- -engined bombers and engaged them above the clouds
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WESTERN FRONT - French on south end of 125-mile front in Eastern France roll up Nazi defenses in Mulhouse area as allies punch out gains all along Western front.
PACIFIC—Big force of B-29 8 perfortresses bomb industrial gets on Japan's homeland island of ~ Kyushu, sparking steadily. mounting American air offensive in the Pacific. 2
EASTERN FRONT Russian troops, and dive-bombers reported
Germans
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front about noon gave the allies
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Big B.29 Armada Blasts Jap Home Island Again
| “fierce air duels.” Early claims that eight Super- | fortresses had been shot down and{a ninth damaged were enlarged to i downed, 11 probably downed and seven others set afire. Four Japa nese planes were missing, Tokyo said. A 20th air force communique | acknowledged an air battle and said our planes shot down 20 Jap (fighters, U. 8. losses were not ‘revealed. . Japanese fighters previously had
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On the War Fronts
up Nazi flank northeast of Buda« pest.
ITALY—Fifth army repulses Ger» man raids in freezing tures below Bologna - while sth army edges nearer ‘ Ravenna on Adriatic coast.
AIR WAR-—More than 2350 ware planes lash at Naz synthetic oil plants in Hamburg, Merseburg and Harburg. Heavy alr battles Teported.
CHINA—Tokyo claims Jips unite southbound and northwartl ‘arms fes in Kwangsi province and « China. . He