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U.S. PREPARES TO TAKE OVER IN PHONE CRISIS
Capital's Long-Distance Operators
Join
Strike; 'Teen Aged Girls Are Called In Detroit Emergency.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23
(U. P.).—Long distance oper-
ators here joined the spreading telephone strike today
All signs indicated that struck exchanges within the general tieup in the nation’s
the government would seize next few hours to prevent a communications system.
Walking out in support of the week-old telephone strike in Ohio, operators here left their switchboards and began forming picket lines around exchanges at 5 a. m. (Indian-
apolis time)—the same hour pathy strike in Detroit. Picket lines also formed at the Detroit exchanges as the strike got under way slowly
there. Union representatives said only six girls had crossed the picket line. Operators on duty during the night were képt there by the company, the union said, adding that the company was calling up teenaged girls to come to work on an emergency basis,
Strikers Wear Heavy Coats “The strike is now under way,” the Washington traffic council, a unit of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, announced. ‘ Many of the Washington strikers
appeared in front of the exchanges,
long before the walk-out hour, bundled in heavy coats to withstand the cold of the Thanksgiving day dawn. Union officials said other plant employees, such as maintenance workers, would hold two meetings today—one at noon and another at 6 p. m~—“with respect to the honoring of picket lines.” There were two other important developments in the growing strike situation: Chicago members of the National Federation of Telephone Workers were in session to decide on Whether to join the strike.
New York Curbs Calls New York operators announced that they would not handls long distance calls into the Ohio strike area and warned that any punitive measures attempted against the strikers might result in a strike vote there, The government, concerned over a possible breakdown in wire connections with this allied ‘war capi-
tal, was speeding arrangements to
seize any struck exchanges in event it becomes necessary to prevent a paralysis of wartime communications.
that Fred M. Vinson, stabilization (Continued on Page 12—Column 1)
REAL - SILK WILL PAY $30 DIVIDENDS SOON
Here's some good news for
Real Silk Hosiery Mills will pay 8 $30 per share dividend on Dec. 20 to holders of its 7 pe rcent cumulative preferred stock. It will apply to the unpaid dividends which have
A high government official said
set for the start of a sym-
C10 TO WIDEN POLITICAL FIELD
Convention Votes to Give More Attention to Cities And States.
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—The C. I. O. Political Action Committee starts out this Thanksgiving day to consolidate the victories it won two weeks ago and to plan its campaigns of next year and 1946. This year was just “The First Round,” according to the title of a 478-page book, a history up to now of the C. I. O.-P. A. C. : It will sell for $2.50 a copy, but was distributed free to the C. I. O. convention delegates here just after they had stood up unanimously to vote a continuation, expansion and intensification of the movement which in the late campaign got about as much attention as did the presidential candidates. The emphasis in the next two years will be on local, state and congressional political contests, the convention ordered in whooping through a resolution embodying the ideas of C. I. O. President Philip Murray and C. I. O.-P. A. C. Chairman Sidney Hillman. That means the C. I. O. will be!
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AFL CONSIDERING 2-STATE BOYGOTT
Charges Anti-Labor Stand
In Florida, Arkansas.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 23 (U. P.)—A proposal to boycott the industries of Florida and Arkansas was studied today’ by delegates to the 64th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, in protest of what it termed the antilabor attitude of those states.
accumulated in recent years, when| submitted to a resolutions com-
the company felt it couldn't afford to pay out of profits which were smaller than they are now. Moreover, a $1.25 per share dividend will be paid on Jan. 1 to hold ers of the prior preferred series A shares.
FRENCH CLEAR WODEHOUSE PARIS, Nov. 23 (U. P.)—The P. G. Wodehouse crisis appeared to be settled late today when French security police agreed to release the British humorist -pro-
mittee while the convention adjourned for the Thanksgiving holiday, the proposal cited the outlawing of the closed shop in Florida and Arkansas, as adopted in constitutional amendments in the Nov. T elections, and characterized the action as a “hostile and unfair attitude towards organized labor.” Also under consideration was the inter-union charge, aired by Richard. W. Smith representing the joint council of dining car employees, that some A. F. of L. unions
discriminated against Negroes and (Continued on Page. 5—Column 1)
Stokes' Election Prediction Found Closest of Newsmen|
‘Thomas L. Btokes, Scripps-How- “Following the presidential nomiard political writer who was recently | nations last summer, Periscope conby. Wi ne
vided he would leave Paris and pick a place of fixed residence.
correspondents “fairest and most ac ducted surveys of 50 Washington
voted being the curate” in the nation’s capital, made| Political writers on the 1044 electhe best prediction on how the|tion. In jhe Ang wd Other presidential election would turn out,| Periscope Previews, a majority
Roosevelt. The average of their Under the heading. of “Master| August forecasts gave P. D. R. 26 the said: electoral yotes, ey others Prue Haquine “In October the average of the
according to the current Newsweek | dicted re-election of President magazine,
us Ai 2 Ee i{diction that. D. S$ seen ae Cranes Fovwws, electoral votes, Dewey 103, and Nat | Minneapolis Star-Jour-
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The Indianapolis
FORECAST: Cloudy this afternoon; partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, warmer LOMEIioN,
HARNESS LISTS OVERSEAS QUIZ
Hoosier Congressman to Probe Complaints on
European Tour.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, . Nov. 23-—Rep. Forest A, Harness (R. Ind.), who
speech and resolution for a congressiona] hearing on Pearl Harbor, is one of the congressmen taking off today to tour the European battlefronts and overseas army establish ments. In addition to the usual vaccine shots Mr. Harness has equipped himself with a set of ‘questions for the generals and GI Joe, which he says, have been puzzling the home folks, They are derived from the fragmentary information which reaches those at home, sometimes in letters like the following excerpt from a captain in France, Heé wrote: “An American dollar is worth 175 to 200 francs on the open market and an English pound (worth approximately $4) will bring 600 to 800 francs. But the Président and Mr. Churchill have set the official rate of exchange at 50 francs to the dollar and 200 francs to the pound,
France Makes Profit
“In other words they are taking good American dollars and English pounds.and buying francs from the DeGaulist Bank of France, giving $1 for 50 francs and one pound for 200 francs and paying us at that rate; “Then the French sell the dollar for 175 to 200 francs. Just a nice way of financing the French government without loaning the money to them. They let the British and |
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FLY SOLDIER'S BRIDE HOME TO HOSPITAL
Polio Victim im Brought Here
For Kenny Treatment.
Unable to be admitted to the Warm Springs, Ga., hospital, Mrs. Dorothy Souders, four-month bride of a Fortville soldier, was flown in an airplane amgiven the - Sister
“There he is!
- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944
Thanksgiving
Reuni
A marine to the world, a boy to his mother, Pfe. LeRoy Brown was embraced by Mrs. Inez Anderson as he arrived at union station on Thanksgiving eve. He has fought 27 months in the Pacifie.
Obviously she was a mother.
The two stood close together. Neither spoke, bound by something only the two of them could under-
stand.
The face of every passenger was
scanned intently, | created a furor in the house by his )
first time, with the suddenness of a bursting bomb, the older woman cried, There he is!” Tears of joy came to their eyes as they threw their arms about a young marine. His arms swept around them, a smile swept his face. . For 27 months Pfc. LeRoy Brown had been fighting in the Pacific, a veteran of the Marshalls and Guam. Now he was home on Thanks=
Then for the
Three Faces Beam With Joy As Marine Returns From War
By VICTOR PETERSON
but her eyes were alive with unbounded joy as she waited yesterday by gate 12 of the union station. The young woman definitely was somebody's sweetheart. Nervous anticipation of a long awaited event flickered over her face., . . first solemn, then a slow and sweet inward smile.
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Lines of worry marked her face,
giving eve and in the arms of his mother," Mrs. Inez Anderson, 4042 W. Michigan st., and his sweetheart, Miss Shirley Dillon, 1909 Broadway, } Saturday night Pfc. Brown and Miss. Dillon will be married. The day marks the fifth anniversary of the start of their courtship. The lines of worry were erased from the face of the mother, smiles | wreathed the sweetheart's face. For them and thousands of others the country over the same scene was ‘enacted.
Here was cause for real thanks-
giving for a Thanksgiving reunion.
HOOSIER HEROES—
Bockover and South Killed: 2 Listed Missing, 8 Wounded
WOUNDED First Lt. Philip B. Reisler, 5749
As Indianapolis today celebrated | its third wartime Thanksgiving, 12|
more city homes had received tele- | grams informing them that sons or husbands were war casualties, more city men were listed killed, two | missing in action, and eight wounded in service. KILLED Second Lt. Walter J. South, 1304 N. Tecumseh, in India. T. Sgt. Alfred R. Bockover, 904 College ave, in India.
MISSING
Jefferson ave., in Italy.
Two |
Sgt. Nowlin Jack Smith, 337 W. | 32d st., in Holland. \
E. New York st, in Normandy. | Sgt. Eugene Lashbrook, 4228 N. East st., in Guam. | Pvt, Donald W: Pitts, 853 N. Butler ave. in France. S. Sgt. Leon Andrews, 2021 Prospect st., in France. Second Lt. Richard Wilkerson,
REDS ROLL UP E. FRONT, LASH BUDAPEST LINE
Siege Arc Now Halfway Around Capital; Nazis in
Latvia Doomed.
LONDON, Nov. 23 (U. P.).—Red armies rolling up both ends of Germany's eastern front threw a siege arc half way around Budapest today. A bloody battle of annihilation against the remnants of 30 Nazi divisions pinned against the Latvian coast went into its final stages. The 2d Ukrainian army battled forward through rains to within 18 miles-of the Danube, 15 miles above the Hungarian capital. The Berlin radio acknowledged that Soviet tanks crashed into Hatvan, five-way rail junction, 22 miles northeast of Budapest.
Direction Drive Near
Together with the units which had forced the Danube below Budapest, the Russians were grinding down the defenses above the capital and clamping it in pincers calculated to ripen it for a concerted onslaught from three or more directions. The Soviet offensive in Latvia, reported for several days by alarmed Nazi commentators, still lacked confirmation by the Red army command. Russian field reports told of heavy air activity over East Prussia, where fighter-bombers smashed at German communications.
‘GHOST’ B-17 FALLS NEAR CANADA LINE
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Wandered Skies 5 Hours After Crew Baled Out.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23 (U.P.)—A B-17 Flying Fortress which crashed near Isabella, Minn, was tentatively identified today as the plane which was abandoned over Marion, S. D., early yesterday and aimlessly wandered the skies for five hours, causing alerts in a dozen Midwestern cities, including Indianapolis. Col. W. S. Dawson, commandant of the Sioux City, Iowa, army air field, where the “ghost ship” was based, said the number on the wrecked craft checked with that of the missing fortress. The plane was kept in the air by an automatic pilot for five hours after its 10-man créw parachuted to safety. One of its four motors “conked out” and the pilot was unable to “feather the prop,” causing a vibration which threatened to set the craft on fire. None of the crew was injured. The plane had enough gas to keep it aloft for four or five hours. Isabella, where the derelict finally crashed, is a remote town in north-
4363 College ave. in France. Second Lt. Kenneth W. Bush, 1638 Broadway, in France, First Sgt. Harry Sanders, Hoyt ave., in France,
1525
Second Lt. Harry G. Offutt; 609 Sgt. Dale Graves, 1415. Udell st,
| in France.
| (Details, Page Three)
REFLECTIONS—
By JOHN
us have suy conception of what it means for an army to fight its way across the Rhine and into Germany. On the map, it looks easy. But although battleg are planned on maps, they aren't fought there, They .are won on the field, battling foot by foot against natural obstacles and the firepower of a desperate adversary. Have the barbershop strate-
“dash to’ Berlin” ever stopped to
gists. who speak blithely of a
This Is No Time to Ease Up: Hardest Battles Lie Ahead
HILLMAN
THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE aimed at the Rhine has renewed talk of a European victory by Christmas—easy, carefree talk that totally disregards the sober tone of Gen, Eisenhower's and more supplies will be needed to conquor Germany, It is the nature of Americans to be hopeful, to face hard tasks lightly, That is both our strength and our weakness, _For few of
warning that more
THANKSGIVING SNOW VANISHES RAPIDLY
Snowflakes, they hit the ground, greeted early
and added to the perfect atmosphere for & day at home after a tasty turkey dinner. “The weather bureau, however, predicted no ‘snow for today but ‘promised cloudy skies -this® afternoon and tonight with warmer
pn BELGIUM TO AID ALLIES * BRUSSELS, Nov. 2 (U. B).—A
tie Sad ‘smgnde these Vt her allies, with the help of
melting as fast as Thanksgiving risers this morning
temperatures tomorrow.
[ew Belgien army wil be. put, in
eastern Minnesota near the Canadian border, 500 airline miles from | Chicago.
LUALLEN ‘SEEN’ BY 2D HOTEL EMPLOYEE
Police today had learned from a second Claypool hotel: employee that William (Larry) Luallen had “drifted in and out” of the hotel's lobby on several week-ends prior to the murder on Aug. 28, 1943, of WAC Cpl. Maoma Little Ridings. An employee sald yesterday that he would be willing to testify before a grand jury that he had seen the convicted housebreaker and self-styled killer of Tpl’ Ridings “drift” into the lobby a number of times prior to the murder. Today another employee said, “I've seen Luallen fh the ed a dozen times.” Police consider the new —
only evidence so ‘far discovered linking Luallen to the Claypool.
that he killed Cpl. Ridings during a “wild party” in Room 729.
* TELLS OF HITLER ‘DOUBLE’
Dally Express said today it had “incontestable proof” that the Nazis had been using a double as a front for Adolf Hitler since the July #viempt on his life.
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Hammer Blows by Patton and Devers
Cave In Section of Enemy Front;
Drive on Col
ogne Gains.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Nov. 23.—American and French forces tight-
| ened a pincers on an estimated 50,000 Germans trapped be-
tween the upper Rhine and the Vosges today. The border fortress of Strasbourg at the north end of the fast shrinking
pocket was also threatened.
German radio accounts of the West Front situation
assumed an attitude of extreme pessimism and gloom today. The Transocean Correspondent Gerhardt Emskoetter, reporting from the southern sector of the front, said “the
"hind by Gen. Jean de Lattre de | Tassigny’s units spearing to the
violence of the allied general offensive increases hourly.” Mobile units of the United States 3d and 7th armies joined in the Sarrebourg area, sealing another four-mile pocket and enveloping an undetermined number of Nazi laggards in the flight from northeastern France.
The triphammer blows of army group and Lt. Gen. Geo
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers’ 6th rge S. Patton's 3d army had
caved in the entire German front angling across France.
Supreme headquarters reports said about one-tenth of all the enemy ’s fighting strength on the Western Front was trapped between the U. 8S. Tth and French 1st armies south of Strasbourg. The trap was sprung on the mauled German 19th army when Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's shock troops crashed through the Saverne pass in. the. Vosges. and raced down the eastern slopes toward Strasbourg, directly threatened by the allied landslide toward the upper Rhine.
Nazis Flee in Disorder
Tattered remnants of the Nazi 19th army were strung out in disorderly flight through the valley as much as 75 miles to the south, where holdout units fought a lost cause in Belfort despite the fact that they already were left far be-
gates of Colmar, To the northwest, the Tth and 3d armies welded their flanks firmly with the junction in the region of captured Sarrebourg, cutting off more German units who were too slow to escape. Gen, Patton's 3d army center surged forward two and a half’
B-29 Over Jap
miles, reaching St. Jean Rohrbach, 15 miles southwest of Saarbrucken, His left wing hammered out another mile advance over German soil to Kesslingen, four miles beyond the border in the corner of the Reich adjacent to Luxembourg. Three other allied armies—the American 1st and 9th and the British 2d—were grinding down the German defense system west of Cologne in a concerted onslaught compared in front dispatches with the heaviest fighting in world war I. The German fallback to the Roer river line, running through Julich and Duren 20 miles from Cologne, was hastened by the fall of Eschweiler, and Lt. Gen, William H. Simpson's oth army, victor in pers haps the biggest tank battle of the western campaign, was massing at the Roer and had entered Bornheim, a mile and a half southwest of Julich,
British Move on Venlo
Across the Meuse river to the northwest, other British 2d army units slogged through mud and minefields fo within a little more than two miles of the border fortress of Venlo and massed on the river bank in the Roermond area. The British captured the villages
lof Amerika and Sevenum on the
left flank of the converging march toward Venlo.
Homeland
On Reconnaissance, Nips Say
By UNITED PRESS Tokyo reported a Superfortress reconnaissance flight over the Japa-
nese homeland at noon today (Japanese time), in apparent preparation
for further intensification of the far-flung Pacific aerial offensive. A Tokyo broadcast said one B-20 flew over the coastal area-of Ise
bay, Honshu island, in central Japan, at the head of which lies Nagoya, great industrial center. The Superfortress “fled in no time” when the Japanese opened up with intercepting fire, it added, shita has swung most of his comThe Berlin radio broadcast a bat strength to the defense of the
| Ormoe corridor, Tokyo report heard in London that , United States naval units shelled Gen. Douglas MacArthur's fighter
the island of Matau in the northern Kuriles for 20 minutes yesterday evening. A Tokyo dispatch of the Transocean News Agency reported the
planes destroyed or badly damaged four small freighters, two coastal vessels and 10 barges, many laden with Japanese troops or supplies, {the daily communique reported. More than 40 other barges
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LONDON, Nov. 23 (U. P.).~The
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PARIS, Nov. 23 (U.P) —Guy Buinau-Varilla, former publisher of |
naval bombardment of Matau, ap-|p.ached south of Ormoc were deparently a German form of distor-|,,ueq Motor torpedo boats sank tion of Maua, a Kurile sand 700} |two luggers and four troop barges miles north of Hokkaldo. off Ormoec, and other small eraft The dispatch said the attacking were damaged. forces withdrew because of effective] Gen. MacArthur reported that Japanese defense fire. | his ground forces were maintaining In another phase of the Pacific! steady pressure on Limon, “where war, it was announced from allied | the enemy apparently has elected headquarters on Leyte that Amer-| to make his principal stand.” ican planes and P-T boats destroyed| A spokesman at MacArthur's or damaged eight Japanese coastal headquarters disclosed that allied vessels and 54 barges engaged .in| Beaufighters in the Southwest small scale feinforcemen: of Leyte,| Pacific now are using rockets where Lt, (Gen, Tomoyuki Yama- | against their targets.
Officer Here Turns Cleaner;
Blast Costs U. S. $2585.45
The citzens have been taking it, They've had their houses smashed by falling airplanes; they've been run down by 16-ton tanks; they've.
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. — If America’s fighting men, please, would go easy on throwing ketchup bottles, scaring mules with their flying machines and trying to clean their own pants with gasoline, congress today would have something in for which to be thankful,’
So would the taxpayers. I know
‘the capitol, watching the house of representatives - get oft’ the Hook
had their wells ruined and their.