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STATE'S POLICE

Plans Maximum Mobilization, Division of System Into Two Zones. ~~ :|

By SHERLEY UHL Dr. Austin R. Killian, elected mayor of Lafayette, become state police superintendent in the administration of Governor-

twice-

elect Gates, it was learned today.|™

Mayor Killian said in Lafayette today that he has- mapped tentative plans to “concentrate” out state police supervision by dividing the barracks command into north and south districts to be headed by captains,

Seeks Maximum Mobilization

Mayor Killian likewise disclosed his desire to:

ONE: Effect a maximum mobilization of police personnel by assigning two officers, instead of one, to each patrol car.

TWO: Standardize traffic control programs in Indiana urban centers, tailoring the state system after that now in effect at Lafayette, which won the safety plaque .for cities of its class in both 1942 and 1943. Lafayette hasn't had an ‘accident fatality to date in 1944, THREE: Emphasize that “the department .is organized primarily for patrol duties” by expanding and intensifying state police surveillance over regularly-patrolled territories. Dr. Killian, a practicing dentist in Lafayette dor 32 years, has been mayor of that city for six years, having been re-elected in 1942. He will succeed Donald Stivers in the $6000 a year post.

Veteran of World War I

A world war I veteran of 22 months service, 12 of them overseas, Mayor Killian is now a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve corps. He was state commander of the American Legion in 1935 and is now president of the Indiana Municipal league. He is 56. - A personal friend of .Governorelect Gates for the past {wo decades, Mayor Killian has long been prominent in state G. O. P. affairs and for three years was Republican chairman of Tippecanoe county. He also managed the campaign of Republican Gubernatorial Nominee Glenn R. Hillis in 1940. Stressing the fact that his reorganization program is still “problematical,” Mayor Killian said he will strive particularly to give Indiana “absolutely impartial state police enforcement.”

Bi-Partisan Basis Provided

The present state police "law specifies that all appointments shall be made on a bi-partisan basis with the force composed of 50 per cent. Republicans and 50 per cent Democrats. Mayor Killian said he has not decided on appointments to the captaincies of his proposed north and south barracks. At present there is but one state police cap-

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BOMB DUMP BLAST , TOLL MAY, BE 240

LONDON, Nov, 28 (U, P.)—Authorities today listed 78 persons as dead or missing from an explosion which ripped through a royal air force bomb dump at Burton-on-Trent in the Midlands yesterday. Unofficial estimates placed the number of dead at 240, of which 200 were said to be service men and the others civilians.

SUN TO REMAIN IN HIDING FOR AWHILE

Hungry for a peek at that good old warm sun again? Well, don’t get excited , . . the weather bureau says it isn’t in the cards this week. Instead, the five-day forecast includes such words” as “rain” and “snow” and “below normal temperatures.” It's going to be a wet Indiana at least until Sunday. Temperatures for the northern part of the state will be “near normal”; for the southern part, “below normal.”

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DR. AR. KILLIAN

Gates' Choice

Dr. Austin R. Killian . . . scheduled to replace Don Stiver as head of Indiana's state police department,

SEE QUICK 0. K. FOR STETTINIUS

Senators Predict Enthusiastic Indorsement of

Hull Successor.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U. P). —Edward R. Stettinius Jr., the 44-year-old “freshman” in international politics, appeared assured today of prompt and enthusiastic indorsement by the senate foreign relations committee as successor t> Cordell Hull in the vital post of secretary of state. Committee Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) said Mr. Stettinius’ nomination to the No. 1 cabine' position, “announced shortly after President Roosevelt accepted Sec-

Story of Mr. .Stettinius’ career, Page 13.

retary Hull's resignation, would be considered tomorrow. He anticipated prompt approval. So did other committee leaders, including Senator Arthur H. Vane denberg (R. Mich) and Senator Wallace H. White (R. Maine), Re-|P publican flopr leader in the senate. A quick poll of other senatorial opinion indicated that before the week is ended the handsome young diplomat will win confirmation to direct the foreign affairs of the United States through one of the most critical times of the nation’s history. Big Task Started

One of the principal problems confronting Mr. Stettinius in the new post is the completion of a United Nations organization to preserve the peace, a task which he started in the Dumbarton Oaks conference this summer under the direction of Mr. Hull, It was because Mr, Hull did not feel physically capable of carrying forward such work that he submitted his resignation, Although the principal burden of the task now falls upon Mr. Stettinfus, President Roosevelt still

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ERNIE TO LEAVE SOON

Credited to Navy.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (U. P.). —~Ernie Pyle, Indianapolis Times war reporter, is getting ready for a look at the battlegrounds of the Far East,

the war in North Africa, Sicily resentatives here said today.

will be accredited to the navy,

Albuquerque, N. M.

EVERY YEAR Lt. Jack A. Mor-

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FOR PACIFIC THEATER

Times War Reporter to Be

Pyle, who since 1942, has covered

Italy and France, will leave “around the first of the year” for the Pacific theater, Scripps-Howard repHe

This fall Pyle returned to the United States to rest after covering American troops in the invasion of France. He is now at his home in

PARLEYS SHOW AFL AND Clo DIFFER WIDELY

Cleavages Noted on Political Activity, International

< Labor Affairs.

°° By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28.—Decided differences show up here in the convention of the American Federation of Labor and that of the C. 1. last week in Chicago. The C. I. O. displayed an enthusiasm and virility that is lacking in the labor gathering here. But the A. F. of L. men will argue on the virility question. They point out their organization is 64 years old, while the C. I. O. is only nine. The C. I. O. has embarked on a national program of engaging in politics, while the A. PF. of L. adheres to Mts old policy of going down the middle between the Democrats and the Republicans. Internationally, the C..I. O. was willing to send spokesmen to a labor gathering in London that will include representatives from the Soviet Union. The A. F..of L.

ground that Russian workmen are not free in the American sense.

Differ on Hatch “Act

Another difference is in the attitude of the two labor organizations toward the Hatch act, which prohibits political activity by federal employees. The C. I. O. indorsed a proposal by its United Fedegal Workers that this restriction be removed. The A. F. of L. referred a similar proposal to its executive counsel, which seldom reports on controversial questions. At the.same time the A. F, of L. convention gave approval to its American Federation of Government Employees, headed by James B. Burns, which recommended no change in the Hatch act other than a graduation in the penalties for government employees found to be in violation. The difference is that the C. I. O. has declared for full rights to political activity by government em-

upholds the restrictions, but wants the penalties made to “fit the crime.” At present, according to Mr. Burns, the only penalty for a major or minor offense is discharge.

Green Gives Stand

On the international question, in a spirited speech, Mr. Green said, replying to a British fraternal delegate, “we view with some apprehension steps that may be taken by our professing friends to widen and perpetuate the division that exists

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BRUSSELS STRIKERS PARADE IN STREETS

BRUSSELS, Nov. 28 (U. P.).—An estimated 3000 tram, postal, telephone and other workers struck in Brussels today and demonstrated in the streets against the government of Premier Hubert Pierlot. The strike crippled the public utilities, but. Its first phase passed without serious incident déspite noisy manifestations by marching workers, White helmeted police stood by barbed wire barricades and trucks parked axle to axle in front of government building. The marchers gathered in side streets and paraded back and forth while police barred the path to the Bourse.

BELIEVED BURNING

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Tokyo’s crowded waterfront, through which ,| pass war supplies for the far-flung Japanese empire, was believed still smouldering today from the second American Superfortress attack in 72 hours on that key objective. (The Tokyo office of the Japanese Domel agency , said today trans mission of all news had been delayed for about an hour “because

is not disposed to do so on thel

ployees; the A. F. of L. apparently}

TOKYO0’S WATER FRONT

TUESDAY, NOVEMBE

Times Foreign Service STOCKHOLM, Nov, 28.—If the retreating Nazi pyromaniacs keep’ up their ‘present wanton destruction and brutalities, North Norway will’ exist only as a memory. . Already 250,000 persons are homeless, fleeing in stark terror before Col. Gen, Lothar Rendulic’s fanatical 8S (elite guard) and Alpine soldiers who are trying to escape Russian pursuit.

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REFUGEES’ tales of cruelty, deliberate’ separation of families and needless pillage make this wholesale destruction of North Norway one of the saddest and most brutal chapters in the entire history of German madness. Driven like sick cattle before their Nazi captors, thousands of Russian, Polish, Czechoslovak and other war prisoners are being left to die in snowdrifts. The mortality among Nor-

Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued dally except Sunday

Nazis Leave Norse Captives Dying in Snow

weglans, forced from their simple homes on the shortest notice with out, proper clothing, already has reached shocking proportions. » . » ONE-FIFTH of all Norway has now ‘been evacuated as the Germans eliminate every single source which might assist the Russians. The worst winter Norway has ever known already has started its chilling and deadly bite.

PRICE. FIVE CENTS

Sweden has been aroused by this Finmark fragedy to sorrow and a deep rooted desire to help. Swedish airplanes have been dropping food and clothes across the frontier, and the entire northern strip of Sweden has been hastily made ready to assist refugees streaming across’ the border, more dead than alive, » » »

NORWEGIAN patriots here are nearly distraught from the un-

ending. tales of brutality and dee struction. They fear that unless the allies.

land forces in Norway, the Germans will destroy Narvik as they

. have destroyed Tromso and other

north Norway towns, They foresee mass starvation because the Germans have sunk the entire northern fishing fleet and. driven fishermen away,

First Photo of V-2 Bomb Shot Down in Belgium

Acme Telephoto

Part of ».Vo2 Bylig Domb abot dows’ in Belgium is photographed for the first time, The engine, which is believed to be fed by a mixture of liquid air with either ‘oxygen or alcohol, is on the left.

' |today on a 60-mile front.

of Saarbrucken less than 10

BLACK MARKET HERE ON ‘FAGS’

Local Operations on Small Scale, However, Says OPA Attorney.

There is a small local black market "in cigarets, but the operators are individuals scratching for what they can get and not part of any organized ring, That was the consensus of cigaret distributors and the OPA today. John E. Scott, chief enforcement attorney of the OPA, said they received fragmentary reports of black

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market peddling, but there was “still nothing to indicate any suspicion of large scale black market operations.” ’ i He cited one report that had come into his office recently of a man going into a downtown restaurant 10 minutes after the cigaret machine had been filled, finding it empty, and being offered a package of Camels for 25 cents by man who had already cleaned out the machine. Salesmen Get Offers Distributors said that their salesmen and delivery men had been offered above ceiling prices for cigarets by strangers while on their routes. One local wholesaler said that a week ago some of his men handling cases of cigarets in an alley had been offered $100 for a case (50 cartons) by a man with Ohio license plates. Police records show that burglars breaking into groceries, filling stations and similar Places take the time to steal all the accessible cig arets. much. more frequently Lhan before. Chief of Detectives Jesse McMurtry said today that he knew of nothing to indicate organized black market operations.

ITALIAN CRISIS CONTINUES ROME, Nov. 28. (U. P,).—Italian quarters said that the British oppose the naming of Count Carlo’ Sforza as either premier or foreign minis-

of transmitter trouble,” but gave no details.)

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ter, and the government crisis conor. unabated.

Clothe-A-Child Drive Sporred by Check In Memory of Lt. Morris; Many Others Give

A-Child. The various social service agencies are co-operating in investigating each ‘case. Those who will need help include families of widows who cannot work because they have to care for their children, families of service men whose allotments are

the father Morris Brothers Co In Memd work, and orphans or wards of Ory of Lt. Jack A. Morris. 1000 45 siate who are cared for in Kappa Delta Phi Sorority... 508 #» uo» Golden Rule Aux., O. E. S.... HEADQUARTERS FOR this : ; Air's campaign are at 301 W. “the

a refueling and rearming, Suddenly

Capt. William H. Buracker of Winchester, 'Mass.,’ told his story matter-of-factly until he described the final minutes of the eight-hour fight to save the Princeton and the heroism of her officers and enlisted men, 88 of whom were lost out of a total complement of 1548. His voice broke as he said: “The number of survivors is the one consoling factor for me. The average American, be he officer or enlisted man, doesn’t have to be told what to do. And:loyalty—God knows they're loyal.” Early in the morning, the Princeton’s- combat air patrols shot down 36 of more than 100 enemy planes which made an attempt to attack the task group with which the.light carrier was operating. The weather was murky as the ship started to land its patrols for

a dive bomber broke out of a cloud in a glide run directly at the Princeton. Anti-aircraft batteries opened fire and Capt. Buracker snapped commands for evasive maneuvers,

Thought Bomb Was Small But the Japanese pilot put one of his bombs squarely on the Princeton's flight deck between her plane elevators. “At first I was not particularly concerned, because I figured the bomb was a small one and that we quickly could patch up any damage to the flight deck,” Capt. Buracker said. “But, unfortunately, the ‘bomb went down into the hangar deck where T. B. F.'s (torpedo bombers) were loaded with gas and torpedoes. Large fires started immediately, Explosives destroyed some of the wiring operating fire controls, Ammunition started going off.” This was at 9:30 a. m. About 30

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Hoosier Heroes—

4 LISTED AS DEAD

Nippon Bomb in Hangar Deck Spelled Doom for Princeton

- By DAN McGUIRE United Press Staff Correspondent PACIFIC FLEET

ARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 28.-~The

a single bomb plane calsed fires and ex-

PAPER COLECTIONS BEGIN HERE MONDAY

City Divided Into 4 Areas For Pickups.

Waste paper — so vitally needed for the packaging and manufacture of thousands of articles of war— will be collected throughout the city

next week. , Employees of the street depart-

missioner Luther Tex, will pick up the paper in city trucks beginning Monday morning, To {facilitate the collection the city has been split by Meridian and 16th streets into four zones with pick-ups as follows: Southwest area-—~Monday. Northwest area—Tuesday. Northeast area—Wednesday. Southeast area—Thursday. Housewives have been asked to tle

them in front of their homes early on the designated day.

paper to dealers will be contributed

building fund. To give the drive added impetus

an educational program in advance of the pick-up. .

BARNARD GIVEN 0. K.

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ment, under the direction of Com-'

their bundles securely and to place

Proceeds from the sale of the to the Children’s Museum post-war all Parent-Teacher organizations in

the city schools and parent’s groups in parochial schools are conducting

THIRD OF BRITISH HOMES RUINED

Record War Production Is Maintained. Despite Bomb Damage.

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 28. —Great Britain, revealing the staggering measure of ‘her war effort, reported today that one-third of all the homes in the United Kingdom have been wrecked by Nazi bombs with almost 750,000 men, women and children casualties, Nevertheless, the nation has produced 102,000 planes, 25,000 tanks and 4,500,000 tons of shipping in the first five years of war. Lifting the ban of military secrecy for the first time in an official white paper, the government made public complete details on

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SANTA ANA, Cal, Nov. 28 (U.|

Lt. Harold O. Miller,

Santa Rosa, Cal, pilot,

shal Erwin Rommel.

Hoven & Rindsunh 8 cock

Gedenbrche @ Linich

WASHINGTON, Nov, 28 (U, P.).

ommended to the senate confirma-| tion of George M. Barnard, New Castle, Ind, as a member of the,

Three Reported : Wounded Fighting in France.

Three Indianapolis men and a Carmel filler have been killed and three lacal men have been wounded foday's war casualty lists revealed. KILBED - oo Pvt. Irvin (Luke) Allee, 546 N. Sheffield ave, In Italy. 8. 8gt. Cloyd F. Sutton, 618 W. New York st, on Leyte. Second Tt, John W. Stewart, Carmel, in California.” Aviation Radioman 3-¢ Bepjamin L. Kauffman Jr, R. R. % ‘Box 633,

IN U.S. AND OVERSEAS

interstate commerce commission, | Barnard was nominated to fill the!

late Joseph B, Eastman,

~The senate interstate commerce committee today approveq and rec-|

38d. Army Smashes Out Along 60-Mile Front, Rip Into Outposts 10 Miles From Saarbrucken.

the casualties and war production !

The German radio announced | that Rommel met his death when| (Continued on n Page Colt

PATTON MEN MOVE AHEAD IN BIG DRIVE

to ‘5-Mile Gains

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Nov. 28.—L#t. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army i | spurted forward two to five miles toward the German border

The center of the drive was over-running the outposts

miles from the great frontier

fortress. The American 9th army drove two wedges to the

{Roer river 21 miles west of

Cologne and forced an assault arc around. the fortified city ° of Julich, To its right the 1st army won two-thirds of Langerwehe, last stronghold before Duren. French reports circulated that al lied troops had crossed the upper Rhine north of Strasbourg, but su~ preme headquarters said ng woo any such action had been received:

and that a crossing was highly improbable. )

Nasis Report Withdrawal

The Berlin radio said that at Sarre Union and along the Rhine southeast of Hagenau, German rear guards harassed by both U. 8. 3d and Tth army forces were covering a withdrawal of the main Nazi forces to new lines. The Nazis said’ a “great” tak battle was raging south of Sarre Union, 10 miles south of Sarre« guemines, with 200 American tanks and elements of a French armored division engaged. In one of the gloomiest Nazi prophecies” since Gen. Dwight D, | Eisenhower opened. his six-army winter. offensive, a German Trans-

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'Yank Who Killed Rommel

U.S. for a Rest

his staff car was strafed by a plane

P.) —It was indicatéd today by films July 24, synchronized with his guns and| Only one car was strafed on that from his account of the action that|day, and the films in Lt. Miller's 20-year-old | gun camera recorded it, was the airman who killed Nazi Field Mar- | {er here, with his wife, Margaret,

Now resting at convalescent cen=

| Miller has been back, in this coun

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vacancy caused by the death of the

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The Spirit Of Christmas—

@® Here's a big treat for boys and girls — a comic strip packed with little ~ people, birds and animals that you can cut out. It's the story of Bonnie and Ted and their trip to the

«Claus, .

® Every character, every bit of scenery ‘was cut out of black paper ‘and pasted in ‘the strips by Laurene Rose

Sgt. William 8, Marshall, 824 N Diehl, famed silhouette Gladstone ave.'in France. artist. Now i's your turn Pie. Jack 8. Oliphant, 82 W. 4th| to" cut. them out—after you

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