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[scurns ~nowarnd VOLUME 55—~NUMBER 227
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1944
Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday
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{ Mother Says Doctor Gave Baby Away, Sues For $1,000,000
By NOBLE REED A 19-year-old mother filed a million dollar law suit in superior court 3 today, accusing a physician of giving her newly born baby to an unidentified couple without
Mrs. Jessie Jones . , , “where is my baby?”
BAND BANNED—
Burch Takes Auditor Oath
Minus Music
Shela, Page 21)
athe al By SHERLEY UHL A V.-BURCH was here today for his own swearing-in ceremony but his band wasn’t. This is a situation similar ‘to that which might face Sevitsky for instance, if he were to mount the podium and find himself without the Indianapolis Symphony. . You've heard of politicians who rolled into office on a bandwagon? Mr. Burch breezed into the coveted $7500-a-year state -auditorship partly on the plaudits of his celebrated all-girl accordion band. His scorching anti-New Deal speechifying also had something to do with it, ” » Fd / *THE ' MAN with the band” from Evansville wanted to have his squeeze-box unit on hand for the inauguration in the state house at 11 a. m. today, but
G. 0. P, programmers thought the fanfare should be reserved for Governor-elect Gates when he’ takes office Jan. 8. - . " Both Mr, Burch and Secretary of State Rue Alexander were sworn in this morning. The former succeded Lieutenant ‘Governor-elect Richard T, James in the auditor's post. Mr, Alexander, the Republican
Supreme Court Judge O'Malley ‘inducted Mr. Burch. llate Court Judge Paul PF. Dowell swore in Mr. Alexander. LJ » » A SUAVE, smooth-talking wearer of neatly conservative haberdashery, the new auditor reeruited the accordion band, di rected by Mrs. James Campbell of Evansville, because he wanted the
HUMAN NEEDS FIRST': KAISER
Tells State .C. of C. Here That Co-operation Must Be Order of Day.
By ROGER BUDROW | . Times Business Bdibor* = = Henry J. Kaiser, the West coast’s shipbuilder whose headline-making production exploits have catapulted him into international fame, believes this nation has entered & new era in its history—“when human needs take precedence over all other interests.” , It will be an era, he said, in which such “plain, old-fashioned words as human understanding and co~opera« tion” must be the order of the day. Mr. Kaiser spoke to 1500 Hoosier businessmen at the Scottish Rite cathedral in the largest annual meeting ever held by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce,
Introduced by Hoffman
He was introduced by Paul G. Hoffman of South Bend, president of Studebaker Corp. and national chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, at whose request Mr. Kaiser spoke here, Mr, Kaiser said “the entire history of wilful neglect was written into the lines: ‘Man’s inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn’, ” But, he asserted, this nation still is young, does not have deep-rooted prejudices and need not repeat mistakes of other governments, which he said were too slow in g human needs, and were ended by revolutions. “Unless we act fearlessly and soon,” he warned, “we shall not escape. Once again plain people are speaking and their just claims will not be denied.” Scores of laws and hundreds of books have been written about labor relations, Mr. Kaiser said, “yet labor relations are no more than human relations, "May wants to be treated like a
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her permission.
“I haven't even seen my baby since a few minutes after it was born in a doctor's office Nov. 19,” declared Mrs. Jessie R. Jones, Indianapolis war plant worker whose husband was killed on the battlefields of France last June. “I don’t even know whether my baby is a boy or a girl... all I know is that it has black hair, ..I only saw it
YANKS IN GRIM STRUGGLES AT SAAR AND ROER
One of Bitterest Battles! Since Ypres Rages on
Banks of Rivers.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 1.—Three American armies, locked in one of the grimmest battles since bloody Ypres of world war I, fought ahead today to expand their toehold on the shell-plowed banks of the rivers Roer.and Saar. They were preparing for a knockout blow at Germany's war-making might. They measured their advances in
yards rather than miles, They had hammered out nearly a
10-mile hold on the west bank of
the Roer and an eight-mile grip on the west bank of the Saar, preparing springboards for the attack on the Reich's industrial vitals'in the Ruhr and the deep Saar.
Saarlautern Threatened
German broadcasts admitted Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army was. closing in irresistably upon Saarlautern, a key Saar bastion six miles inside the Reich, from three Patton's forces now held nearly one-half the Saar area. Three of Patton’s crack divisions, the 10th armored, the 90th and 95th infantry, shouldered forward a mile
(Hoosier Heroes, Page 22)
to a mile and a half to form a solid front on the river Saar froth just north of Merzig, which is southwest of the corner where the Saar joins Luxembourg, to a point southwest of Saarlautern,
Threaten Coal Industry
The 95th infantry was only two miles west of Saarlautern’s coal and coke industries within easy artillery range, which already was believed to be robbing many of the Saar industrial towns of their war-making capacity. The 3d army over-ran a series of small Saar towns, including Fremesborf and Buren, midway between Merzig and Saarlautern, Hilbringen, Fitten and Ballern, all just west of Merzig. Fighting was going forward inside battered Itzbach, four miles northwest of Saarlautern. The Nazis expressed concern about Patton's plans for a breakthrough just south of the Saar. They reported increasing pressure on German “bolt” positions between Saar-Union which lies at the south end of the industrial area,
(Continued on Page 9—Column 4) $2900 VISIT— ’ Telford Searches For Night Mayor
In Bream of Pay
NOT A CREATURE stirred as midnight approached last night ir the echoing interior of tomblike city hall where many pblitical skeletons of the past are burfed. No one, that is, except Fred Telford, city job surveyor, whose services ended at midnight, a n n . YESTERDAY, the jovial municipal consultant learned that the recently-enacted city ordinance appropriating $2000 for his services since Aug. 1 included a provision that four reports be submitted to Mayor Robert H. Tyndall before legal. payment of the money could be made. Mr: Telford and his secretary dug into their notes on the proposed reorganization of the city isolation hospital, improvement of downtown stréet cleaning methods, operation. of the city personnel division, and revision
once and I was semi-conscious then... the doctor said
I could never see it again.”
Thus the young mother descr ibed the disappearance of her baby as she signed the papers in a law suit against Dr. Portia Parker, 2226 W. Michigan st., demanding immediate return of her baby and $1,000,000 damages. Mrs. Jones said when she discovered she was to become a mother she went to Dr. Parker for examinations and that the doctor discussed with her the possibility of having some couple adopt the baby. “The doctor talked me into signing an agreement to
have the baby adopted. ...I was so confused about every-
thing at that time, I didn’t
realize ‘until the baby was
born that I didn’t want to give it away,” Mrs. Jones said, She said she went to Dr, Parker's office on Nov. 19
and that her baby was born
“I was kept at the doctor’
I was able to leave before asked to see the baby again
in a small room at the rear, 8 office for 10 days although then,” Mrs, Jones said. “I but Dr. Parker refused and
told me the authorities wouldn't ever let me have the
baby until they checked up
on my home conditions and
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MULLER, LOCAL
EXECUTIVE, DIES
IN PLANE CRASH
Paper Firm Official Among 7 Killed in West Coast Mystery Accident.
Howard M. Muller, 5853 Forest lane, treasurer of the American Paper Stock Co. of Indianapolis, was among seven of 23 passengers who were killed when a Transcontinental and Western airliner crashed near Los Angeles, Cal., today. Another Indianapolis resident, Seaman John Roney, 1250 S. Talbot ave, a member of the coast guard, was injured. The crash occurred at 3 a. m. when the plane suddenly went into a dive as it was making a normal landing at Burbank airport, according to the United Press.
City Officials Hurt
Also among the passengers injured were Mayor Hartley Knox and City Manager Walter Cooper, both of San Diego, Cal. Mr, Knox escaped serious injury by holding a» pillow in front of his face as the plane, which was en routexfrom New York to San Francisco, came down in an open field.Mr. Mueller, who was 46, had been with the local paper company for 24 years, starting as a clerk in the office, and had been treasurer for 19 years. He was born in Danbury, Mass. and came to Indianapolis when he was 10. He married Margaret Jones of Terre Haute. They have no chil~ dren. He is a past president of the Indianapolis Purchasing Agents’ association and a member of the Capitol City Masonic lodge and the Columbia club,
Visits His Mother
He left Indianapolis Thanksgiving day to. visit his mother .in Los Angeles, Survivors, besides his wife and mother, include a sister who resides here. Describing the plane crash, John Dillard, Seaman 1-¢, a passenger said he awoke with a start, and had a feeling that the plane was skimming over water, “I guess we were pulling over the tops of trees,” he.said. “Then we slammed down in the open field.” The crash occurred in the Van Nuys area, only a short distance from the old Los Angeles metropolitan airport.
Cause Remains Mystery
Airline officials said they had no indication of what caused the crash, Police officers said the craft did not, explode and there apparently was no fire, The twin-motored ship crashed in a muddy field a few minutes after a radio contact reporting everything was normal, Ambulance attendants said the deep mud may have accounted for the fact that 16 Persons came out alive, '-Attendants at a mortuary, where the bodies were taken, said the victims all were men. Others injured included: Lt. Eugene Lopez 24, Brooklyn,
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Two Exelusive Sports Features—|
® The Times presents today: |
® Heze Clark's annual selection ‘of All-State "Indiana high school football teams.
LITTELL SCORES REALTY GROUPS
Charges Effort to ‘Get "Him, Control Disposal of 15
Billion in Assets.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (U, P.),— Norman M. Littell, ousted assistant attorney general, charged today that powerful realty interests, with representatives in the government, were trying to control disposal of $15,000.000,000 worth of surplus war real estate. Mr, Littell, formerly of Indianapolis, was dismissed by President Roosevelt yesterday for insubordina-
,| tion to Atty. Gen, Francis Biddle.
As he packed up his papers preparatory to surrendering his office at the justice department, Mr, Littell’s friends in congress were fighting ‘for an investigation of the rift which broke into headlines this week, Testimony Recalled The former head of the justice
department's lands division told an interviewer that the National Asso-
“|ciation of Real Estate Boards was
making a “powerful drive” to “in. fluence or control policy” in disposal of surplus realty, He sald the association sought to “get” him politically, Mr. Littell last August told the senate war investigating committee, headed by Senator James M. Mead (D, N, Y), that the association had “secured key appointments” in the army real estate secol and surplus property disposal
had
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CLOTHE-A-CHILD—
“AS” TEMPERATURES dipped this week, the biting winter winds brought evén more shivers to the
needy cannot bundle them up In snow suits and warm wool clothing. And that's why dnother Indian apolis family . . . a mother, fath. er and their seven children. applied for aid from The Times
day. For 13 years the father worked: | for a local firm, bringing home
Clothe-A-Child campaign yester-
Times Begins Mile-O-Dimes Campaign for Needy |
The Times Mile-O-Dimes’ official starter , , . 4-year-old Carol Ann Biemer.
Sidewalk Santa Claus Sets Up Downtown Quarters.
By MILDRED KOSCHMANN THE CHRISTMAS BELL of the Indianapolis Times’ Mile-O-Dimes sounded for the first time today as the Sidewalk Santa Claus set up his 1944 headquarters in front" of L. 8. Ayres & Co. and 8, 8, Kresge Co. Busy shoppers, downtown workers.and youngsters hurried to be the first ones to start the long rows of dimes which will brighten Christmas day for hundreds of Indianapolis’ needy children, But officially, the first starter was 4-year-old Carol Ann Biemer, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Francis Biemer, 115 8. Bolton ave. » ” »
CAROL, whose dime along with thousands of others will help clothe needy Indianapolis chil" dren, has four uncles fighting in this war to end the suffering of youngsters and their parents in foreign countries, and keep our own free. They are Lt. Richard Higgs, with an ordnance department in
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TRUMAN FAVORS
TREATY REVISION
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 1 (U. P.). —Senator Harry .8. Truman, vice president-elect, today came out in favor of proposals which would permit ratification of treaties by a majority of the senate instead of a two-thirds vote, Senator Truman, in an interview, sald he had been in favor of such an amendment for a long time, “but of course it would require approval of the states.”
The Father's Ill, the Mother Can't Work—They Need Help
struck the family and a fire burned their house and all their clothing to ashes. Te. BAD LUCK again came to the “home when the father became ill last August and was taken to the hospital. He” was released two weeks _ago but is still der niedical care at home. The. mother is unable wv work” |? .~+'. She has her babies and sick - husband to care for. Only lately has this’ family been “receiving aid from a relief agency. A $25-a-week benefit insurance in-
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TTH JAP CONVOY LOST OFF LEYTE
5000 Enemy Troops in Sinking 6 Ships.
By UNITED . PRESS
American airmen, rapidly winning aerial dominanace over the central Philippines, were credited today with destroying their seventh Japanese convoy west of Leyte and killing another 5000 enemy troops en route to the island, Communiques issued by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm, Chester W. Nimitz indicated that the cumulative ‘effect of American
War correspondents are not’ spectators in this war—they are dying on the battlefields along with our heroi¢ G. L’s. Read, “I Lost a Buddy on Leyte,” by Maj. Earl Hoff, Times staff member on leave, on Page 19 today.
| carrier and land-based strikes was beginning to tell heavily on Jap{anese air power throughout the Western Pacific. A weak enemy attack on the Superfortress base at Saipan was beaten off Tuesday, the Japanese losing one and probably two bombers without causing any damage. At the same time, Tokyo scaled down sharply its recent fantastic claimg of numerous American ship sinkings off the Philippines, A dispatch from MacArthur's headquarters said U, 8. fliers shot down at least ‘six enemy planes over the islands and that Japanese alrpower appeared to have been crippled.
fought over a wide area off the west coast of Leyte between Ameri. can fighters and patrol planes and
Yank Fliers Take Toll of
The latest. convoy battle was|
SENATE GROUP ORDERS COMPLETE INQUIRY INTO INDIANA ELECTION
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THOUSANDS OF VOTERS BARRED, PROBERS CLAIM
Staff Investigators to Return Here at Once, Green
Discloses.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Stall Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.— A full scale investigation of
~ |alleged irregularities in the
Indiana election was author-
| ized unanimously today by the
senate campaign investigating committee. Chairman Green (D. R. 1.) said that the action was taken after the committee had heard reports of investigators whom they had sent to
He 1 Senator Stewart (D. Tenn.) and Senator Ball (R. Minn.) as a investigation. Staff in will return to Indianapolis at once, Senator Green said. The senators expect to conduct
| Ind
=. tpublic hearings at a later date.
Sees Thousands Disfranchised
According to Senator Green, the preliminary investigation disclosed “that thousands were prevented from voting by action of authori ties.” “We expect to find out whether this result came from a state-wide conspiracy,” Senator Green said. “It could have been the fault of the laws or the administration of them. We particularly will inquire into the clashing opinions coming from the governor and attorney general.” Senator Green said that imwestigation to date had uncovered the
Marion county courthouse on elec tion day and many were unable to vote,
Bays Asked for Probe
They were sent there under the attorney general's ruling. Senator Green said that among others, Democratic State Chairman Fred Bays and Marion county Demo=cratic Chairman James Beattey had asked for the investigation. He declined to say whether there had been any Republican request exe cept from Senator-elect Homer Capehart, who months ‘ago had asked the committee to investigate his own campaign expenditures. Indiana was the only state in which the committee announced s full scale investigation. They dee clined to investigate further in Are kansas and concluded investiga-
went Republican more than any other state in the union.
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(Dec. 1, 1944)
WESTERN FRONT —° Americans open thunderous battles to force crossings of ‘Roer and Saar rivers and determine fate of Naz war Industries in Ruhr and Sear, basin. |
EASTER FRONT—Red armies battle through breaches in German defenses at «both ‘ends of ‘250-mile| ‘Hungarian front in offensives that carry to within © 100 miles of Austria in the south nd. broaden
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Philippines - waters * for more yictims after wiping out seventh Japanese convoy in month bound for Ormoc with Teinioremiiiis for Leyte garrison, +
ITALY—German attack south Bologna moves into second d with heavy fighting miles south of oy,
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