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meant,” Mr. Emmert said, “but I cerdrinly had "a legdl right to do so. However, I did not consider that this would be a justiiied and proper expenditure of «tate funds so kyconsider my course more ethical than the governor's.” One of the odd bits brought out by Baron was that Governor Schricker’s telegram was filled Nov. 6. at 3:51 p. m, while Western Union records disclosed that the attorney .general's countermanding message was filed at’3:36 p. m. Explaining that his countermanding telegram was filed first, Mr. Emmert said that he haa learned of the Schricker telegram at the| state house and acted at once Both County Clerk A. Jack Tilson and his former registration clerk,

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| Carroll Kramer, were questioned at; Mt, Tilson replied that the -eleclength during the morning session. | tion laws are confusing and conHis face glistening: with perspira-|flicting and are sadly in need of [tion, Mr. Tilson denied*that he had |recodification. ; lanything to do with the contro-| Senator Ball interposed the ob- | versial Emmert telegram. servation that “the widespread use |. He said that the first he knew of lof either affidavits or certificates of tits existence was when it-was shown error atvpolling places is actually a to him on the afternoon before nullification of the registration election. Prior to that time, he law.” [testified, the use of affidavits for| Beaming in agréement and sigh- | [challenged voters appeared. accep- ing with relief, Mr. Tilson grinned, | table to him. [“Yes, yes; our election laws can | He did assert that onthe Sunday | be and have been abused for many before election, a dispute over the | years.”

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DAMAGED-—Four destroyers, two ing ‘barges, SHOT DOWN—61 Enemy planes. 28 Japanese ships, damaged 66 oth- DESTROYED ON THE GROUND ers and wrecked 461 planes last|—208 Enemy planes. Thursday, Friday and Seturday DAMAGED--192 Enemy, planes. alone, meni mpettereip—

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JAPS 0, K. AMERICAN GIFTS TO PRISONERS

By UNITED PRESS Supplies for American war prisoners in Japanese internment camps have arrived at Vladivostok and will be distributed by Japanese vessels “immediately.”. That is what Sadao Iguchi, spokesman of. the Japanese board of in- | formation, said yesterday. | Tokyo radio, recorded by United |Press at San Francisco, quoted Iguchi as saying that “the assur-

TUESDAY, DEC. 19, 1944 _

anese ships carrying these comfort kits has arrived from the American guvernment a few days ago.”

UNDECIDED SOLDIER PEEVES PAYMASTER

NEWARK, N. J, Dec. 19 (U. P.).— The office of dependency benefits, which handles allotments to thousands of servicéniens’ dependents, was peeved today by a soldier who requested six changes of beneficiary in 30 days as his affections for his wife oscillated between hot-and cold. ODB wrote the boy's commanding officer: “Kindly have him make up

ance of safety of navigation of Jap-

affidavit versus the certificate of He conceded that the appointerror issue arose among county ment of ‘Mr. Kram was dictated | election commissioners. by the Republican county commit- |

confusion over the

‘Voting by Affidavit’

He said Democratic Commissioner Ernest Frick wanted to allow voting by affidavit, while the Republican] member, Albert Thompson, insisted on the certificate of error method. “That placed” it right square in my lap,” said Mr. Tilson, “and I was too thoroughly tired at that time to deé¢ide this argument immediately. He said he decided upon the certificate’s use when he received the Emmert telegram Before that, however, Mr. Tilson testified that 5000 blank certificates of error had been ordered by the county. He exhibited considerable actual number Yhich finally were distributed to the /arious precincts. | 2 Democrats on Staff Asserting that he had two Democrats on his regular staff, Mr. Tilson told the subcommittee that he had “found it impossible to obtain a Republican who knew anything | about vote registration.” Mr. Tilson engaged in an eXtended conversation with Senator Stewart overs legal interpretation of Indiana election laws by the state election board and the attorney general. The county clerk said that in his experience he always had assumed that an attorney general's opinibn lig “the law of the state.” ‘A Misconception’ Senator Stewart pointed out, howlever, that this. was a misconception land, referring to a copy of the of[ficial state election rules, said: | “There apparently are statutory {provisions for the use of affidavits, | but none for the use of certificates by challenged voters.” f - —_— - -

TRALER FOR CITY'S $4 DOGS BLOCKED

The safety board today rejected: 'all bids for puléhase of a trailer from which to-sell dogs. It had {been suggested that $4 dogs might [be sold from a trailer following can|cellation of the downtown salesroom

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fin Tomlinson hall. The board was unable to get WPB “approval for the purchase. Chief Beeker reported that traf- | fie stickers paid this year will total {more than last year. A total of ($93,100, representing payment of | 46,047 stickers, has been paid during [the period Jan. 3 to Dec. 16. For | the same period last year payments

las MacArthur's Southwest Pacific ported that his aireraft, together Sunday, | Christ in Scripture and Music.” tee but denied that Mr. Kramer's cated, however, that the toll exacted |

command: extended the aerial neu-| tralization campaign over the re-| with those of the 3d fleet, had de-| The theme of the Christmas prostroyed or damaged severely 742 gram at Manual high school tomorMacArthur gave no over-all fig-| E H K M . c b, principal ure for the number of ships sunk | oo the pe il Sam) pr capo) |status as fourth ward chairman {by army and navy planes together | would be “either a mark in favor [for the eight days through Monday |

mainder of the Philippines. He re-| enemy planes in the week ended roy is the “Story of the Birth of by land-based planes, It was indi- passages telling the story of the or against him.”

well may exceed 100 ships and 750

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planes, Of the ground, Brig. Gen. WilMr. Tilson described: his office as|liam C. Dunckel’s invasion forces “strictly non-partisan.” |6n Mindoro were encircling a large > On the witness stand, Mr, Kramer | Pocket of Jhpanese " the Bly east of capture an. Jose in the said he had had no previous €X=| southwest A of the island. perience with registration duties, | Japanese opposition continued to adding that’ his appointment was be insignificant. made by a “sort of simultaneous ar-|~ Japanese planes stabbed again at rangement between Mr, Tilson and | AMerican shipping off Mindoro the G. O. ‘P. county committee, Sunday. But 23 of them were shot His hesitancy to describe the con- | down by fighters and anti-aircraft dition of registration affairs when "

he took office, brought from Senator | Ball the comment: !

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(A Japanese broadcast said Japa1ese planes on Sunday and Monday “It's pretty obvious the situation | S&nk two cruisers or destroyers and Was & moss” | two transports and set fire to two Mr. Kramer said he maintained al other transports off Mindoro island.) “registration grief box” into which’ On Leyte, 300 miles southeast of complaints were dumped. He said Mindoro, ‘the Tith division neared these complaints were later taken the outskirts of Valencia. It is the care of by about 200 pre-indorsed principal Japanese stronghold in certificates of error distributed to ‘he Ormoc corridor and headquarthe various precincts. He resigned ters of Lt. Gen. Sosaku Suzuki. his position Nov. 5 because “my| Detalls of the progress of the 3d job was completed.” , |fleet’s record series of raids on i Luzon came from Adm. Chester W. Ft. Wayne Witness Heard Nimitz’ Pacific fleet headquarters Other witnesses included Eugene|at Pearl Harbor. Martin, Allen county Democratic] In the first three days of the aschairman, who charged Republi-|sault, Nimitz said, naval planes: cans with taking unfair advantage] SANK-—One large transport, three

| through. the auditorium while. the {boys’ ahd girls’ glee clubs sing “Oh Come All Ye Faithful.” "The orchestra, under the direction of Miss Roberta Trent, will play the processional music and “Sanctus” by Gaul. The ceremony will close with the singing of the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel's Messiah by the eombined choruses. Mrs. Edith Binkley will direct the singing and Miss Freda Hart will play the accom paniment.

BEEKER WARNS OF CHECK FORGERS

Chief of Police Clifford Beeker reminded retailers and the public today that “Christmas. is no holiday for the check forger.” He said that the government was | mailing 1,000,000 checks daily and | |that 8,000,000 checks a month went |to dependents of men in the armed | forces. Chief Beeker advised people who {are expecting checks by mail" to (have a member of the family home {to prevent the check being stolen from the mail box.

of the registration set-up in Pt, Wayne; and Martha McIntyre, 4317 E. Washington st, Indianapolis, Democrat, who said she was handed a.Dewey badge and told to go to the | § sherift’s office when challenged at the 18th precinct of the 9th ward. | The two senators expect to leave for Washington, D. C, at 5 p. ur

where they will report on the dearings to the full committee for fur- | ther action. |

PARENTS SEEK YOUTH MISSING FROM HERE

For months 15-year-old James (Sonny) Lahr had wished that he were old enough to join his five uncles in service. i A week ago today the Technical | high schocl freshman left for school and didn't come home. Two days later his mother, who has not been | well, heard that he had tried to] join the merchant marine in Ohi-| cago and had been rejected because he was underweight. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lahr, 217 N. Dickson st., have asked police to search for their son. | COL. McCORMICK TO WED | CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (U.P.).~Rob-

| tgaled $84,046. The board prohibited parking on | the north side of Calhoun st. from Shelby st. to Boyd ave,

{ert R. McCormick, publisher of The |Chicago Trbune, and Mrss. Maty-| {land Mathison Hooper, prominent

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| Five used motorcycle side cars Thursday, Chauncey McCormick, | were sold to Clifford C. Allen, 825 the publisher's cousin, said today.

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POLITICAL PRESSURE ON 'SFORZA DENIED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U. P.).

|—Former assistant secretary of

i state Adolf A. Berle Jr. denied to-|

day that ‘Count Carlos Sforza was compelled to write a letter to the state department pledging his support of the Badoglio regime as a condition for being allowed to return to Italy. Berle said in a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, pubushed today, that Sforza volunteered the letter, addressed to Berle, and that no conditions were imposed upon his return to Italy.‘ The letter became known during the recent Anglo-American crisis over the formation of a new Italian {government when the British ve[toed Sforza's- participation in that government. The British charged that he had broken his pledge to support Badoglio.

HINT HITLER ENDANGERED

The newspaper Aftontindingen re-

ported without indicating the source

of its information today that rumors are circulating in a new attempt on Adolf Hitler's life. The newspaper said the attempt was linked with a mysterious fire

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