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No Evidence of Fraud or Conspiracy Found,

Senator Says.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—A recommendation against any further inquiry into Indiana election frgud charges will be submitted to the U. 8. senate campaign expenditures committee.

This was announced today by Senator Tom Stewart (D. Tenn., who headed a two-man senate subcommittee which conducted a public hearing of alleged election scandals in Indianapolis Monday and Tuesday. Senator Joseph Ball (R. Minn.) was the other sub-committee member. “The full committee terminates its jurisdiction with this congress, so there is nothing further for us to do in the Indiana case,” Senator | Btewart declared. Senator Stewart said no evidence of conspiracy or fraud developed during the two-day public hearing on complaints that “thousands” of persons were wrongfully denied the right to vote. “I personally do not ‘feel that there are any grounds for prosecution,” he added. Senator Ball suggested that the state election and registration laws be codified and clarified and that some less partisan method of conducting elections would help avoid such troubles in the future.

“Many, Many Mistakes”

He added that due to the fact that Marion County Clerk A. Jack Tilson “traditionally runs his office on a strictly partisan basis,” there was a large number of new and inexperienced employees. They made mahy, many mistakes, he observed. Senator Ball pointed out that testimony did reveal that “some partisan advantage was taken of this confusion, and that Republicans involved in the mix-up found it easier to straighten out their records than did Democrats.” He also pointed out there was conflicting registration errors. He said a certificate of error from the county clerk is the strictly legal method of correcting such errors.

“Justified Procedure”

But, he asserted, in view of the lax ‘practices in Marion county, the use of affidavits accompanied by registration receipts was a “justified procedure.” It was learned today,that while Attorney General® Emmert was on the witness stand at the Indianapolis hearing Tuesday, Senator Stewart received a message informing him: that his own son had been wounded and hosiptalized in the South Pacific.

Capehart Not Affected

Both Stewart and Robert W. Murphy, counsel for the committee, who directed the examination of witnesses in Indianapolis, said none of their findings will have any effect upon the possibility of Homer Capehart’s taking his senate seat Jan. 3. , “Senator-elect Capehart is in the clear and always has been,” Senator Stewart said, @ He added that “the only possible further action in the Indiana election could be criminal prosecution by the justice department, upon further investigation by the F. B. I. “Whether such a course will be taken, or even if Attorney General Biddle is interested, I cannot say. We will be glad to turn over our files to the justice department if he is inclined to take action. “We also will be ready to turn the

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SUPERFORTS BOMB MANCHURIA ARSENAL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U. P.). -A substantial force of Superfortresses bombed the Manchurian arsenal city of Mukden today, and the Japanese said Darien in southern Manchuria also was attacked and that two pairs of B-20's flew over Honshu last night and early today. A Tokyo broadcast recorded by the FCC sald one of the braces of Saipan-based Superforts dropped bombs on Shizuoka and Aichi prefectures in south central Honshu, Japan. The aircraft manufactur. ing city of Nagoya is in Aichi.

‘A-13* EXPIRES TODAY

Today is the last day for motorists to use their’ A-13 gasoline ration coupons. Tomorrow six A-14 coupons will become valid and last through March 21, 1945. .

TIMES INDEX

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, By JOHN McDERMOTT United. Press Staff Correspondent

WITH AMERICAN 1st ARMY, EUPEN, Belgium, - Dec. 20 (Delayed) .—Screaming German infantrymen charged head-on into the American machine guns. They went down like ducks in a shooting ‘gallery until the street was littered with squirming, bloody heaps of flesh. The Germans paid a terrible price. But they took their losses and went on to overwhelm the Ameri

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can gunners defending a town near Monschau. . Sgt. Elmer Keener, 26, Sange, Cal, told the story of that fanati~ cal Nazi charge as we huddled. in’ a corner room of a Belgian chateau today with German shells whistling overhead. PN » ” »

BEFORE the American pulled out, he said, the streets of that town were piled with layer upon layer of German dead. There were bodies of old men, kids, trained soldiers—all part of

-- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1944

Adolf Hitler's conscripted “volksgrenadiers,” the people’s army. » » »

“THE JERRIES came up riding on tanks, yelling their heads.off,” Keener said. “When they were 70 yards from our machine gun, I saw them ‘jump off and start running around like wild Indians. “They = were yelling, blowing whistles and shooting guns into the air just like cowboys at a

rodeo.”

Then the massacre began.

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| | NAZIS PLUNGE CRAZILY TO DEATH AGAINST BLAZING GUNS

KEENER sald the Germans exhausted all their ammunition and then ran directly into the blazing American machine guns. Body fell upon body until they formed a great pile of twisted humans, with here and there a

man twitching in his death agony. Cpl. Darrel Wurester, Pitts-

burgh, Pa. who was with Keener during the attack, said the Nazis “came rushing into our machine guns like they were all liquored Jup—like madmen.”

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Our Worst Defeat Since Philippines Fell,’ Says Headquarters

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MAJ. JAMES A. GONZALEZ, of New York City, said the volksgrenadiers spearheading that part of the German offensive apparently had been instructed to shoot until they were out of ammunition and then surrender. Gonzalez said he believed the German high command planned to sacrifice these partia'ly-trainen troops on the theory that they were virtually useless for comeat and “would, as prisoners, Luamper the American mobility when the going was worst,

BID TO REOPEN ARMS FACTORY HERE IS SCORED

War Production Chiefs Fear Fall Creek Plant Will Tap Worker Supply.

By ROGER BUDROW War production officials in Indianapolis are protesting the possible reopening of the Fall Creek ordnance plant. “Some of our war plants are behind schedule right now because we can’t find 7000 to 8000 workers,” said Albert O. Evans, chairman of the district war production urgency committee. “Why should we reopen a plant that will need 2000 more? Where will we get them?” The army ordnance department, seeking to boost production of ammunition for the European battlefronts, is negotiating for the Tokheim Oil Tank & Pump Co. of Ft. Wayne to take over the plant at

blvd. Plant Used for Storage

The $4,000,000 plant was operated by E. C. Atkins & Co. for more than a year, turning out armor plate. War demands changed, armor plate was not needed in anticipated quantities, and so the plant has been used for storage. The district production urgency committee has carried its protest to Washington. The committee consists of representatives of the army, navy, ordnance, air corps, war production board, war manpower commission, and other 'military and civilian war agencies. No answer has been received yet. Meanwhile, -it was learned that an inter-bureau struggle over hiring war workers in Indianapolis has been decided in favor of local officials.

“Hiring at the Gate”

Northwestern ave. and Fall Creek |

You Can Tell It on Their Faces—They're Going Home

A study in facial expressions is this photo of battle-grimed U. 8. 3d army troops in Germany. They are listening to an officer telling them they have been selected for 30 days’ leave in the United States.

NATIONAL GOP

Party Committee Members To Map Plans for Vigorous Program.

In tribute to Indiana's blue-ribbon Republicanism, the G. O. P.'national committee will hold its first postelection meéting here Jan. 22.

. Republican National Chairman Herbert Brownell today in New York summoned all members to the session. He mailed letters asking them. to convene here “to authorize a vigorous, progressive, all-year-round program of “party activity.” Hoosierdom is regarded as one of the most favorable locales in which to “revitalize” the Republican party, G. O. P. chieftains said here today.

MEET SET HERE

100 May Attend This state gave Dewey his second | biggest vote lead. Iowa was first, Headquarters of the confab will be the Claypool hotel. Some 100 G. O. P. committee members are expected to attend. Chief topic of the get-together wili be off-year election plans to capture more congressional and senatorial seats for the Republican party. The prospect of gaining more governors and mayors also will be scanned.

As a result, war plants to be especially designated, will be allo" ed to hire workers “at the gate” .nstead of through the present central hiring. arrangements at the U. S. employment service. A big campaign to publicize the manpower plight of some local war plants was planned three weeks ago. It has been stymied by the objections of a manpower official in Chicago, said to be Regional Chairman William H. Spencer. Although other cities in this area have been allowed to extend ‘gate hiring” rights to their war plants, Indianapolis had not. Yesterday, this was changed. The manpower drive now is expected to get going

Morris Arranges Dinner

There likewise is the probability that Mr. Brownell, a stolid Deweyite, will be replaced.

shortly after the new year begins,

HINTS AT BRITISH

ness to fight the Greeks. the word “mut of the Greek crisis, said,

refused to bomb Athens. .

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Amusements. 24| Charles Lucey 18 ven. 31|Ruth Millett. 17

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MUTINY IN GREECE

LONDON. Dec. 21 (U. P.).~Lord Faringdon told the House of Lords today ‘hat mutiny might break out among British troops in Greece because of their mounting unwilling-

Cries of “monstrous” came from the floor when Garingdon brought "” into a discussion

“I should not be surprised,” he “if our commanders had not already met with cases of men who show the greatest unwillingness to fight the Greeks, and who may have

“The first thing must be an ara mistice, and I would suggest most

Those attending have been invited by Indiana Committeeman

dinner at the Claypool on Sunday, Jan. 21. The business meeting will be held on Monday. G. O. P. national committee sessions are usually held in.Chicago. But that city gave Roosevelt a whopping majority, one of his largest.

BATTLE FOR LEYTE IS DRAWING TO END

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The Leyte. campaign reached the mop- up stage today. Three American divisions were pursuing isolated rand steadily weakening groups of Japanese into guerrilla-infested hills in the northwest corner of the island. : “The battle is rapidly drawing to an end,” Gen, Douglas MacArthur reported in a communique, On Mindoro, 300 miles northwest of Leyte, combat engineers completed the first of a series of oilsurfaced airstrips. The mile-and-a-half long strip was finished in

Heavy Storm Due to Send _ Mercury Near Zero Tonight

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CLOTHE-A-CHILD—

THREE YEARS ago John B Deppee, then a paint salesman for the Vonnegut Hardware Co., was so deeply touched by The Times Clothe-A-Child project that. he organized one in miniature at the store. Since then he has . gone into service and is now in the Pacific with the navy, possibly at Leyte. But his thoughts are.with the needy children of Indianapolis, » s . IN A LETTER to a one-time fellow employee, Max Emmerich, he said’ “Guess I'm being a pest about it but three years ago I brought up thé idea of clothing a child. Well, I still feel like it's my baby,

(List of Donors, Page Two)

and once again I'm going to remind you of it so. you can take up ye olde collection. “Max, all I've got-on hand in American cash is five dollars. I'd like tp give it this year, I know it isn't much, hut. I don’t make much either after everything is deducted.” 2 = = WHEN TOLD of the plea from the. Racifis, his wife, Betty, 1201 N. Rural st., said, “That's jusb like him. He always is doing something like that. He doesn't care who gets the credit for it.” In service for two years, he is

WAC Sgt. Martha Cox is thousands of miles from home, but she didn’t forget The Times Clothe-A-Child. Stationed in New Guinea, Sgt. Cox wrote her mother, Mrs. Norman Scaaf, R.R. 11, Box 592, that she wanted to help The Times clothe a needy. child. Yesterday Mrs. Schaaf bought a brand new outfit for a 7-year-old boy in the name of her daughter.

a painter's mate 3-c and has three battle stars to his credit although he has been overseas only since January. And his letter home was welcomed by the Vonnegut employees. They had planned to keep up Be yearly clothing of a child Ma Deppee’s letter strengthened tale intention." Today two more of Indianapolis’ needy children got warm winter

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PAUL PORTER, GETS FCC CHAIRMANSHIP

, WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U, P), —President Roosevelt today eppointed Paul Porter, Democratic national committee publicity chief, as chairman. of the federal -communications commission to serve on a his permanung nomination. Shortly after the. White ‘House announced his appointment, Porter was sworn in at the FCC's offices: The White House said thas Porter “get the benefit of expéri-

temporary . basis - pending action by}. {the * senate - on.

From the Far Away Pacific, John Deppee Sends His $5

John B. Deppee, painter's mate |

3-c . . . his mind, his heart and his money are with Clothe-A-Child.

| Views Germans. in Belgium

Nazi offensive front are becoming stable—a favorable factors

" |“alarming” Rep. Forest A. Harness

‘NOT ALARMED, HARNESS SAYS

As Presenting Serious ~ But Futile Threat.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Al-though the German breakthrough in U. 8. army lines in Belgium is “serious” it should not be considered

(R. Ind.) asserted today. Mr, Harness returned here last night from several weeks of inspection of the front lines as a member of the house military affairs committee. He is a world war I wearer of the purple heart. He is flying out to Kokomo for Christmas.

“Ot course the situation is serious,” Mr. Harness said,

whole thing came as a surprise.

Hoosier Heroes—

includes a missing airman,

ed in the South Pacific.

KILLED

Pfc. Benjamin T. Oakley, 130 N.| 4th st., Beech Grove, in France. Pirst Lt. Willis N. Tucker, R. R.| 10, Box 276, in Germany. Lt. William L. Davidson, Arrow aye. in Germany.

ave., in Germany, MISSING

in the South Pacific. WOUNDED

Illinois st.,

N. Miley ave, on Leyte. Technician 1st Gr. Robert 8. Din

Dinwiddie, France.

1818 Central

and husband of Mrs. Dinwiddie, 4245 Boulevard pl, Germany.

Lexington ave, in the Pacific. (Details, Page 19)

brothers who have been wounded and two local men who were wound-

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"Pfc. Guy M. Jessup, 1738 Parker

widdie, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. a

we will stop them in their tracks.

{That does not mean the war will be on at once, however, for we have. to chase those Nazi rats

Stimson Asserts

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (U.P.).— The Germans, in their current

counter-offensive, have accepted the hazard of an all-out effort which] lif it fails may hasten the end of {the war, Secretary of War Henry |L. Stimson said today. He told a news conference the German drive was designed pri-

“but I do] not consider it alarming, nor do I; {agree with the reports that the It is a combination of good soldiering on the part of the Germans together with the wretched weather which keeps our fliers ,out of the

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IN BELGIUM, PUSHING ON

Sever Liege-Arlon Highway; Finest

German Infantry Pours Through 25.Mi. West Front Gap.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY ‘United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Dec. 21.—German armored spearheads

have driven 30 miles inside Belgium, supreme allied headquarters reported today.

They have severed the main lateral Liege-Arlon

highway.

A hole of 25 miles or more has been Tipped in Ameri-

can 1st army lines in South Belgium and the northern half of Luxembourg.

It was acknowledged at S. H. A. E. F., that American

arms had suffered their worst defeat since the fall of the Philippines in 1942,

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The S. H. A. E. F. report was based on operations up

to noon Tuesday—48 hours ago. Front reports and Ger= man dispatches indicated that Nazi progress has continued

since that time. The northern shoulder of the 1st army flank, protecting Liege, has stiffened, however. Malmedy, Stavelot and Butgenbach are in American hands.

Flanks Becoming Stable S. H. A. E. F. teported that both Alans of the: G0-mle

Ihe center, which is pointed for the Ardennes gap and Sedan, was characterized as “still most fluid.” The deepest German penetration reported up to noon l'uesday was at Habiemont, 14 miles west of Malmedy and three miles west of the important Liege-Bastogne-Arlon highway. That road is the principal lateral communications route back of the central 1st army front. . The German high command communique said that this highway was crossed on “a broad front.” It claimed 20,000 American prisoners had been taken. Nazi tanks were said to have over-run American supply columns falling back to the Meuse. Six German Spearheads

S. H. A. E. F. reported that Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s attack was being directed along six main directions within the 60-miie front. The capture of Habiemont, S. H. A. E. F. revealed, was preceded by a new night attack by German paratroops. They were dropped southwest of the city during the night of the 18th and 19th. Presumably their objective was to set up roadblocks and hhrass American efforts to move up rein~ forcements. Along the east-west line just north of Habiemont the 1st army was erecting a fairly stable front. It had recap tured Stavelot and held the Nazis outside St. Vith. According to S. H. A. E. F. accounts, the 1st was fight ing hard to recapture Malmedy. Fresh front reports, however. asserted Malmedy never had fallen to the Nazis. In the southern corner of Belgium and in Luxembourg itself the situation was more obscure. S. H. A. E. F. reported that Germans had made gains of ‘unspecified nature west of Gonsdorf which is 13 miles from ‘the city of Luxembourg. There have been strong indications for 48 hours that the Germans may have seized the Luxe embourg capital.

Luxembourg Losses

{marily to halt the Amercan advance jon the Cologne plain and the Saar: | basin,

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the German high command must

also be prepared to meet the Rus-

Seaman 1-¢ Robert Lambert, 111 sian winter offensive wherever it

| may strike, he said.

ACTRESS I8 DEAD

in “The Circus.” Mrs, Kennedy, 35, died yesterday of a heart ailment.

He pointed out that the German | effort came while allied armies were | ported, have been reached by relief columns after fighting

ave. In| continued on Pace age 6—Column 3) 'a desperate battle against German panzers which surrounded

First Lt. Willlam G. Dinwiddie, also son of Mr. and Mrs. Dinwiddie Betty May| HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21 (U.P.).— in| Funeral services will be conducted | {tomorrow for Merna Kennedy, for-| Marine Pfc. Henry C. Andrews, 963 Mer actress who was launched in a film career by Charles Chaplin

S. H. A. E. F. reported that the Nazi column which crossed the Luxembourg frontier at Vianden had penetrated to a point just east of Wiltz, a gain of about 13 miles. Seven

8. Sgt. Russell E. Cross, 1701 N.| The hazards of the counter- -offen-| miles to the northeast the foe reached Clerf, five miles west

lof the frontier, headquarters said. At the southern end of the Nazi drive American forces still held the Luxembourg border town of Echternach. The American forces at Echternach, S. H. A. E. F. re-

them. A second American group is surrounded in the vicinity of St. Vith. There was no fresh information on their position. For the third straight day allied air forces were virtually grounded by bad weather. The front situation from south

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the blame on the

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Big Powers Abuse Poland, Shift Blame to the Victim \w

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. ~To the smaller members of the united, natipns the most disquieting thing about the Polish sell-out is not so, ‘much the ‘deal itself as the attempt of the great powers tg put, victim.

tion and (2) is now insisting on. London and Washington making good on the promise before he gives the order to resume the Red army's drive on the Eastern front. Thus, say the little nations, Britain and America, 8s a practical matter, have no option but

\ Suton Fle ar, Bu shame.

On the Wat Fronts

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WESTERN FRONT-—German armor EASTERN FRONT-Red army drives 30 miles inside Belgium, allies admit, severing ‘main Liege-| Arlon highway in drive which has ) knocked a @ 25- mle hole in the| Ccirclement of’ thousmitds of caendf Western front. . k. troops. ; PACIFIC — B-20 Superfortresses ITALY—British sth army blast Mukden, Manchurian ar | - capture two villages nor campaign oy in advance Ww

garfan resistance in southern Slow vak mountains, entire’ axis front and threatening en-

forces battle German and Hune =