Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1945 — Page 3

FRIDAY, FEB. 9, 1945 _

Dewey Takes Up the Coded) To Smash Wallace's Ideas|

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8. can spend its way to prosperity— the “pass a law and appropriate a billion dollars” formula. .. The Wallace school’ holds that the only unbalanced budget is unemloyed men and that the govern ment must be ready to pump billions into the economy when private industry doesn't provide enough Jobs. Murray Bill Target

It doesn’t worry much about the size of the national debt. It would use government funds freely in financing enterprises traditionally in ‘private hands. Part of the Wallace idea is wrapped up in the socalled Murray bill recently - -introduced in’ congress. Jobs of course, says Mr. Dewey, but not that way.

“We find people from all walks|-

of life and all shades of political thought who are afraid we cannot have security and full ‘employment and®at the same time maintain the liberty and dignity of the individual,” he told the Lincoln day G. O. P. dinner. “There are others who joyously proclaim that the new road to Utopia is through government action alone, which leads inevitably to totalitarian control over our people. While professing concern for the individual they would crush him, leaving only a soulless automation who takes his orders from the state.”

Works Insidiously

Mr. Dewey sald there are those who would take the easy way of “spending the nation into bankruptcy and chaos” and who “would like to have the government finance every business, from a gasoline station to a steel corporation, while it' quietly takes over control of every aspect of our economy.” This, he held, is “the real battle of the years to come.” Mr, Dewey thought U. S. initia“tive and inventive genius had done a pretty fair job under the present system, and he cited the huge arms

- production for all the allies as. well

as for ourselves,

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long, persistent effort to increase thé power of government over the individual,” he said, “We have seen a cavalier willingness to saddle the people with unlimited debt in the peacetime behind us and in plans gor the peace ahead.

- Control Mounts -

“We have seen a smooth willingness on- the part of government to find pleasant excuses _in the false liberalism to bring the daily lives of our people under its increasing control.” It all boiled down to Mr. Dewey wanting no part of ‘Mr, Wallace. Representative Martin (R.Mass.), house. minority leader who . also spoke, likewise whaleéd away at the Wallace ‘economic theories. It added up to a sharper defining of the opposing economic lines ce Democrats and Republicans, On the foreign affairs side, Governor Dewey said ‘all Americans regardless ‘of party are behind President Roosevelt in his “Big Three” negotiations. He sald that Americans “ask in return that decisions made shall be in harmony with our ideals of liberty and: justice,” and that “actions to be taken shall not be concealed and shall not be devious.”

Warns of Cynicism

They insist, he said, that “mighty decisions shall not be made in the cynical spirit of power - politics.” Mr. Dewey argued that decisions of our allies should be made wtih us and not without us; and pointed out that in major instances Americans were “in the humiliating situation where they were compelled to learn of these tremendous events from debates in the British. house of commons.” Our representatives, he said, were “uttering pleasant generalities and leaving our allies to decide the fate of the world.” The speech’ gave plain indication {that Mr. Dewey, as G. O. P, party | leader, intends to speak his piece freely and vigorously:

SYMPHONY TO PLAY * The Indianapolis symphony orchestra will play Wednesday in {Broad Ripple high school auditorfum.

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TRIAL OPENED IN MEAT CASE

Federal Inspector - Arrives As Key Witness After Delay of Months.

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keeper, testified that meat used.-by the sanatorium had been inspected in his presence by George Wahl, federal meat inspector. Frank L. Jennings, hospital superimtendent, is scheduled to be called by the state following a short recess. After the case was put, or” the court calendar for June 1, 1944, the defendants filed a motion for postponement which ‘was granted. Again put on the calendar, the state on July 24, 1944, asked for and received a postponement. Two months later, on Sept. 13, the state Again requested a postponement. A motion to quash was filed on| behalf .of the defendant Nov. 18, 1944, but was overruled Dec. 2, 1944.

Inspector Arrives

Sherwood Blue, county prosecutor, explained that the number of post-| ponements sought by the state had| been necessary because a federal food inspector who tested the meat | involved in the case had been transferred to Washington.” Mr. Blue said efforts of the prosecutor's office to have the inspector come to| Indianapolis for the trial ‘had been unsuccessful until today. The meat trial is the last of three court actions’ started two years ago whén a food scandal at the sanatorium was exposed by The Indianapolis Times, For several weeks the public learned how patients at the hospital allegedly"had been served “watered” milk, inferior cuts of meat and low-grade eggs—al] at variance with the vendors’ contracts with the county commissioners,

Appeals Pending

In “the ‘subsequent milk case Guernsey Farms, Inc. was fined $500 and costs in each of two cases. Individual defendants were discharged af the end of the state's presentation of evidence.

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Appeals|

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-TOPCOATS AND OVERCOATS are ~0f Which the has plenty--but

Battle of Manila In Final Stages

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bridgehead on the south bank opposite the Malacanang palace. The Japanese puf up only weak resistance along the river bank. But they stiffened later Wednesday night and fought back savagely with mortars, artillery- and rifle fire. : : Position Disintegrating

Their position was rapidly disintegrating, however. It was helieved that all organized opposition would be crushed within a very few days

at most.

The advancing 37th was deep into the southern- half of the capital early today and herding the Japanese survivors back slowly into the waiting guns of the U. 8. 11th airborne division moving up from the

south.

The main body of the 1lith airborne was reported slightly north of Nichols fleld Wednesday night. Forward elements apparently were well north of the enemy-held air base and cutting into the rear of the Manila garrison.

Flames Blanket City

The desperate street battle was going ahead under a great pall of smoke and flame that blanketed the entire southern half of Manila. The Japanese still were burning and wrecking wantonly inside their narrowing pocket. It was feared that the port and a vast .area of the central city would be burned to the ground before the last enemy has been killed.

are now pending on the two cases in the state supreme court. Charges against Harold E. Vogel, of Vogel's Market, were dropped when a motion in court to quash was sustained. The prosecutor has taken no action since. Vogel was alleged to have provided eggs that did, not meet the grade A standard established by the state egg board in violation with the terms of the firnv's otha with the county commissioners. As a result T9r-the expose of the scandals, the 1943 “Yegislature passed an act creating the post of purchasing agent for the hospital, removing the acquisition of suppHes from the hands of the county commissioners,

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VICTORY,

THE soared TIMES

HOUSE PASSES BLL ON SLUMS

Local “Clearance Project)’ Hurdles Opposition to Tax Levy.

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and give full powers over the files to the new board. The recodification as originally drafted by a commission headed by! Will H. Adams would have created | new county election boards, elimi-| nating county clerks from their membership,

Opposed by G. O. P. Clerks

But Republican ‘leaders turned thumbs down on this proposal "under pressure from G. O. P. clerks, The bill, as redrafted by the G. 0. P. majority leaders also would eliminate the code commission's} proposal to permit voters to cast! ballots by affidavit if their names

cracked. Field dispatches indicated

were missing from registration files, The house passed ‘and sent, to!

Allies Plunge Ahead | in Big Push i in West

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that the flooded, soggy terrain was proving almost as great .a ‘barrier as the Germans to the allies’ forward progress. Headquarters spokesmen made it clear that the big push was on .to break open Germany's Western front in co-ordination with the Red army’ march on Berlin from the east.

The combined Anglo-Canadian forces of Gen. -H. D. G. Crerar’s Canadian 1st army went over to the attack’ at’ a moment when jittery {Nazi spokesmen were predicting an offensive farther south on the British 2d and American 9th army fronts. Berlin said the British and American arniies massed along the Roer were deploying for a grand assault on the Cologne plain. Still farther south, the American J1st army broke through the Siegfried defenses covering the Roer river dams, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army, meanwhile, breached the West {wall on an eight-mile front before

the senate a bill to appropriate, Pruem and won 10 crossings of the

for|

$100,000 to Purdue university | to!

establishment of a laboratory investigate animal diseases.

The senate passed and: sent to!

the house a bill authorizing the In-| dianapolis school board to grant $15,000 a year to the Children's Museum on N. Meridian st.

Labor Bill Blocked

A motion to force out of the house labor committee the bill that would give collective bargaining rights to state, county and city employees was voted down on-the floor of the house. The measure would give workers the right to enter into contracts with governmental departments. A bill appropriating $125,000 for eradication and control of bangs disease in cattle was pasged by the house and sent-to the senate. The state fund would be matched by a federal grant. Senate Judiciary A committeb’s report for passage of a bill to create a new circuit court in Pike county drew charges that it was purely a political maneuver. . Senator Leo Stemle (D. Jasper) said the only purpose of the bill is

“to create a judgeship for a young

Republican lawyer.” - Pike county now is combined with ths Dubois county circuit court.

IKE" HURLS TROOPS AGAINST WEST WALL

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strength in the west. at sions. i But even these are under strength and probably total fewer than C79,000 men, Reserves Vanish

Germany's strategic troop reserves once held east of the Rhine have vanished in the battles of the Ardennes and the Eastern front, The morale of the remaining soldiers varies with rank. Common soldiers are beginning to show signs of discouragement, but - they still fight stubbornly when well led. Some of .the fanaticism and the blind obedience have gone, however, Junior officers, mostly drawn from the Hitler Youth, remain arrogant and boastful of new weapons and military miracles which will” turn

" {the tide of the 11th hour.

something Man's Store good!

Ani the Coats in tun offer fine shelter and real comfort and a sense of well-being against this prolonged and goat-getting state of the weather!

The Prices are intended to deal gently with-the wallet!

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TH MANS STORE

Older officers see the handwriting on the wall. They know Germany has lost the war. This time they see no easy way out by which they can gain a breathing spell in which to rearm far a new try at world conquest,

Lack Oil and Gasoline

Signs of Germany's lack of oil and gasoline are many... Prisoners confirm that military convoys are running out of gasoline and stalling on roads for days at a time waiting for fuel trucks, Allied pilots ‘repeatedly - strafe vehicles and armér concentrations that fail to burn, indicating their tanks are dry. Morale on the German home front also is ebbing fast. Discipline prevents any outbreaks, but captured letters to ‘prisoners clearly show the state of discouragement, The immediate stake in the battle is the great-Ruhr and Rhineland industrial belts—Germany’s only impertant source of coal, metAls and manufactured goods now that the Russians have overrun Silesia, But even victory in the payoff battles in the East and West may not end the fighting in Europe, Well-informed sources believe possibly 200,000 Nazi diehards who cannot expect mercy will go on waging guerrilla warfare in the Bavarian Alps.

| MASSACRE VIEWED BLOCKED IN- GREECE|

LONDON, Feb. 9 (U.P.).~A British trade union delegation which visited Greece reported last night that British soldiers there felt that only their fight prevented a “whole~ sale massacre in that country, where possibly 10,000 murder- execiiong took place.” The report of the group headed by Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the B. T. U. C,, said that the E. L. A. 8, military arm of the E. A. M. liberation ffont, seemed to have been more Communist-dom-inated than {its parent body. The E. A. M., he said, was “in process of disintegraion. »

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COLLINS TRAINS FOR SEA Verne L. Collins, seaman 1-c¢, is

stationed at the amphibious train-

ing base in Little Creek, Va. where he is. training for LSM duty. His parents, Mr.. and’ Mrs. Dallas Col-

‘| lins, live at 133 8. Elder ave.

IN INDIANAPOLIS, PAGE 8

Sure and Our river lines. between Luxembourg and Germany. At the bottom of the allied front, all organized German resistance ended suddenly in southern Alsace.

* | Thursday morning {6°p.’m. Wednes-

A combined French and American army cleared out the Colmar pocket. after more than a month: of fierce fighting: The «Canadian 1st army offensive opened shortly after ' midnight

day, Indianapolis time). A great fleet of British heavy bombers thundered ' across the battle lines to splatter more than 2000 tons of bombs on Cleve and Goch, At 5 a, m,, hundreds of allied field guns massed hub to hub opened up with a tremendous bombardment that -continued for 11 hours without a let-up. Then, at 10: 30 a. m, “Crerar sent his armored and infantry divisions over the top. The first onrush carried away the outer works of the Siegfried line in a matter of hours.

Nazis Surrender

Hundreds of shell-snocked Nazis surrendered. © The - advance rolled forward through the Dutch towns of Bruk, Zyfflich, Denheuvel, Gelgensteeg and Erlekom, all lying in an arc three to four miles southeast and east of Nijmegen. The German towns of Wyler and| Kranenburg, on the NijmegengCleve | highway 7% and 5!'% miles north-| west of Cleve also were captured

before sundown yesterday, The!

of the attack were light.

‘allies were: reported. moving sendy forward, :

Gasualtiod®in the opening houss

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Upward of 7700 American and 7

British planes scourged the Germans forward and rear areas in the path of the attacking ground troops from early mornipg until nightfall Thursday.

Concentrations of German troops

and armor, supply bases, highway and railroad lines all came undes

the allied air attack. After dark, swarms of British” Mosquito bombers Joined in the ase sault. They raked a 7T5-mile belt of the German forward lines from the Nijmegen area down to Duren on the Roer, On the American Ist army front, elements of the U. 8. 78th infantry division drove 1% miles east of captured ‘Schmidt to within a mile north of the Schwammenauel dam,

the main link in the Nazi dam syse

tem controlling the level of the Roer to the north. German resistance was reported crumbling rapidly after the doughe boys cleared the fortified Siegfried belt around Schmidt. The chain of Roer dams appeared likely to fall into American hands in a matter of days, clearing the

way for the British 2d and U. §,

9th armies to push across.the river,

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GENTLEMEN--=

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Will you be in before long?

SAYS: —— IT'S ONE DAY NEARER YICTORY, |

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