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ICKER CALLS CIAL SESSION F LEGISLATURE

EEI* INDIANA I'OLI.S I NTH. !t F. M. NEXT TUESDAY JS'APOLIS, Nov. 2 The secId War II emergency session diana General Assembly has led by Governor Srfiricker. ssion will convene at 10 A Saturday to hear the chief es recommendation that a ur extension of voting timi Nov. 7 general election be into law. polls which now open at “ entral War Time, and clos° M., would be open a total ol ours and close at 9 P. M. if ernor's recommendation Is w. avernor’s announcement at a nference came as a complete

GI S IN PACIFIC HOLD OWN ELECTION DAY

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Admits Murder

OBSTACLE ORE ANTWERP LMOST CLEARED

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S, Nov. 2.— (UP) Complet- 1 on of Walcheren Island, last | on the sea approaches to p, appeared near today as commandos hurled the Gerack into the northern end of g on the south coast aid; i their west coast beachhead last four miles. of the German guns on Walthat have barred allied ships ntwerp and its 26 miles 'f or more than a month already een captured or neutralized, he island has been cleared tely, cargo ships will begin reinforcements and supplies ntwerp for the anticipated ofiensive against Germany, t dispatches repoi ted the Gerarrison, estimated variously et 10.000, was offering stiff rer, but the commandos were g inland and along the coast jth beachheads with bayonets, guns .and grenades, backed big guns of a 200-ship invarmada and swarms of planes. ! southern column of army coiowas reported three to four inland after landing on a beach cn two quays In the eentei f dushing dock area. Virtually Flushing, Holland’s third most ■tant port, had been seized by .ight and the enemy was forced p [Hieket in the northern end city. thi' west coast, Royal Marine andos who seized Westkapello first hours of their assault ^day shoved three miles norththe neighborhood of Domburg bout one mile southeast to seven miles of a junction with comrades at Flushing, adian 1st Army forces smash' i | into eastern Walcheren duiTr, ^ght after withdrawing onto tio ’Way from South Beveland in ;«ce of point-blank enemy aitiland machine-gun fire late yes-

fiont dispatch said the Canadhdd 200 to DOO yards on the rn coast of Walcheren this >ng. but were fighting in waist* water. Three-quarters or more 4’alcheren was under water as I of the breaching of its dikes Flushing, VVestkapelle, the end Beveland causeway, a high at the northwest end of the isand middleburg in the center were virtually separate island-! madian patrols thrust across anr causeway from South Beveland ?oith Beveland Island and foun i bandoned by enemy troops, thus dmg that the Walcheren garricould expect no help from that

’ter.

Whwest of the Schelde estuary, r Canadian forces were completthe mop-up of the so-called Brcs- * pocket, and a high officer told ted Press War Cor respondent 1 * onon »*o*e Two*

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION becomes a reality at headquarters of the 147th infantry regiment in the South Pacific where voting tents are conspicuously marked. In the tent at the left, the voting officer explains requirements to a soldier while another QI votes in booth at right. Signal Corps photo. (International)

Body Of Blast

Victim Sent Home

The body of Charles Herman Derbyshire, 46, Indiana State Farm guard, was sent to his former home at Cammack, Indiana, near Muncie

Hednesday night for burial.

Derbyshire was fatally injured shortly before noon Wednesday while using a pick in the quarry at the state institution. The pick evidently shuck an unexploded dynamite charge and the full force of the blast bit him in the chest and face. His jugular vein was cut and his death

was almost instantaneous.

Five inmates who were with Derbyshire, were treated for less serious injuries in the state farm hospital. Derbyshire had been a guard at the penal farm for the past four years.

PRESIDENT TO SPEAK FROM WHITE HOUSE ROOSEVEI.T TO DELIVER 15MINT'TK RADIO ADDRESS TO-NIGHT WASHINGTON. Nov. 2 (UP) — President Roosevelt delivers his sixlh major campaign address tonight in an effort to correct again what ne has called Republican “misrepresen-

tations.”

The pres.dent speaks from the White House over a radio program (NBC) from 9 to 9:30 P. M Hit,*:, dress will last 15 minutes and the rest of the program will be taken over by the Democratic National

Committee.

The address tonight was obviously a substitute for a trip to Ohio. Democratic leaders had uiged him to go to Cleveland and make a personal bii! for Ohio’s 26 electoral votes but he told them his wartime duties were too heavy to permit both that trip and the one scheduled for this week-

end in New England.

Having vetoed the Ohio appearance, however, the president was expected tonight to deliver an address tailored somewhat for audiences in

Budapest Only 24 Miles Away

BULLETIN

LONDON, Nov. 2.—(UP)—More Ilian 2,00(1 American warplanes bombarded Na/.i oil ami railroad targets from the Rohr and Rhineland to ■entrol Germany today in a smashing daylight follow-up to the RAF’s triple night strike at Oberhausen,

Cologne ami Berlin.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—(UP) —

Chairman James Lawrence Fly oil (hat region of the country. (he Federal Communications Com- Mr. Roosevelt will hold a news mission, long a target of hitter; conference tomorrow, then start on charges by Republican congressmen his last major campaign swing which . ml some segments of the radio Jo- | will find him Saturday in two of cond us try, announced today that he has j necticut s major voting centers - resigned, effective Nov. 15, to return I Bridgeport and Hartford and then

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20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

r *. Oscar Thomas was hostess to Boston Club. iss Jane Farmer was in Goshen Sunday School work, he Misses Lois and Mildred Hovventertained twenty of their girl nds with a Hallowe’en party. Ulain Riley was home from Innapolia.

Change Seen In Asiatic Command LONDON, Nov. 2. (UP)—Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten soon may step down as supreme allied commander in southeast Asia, usually reliable sources said today as his former deputy, Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell. hinted that a large-scale offensive was pending in that theater. There was increasing evidence that Britain’s commands in the Far East were undergoing a re-shuffie and the question of whether Mountbatten would continue as supreme commander was said to be up for final decision rn high quarters. It was understood that Mountbatten may relinquish the over-all command. but remain in charge of various important phases of forthcoming operations against the Japanese, particularly amphibious operations in which he became skilled while directing Britain’s commandos. Stilwell, displaced last week as commandei of American forces In China Burma and India and deputy to Mountbatten. hinted ot the scale of the foithcoming operations in a farewell note to the British commander released at the latter’s hea.lquarters in Kandy, Ceylon.

HOG MARKET

Hogs 9.000; market active; 160-400 lbs 25 higher; below 160 lbs 10 higher sows 15-25 higher; good and choice 160-180 lbs »13.»0; 180-240 lbs mostly $11.00; top $14.05.

into Massachusetts. There he stops at Spr.ngfield and proceeds later to Boston for a full dress and expected- , ly bare-knuckled blast at the Republicans from Fenway Park at 9 P. I mruis

Since the chief executive returned from his last sortie into the middlewest—Chicago last Saturday night he has been taking it easy, restricting his daily list of appointments to a minimum and concentrating on last-minute campaign plans and accumulated war duties. Mr. Roosevelt’s weekend trip will take him to Boston three days after the personal appearance there of his Republican opponent. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Speaking from Boston Garden last night, Dewey attacked what he termed communist elements in the Democratic party. He may receive a reply from Mr. Roosevelt on

Saturday.

Massachusetts, which has 16 votes in the electoral college, is listed by many polls as a "doubtful'’ state in this election. Mr. Roosevelt carried it in his first three campaigns by varying majorities. In 1932, the "President polled 800.148 votes against 736.959 fo’’ Herbert C. Hoover. In the race for a second term, Mr. Roosevelt won 942,716 votes to 768,613 for Alf Landon for the largest margin in any of three races. In the last election he polled 1,076,522 votes as compared with 939,700 for the late Wendell L

Willkie.

MOSCOW, Nov. 2 (UP) Soviet armored columns, slashing north through flimsy German defenses in Hungary, today hammered at the approaches to Orkeny. 24 miles south of Budapest and (ist major barrier

before the capital.

The enemy bastion was sought within easy range of artillery fire by the advance units of Marshal Rodion' Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army, which was pushing a three-way driVe against Budapest from the south,

southeast and east.

Advancing at a pa<o of more than 10 miles a day, the tank-supported Soviet troops moved against Orkeny after sweeping through the highway junction of Lajoamizse, nine miles to the south and it appeared the rumMe of heavy Russian artillery soon would be heard in Budapest. i The clandestine radio Atlantik reported that the Germans were preparing to blow up all bridges across the Danube, which bisects the capital. The city at one time had separate d,visions known us Buda and Pest, and the broadcast said the Germans planned to hold Buda on the west bank of the Danube and yield

Pest.)

Elsewhere on the long eastern front, a communique disclosed that Gen. George Zakharov’s 2nd White Russian army had established a bridgehead on the west bank of the | Narew river below Pultusk, 30 miles ; north of Warsaw, while in the northj ern artic region other Soviet forces i cleared the entire Petsamo area, site ; of iich nickle deposits In northern

I Finland.

The communique said the Gerenrried out vicious counterattacks aga.nst the Soviet bridgehead over the Narew but were repulsed. More than ;00 enemy troops were killed in the futile assaults. There were no further reports from East Prussia, the communique beinft confined almost entirely to the campaign in Hungary, where Malinovsky’s forces liberated more than 140 inhabited places, captured an additional 1.500 prisoners and killed upwards of 3.000 German and Hun-

garians in one day.

The bag of prisoners brought to a total of 5,518 enemy troops seized in the area between the Tisza and Danube rivers in southern Hungary where the Russians were making their direct drive on Budapest. Pacing Mahnvsky’s thrust toward the capital were the armored forces whk|i battled throng^ Kecskemet, Hungary's fourth city. pushed 10 miles north to capture Lajosmisze and struck out for Orkeny, on the last lateral highway below the capi-

tal.

Kecskemet was liberated after fur ious hand-to-hand engagements, in which the Soviets killed more than 2,000 enemy troops.

(EVIDENTLY PLANNING DESPERATE DELAYING TACTH’S IN ENSUING WEEKS ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Philippines. Nov. 2 (UP) Japan, her navy crippled in a futile attempt to smash the American invasion, rushed air reinforcements into the Philirpines from her dwindling reserves Pi the homeland today. The Japanese command obviously was gathering all available aircraft to support a filial, desperate stand on Luzon, site of the capital city of Manila, in an attempt to delay as long as possible American liberation of that stepping stone to Japan it-

self.

One Japanese pilot who parachuted into the Leyte area and was captured said he had left Japan only six days before. Enemy aircraft were know i to be shuttling into Luzon from Japan, presumably by way of Formosa and other intermediate bases. Front reports said terrain difficulties were slowing construction of American airfields on liberated sections of Leyte in the central Philippines, but it was expected strong forces of land-based planes soon

would be in operation

Fighters already operating from land bases joined carrier planes nr enforcing an aerial blockade on the west coast of Leyte, sinking a small j freighter and a lugger attempting to ♦ i i i ■ t \ > i t ,1 iti'iti'fWii.ti.tit i* o < > t 1 /-\ a ij i

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*Y i . _, .... WIUIAM IUAUEN, above, convict serving a 10 to 25-year sentence in Indiana state prison for burglary, has confessed the whiskey bottle murder of WAC Cpl. Maoma L. Ridings, Aug. 28, 1943, in an Indianapolis hotel, according to Indianapolis police. A court order is being sought to give Luallen, who had accused Ids former wife of the crime, a mental examination. (1 nter national)

Skirt Of Slain WAC 1$ Sought

PUTNAM COURT NOTES Harold Geitgey vs. Wanda June Geitgey, suit for divorce. Gillen & Lyon are attorneys for the plaintiff.

ferry reinforcements Camotes sea from Cebu.

Torpedo boats boosted the toil of enemy shipping for the past 48 hours to 25 small craft sunk or damaged by sending a troop-laden barge to the bottom otf the west coast at night. Japanese prisoners reported only a few hundred troops had been aide to Ulin the blockade successfully and land at the west coast air and sea base of Ormoe. where the enemy is expected to make Ids final stand on

Leyte.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported in his daily communique that Japanese air attacks on American shipping and troops at Leyte continued “light and ineffectual.” (A Japanese Dome! dispatch claimed that two waves of Japanese planes sank a battleship or large cruiser and thrye other cruisers and heavily damaged three battleships i.i attacks on American shipping in

Leyte gulf.)

American ground forces on Leyte tightened their assault arc around (he north coast town of Carigara. key to an escape route to Ormoe for an estimated 2,000 Japanese in the northwest portion of the island. The 24th Division advanced another two miles up the Leyte valley to within six miles of the north coast against stubborn enemy rear guard resistance, while the 1st Cavalry Division was hammering at the eastern approaches to Carigara itself. The southern column already had cut all east-west roads and trails on Leyte with the exception of that running from Carigara to Ormoe, 21 miles to the southwest. Advancing behind thundering ar tillery, tanks and flame-throwers, men of the 24th Division cut a transmountain trail to Ormoe yesterday, captured the town of Tunga and forced the Naliualan river, the fourt’i water barrier encountered in their six-mile trek from Jara. South of the Carigara front, other American troops completed the annihilation of isolated enemy pockets o.i

Catnion Hill.

American heavy bombers from Southwest Pacific bases destroyed four parked planes, cratered runways and started large fires on Bacolod airfields on Negros Island, west of Leyte, while medium units attacked Zamboanga on the southwestern tip

of Mindanao.

(Japanese broadcasts said 30 bombers and 20 fighters participated in the laid on Bacolod.)

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 2 (UP) Sheriff Otto Petit today directed a search of an area along White river in northern Indianapolis for a bundle which William Luallen, state prison convict, said contained the skirt of WAC Cpl. Muonia L. Ridings, who he said he killed in her hotel loom 14

months ago.

in his second oral confession yesterday. Luallen told officials that ho wrapped fragments of the broken whisky bottle which he slashed Cpl. Ridings io death in her skirt and hftl

the bundle.

The officials considered the skirt |

an important evidence.

Luallen first confessed to the murler of the YVahiii Springs, Ua., WAC last Monday, then repudiated the admission the next day. The second confession largely followed the patiern of the first, Sheeilf Petit ai^ld. The officials said that if Lnwllon chang'd his iniud again “it would have to be in coult” for lie would nc charged with murder as soon as the prison inmate had signed the statement and it had been notarized. Lua’.len’s second confession, Petit said related that Cpl. Ridings called him to her room and that she was killed during an argument when h • struck her with a whisky bottle, slashed her wrists and her neck. The prisoner originally accused hi., divorced wife, Mrs. Wynona Kid 1 Luallen. ot the crime, then vindicated the pretty Knoxville. Telin.. wommar by saylllg that he murdered Cpl. Ridings. Mrs. Luallen remained in jail following dismissal of a habeas corpus proceeding which sought hoi

release on lowered bond.

Mrs. Luallen said that she preferred to wait until “cleared of ad charges.” She was held on burglary charges, accused of serving as a "lookout" for her ex-husband.

STIVER TO SERVE

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 2 (UP) Indiana State Police Superintendent D(ai F. Stiver will serve again as chairman of the Indiana committee for the National Foundation of In

Fires Break Out Again Over County

Romanian Cabinet Out, Says Berlin

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A German home radio broadcast, recorded by FCC. said today that the Romanian cabinet, headed by Premier Constantin Sanatescu. had beeu

“overthrown.”

The broadcast said a new cabinet, containing six Communist members, had been formed but It identified

fantile Paralysis, it was announced only one member Lucretiu Patrastoday. All other officers and com-lcanu, minister of Justice in the Sanmittee members were also renamed i atescu government,

Forest fires broke out again Wednesday afternoon in the vicinity *if Reelsville, Cloverdale and in south Madison township. Local fire wardens were called out and assisted volunteer fighters in the different localities in bringing the flames under

control.

Fred Pease, head of the Putnam county fire wardens, said Thursday morning that forty high school boys at Cloverdale, led by their principal, gave splendid assistance in battling tiie conflagration in that community. Tile weather forecast is for scattered showers tonight and this may alleviate the extremely dry situation not only in this county but in the wooded areas all over the state.

COSTLY ERROR

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 2. (UP) Vanderburgh county will lose a S60.000 working balance because of a clerical ertor which published a 32cent tax levy instead of a 35-ce>,t rate, according to Secretary J. R Robertson of the State Board of Tax

Commissioners.

The tax board ruled yesterday that county leaders must follow the rate as published, even though an error

was made.

DEWEY CHARGES ROOSEVELT HAS ’SOLD OUT' PARTY DENOUNCES BROWDER \ND HILLMAN IN SPEECH AT

BOSTON

ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN TRAIN. Nov. 2. (UP) Governor Thomas E. Dewey bid for Maryland’s eight electoral votes today after accusing President Roosevelt in Boston last night of selling out his party to Communists determined to seize con:rol of the government. The Republican presidential candidate carried his campaign inlii HalHmore in an attempt to take Maryland which bus been on the winning side in every presidential contest for half a century out of the “doubtful" category and Into the Dewey column. Under his belt was the strongest denunciation he has made thus far >f the “cynical alliance” which lie told 25,000 persons in strongly Cath>lle Boston that the New Deal Iris entered into “with Earl Browder's Communists.” He charged that the alliance was effected through Sidney Hillman and his Political Action Committee. Mention of Communism, Browder md Hillman brought a chorus of boos from the audience which packed Boston garden to the rafters. Lashing out with the bitterest personal deunuciation of President Roosevelt since the campaign began, Dewey charged that “Mr. Roosevelt, in his overwhelming desire to perpetuate himself in office for 16 years, has put his party on the auction block—for sale to the highest but-

ler.’’

He said the highest bidders were “the Political Action Committee of Sidney Hillman and the Communists of Earl Browder." Dewey charged that President Roosevelt has "so weakened and eorlupted the Democratic party that it s readily subject to capture” and "the forces of Communism are, in • act. now capturing it.” “The Communists are seizing control of the .'Jew Deal..through which they aim to control the government of tile United States,” Dewey shouted. “If they should succeed tb fundamental freedoms Of evei Ynieilcan would stand in grave

jeopardy."

As an example of what lie meai Dewey painted the Communist s\ tem as one under wliicli the indiv nal cannot worship, vote or think . be would, or conduct his life as hi own.” The price for disobedience, he declared "is liquidation, eitht r through violence or slow economic

strangulation.”

“Everyone knows,” he continue I. “that Communism is for state ownership of all property, including your house, your farm and the factory, the •shop, the office in which you work. U stands for absolute dictatorship, the abolition of civil rights and total political and economic bigotry." The G. O. P. candidati leveled a Miuilar personal attack against Browder and Hillman. Of Browder he said: "He is the man who was convicted of draft dodging in the last war. Ho was again convicted this time of perjury ami pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt In time to organize the fourth term campaign. Browder stands for everything that would de-

stroy America.”

He described Hillman as a labor leader who had held “one official post after another in the New Deal” and "a front for the Communists” in tee fourth term campaign. Dewey warned against any ignoring of “the Communist threat because of their small numbers.” “They are not themselves a political party," he asserted. “They are a fanatical, secret conspiracy of well disciplined, highly trained zealots

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