The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

The Tipton Daily Tribune Entered as Second Class Matter Oct. 4, 1895, at Post office at Tipton, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. 30 TIPTON, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1944 FIFTY MILLION VOTERS DECIDE NATION'S LEADER Yanks Hit Nazi Counter-Attacks; Close in on Japs By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. American infantry and armored man counter attacks in the Reich today as a showdown key positions dominating the plains The furious fighting throughout the entire Hurtgen forest area saw the Yanks at one time driven out of the town of Vossenack. Later the First army troops commanded by Lt.

Gen. Courtney H. Hodges regained of the ground lost and at last word had retaken more than half of Vossenack. As' the battling inside Germany proper mounted, the campaign against remnant German forces south. and west of the Maas (Meuse) river in the neared its end.

The allied 21st army group, composed of British, Canadian, American and Polish troops, aligned themselves along an 80- mile front following the lower bank of the Maas from a point southwest of the Reichswald forest in Germany. westward to the beaches of Holland. Fighting on the Island of Walcheren in the Scheldt estuary entered the mopping-up stage and headquarters expected that the last pocket of Nazi resistance there would be stifled soon. On Walcheren Island the British Canadians. captured Middleburg, the capital, and Veere.

Sole remaining serious resistance was northeast of Domburg. ON LEYTE. American infantrymen, artillerymen and aviators today continued to blast their way closer to the village of Ormoc, last remanning stronghold of the Japanese on Leyte Island in the central The Yankees were ready and waiting for any attempt of the cornered. Japs to break out of the small pocket into which they had been forced by a brilliantly executed multi pronged thrust of the 24th, the 96th and the 7th infantry divisions, supported by (Continued on Page 6). Mrs.

Crawford Dies in Atlanta Home After Heart Attack Mrs. Lillie Mae Crawford, 65, wife of Asher Crawford, died at her home in Atlanta Monday at 5 p. following a heart attack. Mrs. Crawford had' just returned' home after spending! the afternoon in Tipton.

While she was working in the kitchen she fell, but was not discovered until her husband came' home from town. Mr. Crawford called a doctor, but he was unable to help Mrs. Crawford, who died shortly after he' arrived. Funeral services will be heldi in the Atlanta Christian church at 10 a.

Thursday. with ial in the Dunkard cemetery, east of Arcadia. Rev. James Dial will conduct the Mrs. Crawford, who has been! a resident of the Atlanta com-! munity all her life, was born July 29, 1897 in Tipton She was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Hendrickson) Bendier and one of four children.

Mrs. Crawford was' the last surviving member of the family. Asher and Lillie Mae Bendler were married on March 7, 1901, near Atlanta. To them was born one Inez, Mrs. Lester Lee, who lives in Atlanta.

Survivors include Asher Crawford; a daughter, Mrs. Lester Lee; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Amanda Bendler, whom Mrs. Crawford cared for in the Crawford home; four grandchildren, Anna Mae, Annabelle, James Monroe and Donald LeRoy Lee, and two nieces, Mrs. Harry Lilly of Elwood and Miss Juanita Bendler of Tipton.

"GUERILLAS CALLED STUMBLING BLOCK OF ALL WARFARE Hit and Run Policy Paves Way for Invasion, Speaker Tells Audience (Guerilla warfare throughout; history has been the stumbling block of the wars of all Bert (Yank) Levy, commando! instructor for the British army told a Talk of the Hour club audience in the Methodist church; Monday night. A guerilla fighter is trained! and equipped to be a one-mani army who can feed, clotne and arm himself in enemy territory, the speaker He operates! on a principal of hit-and-run or! hit-and-hold but never the basis of actual. battle. if Germany had followed. her plans to rule the entire guerilla warfare would have, been the only answer to the in-: vader, the speaker asserted.

The Nazis spent 61. million dollars. in America alone studying every feature of every mile of land. here; so that this country could be bands that disorganized would by terrorize guerilla population in preparation for an invasion by the land and sea i forces of the Reich. The Japanese also followed al policy.

of having spies on this continent who charted geographical features and territorial: waters to lay an. groundwork, he said. Russians Save England. England, the speaker. told his audience, was saved from inva-; sion after the fall of Dunkerque, by the Russian armies marching into Bessarabia and Buchovina land threatening the Nazi homeland from the rear.

There were, however, two invasion attempts, he said. Measures used by commandos were hastily improvised to protect England during the menace, the speaker relat-, led. since practically British equipment had been left in France during the evacuation. A favorite guerilla trick 'for demolishing a bridge, the speaksaid, is to suspend a weight from a sheet of window glass i which in turn has been suspended under the bridge. Attached to the weight is a fuse which connects with a detonator on the river bank.

At the proper moment, the glass is. shattered a single bullet fired from a. distance and the weight falls into the water and detonates the charge, thus destroying the bridge. Demonstrating on A. B.

president of the Talk. of. the' Hour club, Mr. Levy showed methods of either with or without weapons, and also showed methods of; halting an attack. "Blood and Honor." Displaying a German knife bearing the inscription, "Blood and Honor," the speaker described.

the tactics he demon-! strated as. brutal but reminded! his that often it was (Continued on Page 6). Two 'Accident Victims Improve Russell Stephenson, 416 West Washington street, and Justice, Arcadia, were improving today at Mercy hosrital after they had been burned Monday morning in an accident at the Stokely Brothers plant Both men were extensively burned about the face and neck but the burns were not believed to be deep. Witnesses said that glasses worn by Mr. Stephenson protected his The accident occurred, Fire Chief Hillard.

Losey said. after a can of beans accidentally fell into a pot of, glue and remained there unnoticed until the heat exploded it and showered those nearby with hot HOW ALLIES LOST CHINA AIR BASES FUCHOW SUCHOW CHINA SIANGYANG WANHSIEN WUSHAN SHANGHAI ICHANG, HANK9 ANKING CHANGCHOW CHUNGKING CHEXIANG NINGPO KIUKSANG CHUCHOW. NANCHANG CHUCHOW WENCHOW KWEILIN FOOCHOW RUCHIN CHUANCHOW AMOY? WUCHOW NANNING CANTON SWATOWE SOUTH CHINA SEA HAINAN THE REPORTED DIFFERENCES between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and U. S. Gen.

Joseph Stilwell, former commander of the China, theater, highlights the recent loss of Allied air bases near the China coast. When the Japs pushed southward in an effort to cut China in two and form a junction with forces moving northward, they overran a number of strategic airfields and completely neutralized others. Points leading from the star show the location of these former Allied air bases. Enemy forces near Kweilin (1) are reported to be about 60 miles from a juncture. (International) PFC.

GEORGEL DIES OF WOUNDS Husband of Tipton Woman Succumbs After Action in France Pfc. Robert C. Georgel, husband of Mrs. Grace Johnson Georgel, North Main street, died of wounds suffered in action in France on Oct. 23, according to word received last night by Mrs.

Georgel. Pfc. Georgel was a native of Elwood but had maintained his residence here for a short time while he was stationed at Camp Atterbury before being sent overseas, Pfc. Georgel was inducted in Feb. 1942, and received his training at Jackson, S.

Camp Atterbury and Fort George G. Meade, Md. In Oct. 11942, he was married to Miss Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Johnson of Third street. The last letter from Pfc. Georgel was written. Oct. 7 France.

At that time he wrote that he had been in Paris but his present location was not givjen. Surviving in addition to the widow are the mother, Mrs. Raymond Georgel; two brothers, Norman and James Georgel, and one sister, Mrs. McElfresh, all of Elwood. Commissioners Study Purchase of -Way Tipton county commissioners, meeting in regular session at the courthouse Monday, took under advisement the purchase of additional right-of-way for the Ash Street pike road.

Only two tracts of land. remain to be purchased before the road can be turned' over to the state highway commission, J. J. Batchelor, county auditor said, and commissioners are studying the offer of $2,500 to purchase land from' the Laura McKay farm.in northern Liberty The purchase would involve moving a house and replacing a well, Mr. Batchelor said.

The commissioners also. au; thorized the purchase of a new cable for the courthouse elevator. Repairs to -the courthouse clock are awaiting the arrival of a repairman from Indianapolis, Mr. Batchelor British Chief Dies Early Balloting Marks Election in Tipton County forces combatted violent GerHurtgen forest area of the western battle developed for possession of before Cologne. BOND CHAIRMEN PLAN MEETING Officials to Discuss War Loan Campaign at Meeting Thursday Township and division chairmen for the sixth war loan drive, scheduled to open Nov.

20, will meet at 8 p. m. in the circuit courtroom to plan the campaign, Judge Frank B. Russell, county war savings 'staff chairman, announced today. Tipton county is asked 10 taise $832,000 for the campaign but, as in former campaigns, the county is expected to oversubscribe its goal.

'The quota is lower than that of previous war loan campaigns held this year. Plans for canvassing the. countyand boosting bond purchases beyond the goal will be discussed, Judge Russell said, and questions by chairmen and key workers will be answered. Workers To Meet In addition to the townships chairman, the Tipton chairman and four division chairmen, other key workers in the drive lare expected to attend the meeting. Chairmen for the townships and divisions are: Sam Bollenbacher, Liberty; Clyde Harlow, Prairie; Frank Goodnight and.

Earl Mahaffey, Jefferson; Harry Johannes, Cicero; Rome Findling, Wildcat; Arthur Noble and Otto Breitwieser, Madison; Nick Paikos, Tipton; Russell Martin, county vice-chairman; Merle DeFord, payroll allotment; John Hoffer, retail division, and Ralph Bozell, agricultural division. AIRS. CROWE IS INJURED IN ACCIDENT Mrs. Bessie Crowe, route 4 Tipton, was taken to the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis following an automobile accident southwest of Elwood Sunday evening in which she received cuts and bruises. Carvolin Crowe, a brotherin-law received serious cuts about the face which were treated at the Mercy hospital in Elwood.

He was released. day evening. The car is reported to have hit a culvert and run into the ditch. Where B-29's. Hit INDIA BURMA Bay Bengal THAILAND AND AMANI ISLANDS MALAY STATES PANCKALAN BRANDAN SINGAPORE Oceon STRIKING a double blow at Japanese power, B-29 Superfortresses pounded Singapore' naval installations and the Pangkalan-Brandan oll refinery on the north coast of Sumatra, the second biggest airplane fuel source in the Far East theater.

(International) Early balloting marked the election in Tipton county today as many voters visited the polls before. the business district had opened for the day. Two. cincts. in Cicero township each reported more than 100.

votes. cast during the first two or three hours of the morning and party workers reported that generally the voting was heavy during the early morning hours. and Mrs. Paul H. Achenbach are separated' by.

several thousand miles, but only a few seconds separated their votes Just as the election board Sharpsville placed the soldier of Achenbach the ballot box and registered his name on the voting book; his wife, Mrs. Glenda Achenbach, walked into the polling place to vote. Sgt. is stationed. in Trinidad and his wife is employed at Bryan Brothers store in Tipton.

Further evidence of the heavy early voting was seen in the business district where the streets were nearly deserted un-: ti! mid-morning. Most county offices were closed, although the treasurer's office remained open to check records following the taxpaying deadline Monday night and the auditor took advantage of the opportunity to. catch up with back work. But in the clerk's. office, a steady stream of voters came to inspect registrations and tangle difficulties that arose over places of residence and the time and place of voting registration.

The farm vote was expected to be heavy as well as the city vote, but only meagre reports were available concerning the intensity of the rural vote. Party workers milled' about their respective headquarters discussing trends and election: incidents and dispatching. cars to carry voters to the polls. Heavy clouds, threatened rain early. in the day but by afternoon all indications of rain had disappeared.

EARLY VOTERS EARLY VOTERS New York, Nov. 7. (INS) -Ten per cent of New York City's 3,226,534 registered vOters were estimated today to have voted in the first hour that the polls were open. -WAR BRIEFS YANKS BOMB JAP SHIPS. IN MANILA BAY.

PEARL HARBOR, Nov. (INS) -American carrier pilots carved another large slice out of Japan's rapidly disappearing sea power when they surprised a concentration of enemy shipping in the Manila area Saturday and hit six. warships and destroyed nearly 200 Jap planes. KENNEDY PEAK KANDY, CEYLON, of the Fifth Indian division have occupied Kennedy Peak, Japanese strong-. point on the Tiddim-Fort White Road in the Chinn Hills of North Burma, the southeast Asia command announced today.

LORD MOYNE IS ASSASSINATED. LONDON, Nov. Moyne, British resident minister in the middle east who was assassinated yesterday, was probably murdered by Nazi agents, Lord Strabogli declared SUPER-FORTS HIT JAP HOME BASE. NEW YORK, Nov. American B-29 SuperFortress bombers flew over the main Jap home island of Honshu today, marking the third time within a week that the big craft have carried out sorties over the same area, the Jap home radio today.

TITANIC BATTLE RAGES IN BUDAPEST. MOSCOW, Nov. -(INS)-Titanic battles raged in. the suburbs of 'Budapest today as Russian columns smashed agalnst stubborn German defense barring Soviet of: the vital' Hungarian capital. Fierce Nazi resistance, front line dispatches indicated, slowed the sweeping advance of the Red There was no hint, however, that Marshal Rodion Malnovsky's Second Ukrainian army.

had fallen back from Budapest's outskirts. By International News Service FOR, CHURCHILL, STALIN TO MEET Officials Believe Conference Will Not Take Place in Paris Washington, Nov. -Regardless of the outcome of the election, it is the' official view of Washingion today that) President Roosevelt will soon leave for a meeting with Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin somewhere in Europe. It is believed. however, that such a meeting of the big three, who last conferred at Tehran! just a year ago, will not take place in Paris.

Officials pointer jed out that Stalin would not SO far from home, since he must maintain constant. communications with Moscow for personal direction of the war. Also, the recent controversy between Gen. Charles De Gaulle and the French Communists makes it politically unsuitable! for Stalin to go to Paris. A much more likely meeting place, it is suggested, would in the Balkan area, perhaps the capital of either of the late Axis satellites, Bulgaria or Romania.

F. D. R. May Visit Paris. This does not rule out, however, a visit of President Roosevelt to Paris.

In fact, it is fully. expected that he will accept the invitation which De Gaulle has extended for a meeting in Paris, where it is believed Churchill would come at the same time. But the' Paris meeting probably follow the meeting of the big three in eastern Europe. Both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chutchill, it pointed out would seek to avoid the impression that British and American plans are being laid in advance of a conference with Stalin. When the three leaders meet, the principal item on their da will be the Dumbarton Oaks plan for an international security organization.

RECEIVES JUDGMENT. E. E. Mendenhall, Tipton. recelved a judgment of $764 in Hamilton circuit court recently in a suit which followed a property transaction.

Floyd E. Har per and C. W. Mount were at torneys for the plaintiff. William Shellenbarger was the defendant.

audience ILL FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, Field Marshal Sir John Dill, 63, head of the joint British staff mission in Washington and representative in. the U. S. as England's minister of defense, died at Walter Reed hospital in Washington. He will be buried Arlington National cemetery, (International) Strive to Improve Community, Speaker i Tells Kiwanians Rev.

L. Avery, pastor of the Windfall Methodist church, urged Kiwanians to take advantage of all opportunities 'for community service, when he addressed the Tipton Kiwanis club at their rgeular meeting Monday night LoIrene's in Windfall. The speaker, a charter member of the Kiwanis club at Greenfield, urged members to remember tthe club motto, "We Build," and. to apply that to their club activities. Rev.

Avery told of the part played by the Kiwanis clubs of Indiana in developing the James Whitcomb. Riley hospital in Indianapolis and also described how the Greenfield club fed children so that, they would be able to attend school during the depths of the. depression. Can' Improve Relations Kiwanis clubs have an portunity to improve farmerbusinessman relations, the speaker said, and to bring these groups to a better understand. byling of each other's problems.

Boys work also lias been an important element of Kiwanis programs, the speaker emphasized, and clubs should take ad: (Continued on Page 6). The American staged history's greatest feat of demosracy today as fifty million voilers particinated in a national presidential election to mine whether Franklin: D. Roosevelt or Thomas E. Dewey shall lead the nation to victory in two major wars and aid the world to lasting peace. As the balloting started.

the outcome was s'irouded in doubt beneath the silence of millions. of voters who refused to reveal their choices to friends or neighbars. There has been 110 eicetion since 1910 where political forecasters were so much at sea. Five Doubtful States. Shrewdest observers believe the voters of New York.

Pennsyivania, Massachusetts, Connecticut and. Maryland will determine the election. All five states are classed as doubtful and claimed by both sides. They have: 114 votes in the electoral college, where 266 are needed victory. Both Roosevelt and Dewey are certain of at least 152 electoral votes in other sections, so the winner in: the East should be the winner in the nation.

Mr. Roosevelt urged the tion to remember its. goals- 10 win the war and unite our fighting men with their families! at the carliest moment. to see that all have honorable jobs and to create a world peace organizaition which will prevent this disaster from ever coming upon is Dewey almost paraphrased this. program but declared his own election was necessary to achieve it.

He said the great issue was a "speedy and victorious end -of the war" and urged election of a new national administration to "end the civilian chaos and confusion in Washington" that has "delayed winning the war." State Officials. The Republican party. which boasts of 26 governors in northern states. today faced a stiff fight to retain this position of party power. Voters selected 30- governors and state officials today---Maine having already chosen a governor-12 Republican governors fought for re-election.

while Democrats sought to win control in five more states now in R3- publican hands. Although the battles for governor were overshadowed by the fight the presidency and congress. political leaders viewed the outcome of these. contests as vital to the major parties in the future. Congress.

The nation's voters wrote their specifications and assigned political control for a new congress today--their decision was unpredictable as the presidential outcome upon which it may largely -hinge. Although: this first wartime electorate -since the civil war named 35 senators- one-third the upper chamber's membership--the interest of both Republicans 'and Democrats centered. on the balloting for the 435 representatives who will comprise the house in the 79th congress. For it is in the house where G. O.

leaders see their strongest chance in 14 years to upset Democratic control. thinned by special and deaths to a scant margin of. two Many' observers view. this as a certainty, WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, and warmtr today: tonight and Wednesday. Rain Wednesday..