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DIANA LAST EDITION TrT YYTTT nuwtbfr 302 TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 3H DAPPQ Entered as Seeond-CUss Matter Postofflce. THRRR HENTS 5U rAUliO Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday. CLIXEjLJ QXjIMXO k'HOLEN 22.804 Q1 3lA Vw i rm '50, 000 Nazis Vi OT usstatt Weather Forecast LITTLE CHANGE Sunrise, 7:41. Sunset, 5:23.

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Eisenhower LONDON. Nov. 24 (UP) Alio ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN BUNA rALL NLm Allies Only Mile From Latter Base Fight Forward Yard by Yard NORTH AFRICA. Nov. 24 (UP) French colonial troops, exacting a first payment for Benito Mussolini's stab in the back of stricken France in 1940, ripped an Italian force to pieces in one of the fiercest fights of the developing Tunisian campaign, reports to headquarters si id Tuesday.

KtU PtU UN Foe Fights Desperately to Keep Corridor Open to Stalingrad MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (AP) The jaws of a double Russian nf fni-o 1vVirVi Via tf lof vnnt PLANES HELPING ADVANCE TRAP IS CLOSING RAPIDLY Die-Hard Enemy Garrisons One Prong of Soviet Offensive Resisting Without Air or Extends 175 Miles North-Sea Support west of City i Ml Vi II II HI IWIMKII I A MtH fm, sald had bitten deeply in Shown eheekin; the list of house members to add up prospective strength are James M. Knapp (left), Hagerstown, three times Speaker of the Indiana house of representatives and a candidate for re-election, and Timothy C. O'Connor, Frankfort, his long-time friend. "9v 4 1 French forces in Africa have been put under the command of Lieut, Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower by agreement with General Henri Honore Giraud. active commander of French fighting forces there, the German-controlled Paris radio said Tuesday. Though the report was not confirmed here, it wp.s regarded the logical sequel to the swing -f all French West Africa, including Dakar, to thei Allied orbit, as anmunced over French African radio stations by Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. the French leader in Africa.

The Associated Press reported the action of French leaders in Dakar throwing in their lot with Admiral Darlan is regarded by official Allied quarters in North Africa as "purely a French matter but the acquisition of tjie excellent naval port by Darlan is recognized as of great advantage to the Allies. rit is assumed that the port will be thrown open to Allied warships and shipping as were Casablanca, oran and Algiers, providing an important base in the South Atlantic. But, above all, it removes the possibility that the base might be used for Axis submarines and thus ends a big threat to shipping in the South Atlantic. The disposition of the French war ships now anchored at Dakar was not announced. Morocco broadcast a mobilization order, published in Tuesday's Morocco newspapers, calling all French officers under thirty years of age and noncommissioned officers and men of the 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939 army classes to report to the colors.

News of the loss of Dakar enraged the Germans, evidently, and stimulated the new German-backed campaign to form an African Legion, among continental Frenchmen, the so-called Phalange Africaine, to fight the Allies. A German transocean agency dispatch from Vichy said leaders of the hastily organized legion issued an appeal last night to all Frenchmen between the ages of eighteen and forty years to join. "Join us in order to conquer the French colonal empire and revenge our comrades killed at Mers El Kebir, Dakar, Syria, Madagascar, Oran, Algiers and Casablanca," the proclamation read. The Nazi Paris radio said that Axis troops in Tunisia are expect In htferent camps for the moment but fast personal friends, George W. Henley (left), Bloomington, a candidate for Speaker, and Jess C.

Andrew, West Point, talk over things In general while waiting for the Republican house members to select their leaders. TRIPOLI, BIZERTE Powerful Axis Air Reinforcements Believed Slowing Allied Advance BIG NAZI PLANES DOWNED Conquest of Northeast Tunisia "Tough," Says London Spokesman MADRID, Nov. 24 (UP) Allied columns advancing toward the Tunisian promontory along; the valley of the Medjerda river, which runs northeasterly to the Mediterranean between Tunis and Blierte, defeated a German column at Jalo, reports from Algiers said Tuesday night. LONDON, 'Nov. 24 (AP) Battles between powerful Axis and Allied air fleets are taking place over strategic Mediterranean bases as tho British American French forces edge closer to Bizerto and Tunis.

Allied planes based on northeast Africa furiously bombed Bizerte and the vital Axis West Libyan base of Tripoli, radio Morocco reported. Long-range Allied bombers of the British 8th army flew across Libya to give Bizerte still another pasting and fighter planes from Malta shot down at least three giant German transport planes off tho east Tunisian coast. Other attacks were made by Malta and Middle Eastern planes on Palermo airdrome, Sicily, and enemy shipping off Sardinia, where a merchantman was sunk. A Vichy broadcast recorded by Reuters said the Allied-held porta of Algiers, Bone, and Bougie, In Algeria, were bombed heavily. Fight Will Be Tough.

A headquarters spokesman, noting the gathering of great fleets of German planes in the Mediterranean area and the continued arrival of Axis reinforcements in Tunisia, said, "The fight is going to be tough and longer than might be expected." The general picture in Africa was improved greatly by the announced adherence of French forces at Dakar to Admiral Jean Darlan, now cooperating with the Allies in North Africa, but the task of driving Axis Tunisian forces into the sea grew in magnitude hourly. The Allied advance toward the core of German resistance in the Tunis-Bizerte region of northeastern Tunisia has been hampered and slowed by Axis air forces, reports from headquarters indicated, although British Spitfires and other Allied fighter planes are now in action and have scored notable successes. German bombers, operating from Italian bases in Sardinia and Sicily, can hop over to Tunisia in little more than an hour and the Axis air bases in Tunisia have been mightily reinforced with fighters and bombers, some flown from the Russian front, it was said. With the Dakar problem settled, the hold of the Axis on Africa is confined to a narrow coastal ftrip, stretching from the region of El Agheila in Libya to west of Bizerte, on the extreme northern tip of Tunisia. This line has been reported cut by French troops near the Libyan-Tunisian border and in the region Continued on Page 12, Part 1 News Features Page Paul Mallon 7, Parti David Lawrence 7, Part 1 Boake Carter 7, Part 1 Henry 'McLemore 8, Parti Comics 6, 7, Part 2 Crossword Puzzle.

.6, Part 2 Editorials 6, Parti Amusements 10, 11, Parti Health Column 6, Tart 2 Markets 12, Tart 2 Radio Programs 7, Part 2 Serial 3, Part 2 Society .2, 3, 4, 5, Tart 2 Sports ,,.,..8,9, 10, PartS BROKEN BY GATES C. 0. P. State Organization's "Hands Off" Policy Is Scrapped COMPROMISE OFFER FAILS Wright and Cohorts Trying to Keep Knapp Out of Speakership In open defiance of the "hands off" pledge made a few days ago by Ralph F. Gates, Republican itate chairman, the so-called G.

O. P. state organization Tuesday continued its fight to control the leadership of the coming session of the legislature by endeavoring to seize control of the speakership of the house of representatives. That the "organization' was up against stiff resistance in its attempt to dominate the lawmakers was demonstrated by its claim of victory in the selection Monday of Senator Thurman A. Biddinger, Marlon attorney, as president pro tern, of the upper branch of the assembly.

The election of Biddinger actually vas a personal triumph for Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson, ranking O. O.

P. official of the state, who whs Ignored by the state organization in the recent campaign. Dawson made it known that Biddinger was his personal choice for the job. Biddinger won the office by a vote of 24 to 11 ever his opponent. Seek to Oust Knapp.

Tuesday the so-called organization turned Its attention to the house with the expressed purpose of thwarting the re-election of James M. Knapp, Hagerstown, dean of the legislature, as Sepaker. The scheme Involved not only forcing the most experienced parliamentarian in Indiana from the Speaker's chair, but replacing him with Hobart E. Crelghton, Warsaw, member of the Important state budget committee, a post he would have to resign to give the required attention to the speakership. To back up Its case in favor of Creighton, organization spokesmen circulated the word that Creighton had promised to stop any attempt to change the present law governing the brer and liquor Industries Despite Creighton's denials of hav ing made any such promise, his backers continued to assert that he had agreed to their terms several days ago.

Knapp, with years of experience In politics, was not represented as having made any presession prom ises on this or any other nature. Last week at a meeting of the Republican state committee, newly elected state officials and others, Gates said It shall not be the purpose of the Republican state committee to dictate as to whom may be placed in the positions of leadership in the house of representatives and the utate senate. We have absolute con fidence in the Republicans who have been elected as members of this all- important session of the general as aembly, and we know that they will select from their own membership those members most competent to have the responsibility of this leadership." Disregarding his pledge, made in the presence of many elected party leaders, Gates and his cohorts worked until the early hours of the morning attempting to herd the state representatives into line. Some lawmakers resented the methods employed to force support of Creighton, others objected to the effort to punish Knapp. One representative compared the program to a situation "in which the St.

Louis Cardinals would switch Johnny Beazley to the outfield and put the bat boy in the pitcher's box." Principal assistant of Gates in the organization coup is Burrell E. Wright. Indianapolis lawyer-politician, who was ousted as treasurer of the state committee several years ago because of his close association with Frank M. McHale, Democratic Continued on Faje 12, Tart 1 The Weather Indianapolis and Vicinity Not much change in temperature tonight and Wednesday forenoon. Indiana Not much change in temperature tonight and Wednesday forenoon.

Additional weather details on Page 1, Part 2. ing the arrival of "new" contin-'it GENERAL MacARTHUR HEADQUARTERS. Australia, Nov. 24 (AP) American and Australian sol- diers fought their way yard-by-vard toward Buna Tuesday against anese forces that apparently have chosen to be exterminated rather than to surrender their southern most New Guinea beachhead. Extending the picture of relentless envelopment, the midday communique reported an Australian jungle column had moved into Gona, enemy anchor twelve miles above Buna, and was mopping up the diehard garrison there.

Simultaneously, American forces overran Cape Endaiadere which lies three miles southeast of Buna, overcoming stiff resistance from many machine-gun nests and treetop snipers. While some of the Allied left wing forces were completing the mop-up job in Gona, "others turned down the coast toward Sanananda. between Gona and Buna, which the enemy was reported to occupy in force. The Japanese were resisting fiercely around Buna although they were forced to fight with no air support and no sea support. General Douglas MacArthur's bombers kept close watch along the coast for any effort to reinforce or evacuate the Japanese units which are being slowly shoved back into the sea.

TSnemy Rafts Sank. Allied planes continued to support the ground advance and one formation swept over the Kumisi river, which curves around the battle area to the northwest, to sink a number of rafts on which Japanese who had been cut off from their Buna base were trying to reach the sea. With Gona entered and Allied troops reported on the beach between Buna and Gona, the last points of resistance seemed to be at Buna and at Sanananda. American troops were reported fighting Monday at Buna Mission, a mile from the town and it was japparent that the Japanese foothold there and at Sanananda coulc" be no more than two or three miles deep, at best. While the ground forces were shoving the enemy out of one of his best bases for potential invasion of Australia, Allied airmen gave continuing attention, to Japanese-held bases on Portuguese Timor which lies threateningly northwest of the island continent.

Attack planes and medium bombers raided Beco and Raimean, the communique said. Along the New Guinea coast some 225 miles northwest of the battle area, an Allied air reconnaissance group shot down an enemy fighter that attempted interception over Vitiaz strait. Coroner's Probe Reveals Agent Insisted on Changing Operators Testimony given at the county coroner's inquiry into the electrocution of two men at a drainage construction job near Stout field Friday has revealeld that an experienced crane operator was replaced shortly before the fatal accident because of the protest of a labor union business agent. Robert Grammer, superintendent for the Sheehan Construction Company, and Will Cole, an employe, were killed. Witnesses have been questioned two days in the coroner's office, and a hearing likewise was i UNION LINKED TO CRANE TRAGEDY i I into the cold steppes west of the Don bend and cost the Germans 50,000 dead and captured were closing steadily Tuesday on the Nazis' whole Stalingrad salient.

Despite desperate German resistance in an effort to keep open a corridor of reinforcement or escape for Nazi siege forces at the Volga bastion, the Russians reported new gains to maintain their average of six to twelve miles day northwest of Stalingrad and nine to twelve miles a day southwest of the city. The deepest reported penetration was at Chernyshevskaya on the Chir river, 125 miles west of Stalingrad and seventy-five miles west of Kalach, the railroad town on the Don bend which the Russians seized over the week-end. Chernyshevskaya is some forty miles southwest of Kletskaya, the Don river citadel 100 miles northwest of Stalingrad which the Nazis overran in their fall drive toward the Volga. Now German holding positions at Kletskaya are menaced from two sides, since the Russians Continued on Page 12, Part 1 HOLDINGS TRIPLED Steady Land Cains and Aerial Blows Herald New Big Offensive WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UP) Americans have been slowly pushing the Japanese back from Henderson airfield on Guadalcanal and now holdmore than three times as much land as during the early weeks of the battle of the Solomons.

The latest naval communique covered action of last Sunday and revealed that despite the crushing naval defeat, of November 13, 14 and 15, the Japanese are putting up "stubborn resistance" on land. Major action is on the west flank of the airfield where Major General A. A. Vandergrift's man have extended their lines beyond Point Cruz. The marines and soldiers are receiving effective air support, American planes carrying out continuous attacks on enemy positions west of the Matanikau river throughout Sunday.

Naval reports since the big battle of more than a week ago have revealed little about the situation on Guadalcanal, but the day-by-day advances even though small and the continuous air attacks on the enemy indicate a large-scale offensive to "clean out" the Japanese is in the making. Another heartening factor is that the Japanese on Guadalcanal are on the defensive a position held by the marines for most of the 111 days they have tenaciously clung to their beachhead. Until early this month the Americans held barely twenty-five square miles of land on Guadalcanal which is ninety-five miles long. For weeks they occupied only a small area between Lunga and Tenaru that measured about five miles along the north shore and extended in- land about the same distance. OUR GUADALCANA An Italian column attacked French in superior force in North Central Tunisia Monday, under the protection of a strong force of German stuka dive bombers.

The Frenchmen met the full shock of the Italian attack, stopped it and, in a counter-attack, gave the Italians what headquarters informants called "a terrific beating." Allied Spitfire fighter planes roared into the fight and, it was reported, shot down a number of the stukas while anti-aircraft guns accounted for others News of the French victory reached here as General Emile Bethouat, of the French army, joined the staff of Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied commander in chief, as liaison officer between the French and American armies, and as headquarters welcomed the news that Admiral Jean Francois Darlan had brought Dakar and all French West Africa into the Allied camp. Headquarters could not confirm the Dakar news, but its accuracy was not doubted.

Allied leaders had expected the quick capitulation of all French West African areas as the -result of their successful landings in the northwest. It was intimated that the Allies would utilize Dakar promply and to the fullest extent as a base from which to clean the last vestige of enemy submarine activity from the South Atlantic to which it had been switched when the North Atlantic and the Caribbean became too hot. From Dakar, it was said, the Allies would be able to hunt enemy submarines and possible surface craft up and down the African coast and far out to sea toward Brazil. With Dakar, the Allies got an excellent port and naval base, a much better land communication route across Africa, a formidable amount of French fighting ships, the biggest force of trained troops in French Africa and many planes. It was indicated that one of the first moves of the Allies would be to send to Dakar large amounts of food, stores and other relief which badly needs.

Yanks, French Join in Mourning Dead CASABLANCA, Morocco, Nov. 23 (Delayed) (AP) American and French soldiers, who faced each other across guns two weeks ago, joined with civilians today in memorial services mourning their dead in the brief Moroccan campaign. Both French and American color guards participated in the solemn ceremony. British Occupy Agedabia; Nazis Flee From Oasis CAIRO, Nov. 24 (AP) The British 8th army entered Agedabia, 100 miles south of Bengasi, Monday and continued its pursuit of the broken Axis army toward El Agheila, seventy miles to the southwest, the British announced Tuesday.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces have evacuated the Gialo oasis, south of Agedabia, and were reported continuing their withdrawal toward El Agheila, where a stand may be made. The oasis was occupied by British units. Reuters recorded a broadcast by the Morocco radio saying fighting is in progress in Libya thirty miles west of El Agheila. British advance forces maintained contact with the rearguards of the retreating Axis forces on the road to El Agheila, the communique said. HALIFAX SAYS GERMANY IS KEEPING ITALY IN WAR NORFOLK, Nov.

24 (AP) Lord Halifax asserted here Tuesday he had no doubt that Italy "would like to get out of the war, but Germany won't let her do that." There is no love lost between Italy and Germany, the British ambassador told a press conference on his arrival at the Norfolk naval operating base for an inspection tour of naval installations, and he added that the effect of this feeling "will place an added strain on Hitler's war machine." Hobart Creighton, Warsaw, another candidate for Speaker, is shown here chatting with two other state representatives. Left to right are C. Edwin Moseley, Peru; Elmer C. Weller, Dale, and Creighton. trial, a thing of the past in the country they sought to befriend.

"How different this trial was from the treatment of similar offenses against the German Reich. Here an able, considerate and patient jury of able men and women from every walk of life, representative of the finest ideals of our American commonwealth, was carefully chosen by both sides. "This jury heard the evidence and rendered a verdict after listening to lengthy summations and arguments ably presented by counsel." Sentence was passed in a heavily guarded courtroom, with deputy 'marshals standing around the walls, (behind the bench and at the closed doors. As the defendants filed into the 5 Continued on Page 12, Part 1 Fighting Men Need Your Blood Now The big drive is on for freedom all over the world. From Africa and from the Pacific everywhere where the United States is playing its important role in the battle against the Axis come calls for supplies, materials, food, ships, men.

etc. The call to YOU is BLOOD more blood, NOW. The Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross is trying to meet the call. But it can not without your help. Give your blood, now.

Help make victory sure. 1 I -fir wm irdftivl Three Chicago Traitors to Die in Chair; Wives Get 25 Years gents of troops from France to aid them. It was assumed that the Nazi puppet dictator, Pierre Laval, now in Paris, had given his support to the legion idea. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, in a brief and apparently belated radio speech Monday night, appealed to French forces in West Continued on Page 12, Part 1 Gestapo Orders Half of Poland's Jews Destroyed LONDON. Nov.

24 (AP) The Polish government-in-exile asserted Tuesday that Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chief, had ordered the extermination of half of the Jewish population of Poland by the end of this year and that 250,000 had been killed through September under that program. "According to information leaking from the German labor office (Ar-beitsamt), only 40,000 Jews are to remain in the Warsaw ghetto only thoroughly skilled workers to be employed in the German war industry," a government statement said. "The most convincing proof of the dwindlng number in the ghetto lies in the fact that for September. 1942, 130,000 ration cards were printed; for October, the number issued was only 40,000." The statement said that those marked for extermination at any time are "driven to a square where old people and cripples are segregated, taken to a cemetery and "The remainder," it said, "are loaded into freight cars, 150 to a car intended for forty. The floor of the car is sprinkeld with a thick layer of lime or chlorine water I The doors of the cars are sealed.

Sometimes the train starts immediately. Other times it waits on a siding for days. "The people are packed so tightly that those who die of suffocation remain in the crowd side by side with those still living. Half of the people arrive dead at the destination. Those surviving are sent to special camps at Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.

Once there they are mass-murdered." CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (AP) Three men convicted of treason were sentenced to death Tuesday and their wives were euch sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment and fined $10,000. The men were sentenced to die by electrocution January 22 "at a place in northern Illinois." Each of the defendants stared fixedly at the judge as the sentence was pronounced, displaying no emotion. There was no demonstration in the courtroom. The defendants.

convicted of aiding and sheltering Herbert Hans I Haupt. one of the eight Nazi sabo-j teurs who landed in America by 'submarine last summer, were: Hans and Etna Haupt. parents of the saboteur; Walter and Lucille iFroehling. the youth's uncle snd jaunt, and Otto and Kate Wergin. friends of the Haupt family.

It was the second treason conviction in 14S years of American history. On August 6, Max Stephan was convicted at Detroit and sentenced to be hanged for aiding the flight of a Nazi saboteur who escaped from a Canadian oncentration camp. The six defendants in the Chicago treason case were convicted Novem- ber 14. Subsequently Anthony Cramer was convicted in New York. November IS.

for helping two of jthe saboteurs who accompanied young Haupt to America on a mission of destruction. Federal Judge William J. Camn-beli. in passing sentence, read a statement in which he said in part: "These defendants had a fair held by an investigation board fori Reports from Vandergrift during the army engineers in Louisville the last week show the Americans Saturday. (have extended their lines both to An emploj'e of the Sheehan Con-! the west and to the east, struction Company, it was revealed The outposts to the west are Tuesday, testified Monday that the 'somewhere beyond Point Cruz, crane had been rented by the con- which is just beyond the Matanikau struction company from the federal river.

It was along that river that government for excavation work the Japanese main line was en-and that the operator. Thomas trenched for weeks. Clark, 2001 Kildare avenue, was a The outposts to thje east are some-civil service employe but did not where east of Tetere, a small village have a union card. ion the north shore beyond Koli The witness said a business agent: point, a slight projection of land Continued on Page 12, Part 1 Continued on Paje 12, Part 1 4 4 5 I.