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Soviets Storm I2 Miles Into East Prussia, Reach Niemen River Union City Gazette TIMES-GAZETTE TE The Evening Times FOUNDED 1925 THE FOUNDED 1869 Printing The Latest Local, County, National And World Events CITY, INDIANA OHIQ Allies YANKS Americans Now Hold 3 Major Island Centers City Fell Within Few Hours Under Light Opposition General MacArthur's Headquarters, Philippines, Oct. 23 (INS) -Capture of the important road junction city of Palo on embattled Leyte island in the Philippines was officially announced today. Palo lies two and one half miles inland from Leyte's east coast where the -fourth infantry landed last Friday and is in the southern sector of the northern half of the American sphere of control. The city fell in a matter of a few hours after the hard-charging Americans launched their initial attack on its outer defenses. Less than a battalion of American troops accomplished initial occupation of the strategic junction.

The Americans now hold three major population centers on Leyte. Tacloban and Dulag, north and south respectively, of Palo, fell to the Americans with little opposition. Seizure of Palo resulted in the consolidation of the American beachheads in the northern and eastern sectors of Leyte and left no that (Continued On Page Two.) McNarney Named Deputy Commander In Mediterranean Rome, Oct. 23 (INS) Lieut. Gen.

Joseph T. McNarney, former deputy chief of staff to General George C. Marshall, today became deputy supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean theater, succeeding Lieut. Gen. Jacob L.

Devers. Devers was believed to be going on an important new assignment, the nature of which was not disclosed. Fighting on the Italian front was hampered today by heavy rains. The eighth army established a bridgehead over the Savoi river north of Cesena against stiff opposition, while the fifth army consolidated front line positions. Bad weather likewise limited aerial operations, but 240 sorties were apportioned to the northern Italian battle area, Yugoslavian road traffic and Adriatic shipping.

WANNA TSENATE BE (YOU TRYING WOULDN'T TO SERVING UNION Political Side Ligats -and- Selected Editorials Tom Dewey Sure Is Afraid Of The Soldier Vote Included in the Election Law for New York citizens now with the Armed Forces is this archaic provision: "I do swear (or affirm) that I have not made or become interested in any bet depending upon the result of this election." Therefore, if Governor Dewey's Election Board can't find any other excuse for casting out the ballot of a soldier or sailor, Marine, Coast Guard or others entitled to wear the uniform, the Dewey board can disqualify, or perhaps prosecute for perjury, any of our country's defenders who have wagered a package of cigarettes with a comrade that President Roosevelt or Governor Dewey will be elected in November. The ridiculous provision which would invalidate the ballot of a girl betting a pair of gloves or a handkerchief with her young man as definitely as that of a partisan willing to risk thousands of dollars on his political foresight and judgment points to a political expedient unmatched in modern history. In any event, this provision in the election legislation is no more grotesque than the complex, elaborate and complicated body of the enactment, which ought to be termed a law to prevent the men and women who are performing the most patriotic service of which citizens are capable from taking any part in the selection of their government. The Real Issue In This Campaign Is Qualification The real issue of the present campaign is simply whether experience or enthusiastic amateurism is most likely to be useful in the handling of American affairs from now on until peace is established. Put it another way, the question is whether it is more important to hold to a tradition in the determination of who is to be America's Chief Executive, or to continue in the post the man who has demonstrated his capacity to handle the knotty problems of the proximate future.

Sincerity may be attributed to some of those who indicate harror. at the prospect of Franklin D. Roosevelt being chosen for an(Continued on page two) MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF ME? THE OLD TURE BOX HOOSIER UNION CITY, INDIANA OHIO. Threaten CAPTURE PALO PHILIPPINE ATTACKS CONTINUE CENTRAL PHILIPPINES SAMAR, CATBALOGAN CAPIZ PANAY TACLOBAN CEBU DO LEYTE SULU AN 1. ALOILO DINIGAT 1.

NEGROS PANAON BOHOL DUMAGUETE BUTAN ILIGAN MARCUS TUBIG MINDANAO COTABATO ZAMBOANGA DAVAO MORO GULF BATULAKI CELEBES SEA Farm Buerau Hears Ind. District Leader Mrs. Cushman Indiana District Social and Educational leader, of Fortville, spoke at the annual fish fry and membership. drive of the Farm Bureau Friday evening at the Wayne school building. During the evening Paul Keck spoke concerning the Union City Memorial Hospital drive.

The subject of Mrs. Cushman's talk was "My Task" and she emphasized the duty of civilians to be faithful to their work if for no other reason than for the boys in service. The business session was conducted by the chairman, B. C. McKnight; and G.

E. Giggy of Hagerstown spoke in connection with the farm bureau insurance, and told about the state convention which is to be held in November at Indianapolis. During the evening several musical selections were given. Don Swank sang three solos and was accompanied by Miss Ernestine Dye. Chester Achor and Mrs.

Dallas White played several numbers using as their musical instruments bottles, glasses and bells. Thirty members were signed for the Farm Bureau Membership Drive which will be completed Tuesday. Harry Musselman, John McKnight, and Harold Wasson were chosen by the chairman for the nominating commitee for officers for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs.

O. P. Welsh, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Smith, and Mr.

and Mrs. Hugh Huffer are on the program committee for the November meeting. Kills Two Germans With Single Shot With the Fifth Army, Italy (Delayed) (INS) Private First Class Casey Jones of Callaway, recently killed two Germans with a single shot on the fifth army front. Sighting the two Jerries in a small valley ahead of him, Jones waited until he had both of them up in the sights of his Garand rifle and squeezed the trigger. "I was amazed when I saw them drop at the first shot," the Callaway sharpshooter remarked, "it reminded me of duck hunting." MONDAY, OCTOBER German ON General Drive Continues For Hospital Funds The Union City Memorial Hospital Association is going ahead with its plans for a general solicitation, in order that everyone' in the community will have an opportunity of supporting the Union City Memorial Hospital.

A group of representative farmers from surrounding townships met Tuesday night and enthuiastically made plans to join in the general drive in their respective township. Representatives of various Unions also met and decided to work out a plan by which their members could and would participate in the general drive. The Association announced that they had appointed a committee to take charge of the general drive and another committee to take charge of solicitation of former residents and their families, who have moved away from here but are still interested in cur community. Triplets Born At U. C.

Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Blackford, of 1020 West Hickory street, Union City, are the parents of three daughters born early this morning at the Union City hospital. The babies weighed 4 pounds, 10 1-2 ounces; 4 pounds, 15 ounces; and 3 pounds and 8 ounces; it is reported that the mother and babies are all doing well. Dr.

L. K. Phipps was the attending physician. The mother was formerly Ruth Rants of Jay county; the maternal granfather is A. R.

Rants, of Jay county, the maternal grandmother is Mrs. George White, of Muncie; and the paternal grandfather is Frank Blackford, Union City. For several years Mr. Blackford worked at the Nielsen Bakery, and at present is employed at the Anchor Hocking Glass company in Winchester. Besides the triplets, Mr.

and Mrs. Blackford have one son, Gail Eldon, who was two in September. Former Resident Dies In Dayton Mrs. Petrovna J. Wolfe, 60, passed away at her home in Dayton, Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Wolfe a native of Union City, was the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Page-Pickett. She was a graduate of the East Side School, and was a member of the U. B. church here.

She leaves her husband, Charles M. Wolfe, one son, Capt. Ronald Wolfe, of Camp Blanding, a daughter, Mrs. Gladys Teegarden and a sister, Mrs. E.

G. Applegate, both of Union City; a sister, Mrs. Kate Drury, Kansas; six grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at the home on Oxford Ave. in Dayton at 1 p.

m. on Tuesday. Burial services will be held at 3:30 p. m. at the Union City cemetery.

Territory of the United States outside its borders includes more than 711,000 square miles. $1.00 Free Grinding To MORTON ARMSTRONG R.R. 3 Union City, Indiana Redeemable at SOUTH SIDE ELEVATOR Any Day for 7 Days from Date PRESENT THIS NOTICE 23, 1944. LEYTE Open Pincers Drive Toward Isterberg Other Red Columns Penetrate 21 Miles From The East London, Oct. 23-(INS)-Soviet troops have stormed 12 miles into East Prussia to reach the Niemen river opposite the railroad city of Tilsit and two strong Russian armies have fixed a pincers to seize the great fortress of Insterberg, the German high command admitted today.

The drive on Tilsit constitutes a new invasion of East Prussia, military observers point out, and was made by the first Baltic army of Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian in a break-through of Nazi defenses along the Lithuanian border of the Memel area annexed to East Prussia. Other Red columns. meantime have extended to 21 miles their penetration of East Prussia from the east, according to Berlin admissions.

Hand-to-hand fighting is reported in the East Prussian city of Goldap by the German DNB agency, while nearby Cumbinnen to be under artillery fire. The highway connecting the two towns has been cut. As pictured by the German high command, Nazi forces have been withdrawn from the north bank of the Niemen along a front of from 15 to 20 miles on both sides of Tilsit to the southern bank of the stream on which the city is situated. Reach Norwegian Border In northern Finland the Rusrians have smashed to the border of Norway along a 54-mile (Continued On Page Two.) Jackson Junior Class Play Is Wednesday Night Members of the junior class of the Jackson, Ind. high school will present "The Girls Take Over" in the high school auditorium Wednesday night at 7:45 o'clock.

The play is described as a top notch comedy hit and should provide lots of good entertainment. The cast is as follows: Libby Sailsbury Barbara Teegarden. Goldie -Joyce Mangas. Nalda Darby--Marilyn Bunker. Mirella Lyons -Alice Ann Gettinger.

Lana Atworth Phyllis Fenton. Bunny Hatton Patricia Birum. Patience Lassiter Audrey Stover. Ursula LaFuze. Hugo Prescott -Duane Bryson.

Lansing Quigley- Keith Horine. Sherwin Maddos -Dale Kaufman. Clem Spears -Edward Leeka. Heart Ailment To Noted Screen Actor Hollywood, Oct. 23-(INS) The curtain was down on life's stage for Richard Bennett today.

The colorful star, a leading figure of the American theater for half a century, succumbed yesterday to a heart ailment with which he had been afflicted for two years. He was 72. At his side when he died were two of his three screen famous daughters Constance and Joan Bennett. His third daughter, Barbara Bennett, formerly the wife of Singer Morton Downey, was in New York. Later she telephoned that she would be unable to reach the west coast in time for the funeral.

Bennett's heart condition took a turn for the worse approximately two weeks ago. When his condition became critical he entered the Good Samaritan hospital a week ago, but failed to respond to treatment. (Continued On Page Two.) Capture Of Two Leyie Airfields Tightens Noose Spells Doom For Jap Communication Lines In Southwest Pacific Washington, Oct. 23-(INS)With the capture by American. forces of two airstrips on Leyte island in the Philippines the United States tightened the noose today that eventually will choke off all Japanese sea communication lines to the southwest Pacific.

On the basis of past performances, American bombers and fighters should be operating momentarily from the airfields, thus spelling doom for Japanese airpower in that area as well as for shipping that still has been plying far eastern waters. Some military and naval observers go so far as to say that once American land-based airpower is established firmly in the Philippines, the Japanese will begin to evacuate the Archipelago to save their forces for the coming battles of Formosa, China and Japan. The Japanese high command also has been presented with some outstanding examples of American "neutralization" strategy in the Marshalls, the Carolines, the Marianas and the New Guinea area. In those battle zones, American forces by-passed Jap strong points, established air bases, and then proceeded to isolate, powerful enemy bases and garrisons. Such strategy has been described as "letting them die on the vine." Establishment of aerial domination in the Philippines by American forces is virtually assured by the fact that Vice Admiral Marc A.

Mitscher's powerful carrier task forces still are in that area ready to pounce on enemy airfields. COMING Carl Sandburg Author Poet Speaker HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM UNION CITY, IND. 8P.M. -OCT. 25, 1944 VOLUME 6-NUMBER 226.

Pocket Tighten Giant Pincer To Free Water Route U. S. Third, Seventh Hammer New Thrust Toward Strasbourg Supreme headquarters, Allied expeditionary force, Oct. 23 (INS) British and Canadian forces today tightened a giant pincer designed to free the water route through the Scheldt Estuary to Antwerp, prize inland port of western Europe, while the American third and seventh armies hammered new spearheads in a drive aimed toward Strasbourg on the Rhine. Canadian forces, operating against Nazis pocketed south of the west Scheldt, seized the strategic little port of Breskens, according to a communique issued.

by supreme Allied headquarters. The drive in this area also eliminated German resistance at Fort Frederik Henrik and progressed through the vicinity of Wardenburg and Draaiburg while units from the east captured the town of Schoondike, south of Breskens. Seizure of these key points, further shutting off the entrapped Nazis in a small area along (Continued On Page Cleveland Death Toll Reaches 98 Floyd J. Hemmer To Speak Here On October 28 Calvin Maloon, Union City chairman of the Democratic party, has announced that Floyd J. Hemmer candidate for Lieutenant Governor, will speak at the headquarters at 8 p.

m. on October 28. Mr. Hemmer is an active and experienced farm operator. For several years he was manager of the Dubois County Farm Bureau Cooperative Association.

In addition for seven years he has been superintendent of the Indiana State Farm. Mr. Hemmer also has been director of the Indiana Farm Bureau and the Indiana Grain producers, Inc. His extensive knowledge of farm problems likewise results from the fact that he was secretary-treasurer and director of the Producers Dairy Marketing Association at Orleans. He has made a fine contribution as a member of the state advisory committee for the Farm Security Administration and as a member of the Purdue University extension staff.

Mussolini Suffering From Acute Depression London, Oct. 23 (INS) Benito Mussolini is suffering from an acute form of depression, has turned to the church lace and is reported to be taking drugs before making public appearances, the Rome radio was' quoted as saying today. A former chaplain of the Fascist militia was summoned recently to receive Mussolini's confession, Rome reported, but was closely searched before entering the room in which Benito was waiting. InvitingJAMES BURK As a Guest of the TIMES-GAZETTE Tuesday to see "Gildersleeves Ghost" MIAMI THEATRE Admit Two Subject To Tas Cleveland, 23. (INS) The death toll' in the East Ohio gas company explosion and fire stood at 98 today as a 10-man board of inquiry appointed by Mayor Frank J.

Lausche began a probe of the disaster. With a total of 108 persons still officially listed as missing and 50 others under treatment in hospitals, the final fatality figure, it was feared, might exceed that of any previous disaster in Cleveland history. The Cleveland clinic fire in 1929 took 125 lives, while in the 1908 Collinwood school fire 174 perished. Among those still reported as missing were 49 employes of the gas company where the $7,000,000 conflagration broke out Friday afternoon with the explosion of a large tank containing liquid gas. Coroner Samuel R.

Gerber said that he believed that the remains of at least 30 more bodies would be found. Meanwhile, members of the state militia continued to patrol the devastated area and only persons with special passes were permitted inside the fire zone. New Shoe Stamp Valid Nov. 1 Washington, Oct. 23-(INS)The office of price administration announced today that airplane stamp three in war ration book three may be used for buying one pair of rationed shoes beginning Nov.

1. The new stamp, like airplane stamps one and two now in use, will be valid indefinitely. Announcement was made previously that another shoe stamp would become valid on Nov. 1, but the number was not made known. Validation of the stamp Nov.

1 continues the rationing rate of two pairs of shoes a year. OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT (By employer of the Citizen Heat, Light and Tower company power plant, Winchester). High temperature during 24 hours ending at 6 p. m. vesterday 57 degrees above zero Low temperature during 24 hours ending at 6 p.

m. yesterday 33 degrees above zero Percipitation 0 Fair, today, tonight and Tuesday. Warmer today tonight. Cooler Tuesday..