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I I Indiana State Library 1 2 2 America In Wartime By JACK STINNETT (Associated Press) REPUBLICAN Vol. ll, No. 199. Established 1840 Rushville, Indiana, Tuesday, November 7, 1944. Six Pages You Don't Get Your Paper by 6 Call 2222 By Carrier 20c Per Week By TOM REEDY (Substituting for Jack Stinnett, who is it seems happen anywhere else: Secret Service men wore little white badges with the red numerals for identification on President campaign trips.

When they swung the I badges around to read they meant something else not saying what.) George C. Marshall. Army chief I of staff, was prohibited from re- I moving some military maps from the Congressional Library. A law sacs you can't, no matter i Signs advertises meals foi Democratic tee's absent shop with signs, and apartment clustered pictures. Men can't the $30 week, tips and busboys.

The National Commit- ballot bureau set up Roosevelt-Truman the windows i ct Iv above Dewev-Bricker dec won vo me Now dec et into 'way back Roose- because such a sn create employment eporters, and it did. the gals have tak- association Iginal idea an iron nd the President's jays hands. to vote a es seem tor seres anyo in! A4 TU JIH ID anger na exclai ryx wa Ike Ger ducer here chare Man headq Na should in the show all ar Gene, me now doubt the morale value of I pictures abroad you those GI's huddled jungle rain watching a dhile hell breaks loose und. Moreover, says enerals and admirals become so picture- bey know which side to turn to the earned Louis Mount) handsome he could in Hollywood captain says, and of Stilwell: prob- want was complimenting head of the Secret Service squad assigned to pro- Continued on Page Four Lo ob ie Joe mid omebc F. Re THINGS GOING ON IN RUSHVILLE TONIGHT City Lag I Kiw v.

Dad el suppi theal Yanks And Nazis Engage In Hand-To-Hand Struggle For Town Barring Cologne Road Former School Official Here Is Rotary Guest H. B. Allman, formerly superintendent of Rushville public schools and now superintendent of schools at Muncie, presented thoughts on for in speaking before the Rushville Rotary club Tuesday noon. Emphasis of education from idealism or classicism to real- Yossenack Is Scene of Ritter Fighting: With Doughboys Holding Part of Village. GERMAN FORCES HAVE 1 1 1:1: RE NGT HE EI) Fate Of Candidates Rests Today In Hands Of Voters Who Rush To Mark Ballots vas forecast.

School chil- will learn to work as well play, without losing cul- interests, the schoolman 1 cire as to tural said. Subjects to be taught will probably include world exchange and interchange of products, and the universal adoption of the metric system. There may be international coinage, common laws and a universal language, and world newspapers, Mr. Allman predicted. As a result of world wars and economic hardships, the speaker said, labor governments had taken over in many of the principle countries of the world.

In many cases, the new leaders were not educated for their tasks. In this country today, whether we recognize the fact or not. we are living under a labor government, said. rn recalled that forty the magazines were ntion to the was done to meet em. It has been belie failure of those who individualism to ex- leadership, and also I bad followership, that present forces have taken ontinued on Page Two Japan, Germany To Be Unarmed, Stalin Reports me Mr.

Alin years age calling at Peril." yet litt the problem, cause of believed ercise wl because ail ext Address Points to Views That Russia May Soon Regard Japan As an Enemy. Moscow, Nov. 7 Stalin branded Japan and Germany as and declared last night that aggressive nations must be disarmed completely by a postwar organization established defend peace and insure history show's, aggressive which are usually more prepared for a new war than peace-loving the marshal said in an address on the eve of the 27th anniversary of the Russian revolution. cannot be considered ac! he said such unpleasant facts occurred as the I incident at Pearl Harbor, the loss of the Philippines and other islands of the Pacific ocean, the loss of Hongkong and Singapore, when Japan, as an aggressive nation, proved more prepared for war than Great Britain and the United States, which pursued a policy of peace. can we consider accidental such an unpleasant fact as the loss of the Ukraine, White Russia and the Baltic, during the first year of war, when Germany, as an aggressive I nation, proved more prepared or war than the peace-loving Soviet Union.

would be naive to explain these facts by the personal qualities of the Japanese and Germans, their superiority over the British, Americans and He hailed the decisions of Dumbarton Oaks laying the foundations lor the postwar and declared: should not be surprised Continued on Page Two London, Nov. 7 (ZP) A fierce, swaying battle raged today in the center of Vossenack. strategic town barring the American path to the Cologne plain, with doughboys holding the lower end of the mile-and-a-half long village 13 miles southeast of Aachen. Germans and Americans were fighting hand-to-hand in a wmrniy VTfPUT church in the heart of Vos se- MUNDA I Nlblll nack. and bombers and artillery i were beating at Nazis in houses! in the northern section, a front I dispatch declared.

A supreme headquarters dis-; patch earlier said First army troops had won back the last half of the towm, lost to a Ger- man counterattack Monday, but front dispatches said fighting of unexcelled bitterness continued there and near the flanking; towns of Hurtgen and Schmidt. "The Germans have strengthened the already formidable; forces they in Vossenack. said an Associated Press correspondent just outside the town. now' the struggle is as1 savage as was the struggle for Aachen, and one of much greater scope" German strength also was, built up around German-held Schmidt. 15 miles southeast of Aachen.

Vossenack. Schmidt and I Hurtgen were strongpoints of; the German Roer river line ring the way to the Cologne I plain. In southwestern Holland the last enemy units south of the Maas river were being mopped up. There still were small groups of enemy troops around the southern approaches to the Moerdijk bridges, which the Germans have demolished, and nine miles to the west at Willemstad, the site of an escape ferry. Virtually all of Walcheren island in the Schelde estuary is Allied hands.

Enemy units still were hiding out in the flooded interior but Allied mine sweepers and dredges already have begun clearing the 50-mile Schelde estuary approach to Antwerp. In southeastern Holland. Continued on Page Three LARGE CROWD GREETS WATSON Before an audience of oldtime friends and some of the younger generation, former Senator James E. Watson delivered his customary election eve address Monday night at the Graham Annex auditorium. Watson, who served in congress as representative and senator from Indiana under eight presidents, was honored at a birthday dinner at St.

school prior to his address. A large birthday cake was cut at the dinner. The former was 81 years old on November 2. Monday hight marked 56 years that Watson has closed the campaign with an election eve speech here Although continuing to live in Washington since his defeat for re-election to the senate in 1932, the former local resident always returns to Rushville in campaign years for his traditional address and to vote. Watson was the overnight guest of Dr.

and Mrs. Lowell M. Green. Dr. father, the late Thomas M.

Green, was a former law partner of here. War Casualties Have Exceeded 2 Million TWO INJURED AS PLANE HITS Two occupants of a small cabin plane were injured seriously when the craft crashed into a house near the Salamanca, N. airfield. Police said the plane apparently was taking off when its engine failed. The house was unoccupied at the time of the crash.

(Associated Press Wirephoto' Japanese Atrocities In Two Reported As Almost Unbelievable San Francisco, Nov. 7 Emulating the Germans at Lidice, Japanese have wiped out at least villages of the Nederland East Indies with virtually their entire populations, headquarters of Nederland forces in the Far East announced today. A village near Medan, on Sumatra. was soaked with kerosene and petrol and burned to the ground. Any inhabitants who tried to escape shot Former Milroy Resident Dies By the Germany has 2.044,090 casua Associated Pre suffered in I at he least last half year, official from de eastern, western and southern fronts disclosed today.

Actual enemy losses may be a C. Of C. Will End Membership Drive Decision to end next Monday the currently successful membership drive of the Rushville Chamber of Commerce was made during a meeting of the board of directors held Monday great deal higher. Official Allied sources these German casualties be May and November: listed ween Russia Western front Italy Total 790.000 1.060.090 194.000 2.044.090 for Mrs. Marion Tag ne, former resident of the Milroy community, will be held at 2 p.

rn. Wednesday at the L. V. Hauk Funeral home in Shelbyville with the Rev. M.

F. Harmon officiating. Burial will be at Milroy. Mrs. Tague.

who was 74. died Sunday night at her home near! Gwynneville of a complication of diseases after a week's illness. She was born in Hancock county on April 7. 1870. the daughter of John A.

and Louisa Conant. and was married on April 18, 1890. For many years the Tague family lived in the Milroy community. She was a member of the Gwynneville Christian church. Survivors are the husband and three children, Cecil, of Brookville and Lola and Maurice at home.

One child preceded her in death. Friends may call at the funeral home at any time. with machine guns. A village on Java was set afire 1 by incendiary bombs, and machine guns also were turned on those trying to flee. Other atrocities were described in a document.

Atroc- I ities in Occupied Netherland It listed cases of savage mistreatment of prisoners of I war and civilian populations, Some people were burned alive: some were forced to drink soapy until they were bloated, and then soldiers jumped Ion their stomachs until the ter spouted from their mouths. Prisoners were suspended by their feet and their heads were bumped on the ground. Others were forced to stand with their heads thrown back and their I eyes opened to the blazing sun. Japanese women who resisted the advances of Japanese soldiers. the document related, Continued on Page Four Cpl.

John Heeb Wounded In Battle For Peleliu Cpl. John Heeb slightly wounded in the battle of Peleliu Island in the Pacific, according to word received by his parents, I Mr. and Mrs. Von Heeb. of 948 West Third street.

Cpl. Heeb wrote that he received a shrapnel wound in one arm but that the injury was not I even serious enough to send him to the hospital. He added that I the was on that island. but that he Is in good health. The 20-year-old marine cor- poral formerly played basketball 1 for Rushville high school.

Premier Stalin announced last night that 790.000 Germans were killed or captured in the summer offensive in White Russia and in battle of the He made no estimate of German Election Night Parties Planned By rs. Dewey And Mrs. Roosevelt Hyde Park. N. Nov.

7 (ZP) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt planned an early dinner for her family and later a scrambled egg snack night in the Chamber merce offices. Following completion of drive the list of firms and dividuals cooperating to organize for community betterment I will be published and a dinner! meeting for all members will be held. Plans were also laid to establish the Chamber of Commerce offices as employment headquar- ters where employers will list jobs open and applicants will file their qualifications. President Miller appointed financial, executive, and program committees to plan the workings of the organization, 1 with further committees to be appointed during the membership meeting.

Program committee appointments included Paul Stearley, Roy Harrold, Bert Moormann, Robert Scott, and Lowell Browning. The financial committer I consists of Dr. R. N. Fordice, Dr.

C. C. Atkins and Roy Harrold. The executive committee Is com- i posed of the present officers of I the board of directors, Irvin Miller, Carl Diekman, and Rob! ert Scott. of Com- wounded and it was not clear as traditional election night whether the 790,000 included all the sectors of the 1.800 mile Russian in- I front.

In September, the Soviet in- formation bureau announced that 1,185,476 enemy troops had been killed or captured between I June 23 and Aug. 31, and ten I weeks of severe fighting have elapsed since then. Marshal Stalin said in an address last night that 120 German divisions had been smashed during the summer, an indicated enemy loss of 1,200,000 men. Official but incomplete figures fare at the Roosevelt Hyde Park mansion. She said the household would spend the evening listening to election returns and that she up as late as the Her daughter.

Mrs. John Boettiger, and five-year-old grandson, were the only other members of the family present. The four Roosevelt sons in the armed forces are out of the country. Mrs. Roosevelt once remarked that scrambled eggs is a favorite Albany, Nov.

7 (TP) Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey, a little tense looking, planned to spend the fourth election day gone through with her husband, by his side. In their campaign headquar- County Voters Show Interest In Marking Ballots A record vote in Rush county appeared possible today, based on the number of voters who visited the polls in the morning I hours. At I p.

rn. more than one- I third of the registered vote in Rushville already was in the bal- 1 lot boxes, according to figures reported from the eight precincts. Only scattered reports had been received from precincts out in the county but there were i indications that the balloting also was heavy in the rural dis- I tricts. The polls will stay open until I eight o'clock tonight throughout Indiana although they opened I at the customary hour of 6 a. rn.

Until recent legislation extended the length of voting time by two hours, the polls had closed at 6 p. rn. each election. Registration figures in the eight precincts totaled 4.753 this fall. A tour of these precinct voting places between 12:30 and I p.

rn. today revealed I that 1.756 votes already hadj 1 been cast. Political workers I pointed out that this was a good I i percentage inasmuch as the true number of persons eligible to vote is usually smaller than i the figure shown in the registra- tion records. The vote in Rushville city at I p. rn.

reported, as Precinct I. 283; precinct 2. 163: precinct 3. 130: precinct 4. 180; precinct 5, 184: precinct 6.

285: precinct 7. 250; precinct 8, 281. Vote registration figure for the entire county is 13.350. Although balloting was heavy, no election trouble of any kind had been reported at noon and the procedure of getting out the vote seemed to be going smooth- I iy. Because of the two-hour extension in voting, the county canvassing board was anticipat- I ing a session which would ex- tend well into Wednesday before the vote could be completely tabulated.

Indications From Over Indiana Are For Record Vote Indianapolis. Nov. 7 north to south and east to west across the state came reports today that the electorate heading for the polls in such numbers that a record vote might be cast. The heavy turnout came despite cloudy skies and low temperatures in the early morning hours. Should the procession to the p'olls continue, some political ters at the Roosevelt hotel, leaders predicted a total vote of York, she will help keep the elec- cjase to 2.000,000.

tion score sheets straight. She has seen him win as district attorney, lose the New York race, then win it. And that he is running for the highest office in the land, she of various armies in France, the djsh 0f the and that Low Countries and western election day at their home is Germany listed 660,000 prisoners ranged the way he wants last night. Prime Minister Chur- Village neighbors were expect- chill said on Sept. 28 that ecj t0 drop in during the evening, OOO more Germans had been as they have in past years, to killed or wounded, and six, weeks mingle with political associates of fighting have taken place and Washington friends in the last authoritative es- is facing the day with a single comment a seasoned expression Publicly, through the campaign, she has played the role of the silent and smiling wife.

But behind the scenes, Dewey aides say, she was the last to blue- pencil her speeches, and in several instances made I last-minute changes which were I considered by his managers. since that ti ma Ic. Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, ground commander in Italy, said last week that the Germans sustained 194,000 casualties in Italy since May ll, including 34,000 dead, 56.000 prisoners and 104,000 wounded. A factor contributing to the heavy vote was the fact that agricultural work throughout the state was well in hand.

Indiana voters went to the polls today in their first wartime presidential election since 1864, with the that portion of the electorate which has refused to commit itself in party largest in many years. They voted under a conflict of authority over registration challenges. An order by the state board of election commissioners directing that a voter with a registration receipt but who is not on the precinct registration list could vote by making an affidavit was ordered disregarded yes- Men and Women ho Make Up America, Took Control Today. Deciding Winners by Ballots. DEWEY, ROOSEVELT CAST THEIR TICKETS 4 AT-A-GLANCE To be elected: A President, vice president, 35 senators, 432 U.

S. representatives, 31 governors. Total vote: Estimated by state officials at 44.000.000 plus, in- I eluding 3.369.000 soldiers and sailors. Polls: Open as early as 5 a. i CWT.

in the east, close as late as IO p. CWT. in the west. Weather: Varied, but not fore: cast as extreme in any general By the Associated Press Voters turned out in record strength to decide the Roosevelt! Dewey presidential race today, and first fragmentary returns I fell pretty much into the 1940 pattern. Across the country, men and women flocked to the polls early I and in extraordinary numbers, A ballot total reaching an mi! precedented 50.000.000 appealed in sight.

Two small Massachusetts towns reported Gov. Thomas E. I running ahead by about the same proportionate margin I that Wendell L. Willkie held in I those communities in 1940 when I President Roosevelt carried the Bay state. I Mashpee, on Cape Cod.

gave a count of 51 for Dewey and 44 for Roosevelt. Four years ago the final vote was Willkie 97. Roose- I velt 89. In the Berkshire Hills, Mt. Washington reported a complete vote of Dewey 29.

Roosevelt 8. In 1940. it was Willkie 32, Roosevelt IO. The candidates themselves added their personal ballots to the mounting figures while many hours yet remained before officials generally began to tally the decision. President Roosevelt voted shortly after noon at Hyde old town hall.

As he did four years ago. he gave his occupation as grower." He raises Christmas trees on his Hudson Continued on Page Two Elizabeth Smith Succumbs Tuesday Mrs. Elizabeth S. Smith, age 77. died at the home of her sister, Mrs.

Ed L. Beer. 335 North Morgan street. Tuesday morning at 5:30 She had been in failing health for the last three years. She was the widow of Morris C.

Smith, who died in November, 1942 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Beer in this city. Mrs. Smith was a daughter of Herman and Mary Giest Nieman, and came here with her late husband from Detroit in 1942.

She is survived by a son, Wallace R. Smith of Chattanooga, and a daughter, Mrs. Walter W. King of Bernona, five step grandchildren and one i great grandchild, and the sister, Mrs. Beer.

There will be a short service at the Beer residence Thursday night at 7 and another service will be held at Spring Groves chapel in Cincinnati, Friday morning at ll The Rev. C. V. Reeder will officiate here. Friends may call at the Beer residence beginning on Wednesday afternoon.

spacious old family residence. Mrs. Dewey saw her two sons. Missing from gather-1 Thomas, ll, and John. 8, ing will be the moth- I through an early breakfast today terday by Republican Attorney cr, Mrs.

Sara Delano at the mansion and General James A. Emmert, who who died in 1941. She had been then entrained with her hus- with the President usually band for New York City, where the center of the family circle they will vote, every election night since first he The Dewey sons, despite their ran for public office. i Continued on Page Four THE WEATHER charged that a Democratic attempt was being made to the election." The Democratic members Continued on Page Two of ness1 and warmer tonight and Wednesday; thundershowers in southwest portion tonight and showers in northeast portion Wednesday; increasing winds becoming southwest 30 to 40 miles an hour..