Section One Pages 1 to 6 cooler Friday; fresh to strong Pages Today SEYMOUR DAILY TRIBUNE tered Weather: showers Mostly cloudy tonight, with VOLUME LXII. NO. 261 'SEYMOUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1944 PRICE FOUR PORT OF ANTWERP ALMOST CLEARED Smaller Number of Students On First Honor Rolls of School Year Honor rolls of Shields Junior and Senior High Schools for the past six weeks period which have just been announced by school authorities, are smaller than the lists in previous years, it is revealed. Only eleven students made the high school high honor roll, which requires that a student make straight "A's" in all subjects, whether he is taking four or five subjects. Two of these are members of the Junior class, five are Sophom*ores and four are Freshmen.
The Senior class was not represented. On the regular honor roll, nine Seniors, eight Juniors, nine Sophom*ores and six Freshmen are listed on the rolls, announced from the office of De Witte Ogan, Shields High School principal. counts three points, a "B' two points and a "C' one point scatFriday: wind CENTS Pvt. C. Ritter Dies in Action In U.S.
Army Former Local Man Is Killed in Italy on October 13, Father Here Is Notified Pvt. Chester W. Ritter, age twenty -seven, formerly of Seymour, was killed in action while fighting with the U. S. Army on the Italian front on October 13, according to a message received by his father.
J. Albert "Squire" Ritter, of this city. Pvt. Ritter, who has been overseas for several months, was fighting with the U. S.
Infantry in the Italian campaign when he made the supreme sacrifice for his country. A resident of Seymour during the greater part of his life, Pvt. Ritter had lived for the past five or six years ih Chillicothe, Ohio, where he had been employed with a shoe manufacturing concern until he entered the U. S. Army.
Prior to moving to Chillicothe, he wes employed at the shoe factory in this city and his many friends are shocked to learn of his death. Sister, Mother in Ohio. Pvt. Ritter, who would have been twenty-eight years of age in February, was born in Seymour and attended grade schools and Shields High School here. His mother lives in Chillicothe with his only sister, Mrs.
Dorothy Pickerell. wife of Leonard Pickerell, both formerly of Seymour. Pit. Ritter was married and his. wife, the former Bernalee Spall, of Seymour, now resides in Indianapolis.
Since moving to Chillicothe, Pvt. Ritter had visited in this city frequently and enjoyed the acquaintance of a large circle of friends who are shocked by the news of his death. In addition to. the father, a number of other relatives reside in Seymour. Former Local Woman Expires in Berwyn, Ill.
Mrs. Ida Rand, age seventyfour, sister of Oscar Tobrocke, of this city, died unexpectedly Wednesday at her home in Berwyn, 111. Mr. Tobrocke received a letter a few days ago from his sister in which she said she was in good health. Mrs.
Rand, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tobrocke, was born at Waymansville, and lived in Seymour for a number of years. Her husband, William F. Rand, died about three: years ago.
Surviving are son, Robert Rand, of Berwyn, three brothers, Oscar Tobrocke, of this city, Frank A. Tobrocke, of Elgin, Chester Tobrocke, of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. E. B. Shewman, of Cincinnati.
Mr. and Mrs. Tobrocke will go to Berwyn for the funeral which will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. State Board Reduces City Rate to $2.66. Tax Group Makes Cut in School Tuition Fund Beyond One Indicated at Hearing The total tax rate of the City of Seymour for.
1945 will be $2.66 on each $100 of taxable property, thirty-six. cents less than the present rate of $3.00, it was revealed today with the receipt of orders from the Indiana State Tax Board regarding the 1945 rates by Jason Bottorff, Jackson county auditor. This will be the lowest tax rate the city has operated under in many years, The city rate will be twelve cents less than city and county officials have expected since a hearing on proposed county levles and budgets at Brownstown October 10. After that hearing, Alexander Smallwood, field representative, said he was going to recommend a reduction of fifteen cents, from ninety-one to seventy-six cents, in the city general fund levy and a cut of four cents from the tuition fund of the school city, Dees Not Reduce Budget. The state board upheld the fitteen-cent cut in the city general fund levy but increased the cut (Continued on page 5, column 3) Injury Causes Change In Prosecutor for Case An injury suffered late Wednes.day by Edward S.
Lustig, North Poplar street, prosecuting attorney of Jackson county, necessitated a change of prosecutors in the jury case of Wilford Reichenbacker, charged with larceny, which opened in Jackson Circuit Court at Brownstown today. Coulter Montgomery, of this city, who resigned as prosecuting Me. attorney prior to the appointment of Mr. Lustig, now a candidate for the office in next Tuesday's election, was acting prosecutor in the circuit court case today. A jury had been obtained and the presentation of evidence was under way this afternoon.
Mr. Lustig was in the vicinity of Crothersville late Wednesday tacking campaign placards on poles high enough they could not be torn down by boys. He was standing on the fender of an automobile and when he jumped from the fender, his feet struck a slight depression along the roadside and his ankle turned, becoming badly sprained, he said, He was confined to his home today. Persons Burn Leaves In Spite of Warning In spite of warnings, people are continuing to, burn leaves on city streets, it was learned today from city authorities, who repeat that violators of the city ordinance will be prosecuted unless such a practice is discontinued. The Seymour fire department twice Monday night was summoned to extinguish leaf fires, once to East Sixth street east of Broadway, where leaves were burning in the street and about an hour and a half later, they made a run to Fourth and Pine streets to extinguish a leaf blaze.
Weather Records KINDNESS Here are official COES A LONG. WAYS and unofficial LOTS OF TIMES weather for WHEN IT records Seymour HAVE OUGHT STAYED 10 for day. The maximum temper- AT HOME ature reading is from downtown thermometer, and is unofficial. The minimum, for the past twenty- four hours, is from the records of Miss Louise Ahlert, government weather observer here, and' is official. The river level is obtained from station the Seymour Water pumping at Rockford.
Temperatures Minimum 53 Reading at 2 p. m. 70 River Stage 1 inch below low water mark. Communism Is Rising Menace, Capehart Says Republican Candidate For Senator Asserts Public is Fearful Of Fourth Term Communism is a growing menace in the United States and looms large in the present campaign, Homer E. Capehart, Republican candidate for United States Senator from Indiana, asserted here Wednesday night.
He met people from Seymour and the vicinity at the Hardesty Hotel following tour of Jackson county. He visited Cortland, Freetown, Medora, Vallonia, Brownstown and Crothersville, before coming here Wednesday night. He was a guest at a dinner at Brownstown where he gave an informal talk. Asked for a statement in Governor Schricker's recommendation that a special session of the Indiana legislature be called to extend the voting hours on election day, Capehart said everybody certainly is entitled to opportunity to vote. This is a legislative matter, he stated but that he could see no objection to it, if the additional hours at night are required to permit every voter in the state time to cast his ballot.
Fearful of Fourth Term. "This is the eighty-seventh county which I have visited in this campaign, and I find the same situation every where," said Capehart. "Both Republicans and Jeffersonian Democrats are afraid of four more years of the New Deal. They see no possible chance for a return to sound government and a (Continued on page 5, column 2) November 23 Proclaimed as Thanksgiving Washington, Nov. 2 (AP)President Roosevelt today proclaimed November 23, the fourth Tuesday of this month, as Thanksgiving Day, thus following the law enacted by Congress December 26, 1941.
Five states plan to observe -November 30, the last Thursday, through local choice. In his annual proclamation, the president called on the nation to read the Holy Scriptures from Thanksgiving until Christmas in thanking God for restoring freedom to many millions in "this year of liberation" and for the "promise of enduring peace." The complication of two Thanksgiving days is continuing this year, despite congressional action to: end the Roosevelt experiment of an earlier. Thanksgiving started ip 1939, because this month has five Thursdays. Forty-one states, and the District of Columbia have fixed November 23 for the holiday in line with the federal statute, but Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia plan to observe November 30. In two states, Arkansas and Georgia, there is possibility that both dates will be recognized.
When the President first tried (Continued on page 6, column 3) Kesselring Is Reported Hurt At the Swiss-Italian frontier, Nov. 2 (P) Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring, commander of German forces in Italy, was reported wounded today in an Allied strafing attack similar to the one which cost Marshal Erwin Rommel his life in France. Infermation from Italy said the Marshal's automobile overturned near Bologna after an Allied plane machinegunned it. The extent of his injuries was reported not yet ascertained.
Allied troops have been fighting on the southern approaches of Bologna for several weeks. DeMolays Initiate Class at N. Vernon Approximately sixty DeMolays, majority DeMolays and Masons attended a special initiation ceremony of Seymour Chapter, Order of DeMolay conducted at the old high school gymnasium at North. Vernon Wednesday night. Both the Initiatory and DeMolay degrees were conferred on a class of eight candidates.
William Goddard, Master Councilor of Seymour. Chapter, conferred both degrees with the assistance of other officers and members of the chapter. More than twenty members of the chapter, in addition to several members of the advisory council and other Masons. attended the meeting from Seymour. Six of the candidates receiving the degrees were from North Vernon and two were from Seymour.
U. of T. Relieves Dr. H. P.
Rainey Former President of Franklin Breaks with Board of Regents Houston, Nov. 2-(P) Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president of the University of Texas for almost six years, was discharged by the Board of Regents last night. Dr.
T. S. Painter, university biologist, was named acting president. Leo Haynes, secretary of the board, made the announcement of the dismissal. Three members of the boardH.
H. Weinert, Seguin; Dan J. Harrison, Houston, and Judge John H. Bickett, Jr. Dallas, chairman of the board- -have resigned.
Rainey has demanded a relatively free hand in running, the university. Friction developed between Dr. Rainey and the Board of Regents in 1942, when the board dismissed three professors who attended a wage-hour law rally, attempted to speak, and failing, published a critical statement. The three are Wendell Gordon, now in the army, and fa*gg Foster and W. N.
Peach. The Regents said the statement embarrassed the board. Another irritant was that Rainey wanted to move the medical school from Galveston to Austin. The board rejected his plan. A long series of conflicts came to a new head recently when it was reported to Dr.
Rainey that Regent D. Strickland of Mission, had asked vice-president J. Alton Burdine of the university to tell Rainey that he was making too many speeches, such as those before religious groups. This Strickland denied. Rainey answered with a word statement to the faculty, charging the Regents with sixteen specific instances of what he termed "restrictive measures actual or attempted" violating principels.
Ex-students organized Rainey" clubs in several towns. The new president, Dr. Painter, was head of the faculty committee which had tried to seek compromise between Rainey and the Regents. Rainey was president of Franklin College at Franklin, before he came to Texas, Yanks Advance In New Push London, Nov. 2- (P) American infantry, fighting through the dense Hurtgen Forest southeast of Aachen, advanced from one to nearly two miles in a new attack today, overran two villages and reached a third.
British commandos and Canadian infantry assaulting dikegirded Walcheren Island were in the last phase of the battle to uncover Antwerp. They fanned out rapidly along the two to three mile wide Dune zone and flushed the Germans out of all but the northern outskirts of the Port of Flushing (Vlissingen). Meeting stiffened resistance in the drive toward Rotterdam, however, Americans and Poles, were forced to give up their narrow hard-won bridgeheads over the Mark river, last barrier before (Continued on page 6, column 5t Governor Asks Extension of Voting Hours Lauer Approves Recommendation to Keep Polls Open Until 9 0 clock Indianapolis, Nov. 2 (P) Leaders of the Indiana General Assembly, caught unprepared by Governor Henry F. Schricker's surprise call for a special session Saturday to extending.
voting hours in the general election, planned to confer today to map a course of action for the session. It was learned that the Republicans, who control both Houses of the legislature, might offer a variation to the governor's suggestion that the polls be kept open from 6 p. m. to 9 p.m. There were suggestions from the Republicans that 8 p.
m. be set as the closing time or that the voting hours be fixed at 8 a. m. until 8 p. m.
The present law calls for the polls to be open from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. In addition to considering the voting hours, the conferees also were understood to have discussed plans for meeting the increased expense that would be occasioned by keeping the voting places open.
It was expected that workers at the polling places would expect additional compensation for longer. hours. There was some sentiment for paying any additional expense out of the state's general fund. The legislators will convene at 1 a. m.
Saturday to hear the governor's recommendation. Schricker said he would urge that the closing time for the polls next Tuesday be changed to 9 p. m. The law provides that the polls be open from 6 a. m.
to 6 p. m. The governor made the same recommendation at the special session last April at which the soldier vote bill was enacted. No action was taken on the proposal at that time. Statement By Lauer.
Similar calls have been issued by Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Governor Harry F. Kelly of Michigan. An indication of the probable attitude of the Republicantrolled assembly was contained in a statement issued by John H. Lauer, Republican state chairman, who said: "Republicans of the state will be glad to know that Governor Schricker has followed the lead of the great governor of New York, (Continued on page 5, column Japanese Tanks Training to Meet Invasion By Associated Press.
Japanese tanks are training to meet an expected American landing on the northern shores of Japan, Tokyo radio reported today in the wake of another bombing raid on the Kurile Islands, stepping stones from the Aleutians to Nippon. The broadcast followed an official Nipponese statement that the reported flight of Superforts over Tokyo yesterday "was confined to In the Philippines, which Pres. Sergio Osmena predicted would be completely freed within "a few American ground forces neared a junction at Carigara on the Nipponese escape route and possible potential site of a Japanese stand. Appeal to China. Tokyo radio, capitalizing on the recall of Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell. invited Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to desert his Allies and join Japan. Later broadcasts fierce resistance was expected from Chinese who have entrenched themselves in "hastily constructed pillboxes made by smashing down the city walls" of Kweilln, virtually surrounded (Continued on page 6, 60 U. S.
Battle Casualties Rise 14,913 in Week Washington, Nov. 2--(P) United States battle casualties have risen to 487, 692, an increase of 14,913 over the number reported last week. The war departments said today the latest army total is 121 as of October 21, an increase of 14,047 since last week's report, which covered the period through October 14. The latest Navy compilation placed the figure at 70,571, an increase for the same interval of 866. Army casualties, compared with those a week ago: killed 666 and wounded 229,212 and missing .53,622 and prisoners 53,621 and 014.
Navy casualties: killed 28,231 and wounded 28,441 and missing 9,421 and prisoners 4,478 and 4,480 (decreases apparently are accounted for by transfers of names to other categories). Boston Crowd Cheers Dewey Voters Have Large Selection of Speeches Remainder of Week By Associated Press. Eyes a bit blurry and ears hard pounded by presidential campaign arguments, America's voters can choose between dozens of more speakers in the few days left before they choose between President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey, At least ten network programs are on tonight's political broadcast schedule. The speakers include top flight politicians, labor leaders and still more of the Hollywood movie actors who have been swarming to microphones in great numbers this campaign. Mr.
Roosevelt himself is down for a fifteen-minute talk from the White House (over 'NBC) in a Democratic program running from 8 to 8:30 o'clock CWT. After an 11:30 a. m. extemporaneous speech at Baltimore, Dewey carries his anti-fourth term drive to Pennsylvania with speeches in Wilkes Barre at 7 p. and Scranton at 8:15 p.m.
None of his talks today will be broadcast. He speaks again at New. York's Madison Square Garden Saturday night. It is Mr. Roosevelt's next to the last major call to the voters; his last is to come Saturday night at Boston where howling Republican enthusiasts last night heard Dewey declare: Dewey at Boston.
"Mr. Roosevelt, in his overwhelming desire to perpetuate himself in office for sixteen years, has put his party on the auction block -for sale to the highest bidder." And the ones bidding it in, Dewey continued "are the political action committee of Sidney Hillman and the Communists of Earl Browder." It was a boisterous, tremendous reception New England gave Dew- 'Cont nued on page 4, column 5) Single German Unit Fights in Delaying Act Allied Forces Inside Vlissingen Clear Out Snipers Cut Off From Hope of Escape PVT. HOWARD W. KRIETE George H. Kriete, 562 South O'Brien street, and members of his family are hopeful they soon will receive word that his son, Pvt.
Howard W. Kriete, age nineteen, is back safely with his outfit or is a prisoner of the Germans. Saturday, Mr. Kriete received a message from the War Department stating Pvt. Kriete has been missing in action since October 11, nine days after he returned to duty following wounds sustained September 27 in Italy.
Forest Fire Is Raging Again Jonesville Blaze Flares--Local Crew Stops 250-Acre Fire Forest fire fighters today were battling a blaze which broke out again in a 500-acre tract near Jonesville which burned over betore, being extinguished burning early Wednesday. In its second today, it. was reported to be endangering some farm houses. Wednesday afternoon, another forest fire broke out one mile west of Alternate U. S.
Road 31 on Waynesville R8 on the Ross Brothers farm, farther north than the first 500-acre blaze. Clyde Keller, of Seymour, fire warden this area, took a crew of men and after a six-hour fight, managed to extinguish the blaze, which had raged for eight hours over a 250- acre tract. (Continued on page 6, column Sister of Local Woman Expires in Terre Haute Word has been reecived here of the death of Mrs. Mayme Spellman, wife of Ben Spellman, of Terre Haute, which occurred at the home there Tuesday night following a short Winess. Mrs.
Spellman is a sister of Mrs. Catherine Hollenbeck, of this city. She leaves besides the husband, three sons, four sisters and one brother. Funeral rites are to be conducted in Terre Haute Friday morning. Mrs.
Hollenbeck, son, Clarence and daughter, June, Mrs. Leo Spray and Mrs. Denver Sutherland went to Terre Haute this morning to- attend the funeral rites. and a student must have a total of ten points if he is taking four subjects or a total of twelve points if he is taking five subjects to gain a place on the regular honor roll. One Junior High student attained the high honor roll.
Five from eighth grade and three from the seventh grade made points high enough to be listed on the regular honor roll. High Honor Roll. Pupils making a scholastic record entitling them to a place on the high honor roll are: Juniors: Elvira Otting, Joella Able. Sophom*ores: Dorothy Young, Helen Thoele, Donna Day, Carol Clause, Winifred Able. Freshman: Joe Kutch, Dorena Van Voorhies, Nancy Hanco*ck, Helen Day.
(Continued on. page 2, column 4) London, Nov. 2. (P) -British and Canadian assault forces, making rapid strides toward clearing the approaches to the port of Antwerp, have hurled stubborn German defense troops out of all but one northern outskirts of the fortress city of Vlissingen (Flushing) on- Walcheren Island, a field dispatch said today. British Commandos and amphibious forces which struck the island's west coast near Westkapell have expanded their beachhead to the northeast, bypassing the village of Domburg and seizing an enemy coastal battery emplaced in the Dunes beyond, Associated Press Correspondent William F.
Boni reported from Canadian First Army headquarters. South of the Schelde Estuary a stubborn knot of enemy defiance was all but erased. A Reuters field dispatch said the German general commanding in that pocket and 2.4 500 of his men had been captured, Allied troops there were well inside the coastal village of Knocke Few Troops Remain. Only about 100 SS troops remained in Fort Knocke, with a few additional troops at. Heyst and elsewhere along the coast 8: the Canadian bag of prisoners mounted to 10,600, including the Nazi commander, Mai.
Gen. Eberding of the 64th Division. This division was now. counted as destroyed. On Walcheren value placed by the enemy on the approaches of Antwerp was measured by the fanatical fury with which the German garrison, cut off from all hope of escape, contested every foot.
(Continued on page 6, column 4) 2,000 Planes Over Germany London, Nov. 2-(P) -Fleets of 2,000 American planes beat today at railyards, oil plants and other objectives in central and western Germany. By night, the RAF had switched from disintegrating Cologne to Oberhausen, until now the least bombed city in the Ruhr. Some 1,100 flying fortresses and liberators convoyed by 900 fighters bombed the vast Leuna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg in central Germany and other oil plants in the Ruhr. They bombed railyards at Bielefeld and Rheine and struck other targets into the west which were not specified.
Weather was bad. RAF mosquitos, however, kept up the assault upon Cologne during the night and other mosquito forces went for Berlin, the fifth raid on the capital in six nights. Santa Gets Priority For Certain Types of Toys for Christmas Washington, Nov. 2- P) Toys will be somewhat better this Christmas, for Santa got a priority. Playthings won't be of pre-war quality but on the whole they'll last "much longer" than the gadgets of a year ago, The commerce department, said so today, Toys may be more numerous, too, especially in some categories like dolls and wooden toys.
Toy sales are expected to be nearly $250,000,000 at retail. Last season they were believed to be slightly less than that. Exact estimates are, difficult. Here's some of the toy news in detail, as reported to mommy and daddy by the commerce department: There will be "perhaps enough dolls to satisfy everybody." Wooden Toys. Ten or fifteen per cent of the doll carriages and toy wagons will have steel wheels and undercarriages.
Steel was also allocated for a small number of construetion sets. Wooden toys will be about twenty-five per cent more numer ous than last year. They will be superior in design, finish, and workmanship. About twenty-five new manufactures of wooden trains have entered the toy field within the last several months. Model planes are mushrooming.
Some will be built of Balsa wood, which is being allocated in increasing quantities for the purpose. Some aluminum planes will be on sale. Superfortresses have already gone into production. Toy jeeps will be in the stores in several different models. But don't expect a miracle.
No silk dresses on dolls. And too bad, dad 2 Do electric trains..
