Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1943 — Page 1

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VOLUME 54—NUMBER | 231

| REpoRT NAZIS [[ieice] -MASSED NEAR |. TURK BORDER iexe.oc so

Action Follows Ramer of Impending Bal-| - kans Invasion Involving Turkish Aid Tp Allied Forces.

LONDON, Dec. 6 (U. P.).—German troops are massing| in Bulgaria near the Turkish frontier, a Stockholm dispatch said ‘today as speculation mounted that the Roosevelt Churchill-Stalin conference may bring a Balkan invasion and draw Turkey into the war. The German movement toward the Turkish border began during the week-end and continued at a rapid rate, Hungarian circles in Stockholm said. : - A large troop concentration was Yeported at Khaskovo i in southern Bulgaria, while a Nazi motorized detach-| * ment and two cars of officers continued on to Svilengrad, | only six miles west of border, yesterday. The purported shifting of German troops coincided with a German radio report that President Ismet Inonu, Foreign Minister Numan a8. Menemencioglu and Marshal Chakmak of Turkey had gone On He Wer Fronts

to Cairo to meet President sd and Prime. Miniter MIDDLE EAST a Roosevelt} Churchill, presumably to discuss| Churchili-Stalin “declaration re]

of the Tchran conference, ported tr along BulTurk Bases Hinted garian-Turkish frontier.

Allied and neutral sources have ITALY—Anglo-American offensive

meculaied ever sinc the trl-POVer | ortimuen trough sitening. re sistance.

that the allies might. prevail upon .. Turkey at least to provide bases = under the terms of her mutual aid WUESIA Roms _ y eat euptrstes 9) pact with "Britain for an allied offensive in the Balkans, even if not mans Dnieper ben actively saijuting the war, lle PACIFIC—American bomber raids Speculation increased following| gKapingamarangi atoll 450 miles disclosure that Gen. Dwight D.| from Truk; U. 8. planes launch Eisenhower, supreme allied com- heavy attacks on Marshalls.

f= Een er Be ne DXTRIATES “FAO JAPAN ARRIVE HERE,

RPO Station Scene of

after the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chi- “Fight as: British 8th Happy Reunions.

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Menemencioglu details of the Mos- the chilly, rain-swept battlefront conference as they affected|dianapolis priests, repatriates from betokened the decisive stage of the

at Tehran, the repo Inonu, Menemencioglu and mak to Cairo at this time tock on new significance, though the Germans sought to belittle its impor- - tance.

Rev. Fr. alz, whom |yenafro, inflicting heavy losses on they had not seen for seveal years.|the Germans, while the British other priests {gth army slugged its way forward

Schmalzes. [against a fresh regiment of Nazi “Well, he looks better than I ex- |goth panzer Grenadiers.

pected, but he's still thinner than he was when he left,” commented Supply Yanks by Chute s troops were fighting in

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HAWAII -GOVERNOR Er oromer Indiana Gov. M| LIFTS KOREAN BAN

official acceptance of his resignation] HONOLULU, Dec. 6 (U.P.).—An BE ot the yi iver as fleld co-ordinator of the war food |arder by Lt. Gen, Robert C. Rich- {to storm northward toward Cassino

TOWNSEND RESIGNS " FROM FOOD BUREAU

The Americans were

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“Moves; Turks Reported

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troops on Ba oH OE Dove ucea] made, were supplied by parachute. threatening |

administration and made plans. 10 gpqeqn Jr, military governor of|and envelop a 10-mile stretch of|

manage Blackford and Grant coun far trom lis Tesidence at. Hart, | Hawai, today lifted blackout and|the Via Casilina as far as Cassino,

curio Tsrcions for Koreans, 81" ie Britian had res

The British had reached the nar-|

- time he said he would stay in Washington only two years.

LEHMAN EXPLAINS AID NEED IN FREED AREAS|

“lied leaders was as broad as the

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[military phase, particularly "| statement in the Tehran communiJque about attacks upon Germany ‘from the east, south and west.

was developed fully.

[Parley Maps: East, West, South Drive; Pledges Lasting Peace; Withholds Ultimatum.

By OSKAR GUTH United Press Staff Correspondent TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 6.—President Roosévelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin have agreed on a master plan to crush Germany by powerful offensives on | three fronts—including invasions of western Europe and ‘| possibly the Balkans—and have mapped a peace.that should endure for “many generations.” ~The “Big Three” of the allied nations announced their decisions in broad terms in a_declaration issued today after % 1100 hours of unparalleled conferences that embraced-mili-. tary, diplomatic and political questions both of the war and the peace to follow. After concluding their four-day sessions last Wednes. day, Premier Stalin returned to Moscow and Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill to Cairo to translate speedily into action the decisions that their joint declaration said guaranteed ‘‘vietory will be ours.’ :

_ Atlantic, Pacific Blueprints Completed

“With the Tehran conference, the allies completed the blueprint for the war in the months to come in both the Atlantic and Pacific. The previous week, Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill conferred with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and laid down the broad strategy calculated to bring Japan to her knees, 3 Specifically, the three heads of states odin in their joint declaration: _—~T. “We have reached complete understanding as to the [scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the East, West and South.”

CONFER IN CA

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Tehran Conference | in Brief _

THE MEN

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States. Winston Churchill, prime minister of England, Josef Stalin, prémier of the Boviet Union,

THE PLACE .

Tehran, oaitel of Ancient Iran (Persia), where the mechan= | ized military might of the wedtern nations who have made Iran | . a supply route for Russia contrasts with the customs of the Orient | unchanged for centuries.

WHAT THEY DID

Agreed to work together in the war and in the peace to follow; agreed on the scope and timing of the final assault upon Germany § from east, west and south; agreed to write a peace welcoming &il' | enemies of tyranny into a world of democratic amity; Supresatd the desire that the independence of Iran be recognized under the.} principles of the Atlantic Charter, “

At Parley.

ay | HARRISON SALISBURY Press Sag Correspondent

velit, described. as elated and confident that the Tehran conference with Premier Josef Stalin had shortened the war, began a series of new conferences with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other leaders immediately wos their return from Iran. There appeared little doubt that they were following up the Tehran decisions with specific action. The range of discussions among the al-

world.

While the communiques have " : 3 failed to mention any specific areas 2. “No power on earth can prevent our destroying the

such as Finland, Poland, the Bal- (German armies by land, their U-boats by sea, and their

kans or the Dardanelles, there was Do question that the talks, which war plants from the air. Our attacks will be relentless and

are copitinuing, dealt with such spe- [inCreasing.” : 8. “We recognize fully the résponsibility resting upon

Repert Turks in Caire us and all the united nations to make a peace which will Speculation regarding the nature (command good will from the overwhelming masses of the - of ‘possible action centered on the peoples of the world and banish” the scourge and terror of war for many generations.”

Welcome All Exponents of Freedom

. “We will welcome . . . as they may chooge to come The. autack ;,(, 1 world family of democratic nations . . . all nations,

The attack from the east already from the west is still to come—

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to the elimination. of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance.” from the south inevitably would 5. “We came here with hope and determination. We include the Balkans, where Turkish ||eave here friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose.” = Contrary to expectations in many quarters, the declan. tion contained no ultimatum to the German people to throw (Continued on Figs ¢—Cotumn 4 9 | out their Nazi leaders and surrender unconditionally, to avoid complete devastation of their homeland. ks STRIKE THREATENS it was believed that the “Big Three” may: have decided AT LOCKHEED PLANT to delay any such ultimatum until a moment when success LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6 (U. P)~|ywere assured. Most allied authorities agreed that German

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plant. ies. the. Mr. Roosevelt, Churchill #nd Stain in subsidiary sates Employes, who. e in-| ont on Iran's part of the war sai y counted" etnations} Sasiation of WAC participation of all “peace-loving nations, in the demand ment of international peace, security and under|,o war, in accordance with the principles of the tla of local No,[charter, to which all four Sovernments (including [rar claims a have continued to subscri i Though the conference laid the sround-work

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allied leaders in Iran. The Shack dedicated, as are our own peoples, from the south thus far has