Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1943 — Page 1

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1043 Ses eens, Mair 00 poi

[Warm Coat in 1930 Remembered Today

W's 'Mr. Smiths’ of Indianapolis Who Make Cloth-A-Child a Success.

(List of Doners, Page Seven)

| WELL CALL him Mr. Smith and he’s the kind of fellow who has |

made Clothe-A-Child a success.”

He was out of work in 1930, the first year for Clothe-A-Child. His

wife was ill. And The Times gave

Warren wore the coat until Smiths’ second son, wore it. And he outgrew if, Then the coat was loaned to a peighbor's child who has just finished with it ahd the coat is still In good condition. But that’s not all—

s =. = ——MR. SMITH got a job and he worked hard. In 1936 he came back to the Clothe-A-Child office, not to receive help but to give it. He's clothed children every __ Year since,

Warren is in the ‘army alr

him a lift.

SWEDEN SAYS!" ‘os cee te

Invasion Any Time After | his colleagues in other areas

military state of alarm in the BERN, Switzerland, uly 9.—W

FRONT CLOSE, When wil the War End? J PS ADM

HOW TIMES’ EXPERTS SIZE IT UP | LOSSES, M AY

of the world to give their personal estimates of how long it will take to defeat the Ger- | London Observers Predict! man and the Japanese enemy. Each of the writers wrote without knowledge of what

Mid-lanuary. | "Autumn 1944 Likeliest Time' E ‘Smash the Nazi Army’ =

LONDON, Dec. 9 (U. P).~The By PAUL GHALI By DAVID M. NICHOL Clothe-A-Child bought a corduroy coat for his oldest hoy, Warren. Turkish-Bulgarian border has heen Copyright. 1943. by The Suginuepoliy Imes and The Copyright. 1943, by The Indwnapolts limes and The he outgrew it. Then Albert, the [closed and Turkey has ordered a Chicago Dally News, Inc Chicago Dally News. Ine

was saying.

hen will the war MOSCOW, Dec. 9.—The war cannot end until ¢ A oo = F . ’ f ~y f force in India. Albert is fighting |frontier zone, Swedish reports sald] end? Should one throw all discretion to the winds, the German army is smashed. Bombing can con- Amazingly rank Con ¢ssion 0

with the 5th army in Italy.

Yesterday Mr. Smith came to [and Germany maneuvered for a) time—at least in so far as Hitler's war is concerned. I can make the last steps easier, but if the history | ~ . . Clothe-A-Child with a group of [Balkans showdown. ph The allied forces should by that a of this war has demonstrated the | U S Air Control Hints fellow workers from his defense | However, a statement issued in hi time be thrusting well into Ger- '\ impossibility of defeating a de- ‘ ' : plant. He personally had super- | Ankara today by Foreign Foreign Minister : ! man territory from north, east, Rake . termined continental power solely | . vised ‘the collection of money in {Numan Menemenciogiu of Turkey | ; : § south and west. § “0 SER by destroying its cities or robbing Withdrawals ¢ Je

his department.

today as the United nations, Turkey| he might give the autumn of 1944 as the likeliest tribute to weakening it in both supplies and morale. |

apparently ruled out the likelihood go Of course, anything may hap- | tof its industrial strength,

“We'll get you a good Warm of that nation entering the war at pen, Soviet arms should accomp- % } In a full year ot the bitterest coat,” he said to one of the needy |once. Ml lish the defeat s

youngsters his group was be- | Turkish advices quoted Menemen- this winter. The enemy might ’ covered two-thirds of its

friending.

breaks are against yoy.

of the Germans ; fighting, the Soviet Union has re

“1 | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—An amazingly frank

cloglu as expressing deep satisfac- 5 surrender because of the collapse a . pled territory, but still faces the ['okyo broadcast admitting Japan's long lines were being Mr. Smith knows what good |tion with the Cairo conference, at of the home front. | cruel task of regaining the most .y.joed” led today to the belief that the enemy may be _warm...coats means when the the same time proclaiming Turkey's) ‘The latter possibility is dim- ) Bl difficult third. g y to ehe a e ene y

attitude as unchanged. cult to foresee, chief, Heinrich

Gifts Will Be

Of Local Fliers Who Died

+ aviators who died in service.

in Memory

evident that President Roosevelt! nation.

No Agreements Signed Mr, Ghall chrged with “safeguarding” the * which united nations soldiers The foreign minister made it] home front. He is suppressing the entire German must conquer before driving the Germans back to

for the gestapo The -area the -Russian army planning limited withdrawals from far southern Pacific outHimmler, now Is Mr. Nichol covered 1s about equal to that posts suc h as Bougainville because of allied air supremacy. (I'he German agency DNB said Premier Hideki Tojo their own boundaries on the west had called a conference of Japanese leaders for Dec. 22 “in

and Prime Minister Churchill had| = There is a tremendous amount of defeatism In Daconditonl Sirrender to which the pri view of the gravity of the present situation.”) not convinced the Turks that full-| the Reich, but there is still much faith in Hitler's nations are pledged would seem unlikely without | “w scale Turkish belligerency would aid| star, especially among German youth. It seems wctual invasion of the Reich. | I'he allied air strength is so great that our troops fightthe allies effectively at this time. | almost certain that German morale will withstand Joint offensives from the east and west un- ing in the Bouth’ Pacific, after having been subjected to AN ADDITIONAL $10 worth of gifts and cheer will be provided | Menemencioglu affirmed, without| this winter, for wounded and sick service men in Marion coufity’s war hospitals qualification, that no agreements By next spring frésh military .. through contributions received today in-memory of two Indianapolis were signed at Cairo. But he said| prospect of more to come, should

“431 ‘military “and diplomatic matters boiling; in ‘the

aelonte 3 . S0ubindiy will speed the rate of advance on either enemy air bombings, look - about and say in surprise, ‘Where eiea pus the - IR set the wate r 16 Add to this the fact that the cycle of German have the Japanese planes gone?” the broadcast said. : morale appears to reach the ‘lowest ebb with the vo . . The enemy . .. cuts a

in Europe might end, at the earliest, late in” 1944.

cauldron. Gifts of $5 each were sent to’ The Indianapolis Times Christmas _| were examined thoroughly, to the There is one certainty: I the allies relax thie approach of winter, and I should guess that the war | yo wadse into our positions and fund in memory of Ensign Robert L. Fleetwood and Marine Lt. Dallas | “greatest satisfaction” of the Turk-| war will drag on for years. 0

! ¥. (Ted) Shadinger, former Butler university classmates who were killed in plane crashes one day apart last February. Today would have been Lt.

Shadinger’s 24th birthday. Con- J

cerning her contribution, his" mother, Mrs, Guy H. Shadinger, 802 Buckingham dr. wrote: “We ‘should like to remember it (his birthday) in this way.” The donor for Ensign Fleetwood

HY CAUSES BN “ON HOSPITAL VISITS

Schools Report Improvement in Attendance.

A Martin, for the Indiana uhiversity medical center and council spokesman, said "the ban would remain in effect un til further notice. 8 ‘In Indianapolis schools yesterday, 17 of the 100 teachers who had been absent the first of the week returned to their classrooms, and nsiderably

Women and Two -

tol echoed 2 charges drive in Italy toward Rome with : nat ha. the-price-lire an expected fmprovement in the

program were playing into hands of “blood billionaires,”

ras Bw smc hae to ower mel 0 eyes was ammo m= 6 | LIQUOR CURFEW SET

ish delegation, headed by President a = 8

west and south” can be expected LONDON, Dec. 9.—If the Russian offensive main- CAIRO, Dec. 0.—The war in Europe will end In. tains its present momentum and allied forces in the the early part of next summer, 1 believe, And Leave Four Bases sunday.

Capitol Hill Is “In Is ‘Invaded’ by i that time, they said, the .. .iterranean drive the Germans

anytime after mid-January.

nited States, Britain and Russia will have completed the massing of northern Italy, the foundation 5,000,000 or more men along a great

An intensified Anglo-American

weather late this month may herald Germany's approaching doom with -ithe new offensives following in this

PROM THE EAST—The Rus- ‘When Our Ari Isi _|sians, on the basis of past experi-

ilence, can be expected to launch By B.'J McQUAID By A. T, STEELE showed: their winter offensive any time aft- Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis ago Dally News, In

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should; on the utter destruction of

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec, 9.—~If we insist, as we NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 9.—Reluctant though [and on the islets of Kwajalein,

power, it will take us from three . J © massive tnvasion of western to-six years longer.© Even if Rus- : _— 4 wo» sis comes in, Japan can, and. - : PS lor invasion is not likely On the War Fronts Jap Withdrawal From probably will, by a characteristic gy pefore the end of winter, How- (Dec. 9, 1943) Rabaul Possible.

isets up an airfield. Then the enemy sends out planes. wave

SUBSIDY WIVES’ [555 5 we re | “Some Time Next Summer’ ‘2d Front Will Do the Job STUNS THE NIPS ic vier ot"

President Roosevelt, Prime Minister ELEN KIRKP ' og | | Churchill and gh, Pei hing to By H KB ATRICK By RICHARD MOWRER The report of the broadcast came crush Germany “from the east, Copyright, ea TN a I limes and foe Copyright, 1341, bY Tha Lhaisnipois mes and The lin a Chungking dispatch which sald icago a, Ine,

leago Dally News. Inc ‘Yanks Knook Qut 10 Ships it was picked up by Chinese ministry of information listeners last

into a corner of Unlike the war in Asia, where Russia is still,

. ' Broadcast Is Official for defeat will not a participant, there are no big factors left to In Fiefy Ruins. : pe dropped into the scales, ex- The broadcast was addressed for

cept the opening of a second front | PEARL HARBOR, Dec. § (U.P) reference to “ Japanese military -and OE of ‘German |—Four of Japan's strong bases in| authorities ip occupied territories morale. — the Marshalls tay Hn ruins today, land thus. “cotilld be considered an = The second front -ought-.to. | Yictims_ along with two of her official militapy Mewpoint sprossd bas out as soon as spring weath- cruisers and more than TI planest to get the .most they can trom |IN8 gpeb the laiki-tuded sealames ther ai superiority to Tokyo with avenging bombs. a Russian wring offensive launched Hom four or mote | where some 35,000 enemy troops "on Berlin. riers struck Into “SHI heart “of the ace an. invading -American foes. & I think it is. likely that the Japanese - mandated voral* and 8 sea-alr bioEkady Sutting thete Mr. Mowrer Germans will capitulate ag soon Saturday—thres day Sutone supplies to a trickle. as it 1s evident that the Russians’ offensive, or the . They're Not Cracking allies’ second front, or both are well under way and They most He did not look for immediate cannot be stopped. withdrawals from Rabaul, New

' ay » ' trans-shipment of supplies. The in Tokyo' 'Massive Invasion Needed i i cre | ran Tay make as deh 8 re,

1. Laboriously bullt enemy de-| ‘Don't let anyone tell you the nes and The Copyright, a Ihe l oe fimes and The ' e alzong points on Watts atoll ( fin ' 2

Japan as a mili- I am to stick out my neck, here goes: Huey und hot bh Kwajalein al BOMBS AGAIN R t. Germany is weakening but I don't think the Rus- | = rgest of the Marshalls miles sian offensive, our effort in Italy and air bombard Way of W otje were turned to smok- : “4 ment of German cities will alone : Sev . ¢ Jonadh CAPE GLOUCESTER 1 be sufficient to bring the Neais | 3 Seventy-two Japanese planes in

ro their knees. It will take 8 | (Continued on Page 3—Column 4)

OCCUPIED EUROPE (NELAL Sonar PR Soros id Lv i ; oF WO JEals more, sugh overwhelming force that jt | TURKEY—Turko-Bulgarian fron-| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

But the greatest price to be wr should move v tier reported closed and under ! ? ery fast, PO! Southwest Pacific, Dec. 9 (U. P)~ exacted of us will be peanuts com- : The collapse of Hitler should | State of military alarm as troops The ninth straight and heaviest air pared to the alternative, which » come in the summer or autumn | mass on both sides of border: raid on the New Britain cosst—a

Nazis Begin Nation-wide ™ some kind of business peace of 1044. Inonu to address Turkish parlia-|1o5.ton attack on the Cape Glou-'

thinly disguised

Roundup in France. home-front disunity, war-weariness, or short-sighted ghall have to launch large-scale amphibious inva-

statesmanship.

87 UNITED PRESS Such a deal would exbose our

deal forced by Mir. Steele Before Japan capitulates, we | ment. - | cester area—was reported today in

‘ Gen. Douglas MacArthur's coms» PACIFIC—U. 8. carrier force wrecks munique amid indications the Japfour Japanese bases in Marshall anese may be easing out of Rabaul.

- sions of the outer islands of the Japanese archinext generation pelago. We shall probably be obliged to send Ameri-

A mounting wave of underground | 5 the certain menace of a vengeful islands, destoys two light cruisers { predatory, geful and can or British armies into China. y : 00 Libérators, Mitch“terrorism” was reported sweeping | pitterly race-conscious oriental empire, obsessed by We shall have to bomb Jap industries and cities | 0d 72 enemy planes; allied a Bight oy Li bombarded the Europe, especially France, | ‘hatred of the west ‘and possessed of military and into helplessness. With luck, the ‘allies should be planes drop 105 tons of bombs)..." 0ucester ares” Tuesday,

authorities re-| economic potentials unprecedented

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ON HOLIDAY SALES

Excise Police os to. Check on

Violators in State.

The state alcoholic beverages commission today notified liquor dealers and tavern operators that sale of alcoholic beverages must cease at 1 a. m. on Christmas day

at hard labor for “espionage” 8C- land not be resumed until 6 a. m.

RUSS SINK NINE NAZI On New Years eve. the sale of

all alcoholic beverages must cease

SHIPS NEAR FINLAND [at 1 a m. Jan. 1, and must not be

MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (U. P).—Rus-|Fesumed before 6 a. m. Jan. 3. attacked three a

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*llaw—"in my opinion the only fair

in world history. able to force Japan into surrender some time in 1946. on Cape Gloucester; Tokyo hints silencing all the enemy ground guns

. ———— ll ot Pi, Gren ea at adjacent Borger. bay, hing ’ villages and the shoreline

; ° hangteh. iu and o 'l ny asi on / S YANKS WITHIN MILE army clears Germans Giving ure rs Hanksed

The raiders brought to 933 tons

from mountains below Rome. N ecessary ! OF ROAD TH 10 ROME ise qui An power 3 2% Ssopyed 4B the cage Mies

ful counter-offensive against Kiev. | (Continued on Page 3—Colamn 2)

—Stimson|s Suicidal Gorman Remnants

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P.).— Being Clear ed From Path.

Europe jnust be invaded and Japan's| ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALhome fleet must be met face to face|GIERS, Dec. 9 (U. P).—Lt.'Gen.| before the United States can feel the war is approaching a finish, but “we have every reason for encouragement and * hope,” Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today. Reviewing the war outlook abroad and at home, Stimson noted that thus far the nation has been un-|today willing to accept a general service

and adequate way to grapple” with the problem of Sunteviling inflation of wages and prices. - He said - militdry huccesses achieved by our forces during the|:

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