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By EDWARD P. MORGAN The Indiangpolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

LONDON, Dec. 13.—London is displaying the keenest interest today in the latest “Balkan crisis,” with Bul-

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It is naturally impossible to obtain a clear picture of what is really going on in Sofia and its sister capitals, but Qispatches indicate that the situation may be approaching

the explosive stage.

London's newspapers today almost unanimously play up the growing unrest in the Balkans. A London Daily Telegraph headline, for example, reads: “Threat of Civil

THE BOMBARDMENT of Sofia's railway yards, Fri-

day, by American Liberators

undoubtedly brought home

- graphically to the Bulgarians the Tact that their nation has been selected as the bull's eye in the current allied

strategy of shattering Hitler’

s Balkan bulwark.

However, even though there is more and more hombing to come, and even though Secretary of State Cordell Hull has pointedly warned Bulgaria, Rumania and Hun=

vasion To Knock Out Bulgaria

ary that the axis is now going down to “terrible defeat,” these measures, coupled with Russian propaganda and military pressure from the East, can be calculated to have only a softening eflect on Balkan morale, ; It is recalled here that Italy did not capitulate until its mainland was invaded. Tlie same circumstances will . very likely prevail in Bulgaria, which, today's lLondoa Times poinfs out in its leading editorial, will not be given (Continued on Page 5 ~Column 1)

BATTLE BREWS ON AR RIGHTS

U. S. Now Holds Blue Chips For Gaining Control of Trade Routes.

vital post-war problem——the establishment of policies which will determine this country’s role in peacetime commercial aviation development throughout the world.)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer Y WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—~The drums are beginning to roll for an intense and significant battle to be fought out here and in foreign capitals in months to come—the struggle for control of rich air trade routes in the dynamic post-war era of aviation. . Out of a blur of taik about “freedom of the air,” “right of transit,” “innocent passage,” and the ‘like, there are emerging the first broad patterns from which will come policy decisions to pace the march of this country in its affairs abroad for generations to come.

Read the first of a series of articles on army air transport by Max Cook, Scripps-Howard avia.

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| commerce, An era of U. 8; maritime” glory came out of their speed. But America let its merchant

we went into the present war, U. 8. bottoms carried only 30 per cent of all our foreign trade, Aviation men warn: It must not happen again. j Most big U. 8. airline operators know that in the world of tomorrow | there must be both give and take

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Hoosier Heroes—

KILLED IN PACIFIC

Dies of Injuries Received in

IN PEACE TIE,

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Senate Candidate

CAPEHART BIDS FOR 0.0 VOTE

First of Party to Enter Race For Nomination at State Convention.

By EARL RICHERT

Homer E. Capehart, Indianapolis manufacturer and seventh district G. O. P. chairman, today formally

notified Hoosier Republicans that he expects to seek the party's 0. 8: senatorial nomination at the state convention next summer,

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COLD 1S EXPECTED

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Great’ Lakes. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

the ing being 12 degrees at 11 a, m. -- The weather bureau

morrow with the lowest temperature

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hospital stay. The latest is a

SICILY, GREETS

5th Army Chief Surprised As Chief Executive Awards Him Medal.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (U, P.). —President Roosevelt has visited Sicily, reviewed veterans of the 8icilian campaign, and personally pinned the distinguished service cross on Lt, Gen. Mark W. Clark and five other officers of the U. 8S. 5th army ranging down to first lieutenants, for heroism in Italy. This trip last week apparently took the President within about 225 miles of the actual front in Italy. Among those who were at the airfield at Castelvetrano when the President’s big transport plane arrived was Lt. Gen, George S. Patton, commander of the 7th army, who has been the center of a controversy created by revelation that he slapped a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital,

White House Gives Details

These latest disclosures about Mr, Roosevelt's travels on his way back from Tehran and Cairo were cons tained in a dispatch released by the White House, The dispatch did not refer to the Patton slapping incident, but it sald that Patton greeted the Presi dent and, aftér the ceremonies, rode with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. Clark in the presidential to an. officers club. It conthat Pat still Is in command of the Tth army, which has (Continued on Page 5—~Column §)

| War Holiday

Stout Hospital Could Be Lonesome Place On Christmas.

THE “LONESOMEST" place in the world at Christmas is likely to be Stout field base hospital. At least, that's the way the sol-dier-patients will look at it, Ma}. Rankin C. Blount, base surgeon, For that reason the major is

away some of that lonesomeness with a Christmas party and gifts for each serviceman. Maj. Blount is constantly devising ways to keep his patients busy and satisfied during their

{here and there is no danger of any 1 this winter, Harry A. Rogers, execu-

| Mcintyre Dead

Marvin H. Mcintyre

SERVED F. D. R. AS SECRETARY.

Long lliness Precedes Death Of Personal Aid to

~ President.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (U. P). ~Marvin H. Mcintyre, one of President Roosevelt's closest frineds and a member of the White House secretariat since 1032, died early today. * McIntyre, 65 years old, died at) the home of his daughter, Mrs. | Pred Warren, after the recurrence of an old Uliness, He had not been in his office for several weeks. service with. the President dated back to the last . Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid in 1020 for the vice

F. D. R. Expresses Regrets Mr. Roosevelt, en route home from his Middle East conferences, was advised immediatély of MeIntyre’s death and sent back this

message: “Another faithful servant is lost to public service in the death of Marvin McIntyre. Despite the handicap of frail health in recent years which would have defeated a less valiant spirit, he could not be persuaded by any consideration of self-interest to relax his devotion to the heavy and important duties

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NO GOAL SHORTAGE ANTICIPATED HERE

Report There Is No Danger .0f Unheated Homes. The coal situation is “easing up” one being unable to heat his home tive secrétary of the Indianapolis Coal Merchants association, ' said

today. . . He said that with Great Lakes

5th ARMY'S

GUNS SMASH NAZIS DRIVE

German Reserve Units Wilt Under Artillery Before Counter-Push Can Be Launchéd

South of Filignano.

By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Saft Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. 13.—Heavy American field guns have blasted a German attempt to . muster strength for a counter-attack designed to drive the 5th army from mountains north of Mignano gap and the main road to Rome, official reports disclosed today. : Massed fire from 155-millimeter “Long Tom” rifles and howitzers and 105-milimeter field pieces shattered the German concentration and dispersed its reinforcements before the assault could get under way southwest of Filignano, ' Only 24 hours before, a German attack was repulsed by a determined American stand in the Mt. Bammucro heights just north of Mig-

nano. The latest effort betrayed Ger pan concern over & possible flanking thrust by American forces from ; the 3000-foot mountains toward

Northwest of Miignano, other American forces cut up a strong German patrol thrust apparently intended as a diversion. On the Adriatic end of the Italian front, Canadian troops of the Brit-

LONDON, Dec. 13 (U. P)o= Marshal * Erwin Rommel, the erstwhile “Desert Fox” whom the allies chased out of Afriea, has been placed In charge of the de fense of Europe against allied invasion no matier from what

Jutland,

ish 8th army captured heights commanding the town of Ortona, threatening to collapse German defenses on a 15-mile front running inland from the Adriatic to the 8000-foot Malella mountains. Soggy weather had closed down again on the entire Itallan front, official reports showed, and, com-

bined with stiff German resistance, slowed the fighting. (The Morocco radio, heard In London, said Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery had launched a gen~ - eral offensive toward Pescara and Chieti, eight to 12 miles beyond his army's present front line in Italy.)

Yankees Bomb Reich Again, - Lash Amsterdam Airdrome

LONDON, Dec. 13 (U. P) .—American heavy bombers raided North west Giermany for the second time in three days today and Marauder mediums attacked the Schipol airdrome at Amsterdam, putting the 8th alr force back on a full schedule after a lengthy lull enforced by bad weather. ? $ : The daylight raids by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Ea night sortie over Germany by plys

ker's planes followed a :

.lwood Mosquito bombers of the|Spitfire fighters escorted the Ma-

Royal Air Force, the third in three suder medium bombers in the ate nights. J i The four-motored bombers. were |K a the main Amsterdam - accompanied by fighters again to- . : : day, as was the fieet of Plying| Observers on the southeast coast Fortresses and Liberators which of England at midafternoon saw & carried out oné of the heaviest day- [good sized force of allied planes light raids of the war Saturday on (flying eastward, their vapor trails Emden in which the Nazis lost 138 (ine the haze marking a course planes. vk: toward Boulogne on the French R. A. F, Dominion and allied shore. . :

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Russ Regain Initiative at Kiev:

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we Battle Costs Nazis 1000 Tanks ’

MOSCOW. Dec. 13 (U, P).~The Russian army has regained

CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (U, P.) ~The Young Republicans National federation urged congress to enact legislation enabling servicemen ' and women to vote in the 1944 election.

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Fund Nears $ 5000 Mark; Still Lags on Clothing Needs

{which cost the Nazis more than 1000

initiative in the Kiev salient, not ohly stopping massed German but recovering some lost ground, after a crucial batflé of nearly a

Suddenly reversing the eastward trend of fighting the Russians charged