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Nevel region of White Russia signifies the beginning of ghifting strength from one endangered point to another. the third winter campaign the Germans have been obliged = The pressure will be just as great in the Leningrad area to undergo in Russia, and it finds them in a far more as in White Russia, the Kiey sector, the Dnieper bend, dangerous strategic position than before, 1. TT or along the n ngrth shore of the Black sea. This campaign promisés to exceed the others in » German counter-strokes comparable to the one which scope and in its demands on the human and material we- has just been beaten down west of Kiev appear improbable. sources of the opposing armies. Unless all signs fail, there The Germans do not have the reserve strength to expend will be few if any dormant sectors. on such costly efforts, which weaken their offensive The Germans, now entirdly on the defensive, will ability without attaining anything decisive.
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THE HOLIDAYS
GOP Members Leave After; 350-Day Session in Optimistic Mood.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—After 3350 days of political rebellion, the first session of the. 78th congress $e will adjourn tomorrow having sub-| stantially repudiated administration leadership on domestic issues. Legislators will have a three weeks holiday with the voters back| §
home. The second session will con- | vene Jan. 10 to continue the domestic front battle into the presidential election year. President Roosevelt,
likewise, is. taking a holiday to bel Ning watchman Albert Evans. » . “T started fueing to kill” BULEETIN
F.D. R. WARNS OF SEIZURE IN RAIL WALKOUT
President Says Government
Stands Ready to Take Over Properties.
at his Hyde Park estate for Christ- . aie WASHINGTON, Dee. 20 (U. Pr). mas. , i ~The house interstate commerce
The congress adjourning tomor- ittee today voted tentativel row was elected on Nov. 5, 1042. 1ts| |A/ h 66, Sh 9 Th committee today natively successor will be elected next No- afc man, Bole ugs to strip Stabilization Director Fred vember. «= Republicans insist and ~M. Vinson of all authority ever | some others agree that the next A d Ce } Thi di Offi railroad wages, bub Jost poned final congress will be Republican, at least n ap ures ra In JC@| action ell Yat: x eckson in the house and possibly in the FI i : sume 4a 1 oii es : senate. One burglar was shot to death, a second was wounded seriously and President ie Eh " a i pr ne G. o. » "Oplimistie : hind wes Saplred early loday by. Albert Evans; 66-year-old night poo 0 ation ub. rall-vage There also 15 strong support for| Mr. Evans, an expert sharpshooter of world war T in France, was on " EAE ST J tenis ucts J
duty as watchman at the C. D. Kenny Grocery Co., 1017 E. 19th st. velt : the belief that unless Mr. Rooseve ly after midnight when he heard a noise. Looking through a glass| ™® overtime proposal to boost
1s a fourth-term candidate there is| oiition he saw three men rifting earnings.
not much chance of the White drawers in the bookkeeping office. py ay EERIING House remaining Democratic.] “Come out with your hands up,” Times Spveial Welup Whether Mr. Roosevelt himself, shouted Mr. Evans from an’ adjoin-
te here. Republican leaders, for the first time ‘since 1928, sincerely | the office door toward the main exit of their wage issues, under a warnbelieve that they will win the presi-| 0 the street. ing from President Roosevelt that Set cy next year regardless of the Five Shots Fired ’ ioni the vernment stands ready to to a A a “When one of them reached for Chiange in Yea! a Raton seize teh properties if necessary
campaign oratory. : There has been no dispute in the Siarted_ dring to > il the _watch- For March The seizure threat was made in 78th congress comparable for bit- : . ; the course of a four-hour Sunday
terness and proionged debate with| He fired five shots in rapid suc-| wv, qu NGTON, Dec. 20 (U. P).|afterncon discussion between the.
that which blazed from February [cession and when the smoke cleared President and 20-odd spokesmen for into mid-summer of 1937 over Mr. |One man was lying dead in the door- New and more stringent meth- the railroads and their operating Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the|Way and there was a trail of blood ods of determining quotas of ra-|.ypioyees. United States supreme court. But|through the doorway and as far astioned foods for such cstablish-| The operating employees, by over-
the record shows that congress and | De could see down the street. ments as hotels and restaurants| Whelming vote, have authorized a especially the house is on the war-| Mr. Evans grabbed the nearest were announced by the OPA today |strike, which their officers have set path against the New Deal. - telephone and called police. -|In a move presaging larger supplies|to begin at 6 a, m. Dec. 30. The Postponed Vote While looking around the office, of meat and processed foods for|non-operating railway employees he caught the third man hiding be- those who dine at home. _ |alsa’ have voted in favor of a strike, Mr. Roosevelt's spokesmen were hind a door. Price Chief Chester Bowles said|but their officers have set no date able to postpone a vote which would | The body of the dead man was the new program would go into|pending congressional action on a} have outlawed food subsidy pay- effect March 1 and would add to|resolution which would override ments. He has blocked, so far, re-| (Continued on “Page 5—Column 7) | the supply of foods for household-|wage decisions of Fred M. Vinson, sort to a general sales tax for reve- rr Ye ,em€,—, TT ers hy trimming down on the ra-|director of economic stabilization, nue for anti-inflation purposes, But Hoosier Heros— “|tions of soda fountains, rondside|] Judge Vinson, battling to uphold
his treasury’s tax plans have been stands, night clubs and similar
rejected. On all but actual war 2 ; establishments, questions, the administration usu- WILLIAM J ’ KEENEY . At the present time, food quotas ally has been licked this year. ’
for commercial and institutional] gi Br psa mages be 11) 1) OVER BURMA enim et” scmnni | AIRSTRIP AT RAWE
early this year voted against the the total number of customers,
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administration to extend the life| : '| whether they buy, food ‘and refresh- WITHIN Y ANKS! GR ASP : of the Dies committee, to provide 5. ments, or refreshments alone—but tenor meas. TT00D TrANSDOF Pilot Was, sy or rpes Saruotas wil be basa." JeitY exseuive, dts etsy Lh Stationied on India, [Om 20 served Invasion Beachheads Are’ racketeering bill By # Yolo of 710- Killed ‘WasmInGTON, Dec. 20 0. 7,| Widened by Troops.
to-107. SECOND LT. WILLIAM J. |—A new foray by a German sub- By BRYDON C. TAVES The administration gained a vic-| KEENEY, troop transport pilot |marine into the Gulf of Mexico was United Press Staff Correspondent tory, but no prestige by defeating] stationed in India since last July, |revealed today when the navy an- ADVANCED ALLIED HEADthe Ruml pay-as-you-go tax plan| was killed in action over Burma |nounced that a medium-sized United :
by a margin of four votes. Had any| Dec. 10. States merchant marine vessel was QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 20. cabinet officer other than Secretary] Word of his death was received {torpedoed and sunk there early in|(U, P).—American troops, widening of State Cordell Hull proposed ex-| yesterday by his parents, Mr. and | December, ? their invasion beachheads on both| tension of authority to negotiate| Mrs. Edward L. Verbraken, 604 E. ter eee sides of the Japanese bastion of trade treaties, the authority prob-| Kessler blvd. + LOCAL TEMPERATURES |p.yaul, are approaching the airtly would Jaave Seen denied, As A native of Indianapolis and a | $a. m eres 26. 10a. m.....25 |gqrip four miles east of New Britwas congress voted a two-year ex-| graduate of Shortridge highschool, | 78. m..... 24 1la.m..... 28 |ain’s Arawe peninsula and have Sam... 24 12 (Noem).. 32. [forced the Torokina river in (Continued on Page 5—Column 8) (Continued on Page S—Column ¢) dam evita 28 1p.m.....3 |grength on Bougainville, it was an-
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The invasion of Western Europe is inevitable. 1litler ©f 8 holding nature, tieing down 20 or more German-divi-military trouble Marshal Erwin Rommel, to prepare for it.
has sent in his most trusted
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I'o meet the The Germans are having plenty of trouble holding off
Lack Of Reserves Is Germany's No. 1 Weakness In Russia
THE PRINCIPAL Nazi weakness is in reserves. In the In addition, a major allied blow in the Balkans is first place, Hitler has nearly scraped the bottom of the barrel for effective combat troops. the allied promise-of assault from the west and south as
highly probable. The Tehran promise of blows from the south would have meant nothing new if it had been confined to the present campaign in Italy, which is partly
shooter, sions in the peninsula,
huge allied army which is being massed in England will the guerrilla army of Gen. Tito. When the Balkan explo-
require not only more manpower than is now on guard in sion comes with a full seale allied invasion, possibly with western Europe, but all the airplanes and mobile equip- the support of Turkey, Hitler's resources will be stretched 2
ment that can be nustered,
WASHINGTON, Dec.” 20. —The|
; almos office, . . . : SAL Wit agin 1 matter ua os es of obeying his command, railroads and their employes are P all three men started running out | working today toward a compromise
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R. C. A. Employees Give ” $3000 fo Clothe-A-Child| 3 ARY HEADS FOR
ing. The children will get warm coats and underwear, sturdy shoes
was made with the full co-opera-tion of local B1048, international 2401. A u Ping oe A | THE MILE-O-DIMES started
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(List of donors, Page 5)
By HELEN RUEGAMER BEFORE THE WAR Fred Paine
rode the range on his eattle ranch Lawyer - Politician Leads
near Antonito, Colo. | . ' Tn December, 1041. he became | COUP Upsetting President
Pvt. Paine and exchanged his cowboy boots for G. L shoes,
weeks spent in crossing the Owen Stanley mountains on foot, he was greeted by Jap machine gun slugs,
Owen Stanley mountains in New [py Guinea, spent a month in hand-to-hand combat with the Japs
near Buna, and now Is In his 10th “The new, government, which has month at Billings general hospital the sympathy of a majority of the ‘De 1st six months. In some places, “ther year-ih order 1s get’ favars recovering from wounds, g 1 r my. Ww pg He'll be there at Christmas— nation and the army, will ve beet heen ‘evacuated to make space for As usually reliable soufes said’ the international situation, support- an unnamed G Meinl had another one of the nation’s fight- |y,.0 eo united nations in their flight the thousands of troops, while thei A" UnGam erman official h the : ig 8.10 the huge concentration of equipment, aid Berlin Is convinced its
Offensive From Leningrad’ Penaranda. To Black Sea, : BULLETIN LONDON, Dec. 20 (U. P.).
WASHINGTON Dec. «The revolution in portedly led by Victor Paz ¥stensoro, head of revolutionary movemenl—evoked |
radio:
Estensoro Leads. Revolt mendous convoys have been piling| ning the war but were confident
ing men whose morale can be |. oie the axis.”
strengthened through The Indianapolis Times Christmas Fund and ‘War Hospitals campalgn.
Natives of New Guinea were
amazed when they heard of the The
plan. For white men to cross the mountains on -foot was an im-
But the hardened infantrymen,
carrying full field packs of 60-65 been effected.
pounds, set forth. For five weeks they, trudged up and down the
ohceaer pans SOVIETS UNLEASH WINTER FURY; . | ARMY SEIZES BOLIVIA CONTRO
| deep concern among officials to- aa Tm ah | day although they guardedly refrained from direct comment, § ’ Lh 2 i Bolivia Is important to the | Yi | we united nations since. her moun- 2 FRONT GAINS 81 ring >oard for a drive 4 tal mines produce much of the against the Bug river fortifi-
| tin needed for war purposes. Any- | cations and Rumania bey aid { thing which might disturb con- | The erumpling of. the Fl ae +o German
ditions there would be of con-
cern to the United Stat Soin Ss n nies, lized by the announced Sracubtion LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 20 (U. P). Vichy. Claims Eisenhower ot kXnherson on the west bank of ~The progally Bolivian government the Dnieper coincided with 8 made
of Presidefit Enrique Penaranda was In London: U. S. Troo 4 overthrown today in a bloody four : ’. p sive Russian onslaught in the Nevel 5 hour revolution of young Natlonal- Arrivals Revealed. sector at the opposite end of the istic army officers who announced : line which had erashed through a at once that they would continue] LONDON, Dee. 20 (U, P,) ~Prep-|the Nazis’ “iron wall” before the 3 : : to support the united nations In|arations for the opening of a sec- Baltic states, Pyl, Fred Paine . . . after five |, i rion against the axis. ond front in western Europe were
Indicating that the overthrow of the Penaranda government Bolivia's relations with the united 2 © nations unchanged, Sine en yalked across th eV re lai Since then he wa ac Ye | revolutionary command proclaimed in Britain, Source sald today that the Na
The spark plug of the revolution |, wohuious to the most casual dock-| Jalan fronts and prevent a suewas 36-year-old Victor Paz Esten-|g4e observer”) cessful allied invasion from the soro, lawyer and politician whe, he- = 5 came chairman of the committee Rallways Move Troops allied powers to abandon their WHEN PVT. PAINE landed In [which took over from Penaranda.| Gen. Henrl Honore Giraud, com-| unconditional surrender demand. New Guinea in April, 1942, he |The outgoing government signed a 2 was put to work building a road |pact with «the united nations Jast over the Owen Stanley moun- May and declared war agdinst the tains, Progress was slow. After [axis two weeks ago. a few weeks the road-buildingg (A British broadcast gi } ! 8 st quoting ad-{y . was abandoned and pL: Panes vices from Bolivia said Penarandal, G. Alexander, allied commander which the Soviets have predicted infantry division was ordered 0 |, 4 heen arrested, along with two set out on foot. cabinet ministers and a number of army officers.) commander rattle of machinegun fire : | Nazis Admit Evacuation Rvaloned the city at 3s Mu and 8 ould be disclosed that British! Berlin broadcast a dispatch of ense radio announced that a revo-| ..iiwavs r di -|the official DNB news hich ssible feat, they said. X i Aa ra ys were engaged in the move n agency w POS lution directed by Nationalist lead-|, ont of troops, equipment and sup-|said the Germans had evacuated ers and young army officials bad|plies to base points for the invasion|Kherson, adding:
| the national |
to the breaking point.
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KHERSON, HUGE | UKRAINE BASE
Threatened " Great New
20 (U.P). Bolivia--re-
—Germany acknowledged today the loss of Kherson, key hase anchoring the southern end ofthe broken Dnieper river defense line, which gives dhe Russian army a prime
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{positions on the Black sea assignal«
reported in full swing today and : 2 jeft| Adio Vichy said Gen, Dwight D, By ELEANOR PACKARD x Eisenhower, whom Washington dis- United Press Stat Correspondent patches have predicted will com-| ANKARA, Dec. 20.<~Informsmand invasion forces, has arrived| tion credited to a high German
the central (A CBR broadcast said tre-| had abandoned all hope of winAmerican troops into Britain for| of their ability to hold out anit sald, whole English villages have| “ble peace terms.
ldhding barges, tanks and planes] mies ean hold the eastern and
west long enough to persuade the
mander of the French army of liberation, also will come to Eng- : land from Algiers shortly, the Nazl-| The great Russian victories ape controlled Vichy station said. It peared to mark the start of the asserted that Gen. Sir Harold R.| Russian army's winter offensive
in Italy and: deputy Mediterranean will, in concert with allied blows ° commander, would succeed Eisen-|from wgst and south, prodiice the a hower as supreme Mediterranean defeat of Germany,
The London Daily Mail said it now |
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of western Europe, “It remains to be seen what the
A proclamation signed by Gen.| The movement of troops and war ultimate intentions of the Clerman - Penaranda, who was elected presl-|supplies has taken precedence over/command are with regard to the
i trails. They walked A mountain tra y dent on March 10, 1940, was broad-|the transportation of mall, thelevacuation of this town, which has
by day and tried to sleep at night, The nights were cool and every
cast, it said: «I have resigned the presidency| German preparations to parry the| enemy.”
ay tom 4pm tol0pmn in @bedience to the ple and the army, which is resolved) peared entering an advanced stage|/shadowed by an earlier Berlin |
“You could set your watch, by
Daily Mail said. been carried out unnoticed by Sta
will of the peo-|invasion of western Europe also ap-| The fall of the town was fore
to remove me from the leadership of with a carefully-worded DNB ‘dis-|acknowledgement that the Gers be the nation.” _
patch’ tacitly confirming recent Swedish reports that Marshal Erwin Rommel will direct the defense of
By WILLIAM CRABB
THE EMPLOYEES of R. C. A.—union members and salaried em-
ployees alike—pitched more than $3000 into a Clothe-A-Child fund today, and because they did 114 needy children will be supplied with Wins Toughest Battle’ at
warm winter clothing tomorrow night.
Their collection was the largest so far In the 14th annual Times | San Pietro.
Adolf Hitler's citadel.
PLAINS BEFORE ROME 55" 2
Clothe-A-Child campaign,
A committee of more than 50 | been certified by the Christmas United Pn O donk workers will come to Clothe-A- a Sag ! : office of the council of social | rip HEADQUARTERS, Al-lin
office and take the youngrs to the store to buy the cloth-
and serviceal iceable trousers and
By C. R. CUNNINGHAM
agencies. e council examines (giers, Dee. 20. — American troops each case and registers it so that struck down the Liri valley - of lee’ Clothe-A-Child will not duplicate |the plains before Rome today, ad<|earious = = the work of sme other agency. |vancing two miles after capturing ear ous. — ri Mrs. Jean Hamilton, Christmas |San Pietro in their toughest fight- eh te t and. the C.A. collection was their secretary, has urged all groups ing since Salerno and laying siege! siashi nto. th furnishing Christmas baskets of (to the mountain village of San! northern rim
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The R. second plant-wide project and | op "yon co needy familfes to register with the souneil, MA-