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The Riddle Of 1944: Simms Predicts March

‘WE WILL WIN THE "EUROPEAN WAR WITHIN NEXT YEAR’ SAYS CONFIDENT GEN. FISENHOWER

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This is the first of a series of articles by Mr. By C. R. CUNNINGHAM pean wa verviman and woman all the. way Simms forecasting what lies ahead in 1944. . are able to br ing to bear. For while they were never bl 1 T S United Press Staff Correspondent Cron 0" rematest hamlet of our Iwo coun By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS willing partners, they are now afraid to desert Hitler ull, 100, ays ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, " niet to her full duty." . Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor lest they suffer the fate of Italy. I+ Can Be Done Dec. 27.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Smiling and nally genial, Eisenhower gave WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—What 1944 Had we been able to throw the Nazis out and newly appomted commander of the allied QUICK answer most of the questions, but pone will bring, of course, nobody knows. Not vecupy Italy without too much delay, Hitler's satel- WASHINGTON. Dec. 27 (U armies massing for invasion of western dered a few with hie customary gestures of heads 3 4 3 / av i °, y. —Secretary { State py} Aly rig "Ne n ' fon ' "lA even the Big Three who mapped things out lites would have followed Italy s lead. Instead, the oo DT a or . Europe, declared confident hy today {hat rubbing and lean forward with clenched firsts, at Tehran. In war, the outcome depends Nazis made a horrible ame a the . war in Europe can be “we will win the Furopean war in 1911 finally to pound home his points. Tt was the biggest . 3 S > able tha Ss yw the - Co oH a X we nterence here in month 1 : : upon ten thousand imponderables, includ- It is quite concelva at tist nonitie Jeo ended in 1944 provided ad It was in effect a pledge to do his job within a PIO Conference bere in months, with virtually every . Lo he | Tonle ples of - Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary would peoples of the united nations year that Fisenhower gave the Amer NA orrespondent in Aliens present . ing what happens on the home fronts. rather remain under the German boot than have redouble their efforts and Te he Bre He apologized for beg a lew minutes late, then But in this and subsequent articles I shall set their towns and farms turned into battlefields. WOrk in greater unity SETECanONACIM SIRNA Cx el conierenes : Cn iq t x i in Cr pe = . wi , yy walsed the corresponder 1 this ater, say down the guesses of some of the shrewdest observ- As for Turkey, our attitude toward Poland, Jugo- Hull made the statement preparatory to his departure for Britain to take MFO Ie i ents 1 is theater, saying he ers in Washington slavia and some of the other small members of the during his daily news confer over his new post had received the grandest co-operation any coms i : united nations is not reassuring. Her entry would ence anda iris or Ese er i : Co mander ever had in the field. The compliment was , , , ’ : » 1 an prised corre - wenhowet ober) 1 ned words startled the The war in Europe will probably end before next 11 he a turning point, if not the turnin iden ChE a . : pakd sincerely, he added, ana was no eyewash, } & | 8 sporidents, in asmuch as it was correspondents after one of the | the ( Ae i A ill lly begi point, in the war. ! the first time he had discussed Co M Asked the depait- winging quickly to the subject of his new task, ES . bt } oh Ds Soe on an all-out way Yet at a word from Russia she has seen Britain future military operations MR rommander-in-chie! of the Mediterranean apotinend Fiiday by President Roasevelt, Atl pA oon he b mel scale of tie The and America turn a cold shoulder to some of the The comment also was ho theater for a New Years pre I how | Wik Sgmire t kno Kout while the axis seeks tiie countries which not so long: ago we gladly wel. ticeable in that it was virtually We will win the F Hy M mal jobs imrhediately, of course, allies i seek OT tr oi tly that we comed as allies. She has seen London and Wash- a reiteration of a statement swered abrupt ! it we have done here. That is to to avert it—or at least to make jt 50 costly ington extend aid to political factions whose avowed made a few hours earher t } } ‘ ca ogether in such A way will agree to a negotiated peace. ; ) rerthrow all ) i; aqae a few hours earie 1) After the conterence he a [ \ ATR eR OAR Te Ara Turkey will come in, probably in the spring. ~m Is to overthrow allied governments-in-exile. Gen. Dwight D. Fisenhowes uation ad Co een William Philip Simms | ti i d P o qu ation 1 wok 1 unison and go into this : * Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary will drop out, (Continue on age ?—Column b “The only thing needed lop . Me | ,

Rush to War

Americans Going Over Faster Than Tr3ops - Are Being Inducted. WASHINGTON, Dec.

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ATION FACING BIGGEST LABOR

—The nation today received from | official quarters the news that | 4 ' American troops are moving Gloucester and Long Island Reveals 2500 Dads Taken (R | \ IS OF W AR overseas faster than new fight- |

ing men are being inducted and a prediction that German mili-

tary power can be destroyed a few months after the start of a new front in western Europe

Invasions Further Peril Jap Supply Lines.

By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

In Indiana; 200 from Here.

2500 Hoosier thers, 200 from Marion county, have

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134,000 Steel Workers

Quit in Defiance of

a I. D. R. Plea; Eighteen Railroad

Unions Plan Strike Thursday.

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD-| QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 27. | —Strong forces of U. S. marines the

Together with President Roosevelt's announcement that Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower had been named to lead the assault on western Europe, these new devel-

‘been inducted into the armed {forces since-the tapping of the fa- | ther's pool began on Nov. 1, Col. ! Robinson Hitchcock, state draft di-

{swept ashore unopposeed at

WASHINGTON

opments underscored the rising [northwestern tip of New Britain at! pge Robert Milton Jenkins . . . | Fector. reported today. Dec. 27 (U.P) ~The war labor board, seeking tempo of preparations for new |7:45a. m. Sunday and seized beach- killed in South Pacific. | The draft head said that the pro- to hasten settlement of steel workers’ wage demands which caused allied blows against Germany and Ineads on both sides of Cape Glou- | | portion of fathers taken at first was 134,000 workers in that w ar-vital industry te remain idle, agreed Japan. |cester, a special communique an- jSnall but that it wouid increase today to hold a special session at 7 p.m. to act on union demands that Vice President Henry A. Wal- | | until possibly 75 or -80 per cent of any wage increases he made retroactive

{nounced today. lace predicted in a radio address

last night that Germany's power ‘would be destroyed a few months after the opening of a “successfull” second front, provided there. ! were. no “letdowns, no overconfidence” among the allies and that | Germany does not unveil a really | effective secret weapon. And “once the Germans are ont of the way,” he said, the united | nations should make “rapid progress” against the Japanese in the Pacific.

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All-Out Drive

FOR THE NEW YFAR Wallace saw Germany driven into an “imposible position by co-ordinated allied drives—broad scale landings from the west, a full-scale

‘each call would be fathers. The proportion of fathers called {in January will be larger than in| { December and November, | Col. Hitchcock revealed -that the "February draft eall for Indiana is! Honly slightly larger than the Janu. | ary call. January will be the first | month since last summer to register | {a decline for the state in total] (number of men called for service. Policy |

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State draft officials said that the | local draft boards were “well along” | with the reclassification of the 3-A group. The Hoosier boards are following | {a liberal palicy on the deferment | {of fathers for occupational reasons | and the average number of fathers | pulled out of tne 3-A g¢ategory and’

By UNITED PRESS Presider Roosevelt cut short his Christmas holiday to return to the White House today as a general steel strike and an impending walkout on the nation's railroads threatened to create the worst labor crisis since Pearl Harbor. | Vital steel production was paralyzed by the refusal of 134,000 workers in six states to return to work without a | wage agreement to replace the one which expired on Christ[mas eve. The 15 non-operating railroad unions and three

=— (operating unions stood firm RACKET BARED. lon their threat to strike Dec.

Other marines simultaneously oc |cupied Long island, 80 miles west lof Cape Gloucester and 80 miles | east of the big Japanese base of {Madang on the northern shore of |New Guinea. ' The twin invasions, coming only {11 days after elements of the 6th {U. 8. army landed on the south-| {west coast of New Britain, completled the allied control of the south-| | western approaches to Rabaul, 275 | {miles northeast of Cape Gloucester. |

Japs Lose 61 Planes 1

Swarms of Japanese planes | {roared in to attack soen after the, | marines had established beachheadsT {on both sides of a network of air|fields on Cape Gloucester, but pro-| tecting allied fighters shot down

130, if their wage demands are y not mel. Government seizure of the raflroads appeared imminent, and the Président was expected to take diastle action if the steel strike is

First-grader David Born of school 77 got a-head start today in the primary schools’ scrap paper drive which begins Jan. 4. He is the son | of Mr. and id Carl J. Born, 42 N. Kitley ave.

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Russian army offensive from the east and undiminished drives by the British and American armies now pushing their way northward through the mountainous terrain of Italy. The announcement on the rapid movement of American troops to stations abroad was made by the war department in a report warning that now, more than ever before, there must be no letdown in production. Essential requirements in 1944, the report said, will be heavier with emphasis on combat planes, heavy duty trucks and other weapons needed to “meet new and changing demands of the many battlefronts.” The report said that continued large scale movements of troops began to exceed inductihs in July of this year. President Roosevelt said in his Christmas eve message that 3,800,000 American men and womeén were now on foreign soil and that the number would rise to 5,000,000 by next

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Production Shifts

THE WAR DEPARTMENT said at shifts in: production were being made to meet changes in battle requirements and that many of the changes resulted from “all out rather than defensive, warfare.” There was said to be a greater need for combat planes, heavy trucks, signal corps equipmeng and landing mats. The program last month saw production of anti-aircraft weapons down more than 18 per cent from January and levels for small arms ammunition, rifles, machine

_ guns and bayonets also declined.

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{61 of them—36- bombers and 25

{fighters—for a loss of only seven lof their own. A small ‘escort vessel sunk by a {direct bomb hit and the damaging of other craft were the only allied shipping losses for the raids. Geny Douglas MacArthur's special communique indicated that some American casualties were suffered in the landing or in the subsequent enemy air raids, but these losses were regarded as slight.

Meet Slight Opposition

An eyewitness to the landing said the marines ran into only slignt opposftion from enemy troops east of Cape Gloucester who were overwhelmed quickly. Indicating the effectiveness of the allied aerial cover, this observier said 30 to 40 Japanese dive bombers and 40 to 50 fighters staged the| first raid on the American _beach-| heads. Twenty-four fighters and 22 bombers were shot down by allied fighters. £7 During a second attack, the allied fighter screen was almost perfect,

bombers and one escorting fighter. (The Japanese radio indirectly acknowledged that the Americans

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Lt. John: E. Anderson . . . killed in Gilbert islands.

” os 2 Killed x _PFC. ROBERT MILTON JENKINS, who was serving with the ‘marines in the South Pacific, was killed in action in that area recently. ’ He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Jenkins, 724 E. 48th st. and had been overseas since February. In October he had informed his parents that he was préparing for action. Enlisting in the marines Nov. 16, 1942, Pvt. Jenkins came to Indianapolis with his family in 1941 from South Bend. He attended Broad Ripple high school.

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BOY, 15, KILLS BEAR WITH ONE BUCK SHOT

EAST FRANKLIN, Me. Dec. 27 (uy, P.y%-Walking alone in the woods, 15-year-old Cyrus Robbins heard a growl from a bear's den.

Firing the only buckshot he had,

had established beachheads on Cape he bagged the bear; a 250-pounder. Gloucester in a broadcast Sunday, Last year Cyrus, who is descended

when it said Jajanese planes had from a long line of backwoods |sharpshooters, bagged 10-point (Continued on “Page 2—Column 3) rile seed = po = 5 = ai Eyewitness:.

‘But We Do Know This... We Reached Shore Unopposed'

By GEORGE E. JONES ! United Press Staff Correspondent | WITH THE U. 8. MARINES AT lutely unopposed. CAPE GLOUCESTER, New Britain, It was a notable return to action

New Britain fortress but we do know this—we reached shore abso-

Dec. 26.—United States marines—| for the Guadalcanal veterans, who many of them. heroes of the storm-|still had burning memories of the ing of Guadalcanal — swarmed ferocious fight for that beachhead.

today on a wide path blasted out for them by their comrades-in-arms of the American bomber and Bie naval units. They landed on the smashed beach a few minutes after the last bomb and shell had fallen upon the demoralized defenders. Now they are sweeping inland -and spreading out along the coast seeking battie with scattered Japanese forces which yielded this beachhead under

tained bombardments in the memof experienced naval ‘officers, |,

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NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (U. P.).— William J. Dunn of the Columbia Broadcasting System reported in a broadcast from an aliled base in New Guinea today that the invasion of Cape. Gloucester, New Britain island, which he witnessed from the bridge of a troop-carrying destroyer, was one of the most perfectly co-ordinated land, air and naval operations of the Pacific war. Dunn ‘said cruisers opened the bombardment of the beach and were joined by destroyers. : “On 'the beachhead” he “great bursts hie flame wh smoke

said, |

| placed in 1-A averages only between 10 and 15 per cent. Many of this group, of course, are rejected at the induction stations. Draft officials expect that when the reclassification of the 3-A group is completed national draft head-

redefine the regulations for occupational deferment, much stricter. The draft boards will then have! to combat over the 2-A {2-B and 4-} | groups to find 1-A material.

Depends on Plans

The number of fathers called in Indiana next year will depend, of course, upon .the size of the calls fixed by Washington authorities The size of the calls will depend upon casualties and plans made by the general staff. Col. Hitchcock said that no steps had been taken for providing preinduction ' medical = examinatiors, pending the issuance of instructions by national headquarters. The new draft law provides that selective service shell provide pre-induction medical examinations so that men about to be inducted will know whether they are likely to pass the main physical examination.

MINT QUITS MAKING PENNIES OF STEEL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P.). — One wartime annoyance, the steel penny, which has caused almost as loud and bitter complaints

way out this week when the mint ceases coinage of the little nuisance. ‘Mrs. Nellie Tayloe ‘Ross, director, of the mint, warned today, however, that the treasury is not going to

minted. The coins that look like a

will be around until they wear out.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

as the income tax, will start on its.

withdraw the 700,000,000 already |

dime but buy only a penny’s worth |

Schools Begin City- Wide

Collection of Waste Paper

By JOAN HIXON

YANKS POUR DOWN

to Rome. The tide of a bitter battle in the Mt. Sammuoro region of the 5th army front had turned in favor of the Americans, and they now were pressing down the mountainside overlooking San Vittore, six miles southeast of Cassino. Bod Across the Apennine &pine in the sector, Canadian assault

brewn and corrugated paper as well |

up pipers sales at the schools 1s as follows: and 12.

Jan. and 53.

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The schedule for January paper have been violated.

u. S. Finds ‘Brokers’ Exact rt pettled oon.

Big Profit in Advancing Cash to Owners.

Officials sald the brokers paid a

where the redemption regulations Action is pend-

ling against a Texas certifying of-|

[Toonkeeper who appeared in the role] of broker. Another case involved a postmistress who certified cashing of | bonds for her father, a loan company operator,

driatic forces wrested two more city blocks rom the Germans, putting up a “Little Stalingrad” fight in the outskirts of Ortona, while Indian troops captured the village of Villa Grande, two miles to the southwest. The imperials smashéd two tanksupported German columns preparing to counter-attack in the Adri-

Rides Soult Be

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Times Special Writer

atic area, where the fighting blazed |, up along a 12-mile front inland,

{to Orsogna. The Canadians moved in tanks battle area is no mere mashie shot./ish boat named Cuida de Ceuta,

to batter down strong points in|Today you have to use every club, English

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HEADQUARTERS, BILLINGS GENERAL HOSPITAL. To The Indianapolis Times, the Camp and Hospital committee of the American Red Cross, to all those who so generously cone ‘tributed to The Times Christmas Fund, and to.every one of the citizens of Indianapolis whose untiring efforts have made the holiday season a happy one for the patients in Billings General hospital, the entire staff expresses its deep appreciation and wishes you and an of yours a prosperpus and healthy new year, : =H, L. DALE, Commanding.

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A wartime Mediterranean trip from| |Spanish Morocco to the Italian]

in the transportation bag, and then] whittle out a few for yourself. Loaded down!

visas, permits, di-| rectives and an! assortment of scribbled notes] , from {friends who! can help send you { forward, you| y, cover a distance; "greater than] Henry J, Taylor Kansas City

would have been pron, New York'in

NAPLES, Dec. 27 (By Wireless) .— |

with visas, exit go th Bend jeep—by all those, and

nd Jeep and

Neapolitan Donkey to Naples

the olden days of detours, washed- | out bridges, muddy roads and wrong, {turns past the red schoolhouse.

automobile, Gibralterian

'cycle-sidecar, American airplane, Algerian bus, an hospitable gen|eral's converted bomber, an Italian staff car, Neapolitan dopkeys andj

{shedding my belongings as I went, {I reached the front lines by the |best hitch-hikiiig route I could find {from the Tangerian tip of Spanish |Africa. So here's what happened on {the way: ° | The Spanish perchant : marine {has definite’ limits. of luxyry, and [bi

| By Tangerian brougham, a Span. |

BUFFALO, Dec. 27 (U, P.)— The work stoppage in the steel industry spread to Buffalo today when Republic Steel Corp. re-

Thousands of enthusiastic Indianapolis primary school children! WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (U. P) quarters will find it necessary to launched a city-wide waste paper collection campaign today —The U. 8. secret service is taking potted that approximately 500 bar | Beginning Jan. 4, every city school child with the help of the vigorous steps to smash a new rack-| ™H workers had entered the making thom P.-T. A. and the salyage committee, will carry papers in coaster Wagons, et, involving self-styled brokers en- firm's Park Avenue plant but re|trucks. station wagons and in his arms to school once each month gaged in a lucrative trade in pre-| fused to work. until the Jend of the school year. The campaign promises to net an mature redemptions of war bonds, | unprecedented amount of valuable jt was disclosed today. | The steel workers, with no back

1[to-work order from union offictals,

as newspapers and magazines average of $15 fer $1885 bonds ignored the President's appeal for Every person in Indianapolis and |whose owners seek To cash them | uninterrupted production” made APPENINE SLOPES the county will be part of the drive. |i before expiration of the ncces- before he left his Hyde Park home Under he P.-T. A. plan, submitted gq, , 60-day wailing period. A treas-|lest night. He promised the workby Mrs. alter Caley, chairman of ry “regulation Tequinng bond own- ¢I8 that any wage adjustment the war service committee, each ,.o appear personally before a reached in new contracts would: be Canadians Smash German school distriet will be divided In .opyifving officer is helping beat | retroactive to midnight Dec. 24 sub districts, and children, under, racket. but forgeries and al-|When the contracts governing 350,000 Tanks at Ortona. | the supervision of mothers, will teration of addresses permit come | M embers of the C. 1. O's United gather papers and bring them to a of the traffic to continue, [Steel Workers union expired. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al-{focal point. On the designated day, Secret Service Chief Frank J | The number of strikers was exgiers, Dec. 27 (U. 'P).—American [07 4th S00 the i ho Wilson said there wis nothing td] [Peed fo $13W 3s adilarial shills troops have captured two more newspapers, magazines, and other 'ndicate the premature redemption! orkers took Saturday and Sunday strategic Italian heights and today types of paper, and will be taken Practice was Miidcspread BS ith ann as a regular Chri:'mas holiday, were reported pouring down the |! school. . esumated 2 or oo by he cna | ind the full effects of the strike Apennine slopes toward the Cas- RS Nation ao owners. were not spparent Po had sino plain in pursuit of German extra gas would be available for | The government has instituted 214 Plants AXYec forces falling back along the road schpdl tricks to be used in picking prosecution against several cases| Forty-seven plants in Ohio, Penn

sylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, Ine |diana and New York were affected by the work stoppages. All but

Jan. 4.—Schools 46, 47, 48, 49, 30. ficer who cashed bonds for a sa-|6500 of the 93,000 workers involved

were covered by contracts’ which expired at midnight Friday. The {exceptions were the workers at the | Midland, Pa. plant of the Crucible | Steel Co., whose contract does mot’ expire until mid-January. They walked off {.e job eally today in what was regarded as a sympathy strike. The 350,000 workers who were covered by the old contract were | employed in 214 plants, including [those of the Republic Steel Corp. and the Johes-Laughlin Steel Corp., ‘are covered by contracts which do - not expire until next month. The first shifts returning to work {after the holiday were met at most plants by union shop stewards and told to go home. In promising the steel workers that the new contract would be retroactive, the President's telegram to the union and to officials of the major steel companies appeared to preclude the granting of the work ers’ demands for a 17-cents-ane

wage adjustments in’ ney agree ments drafted to replace’ expiring Sonica = conform to the sta

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