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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 153
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1944
THE HOME FRONT.
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Demobilization, Reconversion, Tax Plans Open Post-War Door
The war is by no means over, but a series of important domestic developments today reflected confidence of national leaders that one phase of it—the fighting ‘against Germany—is drawing toward a close.
These developments included ; so “8. 1... The war department
disclosed a plan for partial :
~ and orderly demobilization” of the army from its present strength when Germany is defeated. The war department empliasized, however, that the war against Japan will still be going strong and that “millions of fighting men” will
be sent immediately to the lapses.
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- Tomorrow’s Job—
- C.E.D. TAX PLAN . CALLS FOR EXTRA
10,000,
0 GAS BOOKS RENEWAL SET
“Registration to Start at Selected Schools . Sept. 18.
Pacific when Germany col-
- 2. The White House anonunced that 17 food items will become ration free in one batch Sept. 17.
3. The war production
board, with army and navy
* approval, made public “drastic” plans for large scale
resumption of civilian manufacture upon the defeat of ‘Germany. Victory in Europe, it was estimated, will result in a cutback in war production of at least 40 per cent,
- 4, The committee for economic development revealed a propesed federal tax plan designed to provide 10,000,000
more jobs after the war.
000 JOBS
Post-war Proposal Seeks to: Free Risk Capital.
(Editorial Page 12)
By WALKER STONE . Seripps-Howard Stall Writer
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. =< Ten
“A” coupon gasoline books will | ar be renewed for local motorists at! selected public schools on Sept. 18, 19 and 20. Alex LI. Taggart, county |
_, « rationing administrator, announced jon Economic Development, a group today. jo
Announcement of the list of | Schools at which applications will | be received will be made wi next week after been completed with school ities, he said. : The present “A” coupons on midnight Sept. 21. The schools to be used for the | receiving of applications will be | Spch. Luill 3M a 70 P, m. on! each of the three days of regis- | tration.
Suton
Annliration farms
PIP vaNTES 4 WR
at each of the selected school build ings. They may be filled out by the applicant at the school. A limited supply of the application forms is now on hand at the various ) boards jn the! county. They will be available to’
+ 8ll persons wanting them’ as 100% 49 per cent above the level of 1940,
as the supply lasts. 4 The applicant must present the] -aigned back cover of his present * “A” book along with his Appheation in! order to get a new book. | Any applicant: nol Raving the! back cover of hig “A” book musti make application for renewal at| his local ration board, submitting with his application his. certificate | E —of registration card from the state automobile license bureau. Advice on Mailing - Mr. Taggart say that applicants. would gst quitker action by ‘pre-! senting their applications at, the schools ‘ than by mailing them in to local ration boards because the hoards are staffed to handle only a limited amount of mail He said the period for taking renewal applications had been delayed until’. Sept. 18-20 because supplies
He expects to receive the Bew “A” books by Sept. 15. He pointed out that it will not be necessary for the owner of an automobile to present his applica(tion in person, It may be presented “by a member of his family or anyone else as long as it is properly
"signed back cover of the old “A” book: . Plant transportation committees
‘the rationing chief said.”
1500 WARPLANES STRIKE
LONDON, Sept. 6 (U. P.).—Same 1500 American warplanes struck from Britain and Italy today at harried German transport on broad arc stretching across the Low ‘Countries, western Sermany and tie Balkans, z
assumption that only if ad | prosperous th | level of employment
Forms Available Now Fr, will Bb oo hand fi ls on the corporasie earnings
million more jobs after the war than Americans had in the best prewar year is both the purpose and! ithe premise of a federal tax plan’ !unfolded today by the Committee
businessmen who have been studying the problem for a year jand a half. ped “A Post-war Federal Tax Plan for High Employment,” C, E D. proposal starts win {Be 5
with a high can we hope to carry the heavy burden of national !debt and meet the greatly enlarged running expenses of our government, The plan's basic idea is to strike down those taxes ‘which re-job-making--and to that end jot elimination of double
"America
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of risk capital Providing 55,000,000 jobs in private enterprise is the first objective.
'C. E. D. estimates that the national income would $140,000,000,000—
i lushest of our pre-war years,
Anybody Need A Scabbard?
Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.— : The office of surplus property announced today that it is ready to sell as surplus, 100.000 bolo scabbards left over from world war 1. No mention is made of what became of the bolos—defined by Webster as a “long, singleedged knife”—but. the OSP adds that “the scabbard will fit a variety of hunting knives and should be of interest to Boy Scouts, hunters, campers and oth : No to
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|SEES ‘AMAZING’
RECONVERSION
Krug Says Civilian Goods. To Pass ’39 Peak After
Germany Falls. WASHINGTON, Sept. § (U. PJ).
would return to “a 1939-plus level” after the defeat of Germany and he said the country would be “amazed” at the speed with which consumer goods are turned out. “It is our opinion that there
of Germany and he predicted that | private enterprise would soon find
“We're going— to help so that
Estimate Federal Cost Jue own way back to civilian work.
Cost of government, it estimates,
| should be 16 to 18 billions. annually | business will not have to go through.
—including interest on the debt and necessarily larger outlays for our military establishment and veterians’ benefits, but excluding social security and debt retirement. This is nearly three times as- much money as was raised by taxes in lany pre-war year. But that much and more revenue (17 to 19% bil-| lions is the goal of its proposed tax schedules), says the 'C. E. D. %an
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17 FOODS REMOVED FROM RATION LIST
White House Order ‘Made Effective Sept. 17.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U. P.).— The list of rationed foods underwent its largest single cut today when 17 separate items—including many canned vegetables, as well as baby foods, soups, baked beans and fruit spreads-— were ordered made point-free effective Sept. 17. The surprise move was announced from the White House, an unusual procedure in rationing matters, by War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes. It left ketchup, canned tomatoes
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Nazis Negotiated Through
of cumbersome red tape toget (Continued on “Page 2—Column 35)
(REPORT CHURCHILL |
SPURNED PEAGE BID
Pope, Berne Says.
Times Foreign Seryice BERNE, 'Sept. 6—During Prime
Minister Churchill's last visit to Rome, which lasted nearly a month, the Germans made a last attempt to obtain “reasonable” peace terms through the pope's mediation, according to well-qualified sources here, .
As the British prime minister declined to modify tHe allies’ unconditional surrender stand, the conversations proved fruitless, the sources say, but the Nazis requested more time in which to come to a de¢iAnd there is every indication that the decision cannot long be deferred, that Germany either will lay down its arms before the allies penetrite deeply into her soil, or will make one last uttérly hopeless effort on the demand of Nazi pride. backed by the Gestapo.
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TIMES INDEX =
Amusments., 8 Eddie Ash ... 16
Jane Jordan, 19 Mauldin .... 2 { Ruth Millett. 12 8 7 Radio ET EY 19 Ration Dates. 13 Earl Richert. 11 Mrs. Roosevelt. 11 | Side. Glances. 12 voar
~ Budget of $2, By NOBLE REED
A county gdvernment budget of $2,170,215 for 1945, an increase of about $1,000,000 over this year’s appropriation, was adopted by the
{tention room
: Hiked by $1,000,000, County | 170,215 Passes|
The council fixed: the new deat $53,000 to of [operate the proposed new youth center at 25th st. and Keystone. ave, compared to $16,000 spent this year at the detention home on E.
tinguished
Dependency, Combat Duty, Length of Service Are Among Factors.
(Text of Plan, Page Six)
By 8. MOORE United Staft Correspondent * WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—The war department “today revealed plans, based on principles of “justice and impartiality” laid down by G. I. Joe himself, for gradually reducing the size of the army after Gérmany is whipped and returning “a substantial number” of non-essential surplus soldiers to civilian life under an individual priority system. The priority system-based on length of service, service overseas, combat credit, and “parenthood
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U. P.). Whatever happens in the war against Germany, the navy will continue te expand until it Pigs va
p ehlisted nm. next i because, Secretary James Forrestal said today, “the navy cannot demobilize until Japan is defeated.” The navy's strength is now over 3,006,000.
credit”—will apply to all theaters and continental United States, and include WACs. * But although
military requiree.|ments in Europe “will be drastically
curtailed” when Germany has been beaten, the war against Japan will still be going on, the war department emphasized, and that war will receive “first priority” in everything,
move them. To the Pacific theater, the war department said, “will be transported millions of fighting men, millions of tons of landing barges, tanks, planes, guns, ammunition and food.” . ‘May Take Months’ Therefore; “it-may -take- months" before surplus men from no longer active theaters can be returned to (the United States to join the “sur-
{plus pools” from which non-essen-
tial soldiers with the highest priority scores will be chosen for discharge. : And in any case, regardless of individual priority standings, “certain types of personnel can never become surplus as long as the war against Japan continues.” ‘The war department did not sar how many men would be returned to civilian life,, Last month, however Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, estimated that 1,000,000 to 2.000,000 men might be dropped by the armed forces from the time of Germany's defeat to the collapse of Japan. will be through army separation centers, five of which already are in operation. A total of 18, including one -at Camp Atterbury, are contemplated, so distributed that the army will be able to discharge soldiers close to their homes,
Service Rating Card After Germany's defeat, an adjusted service rating card will be issued-to all enlisted personnel. On it will be scared four factors which will determine “priority of separatio ns 1. Service eredit-—based upon the |
“2. Overseas credit—based upon the number of months served overseas. “3. Combat credit — based upon the first and™each’ additional.award do the individual of the medal of ‘honor, distinguished service cross, legion of merit, silver star, disflying cross, “soldier's medal, bronze star medal, air
“4. Parenthood credit—which gives credit for each dependent , child
including men and the ships to]
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LL Frederick Duhm
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‘medal, purple heart, and bronze! | service stars (battle ParGeipation | stars). ’ 4
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| Engines Knocked Out
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Navigator ‘Is Back Home - After Completing 31 Missions. By MILDRED KOSSHMANN
for Lt. Frederick H. Duhm, veteran army air forces navigator. The 24-year-old airman leff here last March 24 for England “after winning his silver wings Dec. 24 at San Marcos, Tex., and arrived back home Aug. 24 after safely completing 31 missings without a scratch. He's guided his bomber crewmen in missions to "blast Germany, France “and the low countries. Twicé he went over Berlin and was in“the first stages of the invasion ‘but he couldn't see a thing because of the clouds.
“Our first mission was the worst,” Lt. Duhm said. “We lost one engine and left the formation, flying back just over the tree tops. We saw some beautiful tulip fields over Holland but the ground guns on German soil knocked out our second engine. A bullet went through the window beside me Bnd knocked out the hydraulic line.” In less than three months, Lt. Duhm, son of Mrs. Clara Duhm, Beech Grove, had completed his 31 missions, won the air medal three oak leaf clusters, the distin guished flying cross and the presidential unit citation. He flew most of his missions in “Big Time Operator,” a Flying Fortress. On June 21 he participated in shuttle bombing of Nazi territory and spent several days in Russia where the Russian hospitality was plentiful. All of his crew feted home safely,
End ‘Vesidex seeing the many sights in Burope from ‘a birdseye view, Lt. Duhm visited his brother, Capt. Walter Duhm, whom he had not. seen for three years. Capt. Duhm, now serving with the signal corps anti-aircraft seetion in France, was stationed in England until just recently and married an English girl, Freda. Li. Dubm, a graduate of Beech Grove high school, will report to Miami Beech, Fla., for reassignment Sept. 18. But before he leaves, he will complete some “unfinished business” at home. He will marry Miss Lucille Angrick, 630 E. Terrace Ave, Saturday night and will take. his bride with him to Miami.
15,000 U. S. HEAVIES. MADE IN 12 MONTHS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U. P.) — than 15,000 Pon iend |S bombers, including B-20 Superior: tresses, rolled off the nation's" as gembly lines in the past 13 onthe] according 10 war produetion board figures. Lifting the lid on heavy bomber production data, the WPB said in a report late yesterday that the big, four-motored planes have been rolling off assembly lines at the rate of 1500 a month since June.
ALLIES IN FRANCE ONLY 65 MI. APART ‘(Earlier Details, Page Two)
ROME, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—American and French forces, herding the battered German 19th army up the Saone valley into the Belfort escape gap funneling into-the Reich, drove to within less than 65 miles of the American forces in northern France today. |
KOKOMO CYCLIST KILLED KOKOMO, Sept. 8 (U. P.)—The Howard county coroner today investigated an . accident : which claimed the life of Charles Hicks, 32, Kokomo. Hicks and a compan-
skidded on'U. 8. 31" and overturned
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GERMAN BORDER AS
Eisenhower Appeal F or eshadows ~~ Big Push.
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Editor
dearly the allied expectation of an. imminent invasion of Germany than the latest message broadcast by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's head-] quarters to foreign workers in Germany, , The message said the collapse of the German armies in the west means that “battles soon will be fought on German soil.” The second such to be broadcast in two days, it followed closely the instructions
given to patriots in France, Belgium and the Netherlands before those
The allied invaders of Germany will not have the advantages which accrued. to them in freeing the conquered countries, where hundreds of’ thousands of patriots answered the call to arise. They not only gave invaluable help by sabotage and impending German movements, but speeded up the allied rate of advance by cleaning up stranded pockets of the enemy which could safely be left in the rear,
Not Possible Now .
Nazi Officers Flee +o'Spain
Times Foreign Service PARIS, Sept. 6.—A number of high German wehrmacht . officers have fled to Spain, according to reports from that ~country, Fairly reliable information ““from-Berlin seems to confirm the flight of regular army. officers, many of them antiNazi, and adds that beheadings for high treason now number about 45 in Berlin . daily. Stringent action is also being taken against the Catholic church, known to have the largest anti-Nazi underground organization in Germany. Copyright, by The Indianapolis Times
| TERS,
| ; See Siegfried Line
As Vulnerable To Allies.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY: United Press Staff Correspondent
SUPREME HEADQUARA. E. F, Sept. 6.— American ¢ombat troops have invaded German soil for the first time i in history at an undisclosed point and have ; smashed across the Moselle river in | a- drive toward the Siegfried line which a staff officer said today the allies “of course” can break. United States patrols stabbed
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ENTER BULGARIA
War Declaration Brings Immediate Appeal for
Armistice.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press’Staffl Correspondent
While nothing of the kind is possible in Germany, the allied in-| structions pointed out how the! foreign workers in the Reich can help by noting German troop disRggitions; locating mine fields, trying to delay destruction of communications and performing other services. Such instructions are not as dangerous as the appeal for a general strike in the German arms industry, broadcast yesterday by the Sovietsponsored Free Germany commit-. tee from Moscow, but they are not customarily = issued by the allies until the moment of invasion is at hand. Otherwise it would be nothing but a cruel hoax on the workers who responded.
Hoosier Heroes—
SOLDIERS ARE DEAD
3 Listed as Wounded, One
Freed hy Romania.
A local navy ‘fighter pilot has been killed in a plane crash in the southwest Pacific and. two Indianapolis soldiers lost their lives fighting in battles in France just five days apart. KILLED Ensign William A, Shipman Jr. 1221 N. Sheffield ave. in. Southwest Pacific. : Pfc. Arthur L. Arold, 1141 Shannon ave., in France. Pvt. Morris R. Ford, £60 Udell st, in France.
WOUNDED Second Lt. Osborne C. Gilstrap, 3829 E. 31st st., on Saipan. : 8. Sgt. David Kenneth Miller, 439 Galeston ave. in France. Pvt. Kenneth W. Bennett, Cable st., in France.
SAFE
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LONDON, Sept.-6 (U. P.)—Bulgaria asked: for an armistice today 3g less than seven hours after a Russian declaration of war, but the German DNB agency reported that Soviet troops crossed the Bulgarian border early this morning. The DNB dispatch from Sofia,
forces went into action with Bul-
Times Foreign Service MOSCOW, Sept. 6.~There is a suggestion in Pravda's leading editorial today that if the Bulgars overthrow their government (under Premier Consianiin Muraviei) and rise against the Germans, the Soviet Union will be inclined to -consider favorably the armistice request re; broadcast by the Sofia radio, ¢ Although there has been no official confirmation of the fact, it was the opinion of observers here that the Soviet declaration of war would produce the desired uprising from the. Bulgarian people, in view of the Bulgars’ wellknown Slavophile traditions.
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garian defense forces and were en- | {gaging Soviet armored spearheads! lin “violent battles in the coastal and frontier sectors.” Bulgarian capitulation to a threat of Soviet army invasion followed closely on Russia's declaration of | war, tacitly demanding Bulgarian armed support in the fight against Germany. A Bulgarian delegation | hurried to thé Russian legation in Sofia with a formal armistice proposal from Premier Constantin! Muraviey's government.
Report Troops Poised
United Press dispatches from Moscow early today said news of the armistice appeal had not yet ‘been published in the Russian press | or confirmed officially. {The united nations radio at. Al-! \giers reported today that the Bul-! garian cabinet was ‘in session last |
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Lt. William C. White, 610 E. 21st st, released from Romania prison camp,
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yesterday. .
S. S. Expected
*" By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Tinies Foreign Correspondent PARIS, ‘Sept. 6.—Bitter opposition led by S. S. divisions may be expected inside - Germany—aopposi‘tion which will go when the German. high command Opinions among - military ‘men vary tremendously on the length time it will take to defeat
Bitterly Inside Germany
hd |Sions. They will form the bulwark
fo Battle
divisions will probably be withdrawn from Norway, the Balkans and Italy shortly.
In the German retreat in the|
west, priority is given to 8. 8. divi-
of the German'defense and, being composed of the toughest Nazi diehards, they can be expected to continue to fight long after the Ger-
| Malinovsky’s 2d- Ukrainian army
ROUT NAZIS FROM
ROMANIAN PLAINS
Russian Troms. 48 Miles
From Yugloslav Line. :
' By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent
MOSCOW, - Sept. 6.—Gen, Ivan
routed the Germans from the great Wallachian plains of southern Romania. today and advanced to within 48 miles of the Yugoslav border. - : A Soviet army junction with Marshal Tito's partisan forces in Yugoslavia which would cut off Nazi forces in Bulgaria and Greece, appeared imminent. The: drive - toward Yugoslavia
German’ defenses north of Warsaw
Polish capital to Ens
REPORT SOVIETS :
recorded by OWI, said German]
came simultaneous with £ Russian| | army “breakthrough in the strong|
after five weeks of furious tank| battles and hand-to-hand fighting| as along the 63-mile front from the| Prussia,
across the German border into the ‘Nazi homeland and returned to France after a scouting mission ag Lt. Gen. George S. Patton massed ‘his 3d ‘army for coming blows at the Siegfried line. Only after the ‘armistice did Americans cross the Ireich borders in the last war. Hy On the opposite wing of the | | western front, the battle of the channel perts whirled toward a Slimaz, Canadian troops reached he coast on both -sides of Calais, clamping a pincers on the town, swarmed into the outskirts of Bou= Jogne, and struck within some 20 miles of Dunkerque,
Resistance Increases
United Press Correspondent Robe ert C. Richards reported from the 3d army front that German resistance had stiffened as the Amerie cans burst through the Moselle river line, apparently in the Ponte a-Mousson area midway between M: Nancy .
Supreme headquarters eau against taking the a thrust : into Germany to mean that the assault on the Nazi homeland had begun. A headquarters broadcast to foreign. workers in Germany however, said that “the collapse of the German armies in the west means that battles soon will be fought on German soil.” Coincident ' with the official ase sertion that Patton's operations still were in the buildup stage and encountering increased resistance, a senior staff officer made the unes quivocal statement: 2 “Of course the allies can break {the Siegfried line”—the primary de{fense belt of Germany proper.
Cross That Barrier
Lacking official information, it was believed the American frontier ! crossing was made somewhere in the area of Thionville, just south of { Luxembourg. By forcing the Moselle the Amer icans hurdled the last river barrier west of the German frontier. Ahead of them was no major obstacle to {interfere with a full dress push into Germany and -the Siegfried defer | zone, } | Far behind the fighting front, German garrisons of Brest and Le Havre still were holding out despite heavy bombing. Another ultimatum was delivered to the Le Havre gare |rison today after royal air force {heavy bombers saturated the force lof some 5000 diehards with morse than 1200 tons of bombs-late yese terday. oo About 300 Marauders and Havoes {of the U. S. 8th air force hit Brest | again today, attacking in 16 waves . for an hour. The bombers hit gun | positions, strong points, and am=~ {munition dumps in the fifth strike =| at the base since Sept. 1. v4 The .Canadians reached the oute : | skirts of Boulogne after an advance | Ju hoi face of artillery fire. Am ated 5000 Germans were magne Sem Bo Boulogne defenses. 2 At the same time other Canadian elements swung inland around | | Boulogne and reached the coast nm jcaen side of. Calais. It was possible
against furious opposition as of« ficial announcement reveals Yank patrols have crossed German border, : ;
Tth ‘army races up Saone river valley virtually unopposed, -
RUSSIA—Second