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PRICE FOUR CEN

450 Houses and Apartments |

Due for Occupancy By December.

By SHERLEY UHL The city’s war housing squeeze remains critical as of today, but new or converted units is expected to “stabilize” the apartment and

home market here by December!’

housing authorities believe. Robert Collier, local NHA direc tor, sald 200 converted apartments should be completed by mid-Decem-ber and State FHA Director R. Earl

vided by joint agreement of the army, navy and NHA, Mrs. Manthei said, after it was pointed out that

time until Dec. 1.

construction, Mr. Peters said. On the rent side of the housing picture, OPA continues to maintain that rents are now fixed here at only 87 per cent over what they were at the 1939 level, contending that the Bureau of Labor Standards statistics reveal only a negligible rent upgrading during the past year -due to “adjustments” accordea realtors, : Rent Control Director Clinton Gutermuth said eviction complaints are now mounting rapidly as a result, he believes, of increased activity in the real estate market. He estimated that more than 100 persons a day consult OPA on rent adjustment or eviction problems.

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MAPS REFORMS

Telford's Program Given Impetus After City Guarantees Pay. City Job Surveyor ‘Pred Telford

Mr. Telford yesterday was formally handed a city contract under which he will be paid $2000 for advisory services to the city, extending from Aug. 1 until he leaves. In his new official capacity he will: 1. Assist Personnel Director Larry Parsons in establishment of a permanent merit employment system, 2. Outline a 1945 legislative program giving the city a contributory pension plan and higher salaries for statutory appointees. 3. Recommend budget - economy | measures through elimination of | superfluous jobs, 4. Undertake (probably) reor-

ganization of the health depart ment, as urged by J. L. Jacobs, municipal consultant and former employer of Mr. Telford. City council, in co-operation with Mayor Tyndall and his advisory committee on personnel, also approved a $3000 “extra services” bill sent them by Mr. Jacobs, The legality of payment of this debt will probably be contested by taxpayer representatives when it comes up

‘Self Help’ Plan for Negro Housing Is Proposed Here

By ROGER BUDROW If a group of 50 jobless Pennsylvania coal miners could build their own homes, with each other’s help and a small loan for materials, during the depression when they had more time than work, why can't Indianapolis Negroes, who also are anxious to have better places to live, do the same thing after the war? This suggestion was made yesterday at a luncheon given at the Columbia club by Charles J. Lynn, vice president of Eli Lilly & Co, and attended by more than a score of business and civic leaders. After being told the story of the unusual, but successful, ri-

$15,000 to pay for looking toward the adoption of a similar project for Indianapolis. Speakers included Mr. Lyon, Harry V. Wade, member of the Flan-

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ner House board; F. B. Ransom, manager and attorney for the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Co., representing lochl Negros; Homer C. Morris of Philadelphia,

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EXCLUSIVE—

News is popping all over the continent these days. And where it pops The Indianapolis Times’ crack reporters are on the scene, reporting the news and interpreting it.

® WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scripps-Howard foreign editor, is in Quebec for the Roosevelt-Churchill conference. (Turn to Page 12)

¢ THOMAS L. STOKES, Pulitzer prize winner, is on the Rewey train. (Also on Page 12)

«0 FRED W. PERKINS, Scripps-Howard labor reporter, is covering the United Mine Workers’ convention in Cincinnati. (Story on Page 3.)

® RAY DE CRANE, another labor expert, is in

Grand Rapids, reporting the convention of the world's

COVERS RUSS,

are expected fa octtpy Mis

and the prime minister.

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By HENRY T. GORRELL .. United Press Staff Correspondent WITH U. 8. 1ST ARMY TANKS IN GERMANY, Sept. 12 (Delayed).—American armor crossed onto German soil this afternoon for the second time within 24

CHINA FRONTS

ordinated, Roosevelt

Declares.

By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

Secelary. Yo say In the Presidents

id 15 a conference to yet the best we can out of the combined British and U. 8. war efforts in the Pacific and in Europe. We are working in consonance with the situation in China, the Pacific and in Europe, co-ordinating our efforts and those of our allies, particuarly the Chinese and the Russians.”

hours and doughboys, accustomed :

Allied Plans Being = Co-|

the chill that awaits them from

populations Following the first penetration of the Reich border near Trier yesterday, armored elements of

Eupen, Belgium border city ‘Adolf Hitler took into the in 1940.

American tanks crossed the old

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i ERICANS CAPTURE ROTGEN,

German border, about five miles away, somewhere between Eupen and Aachen, 10 miles to the north and northeast, at 2:51 p. m, The spearheads, led by Lt. Col. William B. Lovelady of Soddy, Tenn., encountered only light opposition but their path was blocked by felled trees and bomb craters and there was scattered artillery and mortar fire,

Elements of the spearheads included tank dozers to tear down obstructions and dig trenches to bury enemy dead. Ahead of ‘them and, shielding the advance of engineers on half tracks equipped with TNT, tanks were firing phosporous shells, which furnish an effective screen and also can smoke the enemy from the

strongest pillboxes, causing pain-

Speculate on Russian Aid

The manner in which the President described the over-all purposes of the conference opened new {fields of speculation on the question of whether the Pacific allies expect Russian help in finishing off Japan. Early said he expected the AngloAmerican war to conclude this week-end, but he was not specific as to a day. The “victory conference” probably will end with a joint statement by the President

Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill were together until a late hour last night and started their conferences again at 11:30 this morning, sitting down in the broad windowed “map room” of the President's overlooking the St. Lawrence and e the war plans submitted by their staff chiefs.

PERSHING. 84 TODAY,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (U. P.). —General of the armies John J. Pershing celebrated his 84th birthday anniversary today and the best gift of all was the newspaper headlines sounding the approaching defeat of Germany. Pershing, who unsuccessfully advocated unconditional surrender of Germany when he led the A. E. F. in 1918, was cheered by the knowledge that allied soldiers already were on German soil and would drive this time to complete occupation of the Reich.

WOODRUFF PL. TAX RATE SET BY BOARD

The Marion county tax adjustment board yesterday tentatively established the Woodruff place rate at $1.344 and fixed four other levies. They are: Speedway civil town, 5.43 cents.and school town, 73 cents; Wiliams Creek civil town, 55 cents: Wayndedale civil town, 55 cents and Warren Park civil town, 10 cents.

NAZIS IN SAN MARINO

WITH EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY, Sept. 11 (delayed) (U. P).

strategic parts of the 30-square mile republic of San Marino, near the Italian . battlefront in the Rimini area, according ‘to intelligence reports reaching 8th army headquarters today.

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NEW GAS BOOKS READY MONDAY

21 Schools to Receive

Applications for ‘A’

S Coupons.

Twenty-one schools have been selected as sites for the renewal of “A” gasoline rations books next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Alex L. Taggart, county rationing chief, announced today. The selected schools will be open from 3:30 to 7:30 p. m. Applicants should go to the nearest one. Mr. Taggart said the applicant could save time by getting an application blank and filling it out in advance. Application forms are available at many filling stations and at all ration boards. Transportation committees also have forms for distribution, but the renewed “A” books will not be handled through the transportation commiit-

CHEERED BY NEWS te=

Signed Covers Necessary

The signed back cover of the old “A” book must be presented along with the application. If the applicant cannot produce the back cover of the old “A” book, he must mail his application along with his state license registration card to his ration board. ’ Approximately 500 volunteers, including school teachers and members of Parent-Teacher associations, will handle the task of re-

Luxembourg Hails Liberation From Nazis

Acme Telephotos.

Greetings from his liberated people are acknowledged by Prince Felix upon his return to Petance wearing a steel helmet after the Germans had been driven from Luxembourg.

Hyland to Direct

Fire Prevention

Capt. Michael J. Hyland, veteran of 28 years with the Indianapolis Fire department, has been advanced to the rank of fire prevention chief to succeed Bernard A. Lynch, who died Sept. 1. A captain since 1935, Chief* Hyland for 20 years has been active in the Indiana Firemen’s association, serving once as its president and also as chairman of its legislative committee. He lives at 414 W. 46th st. and is a member of the St.

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HOOSIER VAGABOND—

Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle, who

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Thomas Aquinas Catholic church.

Ernie Finds Trapped Pilot Recovering as 'Prize Patient’

happy ending. He is alive, and doing nicely. And even though he has a long hospital ordeal ahead, he is happy and grateful and the sun shines for him again. When I returned to London from France on my way to America I began tracing the pilot's wheresbouts. It took almost a week to find ‘him. Finally I located his

Ihospital, and I. traveled halfway

Hoosier Heroes—

FANGHER AND BIALEK KILLED IN FRANCE

Ostlund and Tanksley on Missing List.

The loss of the U. S. submarine Gudgeon has added another Indianapolis man to the list of those missing in action, while two have been killed and one is missing in fighting in the Atlantic and in France. G KILLED Pvt. Kenneth O. Fancher, formerly of Indianapolis, in France. First Lt. Milton J. Bialek, Valley Mills, in France. MISSING

Lt. (J. g) william Ostlund, 5225 Capitol ave, in the Pacific. Pvt. Norvel J. Tanksley, 605 N. Tibbs ave., in France. WOUNDED S. Sgt. Harry G. Rickenbach, 1059 S. Warman ave., on Saipan.

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‘8’ BOOK MOTORISTS TO GET FIRST RELIEF

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (U. P.). ~—Motorists. with “B” ration” books will’ be first to get ration when more gasoline is available for civilians,. an OWI report on the

civilian petroleum supply disclosed {today.

Trucks snd buss, however, are

ful burns. The open fortifications before the tanks were in two bands in heavily wooded, hilly terrain, which the Germans apparently figured could not be negotiated by Mine-flaying tanks were out in front slicing a broad path

through the mine fields for the ‘ advancing Americans and dive

the Reich—and had overrun

in a dispatch filed at 11:30 a. had made the first dent in

against Germany, reached the the border § in A dispateh from Lt. no

one of the heaviest aerial pou thousands of allied planes.

BULLETIN WITH BRITISH 2D ARMY, have withdrawn from the Albert Canal line in northern Belgium fo the Escaut line to the north, it was revealed today.

GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF LOMZHA

Below E. Prussia Taken

By Russians.

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 13.—The German high command today admitted the loss of Lomzha, north Poland defense bastion anchoring the Nazi defenses below East Prussia and northeast of Warsaw, clearing the way for a Soviet army smash 3 miles northward to East Prussia. Moscow-dispatches said the Russian air force had begun big scale sweeps over East Prussia. The DNB news agency reported that at the opposite end of the Eastern front the Russians had crossed the Rhodope mountains in southern Bulgaria and “now are descending” into Grecian Thrace. Meanwhile Russian and Romanian armored forces broke across the last mountain barrier protecting the Hungarian plains today and drove down into the broad Muresul river valley in a fast moving drive for the per-war borders of Hungary, 88 miles to the northwest. In a two-day fighting advance that carried 40 miles across the western shoulder of the Transyl-

spearhead captured Deva and deployed into the Muresul valley astride the broad motor highway to Budapest, 212 airline miles away. ”

By ELEANOR PACKARD " United ‘Press State Correspondent

from the 7th and 3d armies | a solid line through central France today and the allies threw two

Bastion Anchoring Defense!

vanish Alps, the Soviet-Romanian|

a “Yanks In ES Get Chill-No Kisses’

bombers of the air force hams mered German pill boxes. Allied fighter planes were up in strength and there was an exciting series of dogfights as remnants of the Luftwaffe bat« . tled for the existence -of Nazi Germany. It was the first time. sinee D-day that 1 had seen as

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LL TOWN INSIDE GERMANY: PLANES POUND SIEGFRIED LINE

Report Allied Troops May Be Pouring Into Reich in Crossings at Undisclosed Points.

ULLETIN _ SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Sept. 13 (U. P.).—Dispatches from American-conquered German soil reported tonight that United States troops had cap"tured the village of Rotgen—their first specific victory in

a forested height in their

drive east from the Eupen area of Belgium. United Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish said

m. today that the Americans the Siegfried line, spearing

through the first wall of its frontier crust and. driving | forward more than a mile and one-half.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Sept. 13.— Strong American armored forces, leading a general advance

Siegfried line today, while in«

dications grew that other United States troops might be

new crossings at unentinel

Omar N. Bradley's s 12th pos

group headquarters said American tank and infantry forces were in contact with the Siegfried line, which was taking

ndings of the entire war from

More than 2500 American warplanes from Italy and

England attacked enemy targets in Germany and Poland, it was reported today, and met little opposition from the Luftwaffe, which already had lost 328 planes the last two days. The first spearhead was driven against the Siegfried line, the headquarters dispatch indicated, by

one of the armored forces smashing steadily deeper into Germany after

(War Map, Page Two)

crossings from Luxembourg and Belgium, with advanced elements reaching within some 35 miles of the Rhine, :

9th Lands in France

A new U. S. army—the 9th, com= manded by Lt. Gen.” Willlam H. Simpson—was revealed to have landed in France to join in the climactic assault on Germany, Its location was not disclosed, The 12th army group headquarfers dispatch emphasized that the announcement that the allies had crossed the German border in “at least” two places —eight miles northwest of Trier and east of Eupen — appeared to imply that other crossings may have been made. For whatever it ‘was worth in that connection, a Nazi-controlled

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LONDON, Sept. 13 (U. P.).— Possibilities that the Germans have unleashed a new secret weapon were reported today from a Flying Fortress pilot returned from a raid over Ludwigshafen. The pilot said he saw “several rockets” spiral up over Ludwigshafen. As they exploded, a large chain which seemed to be about five feet in diameter, with knots on it that looked like hand grenades, dropped out. Returning pilots alse reported

Allies Forge Solid Line Across France, Trapping Germans

southern and western France ing the alternative of desth. or caps

ROME, Sept. 13.~French troops ture.

“There was no official estimate the number of troops trap by the two a armies alt unofficial