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| Eyevitness: “Man And Beast Shuddered And Steel Rent The Earth’

.By' HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent

ADVANCE OBSERVATION POST, Inside Germany, Nov. 16 (Delayed).—A “cataclysmic blast of exploding, splintering steel rent the earth before us and it seemed

like the world was coming to

The Americans were blasting out a path for a for--

ward drive.

Man. and beast shuddered in their tracks.

towns were disintegrating. Li the scene. , °

an end.

For an hour and a half, Whole

VOTERS GROUP OPPOSES NEW WELFARE PLAN

‘Women’s League to Fight ‘Administration By 3-Member Board.

The Ipdiana League of Women Voters will actively oppose the proposal of the welfare investigative commission to create by act of the legislature a ree-member,. fulltime board to run the state department of public welfare, Mrs.

John K. Goodwin, league president,

announced today, Mrs. Goodwin, in a special statement, termed - the investigative commission's proposal “out of keeping. with progressive principles of administration” and said it would be a step backwards for Indiana and would mean going back to the type of board gradually being discarded by welfare departments of a majority of states,

“Private business has been run] | successfully and efficiently by a| &

single executive advised as to policies by his board, but held responsible for performance. Why should public big business not be run the) same?” asked Mrs. Goodwin,

Governor Gets Report

At present, the state welfare board is composed of five members who| meet monthly and lay down policies

Beating the Cigaret Shortage

shown here strutting the newest style in cigaret holders—a pin, jauntily assisted by a pair of pliers. With typical composing room nonchalance, Dutch says he considers a fag well puffedon when it vanishes into thir air.

THIS CIGARET shortage has

Herman (Dutch) Eggert, Times composing room copy-cutter, on pins and needles. . . . Anyway that's what he uses to smoke what ew butts there are left down to bsolutely nothing at all. He's

to be carried out by Director Thurman A. Gottschalk. The commission’s proposal for & full-time board te Serve with a fulltime director wag contained in a report submitted yesterday to Governor. -Schricker and which also will "be submi to. the 1945 legislature, te bills making the changes recommended by the + gommission, Mrs. Goodwin said that. in recent years such states as Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas have done away with the practice of having a board take actual administrative duties in favor of placing respongibility on a single executive who is accountable to a policy-making board.

Some Changes Advised

“There are undoubtedly many changes that could be made to

advantage in the welfare depart: Victim's Body Found Buried **"

would be strange if mistakes had not been made in the administration of details in such a new and large department. These can and should be corrected without a change so fundamental as, for instance, the proposal to have tliree members do all the actual work of administration. A multiple command, as we have had demon-' strated in military matters, is never 8 successful command.” The league president approved the commission's. recommendatio that money advanced in the form o

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COOLER WEATHER DUE TOMORROW

State temperatures will average

Indiana Farmers Tired of | 'War Time,' Parley Reveals

By ROGER BUDROW Indiana farmers are tired of “war time” and want to go back to standard time as soon as the war is over. Delegates to the 26th annual Indiana Farm bureau convention, in the ‘closing . session at the Severin hotel, today passed resolution after resolution without too much enthusiasm until they came to that one. The “ayes” surely must have been heard several blocks away. time,” which they lost when President Roosevelt put the pation on the legislature to make standard time official in. Indiana after the

Apparently the old fight of the 9 ADMITS farmers against “daylight saving BOY, 12, i war time wufter Pearl Harbor, will ‘ be carried to the coming state legislature because the resolution asked

Seek Tariff Protection

The delegates also asked that the nation’s synthetic rubber industry, which furnishes an outlet for farm

Under Leaves After Quarrel at School.

products, be “protected” against al Times Speed imports of natural rubber after the BEDFORD, Ind. Nov, 17.—~The War.

story of a playful feud among six Also urged was passage of a fedschoolboys was being unraveled by eral Y, in line with that recom- . . _ | men: by Secretary of Agriculture police today following the discov Claude Wickard, which would imery. of a 12-year-old boy in a pose a high tax on profits ie in shallow, leaf-clvered grave in a farm land speculation. This was woods near here, San br preventing a repetition of James O'Neill, 12, was being held|'h® farm land boom and crash in jail for questioning about details which followed the first world war, of how his companion, -Robert| Which cost thousands of farmers Perry, 12, was shot through the their life savings.” head with’ an old army rifle and| Speaking on the theme of coburied out in the woods under a|OPeration among industry, labor pile of leaves. and agriculture at yesterday's sesPolice Chief Clarence May said|8ion. Paul G. Hoffman, president

fe seemed to disappear from

It was the most terrifying, destructive force of warfare Germany has ever seen. And it was a symbol of what

was to come as the U. S. 1st army unloosed this shattering blow within the borders of Germany. : pore than 2000 bombers and hundreds of guns pounded the German countryside, mak-

ing the earth dance before this might} man- made force. When the heavies and mediums were not making the ground quake for miles around, our massed artillery was giving them hell out there. They were firing at an-aver-age rate of one round every 15 seconds, blasting every conceivable obstacle in our path. Mine fields went up as though touched off by an electric switch. I had the feeling the end of the world was coming. So

V1 BOMB RAID ONU. S. BREWS LONDON HEARS

Reported Equipped With

Launching Platforms.

LONDON, Nov. 17 (U. P).—A Stockholm dispatch to the London Daily Mail said today that the Germans were concentrating submarines and swrface ships equipped with robot. bomb launching platforms" in - Norway preparatory to attempting raids on the Vane States. The dispatch quoted “high neutral sources” as saying that the Germans planned to launch their jet-propélled V-1 robot bombs from the decks of the vessels “against such targets as New York, Philadelphia or towns farther inland.” A joint U. 8. army-navy statement issued in Washington earlier this month warned that some such submarine or ship-based attacks might be attempted by a desperate Germany,

Large Concentration

The Daily Mail dispatch said it was known “beyond dispute” that

submarines and other vessels in harbors at Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen on the west coast of Norway. Bergen was’ believed to be the German headquarters, the dispatch sald. A crack submarine commander, formerly in charge of underseas attacks on allied shipping from bases at Brest and Lorient in France, was said to have been assigned the

(Continued on Page T—Column 2) LABOR— Unions Seek Job For Every GI, No Firing of Civilians

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Labor unions want every returning serviceman to have a job, but

. Other Swiss advices said Adolf the Germans have concentrated J APS’ CRUELTY Hiller had strengthened the air raid “very considerable” numbers of defenses of Berchtesgaden, his Ba-

REPORT NAZI SHOOT WOMEN IN PEACE RIOT

‘Turbulent’ Demonstration

Suppressed ‘Bloodily,” |

Zurich Hears. |

ROBERT -DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 17.—8wiss dispatches reported today that German women, clamoring for peace, put on a turbulent demonstration in the Rhineland city of Mann-| heim last week-end,

FDR Favors Year From

Each Youth

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U, P.) ~~ President Roosevelt said today that he hoped congress would act this | winter on legislation to provide for one year of peacetime service to the country by young men. The President has indorsed such a proposal before. Under questioning at today's news conference he said there was not By much time in"the present session of : congress to do much work on it, but he did have hopes of something being accomplished in the. congress which meets in January,

Not Necessarily Military

Saying that he had been for uni- . versal training right along, Mr.| The demonstration was supRoosevelt declined to be pinned | Pressed “bloodily” by the gestapo down on whether he thought this ek 8. 8. elite guards, the report

training should be military, id. His basic idea, he said, was that| The report came from travelers every young man between 18 and *

possibly 23 should give at least one year of serviee-to his government, Whether the plan should apply to young women, too, the President

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enlering Switzerland from Gere many. Similar sources had ‘reported two days ago that the people of Cologne had come out openly against German continuation of the war, and that 21 had been hanged publicly in one day.

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BRITISH REVEAL

varian retreat where he has been reported in seclusion after an operation for a dangerous throat tumor,

Sailors, Airmen Fighting

Claim 1 of Every 5 Prisoners Died Under Horrible Conditions.

From other quarters came reports that Germany was moving sailors and airmen into the front lines to LONDON, Nov. 16 (U. P).—War|(i0t OF AEE, How oe eon - e v have been Minister Sir James Grigg told] {virtually eliminated. as striking commons today that at least one arms to be reckoned with by the |of-every five British prisoners cap- | allies. tured in Singapore and Java, died, European dispatches said the under horrible conditions in Siam's Reich appeared to be facing its jungles while constricting railroads gravest military crisis of the War, for the Japanese. | Civilian morale was ebbing to a His statement was based on in-1 {new low asa result of Adolf Hitler's formation furnished by prisoners prolonged silence. who survived the sinking of a Jap- | There was increasing evidence that anese troop transport and subse- Gestapo Chief Heinrich, Himmler quently reached Britain. {has succeeded him as fuehrer of Abou} 1300 British Empire ‘pris- | Germany. oners were aboard the ship which | Report Hundreds Arrested left Singapore last September, Grigg | Reports believed reliable reached sald. After the vessel sank the nadriq that gestapo agents were Japanese deliberately picked up| arresting hundreds, perhaps thouonly Japanese survivors, leaving sanas, of army officers and civilians

did the wild red fox madly chasing its tail in no-man's land when the smoke had cleared. So did the mute cows, one of which dropped a calf from shock. And so did the plow horses. They emerged from shattered stables, charg-

ing about madly in a race to escape from their own torment. In the center of that frightful scene, the Germans were entrenched as a “human wall.” They were dug in

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PACEMAKING AMERICAN 15T ARMY DRIVES T0 28 MILES FROM RHINE; 1,500,000 TROOPS STORM REICH |

Threaten Bomb. Pulverized Duren,

Last Major, Obstacle on Path To Cologne.

By J. EDWAKD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Nov. 17.—American 1st army pacemakers of the six-army, grand offensive against Germany smashed eastward two miles today through-the Cologne plain road center of Gressenich. They reached a point 11 miles east of Aachen, six miles west of bomb-pulverized Duren, and 28 miles

from the Rhine. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ headquarters announced that the 1st army drive was making "god progress” on its

‘second day.

It over-ran several more German towns and villages studding the defenses behind the breached Siegfried line. But only Gressenich, 10 miles east of Aachen, was identified, "The Yankee spearhead probing the Rhineland defenses already was directly threatening the vital transport hub of Duren,- the biggest harrier between the. Americar and . Cologne." iri o Most of the German garrison had evacuated Crestanich during the night. The possibility was raised that the Nazi command was pulling back to a new defense line—perhaps even the Rhine—before the powerful onslaught of the lst army and the American 9th army.

Counter-attack Against 9th Above Hodges’ left flank, however, the Germans threw in their first counter-attack against Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's adjacent 9th army. Tiger tanks supported the German infantry. Four other allied armies. were on the march along a 400mile front from Holland to the Swiss border, promising an early answer tothe question of whether the Germans were going to fight & showdown battle west of the Rhine. A total of 1,500,000 allied troops was estimated to be in action on the entire front. Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C, Dempsey’s British 2d army fought to the banks of the Meuse river in Southeast Holland. German soil above the 1st and 9th army sectors was being shelled.

Patton Drilling Into Metz Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's United States 3d army drilled slowly but steadily into the outskirts of Metz. Patton advanced northeastward toward the rich Saar coal basin on a broad front. The American Tth and French 1st armies battered toward the upper Rhine valley .in the Vosges sector. German demolitions indicated a general withdrawal. Supreme headquarters received assurances that the 1st and 9th army attacks in Germany were making excellent

hear normal this week-end, between the O'Neill boy explained that

42 and 44 degrees, the weather bu-| perry four other boys and himself reau said today. were playing at his home and that It will be cooler tomorrow fol-|y, (O'Neill) accidentally fired, a lowed by rising temperatures until| qe the bullet striking his comWednesday, when it will be cooler panion in the head. again, Showers are predicted] «when I saw he was dead I was Tuesday or Wednesday. awfully scared and didn't. know LOCAL TEMPERATURES ~ | MP4t to db" the ONelll boy scbbed

6am....3 10a‘m..... 80 » ' ‘ put in jail Taam..... 39 1llam..... 4% The boy then related how he put Sa. m..... 39 12 (Noon), 40 (ra—— fam... 30 1p.m..... 40 | (Continued on Page T—Column 3)

Cartels and Transportation Discussed by Two Johnsons

By KENNETH HUFFORD Longtime ‘friends, but not reThe Johnson twins—as they are|lated, the two were Louis Johnson, known to Legionnaires — were in|former assistant secretary of war

Legion national executive committee convening tomorrow,

of the Stydebaker Corp. of South Bend and chairman of the.Committee for Economic Development, declared that “It is not a case of what is good for you, nor what, is good for labor is good for you, but rather it is that what is good for you is good for business, agriculture and labor.” Mr. Hoffman, in explaining the

without displacement of civilians who have been carrying on production since the war began. That was shown here today through proposals to the General Motors Corp. by the United Elec trical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (C. I. 0). The union’s program, about to go into negotiation with the em-

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the practical that's THE PROPOSALS have

uniquely comical,

labor market.

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ployment.”

for years has heen

to provide employment for all the veterans who apply for their old

Introducing of the veterans who never worked H ANN AH for this concern—but without disturbing any of the war-time workers who want to stay on the pay- * A gal out of the gay roll, nineties, with a sense of . « #

importance because they are the first publicly made by a union in a field that may be highly = controversial after the war, with the return of more than - 10,000,000+t0day at his Tanglewood plantation men to the competition in the

service . law guarantees to all servicemen and |Ate. women, whether they entered the military - or naval forces. voluntarily or through induction or commissioning, an absolute right to their old jobs when they take off their uniforms—with the cong * diffons that the veteran still must be qualified for work, and the em- - ployer still able to furnish em-

In the middle of the problem is Brig. Gen. Prank T. Hines, who of the

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the prisoners to their fate, added. { “I fear a great majority of them | were drowned,” the war minister! said,

The strongest possible protest |forces in.Berlin had executed Gen.

has been sent to Japan through | Erich Promm, f a protecting power, he explained, | ormer commanderand added:

“It is necessary that the Japanese | macht transport organization. should know that we know how! His death was said to have’re-

home front. British

LYNCHBURG, P.).—8enator iid S (Cotton, Ed) | elect Olin D. Johnston. ° Smith, 80, colorful statesman of the | old South, died of

home a few weeks before completing his sixth full term in the U. 8B, sen-

His death ended one of the mos colorful political careers generation. He fought for

The figed sen- principles he upheld, often scream

ator ‘visited his § family doctor .two 3 days ago, accord- K ing to his son, Farley Smith, and had been “pro nounced “in good physical condi tion.” Smith arose as usual this morping, greeting mem- heart ailment. befs of his family and appeared Funeral services will be held a cheerful, The.end came about 10/3:30 p. m. Sunday at the planta ‘clock in his bedroom, :

his favorité issues: white suprem 4| acy, state's rights and “king cotton.

quietly,

the house. ~ Young Smith said his fathe

the Posi the i Fon Flas a isi mn 3 Lutes

“He celebrated ‘his 80th birthday |since childhood.

io Sanitinativn. 8. the

dispatches from Stotk[holm reported that Himmler's 8. 8.

in~chief of the Reich home com-} {mand and once head of the wehr-

, Nov, 17 (U.|8outh Carolina primary by Senator. |

Known throughout the country heart disease), “Cotton Ed,” Smith had been a member of the senate for ‘36 years.

of his the

By ‘contrast, death came to him None of his family was at the bedside, although his wife, son, and daughter-in- law were in

‘| never had complained of Buving a

{tion house where Smith had lived Burial will ‘be in

h . . x € in a desperate effort to stamp out|progress on a fairly wide front. A score of towns and vildefeatism in the army and on the

lages were over-run in the first 24 hours. The first counter-blows after the Nazi recovery from the bewilderment of yesterday’s pulverizing air-artillery bombardment were warded off. From the 1st army from southeast of Aachen, United | Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish reported the cap- | ture of Gressenich, 3145 miles east of Stolberg and the last

they have been behaving and that | sulted from a horrible torture! for | communications hub before Duren, seven.miles to the east.

(Continued on Page 6—Column 3! (Continued on “Page 6—Column .| Gressenich was the first sizable town to fall to Hodges’ Jobs—and for as many as possible - - nee - ncn

Senator 'Cotton Ed’ Smith Dies At 80 After 36 Years' Service nous of the iat sms posh, sid:

new offensive. It represented the doughboys’ tration of Germany directly east of Aachen. The Americans smashed forward without pause through A high officer commenting on the first 24

deepest pene-

“Everything is going fine. We couldn't wish for anything better.” ’ The Americans were catehing only one-third as much ‘shelling as just before the attack opened—graphic evidence t . (Continued on Page 6—Column 1) » . . .

ing his Sargreseisnal speeches on On the War Fronts. .

(Nov, 17, 1944) Pe

EASTERN FRONT — Soviet ar- | WESTERN FRONT—Gen. Hodges’ mored forces “thrust to within | _ 1st American army captures | 2 miles of Danube river north Gressenich on’ the Rhineland of Budapest in flanking drive plain as 1,500,000 allied troops r around eastern side ‘of capital, ‘ smash toward heart of Germany