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It’s Only The Beginning,” Yanks Promise Before Taking Off F or Japan

By MAC R.

JOHNSON

United Press Staff Correspondent

SAIPAN, Marianas Islands,

Nov. 24. —The 21st

bomber command sent its new B-29 Superfortreses off

from Saipan for the attack

on Tokyo today with the

promise that this injjial blow will be followed up with ever-increasing force until the Japanese empire has been

battered into submission.

Brig. Gen. Haywood S. Hansel Jr. commander of the

STRASBOURG'S LIBERATION IN FINAL PHASES

Yanks. and French Take Most of City, Fight for Rhine Bridges.

By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Nov. 24.—French armored forces and American troops fighting shoulder to shoulder in their first smash to the Rhine today over-ran

nine-tenths of the ancient fortress city of Strasbourg. (The British radio said Strasbourg wag in allied hands except for a small German bridgehead covering

“an unconfirmed report says French and American reconnaissance une have crossed the Rhine into Germany.”) The French tricolor flew from the “spire of bomb-damaged Strasbourg cathedral. Doughboys and Poilus were hammering the German garrison crammed into one-tenth of the capital of Alsace, a city of 180,000, United Press Correspondent Clinton B. Conger reported.

Fight Desperately

The Germans battled desperately in pockets before the three bridges leading to" their homeland and in old forts around the border citadel which underwent a six-week siege in 1870. ‘As Lt Gen. Jacob L. Devers’ French and American forces ground down the German resistance in Strasbourg and tightened the nut-

cracker on some 50,000 Nazis a

trapped to the south, the U. S. 3d army mounted a new attack

across the approaches to the Sieg- |.

fried line on an 1l-mile front in Germany’s Saar. Farther north, full-blown coun-ter-attacks by eight to 12 German divisions, totaling perhaps 100,000 men, checked the push against the Cologne area of the Rhineland by the American 1st and 9th and Brit Ish 2d army forces,

* Venlo Outposts Stormed

On the British front northwest of Aachen, the outposts of the Dutch border fortress city of Venlo were being stormed. The Berlin radio said the German bridgehead on the west bank of the Meise, across. the Roermond, had been svacuated. At supreme headquarters it was estimated. that one-fifth of Germany’s fighting strength on the western front had been written off in the little more than two Weeks of - Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower's grand offensive. The six allied armies had captured about 40,000 Germans and inflicted at least .10,000 casualties. Another 50,000 enemy troops were caught in Devers’ snare, Limited gains within 24 miles of |

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victs were wounded today when 10 prisoners attempted to storm the wall of Stateville prison here. The guard, Zoethe Skaggs, was shot over the heart when guards in

led by two members of the Roger (The, Terrible) Touhy gang, ate tempted to place a ladder against the wall, He died in the prison hospital two how's after he was shot, The attempted break was frus-

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21st bomber command, and nell Jr., Jamaica, N, Y.,, Point football coach who led

Brig. Gen. Emmett O'Don-

the 38-year-old former West

today’s raid, made it clear

that the long-promised aerial offensive on the Japanese

home islands has begun.

In the weeks and months ahead, they declared, air

raid sirens will be echoing a Hirohito’s imperial shelter in

gain and again in Emperor the heart of the congested

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~ Ground crews are shown readying_bombs for the B-29 “Dauntless Dotty,” at the Central Pacific base. fortesses of the newly-created 21st bomber command raided Tokyo.

enemy capital. The emperor

himself faces constant peril.

“We'll probably get a lot of opposition over Tokyo,

but we've got to bore right in just before the take-off.

and we will,” O'Donnell said

O'Donnell said good weather is expected over the Sai-pan-Tokyo bombing run in the next three months, particularly over the eastern side of Honshu island, where the

enemy capital is located.

“Acme Telephotos, in Sjapan from which 100 Super-

Crop Goal at Parley

Here.

By ROGER BUDROW Indiana farmers, who produced half again as much food this year as in prewar years, today were urged to keep it up next year “because we cannot take a chance on when the war will end,” “If we plant less, and then have poor weather, we might jeopardize our food supply; but if we end up with more than needed, we can think about starting our ever-nor-ma] granary again,” said Guy W. Smith, assistant director of the agricultural adjustment administration in this area. Mr. Smith spoke at a meeting of Indiana farm experts who met at the Severin hotel to set next year's production goals,

Few Changes

The few changes in Indiana's food production- requested by the national war food administration concerned soybeans, hogs and milk. A 2 per cent reduction in the 1,532,000 acres planted in soybeans this year was recommended for 1945 because some land is being used for soybeans that would be better devoted to other crops less wearing on the soil, it was explained.

»i Although the WFA Is seeking a

2 per cent increase nationally in hogs, a 10 per cent cut in the number of sows to farrow nexi spring was recommended for Indiana. This action was based on the fact that the western part of the grain belt —Kansas, Nebraska and North and South. Dakota—are better fixed than Indiana for feed supplies be-cause-of this year's good crops In that area, Thus the increase in hog production will be sought mostly in that area.

More Milk Sought

On the other hand, more milk is being asked from Indiana—a 2 per cent increase over the 801,000

is seeking a 15 per cent cut in egg production in Indiana, but opinion was expressed that this might not be achieved because of the high support price paid farmers, Later today the state and local | AAA members will report on what they will recommend to farmers as 1945 goals.

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|its “victory convention” here, task of condemning certain policies of President Roosevelt, whom it has just helped to re-elect and to whom it has renewed its pledges of support.

head producing this year. The WFA | Paft

AAA MD WARNS [CIO Prepares Indirect Slap AGAINST LETUP At Roosevelt on Pay Ceiling

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—The C. IL-0, in the wind-up of

This will be accomplished board all the blame for wartime wage control and its

maintenance of the Little Steel formula, despite wide demands from organized labor for breaking wage controls, The board will get all the blame despite the general recognition, even among Mr, Roosevelt's union supporters, that its policies are not determined by itself, but by the President with the assistance of war mobilization director James Byrnes and stabilization director Fred Vinson. Nothing unkind will be sgid about Mr. Roosevelt, but the C.I1.0, leaders obviously hope that his ear will be attuned to the developments in Chicago, They hope he will heed their statement, ‘the facts clearly establish the imperative need for the President to revise the little steel formula so as to grant the wage

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approaches today the delicate

by placing on the war labor

TOBIN REJECTS BID T0 LONDON PARLEY

International Issues Get A. F. of L. Spotlight.

NEW ORLEANS, La. Nov. 24 (U. P.) ~The annual convention of the American Federation. of Labor faced a heated discussion today of international labor relations, prefaced by a flat statement from Danjel J, Tobin of Indianapolis, head of the teamsters union, that he would refuse to participate in the world conference on labor at London. “I am a member of the (A. F. of L.) executive council and I ‘don’t believe we could sit at the same table with labor organizations that

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ELECTION PROBE GROUP TO MEET

Senate Committee Chairman Mum on Indiana

Before Seeing Report.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Senator Theodore F. Green (D., R. 1.) an-

nounced today that he has called a meeting of the senate commitiee investigating campaign expenditures, of which he is chairman, for next Friday. He declined to say what would ‘be done about the Indiana election investigation at that time, or whether the investigators who have been in Indianapolis would appear before the committee to report. “I do not expect to make any disclosures until after the committee meets,” Senator Green said. It is expected that both Harold Buckles, chief of the committee's investigating staff, and George Shillito, ace investigator, will present their findings to _date in Marfon county. And it is also likely that the probe, if continued, will be made state-wide. Hoosier Republicans here point to the great Democratic gains in Lake county as a fertile

SAIPAN, Marianas, Nov. 4 (U, P.).—Brig. Gen. Haywood 8. Han-

sell Jr., commanding general of the new- 21st bomber command of the 20th air force, is a ruddy, straighthaired, smiling gentleman who is known as “Possum” to his intimates. Hansell, honest and frank in his conversations with correspondents, is 41 and possesses a combination of talents which enabled him to plan much of the strategic air war against Germany and Japan and at the same time to take an active in actual preparations as a combat airman. The genefal would . have taken part in the latest Tokyo raid but Washington grounded him because of his value. He obviously was disappointed. ’

Colorful in his conversations, Hansell -sald of the first Tokyo

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raid, “This will mean Japan will bleed internally.” As air planner for the joint and

combined chiefs of staff in Wash-

ington and ‘later as chief of staff of the 20th air force, Hansell was a familiar in the upper levels of strategic war i. in the nation’s capital and at the Cairo ‘conference. Before that, he commanded the

the 8th airforce “in England and + |led some of ‘the first strategic raids by. B-17s a

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Meet Gen. ‘Possum’ Hansell, Strategist Behind Scenes in ' Superfortress Attack

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Both officers emphasized that today’s raid, while marking the beginning of the final phase of the war against Japan, does not necessarily foreshadow an early

end of the conflict,

They pointed out that Germany has

been hammered from the air for four "years and still is

fighting. But they predicted that

the aerial campaign from

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'MASTERS' GROVEL— Reich's Ruins

Fail to R Werriter's Pit By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent NINTH U. 8. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Nov, 24. — Poking about the ruins of a wrecked Nazi schoolhouse today, I found a textbook entitled “Thus Developed the Empire.” its concluding paragraph rgad: “Adolf Hitler led us to the threshold of a great time. We thank him for that by growing with “this time in order to be worthy of it. Fuehrer, we thank thee!" FE I THE “GREAT TIMES” are certainly here, When I worked in Germany in 19040 and 1941 and when I was interned there from Pearl Harbor to May, 1942, it was an entirely different Germany than the one I see today, ‘When I cross over from Bel-

glum or Holland into Germany k.and see one German village and

Jack Fleischer, United Press staff correspondent now with the U. S. Ninth army in Germany, served in the United Press Berlin bureau during the opening years of the war and was interned in | Germany from Pearl Harbor until May, 1942. In this dispatch he contrasts the Germany at the peak of Adolf Hitler's power with that which he is seeing today.

town after another in the thickly populated Aachen area lying in almost complete ruins I get a frank satisfaction out of the sight. " » = NORMALLY, such devastation would be appalling—particularly to see once neat and sturdy towns lying demolished. It is terrible to see farm houses and barns by . the hundreds wrecked and even orchards and ‘forests cut to bits by shells and bombs, Nor is it pleasant to see German civilians, older men and women and children wandering among the wreckage trying to salvage a bit of food and clothing. All that is not pretty. But 1t does not arouse my sympathy. n . ” I REMEMBER all too well the same pictures which the wehrmacht showed me after it had

Doolittle’s 1942

9 Superfortresses

The Superforts attacked

Robert Morgan, Asheville, N.

mission, The attackers

Doolittle's formation.

installations.*

“civihan homes and all were

Tokyo said the bombers, attacking

in 10 or more groups, were over the city for two hours.

Claim Three Shot Down . Three were shot down, a later Japanese communique said, adding the customary: “Our ‘damages have been slight.” The attack, the first on Tokyo by land-based aircraft, was announced here by Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of the army air forces and chief of the global 20th air force. He said another communique on damage done to the industrial targets would be issued “when further details are available.” “The battle for Japan has been joined,” Gen. Arnold said in a special report to President Roosevelt. “This operation is in no sense a hit-and-run raid. It is a calculated

swept through Holland and Poland. When I see the smashed streets

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Hoosier Heroes—

S6T. WEAVER KILLED FIGHTING IN ITALY

Kratoska Missing at Sea;

Martindale Wounded.

As they were preparing their Phanksgiving dinner yesterday, the parents of Sgt. James Weaver learned that he was killed in Italy. In addition, two other Indianapolis men have become casualties, KiLLED 8gt. James Walter Weaver, 2440 8. State st, in Italy.

‘MISSING

1737 W. Morris st, in Pacifié,

‘WOUNDED i. - Plc.

Fireman 2-¢ Richard T. Kratoska,

Clarence Martindale, a0 | Towa st. in France.

extension of our air power .. ., no

{part of the Japanese empire is now|

“Memphis Belle,” of the 8th air force. Morgan's plane as command pilot and as leader of the

B-29'S BOMB TOKYO FACTORY TARGETS

Strike Jap Capital First Time Since

Raid; Japanese

Admit Damage.

By FRED SCHERFF United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—One hundred or more B-2 Saipan base today. They flashed word ahead that they had “successfully” attacked important military installations in Tokyo in the initial attack of the softening up of Japan for invasion.

winged back toward their

Tokyo by daylight and the enemy admitted factories and other important war installations were hit. Brig. Gen. Emmett (Rosey) O'Donnell Jr., leader of thefirst B-29 smash at Tokyo, radioed back to Saipan that the mission had been a success.

First Btrike From Japan

It was the first attack launched from the new Saipan bases in the Marianas, 15560 miles to the southeast of Japan. The first plane over the target was piloted by Maje

C., pilot of the famous B-17, O'Donnell rode in

struck Tokyo at noon (10 p. m. Indian apolis time Thursday) in the first bombing of Japan's capital since the historic April 19, 1942, raid by Lt. Gen. James H.

Belatedly Admits Raid Four hours later Tokyo belatedly admitted the raid." The broadcasts backed into admissions of what they sought to imply was slight damage to factories and other

“Small fires” were caused, Tokyo broadcasts added, but only among and hospitals” controlled “immediately.”

out of our range, no war factory too remote to feel our bombs, , . .” The Saipan-based B-20's, working under the newly formed 21st bomber command, ‘Gen, ‘Arnold said, will co-ordinate. their operations with those of the China-based 20th bomber. command, whose B-29's have already carried out 17 “mis« sions against Japanese empire targets. “The systematic demolition of Japan's war production, begun six months ago from China bases, henceforth will be carried out with decisive vigor, softening up the Japanese heart for the ultimate inva sion by combined united nations land, sea and air forces,” Gen, Arnold told Mr. Roosevelt. Arnold did not disclose the exact number of B-29's in the attacking force, saying only that it was “sizable”-—a term that in the past has meant 100 or more. Neither did he identify the exact

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