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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 225
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1944
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EMPTY GUNS— | Yanks Come |} Home to Get Ammunition
By CHARLES T, LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer
VV ASHINGTON, Nov. 29. —Eighteen days ago Staff Sgt. Ed Bearden stood in a drenching rain on a hillside east of Aachen, Germany, sweating it out over a 155-millimeter gun he and his men were trying to slide into place in the mud. They were cussing the gun, the weather, war
in general. A messenger came up to say the division artillery commander wanted to see him. Thdt startled him. What, he puzzled, there in the cold downpour, could a general be wanting of him? He left his gun, spruced up a bit and reported. -At headquarters he found a lot of G. Is as mystified as he was. Then the general told
Mr. Lucey them. They were going back to
America. Yes, they'd heard right, America. Gen, Eisenhower's orders. Gen. “Ike” would tell them all about it. 2 8 8
THE MOST dumbfounded bunch of men in the whole U. 8. army “stumbled back to their posts. Why, man, a dream could never be like that. America! And most of them more than two years away from home soil, veterans of North Africa, Sicily, Italy, now France and Germany! A few ‘days later at supreme headquarters Gen. Eisenhower did tell them about it. He wanted them to go back to America to tell in their own words just how things were with them, how they needed more ammunition and how they could shoot effectively a lot more than they were getting. ® 8 8 YESTERDAY Sgt. Ed and some
DIRECT SWING'
Linked With Move Invit-
ing Lewis’ Return.
By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Nov. Spokesmen for the American Fed-
swings at President Roosevelt inC. I. O. did at its recent conven-
2asing the wartime wage controls. This development has a relation to another important convention action—its invitation to John L. Lewis to come on back with 600,000 united mine workers into the A. F. of L., under conditions that indicate no great obstacles will be put in his way. Mr, Lewis has been swinging at Mr. Roosevelt for four years and more,” and now for the first time he has distinguished labor company. That is thought likely to please Mr, Lewis, make him more disposed to compromise the differ-
the big labor organization he broke
oL5O Calls It an Untruth
One of the anti-Roosevelt state-
and doesn’t see that this evil (the
antruth,”
lace.”
that Mr, Roosevelt, in his Chicago campaign speech, first brought forth the vision of 60,000,000 jobs to carry the country through the post-war period. + Vice President Wallace
AFL WILL TAKE AT FDR POLICY
Positive Action on Wages
eration of Labor, in its convention here, have begun to take direct
stead of shadow boxing — as the
tion—with the war labor board over
ences that exist between him and
from in the mid 30s to found the
ments was by George Meany, A. F. of L. secretary-treasurer, who in denouncing the administration wage policies declared that “any public official who tells the peaple they will have 60,000,000 post-war jobs,
little steel formula) is removed, is telling ‘the people a damnable
That was regarded as coming pretty close to hanging a short and ugly: word on Mr. Roosevelt but when Mr. Meany was asked just who he had in mind, he said it was “a dreamer by the name of Wal-
However, it's a matter of record
By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent GERARDMER, France, Nov. 28 (Delayed) .—~Gestapo Chief. Heinrich Himmler came here Sept. 7 to confer with six generals and developed a sadistic fury when he saw French youths enjoying themselves. That started a series of ‘events which ended only when the Germans, with the methodical plan-
CLAM T0 FOR VICTORY MADE BY ia
Tobin’s Union ‘Paper Hoots At C. I. 0. Contribution
To Campaign.
By EARL RICHERT The International] Teamsters union today claimed full credit for the re-election of President Roosevelt and hooted at the claims of the C. I. O.-P. A. C, that it was, the decisive influence.
headed: “Teamsters Swing National Election,” whigh was published in. The International Teamster, publication of the union. President of the Teamsters is Daniel J. Tobin, who for the past four elections has
committee's labor dividion. it will be known that the Teamsters’
influence in the American Federation of Labor, was more responsible for the election of Roosevelt than any other influence in America,” said the article; written by John M. Gillespie, general secretary- -treasurer of the union.
Millions of Votes
ident Tobin's leadership had helped bring 95 per cent of the 7,000,000 members of the A. F. of L. into the Roosevelt column,
The claim was made in an article;
headed the . Democratic national| : “When the actual facts come out|
international “union, with its great| '
Mr. Gillespie asserted that Pres-
The article discounted P. A. C.
influence, saying: “The only credit that can be given to the P. A C. is the fact that they helped considerably ~in
ning of a military campaign, burned and blasted 30 miles of the’ once beautiful Meurthe “valley which’ was dotted with fine farms, homes and factories.
&. 8 8 SIXTY-YEAR-OLD Mayor Andre Boucher told me about the
crime today among the charred ruins of the town. Nearly all of the houses, wheth-
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er clustered in hamlets or isolated far up the mountain sides, were destroyed. The residents returned later
and combed through the ruins, finding a pan here and a dish
"there, But there was nothing that
could be put in a sack and trundled away in a baby carriage —practically the only vehicles remaining.
“ chairs for the hotel.
THE GERMANS had taken all of the carts, horses and bicycles to haul away the major household goods and possessions. “The story begins with Himmler's visit Sept. 7,” Mayor Bouchet said. “I had been advised by the local commandant of the Germans to obtain seven comfortable It developed they were for -Himmler and six generals.
Jap Cruiser Waits Death Blow
of his G. I buddies were here telling the story of shortages that were slowing up the war. “Once we came over a hill in Belgium, right into full view of three trainloads of German personnel and equipment trying to escape,” Cpl. Myles Gates, gun= ner on a 106-mm. Howitzer with the 54th field artillery, said. “The Germans had tanks and crews on flat cars ready to pull
ing a little high, . Urges Higher Wage Level
30-hour week for work spreading.
mildly questioned that figure as be-
The proposition expounded by Mr. Meany was that there can't be prosperity and. full employment unless the general level of wages is raised before the war ends—particularly if the country adopts the A. F. of L. recommendation for a
Jagd 0 ROO k JORIS Ob Ay Rg
out, and they began to pour it on our tanks and half-tracks just ahead of us. They knocked out some of our tanks and then one of our army colonels shot the German engineer of the train. Our battery opened. up on them and we shot up their tanks, but we also shot up all our high explosive anti-tank ammunition, “It must have been a month before we could.get any more of that type ammunition. We kept sending for it but we couldn't get it.” » " » SGT. CLARENCE ALEXIS, forward observer for an 81mm. mortar platoon, took it up. “The infantry company we were supporting was going in to ate tack,” he said, “but about that
RUBBER C0. WALKOUT
2000 emplayees at
noon,
were: the
of workers was held.
Chicago immediately.
been requested to do so.
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HEARING SET TODAY
Activity here in the walkout of the « United States. Rubber company plant was at a standstill pending results of a hearing before ‘the regional war labor board at Chicago this after-
Following a WLB directive ordering the workers back to work yesterday on what union officials said same conditions that caused the walkout, a mass meeting
It was voted not to return to work and” Willlam E. Abel, president of local No. 110, United Rubber Workers of America (C. I. 0), .and a committee of eight left for
John E.° Cady, plant manager; C. G. Brown, employment manager, and a representative from the company's Néw York office, also went to Chicago to attend the board hearing, although they had not
per cent.
ENLIST SCHOOLS’ AID
Tightly Is Stressed.
the current waste paper drive. for waste paper were sent to al yesterday,
and Catholic school, respectively.
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Mr. Meany estimates that at present wage levels, and with the loss of overtime premium pay, the 30hour week would cut the incomes of many millions as much as 50
He holds that there is no possibility of booming industry and abundant employment unless the great masses of pepole, the wage earners, have money to spend for the products of industry; that it will be disastrous to attempt to
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IN DRIVE FOR PAPER
Need for Tying Bundles
Indianapolis’ school children today had been enlisted in the ranks of the volunter groups supporting
Bulletins explaining the urgency city and parochial school principals
The need for tying the bundles of paper securely before placing them on the street was stressed in the bulletins which were issued by William A. Evans and the Rev. Richard Kavanaugh, directors of war service activities for the city
“Although all city schools have been doing an excellent job in the regular paper sales, long a tradition with our school children, it is now necessary because of increased demands brought on by an ever expanding battle front that we put
registration; at least that's what we think. We are not quite sure but what the registration would have been what it finally was, as a result of the appeals made by leading statesmen of the country of both parties, including Roosevelt
never prevailed.” Dig at Most of the mem
Iman rs of the A. F.
the P. A. C.” and they “despise” the leader of the P. A. C. (Sidney Hillman), with the exception of perhaps the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, asserted Mr, Gillespie.
F. of L., the Railroad Brotherhoods and United Mine Workers to for-
the P. A. C's communistic fringe and swing into line for the president. He revealed that Mr. Tobin had declined National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan's request to take the chairmanship of the Democratic labor division and had consented to take it this time only after he was asked personally by President Roosevelt.
had contributed personally to the
“the P. Y\. C. never contributed one doliar directly.” “The P. A. C, and C. I. O. unions were bound to work and vote for
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SNOW TODAY—MAYBE; COLDER TOMORROW
It's going to snow today-—maybe. At least that's what the local weather chief predicts. His maps show light rain or snow for Indianapolis tonight. Snow flurries and colder is promised for tomorrow. The mercury this morning was hovering around 36 and dropped to 35 at 9 a. m,
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and Dewey, even if the P, A. C. had ju
of L. and the Railroad Brotherhoods|
get their dislike of Mr, Hillman and
A point also was made of the fact -that teamsters’ union officials
Democratic party's coffers while
“had absolutely no use at all for|
Mr. Tobin was given great credit | Eas by the union secretary-treasurer for causing the members of the A.
Smoke pours from this Japanese Nachi-class cruiser, floundering hopelessly in Manila harbor after U. §. earrier-based planes gutted it with bombs and torpedoes. A Nip destroyer circles in the background in futile effort to screen off further attacks as Yank planes come in for the kill,
NIBLACK PLAGES BAN ON THREE BONDSMEN
Cites Criminal Records in
Reform Move.
Following a six-months investigation of bonding conditions in and around police headquarters, Municipal Court Judge John L. Niblack today permanently barred from his
because they possess criminal records. Bondsmen prohibited henceforth from posting bail or signing bonds in Municipal Court 4 are Ralph L. Hitch, William J, Allison and Charles Carter. i Hitch was convicted in 1935 of embezzling public funds while deputy sheriff of Marion county and sen-
CLOTHE-A-CHILD—
A Family Once
'On Its Own'
=| tenced to two to 21 years in Michi-
gan City state prison: He served two years.
_ Has Lengthy Record
court three professional bondsmen|”
Allison has a lengthy police rec- » TIMES INDEX N N d Y A . ; ord dating back to 1034, which in- . / : / cludes convictions on grand larceny, Amusements , - 6] Homemaking, 1 ow eeas our ssistance assault and battery and mals Eddie Ash ... 16|In Indpls. ... 3| STRUCK BY illness, the war | family was called to the navy. election how Ee Jiao laces 3 Bdrnady ..., 19|Inside Indpls. 11| and death in. close succession, one | Another child was born in Sep- ing ballot=box Tha. cade Business ..... 8 Jane Jordan.. 19| Indianapolis family that has sl- | tember. Medical expenses cut into sing An. stufing : ’ . Christmas ,.. 11| Daniel Kidney 12| ways before been self-sufficient | money to clothe the three boys, since 1042, Was ‘con on moComics ...... 19 Ruth Millett. . 11 asked for aid from The | one 7, another 6, the third 2 years [yi “or the state. tied Cook “ne 11 Movies fewanny 6 Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. old. » : has A convicted of es... 9 this family Christmas has | =~. = # # - Wii Th i Bir gon | keeping a house of ill fame,» On
LEGION SCORES—
Local Firm Gives 700 Yule Pipes
To War Veterans
AMERICAN LEGION gift collections for the “world's biggest Christmas party” were pronounced “well under way” today by Fred C. Hasselbring, co-chairman of the state-wide “Give to the Yanks Who Gave” campaign.
Following his return from Terre Haute, where he reported proggress was good, Mr. Hasselbring announced donation of a full day's production of pipes by a local manufacturer and his employees. About 700 pipes will be added to the Legion's Christmas gifts to hospitalized veterans by Tracy Minger, president of Custom Bilt Pipes, Inc, 546 8, Meridian st. and his workers, : . . »
HE WILL donate the materials and they the work in Jhe joint contribution of a day's production. With information booths
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STETTINIUS GIVEN SENATE GROUP 0. K.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U, P.).—~ The senate foreign relations: com-
in international politics, to be sec(D. Tex)
retary of state. agra Som Connally
| monitors, admitted that fires were
‘|financial policies “for two years,
he would ask the full senate to the~nomination,
NIGHT RAID BY FORGE OF 8-295
Yajit wetter to Slay Any Yank 'Chutists ‘On the Spot.
By UNITED PRESS | A "minor formation” of American BSuperfortresses raided Tokyo shortly before midnight tonight (Japanese time) Tokyo radio reported and a Domei news agency dispatch almost simultantously said that U, 8. fliers who parachuted
“It was beautiful weather and Himmler went to the lake for a . cold bath. He saw many boys and girls enjoying themselves at the baths, He was surprised and angered. LJ » o
“HOW IS IT?" he demanded, ‘that these French youths are able to amuse themselves while the young men of Germany fight . for the fatherland.'”
Himmler Razes Region In Fury Over Youths’ F rolic
That night, the mayor said, a German soldier brought him an
order, signed by Himmler, that
every male from 14 to 60 years must be assembled to build fortifications for the Germans. The ordér warned that those who did not report were to be apprehended and shot and if they
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YANKS SEIZE 6 ANCHOR TOWNS S NAZI DEFENSE BEFORE ROER WEAKENS UNDER STEADY BLOWS
Patton Tightens
TOKYO REPORTS aisle for Saar Basin at Full Pitch as
Assault Arc; 7th
Army Joins Drive.
J. EDWARD MURRAY
United Press Sta
ff Correspondent
PARIS, Nov. 29.—American forces captured Langer-
wehe, biggest German-held town west of Duren, and five other anchor towns of the yielding Nazi defenses before the Roer river line today in slow but steady gains along a 16mile front aimed at Cologne.
Koslar, Frenz, Jungersdorf, Kleinhau and Hurtgen fell
in bitter fighting to the American 9th and 1st armies inexorably clamping an assault ‘arc on the near approaches of Duren and Julich, twin bastions of the Roer river line.
To the south, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army was
from’ B-29's onto Japanese soil after bombing the capital would be “killed on the spot.” The broadcast, recorded by FCC
statted In “two ‘pPlaces” in Tokyo!"
|and “claimed only that the flames
were “put under control.” The reported attack (at approximately 10:12 a. m. today), if confirmed, would be the first night assault on Tokyo by B-20's; The capital was hit twice previously by Superfortresses although both raids were in daylight,
Threaten Atrocities
The Japanese report of a new raid on their imperial capital city came shortly after a Domei news agency commentator warned that “American savages” who parachute from B-20s onto Japanese soil will be “killed on the spot by angry Japanese people.” Threatening a renewal of atrocity slayings of American pilots, a Domei news agency political commentator called B-29 crewmen “savages” and “Albino apes” and warned that death awaits them if they bail But. The frenzied outburst, broadcast by Tokyo radio and heard in China, was one of the most violent Japanese reactions to the Superfortress raids originating from the Marianas bases.
Hit Plane Factories
An ufiknown number of the first Tokyo raiders in April, 1042, were executed by the Japanese, The executions first were* announced by President Roosevelt on the second anniversary of the Doolittle mission and later were confirmed by Tokyo radio. Tokyo was blasted by Superfortresses Friday, Nov, 24, and Monday, Nov. 27, in the opening of a systematic aerial campaign to smash Japan's war-making machinery, Targets «in the raids were the Nakajima airplane factorief, the
COUNTY COUNCILMEN LOSE’ NEW OFFICES
Ordered by Commissioners
To Vacate Annex,
, By NOBLE REED Two of the three county commissioners today formally ordered the county council to vacate its newly established headquarters’ offices in the courthouse annex building at 148 E. Market st. The order, which renews the feud that has been raging between councilmen and commissioners over
cil’s new offices. Addison J. Parry, council presi
| dent, said the order to vacate “isl
no surprise to us.” . He asserted the move was merely an attempt on the part of commissloners “to stop the county council from functioning as it should.” About a month ago
stated that the commissioners will not approve the expenditure of any money in connection with the coun.
ers included in their request for ap-| mpm #50 wrmisiat fo vi
CHURCHILL HITS
OVER-OPTIMISM =
Strikes Out ut Word ‘Early’ in’ Forecast of Summer Climax in/’45,
LONDON, Nov. 29 (U. P,) ~Prime Ministey Churchill again today warned against over-optimism that the war will end soon and said that
he would be willing to strike out the. word “early” from his recent forecast that the conflict with Ger-
many would be over by early summer, Speaking to the house of commons on the day before his 70th birthday, Mr. Churchill declared that the battle on the American and British fronts was .going forward “with greatest vigor” and said any large-scale break-through on the front before Cologne or to the north “would have the highest strategic consequences.” He revealed that the big port of Antwerp was captured intact and that it now is functioning, receiving large convoys “of ocean-going ships” to provide supplies for the northern British army group and adjoining American armies.
Russians Sweep Across Danube
Below Budapest
LONDON, Nov. 29 (U. P.).~Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight that the Red army forced the Danube river north of the Drava— which flows into the Danube 130 (Continued on Page 3—Column 1)|miles south of Budapest—and broke | through the defenses on the west |
bank.
330 Hungarian towns, ported in an ‘order of the day.
the Danube.
Tolbukhin’s drive was
centuries. Beyond it lies Austria,
Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's 3d! Ukrainian army smashed across the Danube, advanced 25 miles on a 93mile front, and captured more than Stalin re-
Among the towns overrun in the westward sweep in southern Hungary was Pecs, 108 miles southwest “lof the capital and 25 miles west of
aimed squarely at Lake Balaton, the stra-tegic-importance of which has been emphasized by military analysts for
within sight of the end of its drive across France, with the left wing already slugging Hough Serminy's Saar and
and right [ne - He amt the bone
within light artillery range of Saarbrucken, to the outskirts
a fale We em prior Se The Americal 7th atmy pushed
wn the Rhine of northeast ac ie pie af nasthengts -| treating , and a British
broadcast said it “now has entered the fight for the Saar basin.”
Supreme headquarters announced that the U. 8. 3d, 7th and 0th and French 1st armies- had captured 53,361 prisoners since Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower touched off his grand offensive. Altogether the allies have taken 734,216 prisoners since D-day, with 451,434 of them in American hands. First army troops captured Frenz, six miles southwest of Duren, and Kleinhau, a mile northeast of Hurtgen, after the fall of Jungersdorf, Hurtgen and Koslar to’ the American forces beating a hard way toward Cologne. The capture of Frenz had been reported earlier, .
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Hoosier Heroes—
TWO REPORTED DEAD AND TEN WOUNDED
Sailor and Soldier Lost; One Prisoner Listed.
Fighting in Europe has cost the lives of two Indianapolis men, In addition, two Yanks are missing, 10 others have been wounded and one is a German prisoner,
KILLED Pfc. Arthur L. Miller, 1226 8. Sen« ate ave, in France. Sgt. Alton McGuffey, 923 Marion ave, in Italy.
MISSING
Seaman 2-¢ Arthur D. Brown, 714 Bacon st, in the Southwest Pacific. Sgt. Wallace Morton Jr, 3720 Guilford ave., in Germany,
WOUNDED
Pvt. Peter R. Howard, 4524 We. Regent st., in France. Marine Cpl. ‘Arthur Stmonitech, brother of Mrs. Katherine M. Pee tron, 2401 Cold Spring rd. ~~ Pvt. Lloyd A. Hosimer, husband of Mrs. Irma D. Hostmer, 1740 Wane
Hatred, Fear And Sacrifice —
® Day and night, over 39 radio wave lengths, Nazi home*- front propaganda struggles desperately © to arouse in the German people fear—fear of defeat, fear of what the allies will do, fear and more fear,
‘® Read Nat A. Barrows’ re
&t., in Europe. Lt. ‘William Busan, 1841 N. Delaware st., in 8. Sgt. Edgar A. Cook, formerly of - 37 N. Randolph st, in Italy. . Marine“ Opl. Joseph O. R. R. 11, Box 666, at Pelellu. Pfc. Frank W. Morton, 5316 w. 15th st., in France. "Sgt. Lewis W. Miller Jr, aw = Minnesota st., in France Skt, William Andrews, 3016 Jacks son st., at Luxembourg. i John H. Elmore, URE Raye
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