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By JACK FRANKISH United Press Staff Correspondent + HURTGEN FOREST, Germany, Dec. 4—The diary of a ‘German medical aid man told today ‘how the nerve of the Nazi soldiers dried up, inch by inch, as unstoppable American soldiers crawled toward him across an unprotected clearing in the face of murderous fire from German entrenchments. i The diary told, too, of the A. M. I, the German term for the American doughboys, :-who cg&me

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on and on and. on over the bloody field, across the fallen bodies of his comrades cut down by the merciless enemy fire. ‘. #0» “THE HOURS pass slowly and,” the German wrote, “as I peer out of my hole, the first dim light shows in the east. We expect the A. M. I. to attack at 7:30. Then our fate will be decided. “It's Sunday! My God, today is Sunday. “With dawn the edge of our forest received a barrage. The

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earth trembles. The conclssion takes your breath away. “Two wounded are brought to my hole, one with a torn up arm and the other with both hands shot off. “I consider where to cut off the rest of the arm. I'll leave it on. “How brave these two are. I hope to God all this is not in vain, ' o IJ ” “TO OUR left machineguns begin to chatter. Here come the A. M. I. In broad waves you can see him come across the field.

firing wildly.

ceases and tank guns are firing

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1944

“TANKS all around him are “Now the American artillery

1 can't stick my head

“Pihally here are three German assault guns. . . . The infantry takes cover and the attack slows down. ... It's stopped. “If we only had munitions and heavy weapons that. the Ameri-

can has he would have gone to ican fighter bombers) appear. morning. “Hand grenades are bursting. diary~to his wife.. The writer dethe devil a long time ago. They are circling looking for tar- “We hardly got any sleep, This “We cannot hold them any cided not to risk his life after all. “But as it is, there is only a gets. morning the artillery is worse longer. He surrendered his rifle,

silent holding to the last man. Our people are overtired.

tacks again, then he has got to break through. that land can be held any longer. Many of our boys just run away and we can't find them. We have held out with this small. group but we are going to fight.

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“There are only very few of us left. “And there he is again, “There are only five of us now. ... We have got to go back. ... o n » “MAYBE I will get out of. this alive. If so I can tell the story myself. If I remain in these tornup woods then perhaps a comrade will find this book and send it to my wife. ,.."” No one will have to send the

than ever. I can hardly stand it. And the planes are here again, “Suddenly tanks, then hordes of A. M. I break out of the forest. Murderous fire meets him but he does not even take cover anyymore. “We shoot until the gun barrels sizzle and finally he is stopped again, “We are glad and think that the worst ‘has passed when suddenly he breaks through on our left.

“THEN ALL hell breaks loose— not on us but.on Grosshau 200 yards to the left.” ‘Motors scream, machineguns rattle and detonate with hellish din. An infernal concert. i “Then quiet . . . under a continued artillery barrage we try to get some sleep. What will happen tomorrow?” The German medic wrote his last entry in the diary the next

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OPINIONS VARY ON HAPPENINGS NIGHT OF NOV. 2

Senatorial Probers Arrive To Study Alleged ‘High Jinks’ at Court House.

By SHERLEY UHL Conflicting accounts of what hap-

of Nov. 2 in the Marion county eourt house were provided today by Republican and Democratic election officials. Democrats, charging the pre-elec-tion episode was a riot of alcoholic confusion “were pooh-poohed by G. O. P. spokesmen’ who shrugged off the midnight goings-on as “necessary registration routine.” This exchange of charges and explanations coincided with the arrival here of an expanded staff of| seven U. 8. senatorial investigators

will conduct a full-dress examination of county and state “election fraud” charges.

Merry-making Charged

Among allegations to be sifted by the senate fact-finders, headed by

will be those picturing the court house as the scene of unrestrained merry-making when it should have been absorbed in its own solemn responsibility. “Utterly ridiculous . . . not a drop of truth in it,” replied Republican County Clerk Jack Tilson. to Democratic assertions that his registration deputies were remarkably carefree .in their handling of registration files during the Nov. 2-3 allnight session. © “Why, we were all overworked to exhaustion and probably did look slightly groggy,” grumbléd Clerk Tilson. “I personally had been working for 48 hours at a stretch.” To Democratic complaints that registration books were scattered willy-nilly about the courthouse, Mr. Tilson retorted that the use of additional courthouse rooms by regstration workers was made necessary by the “narrow confines” of the registration office itself.

‘Labor Under Pressure’

“We were laboring under terrific pressure, what with the largest reg{stration in Marion county history,” said the clerk. “We simply had to spread the work out.” Purpose of the all-night pre-elec-tion marathon, said Mr. Tilson, was to “file new registrations under the correct precincts in the correct master-binders.” Explaining that the courthouse, by necessity, was “wide open,” County Clerk Tilson said he wondered how anyone could hold him responsible for the-fact that people, some of whom had been drinking, had “wandered in and out all night. “These were the hangers-on, not the workers themselves,” Mr, Tilson stressed. He said that while he had to admit that while all the regisdeputies:weren’t whiz-bangs

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LOCAL TEMPERATURES

WINTER SPORTS—

Skating Facilities For Public Listed As Aid to Health

PLANNED ON the belief that outdoor sports activity in winter is conducive to health and fitness, an extensive program of ice games, snowballing and sledding, was announced today by K. Mark Cowen, the city’s newly appointed recreation director. A challenge to our youth and an opportunity for an entire family to participate in a rigorous outdoor program will be provided, Mr. Cowen declared. o ” » LAKE SULLIVAN is being prepared for an ice carnival, he announced, and will include concession facilities for food and hot drinks. Adequate supervision also will- be provided to attend open fires for the comfort of those participating in ice hockey, speed and figure skating and games. Skating facilities also will be available in front of Howe high school, where the park board has arranged to have a dam built. Garfield park and the South Grove golf course also will have skating facilities, Mr, Cowen asserted. hi LE. THE COFFIN golf course toboggan slide will be in operation and Ellenberger, Washington and Rhodius parks also will be the scene of sledding, the plan out= lines. Figure and novelty skating for different age groups, as well as: “snowball contests, shuffieboard, snow modeling and even skateless skating on ice, will be amofig the sports encouraged by the recreation department. o . . COLD WEATHER isn't unhealthy,” Mr. Cowen stated. “We intend to emphasize outdoor sports in winter to give our citizens an opportunity for exercise as rigorous as any offered during the summer months.” A novelty being considered is erection of an ice castle facade which will be beautified with colored lights.

TERRE HAUTE YOUTH

URGE BONUSES FOR WORKERS LOYAL T0 J0BS

Somervell, Krug Ask Extra ‘Reward’ for Those Who.

Keep Arms Flowing.

By CHARLES B. DEGGES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—War Pro‘duction Chief J. A. Krug and Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the army service forces, today urged adoption of some form of bonus to reward workers who stay on war jobs. } Gen. Somervell, appearing before the senate war investigationg committee, coupled - his advocacy of such a plan with a warning that unless critcal manpower shortages in. war-vital industries are solved within a month, “we shall be back here . asking for national service legislation.” Mr. Krug told the United Press he hoped to present to congress within two or three weeks a concrete plan for offering inducements to war workers for sticking to their jobs. Cites ‘Peace Job’ Lure

He said he had not yet decid what form such a plan shoul take, but that the important thing is to do something for the worker who resists the temptation to switch to a “peacetime” job. Gen. Somervell explained that there are no materie] shortages at the moment, but that bécause of the exceedingly high rate of expenditure in current campaigns they will develop if present manpower shortages are not solved. Most critical items, he said, are small arms and heavy artillery ammunition, tires, assault wire, radar, batteries, bombs and heavy textiles. © “No. one so far has suffered from a lack of supplies,” he said, con-

WINS FARM AWARD

Makes His Property Yield $14,000 Since 1941.

CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (U. P). — A Terre Haute, Ind., boy who has managed his father’s farm since the latter's death in 1841, making it yield an income of nearly $14,000 in that time, and a Laurel, Mjss,, girl have been named the national achievement champions of 1044, it was announced today at the opening of the 23d annual 4-H congress. The two champions who received the highest award of the 4-H organization, were Donald F. Mowrey, 18, and Mary Joe Morgan, 19. Each will recéive a trophy trom President Roosevelt and a $200 college scholarship. Runners-up in the national Hoover, 20, Oskaloosa, Ia., and Melva Lea Poos, 19, Ramona, Okla.

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“POLITICAL SCENE . . . By

Thomas L. Stokes

‘Government Among Friends’

Astounds Corcoran Clients

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Con- seems to have so many friends in had visited the stores. When he gress can , discover much about ha ight SD igls' places quick, returned an hour or so later, his esopstsimest gm triends” if % wit oo oo ou! face was wreathed in smiles, and ¥ ; ¥ : It astonishes his clients—and gets| continued on Page 3—Column 3)| Five Indianapolis men and a Washington for the last four years him. more. “8. _- Greenwood soldier who formerly of Thomas G. Corcoran, ex-New| It's Something bo set 3 Sheets = lived here are included on today's|" Dealer, now a lawyer-lobbyist, who Josponse : P 23 Ally, Gen. Donors list of world war II dead. Two of 3 Biddle and figures of Interior D DIRECTLY BY the men 6 were killed in plane Secretary crashes here in the states and one Tl Ickes, to name a couple of big ones, DONORS ‘ i MES INDEX {not to speak of some important yin, Geimberlirig, Frances Poland was killed in a plane ail in Zellows in Key places 4 liitle Jowet} ‘and lela Poland.........1 Child hie Ty aot a. Jane Jordan... 11 Ee uy: | east CONTRIBUTORS two men who have been wounded. 9|*Along this line a revealing inci-|“ANORYMIOUSY. .o...uiosieeic $5000 KILLED 5 dent was cited by Norman Littell, H 8. L. Cera RINNIRINY 15.00 Second Lt. John L. Slaughter, R fb 9 now deposed assistant attorney gen- Cc. J. L. vsvesassnaiienien 10.00 R. 17, Box 309, in France. ": 17|eral. who spoke out about Tommy's q, , G, am Pfc. Cleatus Chapman, 1640 Auo|close relations and influence with rr an sty -Bpeedway, in France. the government's chiet| PF BF. Fier Sksssinnsedy Aviation Cadet Alex Witkovich, 1000 “It's told best in Mr, |Past Presidents, Catherine. . |1611 Luett ave, near the Stuttgart, 10 a “Tent No. 9, Ark, army air fleld.

achievement contest were Herbert

Four of the nation's top -4-H stockmen were named sectional

However, we are apprehensive that jwe'r re not going to be able to keep up.” | Boston to Curb Quitters Seriousness of the manpower problem also was pointed up by announcement in Boston that after next Saturday, male workers who quit their jobs in any industry in the greater Boston area will haye to take a war production job if they want to work. The compulsory program in itself was not new, inasmuch as War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt set up regulations last summer under which regional WMC directors could invoke strict channeling of workers to war industries. Today's Boston announcement, however, was important in that fit indicated that regional directors are tightening up their controls and invoking their broadest powers to

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CLOTHE-A-CHILD— | Fears and Tears

Of Boy, 4, Turned To Smile of Joy

A 4-YEAR -OLD BOY, his -clothes in tatters, looked up at his three benefactors. in The Times Clothe - A-Child office Baturday and asked tearfully: “Is this gonna hurt?” That was before his sponsors

Greece—

Nation Tottering

By WILLIAM R. HIGGINBOTHAM

Greek crisis reached the boiling point today.

upwards of 300 left-wing E. L. A. S.

marched into Athens in defiance of the British military.

ton the verge of quitting in order 10 avert open civil war, fanned by the refusal of left-wing guerrilla forces to demobilize ard turn 'in their weapons.

mander of allied troops in Greece, barred the E. L. A, 8. troops from Athens.

tradicting some reports. government of Premier Georges “The ‘boys on the front have had |Papandreou would survive the everything they could possibly need.| crisis.

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REPORT YANKS ACROSS ROER; ° AUSTRIA FATE HANGS IN BALANCE; "STRIKES, RIOTS PARALYZE ATHENS

On Brink of Civil War.

United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec. 4.—The

British - troops disarmed

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But the Greek partisans defied his order. They swept into the city from Thebes and seized several police stations. British troops intervened, disarmed the E. L, A. 8S. men and turned the police stations back to civil] authorities.

Crisis Is Admitted But it did not appear that the

It announced officially that there was a “government crisis” which is parlimentary language meaning that it was unable to carry on further without being reconstituted. It was expected that members would resign and, presumably, a left-wing government backed by the E. L. A. S. elements would take its place. } Thousands of Athenians demonstrated in Constitution square during funeral services for 16 persons killed in yesterday's riots.

Cheer Americans

En route to the cemetery the demonstrators spotted a group of American officers whom they cheered wildly. Another crowd gathered outside the American le- | gation and cheered. A United Press dispatch from | Athens said Premier Papandreou and | other cabinet members abandoned their government offices and took refuge in the Hotel Granda BreUndersecretary of War Ptolemeos Sarigianis resigned. . Gen, Scobie declared martial law in Athens, He said he was standing’ firmly | behind the Papandreou government. British troops carrying out Gen. Scobie's orders disarmed about 800;

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By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press staff Correspondent

PARIS, Dec. 4.—American: armies threatened Germany's two greatest industrial areas today. They wiped out all but

scattered enemy pockets in flaming Saarlautern on the far bank of the Baar river.

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Reds Storming Lake 50 Miles

From Border.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec 4.—A thundering battle that German strategists predicted would seal the fate of Austria was joined along the eastern shores of Lake Balaton today.

Cossack flying columns smashed head-on into a powerful Nazi defensive screen thrown across the

Chiang Reshuffles Government

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barely 50 miles form Austrian soil. The German DNB news agency said “major” Soviet tank forces broke through to the northeastern rim of the lake,

Report Reserves Attack But the Nazi reports.asserted that German reserves were attacking the Russians on both flanks and that the penetration had been sealed off. Farther to the south, D. N. B, said the German center and right wing were holding firm. s D. N. B. conceded the Nazis had “evaded a decision” yesterday and were picking their own ground for

Farther north they massed for a companion smash across the Roer toward the Ruhr valley. A Brussels’ broadcast sald the th army had .s A. Roer river at Julich and was fight ing through the streets of tHe east« ern portion of the town. Late front dispatches, however, asserted there had beer no crossing as yet. Western Half Captured The western half 6f Julich on the west bank was entirely in Amer fcan hands except for a single enemy pocket. (A Blue network broadcast from Paris said Julich was “entirely in

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‘| throp ave., in Germany. more ‘merchant vessels, the navy| two greatest industrial areas, prALY-—Germans la A PRISONER. announced" today. clear all. but scattered enemy| dozen attacks on 5 sth army’ posis : In addition to the two warships,| pockets in Saarlautern on far| tions but win, only one hill: Pfc. Harry D. Sullivan, 21% N.|, “oommunique said, the undersea bank of Saar river and mass| gyre, 23 miles southeast of Talbot avé;, of Germany. craft destroyed 13 cargo vessels, farther north for smash across "toga.

American hands.”) The British 2d army in southeast : Holland also aimed a spearhead = toward the Ruhr. 3 The British broke through to the Meuse river in the western sub= urbs of Venlo a half mile from Germany and 25 miles west of the war production center of Duisburg. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Amerfcan 3d army rapidly was nearing complete conquest of its first German city at Saarlautern, five miles inside the Saar basin. The Saar basin is second in importance only to the Ruhr as an 4 industrial center geared to Ger- a many’s war effort. Front dispatches reported the western half of Saarlautern on the near bank of the Saar already had been completely cleared of enemy resistance. Other troops were mop- : ping up scattered enemy pockets { of the east bank. 2 The thrust across the Saar ‘at : Saarjlautern gave the Americans a i springboard for a drive into the 4 heart of the Saar basin. Its huge coal mines, blast fur-

a counter-attack. This was a roundabout concession that the Germans still were falling back on the lake shores, Alarmed German spokesmen warned their people that ‘breathtaking military events are imminent.” Russ Hurl Fuil Power

The spokesmen indicated that the Soviets were hurling everything at their command into a twofold attempt to break open the gateway to Vienna. An equally-critical situation faced the Nazis along the Hungari-an-Slovak border northeast of Budapest. There other Red army forces finally shook their armored divisions loose on the flatlands about 190 miles due east of Vienna. They had broken through the twin German strongholds of Miskoic and Satoraljaujhely, Moscow dispatches said the Ger|mans and Hungarians threw six di- | visions, 60,000 to 90,000 men, into a series of desperate counter-attacks yesterday without stemming the furious Russian five

The plight of the Chinese armies in south central China is shown on the above map. The Japs are steadily nearing their objective— to oming down from the north with those driving up from Canton, to contrql the entire length of the Hankow-Canton railway. This would split the- Chinese forces, endanger Chungking, and give a continuous line of land communication from north China to Hong Kong. One of the greatest setbacks for the allies was the forced abandonment and destruction of the U. 8. 14th air force's major base at Rweltin.

China May Be Out of War Within the Next 60 Days

By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Staff Correspondent CHUNGKING, Dec. 4.—Generalissimo Chiang Kaji-8hek today took “extremely difficult” military situation. But he called on China to rally and annihilate Japanese forces | | which have driven into Kweichow province, a bare 200 miles from China's capital. Faced with an explosive military and political crisis, | Chiang took further steps to reorganize his government. I He named Foreign Minister T. V., Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang ers in Chungking were predicting, Kai-Shek, acting president of the that the next 60 days’ warfare in| executive Yuan, a post which | |China may be the most critical of | Chiang had held himself. [the conflict, with China facing the Chiang then summoned his new possibility of being knocked out as

cabinet ministers and in an address [an effective land fighting force,

Fourth B-29 Raid on Tokyo ~~ culled upon Chin to rely against [1% TW Sores Sy Leaves War Plant in Ruins

" gun on Nov. 20 when. Chiang. re- h said, is extremely. dieult” moved six cabinet ministers, includ- By FRED SCHERFF Crewmen saw eight to 10 fires

ing Mr. Kung, who lost his finance United Press Staff Correspondent burning ‘as they headed back to at i hen. experienced obser. | TISUY in that re-shuffe WASHINGTON, Dec. 4A MalOr| 1 goipan bases. ; Further changes also were re-| portion 0 e big Near-gale Winds probably turned 4

arded as possible in view of the craft works in the western suburbs | ¢ | of Tokyo was believed in smoulder-| the fires into more than one confla=

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. day's heavy attack by upward of| The raid was considered one of 2 MORE JAP SHIPS 100 B-29 Superfortresses. the most, if not the most, successful SUNK BY U. S. SUBS Capt. William J. McGuire, 2960

Striking at the Japanese capital yet made by the 21st air force on Broadway, near Jacksonville, Fla. ‘| Cruiser, ‘Destroyer and 18

or the fourth time and the Musa- | Tokyo. | shing works for.the second time in| The attack came simultaneously » MISSING Pvt. Alexander Katra, 1523 W. : ' Merchantmen in Toll, _ WASHINGTON, Dec, 4 (U.P.).—

nine: days, the giant raiders laid] with an admission by Japanese Ohio st., in France. American submarines, maintaining

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four cargo transports and a tanker’ Including today’s bag, U. 8. sub- yr i my have sunk 874 Japanese EASTERN hes du NT Cossack fying] ® vessels, probably sunk: at least 37 " - .|and damaged 119, for a total of at|

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