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A CHALLENGE— Somervell

Pleads for More Guns

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.— Lt. Gen. Brehon B. | Somervell, chief of the | army service forces, today told home-front America it is on the spot in the new

heavy munitions demands. He urged the nation to “rededioate” itself to top production for the battle fronts. He said “this is the most important speech I have ever made.” Gen. Somervell laid it on the line to industry as the National Association of Manufacturers opened its annual convention, Their convention once was planned largely to chart a recon-

Mr. Lucey version program. It found _itself today concentrating again on the greater war output that must come first, The war's

top supply man praised industry for an “almost incredible job of production.” This, he said, represents a “magnificent achievement.” But he made it plain that there is a long way to go before there oan be any slackening of the pace, s #8 MORE completely than it has besn done by any official up to this time, Gen. Somervell gave a forceful picture of the rate at which U. S. armies are chewing up arms and materiel. - In a little over three months after Normandy D-day, he said, three American armies in France fired 300,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, They fired 4,426,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammunition, 1,248,000 rounds of 155-mm. shells and 8,500,000 rounds of mortar shells, In one month these armies lost from all causes 88 per cent of their dump trucks. They also lost 50 per cent of their mortars and 14 per cent of their scout cars. Ten per cent of light and medium tanks were lost. . » » “THE OTHER day,” Gen. Somervell said, “a cabled requisition came to headquarters from a field general. “He asked for 80 different types of ammunition. “His order was -for 4,000,000

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Willis to Run Again for U.S. Senate in '46

By EARL RICHERT Senator Raymond E Willis will seek renomination at the G. O. P. state convention two years hence, it has been’learned on good authority. A prominent Republican, here for the Republican legislative caucus yesterday, said that Senator Willis had told him “in plain language” that he would seek a second term in the upper house of congress. The senator, according to this party leader, said that his health had much improved and that he was now very much interested in consinuing his period of service in the U. S. senate.

Senator Now 69

Senator Willis is now 69 and he will be 71 by the time of the 1946 campaign.

Because of the senator's age and his previous ill health, many party leaders had believed that he would not seek renomination. As a result, friends of James M. Tucker, former secretary of state who was defeated for the G. O. P. senatorial nomination last summer, and William E. Jenner, present short-term senator, already had

.begun ‘pushing fhem for the sena-

torial nomination. They may continue despite the decision of the senator to run again, but friends of Senator Willis are hopeful that by putting out the word this early the’ senator will ward off a convention battle.

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VOLUME 55—~NUMBER 231

‘SPY’ SCARE IN SENATE PROBE

To Justify Peep-Hole Beport.

By SHERLEY UHL

body tried to make a peep show out

staff quartered in the Claypool hotél fizzled today into a thirdclass dud. * So did the theory that investigation headquarters in Room 537 of the Claypool had been “rifled.” All secret files of the Indiana election fraud probe were still very secret. True, there was a peep-hole carved in a bolted door connecting Room 537 with Room §35. But there were also a lot of loopholes; too many, at least, to justify a “spy” scare. Anyway, the F. B. 1. strongly denied assertions that it was somehow involved in the “incident,” saying instead that G-men wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole. It all began, it seems, when Senate Investigator Clifford Sutcliff had

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Homer E. Capehart Republican senatorelect, who asked for an investigatioin of his own election expenditures already has been “given a clean bill of health” by investigators for the senate campaign investigating committee. That fact was disclosed today by a. commtitee source,

that well known feeling that he had been watched this week-end. Sure enough, he detected a tiny hole in the door connecting Room 535 with Room 537, both once part of the same suite. He observed also that been made once upon a time to pry the hinge bolts out of the door. Finally, to top it all off, “he discovered a key to the investigating staff's record-crammed cabinet had been bent. Was it sabotage?

Not Sabotage - Apparently not. A cursory exe amination today disclosed that: The peep-hole was from one to six months old. Judging from its height and the vista it furnished of Room 537, it was drilled by somebody interested in something far more commonplace than senate investigations. Maybe it was bored by a bored guest. One hotel employee volunteered

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GOP STEERING GROUP WILL MEET FRIDAY

Plan to Map Legislation for 1945 Assembly.

By NOBLE REED

The newly-organized Republican legislative steering committee will meet at 10 a. m. Friday in the Claypool hotel to begin drafting party legislation for the 1945 general assembly. An 18-member policy committee will begin work next week on the first drafts of bills that will spear head the Republican party's legislative program through two months of law-making. G. O.P. majority leaders in both the state senate and the house were elected yesterday during the first caucus session at which Governor-elect Ralph Gates prom-

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As She Tries

THE LITTLE GIRL unwrapped the new pair of shoes and glanced at The Times’ Clothe-a-Child

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PRISON REVOLT MYSTERY GROWS

Officials Silent as Soldiers . Arrive and Depart at Atlanta.

ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 8 (U. P)— Mystery piled on mystery today behind the gray walls of Atlanta federal penitentiary.

Troops reportedly were’ called to reinforce sentries guarding 25 desperate felons barricaded inside a prison building. But the soldiers departed shortly after they arrived. The only official statement came from Federal Prison Director J. V. Bennett, He declared regular contact with the mutineers was being maintained. Four guards are being held as hostages. “So far they are Bennett said. The revolt started yesterday when other ' convicts rebelled against being confined with Nazi saboteurs, Bennett said. Earlier, Bennett denied reports that the prisoners had threatened to “behead” their captives if officials attempted to storm their prison within a prison, Warden Joseph W. Sanford sent

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The day’s labor for George Washington Wertz, fore it is light. Here he gets his breakfast, then

Regardless of weather, Mr. Wertz walks the Shrec-mile round trip distance from home io work, Jupee Wh his wile. Mary, in’ their living room.

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'l Just Wanted to Help,’ Says War Worker, 93

On the gas mask assembly line at Ward-Stilson

Wertz works as much as 10 hours

a day over a six-day week. He claims it is the

easiest job he ever has had.

The day's labor over, he reads the evening

Intends to Keep on His ‘Easiest Job' After Victory. By VICTOR PETERSON AT 93 George Washington Wertz of Anderson: is a man with a future, Too young to fight in the civil war and over age for the conflict that followed he was thought too old to work in world war II.

But work he has done, and work

“God willing,” Six days a week, eight to 10 hours a day, he labors on a gas assembly line of the Ward-Stilson Co., plant 2. « 8 =

* YET WHILE he labors for his country, others the state over are letting down. The swing to jobs with peace-time security is strong.

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Hoosier Heroes—

THREE LISTED DEAD IN U. S. AND ABROAD

Five Wounded 2 and Three Reported Missing.

An Indianapolis pilot and a former resident were killed when an army training plane crashed near Bakersfield, Cal, and an in. fantryman has been killed in France. In addition, three soldiers are missing in France, five have been wounded in Europe and one is a German prisoner,

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First Lt. Hobert D. Simpson Jr. 1420 W, 36th st., near Bakersfield Cal. Second Lt. James Felix Apple white, Bloomington, near Bakers-

Pvt. Raymond Webb, 3141 Northwestern ave, in Prance. Pvt. James J. Rose, 1111 Carrollton ave., in France. ‘Pfe. Hugh E. Thompson, Hiatt st, in France. -

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RURAL SCHOOLS

Post-War Improvements Are Mapped by County, Township Officials.

A program to modernize Indiana’s rural schools was discussed

at the opening of the annual convention of the county and township officials association at the Claypool hotel today. School improvement plans are part of a general program for postwar projects being outlined by all local government officials in the 92 counties of the state. The association formally advocated a general survey of all county and township officials’ salaries. “No officer should be paid less for his efforts than others in similar positions of “responsibility in private businesses,” the association said. The county attorney’s group proposed introduction of a bill in the legislature to specify the duties of county attorneys, the methods of their appointment and their salaries. Township trustees, dominating the|

DROPPED TO $10,000

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Reduces Claim.

A new suit wag on file in superior court 3 today in the case of the “million dollar baby girl” who was

'|returned to her 19-year-old mother

yesterday. The original suit brought by the mother, Mrs, Jessie R. Jones, Indianapolis war widow, asking $1,000,-

Parker, was dropped after the mother and the baby were reunited.

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Simms: "Early Big 3 Parley Vital to Forestall Disaster’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, — In or-{cow and all that has been done by der to forestall possibly’ disastrous{the Buropean advisory consequences to the allied war ef‘{fort in Europe and Asia as & re-|.yisis between the Big Three. iP J, of isveading chaos 1 vous In Greece, civil war has already

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Entered as Second-Olass Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

PATTON SHATTERS SAAR RIVER LINE ON 25-MILE FRONT

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Assault.

Dec. 6 (U.P. ~British forces supporting the government of Premier George Papandreou opened a general assault today on rebellious BE. A. M. leftists.

ATHENS,

in the first onrush they captured BE. A. M. headquarters and the central offices of the Communist party. The government forces seized the Yannaro buildings in Constitution square, the last center in this part of the city of resistance by the E. L. A. 8. the military arm of the E.

A M. The buildings fell after a violent struggle, in which an E L. A. 8 lieutenant colonel and a major were arrested.

Fighting

An official announcement said the general assault aimed- at suppressing the E.L. A. 8. forces opened at 10:30 a. m., and by 11 a. m. the Communist central offices had been occupied, Four hundred E. L. A. 8. members, including some Bulgars, hoisted the white flag. Intense fighting continued to rage: half a dozen sectors of Athens. surrendered

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supporting forces moved in. The offices of the E. A. M.'s youth organization, E.P.O.N, also were occupied. So were Communist party headquarters. Few arms were found in the buildings. The general strike continued. Most families lacked meat or bread. A black market was flourishing. The showdown fight for control of the government appeared to have begun

Heavily-armed and. reinforced E. L A. 8. units earlier had pushed through the capital, overwhelming police posts and running head-on into the British tanks and infantry drawn up around the center of the city.

Claim E. L. A. 8. Fired First

An allied communique announced that the British were ordered into the fight after the insurrectionists had opened fire on their sentries. The death toll in the first three days alone in the “battle of Athens” stood at 100 or more; with another 250 persons wounded. Premier George Papandreou's government appeared to have weathered the storm at least temporarily, Papandreou offered his resignation yesterday. Later he withdrew {it after receiving assur-

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Small Countries WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P).~

[ther clarify its newly affirmed polfey of frowning upon “outside” ine fluence in governmental problems of the liberated countries, This government's determination to maintain a hands-off attitude was reiterated by Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. yesterday. His statement. was directed squarely at Britain's intervention in

Mr, Stettinius made it clear that the policy would “apply to an even

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WAR FRONTS

nothing like a real understanding

(Dec. 6, 1944)

WESTERN FRONT - American 3d army, striking along 50-mile front at central gateway to Rhineland, sweeps across Saar river at four and perhaps five points northwest of Saarlautern and crashes into German border fortress of Saareguemines,

AIR WAR—About 1600 U. 8. warplanes attack Leuna synthetic oil plant and rail gards at Bielefeld.

PACIFIC — American troops repulse tank-led Japanese night attack on north end of Ormoc pocket on Leyte. Warships and planes add Japanese destroyer and seven other vessels to enemy shipping toll in Philippines waters.

EASTERN FRONT—Russian are mored . columns roll through German defenses at Lake Balaton 50 miles from Austria. Moscow dispatches report Nazis are rushing reinforcements from Italy and Balkans.

RUSS 38 MILES FROM AUSTRIA

Berlin Reports Big Advance Beyond Lake Balaton

Toward Border.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press S.aff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 6—Berlin admits ted today that the Red army was

38 miles from the Austrian frontier,

The Russians had raced around Lake Balaton to the area of Kesztheley, the Nazis said. The Soviets violently intensified their drive through Hungary on a 200-mile front. Ernst von Hammer, Nazi radio commentator, said a Soviet general offensive reached the “highest pitch.”

Report Violent Fighting

Troops were advancing from the Drava river at Hungary's southwest border to the area of Miskole in the northeastern part of the, country, he said. Soviet, troops who reached the area of Kesztheley, on the northwest tip of Lake Balaton, were destroyed, the Nazis said. The Russians appeared to have swung around the fip of the lake after breaking through the gap between the lake and Nagykanizsa. The German fighting line northwest of Dunafoeldvar, 43 miles south of Budapest, “was withdrawn,” Berlin reported. Vanguards of Marshal Peodor L Tolhukhin’s 3d Ukrainian army stormed through more than 120 Hungarian towns yesterday. The Nazi defenses were breaking wide open under the furious Russian assault. Moscow - indicated

AT LEAST FOUR NEW CROSSINGS ARE REPORTED

3d Army Elements Crash Into Reich Fortress of

Saareguemines. ‘By J. EDWARD MURRAY Unite’ Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 6.—The Amer ican 3d army today swept across the Saar river at four

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northwest of Saarlautern,

stormed through two-thirds of the Franco-German fortress of Sarre guemines today. : Lt. Gen. George 8. Patton's forces were striking along a 50mile front at the central gateway to the Rhineland. The new crossings gave Patton's

armor and infantry six to seven bridgeheads across the Saar between Saarbrucken and Merzig, 25 miles to the northwest.

Defenses Seem Shattered

The last natural defense line In the rich Saar basin appeared shat-

man troops in the first three weeks

new ome in Germany's Saar under cover of darkness early today. They pushed across } swollen stream in assault boats at four points along a two and a half mile front between Mersig and Saarlautern

Resistance Heavy

German small arms pierced night with a hail of bullets and small caliber ‘shells. The doughboys reached the east bank and carved out their assigned bridge heads despite the heavy fire. In the Merzig area itself, recon« naissance units of the 10th armored division also slipped across the Saar. There was no indication whether these later were reinforced In strength or withdrew. Infantrymen of the 95th division won their second hridgehead on the

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