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HEAVY QUAKE RIPS' ACROSS TOKYO AREA

Rolls Up Huge Tidal Waves, Unlooses Landslides in 150-Mile Belt."

: By UNITED PRESS The Japanese admitted foday that an earthquake rolled up huge tidal waves and

loosed - landsides yesterday across a 150-mile belt of central Japan.

The area extended through the teeming Tokyo district. British seismologists described the earthquake as even more violent than the 1923 Yokohama disaster

“ which killed almost 100,000 persons.

Comes Pearl Harbor Day Ironically, the earthquake came on the third anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. All word on the temblor -vas withheld by the Japs for more than 24 hours. ‘The Tokyo radio finally announced early today that the populous center of the Japanese homeland had been hit yesterday

The Tokyo broadcasts insisted{

that only “slight” damage had been caused. Practically none. of the capital district's crowded war plants were affected, they insisted,

Great Wall of Water

The Japanese Domei news agency said the earthquake centered in the sea of Enshu about 100 miles southeast of Tokyo. It reported that a great wall of water rolled inland over the coastal areas of Shizuoka district, flooding “some houses.” Tokyo reports relayed by Berlin

sald a number of houses crashed

down in Shizuoka province during the quake. Farther inland and extending up to the Tokyo-Yokohama district landslides caved in streets and houses over a wide area, Domei said. The agency carefully refrained from ‘mentioning that Tokyo itself had been damaged. Its account indicated strongly. however, that the capital was within range of the

shock. - Lists Five Districts

Domei said the principal districts convulsed by the earthquake “included” Hammatsyu, Shizuoka, Nagano and their vicinities. They lie in an arc extending around Tokyo from the southwest to west. Seismologists at the powerful West. Bromwich observatory in Eng~ land reported, however, that the shock was one of the most violent recorded thus far in the 20th century. . The West Bromwich instruments recorded a tremendous shock that began at 1:48 p. m. Thursday (Tokyo time). It started somewhere in the Tuscarora deep perhaps 100 miles off the coast of Japan, For six hours afterward, the entire earth was reported trembling. The upheaval appeared to be ripping squarely across Honshu island --Japan’s main island. More than 39,000,000 persons are Jammed there into one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

Yanks Rebufld City

J. 8. Shaw, seismologist at the West Bromwich observatory, said the Japanese location of the shock eenter suggested strongly that Japan may have suffered even a greater catastrophe than the convulsion that wiped out the entire port of Yokohama and three-fifths

Finds Cache of Scotch in Auto

GOSHEN, Ind, Dec. 8 (U. P.).

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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS ON Staft Welter WASHINGTON, Dec. - The

third anniversary of thy Harbor found the, allies dangerously far apart politically. They are so far apart that unless Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin soon remedy the situation the axis may yet win something short of unconditional surrender. Moscow, London and Washington are working at political crosspurposes. They are determined, of course, to smash Hitler, All three claim that democratic government everywhere is their chief war aim. But it is tragically clear that their ideas concerning democratic government are as far apart as the ‘poles. - This is true concern=

YANKS ON LEYTE CLOSE FOR KILL

Battle Roars to Climax as Enemy Loses 13 Ships With 4000 Troops.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—The battle to wipe out the last Japanese defenders of Leyte roared to a climax today. Fresh U. S. amphibious troops closed in on the Ormoc pocket after Gen. MacArthur's forces had sunk to the last ship a 13-transport reinforcement convoy carrying ‘an estimated 4000 Jap troops. The Yank forces fended off fierce enemy air attacks. The American troops were closing in from all sides against the 40,000 to 50,000 Japanese still holding out in a semi-circular position around the west coast Leyte port of Ormoc.

7ith Division Paces Attack

The attack was paced by the 77th division, of Guam fame, which car-

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American airmen had a fleld day. Maj. Richard Bong of Poplar, Wis, leading U. 8. ace, bagged two more Jap planes to raise his total to 38.

Yanks Sink Every : Ship

Simultaneously, the Japanese rushed the 13-transport convoy, crammed with troops, in an attempt to reinforce their fading garrison at rmoc. VU. 8. planes caught the convoy offshore, and sank every ship in it. “We will end it and we don’t intend to take too long about it, either,” Lt. Gen Walter Kreuger, commander of the 6th army, told newsmen as the final offensive to crush the Japanese on Leyte got under way. Gen. MacArthur reported that the 77th division was advancing northward “rapidly.” It was possible that the doughboys already had penetrated the port of Ormoc itself. American artillery brought the entire Ormoc harbor area under heavy artillery fire, rendering it

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JAMES HEADS G0P POLIGY COMMITTEE

Bowman and Carr Also

Named Officers of Group. Richard T. James, lieutenant govnamed

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ing Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, China or elsewhere, The big three have failed to agree on a workable formula, Because of this, the whole European continent ~ Soviet territory excepted—is on the verge of revolution or civil war, Arms paid for by American taxpayers and given to Europeans to help them fight the Nazis, are now. being used to kill one another, They may yet be turned against the allies, Because allied troops may be compelled to use force to keep their supply lines open, Greece is an example of what is threatening Europe. Led by

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Christmas gifts with a meaning are these calico animals in the arms of Pfc. Loren Robbins, wounded Indianapolis veteran at Billings general hospital. Some 35 men are making Christmas toys for their children, nieces and nephews,

many an unfortunate youngster.

Their actions are proof that trial by battle has not changed America's

men. ; Thirty-five G. I’s at Billings

NAVY AIDS B-298 BLAST JAP BASE

Record Bomb Loads Rain On Two Isles Following Raid on Tokyo.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—

Japanese bombers have raided Saipan, “a sizable force” of Super-

bombs on Japanese military instal-

today, nounced

results were not observed, No enemy opposition by fighters or anti-aircraft fire, was encountered, All the Superfortresses returned safely to Saipan, 750 miles to the southeast. The Superfortresses carried the largest individual bomb loads that have been dropped by the huge bombers to_date in their operations against the Japanese, This was possible because of the comparative short range of the operations. (Tokyo radio claimed five Chinabased Superfortresses were shot down during the homeward flight

day.) The Superfortress attack was coordinated with a combined surface unit and Liberator bomber attack. Warships of the Pacific fleet bombarded shore installations on Iwo Jima. A heavy force of Liberators from the 7th army air force

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JACKSON SHIES FROM JUSTICE POST RUMOR

Times Special . FT. WAYNE, Dec, 8 ~Ex-Sehator

DRY WEEK-END DUE, [sm EATHERMAN SAYS

weather maps today show a Indianapolis.

Semusl D. Sacksots suid hese \oday knew nothing of a report tha ho wa tong considered 5s 4 successor to Norman Littell as assistant U, 8. attorney general,

Gifts From the Wounded to the Well

Battle-Tested G. I's Fashion Christmas Toys at Billings

By VICTOR PETERSON From their hospital beds some wounded veterans are going to make a merry Christmas even merrier for their children, nieces, nephews and

the day making children’s toys.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1944

Simms: "Aies Are Far Apart Politically’ Kidney: "Has Anyone Soon the Original Atlantic Charter?”

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 8— Whether the famous Atlantic Charter—the actual agreement itself—really exists as anything more than a document published by the house of representatives is ‘under investigation by Senator A. B. (Happy) Chandler (D. Ky), As a mémber of the military affairs committee Senator Chandler has flown around the world and has visited all the battle fronts. But he never has met or talked with anyone who has seen the

“original Atlantic Charter — if any,” he said today. s » ” s

INQUIRY at the congressional library, where the originals of the

general hospital spend most of

Hands that not long ago were

‘| Saarbrucken today.

Striking back at bases from which

fortresses ‘dropped record loads of

lations on the island of Iwo Jima the war department an-

The bombing was done by instruments through heavy clouds and

firing a machine gun on a Pacific isle now fashion a yarn doll, Others that handled a spitting Garand carefully cut, fashion and sew calico animals. Some are crippled in hand, others {in body. But their labor is a’labor of love, for they know that come Christmas some children will be happy because of them. Typical is Pfc. Loren Robbins, 859 W. 30th st, whose left thigh bone was shattered by a 30 caliber bullet in the Pacific. Heavily weighted by a cast from the waist down to his left foot and right knee, he has been in bed since May. But day by day he makes calico animals. Some will be for his niece Armanda Moody of Greensburg. The rest he will give to the Sunshine club for distribution, ‘The work is under the supervision of the Red Cross arts and skills corps, working with the hospital ocoupational therapy division, Miss

Townsend Eaglesfield is in charge.

German Lines in Hungary

from Manchurian targets yester-|

REDS CUTTING NAZI RESERVES TO BITS

Buckle Under Blows. By ROBERT MUSEL

Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other precious documents are kept was fruitless. The Atlantic Charter, the library said, had never been entrusted to its care. The state department, which keeps track of commitments with foreign nations, said it had no knowledge of the charter’s whereabouts. It recommended house of representatives document No. 358 as the best available text. The White House itself said it knew nothing of the original charter, Senator Chandler brought the matter to the attention of the senate during the debate which resulted in sending the names of

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NAZIS LEAVING SAAR FACTORIES AS 30 ADVANCES

Patton Army Wedges Mile ‘And Half Into © West Wall.

By JAMES McGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Dec. 8—The American 3d army wedged a mile and a half into the Siegfried line belt of pillboxes and drove into the suburbs of

The battle of the Saar basin neared a blazing climax. German propagandists already were preparing the German people for the loss of the great Saar region, ~ This industrial area provided 7,000,000 tons of coal and 10 per cent of the Reich's iron and steel for the Nazi war machine last year. Lt. Gen. George 8S. Patton's tanks and infantry were eight fo 10 miles inside the Saar basin, Many coal mines already had been captured,

BULLETIN PARIS, Dec. 8 (U. P.).~Hardfighting American troops crashed into the suburbs of Saarbrucken today. They also hammered out gains up to three miles in scattered sectors of a winding 250-mile and the upper Rhine valley.

A German front reporter indicated that a number of its smelting furnaces and war factories also had been abandoned. Nazi broadcasts also reported that the American 1st and 9th armies on the Cologne plain were regrouping. Imminent large-scale attempts to break across the Roer river line onto the immediate approaches to Dusseldorf and Cologne were hinted. .

6th Army Group Gains

At the southern end of the front, Lt. Gen, Jacob L. Devers’ 6th army graup . pounded through the eastern tip of France to within seven miles of the Siegfried line. They also advanced to within four miles of Colmar, heart of the shrinking German pocket on the Alsatian plain, Patton's 90th division broke into the Siegfried line inthe face of savage resistance in the Pachtener Buchwald forest four miles north of Saarlautern, The Germans laid down a withering blast of artillery and small arms fire from thetr con concrete defenses.

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NISBIT ELECTED BY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES

William Nisbit, Rownship trustee at Clinton, was elected president

United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dee. 8.~The Germans battle lines across central and southwestern Hungary buckled under a succession of Red army blows today. Moscow dispatches said 40,000 newly-arrived Nazi reserves . were being cut to pieces. Soviet and German reports indicated that the battle for Hun-

of the Indiana Township Trustees’ association at the organization's annual convention here today, Mr. Nisbit, a former state policeman, succeeds John Duff of Geneva, Otto Walls of Knightstown was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Resolutions , were passed urging that trustees be represented on state and county welfare boards and that the trustees be enabled to start a program to modernize pub-

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CLOTHE-A-CHILD—

Firm Plays Fairy Godmother To a 4-Year-Old Cinderella

lic schools after the war,

was wearing. They both were blue, trimmed with white lace.

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Greeks Step Up Attack on British.

By JAMES ROPER United Press Staff Correspondent ATHENS, Dec. 8-—Lt. Gen. Ronald Scobie reported today that Greek attacks on British troops are increasing. A general strike has hit Salonika, he said. He added there is no indication

that E. L. A.-8. forces are slackening their resistance, E. L. A. 8. partisans were re-

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Churchill Quips To Lady Astor

On Temperance

LONDON, Dec. 8 (U. PJ). —Prime Minister Winston Churchill paused in the course of his commons speech today, remarked that he would “have a little lubricant,” and reached for a glass of water. Then he turned toward Lady Astor, an ardent dry, and observed that he knew it would “please the honorable lady to see me drinking water.”

ported to have opened preliminary negotiations with the Greek government aimed at ending the civil war, However, there was no. indication any rapid progress was being made. Scobie reported that British troops slowly were clearing the Athens and Piraeus area. But E. L. A S. partisans were filtering back and fighting continues.

900 E. L. A. 8. Men Seized

More than 900 E. L. A, 8S. officers and men have been captured by British troops and turned over to the Greek government, he said. “Ninety per cent of these were dressed as civilians,” Scobie’s com= munique “said, “A majority of the captured weapons are , German Italian in origin.” Scobie said that sunprovoked ate tacks on British troops are increas. ing and the rebels have declared their intention of holding any cap~ tured British and Greek troops prisoners. : “Elsewhere in the country there are indications the rebel troops still are concentrating on Athens.”

Three Planes Damaged

Fighters and fighter - bombers, supporting British and Greek troops, attacked rebel machine gun and mortar positions in the hills overlooking the suburbs of Athens and Piraeus, Scobje said. Three planes were damaged by small arms fire, Regarding the reported negotiations between E. L. A. 8. represen~ tatives and Premier George Papandreou’s government, informants emphasized that they still were in the preliminary stage. As a result, it was said, the negotiations carried rio definite promise of reconciling the viewpoints of the government and the E. A. M. leftist faction, of ‘which the E. L. A. 8. is the military arm. Meanwhile, British artillery bracketed a Greek hospital with shells in an effort to wipe out an E. L. A. 8. mortar position on the grounds, British planes again shot up E. L. A. 8. positions south of the Parthenon.

Watches Battle I watched the battle from the roof of a building formerly occupled by the Communist party, but now by a swarm of British paratroopers -fighting as infantry and snipers, E. L. A. 8. units, fighting at extreme range, sent slugs whizzing

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Hoosier Heroes—

BLACKWELL AND BUSHONG KILLED

Sgt. E. A. Peterson Missing

Over Yugoslavia.

KILLED Two more Indianapolis men have been killed in Germany while one is missing over Yugoslavia and five have been wounded. Two local men previously listed as missing are prisoners. , KILLED Bgt. George Bushong, 3657-N. Illinois st., in Germany. Pfc. Vincent Jerome Blackwell 4250 Central ave. in Germany.

MISSING

Sgt. Ernest A. Peterson, Pleasant st., over Yugoslavia.

WOUNDED Lt. (jg) Charles Willlam Stoup, 5153 Kenwood ave, in the Pacific, Capt. Bernard F. DeWitt, 42 N. Mount st., in Angaur, Pfc. Howard W. Plake, 1630 Martin st., on Peleliu Pvt. James H. Fleener, 1412 Lee st., in Germany. Pte. Dale R. Martz, 306 8. Wal cott st. during marine action,

- PRISONER Pfc. Nicholas'W. Kelsch, 1523 Lin

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HALIFAX CITES U.S. AND BRITISH

Ambassador Sees Hope for

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and [Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, sald today there is between the United States and Britain on the issue of allied policy in liberated

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Halifax was asked why the British government failed to notify the United States of its intention to veto Count Carol Sforza as a possible Italian prime minister or for eign minister, He replied that the British government had not been told in advance that the state department planned to issue a statement on the matter, and added: “So far as there was any lack of consultation on either side, the moral is that there should be a (future) desire for direct consultation on both sides.”

Discussion in House

Meanwhile, discussion of the controversy broke out in the house, where Rep. John E, Rankin (D, Miss.) protested against his colleagues “waving a Red flag” at Great Britain in connection with the dispute. He spoke after Rep. Emanuel

department stand and described its recent statements as “refreshing as a new summer breze.” Celler said British machine gunning of Greeks was a “horrible spectacle” and a violation of the Atlantic Charter, “This is the worst time for members of this house to be waving a Red flag In the face of Great Brit-

said. He added that he believed such

statements were “rendering a a dis service.”

Big Three Meeting Needed The feeling persisted here that

resolved until President Roosevelt gets together again with Prime Minister Winston. Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin. “ This government's hands-off re: minder in connection with the Greek situation came yesterday. Two days previously it made a strong declaration against Britain's intervention in the Italian cabinet dispute. Stettinius carefully skirted refer-

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POLICY

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Challenges U. S, On Sforza Status.

By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec. 8 (U. P.). —Prime Minister Churchill today stood by his guns on British policy in Greece, Italy and Belgium.

He directly challenged the American position on Italy's Count Carlo Sforza. Mr, Churchill called Greek resistance forces “rebels and mu-

The British prime minister made one of his most scathing addresses since the start of the war, Churchill staked his government's life on maintenance of his policy without change and won an easy vote of confidence from the house of commons, 279 to 30.

Raps U, 8. Policy

Mr. Churchill did not refer to Secretary of State Edward R. Stet tinius by name. But he took up diStettinius’ statement that the United States had no ob«

in political affairs in Italy applied even more forcefully in liberated countries of our allies. The house of commons was in uproar much of the time during Churchill’s 80-minute address. Laborites heckled him repeatedly. Churchill was scathing in his denunciation of the Greek leftist forces. He asserted th “are mutineers to the orders of “sue preme commander of the Mediter« ranean, under whom all the guerril. las have undertaken to serve.” He declared the British govern. ment would continue its armed support of the Papandreou regime in Greece and of the Plerlot govern ment in Belgium. He charged leftists in Belgium

throw Premier Hubert Pierlot in November, The British army ine tervened there under direct orders of Sen Dwight D, Eisenhower, he

" Oppose Sforza From Start

He revealed that Britain had been opposed from the start to ale lowing Sforza to go back to Italy. He said Britain had only agreed to Sforza’'s return after the United

standing that he would not engage in political machinations against Marshal Pietro Badoglio. “We do not trust the man,” said Churchill sharply. “Nor would we put the slightest confidence in any government of which he was the dominant member,” “He was no sooner back in Italy than he began a long series of ine

sion of Marshal Badoglio from ofs fice,” Churchill said. “We. are not avid to -becomd deeply involved in the politics of liberated countries,” he said. “All we desire from them is gove ernments which will guarantee us the necessary security for our lines of communication.” He charged the left-wing Greek

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