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"ONE WORLD"

Plans Drawn For Willkie's Peace Shrine

Times Special RUSHVILLE, Dec. 11.— Construction of a large auditorium here housing a world peace library and an “open forum” radio station as a memorial to Wendell Willkie will be discussed at a local meeting tonight. ' Current plans under consideration by interested sources here and in the East call for establishment of a $3,000,000 Willkie Merial Trust fund, with - which to. administer the shrine, The perpetuating fund would be sponsored hy an “international comm ittee” to be appointed soon by Lt. Phillip Willkie, son of the late Tonight's

Mr. Willkie Hoosier statesman, . ,conference will be attended by the ‘Rushville Willkie Memorial com‘mittee and Lt. Willki¢, now on‘ leave from naval duty in the Pacific,

THE PROPOSAL to create a “living and functional” Willkie Memorial is an outgrowth of two months of consultation among local civic authorities, Willkie’s immediate family and influential persons anxious to preserve the statesman's “One World” ideals. Although plahs are still tentative, the projected auditorium would be one of the largest in the midwest and would also contain an agricultural research depart-

ment, in addition to the library

and radio station. : As it is now conceived, the ra« dio station would serve the special purpose of presenting frequent open forums on world peace and international relations. These programs, Rushsville spokessaid, would feature distinguished personages in the field of international diplomacy. ® 8 - AS A prime-mover in the development, Lt, Willkie is said to have whole-heartedly indorsed the establishment of the shrine here rather than at other suggested cities in the east. This was Willkie's Indiana home at the time of his death two months ago. It was in the quiet seclusion of his rolling farm here that -he wrote his celebrated “One World” in which he set forth ‘the principles of international harmony. His body is Buried in East Hill cemetery just outside Rushville, ” ” o

THE ORIGINAL idea of a Willkie memorial was promoted by world-famous friends of the Hoosier philosopher in Washington and New York, but the decision was made to work through a local committee. Chairman of this group, representing the tap-roots of Willkie’s native soil, is Warder H. Wyatt, Rushville businessman. Will -M.~8parks;—a-Rushville-citizen, who now is judge of the Federal court of appeals in Chicago, is expected to take the lead in co-ordinating efforts of the international committee. s » ” OTHERS on the Rushville Willkie Memorial committee are T. A. Coleman, retired Purdue university professor L. A. Lockwood, superintendent of schools; Miss Mary Sleeth, manager of the Willkie farms; Ernest PF. Brown, Rush county farmer, and Dr. ©. C. Atkins, civic leader. Recently, President Herman B Wells of Indiana university announced establishment of an “interfaith fellowship” in tribute to Willkie at I. U,, his alma mater. The $300 fellowship will be awarded annually to the junior who does the most to promote interfaith and intergroup co-opera« tion on the Indiana U. campus.

if. U. BOARD TO FILL WILLKIE VACANCY

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 11.

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HERE PREPARE TO TIGHTEN UP

Crackdown on Deferments Awaits Orders From Hershey.

Local boards here will be “expected to tighten up on draft classifications as a means of convincing people that the war is not over.” That was disclosed today by Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Indiana selective service director. As yet, he said, there has no step-up in draft calls. + But, he added, a directive is expected from Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. ordering boards to reclassify for military service men with oppupational deferments who leave their jobs without selective service permission. His announcement followed a “work or fight” edict issued by War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes.

Orders Inductions

Byrnes instructed Maj. Gen. Hershey, selective service to amend draft regulations to provide for the induction of “additional men in’ the 26-37 age group” into uniform. Meanwhile, State War Manpower Director John K. Jennings said here that his agency probably would begin “screening out” persons in the higher-age class who hold nonessential jobs. He said the state WMC offices necessarily will attempt to “trace and scrutinize” the cases of thousands of Hoosier workmen who have transferred their jobs in: the past six months. “We've got to learn just where these persons are going,” said Mr. Jennings. “After that, we'll find out exactly how essential they really are.” -

Rapid Turnover

Chief difficulty locally, according to Bdward Eckstein, assistant manager of the local U. S. employment service office, is the rapid labor turnover, More than 4300 employees have left jobs here within the last three months. Most of those now trickling in and out of the employment office, he said, are “the continual floater” types who prefer not to stick with a job longer than’ ‘one or two months, : Other applicants, he said, refuse to accept jobs because they involve strenuous or discomforting working conditions, For this reason, he pointed out, the shortage of manual laborers is especially acute, Another shortage resulted from

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4,000,000 Face Lifting of Draft For War Plants

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A pool of some 4,000,000 draft-deferred men above 26 is subject to the government's new “work-or-get-in-uniform” edict. Top manpower officials predicted

in helping to find workers critically needed in war industry. Many of the 4,000,000 already are in useful war work. But it is believed that the number needed in munitions plant—estimated at 50,000 to 300,000—can be recruited through a tightening of draft deferment

taken at once. The ultimatum for a drastic crackdown on men who have been free from military service—as well as useful war work—was issued by War Mobilization Director Byrnes. It reflected Washington's growing

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TRUCK BREAKDOWN TIES UP STREETCARS

Streetcars on the E. Washington st. line were tied up for 40 minutes this morning by an army truck with a broken axle, The truck, which was part of a convoy, broke down at Washington st. and Audubon rd. An Indian. apolis Railways emergency crew cleared the tracks and service was at 987 a. m.

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6. M. TO SHIFT AIR UNIT HERE

Don Berlin, P-40 Designer, To Direct New Allison Section.

General Motors announced today it is moving its aircraft development section from Detroit to Indianapolis. The section, now operating under the Fisher Body division, will be transferred to the Allison division here, effective Feb. 1. It will continue to be directed by Don Berlin, a native Hoosier widely known as the designer of the Curtiss P-40 fighter plane.

Hangar and Shops

The flight test facilities, including a larger hangar and work shops, which are nearing completion here, “have been provided in order that Allison might more effectively carry out engine installation . work and more thoroughly co-ordinate engine and plane structures and performance,” said C. E. Wilson, G. M. president. Mr. Wilson added that “this move completes plans long under development to provide Allison division with experienced aircraft personnel and suitable facilities for the development and test of engine applications in airplanes. For. the moment such work will be confined to military requirements but when possible work will be commenced on applications of Allison engines to commercial aircraft.”

Berlin Bringing Staff

E. B. Newill, Allison general man« ager, said “With the transfer of the aircraft, development section, Allison will establish a new department of installation engineering. This department under the direction of Don Berlin will assume the responsibility for engineering the application of Allison engines to airplanes now powered by Allison and also to airplanes that may be developed by airplane manufacturers in the future at the request of military authorities and commercial aviation inferests. “The installation engineering department will work in the closest

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CHRISTMAS SEALS BRING IN $35,000

Drive Pressed for Goal of $92,500 in County.

Sales in the 1944 Christmas seal campaign have reached the $35,000 mark, Miss Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary of the Marion County Tuberculosis association, announced today. The county goal is $92,500. The sale, sponsored by the tuburculosis association, will continue through Dec. 24. Eli Lilly heads a volunteer committee of civic, labor and business leaders serving as the sponsoring members. Leaders hope to raise at least $100,000 in the sale so that the association’s healthebuilding and lifesaving program for 1945 may be expanded. Last year 235 Marion county residents died of tuberculosis, Today more than 2000 residents have active cases of the disease. Authorities state that tuberculosis killed more than 56,000 Americans last

- MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1944

BIGREST YULE BUYING SPREE JAMS STORES

‘It's Tremendous,” Official Says; $15,000,000 Expected to Change Hands.

The biggest. Christmas buying rush in Indianapolis’ history continued today as thousands of persons squeezed into downtown stores for the “next-to-the-last” late Monday shopping period. “It’s tremendous,” said one department store official, eyeing the packed aisles, “I didn't think it was possible to sell more than we sold last year. But we are.”

$15,000,000 to Be Spent

Unofficial estimates are that Indianapolis and nearby town residents will spend at least $15,000,000 here for Christmas gifts, $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 more than last year. Most stores report that sales are running 15 per cent ahead of last year. Merchandise is plentiful, although there are many shortages. Men's shirts and billfolds are examples. Perhaps the customer cannot find the type or brand he wants, but he can buy a shirt or a billfold. An official in one large depart ment store said that cosmetics were the leading seller, despite the 20 per cent tax. Jewelry and fur purchases are heavy.

Toys Are “Sufficient”

Store nfficialy report “generally sufficient” supplies of wartime toy stocks. And they say that although many of them are of poor quality they are selling. Second-hand stores are.doing a land-office’ business in used prewar toys. Many parents are picking up extra Christmas money by selling, at - prices . usually higher than their original cost, toys outgrown by their children. One store official said it was possible that the peak had been reached and that people had bought early, as they were asked to. But he doesn’t believe it. He expects the rush to continue right up until Christmas.

Britain Discloses Creation of Large

New Pacific Fleet

LONDON, Dec, 11 (U. P).—Britain announced today the creation of a large mew Pacific fleet, It was descri by some sources as big enough challenge the remaining Japanese fleet. The official announcement said the fleet would operate as needed under the supreme command of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz or Gen. Douglas MacArthur, The announcement underlined Britain's determination to play a strong role in the defeat of Japan. This marked her first appearance in naval strength in Pacific waters since her loss of Hong Kong and Singapore in 1942.

Hoosier Heroes— Drury and Daniel

Killed in Service

A lieutenant missing in China has beefy’ declared dead and an army private has been killed in Germany. Today’s casualty list also includes a missing infantryman and nine Indianapolis men who have been wounded in action. KILLED Pvt. Douglas Drury, 1108 E. New York st., in Germany. Lt. James K. Daniel, Torrence, Cal, formerly of Indianapolis, nephew of Mrs, Paul W. Gardner, 2006 N. Emerson ave., in China. MISSING Pfc. Charles W. Reimer, N. High School rd., in France, WOUNDED Lt. Oran K. Henderson, 3340 W. Michigan st. in France. 8. Sgt. Jack Brumbaugh, 805 8. Roena ave., in Germany. First Sgt. Shelby T. Hoover, 1301 College ave, in Germany. Pfc. Kenneth Bischoff, Anderson, formerly of 1413 E. Vermont st, during marine action. Pvt. Robert F. Bloomer, Cumber-

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land, in France. Pvt. Anthony L. Mauser, 957 N. Haugh st., in Italy. Pfc. Robert B. Talley, 2138 N. Alabama st, on Guam. » Pfc. Ludwig A. Cocco, 1334 Edgemont ave., in France. Pvt. Charles R. McElfrosh, 2724%

Ernie and Double

Ernie Pyle sizes up things with his movie double, Capt. Burgess Meredith. Capt. Meredith is on inactive duty from the army to play the leading role as Ernie in the film “G. I. Joe.” The picture, now being produced by Lester Cowan, is based on the Indianapolis Times correspondent's best-seller, “Here Is Your War.”

SLATTERY QUITS, RAPS WICKARD

REA Chief Will ‘Carry Fight To Public’; Charge He Was ‘By-Passed.’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P.). ~The White House today announced the resignation of Harry Slattery as rural electrification ad-

ministrator. Slattery promptly accused Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard of “illegally” by-pass-ing him and displacing him as actual REA. administrator. His resignation w a8 announced without any White House comment, There was no release on his letter of ‘resignation or President. Roosevelt's .acceptance of it. Two hours later, Slattery issued a statement explaining that he re-

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Sgt. Joseph Barr Helps Set Fires In Raid on Tokyo

THE GUN of Sgt. Joseph F. Baar, 19-year-old Indianapolis airman, was blazing away at the Japs yesterday as his 6 Superfortress helped set fire to Tokyo. Two of the B-29's raided the enemy capital just seven hours apart and set off explosions in the harbor area. Flames set off by the bombing could be seen 85 miles away. Sgt. Baar, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Baar, 202 N. Addison st., was in a raid over Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. In yesterday's raids the planes, flying unescorted, were assigned to a double purpose “weather

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REDS AT GATES OF BUDAPEST: CITY IS BURNING

Try to Protect Main Army Withdrawal.

By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent +» LONDON, Dec. 11.—Soviet front reports said the Germans were ir the Hungarian capital of Budapest under a storm of Russian bombs and shells today. A doomed rear guard was covering their flight from the burning city. The fall of Budapest, southeast ern Europe's greatest communications hub, appeared imminent. Converging Russian armies crashed into the gates of the city from three sides. They all’ but severed the enemy's narrowing escape line northwest to Vienna,

Abandon Wounded

Moscow said the fleeing Nazis were abandoning their wounded and huge piles of equipment. Several 'orack Luftwaffe squadrons joined battle with the Red air force over the choked rail and road lines to Vienna, They were attempting to save their marching columns from slaughter, Moscow said, however, that the Soviet fliers were taking a heavy toll of German froops and transport. Earlier reports had indicated that the bulk of the German and Hungarian garrison was digging in for a death stand inside the city. Latest Moscow dispatches suggested this activity was a ruse to cover the evacuation.

Cossacks Lead Assault

The German armored screen drawn around the city began to fall apart last night. Babre - swinging Cossacks and armored units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s 2d Ukrainian army spearheaded the assault, They drove more than seven miles down the east bank of the Danube yesterday. Alsogod and the adjoining railway station of God, seven miles north of Budapest, fell. Soviet tanks and horsemen also were pounding in on a looping front stretching 15 miles east of the river to Domony. They were within full view of the capital. Crack German 8. 8. panzer divi-

of futile counter-attacks. Battle fields were littered with hundreds. of dead.

HOPE IS FADING FOR GREEK COMPROMISE

Street Fighting Rages Into Second Week.

ATHENS, Dec. 11 (U, P.).—~Hope for an early compromise settlement of the Greek civil war faded today. Bloody street fighting in Athens raged into its second week, Some 20,000 well-armed leftist troops were still sniping and shelling British

and Greek government positions in the heart of the capital. E. L. A 8. forces were repulsed with heavy losses in an attack on the central gendarmerie barracks and in an attempt to move rein-

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ONE OF THEM, a 26-year-old widow and her four children, has applied to Thé Times for aid. The father died last year and the mother is confined to her home because of a heart ailment. Out of $50 a month received from

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an aid to dependent children pension and a small social security allotment $30 goes for rent. The other $20 must buy food, clothing, goal and pay the doctor bills. The children, whose ages Aare

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Yanks Tighten Stranglehold On 40,000 Japs, Take Ormoc

Sgt. White Home With Wounds of Aachen Offense

SGT. MILBURN WHITE, 533 Birch ave, has been recom“mended by his commanding officer for the silver star. The

sergeant, shown with his wife, Betty,” has just returned from overseas and is stationed at BillAngs hospital, While fighting near 8t. Lo, he

an aid station. A shell made a direct hit on the tent and Sgt. White helped the doctor and nurses evacuate the patients out of the area in ambulances. ‘ n o ” k MOVING UP to the front, he barely escaped capture by a handful of Germans who passed close enough to pick up his carbine as he lay in a shell hole waiting for the medics. He was wounded while he and his mortar squad were trying to stop an enemy counter-attack . near aE (Aachen

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the purple heart and Yo yet infantryman’s badge. He attended Manual high school and worked at the Nebraska Bridge Lumber Co, before entering the army. His brother, Dexter, is in France.

CHURGHILL CHARGES DENIED BY SFORZA

Sees Effort to Foist King

On Italian People.

ROME, Dec. 11 (U. P.).—Count Carlo Sforza—excluded from the new Italian cabinet as a result of British opposition—today accused Prime Minister Winston Churchill of trying to force King Victor Emmanuel on the Italian people, Sforza denied Churchill’s charge that he had conspired to overthrow the armistice government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Churchill charged Sforza thus had violated a pledge made to the allies before his

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Cologne Plain.

BULLETIN PARIS, Dec. 11 (U. P.)~The American 1st army slugged eastward up to two miles on a 10-mile front today in a close-in against the Roer river line before Cologne, Major German forces withdrew beyond the Roer under cove er of a delaying action,

By JAMES McGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 11.—American armored forces . battled eastward today across the muddy Cologne plain on a 10mile front. They were within two miles or less of Duren, main anchor of the Germans’ Roer river winter defense line. Pirst army tanks and infantry last night captured Echtz, less than two miles northwest of Duren and 17 miles inside Germany. They pressed on toward the Roer itself, a mile away. .Dhorn, a mile and a half southwest of Echtz and two miles west of § Dues; also fell. ~ Solid Roer Hold Sought

The Roer offensive was resumed in a determined effort to wipe out the last German forces on the west bank of the river. The American 3d and 7th .armies far to the south also hammered forward at the central gateway to the Rhineland. They wedged deeper

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LONDON, Dec, 11 (U. P.)=A huge American fleet of more than 1600 heavy bombers and 800 fighters, smashed vital points on Ger man rail lines leading to the Western battlefront today. British bombers joined the big offen~ sive with an attack on freight yards and benzol plants in the industrial Ruhr. The assault on Germany’s vital supply routes was paced by the greatest force of Flying Fortresses, Liberators and fighters the 8th air force has yet sent against the Nazis. The four - engined American bombers concentrate on rail yards at Frankfurt and other points in the immediate area, including Hanau and Giessen,

ALLTED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 11 (U. P.).~The 77th division fanned out from the captured port of Ormoc today. They were fighting to tighten the American stranglehold on 40,000 to 50,000 trapped Japs. One column pushed north up the Ormoc corridor to strike at the rear of the bulk of the enemy garrison. Here, below Limon, the Japs are making a last-ditch stand against an American frontal assault. Another column is headed south and already may have effected a junction with the 7th division around a second enemy pocket. Ormoc—on the west coast of Leyte—fell yesterday. It was occupled by veterans of the 77th only 72 hours after they had driven ashofe three miles to the south. The port was the main Japanese

supply and reinforcement gateway on Leyte. (Japanese broadcasts claiffied that Japanese forces had re-occu= pied four American airfields on Leyte and “firmly” held the initiative on the island.) American Liberators with fighter escorts dropped 268 tons of bombs on Japanese airfields in Cebu, Negros, Panay and Masbate islands Wednesday and Friday. (The Japanese high command continued to issue elaborate but entirely unconfirmed claims of Amer~ ican ship losses of Leyte island. A Tokyo communique said Japanese fliers sank two American cruisers or large destroyers, two transports and two big landing barges in the Surigao strait, southeast of Leyte. Another transport was damaged and

set afire, the communique said.)

WESTERN FRONT—American armored’ forces battle east across muddy Celogne plain to within two miles of Duren, main anchor

of Germans’ Roer river winter defense line. They also drove into Saar basin.

PACIFIC—B-29’s raid Tokyo fifth straight day, kindling fires in heart of city, Tokyo reports, On Leyte American troops fan out Arom captured port of Orinoc 16 . tighten stranglehold on 40,000 to + 50,000 trapped Japanese.

EASTERN FRONT Soviet.

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ating Budapest under storm of Russian bombs and shells, leaving only doomed rear guard to cover flight from burning city.

ITALY—Italian patriots drive Gere