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QUICK 0. K. OF AIDS 1S ASKED

Each Nominee Qualified for Post-War Tasks, He

Tells Senate Group.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U, PJ. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr, today asked for

prompt senate confirmation of six top state department nominees.

organization and the formation of post-war peace machinery, he said. Stettinius appeared as the first witness in the senate foreign relations committee’s inquiry into the qualifications and views on world affairs of the six nominees. “Each of them is, in my opinion, wholly qualified by character, experience and abilities for the responsibilities he has been asked to assume,” Stettinius said. “Each of them, I believe, wholeheartedly supports the principles and objectives of the foreign policy of the U. 8. as they have been expressed by the President, by Mr. Hull (former Secretary of State Cordell Hull) and by the congress.”

Outlines Objectives

Stettinius said that the months ahead present “far greater responsibilities in world affairs than ever before. » i He outlined these American obJectives: ONE: The fullest possible support in the conduct of our foreign relations for our armed forces, so that the war may be won at the earliest possible moment.

TWO: Effective steps to prevent Germany and Japan, after victory by the united nations, from again acquiring the power to wage aggressive war, THREE: Establishment at tHe earliest possible moment of a united nations organization capable of building and maintaining the peace —by force if necessary—for generations to come. FOUR: Agreement on measures to promote a great expansion of our foreign trade and of productiveness and trade throughout the world, so that we can maintain full employment in our own country and-—to-gether with the other united nations—enter an era of constantly expanding production and consumption and of rising standards of living.

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FIVE: Encouragement of all those conditions of international life favor- , . able to the development by men and women everywhere of the institutions of a free and democratic way of life in accordance with their own customs and desires.

Discusses Nominees

. Stettinius then discussed the qualifications of the six nominees— Joseph C. Grew to be undersecretary and William L. Clayton, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Archibald - MacLeish, James C., Dunn, and Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes to be assistant secretaries, Of them, he said: —'He has devoted 40 years to serving our country with great ‘distinction ‘and honor in the conduct of our foreign relations in all parts of the world. . . . He knows at first hand both fascism and aggression and hates them both.”

Clayton—“He has been engaged for more than 25 years in the cotton business in many parts of the world. + « « I believe he would bring to the department great executive ability, practical experience and whole-hearted support for the liberal economic objectives of our foreign policy.” | Macleish — “Mr, MacLeish has): been a soldier, a lawyer, editor;

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REPORT NAZI TROOPS BATTLING AUSTRIANS

LONDON, Dec. 12 (U. P)—A Brussels broadcast said today that Austrian and German troops had skirmished in Austria, Individual German soldiers also have been attacked on streets in Vienna, the broadcast said. No source was given for the reports.

DENY FRANCO RUMORS

LONDON, Dec. 12 (U. .P.).—~Reports that Generalissimo Francisco Franco was about to turn over the reins of the Spanish government to an exiled Republican leader appeared to have been squashed today. Madrid dispatches stated that Franco had returned to his capital after a week-long hunting trip with no apparent intention of resigning,

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VOLUME 556—NUMBER 236

Rumors Slow Movement of War Materials Through Army Depot Here

Where prized Hoosier cattle once were judged, mountainous rows of army air force equipment now are piled. The equipment Is vital to the fighting fronts, but it is moving slowly. Rumors that the fair is to reopen are driving badly-needed workers from their jobs just as the

tempo of the front-line winter offensive is reaching the peak of fury.

POSTWAR PEAGE PSYCHOSIS SEEN

‘Don’t Let Up Until Last Gun Is Fired,” Adm. Carpender Tells Navy League.

A warning that a “dangerous peacé psychosis” may develop after the end of the war with Germany was issued by Rear Adm. Arthur 8. Carpender today, Speaking at the formation of the Indianapolis chapter of the Navy League of the United States, Adm. Carpender urged the public not to relax in “any field of endeavor until the last Japanese ship is sunk and the last Japanese gun is silent.” “Unless this job is done right this time, it will have to be done over again,” the admiral declared, charging the members of the Naval

league to take a lead in combatting

any “peace psychosis.” Introduced by Dwyer

The 9th naval district commandant was the speaker at a luncheon held at the Athletic club. He was introduced by Leo T. Dwyer, state vice president of the Navy league. Formation of a unit here is the first effort to eshablish at least 10 councils in Indiana. If this is successful, the state will be entitled to a charter. Adm. Carpender explained that the Navy league is the “unofficial voice” of the navy andis composed of civilians interested in adequate naval strength for the United States. “I believe sincerely that some hope of preventing future aggression rests in keeping America strong,” the admiral declared. “That is the Navy league's objec tive.” Predicts Cry of Pacifist

.. Noting that the cause of the

Davy Is- popular today,” Adm, Car-

pender” predicted the cry of the pacifist and the plea for economy would be heard again. He classed the pacifist as practical and impractical. “The former,” he defined, “is one who believes that peace may better be kept by remaining strong. He

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STATES WARNED ON LABOR WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U. P). —Secretary" of Labor Frances Perkins told the national conference on labor legislation today that the federal government will be “pressured”

to extend its authority in the field |

of labor legislation unless the states enact “decent labor laws and vigorously enforce them.”

Loose Talk of

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1944

Closing Up

Shop' Leads Many to Quit

By VICTOR

PETERSON

IN SPITE of any rumors you may hear, the army air forces storage depot at the Fairgrounds is not closing up shop. i SL Joes Up 3oo%: ws itmjiluyecs 10 Tes

sign since Dec. 1. Another 2 per

cent are seeking their release. All

of them fear their jobs are going to fold beneath them with the rumored reopening of the yearly state fair,

To spike the loose talk, Col, J Frank J, Hills, officer, said today: , “If we were to move all our goods, box by box, working 24 hours a day, to move 30 car-loads, we couldn’t be out of here in less than 10 months. ” " »

“BESIDES our contract leases the fairgrounds for the duration and one year. 23 “What we need is more help, not less. These rumors definitely are hurting. We are doing 65 per cent more receiving and shipping than ever before. Yet workers are falling away, “On the average movement of goods we are two to three days behind, and the greater percent® age is sent directly overseas from here. . . # » “PERHAPS people think a few days will make no difference. But if an advance can't go forward because goods are lacking, it means just a few more days of war, Add it up indefinitely and the total can be staggering.” The help shortage has at times

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WRECK ENDS DAD'S PLAN TO PLAY SANTA

Young Father Killed as

Train Smashes Car.

A young dad's happy dreams of playing Santa to his new-born daughter and 19-month-old son were snuffed into oblivion today. The father, Charles R. Tharpe, 25, was killed yesterday when his car was smashed by an inbound Louisville to Indianapolis passenger train at the Sumner ave. crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad. The parents of a 4-day-old infant, Mary Belle Tharpe, Mr, and Mrs, Tharpe had planned a family Christmas around a tinseled tree in their home, 1404 Edgecomb ave, For thelr young son, Richard, there was to be a hobby-horse and coaster, wagon. The speeding train carried Mr.

DIP IN MERCURY DUE BY TONIGHT

Snow Flurries Continue Here As Storm Moves to

Eastern Coast. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am..,.2 10am... 24 1.8. M..... 25 1lam....2 Sa.m..... 25 12 (Noom).. 25 9a. m..... 2“ 1pm... 25

Although the worst of the winter storm has moved to the eastern seaboard, the weather bureau predicted more snow flurries here today with colder weather blowing in tonight. Temperatures dropped to 25 this morning and they will go lower tonight, the weather bureau said, “Indianapolis streets remained icy this morning, slowing traffic on most of the transit lines. A freezing mist late yesterday glazed the streets again after most of them had been freed of ice by heavy traffic. Motorists, becoming accustomed to slick streets, drove more cautiously last night. There were no serious accidents. “The south had its first winter weather of the season as the storm turned toward the Gulf of Mexico. Macon, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala,

Jreported two inches of snow and

temperatures around 25 degrees, unusual for that part of the country.

Snow Causes Worst Pittsburgh Traffic Jam

PITTSBURGH, Dec, 12-(U. P.) ~~ Snow ranging from a foot to 18 inches in depth blanketed western Pennsylvania today. Transportation and police officials said it caused the worst traffic snarl in the history of industrial Pittsburgh. Four. deaths and three injuries were attributed to the snowfall, Thousands of Christmas shoppers found themselves marooned in downtown Pittsburgh last night as snow halted automobile, bus and

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trolley traffic.

CLOTHE-A-CHILD—

Link-Belt Workers Come Through Auer Bringing Joy and Warmth to 40 Children

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head to foot and then got all they could eat in the store's cafe~

Loaded down with packages, the kiddies strutted proudly back to the Clothe-A-~Child office. Then Link-Belt workers provided apples and oranges to take home. » . . WHEN ONE mother saw her 1-year-old daughter dressed in a bus saw gst and White shoes,

/|Trafic was being diverted to the and a manpower shortage, he said. |

NIEBUHR CALLS RELIGION ‘VALID’

Theologian Terms It ‘Answer to World Problems’ In Butler Talk.

Reinhold Niebuhr of New York, “America’s leading theologian,” holds that religion “remains a permanently valid answer” to the problems arising out of our chaotic life today. Dr, Niebuhr sddrepsel the students of a the Butler School § of Religion at 11 a. m. and was due to talkg again at 2 p. m. today, He will speak a third time at 7:45 tonight in Sweeney

Dr,

was described by Dr, Frederick D. Kershner, dean emeritus of the school, as America's leading theologian. Dr. Niebuhr told his Butler audience this morning that international communication has created a global community more rapidly than we have been able to solve its problems. He said that the need for organization so as not to produce anarchy presents a tremendous moral and political task. Dr. Niebuhr gave the nations credit for beginning to aequire the resources for world government, but added that we are still far from actual world government. World. alliances may or may not produce peace, he said. The problems which confront such alliances, or the problems of the chaotic world today, are too much for one generation to solve, he asserted, The great nations also were given credit by Dr. Niebuhr for their ef-

Dr, Niebuhr

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ALLIES PRESS RAIDS ON GIGANTIC SCALE

6000 Planes Attack Reich

In 2 Successive Days.

LONDON, Dec. 12 (U, P.)~Almost 1500 American heavy bombers ppherded by 900 fighters smashed today at the big Leuna synthetic ofl plant at Merseburg and rail yards at Hanau Aschaffenburg, and Darmstadt in widespread assaults on Germany. The daylight bombardment deep in central Germany approached the scale of yesterday's attack by a record fleet of 1600 Flying Fortresses and Liberators on the Frankfurt

area. The daylight attack followed stabs by British Mosquito bombers last night at Hannover, Ham and other targets in westérn The new attack on German transport was made coincident with a report that continued bombardments had tied up all rail routes from ‘the central and northwest parts of the Reich to the front.

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REDS BATTLE IN BUDAPEST

City Doomed as Soviets Crack Germany's Hungary Line. By ROBERT MUSEL

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United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 12.-~Tank-riding Russian shock troops, opening the grand assault on Budapest, broke into the outskirts- of the flaming Hungarian capital today. Moscow declared that Soviet armies have collapsed the- entire German front in Hungary. They are pouring through a 185mile breach on the southeastern road to Austria and Germany.

Vienna Threat Growing

“The German defense in Hungary has collapsed,” radio Moscow declared in a triumphant broadcast beamed to Germany. “Budapest can no longer be held. Its fall is imminent. “The. threat to Vienna, the rest of Hungary and Czechoslovakia has grown many times over, “Russian shock armies in the southeast have broken open the

piss fleld dispatches said thunering artillery duels and violent ering, rule fighting were raging, over and in the outskirts of Buda~ pest.

army northwest toward Vienna, Escape Corridor Exists

Late Moscow dispatches said, however, that a narrow escape corridor along the Budapest-Vienna railway still was in German hands. The main Soviet assault columns were smashing down along the east bank of the Danube and from the northeastern flank into Pest, the eastern half of the capital. Long range Soviet artillery rocked the city with a terrific barrage. Many of the Nazi gun positions were wiped out. But Red Star made it clear that the weight of the enemy’s guns promised to make the assault a hard and costly affair.

LEFTISTS INFILTRATE BRITISH POSITIONS

E. L. A. S. 75's Drop Shells

In Downtown Athens.

BULLETIN ATHENS, Dec. 12 (U. P.).~Reinforcements have landed in the Athens area to join British and Greek government forces,

By JAMES E. ROPER United Press Staff Correspondent

ATHENS, Dec. 12.—Lt, Gen. Ronald Scoble today announced “ex-

parts of Athens cleared in the last few days. He said snipers were picketing all routes out of the city. “There has been no slackening of rebel resistance. Although some progress has been made in Piraeus

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and the central sector of the city, the general situation has improved little,” the commander of British forces In Greece said. The British and Greek g ment forces in the center of yi had been forced to yield a dozen or more city blocks in what was described at a military conference as “very flerce fighting.” Scoble announced that reinforcements had landed to join in the battle against the anti-government forces. “Some progress has been made in

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SHORTAGE CANCELS SUGAR STAMP NO. 37

Canning sugar now can be obtained only with stamp No. 40 in book No. 4, Paul H. Moore, Indiana | district food rationing officer, an-| nounced today. Stamp No. 37 in ration book No. 4 has been invalid since Saturday because of an

8 ITALIANS EXECUTED : ROME, Dec. 12 (U. PJ. — AN

ONE SURVIVES— 2 of 3 Hoosier Brothers Die Fighting Nazis

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Pfc. Ray K. Foreman

THE THREE Foreman brothers all fought the Germans at 8t. Lo. Now two of them are dead. Sgt. Marion T. Foreman, the

youngest of the three, was killed in action in France Nov, 23. His brother, Pfc. Ray K. Foreman, died on French soil 10 days before, on Nov. 13. The two brothers entered France within two weeks last June. They had been fighting with the ground forces while their brother, Gilbert, a first lieutenant with the 8th army air forces, battled the Nazis from the air. " » ”

MARION wrote his wife, Mrs. Margaret Foreman, Lafayette, that he often felt that Gilbert was with them, Every time the 8th air force would fly. over he'd think that

ATION STARTED IN TOKY( AREA

Action Taken as

B-29s Again Fire City.

By UNITED PRESS The Japanese reported today that they were stripping Tokyo's 7,000,000 population down to essential defense personnel. The mass evacuation was preparatory to a full dress American aerial siege, Tokyo said. The siege was foreshadowed this

tress flights over Tokyo. Some were reconnaissance and nuisance flights with bombings interspersed. Report 3 Flights The Japanese domestic radio said B-20’s based in the Marianas made three flights over the Japanese mainland between midnight and § a. m. teday. A Transocean dispatch from Tokyo said “several” planes swept over the capital this evening, dropping incendiaries.

tion that the evacuation of Tokyo might also have been prompted by the severe earthquake that rocked central Japan last week. The Japanese have admitted that the tremor, which observatories around the world described as of “catastrophic” proportions, had caused damage in a number of areas pear Tokyo. They made no refer-

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ence to the capital itself,

By JAMES McGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Dec. 12 (U., P.).~Ameri-. can 1st army assault forces today | drove within a half mile of Duren,| key Yortress city astride the Roer| river west of Cologne. Seven of Duren’s outpost towns toppled in an eastward surge through crumbling German resistance. Dispatches from Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ front said the German defenses west of the Roer river were falling apart. The doughboys were closing against the Nazi winter defense line on a 10-mile front. Cologne-bound troops of the -1st army captured Pier, Merken, Hoven, Mariaweiler, Kozendorf, Derichswetiler, and Gey in what field reports described as excellent progress,

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PACIFIC—American troops on Leyte battle survivors -of Leyte

garrison into tightening death trap north of Ormoe. .

CHINA-—Chinese "counter-drive

last week flee south.

in Southeast China carries deep into Kwangsl provinces. Survivors of Japanese force that struck for American ajr base at Kweiyang

ITALY —Luftwafle resumes action Hn

1st Takes 7 Towns, Drives

Within Half Mile of Duren

The advances carried the Americans to from 300 to 600 yards of [the Roer along a four-mile front above Duren. “They gained control of some three miles of the western | bank of the stream below Duren. | The clearing of Mariaweiler tipped over the last strongpoint before the northwestern outskirts of Duren. The Yanks pushed on to within less than 1000 yards of the Roer citadel. Duren is. the most formidable barrier bolcking the way to the Rhineland and Cologne, Pier, Merken and Hoven are in the Mariaweiler area, Derichsweiler is a fraction over a mile west of Duren on the Eschweller railroad. Kozendorf is a trunk highway ham-

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On the War Fronts

WESTERN FRONT — First army forces break through to Roer river, Germany's stand-or-die defense line before Cologne, on 1000-yard

The axis reports stirred specula-