Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1944 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20, 1942

“REDS CRASH ON ~ INE. SLOVAKIA

Two Armies Advance on 100-Mile Front; Germans Lose 4000 Men.

MOSCOW, Dec. 20 (U, P,) ~The German grip on Eastern Slovakia loosened under increasingly-heavy Boviet blows today. Two Red armies advanced through the Nazi puppet state on a 100-mile front in converging

drives on the enemy stronghold of |:

Kassa, Late dispatches said the Germans and their Hungarian allies were

falling back slowly all along the|:

attack front. They lost more than 4000 men in a series. of pitched

battles in the mountain-passes east |

and south of Kassa, 4th Swings on Kassa

More than half the axis casualties were inflicted by Gen. Ivan I. Petrov's 4th Ukrainian army, It swung against Kassa from the east and southeast over the week-end. The thrust was co-ordinated with Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky’s 2d Ukrainian army strike across the Hungarian-Slovak border, Petrov’s troops rolled up the German flank on a 25-mile front. Three armored wedges were driven within nine to 14 miles of the big railway and highway center of

At the same time, Malinovsky's| & army pushed several miles into| ::

Blovakia on a more or less continuous 75-mile front. The Soviet early morning communique gave no new details on the battle of Budapest.

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Indianapolis Council Royal and Belect Masters conferred the Super

By UNITED PRESS HIVE CHILDREN whose dreams of Christmas were fulfilled weeks ago, because they seemed at the point of dying, will live to see the real thing. That is what physi cians ferecast today. But only Forrest~—(Nubbins) Hoffman, 3,- of Cheyenne,” Wyo, had any chance of knowing yet another Christmas after this one. The other four seemed irrevocably doomed to die before the holiday season is over. Nubbins arrived home from the

Excellent Masters degree on a class{{ |

of 124 Royal and select masters from nine Indiana councils Saturday.

Officers whp presided in conferging the degrees were:

Esco Shackelford, {illustrious , Cave, captain of the C. Willoughby, council; Clarence Gaumer, acting recordor; Miles Sheffel, steward, and William W. Bowman, sentinel. Jack L. Forcum Rad charge of ritualistic. work. i g character parts were taken by. Fred Manker, Ezekiel; Mr, Willoughby, eonductor; Robert Ramsey, courier; LeFreeman, Zedekiah, king of Juday; Henry Bettge, Gedeliah; Russel Tyrey, | Pashur; Oliver L. Fevrier, Zaphaniah; PJ W. Nutting, Jeremiah, a prophet; Heze Clark, Seraiah, high priest; Edgar BurJohn Stokes and David Cunningham, ; Mr. Willoughby, Robert Ramsey, herald; Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; Lloyd Young, Nebuzaraden, the general; Lennis Pirestine, Siscaptain of guard; William trap, and Willlam Waller, eouncilior chairman, Other participants were James P. Cave, prolog; Carl Gierke, lecturep ~ Harvey Richardson, organ; Ross Manley, prompter; Sam Huffman,

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Claus~but not again this year. Santa visited him Nov, 19. when it seemed Nubbins had no chance of lying. until Christmas. He brought gifts from persons in all parts of the country. They had been touched by his parents’ tragic efforts to satisfy his childish longings before he: died. Nubbins thinks Christmas has come and gone. Because there no longer is any urgency, his parents,

Mr, and Mrs, Marshall Hoffman, are going to let him keep right on thinking so. There's won't even be a Christmas tree in the Hoflman home Christmas day. RE Th ey

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"5 Children Who Celebrated Yule'Early May Live fo See Réal Thing—But 4 Face Death Soon

PATRICIA ATTAWAY, 7. 18 dying of lymphatic leukemia in a hospital in Aurora, Ill, She stared with lackluster eyés at the Christmas tree her daddy set up for her in" her room and decorated two weeks ago. “Please, daddy, may I have a Christmas tree,” she had said to Chief Petty Officer M. F, Attaway. He had traveled thousands of miles from the Western. Pacific to be with her. The physician consented, saying: “She may not be jhere for Chfistmas.” But Patricia, still lived today.

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8 8 ” ROY (SONNY) HESS of Rochester, N. Y., will be two, years old Christmas day--if he lives until then, There was a good chance that .he would. But on

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“He too thinks Christmas has come and gone. . . There was no one willing to tell him that Monday will be Christ« mas for most people.

DRIVER DIES FROM INJURIES IN CRASH *

Clyde Richard Glore, 40, of St.

Louls, died in City hospital yester- .

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