Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1944 — Page 6

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(Continued From Page One) to north: & ECHTERNACH: Americans held town with aug-|

mented forces and several]

small villages to the south and southeast. Fierce fighting was still in progress.

CONSDORF #.AREA: Germans have made advances of undisclosed nature to the west which may have taken them into Luxembourg city. ) VIANDEN AREA: The Germans have driven forward at least 13 miles to a point just east Bf Wiltz, putting them half-way across Luxembourg as long ago at Tuesday noon, This was regarded as one of the most dangerous German thrusts. CLERF: « Another column just seven miles northeast of the Wiltz forces, slashed the LuxembourgLiege road. ST. VITH: The German pincers movement on St. Vith was being held in bloody fighting but there was no word of the fate of American forces trapped ‘to the east. Just north of St. Vith the Germans made their most extreme gain, driving some 30 miles inside Belgium to Habiemont.

Front Dispatches Confused

Along the northern flank of the Nazi salient late front reports from United Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish with the 1st American army said the Malmedy-Stave-lot line was growing more stable steadily. German efforts to crack through these bastions protecting Liege, 17 miles to.the northeast, had been turned back, he said. A German D. N, 'B. news report. said Lt. Gen. George S. Patton was wheeling his 3d army northwestward from the Baar front to meet the threat caused by the lengthening salient, (Front dispatches did not make clear whether command of the Lux-

Patton, Such & move might be necessary if -the gap slashed between the northern and southern elements of ‘the 1st army has cut communications from Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges’ headquarters’ with the Luxembourg sector.) Frankish left no doubt that there had been any lessening of the grav ty of the situation. Frankish reported that “heaviest fighting” was in progress a what was called “the fluid zone”—a region about 25 miles broad from St. Vith down to Viandon, Luxembourg, where the major German armored breakthrough was achleved. Field Marshal ‘Karl von Rundstedt was reported pouring his finest infantry units into this hole following the blazing trail left by his tank columns. American and German formations were scattered through the breakthrough region. Dozens of individual. battles were going on. The climax of the German offensive’ was yet to be reached.

“Still They Kept Coming”

“American tank destroyers and bazookamen,” Frankish reported, “are knocking out German Tigers and Panzers one after another but

{still they keep coming-trying to

make their third great drive across Belgium in 30 years. “Town after town was being overrun by panzers. “It 1s sald officially that the attack is not apt to be over this week. The German advance might go

farther before it is halted. Our counter measures thke time.” There were reports that Von

Rundstedt has by no means thrown in all his available forces as yet and that they are massed in the

the momentum of the present advance be slowed.

No Major Breakthrough An official headquarters statement suggested strongly that no major

breakthrough had yet been achieved by the Nazis.

embourg sector had been shifted to

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news. of “sensational” import would] be released immediately, it promised. There was no “sensational” ans nouncement this morning, ' Headquarters clung to its policy of revealing less : spectacular developments 48 hours old. Some. observers believed it possible that Rundstedt hoped to split through the allied front to the north seacoast, 135 miles to. the northwest, A breakthrough to the sea, sources sald, would drag“the war on agonizingly: until the summer of 1945 and perhaps beyond. ~ There was every expectation at headquarters, however, that the main weight of the American reserves would reach the menaced areas in time to prevent a decisive breakthrough.

were being rushed in from Lt. Gen. George 8. Ratton’s 3d army on the

south and the stable northern end of the lst army line.

STIMSON SEES WAR HANGING IN BALANCE

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being steadily reinforced and supported with large movement of supplies, and while, with the winter upon her, Germany was being subjected to a steadily increasing and vast aerial attack. “Under these circumstances,” he said, “the Nazi regime has not a great deal to lose and might gain | a few months’ extension of time before being called to an accounting |

on the world. “I have the utmost confidence in| the wisdom, energy and aggressive fighting attitude of Gen. Eisen+ hower and his leaders.” Stimson said there ‘was not | enough inforMation available in| Washington to permit a well-found-ed estimate of the situation on the!

western front.

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mend Ending of Indiana Vote Probe.

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records of some 65,000 registration purges over to the justice department, if it wants them. “Our report will be highly critical of the conduct of the Indiana elec{tion in regard to such purges and {of Attérney General James Emmert | for sending instruction telegrams at the expense of the Republican state committee. “In countermanding the state election. board wire authorizing the use jot affidavits by challenged voters at the polls, Mr, Emmert, whose conduct on the witness stand showed him to be a braggart, used his high’ title to scare people for purely political gain, “I think his wire constituted a threat,” The subcommittee report, now being drafted by Senator Stewart and Senator Ball, will be ready be; fore Christmas, But the full campaign expenditures committee, headed by Senator Green (D. R. 1), will not meet until after the holidays, Senator Stewart asserted.

' Described ‘Purge’ Of 65,000 Here

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ers pertains to testimony given at the public hearing here by Morris Moss, former registration clerk. Mr. Moss said that many names were removed from the registration list because persons had either died, moved, or failed to vote in the two previous. elections and then neglected to re-register. However, a sample alphabetical

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LONDON, Dec. 21 (U. P.) —~Berlin reported today that the Red army had resumed its offensive in western Hungary between Lake Balaton and the Danube. : ‘The, Russians threw at least 10 divisions of more than 100,000 troops into an onslaught which breached], the German lines, the Nazis admitted. i Nazi broadcasts said the main weight of the new Soviet drive was centered in the area of Szekefehervar. This is 32 miles southwest of Budapest and midway between Lake Balaton and the Danube. “The German defense reacted immediately,” D. N. B, said. “Several local breaches were sealed off, and strong counter-attacks hit he enemy's flank. It must be expecte that the battle will mount in fury:

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Stiffened resistance along -the 45mile line between Budapest and Lake Balaton had stalled the Soviet push in western Hungary, which now appeared to be renewed in| full force, The Hungarian capital already was flanked to the southwest by the drive, The offensive constituted the lower arm of a pincers whose jaws were reported less than 20 miles apart, bringing the last rail

check' of the purge list, made by senate investigators, revealed that some 2180 registrants cancelled, almost 2000 signified their political faith as Democratic, Mr. Moss attributed this to the “lag in Democratic election in-

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lige out of the city under Soviet artillery fire. To the northeast the Russians battered through stiff oppositidn in the southern. Slovak mountains, At the same time, Stockholm reports credited to’ anti-Nazi German sources said the German high com-

“Christmas offensive” on the East ern front.

These reports said perhaps 250,000 Nazi reserves would be thrown into the new offensive on an undisclosed sector, The reports were unconfirmed from ary other source, Stockhold said fresh iroops were | being released for the action] through the mobilization of additional volksturm, or people's army, ! units in the reich, |

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