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'| Call Upon Every Man to Rise to New Heights Of Courage.’
PARIS, Dec. 22 (U. P.). —The text of Gep.. Eisen-
hower’s order of the day: o » o : THE ENEMY is making his supreme effort to. break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your brilliant victories of the summer and fall. He is fighting savagely. .to take back all that you have won and
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worst defeat.”
WITH 21ST ARMY GROUP, Western Front, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—The Germans have pushed within 20 miles of the Meuse at one place, but the average rate of their push into Belgium appeared today to be slowing down, with the
By' J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Dec. 22.—Front reports today said American 1st army troops in desperate fighting have stopped the German drive across Belgium. But there was no indication that the dangerous Nazi thrust across Luxembourg had halted. The Germans’ maximum penetration in Belgium was less than 40 miles, field reports said. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called upon his men to rise to new heights and turn Hitler's “great gamble into ne
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Ist Stops Germans Cold In Belgium “Turn Nazi Gamble Into Defeat’ Ike
Eisenhower left no doubt
West is the crisis which will determine whether Germany can be crushed quickly or whether the war must be prolonged many months. The German high command reported the establishment of several bridgeheads at unspecified points across the river Ourthe in Belgium. The Ourthe follows an irregular north-south course at distances from 13 to 21 miles west of the vital Liege-Bastogne-Arlon lateral highway which the Germans cut
esterday.
The southern end of the Ourthe lies in the center of the “fluid” area of the southeast tip of Belgium and Luxembourg. The Nazi communique merely said the offensive was “making good progress” in this area. The Germans admitted
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ALLISON PLANS TO EXPAND ITS OUTPUT IN 1943
More Workers to Be Hired To Meet Demand for
Jet Engines.
The Allison division of General Motors today revealed that its 1945 schedule for aircraft engine production will require the full use of its plants in Speedway City and Maywood and the hiring of additional workers. E. B. Newill, Allison general manager, said in a message to employees: “Applying the utmost urgency to their requests, the army air forces have called on Allison for a production job during 1945 that is equal to the biggest job we ever have been asked to undertake.” Allison's production schedules this month “stand at the low point not only for 1944 but all of 1945 as well,” Mr. Newill said. is scheduled to ship 35 per cent more engines in December, 1945, than it will deliver this month—and even this is far from the peak of new production.” “The urgency is simply explained ~jet propulsion. Demand for Bearings “Preliminary tests of new secret airplanes have convinced our mili4 tary authorities that winning . of this war may be delayed months without speedy deliveries of jet propelled planes to the fighting fronts. Each day we are- asked if it is not
possible to advance our delivery |
dates one bit further.” Although the production of the liquid-cooled V-1710 engine has tapered off in recent months, Mr. Newill said he had air forces assurance that production of certain models will be continued after the German surrender and will be used An combat planes against the Japs. “Also, within recent weeks demands by Allison customers for Allison bearings have increased,” Mr, Newill added. “It may not be generally appreciated that most of the types of combat aircraft engines made in this country use Allison bearings. “In addition, many new engineering projects are under way that may result in new production orders as soon as the capacity of our manufacturing facilities will permit taking them.”
BIOFF AND BROWNE. ORDERED RELEASED
NEW . YORK,
theatrical
“Right now Allison |’
Dec. 22 (U, P.).William Bioff and George Browne, union executives convicted in November, 1941, of extorting more than $1,000,000 from the movie industry, were ordered released from federal prison in Sand
SNOW AND NEW GOLD WAVE DUE
As Mercury Drops Here To 12 Above.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am.
12 (Noon) .. 24 lpm.....25
There's a “good possibility” Hooslers this year will enjoy a white Christmas, the weather bureau said today. Snow is expected to fall tonight and again Christmas eve. But through it all it's going to be cold. With the northern tier of states
White Christmas Indicated!
'Hubby Comes Marching Home'—To His Wife's Job
Mrs. ‘Edward R. Strain Jr. gives up her insurance books and desk, but the job’s still all in one family.
Her successor is her husband.
But It's All Right—She Was Just Holding Desk for Him.
By MILDRED KOSCHMANN WHEN HUBBY comes “marching home again,” it's time for his wife to move out of the No. 1 spot at home and at work. At least, that's the case of Mr. and Mrs. Edward R, Strain Jr, 907 N. Layman ave, Mr. Strain, who just a few months ago was saying “yes, sirs” to his superior officers, this week took back his job from his wife, Elizabeth, Both are employed at the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co, 1112 Merchants Bank building,
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VOTE REGHECK HERE INDICATED
Senator Sees Possibility of Legal Action on
Election Probe.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY “imes Staff Writer
Indiana election investigation took a new turn today and the result may be that the senate committee investigators will be back in In~ dianapolis for a further checkup.
this manner:
ON JULY 1, 1043, Miss Eliza~ beth Meyer took over the underwriting books for her flance at the
Stone, Minn,, today. The releases were ordered by eral Judge John C. Knox.
Bioff was serving 10 years and?
Browne eight years.
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planning for the post-war world today and prepared to maintain for another full year the peak rate of war production achieved in 1944, All plans for partial reconversion in 1945 have been upset. Production Chief J. A. Krug told newsmen late yesterday that production must be expanded fo proportions large enough to enable Gen.
from Iowa to the Atlantic coast gripped in the season's worst cold wave, Indianapolis residents this morning found it plenty cold and
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insurance company’s automobile department. On that same day, Mr. Strain
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B-29'S PLASTER JAP
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Full Year of War
' By MAC R. JOHNSON. (U. P.).~American industry put aside its
United Press Staff Correspondent HEADQUARTERS 218T BOMBER COMMAND, Saipan, Dec. 22 (U. P.) (Via Navy Radio) ~Carrying individual bomb loads hundreds of pounds ‘heavier than ever before,
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PLANTS AT NAGOYA
It was the third attack in nine days on the Japanese city in an
apolis on Monday and Tuesday, returned here to make a joint report with his colleague, Senator Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn), who also attended the hearings, But before they got together,
‘NAZIS PLAYING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The
This new life in what was a pretty dead pigeon came about in
Senator Tom Stewart (D. Tenn.), chairman of the senate campaign investigating sub-committee which conducted the hearings in Indian-
that the great battle of the
FOR KEEPS AND ANYTHING GOES’
‘Rules’ Tossed Overboard On 1st Army Front by
Fanatic Foe.
By JACK BELL Times Foreign Correspondent WITH THE U. 8. 1ST ARMY, Dec. 22.—They are beginning, my dear readers, to play this war for keeps. We are in the hard ball league and anything goes. The little niceties of war, laid down by those merry gentlemen. at Geneva ‘who never felt hot steel rip into their flesh, are being tossed overboard, We seem to be on the way to playing under those rules that the Japanese thought up. Rumor is a nasty lass, causing untold suffering with her doublejointed tongue. So your correspondent has always shied away from horror stories in wartime. They are inevitable, sired by fear born of hatred and nursed by prop-
mans’ great winter offensive, has arrived behind the lines
met is mud caked, his face .is
agandists. A Life Struggle
But look at this picture: The German armies, which on the whole have played pretty much by, our rules so far on this front, are making a desperate and what they feel is a life struggle. They have been told that death on the battlefield is preferable to slavery or death in dungeons. So they have no reason to love us, because they believe what they have been told. As a tank-infantry thrust rolls in to crush the American position and take prisoners, they are in no mood to quibble over the words of the old gentlemen of Geneva, They are under fire. We are shelling the roads behind them. Getting their supplies up and their wounded back is a terrific problem. They want to thrust on, but fast. What to do with a flock of hated American prisoners?
‘In Some Instances—’
In some instances they have shot them and gone on. And there have been too many instances during the last few days, well authenticated by calm observers, to toss off as isolated instances, They had no convenient ways to care for the prisoners, would not turn them loose, of course, and had to get going. 80 the machine guns spoke up and the tanks moved on. This is no attempt to say that such practice is by the high command’s order, or even with (its knowledge. But the Germans are fighting with fierce and fanatical fervor. They obviously are keyed to the highest degree. War is not a pretty game and they are simply using a very expedient act to reach their objectives. We are taking a lot of prisoners on the lst army front, nearly 2500
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CLOTHE-A-CHILD—
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A LOT of youngsters today believe Santa Claus works: at the R.C A And they have a good reason. Thirty-five boys and girls re-
Today Because of the RCA
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Are Warm
35 children from head to foot last night. And they intend to clothe even more tomorrow, ” » »
THE R. C. A. campaign, now in
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its‘ fourth consecutitve year, ends officially ‘today. As an added
ceived new outfits through R. C. A. employees’ contributions to The Times’ Clothe-A-~Child. The plant's drive to collect
treat the youngsters clothed by the firm were given bags of candy, oranges, apples and nuts. Union members of the -Clothe-A-Child committee are Harry: ‘Wince], chairman; Mr. and Mrs, Louis James Carney, Miss Annabelle House and Miss Juanita
REPORT RUSS PUSH IN LATVIA
Berlin Says 400,000 Reds Break German Line in
Several Spots.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Dec. 22.—Berlin said today that the Russians had thrown possibly 400,000 men into a new offensive against the southern rim of the German pocket in northwest Latvia, The Germans admitted that the Soviets had broken into the Nazi lines at several points, The offensive, if confirmed, would appear an all-out attempt - to liquidate tens of thousands of German troops trapped against the Baltic. Thus additional Russian forces would be relieved for the
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Hoosier Heroes—
J, E. KAFADER HURT, BROTHER A PRISONER
An Indianapolis father of four small children has been killed in Germany and a former local man has been killed in France. Today's casualty list also iIncludés seven wounded men and a prisoner. One of the wounded men and the prisoner are brothers and another wounded man has a brother hospitalized in Italy.
KILLED
Pvt. Robert J. Tanner, 1018 8. Collier st., in Germany, Pfc. Hobart W. Cox, Cloverdale, formerly of Indianapolis, in France. He #is a nephew of Everett Shumaker, 330 N. Lyndhurst dr.
WOUNDED Pvt. Bernard Laswell, 1214+ Bates st., on Leyte. Pvt. William B. Daugherty, 1818 TE. 11th st, in Italy. Second Lt. Richard W. Bacon, 3834 Fletcher ave. in Germany. Pvt. Edwin PF. Klueh, 652 N. Oak~ jand ave., in France. Pfe. Melvin H., Taylor, 1237 8. Chester st., in France. Pvt. James E. Kafader, Orange st., in Holland, 8. Sgt. Prank J. Rejko, Warren township, in" France: (His brother, Steve, is recovering from an operation in Italy)
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THIS Hoosier fighting : face symbolizes the “proven bravery and fortitude” of the American G. I. upon whom Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is relying to stop the Ger of Sgt. John H. Parks, Mill Creek, Ind., who
after days of front line combat.
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Belgians Warn Nazis as Yanks Rescue Doctors
By JACK FRANKISH United Press Staff Correspondent U. 8. FIRST ARMY MEDICAL CLEARING STATION, Belgium, Dec. 21 (Delayed) ~The two German afficers had searched the American medical men and had told six nurses they could return to the American lines. Just as they were about to march off with 75 prisoners an American half-truck roared down the road. Across the street from the field hospital an.old woman who ran a hotel where the nurses had been billeted shouted: “Achtung, offizieren, Amerikaner!” (Lookout, officers, Americans!)
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SHE WAS one of the thousands who were Belgians by virtue of Versailles, but German before. 1919 and since 1940, because this incident took place in Malmedy province. When the old woman shouted the German captain and lieutenant ducked behind their American prisoners for a moment and then made a dash down the road as the half-track rolled up to tell the medics they were free. “It put a Hollywood ending to the thing,” Capt. Charles Koepp, Marinette, Wis., related today, “It was the cowboys to the rescue at the last possible moment.” MN n "
KOEPP, who corpmands a-medi-cal collecting company, said he
Sunday with 24 men to help evacuate a field hospital in the path of the German advance. There were five officers, six nurses and 50 enlisted men at the hospital, but before Koepp's
his eyes are glazed. He's one of the men Gen. Eisenhower was talking about in his order of the day to American troops today.
went to a village east of Malmedy
“The Germans are gambling. their offensive but in the
face of your proven bravery and fortitude, he will completely fail. battle your gallantry has done much to foil
Already in this
CHARTER STILL VALID, FOR SAYS
Terms 1941 Proclamation An Objective Toward World Betterment.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today termed the Atlantic Charter an objective toward world betterment. He sald that its principles “are as valid today as they were in 1941” when he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued it. 2 Mr, Roosevelt was asked at his press conference if he would care to say anything further about the charter in the light of discussion that followed his earlier disclosure that it does not exist as a formally signed document,
President Replies
The President replied that cere tain documents had been presented to the world for a good many thous sand years looking to betterment of life itself. One of these, he said, is the Atlantic Charter, but somebody ~ will come along in the future with something better, Some people are saying that the objectives of the Atlantic Charter cannot be attained, he noted. He pointed out that people don’t always live up to the 10 Commandments. The President hastened to add that he was not necessarily compare ing the Atlantic Charter with the 10 Commandments but that both were pronouncements for world bet terment. President Woodrow Wilson's fa= mous 14 points peace aims in the last war ‘constituted another deela« ration in the same clads, he said, Life has its peaks and valleys, the President observed, with the trend always toward betterment, Some people who ‘doubt that ime provement can be achieved, he sald,
are just congenitally against Wat
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-~The peril to the- allies in the touch-and-go fighting on the Western front, united nations.circles here agree, should be a grim reminder
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