Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1944 — Page 4
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Ist ii Stops Nazis Cold - In Drive Through Belgium
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that American tanks moved south from Aachen were engaging ‘Nazi forces heavily around. Stavelot. - They claimed that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton had abandoned his .bridgeheads across the ‘Saar at Dillingen and Ensdorf to swing north on the flank of the German Luxem-
bourg columns.
Simultaneously, United Press War Correspondent Jack Frankish wirelessed from 1st army headquarters the first
encouraging report since the days ago.
Nazi thrust was launched six
Frankish reported that the Germans had been stopped
‘cold in Belgium for the first
six days ago. Frankish reported at 10:
apolis time) that “the German couflter-offensive failed to penetrate any deeper into Belgium” than the spearhead
which already had lunged 40
The vital Liege-Bastogne-Arlon highway was slashed at a point 60 miles from Brussels and 14 miles west of
Malmedy.
The Nazis, Frankish reported, paused to consolidate and strengthen the positions they now hold in the knife-like
salient. They attacked with
points which protected the northern shoulder of the salient.
Nazis Concede
German D. N. B. reports conceded that Eisenhower was
hurling fresh divisions from
the flanks of Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s forces.
. The Nazis admitted that of the chief anchor points of particularly fierce.
It seemed possible that the Nazis had been forced to halt their westward progress because of the danger that Eisenhower's flanking forces to the-north would sever tenuous communications with their jump-off positions in the
Eifel mountains.
But there was still no clear-cut word on the situation
to the south.
Nazi panzers there ripped a gaping 25 to 85-mile wide - gap from the vicinity of St. Belgium to the region of Echternach on the central GerAt last report Echternach still
man-Luxembourg frontier,
Report St.
The rampaging German panzers were heading straight
for the famed Ardennes gap France around Sedan, It was in 1940.
How far their surging on-rush had carried them has - mot been, made clear. It is known that three days ago they were almost all the way across Luxembourg, about one quarter of the way to the Ardennes gap. At the north end of the “fluid” area the German D. N. B. agency reported that St. Vith had been captured and that the American forces there were taken prisoner. Front reports had indicated that the Americans at St. Vith had
been cut off but had continued to resist. A front report from the Ist army said that an unspecified “American bastion” was holding up the German advance southwest of St. Vith. Yt gave no clue to the fate of the U. 8. forces in the town itself, First army headquarters said the Germans hurled a smashing attack
against American armored forces secrecy.
holding the center of the east-west shoulder of the salient. Our troops were driven back somewhat but that the battle was still raging. This attack possibly came in the Malmedy area.
Hellish Rain of Fire
In the area southwest of St. Vith American tanks, tank destroyers and artillery. poured a hellish rain of fire into Von Rundstedt's armored spearheads. They destroyed 55 German tanks, bringing the Nazis to a temporary halt. German reports asserted that the number of prisoners taken had risen to 25,000—an increase of 5000 in a day. They estimated the numsber of killed and. wounded many times higher than this figure.” Little credence was given this report. Anyhow the number of prisoners in a swirling action of this character always far exceeds that of killed and wounded. First army headquarters reported the Germans have over-run most of northern Luxembourg. They are
maneuvering and counter-maneu-|
vering in an attempt to 7€rack the Stavelot-Malmedy line. The Amer fcans also are maneuvering to come to grips with the Nasi armor,
Probe for Seft Spot
The Germans, front reports said were feeling out the hastily erected American defenses along the rims of the salient, probing for a soft spot. JU: 8. forces throughout the area were held on the alert against fresh incursions by Nazi paratroops or Nazi reconnaissance parties in U, 8. jeeps and U. 8. uniforms. The Belgian military police Warned all Belgians that the Nazis av were appearing ir Belgium undforms and civilian clothing. There was virtually nothing to report from the fronts unaffected by the break-through attempt. Lt. Gen, George S. Patton's 3d army reported light. German coun-ter-attacks in the Sarreguemines area were easily repulsed. Third army headquarters made no. comment on Naz reports that
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Patton was wheellng his forces north’ to attack the Luxembourg salient and to protect his own flank. The front was still obscured ‘by “German weather'—fog and lowhanging clouds. Repo | from American air bases sald U,
they awaited the word to join the battle. There was no doubt powerful American counter-measures were in preparation under cover of great
United Press War Correspondent Walter Cronkite was permitted by censors to report that ia a trip back to Paris from Brussels he saw streams nf American ground reinforcements hurrying forward by truck at a pace far faster than the truck were built to travel.
Liege-Arion Highway Cut
The latest headquarters announcement covered operations through noon Wednesday. It acknowledged that the main LiegeArion highway had been cut within 60 .miles of Brussels. A second German armored spearhead was tearing ‘out the American center in Luxembourg, 25 miles to the south. Only.in the north was there clear evidence that the Americans were rallying. There they recaptured a cluster of Belgian border villages.|’ Malmedy, Stavelot, Monschau and their immediate areas still were American hands early today. The Yanks, bolstered by fresh vo forcéments of men and guns, ver beating the German panzers to a standstill. A driving rain and dense fog
REPORT RUSS PUSH IN LATVIA
Berlin Says 400,000 Reds Break German Line in
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Soviet winter offensive Prussia and Poland. A United Press dispatch from Moscow said the Russians were believed massing the greatest concentration of men, artillery, tanks and aircraft yet seen on the Eastern front for a “campaign that is exs pected to conclude the war.” “Observers confidently expect that when the Red army hits the German fortified lines from East to the Carpathians, it will break through to Germany in successive, fast operations,” the dispatch said, Ernst von Hammer, German military commentator, reported the Latvian offensive in a Berlin broadcast. He said the Soviets had at~ tacked along a 22-mile front southwest and south of Saldus, 55 miles east. of the Baltic port of Liepaja (Labau), yesterday with strong air, artillery and tank support,
90-Minute Barrage The attack began with a 90-min-
jute artillery barrage, during which at least 1170 shells were fired into
the German lines, Von Hammer | said. “Despite the lavish use of ammu- | nition, the Soviets broke into the] German lines at only a few points,’ he said. He called the attack the start of the Soviets’ “third winter offensive.” 8o far, he sald, 39 Russian tanks | and 51 planes have been destroyed. The Russians cut off the Germans in northwest Latvia last fall with a thrust across Lithuania to the Baltic coast north of Memel. The subsequent fall of Riga pinned the remnants of the Wehrmacht’'s Baltic garrison between the sea and the Gulf of Riga. At the southern end of the front, Russian mountain troops were converging on the Slovak border city of Losono (Lucenec) from the east and south, They had battled to within 20 miles or less of a junction that would ~ encircle the last German army in northeast Hungary. Far to the southwest, massive Russian and Germah ground and air forces were reported locked in what appeared to be the decisive battle for Budapest and the Balaton gateway to Austria. Redouble Budapest Attack
Berlin said upward of 100,000 Red army infantrymen. wére battling into the 50-mile gap between Budapest and Lake Balaton in an attempt to swing in behind the capital and close off the last escape route northwest to Vienna. At the same time, the Germans said reinforced Soviet divisions were redoubling their efforts to break into Budapest from the northeast and east. , .
LT. DE WITT RECOVERING
Lt. Everett DeWitt "Jr., whose parents live at 4825 Guilford ave, is convalescing at Billings hospital from injuries received in a South Pacific plane crash. Lt. DeWitt, navigator aboard a B-25 bomber, suffered a leg fracture when the plane crashed at sea on his 60th mission. He was flown back and arrived here Tuesday. His father is secretary of Dilling & -Co.
REPORT HITLER ON RUN
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LONDON, Dec. 22 (U, P.).—Moscow dispatch of the Exchange Telegraph news agency sald today that Adolf Hitler was believed to have left his Berchtesgaden retreat because of the Russian advance in Hungary to within 200 miles of his
_PARIS, Deg. 22 (U. P.) —Publica- [fy tions ‘of the Paris edition of The|~ New York Herald-Tribune was resumed today after a suspension since June 12, 1940, when the Ger- Compound ts x a oy puck iarantos. Ru-Ex
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is using every treacherous trick to deceive and kill You. » FJ HE 18 GAMBLING everything, but already in this battle your gallantry has done much to foil his plans. In the face of your proven bravery and fortitude he will completely fail, But we cannot be content with his mere repulses, By pushing out from his fixed defenses the enemy may give us a chance to turn his great gamble into his worst defeat. = - » S80 I CALL upon every man of .all the allies to rise now to new heights of courage, of PA and of effort. Let everyone hold before him a single thought—to destroy the enemy on the ground, in the air, everywhere—destroy' him! United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will with God's help. go forward to our greatest victory.
B-29S AIM NEW BLOW AT JAP FACTORIES
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Superforts, veterans of eight major Iraids in strength—all but one of | which were against targets on Japan’s main island of Honshu-kept |the huge, sprawling aviation manu|facturing and assembly center un{der attack in a carefully planned
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windy. Official readings put the lowest -temperature at 12 degrees above at 8 a. m.
25 Below In East
This was “hot” compared with the 25 degrees below zero reported by the United Press at Black Moshannon, Pa. Sub-zero temperatures were reported throughout eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin, Illinois, northe ern Indiana, lower Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New England. Minnesota, the .Dakotas and Nebraska, however, experienced slightly warmer weather than yesterday. Although ‘the northern part of the nation was principally affected by the cold wave, the weatherman said below freezing temperatures prevailed as far south as the Texas panhandle and the Ohio river, Slightly higher temperatures are forecast for Indianapolis tonight, but the relief will be temporary and by tomorrow it is expected to be much colder, the weather bureau said. No real break in the cold wave is foreseen until Sunday night.
| assault. Today's attack evidently was in-| tended to permanently. knock out [buildings and installations badly | damaged in an attack Dec. 13) against the Hatsudoki factory of the Mitsubishi works. In the latter raid 670,000 square. feet of roofs were burned with the! insides of the buildings gutted by | fire, According to photographs, only concrete and steel frameworks | remained upright. At least 22 buildings were de-| molished or badly damaged, in ad-| dition to damage to the main as-| sembly buildings and machine shops | in the first raid, which was the! best attack to date on Honshu targets. Nagoya also was hit Dec. 18 when the Hokuki plant of the Mitsubishi aircraft works, located on the east side of Ise bay on the waterfront, was extensively damaged. The Hatsudoki factory is located in the northeast portion of Nagoya about eight miles from the waterfront location of the Kokuki factory. -
OIL 1S ‘ADEQUATE, - ICKES TELLS NATION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P.).! —The approach of the Christmas and New Year holidays finds the nation’s fuel oil and gasoline supply “still tight but not critical,” according to Petroleum Administrator Harold L, Ickes. “There is an adequate supply of petroleum products available to meet rationed requirements, but there is not a sufficient quantity on hand to permit any consumer to be extravagant or wasteful or to buy in advance of his needs,” he said. Ickes reported that civilian motor gasoline stockpiles on Dec. 9 amounted to 41,170,000 barrels, or a decrease of 9000 barrels from the previous week.
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again blanketed the battle area. For the fourth straight day thousands of allied bombers and fighters were shackled. Given clear weather, it is probthat they could smash the Nazi drive to a halt in a matter of hours, ’ The U. 8 9th air force managed to throw a light punch against the German rear areas yesterday in spite of the almost impossible flying weather. Enemy supply lines and dumps in the Trier area were bombed and strafed. A small formation of R. A. F. Lancasters also joined in the attack,
80TH JAP ADMIRAL KILLED By UNITED PRESS The death of another Japanese admiral, May 17, was disclosed today in a Japanese Domel dispatch recorded by FCC. The dispatch said the Kure naval station had reported the death of Rear Adm. Tomojiro Kaneoka but gave no details,
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him if it were necessary £0 re-equip the entire American, 1st army, which is bearing the brunt of the current Nazi counter-offensive.
be made up immediately.” New Needs Arising
Officials pointed out that with the
European timetable possibly set 3
back by months — and with a mounting offensive in‘the Pacific— American industry is faced with the prospect next year of producing weapons for two full-scale wars instead of one.
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have been sufficient for the 'European war if Eisenhower had . been able promptly.
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“But he couldn't, and now in
FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 194
I is inevitable, he said, that a considerable amount of equipment will be destroyed by the ‘Germany the kind of war we have been fight~ thrust, and this, he declared, “must Pe for the past two months for
order to safeguard against what will come; in addition to what has happened, we must get ready to fight
ASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P.). President Roosevelt, declaring t government planning must
“be based on a determination that
Germany will be licked, today called on the nation to mark the. holiday season by resolving to stick to the job and produce all supplies needed on the fighting
This situatiori will tax to the utmost even this country’s vast in- y rgsources and definitely casts aside plans to return segments
the machinery to “cushion the impact of a sudden German collapse on U. 8. economy would be kept in
Krug explained that munitions already under procurement would.
fronts,
another year or longer i necessary,” he said. The expanded 1045 production t [schedules call for greatest output of aircraft in terms of weight since Pearl Harbor. The number “of planes scheduled for next year has been raised from 75,610 to 78,227, with ¢significant” increases in the
MINDORO-BASED U. §:.
_ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 22 (U. P.).—-American fighter planes swept ovér a wide
from new bases on Mindoro today.
The new bases were put in operation Wednesday, only six days after
stormed ashore on the southwest coast of Mindoro. The oiled dirt
ers within 145 miles south of Manila, capital of the Philippines (Tokyo radio reported that 19 U. 8S. planes hit Clark field near Manila. today and commented “the enemy raids on the Philippines in various areas continue.” Davao and Legaspl were attacked yesterday, the broadcast, recorded by United Press at San Francisco, said.) ~ Simultaneously, 29 Japanese planes attempted a raid on Mindoro ground installations, but lost 11 to 14 aircraft, 'On Leyte, the American 77th division from the south and the 1st cavalry from the northeast linked up Wednesday near Kananga, 14 miles north of Ormoc. Japanese remnants were driven into the hills in the northwest corner
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