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. FORECAST: ‘Snow flurries and colder today. Cledring and colder il Tomorrow increasing cloudiness.
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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 246
Snow Flirries and Cold Due For City Over the Week-End
Snow flurries and cold over the week-end were predicted by the weather bureau today as the cold wave continued to grip the northern section of the country from the Dakotas to the Atlantic.
Thermometers were higher locally last night than yesterday when the new seasonal low for Indianapolis was, set with a reading of 12 above downtown and 8 at the airport.
REPORT NAZI SPIES ORGANIZE IN PARIS
Active Again Since Lying Low Since September.
PARIS, Dec. 23 (U. P.).—Assistant Police Chief Egard Pisani disclosed today that Nazi spies, after lying low since September, have begun full-scale organizing and are meeting in groups in Paris. Several German agents were picked up here yesterday, Pisani said, and a band of 30 was seized recently. When the gestapo fled Paris they forced police to hand over seyeral thousand identity blanks and just this week one German, wearing an American officer's uinform, was recagnized and arrested by a French underground member at a fashionable night club.
CANADIANS SWARM SENIO RIVER LINE
ROME, Dec. 23 (U. P.) ~—Canadian troops of the. 8th army have swarmed to the Senio river along a six-mile front northwest of Bagnacavallo, headquarters announced today. The Canadians, tackling their fifth water obstacle in the last week, were reported ‘meeting strong fire. North of Faenza other 8th army units continued to progress in their
drive between the Lamone and
Benio rivers. In the 5th army sector below Bologna American troops improved their positions in the Mt. Belmonte area.
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Throughout the night the mercury stayed at 24, but at 8 a. m. today it dipped to 21 downtown and 18 at the airport. Colder temperatures are promised for today and tonight.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m..... 22 9a.m..... 20 Tam..... 21 10a. m,.... 20 8a.m..... 21 11a. m..... 20
The continued freezing weather here enabled the city recreation department to open two more ice skating areas. They are the casting pool at 30th st. and Fall Creek blvd. and the Garfield park lagoon. K. Mark Cowen, recreation director, announced that the shortage of supervisors will force the depart-
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Hoosier Heroes—
LT, PHILIP MORGAN LISTED AS MISSING
Two Soldiers in France Reported Wounded.
The husband of .a Southport school teacher is missing in action and two more Indianapolis men have been wounded. Both were wounded in France. - MISSING Second Lt. Philip Morgan, South-
WOUNDED Pfc. Willlam H, Cummings, 2020 . 80th st. in ce.
Pfc. Raymond W. Milburn, R. R. 10, Box 400, in Frarice,
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LEGION TO AID IN GIFT GIVING
Convalescents at Billings To Benefit From
State Drive.
Members of Marion county American Legion posts “and their auxiliaries will assist the grey ladies of the Red Cross tomorrow night in distributing about 1500 Christmas gifts to convalescing servicemen and women at Billings General hospital. The gifts were among nearly 100,000 individual items collected over the state by the American Legion in a nation-wide drive. “Hoosiers responded magnificently,” declared Fred C. Hasselbring, 11th district chairman and cochairman of the state drive, Value of the cont amounted to about $60,000.
Share With Others
Indiana hospitals received 8300 packages, each consisting of up to seven individual items, depending upon their worth, Mr. Hasselbring explained. The balance of packages was shipped to wounded veterans in hospitals in Kentucky and Texas. Luncheon clubs, civic organizations, business and labor groups and others contributed wholeheartedly, Mr, Hasselbring said, “to bring happiness to convalescing soldiers and back from: the fighting
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fronts.” Names of the convalescents were placed on the packages to give an intimate touch, he said. Col. Albert E. McEvers, command - ing officer at Billings, said the men and women under treatment were
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ACTRESS SUES HER WRITER HUSBAND
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 23 (U. P.). ~Actress Kevin McClure Carr, 20, has filed suit for divorce from John Emmett Carr, 41, an actor-writer, who is free on $10000 bond on charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Miss Carr charged that her husband inflicted great mental and physical cruelty on her during their nine months ‘and 18 days of married life. Assault charges were filed against
. ROBBER GETS $25.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1944
SUPREME RED ATTACK NEAR NAZIS REPORT
Expect ‘Victory Now’ Drive At Any Minute; Hint Opening Guns Fired.
By BRUCE W, MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 23.—Russian troops were reported beating down stubborn resistance at both ends of the long Eastern front in Latvia and Hungary today.
the Red army is about to strike in Poland and East Prussia in a supreme - bid to end the war this winter, Sub-zero temperatures gripped more than 500 miles of the front from the Baltic const to the Carpathians. The Prussian marshes and Polish plains were frozen sufficiently to permit a resumption of armored warfare. Stockholm correspondents in Berlin said Nazi military authorities were: admitting freely that the Red army's big winter offensive was expected tb explode across Prussia and Poland within a matter. of “days or hours.”
Sharp Patrol Fighting
Sharp patrol fighting already was reported to have broken out on both fronts. Moscow remained silent on the Nazi reports. But United Press dispatches from the Russian capital quoted “unofficial” sources as saying that unprecedented masses of men, guns, tanks and planes were being assembled for a great “victory now” drive across Prussia and Poland into the heart of the Reich. The opening gun of the winter offensive appeared to have been fired already in the north. Berlin said great tank and infantry battles had been raging in western. Latvia since dawn Thursday. The Red army, the Nazis said, had launched its third attempt to wipe out the German divisions that have been pinned against the Baltic coast since October. -
Admit Red Gains
German spokesmen admitted the Russians had broken into the Nazi pocket at a number of points on a 22-mile front east and northeast of Liepaja. The Nazis said 27 Russian infantry divisions, perhaps 400,000 men, supported by hundreds of planes and tanks, were battering |into their lines al] along the front. |The critical battle was still raging indecisively ngrth of Auce, 77 miles east of Apollo they said. As usual, in the opening stages of a new campaign, Moscow did not confirm the enemy reports. A communique said 68 German planes and 101 tanks were destroyed on the Eastern front Thursday—the biggest total reported in many weeks. The Soviet communique also ignored enemy accounts of an armored battle southwest of Budapest. The Germans admitted a partial Russian breakthrough at the center of the 50-mile corridor between the capital and Lake Balaton,
MEETING OF BIG 3' ENVOYS INDICATED
Arrangements Indefinite,
London Says.
LONDON, Dec. 23 (U. P). — A foreign office spokesman said today that a meeting of the British, American and Russian foreign ministers “is quite possible in the near ftuture.” However, there have been no defInite arrangements set,” a spokesman said in reporting the prospective conference of Edward R. Stettinius, Anthony Eden and V. M Molotov. As to whether the reported meeting" would involve a London trip by Stettinius, the commentator said the foreign office had “no confirmation of current Washington reports” that the secretary of state might
Berlin spokesmen warned that|.
NIP CHALLENGE— B-29s Win Big Air Duel Over Main Jap Isle
By MAC R. JOHNSON Unjted Press Staff Correspondent 21ST BOMBER COMMAND, SAIPAN, Dec. 23 (Via Navy Radio). — American Superfortresses apparently shot down more Japanese planes in a running 55-min-ute battle over Nagoya yesterday than the combined total in all previous raids on Japan's main island of Honshu. Returning pilots reported upwards of 24 Jap single and twinengined fighters were shot down, probably destroyed and hit. - It was the bitterest aerial battle of the Japanese raids to date, according to claims of crews 1 interviewed, and as far as I have been able to ascertain, not a single B-29 was lost to enemy action. » . s (A WAR DEPARTMENT communique in Washington, however, said preliminary reports showed only five enemy fighters probably destroyed and four damaged over Nagoya compared with 63 shot down or damaged by B-29s of the 20th bomber command over Mukden, Manchuria, Dec. 7.) Only a few waves said they found little or no fighter oppoBition, while a ‘majority claimed the toughest fighter opposition yet over Japan. o . . ONE FORMATION, which claimed three destroyed, six probables and four damaged, said more than 150 enemy fighters were wafting for the Superforts at a high altitude when the sky giants came in for their bomb runs over the great Japanese aircraft center. One veteran of the European war said the air fighting approached in scale the air battles over Germany. Air commanders of the formation which encountered 150 planes said the enemy was divided into
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WAR FRONTS
(Dec. 23, 1944)
WESTERN FRONT-—Patton opens great counter-offensive in Luxembourg. Panzer columns, stabbing through 40-mile breach in American 1st army center, strike within 29 miles of Sedan gateway to France.
{EASTERN FRONT-—Russians beat down resistance at both ends of front in Latvia and Hungary. German’ spokesman warns that Red army is about to strike in Poland and East Prussia in bid to end war.
AIR WAR—R. A, F. Lancasters and Halifaxes raid - rail yards at Koblenz and Bingen. American bombers slash at transport centers,
PACIFIC—Tokyn reports Superfortresses dropped fire and @emoli- | tion ‘bombs on Tokyo in nuisance | raid while another roared in reconnaissance over Hongkong.
SHOOT DOWN FLYING BOMBS LONDON, Dec. 23 (U, P.).—Batteries along the south coast threw up a heavy barrage at German flying bombs.today. Numerous flashes were seen, indicating that several
come to London.
CLOTHE-A-CHILD—
THE 1944 Times Clothe-A-Child campaign neared a close today. And at 6 o'clock tonight ' the Mile-O-Dimes will be swept clean, the dimes washed, dried and counted. ing continued today with
the help of late contributions
Campaign to Close Today; Late Contributions Help
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plant-wide drive under the direction of Francis O'Rourke, representative of local B 1048, Inter~ national” Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. P. of L). The union Clothe-A-Child committee was headed by Harry Wincel, chajrman.
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and the total number of needy
THE EMPLOYEES of the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. clothed 20 children yesterday while the Bearing Division, Allisons| Plant 5, with the assistance of Sigma Phi Sorority, clothed five more to bring their total for the : campaign ‘to 16. - Om the committee for the Bear-
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REPORT 3D CRASHING GERMAN FLANK: FALL OF "LUXEMBOURG CITY HINTED
13d Army Racing to Rescue in ‘Blackest Hour’ of Battle,
today. But the Nazi capture
NAZIS HAMMER AT ALLIED UNITY
Evidence Hints Goebbels Will Make Negotiated Peace Bid.
By HAL O'FLAHERTY Times Foreign Correspondent Germany is about to apply the greatest pressure yet exerted against the unity and determination of the allies. It may come in the form of peace feelers first to Russia followed by some dramatic new move either by Heinrich Himmler or by Hitler himself. Manifold evidence exists that Josephi”CIoEBbeS” believes the time is ripe for an attempt at a negotiated peace, The German newspapers have indirectly anticipated it and from the 39 internal radio stations the Reich propagandists are setting a new tone. The propagandists say hope for the home folks comes first. They advocate a brighter Christmas and a revival of fighting spirit. Then, they hint, the bid for a peace short of unconditional surrender. The object of the great offensive could not be wholly military. Its chance of crushing the allies in
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GEN. SGOBIE FOR HELP
Hard-Pressed by E. L. A. S. Army of 15,000.
ATHENS, Dec. 23 (U. P.).— Rightist E. D. E. 8. forces in northwest Greece urgently appealed to the British command for” help today against a leftist E. L. A. 8. army of 15,000 to 20,000 that has penetrated 15 miles into E. D. E. 8.’ territory, capturing two towns. The development carhe as Lt. Gen. Ronald Scobie, commander of British troops in Greece, was studying the reply of E. A. M,, governing body of the E. L. A. 8, to the formula he laid down last week for settlement of the Greek civil var.
tory and some hope was held for a quick truce. British observers in northwest Greece reported the E. D, E. 8. forces, numbering some 12,000, were falling back under the E. L. A, 8. attack into mountains which they had honeycombed with caves, tunfiels and defensive positions during the German occupation. Gen, Napoleon Zervas, the E. D. E. 8. commander, sent the urgent appeal to the British command for assistance from British air and land forces, but no decision has been made on his request as yet.
600,000 REPORTED EXECUTED IN POLAND
LONDON, Dec. 23 (U, P.).~The Moscow radio said today that German gpccupation forces executed 600,000 persons, including American and British citizens, Czechs, Yugoslavs and Dutch, in the Lwow area of southern Poland. The report was made by a committee investigating German war criminals in the Lwow region. It was published by Moscow newspapers. simultaneously with the opening of thé trial of Nazis accysed of the wholesale atrocities.
TURKEY REPORTS “QUAKE : By UNITED PRESS ™ An Ankara broadcast said that
Turkey early yester but no dam-|
Berlin Admits; Speeding Panzers 20 Miles From French Border
PARIS, Dec. 23.—Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s 3d army was reported slashing into the south flank of the German break-through salient in Luxembourg
broadcasts apparently from the Duchy’s capital. The Luxembourg radio returned to the air at 3:28 p. m. (9:28 a. m. Indianapolis time) after a silence of several days. The station, which technicians had no doubt was Radio Luxembourg,
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By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
of Luxembourg City was indicated by German
identified itself as. the “Reichsrundfunk” or Reich’s radio station. It then swung into broadcasts of German news and relayed Nazi programs in the German language. ; There had been previous indications that Luxem- = bourg City might be in the hands of the German forces driving across the tiny Duchy toward the Ardennes gateway to France. A Patton was reported to have thrown an unspecified number of armored and infantry divisions into the exposed flank of the German bulge. His counter-offensive reportedly was aimed at cutting off the Nazi vanguard in the Ardennes. Patton was declared to be striking at the blackest hour of the Ardennes battle, with Nazi panzer spearheads riding within 20 miles of the French border. The 8d army's rough-
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PARIS, Dec. 23 (U. P.).—Supreme allied headquarters announced that allied tactical air forces in great ~ strength dre smashing at German panzer columns in perfect weather today,
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riding tanks and armored troop carriers were knifing squarely into the base of the enemy salient on the southeastern | border of Luxembourg, Berlin indicated. First word of the reported counter-blow came in an alarmed German D. N. B. news agency announcergent. D. N. B. said Patton had wheeled his operational reserves out of the Saar river line and sent them stabbing northward in a bold bid to break open the Nazi flank. Headquarters spokesmen did not confirm the German announcement. But they pointed out that the only possible way to deal with the enemy offensive was by a quick and powerful counter-offensive. They pointed out that the nearest major forces avail‘able for that job would be Patton's divisions, whose front at one time extended up into the critical area. If the report proved correct, and there seemed little reason to doubt it, Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s gamble for a break-through hung on the verge of failure. y Fierce Battles Rage : The Nazi spearheads already were almost 50 miles be- 3 yond the base against which Berlin said Patton was ham- 4 mering. . Tens of thousands of crack German infantrymen- were tangled in fierce battles with by-passed American units throughout the 1000-square-mile pocket. Berlin located Patton’s counter-attack in the Echternach area, about 35 miles below the northérn shoulder of the enemy salient. This was being contained by 1st army forces 3 in the Malmedy-Stavelot-St. Vith triangle of eastern A Belgium. ; The Germans claimed Patton had been called in to help
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WASHINGTON
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Where did the Germans, ’ get crack divisions, supplies, air power for their offensive? From the Russian front, congressional sources say. And this is the story as they see it: They are convince we had an understanding with | Russia that she would open a powerful drive against Germany when we did early last summer. It didn't happen. But. for at least 90 days, they say, the Russians have Teun prephred to launch an assault against Germany—and still it hasn't started. If the Germans know this, as they probably do, why did they dare transfer their best fighting men, the supplies they need, and air cover for them from the east to the west? In spite of one obvious answer, there is still hope here that Russia will attack, will realize the Udited States can’t: fight wars alone in both Europe and Asia and continue to supply the allies also. ® » » a ON THE GERMAN BREAK-THROUGH. There's. a good deal of feéling here—on Capitol iil! and also in the armed services—that negligence on someone's part enters into the picture. wae There is also considerable confidence in Blssthoyery ' bitty to handle the situation.
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