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. were even near them,

“It's all in "knowing how, mister: |from, the Germdn commander. , You just got to learn this fighting * business right.” “Yes, sir, I figure if they leave them Krauts around here much

brief and to the point. “Nuts!” he said.

of Jersey City, N, J. the heavy artillery

" §. "We Didn't Need Help," Bastogne Yanks Say : The doughboys attitude reflected Hoa and two other guys captured seven| hat Of their commander. Only -24

and killed five before they knew we|hours after Bastogne was surrounded, he received an ultimatum

The American reply wes classically

Then it was that the Germans longer, there won't be too many | turned loose everything they had. . left,” said Pvt. Joseph Kelly, 26,|It didn't phase the Americans. But ‘ and anti-

aircraft guns shattered. virtually every building inside the city. Despite ' their. advantage, the Germans never were able to get infantry into Bastogne. A vast number of the German army's finest troops fell in desperate effortgito break into the city and later to halt the relief column. The final American tank thrust Into Bastogne was one of the most daring of the war.

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ATTACKING YANKS

I. Jacques, 34, of Worcester, Ma€s., as one of the commanders, pulled up outside tiny Assenois, two miles south of Bastogne, late yesterday. Then they held a council of war. Despite the stubborn German opposition, the tank commanders decided to burst thréugh to Bastogne itself without further delay. They slammed straight down the highway, shooting as they rolled. The first tanks caught the enemy unprepared and smashed through runscathed. But the Germans recovered quickly ‘and knocked out several tanks and half-tracks with mines and bazookas, The attack went on, though, and the road into Bastogne was ours..

Battles Rage

Armor and infantry then turried to the task of cleaning out the enemy from woods. on either side of the road. Today the road is cove ered by almost constant mortar and sniper fire. Determined battles are being waged in woods and ravines only a few hundred yards away. One captain wounded in the leg and unable to walk directed his men from the front seat of a jeep. C-47’s. still roar overhead dropping parachutes loaded with supplies and ammunition. Doughboys race into fields and quickly collect the packs, arranging them in neat bundles.

RING NAZI FORCE

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Nazis have committed two panzer armies and an infantry army aggregating more than 20 divisions— 200,000 to 300,000 men—to the Battle of the Ardennes.

described the situation in the Celles and Beauraing areas as “fluid.” Front dispatches insisted, however, that the Americans had regained the initiative, at least temporarily. There were indications the Germans were abandoning any attempt to cross the Meuse in that | sector. : At one point "in the Celles area, American fliers reported, the Germans were burning supplies and equipment to prevent them from

falling into enemy hands. This was 1.00 delicate tints. Set of 8 a strong indication that they were for— ready to withdraw. Ten miles southeast of Bastogne, 2.00 $9.95 the Americans captured Isenborn panty . land Bonnal, and cressed the Sure river at three points near the latter EINE FURN town. Eschdorf and Ringel in the 3.00 : 1ITgRe . ° same sector also were occupied. .00. German attacks seemed less co- * Terms Cheerfully Arranged 0 0 na ordinated than earlier in the week. a. ; FURNITURE co They appeared to be probing thrusts 1.00 Daily Store Hours: 9:45 to 5:45 aimed at uncovering possible weak 79 Mondays: 12 to 9:00 Pp. m. 47 SOUTH MERIDIAN points in the American lines, rather . } than large-scale offensive moves. 1.25

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The headquarters information, |Vviously was the league's legislative which continued to run 24 to 48 Chairman. hours behind actual Jevelopments, He is married and has one

daughter, whose husband, Lt. Bernard McAdams, Washington.

STIMSON REPORTS

Dr. Killian Named

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war veterans. Consider Extending Period.

provides for payments of $18 per | week for 1§ weeks to persons laid | off their “jobs through no fault of their own. Some members of the

committee considered extending the number of weeks or increasing the weekly payments. Yesterday the committee approved a recommendation of Atty. Gen. James A. Emmert, calling for a bill to give the governor power to make the state treasurer the exofficio director of the state income tax division.

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as mayor of the city of Lafayette, ‘he generally supervises the police | services, all qualify him for the| office to which he has been ap-| pointed. “His record as one who knows| how to enforce the law is good. He| meets the approval of the members, of the state police board with whom I have consulted. “I believe Dr. Killian wil! give this state good service and that is what I seek for the people of this state.” . To date this year Lafayette has recorded no traffic deaths, an Indiana record. - A native of Newberry, Dr. Killian has been a practicing dentist in Lafayette for 23 years. He was graduated from the Indiana Dental | college in 1909. He served overseas in world war I as a major and now holds a lieutenant colonelcy in the army reserve corps. Dr. Killian is a former state commander of the American Legion. A former Tippecanoe county G. O. P. chairman, he resigned after becoming a candidate for mayor in 1938. Last October he was named president of the Indiana Municipal league and pre-

is stationed in

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tions, Governor Schricker thanked a “co-operative and competent administrative staff” for carrying on in the face of the acute manpower shortage,

2 o ” THAT MANPOWER shortage and other war conditions are chiefly responsible for his few regrets. Improvement of state institutions was virtually impossible, he conceded, especially the mental institutions. The “gov” is fundamentally a small town boy, he loves it there, and he laughs off reports that he'd like to continue to live in Indianapolis, He's going back to Knox to rest his weary bones, putter around the ‘house and do some “fixin’ up.” If he has any future business or political plans, he is keeping them to himself. He's kind of quiet like.

IMPORTANT GAINS

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enemy can muster, but said that “I am confident that we are winning and that time will reveal that this German throw of the dice will have disastrous consequences for him.” The allied gains were registered in attacks on both the northern and southern flanks of the base of the German wedge. He explained that expansion of the base of the salient, is a necessary preliminary to any further appreciable German advances westward, But, he said, instead of the Germans being able to expand the base, the allied attacks have compressed it to a width of 20 miles,

USE V-MAIL, PUBLIC IS URGED BY OW]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—~ The OWI appealed to the public today to make greater use of V-mail in 1945 to conserve “critically needed” transport space, OWI said the army and navy were concerned over the recent drop in the use of V-mail and that they would inaugurate an intensified campaign on Jan, 1 to restore its popularity,

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Research Program Asked

The committee considered a recommendation made by Dean Harry J. Reed of Purdue university's school of agriculture to appropriate $160,000 annually for an extensive

research program to find new com- whole, and government attorney mercial uses for Indiana's farm said it was intended to affect all] products and for soil conservation. | Ward plants named in the seizure.

Bruce F. Hardy, chairman of the|order.

Republican agriculture committee, | recommended that the create a laboratory to study animal | diseases, making the research available to any farmer in the state.

GOP POLICY GROUP U. S HEARS HEALTH PLAN| (conte som se om

ment seizure of the Montgomery Ward properties said that employees

ing for more. benefits for returning | Were to keep on performing their normal duties, .

mission.

“The terms and conditions

“I am counting on your <help.”

A few minutes after the Ward properties were seized here, govern ment attorneys served a complaint in federal court asking an injunction restraining the company from interfering with operation of the plant “by its duly licensed officer, Maj. Gen. Byron.”

Ask Declaratory Judgment

The injunction sought here was aimed , against the company

The ‘government also asked al i | legislature | qaclaratory judgment from the court | Army officers entering Montgomery

A session of the properties under t

FISHBEIN RAPS PRESS CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—Dr.

magazine, today criticized the press for what he termed the “occasional stirring of public emotion in relation to some long-continued, prob-| ably fatal disease” affecting chil-

dren. |

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|plant here last s {Morris Fishbein, editor of Hygeia| denied that th

President's executive order.

Any person |

. Seizes Ward Co. Properties in7

said he would accept service im- | mectately for the Chicago plant |only. : The next step was #0 go into court for arguments on the: petition before Judge Sullivan. }

Strike Called Off

of your employment will remain unThe present job insurance 'law| changed, except that we are put-| ting into «effect immediately the | provisions of the directive orders | {of the national war labor board,” the order stated. “It is the duty of every Mont- | gt rike, |gomery Ward employee and super- | Visor, as a patriotic American, to assist the army in carrying out its We have a job to do and we are going to do it. Who interferes with our operation | Is subject to severe penalties under | called off. the law, “I hope we will not have to invoke thesé penalties against anyone.

ok place about four hours after members of the United Retail, | Wholesale, and Department Store | Workers Union (C. I. 0.) went on affecting more than 5000 employees. ‘ | Immediately after the government [took over, pickets, who had been marching outside the plant, dispersed, : ! Union leaders said the strike was The government completed occupation of the Chicago: property in less than 30 minutes, Soldiers posted [signs proclaiming the facilities of {the mail order and retail store firm | were the property of the U. 8. gOVernment, After the Ward's plant was seized the first time here on April 26, it remained under department of commerce officials who operated it until May 9 when it was returned to the company at President Roosevelt's order.

| Pickets Cheer

Army in Detroit DETROIT, ‘Dec. 28 (U. P.).—

|0f Judge Philip Sullivan to afirm| Ward & Co. stores here to seize [the government's right to take pos- | management were greeted by roushe | ing cheers from pickets of the | striking store workers. \ During the seizure of the Ward | “Hurray—here comes Uncle Sam pring, the company | at e President had such [shouted at the Grand River ave. (a right under his wartime powers | store as a squad of officers arrived since the company was not directly | to involved in war production. Stuart Ball, attorney for Ward's, | for the Detroit area. as present when the government's 32-page petition was flled, and heat the Gratiot ave., Royal Oak and

last,” the picket captain

serve notification papers on R. W. Rosevear, company manager

Similar cheers arose from pickets

The seizure of the Chicago plant!

"PAGE Citi Dearborn stores, the latter of strike violence yesterday.

1 St, Paul Action Had by Union

"ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 28 (U. B. {—R. L. Gebbert, manager of Mo te] {gomery Ward & Co, stores in th Northwest said today that army of= ficers had taken the properties. Douglas Hall, attorney for Lo 215, “International ‘Longshor and Warehousemen'’s union of w Ward employees are members, the seizure was “a victory for g people interested in stable I " {managment relations in wartime."

‘No Demonstration

Occurs in N. Y.

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (U. P) Capt. P. A. Carson took over management of the Montgomery: Ward & Co. store at Jamaicay Queens, at 11 a. m. today as a rep resentative of Maj. Gen. Joseph Wi Byron, . i ¥ There was no demonstration ig either the street or the store as

the officers entered the building.

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Portland Manager Stays in His Chair

PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28 (U. Pg ~The Portland office of Monte; gomery Ward & Co., was taken ov today by five army officers after a; federal seizure order was issued by: President Roosevelt. . “I am still sitting in my chair, Manager O. W. Huddleston said, res, ferring to the bodily removal off Ward Chairman Sewell Avery I April from his Chicago office, “but I maintain the seizure is highly illegal’ so I may be carried out bodily ag Avery was.”

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