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FRIDAY, DEC: 29, 1944
MITSCHER BACK IN PACIFIC AREA
Believes Days Numbered
For Japanese Fleet.
.By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 29.—Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, former commander of famed task force 58, was back in the Pacific today with a prediction that the Japanese fleet probably will be liquidated in 1945 “if the present BW rate of attrition : is maintained.” “By next summer, the Japs will be sitting on a decidedly uneasy | seat in their empire,” he said yesterday in his first interview since oi F his return from Washington. Adm. Mitscher Mitscher’s new job remains a naval secret, but it will be in the Pacific area. He disclosed that many things could happen either to shorten or] prolong the war, but said the Japanese now had reached the point where they “will throw in everything in an effort to stave off defeat.”
Need Year to Clean!Up
“I think in another year we should have their navy cleaned up,”
Two Yanks of the U. 8. 9th army walk cautiously through a street in Linnich, Germany, in search for Nazi snipers among the warshattered buildings. Note the furniture still in place in some of the buildings despite the fact that the walls have been torn away. .
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
16, 1'S CONFESS |
Admit $200,000 Sales in European Black ; Market.
PARIS, Dec. 20 (U. P)—Two hundred enlisted men and two officers, arrested by the army's criminal investigation department in late November and early December, have confessed receiving more than $200,000 from the sale of stolen American cigarets in the black - market. This was Sisciosed by the army today. Maj. Gen, Milton A. Reckford, provost marshal for the European theater, termed the violations the worst kind of sabotage and disloyalty. The offenders, he sald, would re-, ceive the stiffest possible sentences in line with army policy which has brought = earlier flourishing black market trafic under control in Paris. “Minute Fraction”
Operations of the arrested men, however, -Reckford said, constituted
“only a minute fraction” of the traffic. Early this month the black market caused widespread cigaret
shortages on the front and in rear areas and made American cigarets available in most Paris bars, cafes and hotels. Reckford said the investigation!
‘|more than 100 undercover agents
he said. “If we can’t get them into a sea fight, we will be in a position to get after them with army and navy bombers.” Once American forces consolidate in the Philippines, he said, the Japanese will have to withdraw to their home empire “or lose everything they have.” He believed the enemy already was facing a gasoline shortage as result of American conquests and because of continued ship sinkings. Another American Pacific commander, Maj. Gen. Robert W. Douglas, commander of the 7th air force
DRAFT BOARD AT ANDERSON QUITS
Chairman Resigns at Hitchcock Request; Others Walk Out.
State Draft Director Col. Robin-
CITED AGAIN—
Patton Receives
assigned to specific areas through- | out France. The first arrests were made simultaneously at 16 places
‘Nov. 26. According to Reckford, most of the offenders exhibited ingenuity. In one case, several G. L's threw gasoline on a freight car bearing to simulate a “hot box,” forcing the car to be abandoned on a siding. Ihe |cigarets - were removed there without notice while the train continued.
New Recognition
As 'Bold Leader’
WITH THE 3D ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—Lt. Gen: George S. Patton today was awarded an oak leaf cluster to the distinguished
$2 a Pack in Paris Cigarets at that time were bring-
CIGARET HAUL [55
was organized last Nov. 6 with CLARE LUC
and deputy commander of the strategic air forces in the Pacific, told newsmen that the Japanese in the Bonin and Volcano islands, only 750 miles south of Tokyo, appeared to have lost their will to fight as result of intensified American raids on the groups.
son Hitchcock declared today he had asked Byron Post, chairman of one of Anderson's two draft boards, to quit “in the best interests of the war effort.” But Col. Hitchcock said he couldn’t explain the “unsolicited” resigna-
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tions of the other two members of Post's draft board. CLINIC PLANS READY “We're going to investigate this fully,” the draft director promised, 'adding that no replacements would
FOR FLANNER HOUSE. be made until the report on the I resignations was complete.
The federal works agency was | Three Viembers Resign expected today to give its final approval soon to plans for erection of Mr. Post, along with J. T. Fitzthe proposed city-bperated clinic|Simmons and Roy C. Aynes, subbuilding at Flanner House. mitted their resignations yesterday. Hilard Robinson, a Washington, The resigned Anderson board .D. ©, architect, yesterday was {chairman said he quit “rather than named by the health board as argue with state headquarters.” pervising architect of construction,| “The other members of the board Meeting in private session, the thought that if there were. any health board approved an archi- blame or charges-that could be subtecht’s fee of $7341. Mr. Robinson Stantiated, they were equally inapproximately three months ago volved,” Mr. Post declared, explaindrew plans for the prorosed con- ing the resignation of Mr. Fitzstruction, apparently in anticipation Simmons and Mr. Aynes. of his appointment, Dr. Herman G.! “But we all feel the criticism of Morgan, city health board secretary, the board has been unjust and that| revealed. there are no charges capable of subThe city council recently appro- Stantiation,” he continued.” priated $56,000 to match a federal] Called Disagreeable Job grant of $74,000 for construction “This has beéen a disagreeable job
costs. —nobody likes it—and we're through
SERVICE PERSONNEL Se ont said the controversy was TO BE ENTERTAINED
heightened by his board's failure to meet a draft call the first part of A New Year's eve supper for the month, and attributed Col. servicemen and women will be Hitchcock's resignation request to a served at the Central Y. M. C. A. by difference of opinion over classithe U. 8. O. chapter and the “y” fication of 26-tn-29-year-old men in| cadéttes. "necessary occupations. A group of chapter meters? who | Commenting on the resignation, have formed a “Singing Kitchen Col. Hitchcock said he asked Mr. Band” under the direction of Mrs. | Post to quit because “he wasn’t go-| Helen Wise, will wear old-fashjoned |ing along with general policy.” | costumes and sing songs of the | “The draft today has a triple reGay 90's. sponsibility,” he asserted. “It must | On New Year's eve and New provide men’ for the battlefronts, Year's day the chapter will serve |the farm front and the industrie* breakfast for servicemen at the | front. To do this draft policies Wabash st. branch of the Indian-|must be changed frequently. arolis Servicemen’s Center, Inc. “Mr. Post has done a good job | reese generally, but he apparently has
PRESBYTERY READY [er wiuie, if So TO MARK CENTENNIAL
treme and then to another. I asked FT. WAYNE, Dec. 29 (U, P.).-- the war effort.” ‘The Ft. Wayne Presbytery, com-| Mr. Post is a farmer and has been posed of seven northeastern. Hoo-|chairman of the board for three and | sier counties, will observe its cen- one-half years. tennial anniversary Jan. 2. The
prvi sakes a1 the pear TWO TEEN-CANTEENS SCHEDULE PARTIES
Luccock, pastor of the First PresTwo of the Teen-Canteens are
_byterian church, Evanston, Ill LANDIS TO RETURN having New Year's parties tonight. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 20 (U.| Boogie Haven at Christian Park P.).—James M. Landis, former OCD |is having a dance and a floor show. director and later U. 8S. economic | Donald Hinton is chairman. minister to the Middle East, is| An: open house and dance is beexpeeted to return from Cairo early | ing held by Harmony Hut at 29th néxt year to’ resume his position | and Clifton:sts. James Meyers is as dean of the Harvard law school. in charge.
Hoosier Is Among Three Gl's ~ Surviving 2 Doomed Outfits
Pvt. Sherman Smail of Covington was one of three G. I. survivors of | two’ outfits cut off by the German | | Suchansn sald thrust’ on Dec. 16. Others in the outfits went down fighting. The three soldiers had a story to ness.” a story of how men -marched| he in the frost, fought against impos sible odds, stemmed the Germans! and lived.
| name—something like Erdriks.
lieutenant organized
“1 was asleep when the word |ized the battles they fought for four | | Ar omer Williams. 1431 N. “ew Jersey; Pvts. Smail and Bogert told |,
came,” said Cpl. William Buchanan, days. Washington, Pa., a forward artillery [how it was for two of those days. observer. “We were at the German:
town of Kobschied, abbut 12 miles | the left flank, a company of en‘east of St. Vith. Our boys weren't gineers on the right and about 20 well dug in in that havd"ground and |infantrymen in the center with
the Germans mowed them down machine guns,” Pvt, Small said. something. awful. “But we fought all day and w
down to about a dozen and had to
him to quit in the best interests of |
“Then we met that lieutenant,” “I don't know his He's| - | Righard, lin hospital now with a minor ill-|
the | i march. He had a small compass Donald Edward Ballinger, ln 10 or use in the forests. He Organ- Herbert Gordon Smith, 1516 Hiatt;
“We had 10 tank destroyers on Lawson Roosevelt Mabry, 1431 v ehuselts; Henrietta Crenshaw, 1731 Cal-| prog Earl Fletcher, 2, at City, pulmonary |’
“The Germans marched right into Sark Jean that fire and in two days we must 00, killed about 100 before we were have wiped out as much as a regi- | ro ment, but finally we were thinned, Sho, Li os, Method
service medal for his “bold and brilliant, leader~ ship” of the 3d army’s dash
ing the equivalent of $2 a pack in Paris. Among: those arrested, Reckford revealed, were a few “small-time
across France § Chicago racketeers.” But the malast August and jority were simply ordinary AmeriSeptember. can youths “who succumbed to the
The award was conferred by Lt. Gen. Omar N. Brad-
temptation for easy money.”
Their punishment will be at the discretion of army courts-martial.
Sentences = previously . announced ley, commander of the 12th! have been from two to five years imprisonment.
army group, for & LEW what was called ~ Gen. Patton especially meritorious service between Aug. 1 and Sept. 14. The citation said: “As commanding general of the 3d United States army, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton has, by the bold and brilliant leadership of his troops from the Normandy peninsula across France, inscribed his name in the annals of military history. “With zealous devotion to duty, indefatigable energy and aggressive determination to engage the enemy with unremitting ferocity, he has inspired his troops to the | accomplishment of many brilliatit victories. “By his sound, tactful knowledge and skillful, far-signted judgment and masterful generalship, he has contributed immeasurably to the success of allied operations on the cantirent, ¥
Although recent raids resulted in arrest of only a small percentage of the actual black market operators, they apparently served as a warning. Illicit trafic has fallen off to the point where the black market now is described as “definitely ynder control.”
SEA SCOUTS SEEK SPACE FROM CITY
The park board is considering a request of Sea Scout officials for
|the permanent use of part of the | Municipal Gardens community | house. Scout officials appeared yesterday before the board and said they felt the community house was not being used more than a small part of {the time. They explained that a preliminary survey indicated the location would be ideal for boating activities. Tentative plans presented provide for the repair of boats in the basement of the community house, with certain additional space used for
PLAN RITES TUESDAY FOR NELLIE PHILLIPS
Services for Nellie Phillips, who died today in the home of a nephew, Sam Murray, 1553 Yandes st., will be held Tuesday in Mt. Vernon, Ind. Scout activities. } A native of Uniontown, Ky., Mrs. In other cities, the Scout officials Phillips had lived in Mt. Vernon |declared, patrols have been estabmost of her life, and had been ‘a | lished along waterways to the beneresident of Indianapolis 16 months | fit of the community. Education of previous to her death. the public-in-use of boats also has A niece, Mrs. Bertha Moore, In- | been an advantage, they said. |dlanapolls, also survives her: About 500 Sea Scouts were sald bs to be active in Indianapolis and presumably would participate in the proposed program.
HOOSIER FLIER DIES IN COAST COLLISION
|
EVENTS TODAY Herbert, Evelyn Hoj Louise
Ex chang. club, meeting, Claypool hotel, | ural,
club, meeting,
ONTARIO, Cal, Dec. 29.(U, P.) .— fighter pilots killed when their! Mrs. Mellvina Abbitt, 1426 W. e crash occurred late yesterday 1223 E. 10th st. She was 76. Wright, Anderson. , |than 40 years. Her husband is a member of the Lutheran church} STOCKHOLM, Dec. 29 (U. P.).— and daughter are three sisters, Mrs. stroyers and a torpedo boat struck Townsend New Augusta; five grand- | sumably while mine-laying. Services will be held at 10 a, m. | prisoners of war, the dispatch said. church cemetery near Whitestown, e, at Emhardt, on. optimist Columbia Club; | {eighton, Barbara George, at Culeman, Robert, Margaret Cook, at Methodist
MELLVINA ABBITT Second Lt. Donald R. Wright, 22, planes collided in flight, air vase Morris st, | te miles south of the base.| Born in Boone county, she had REPORT eet een James O. Abbitt, an- employee of ‘GERMAN near Whitestown, | The newspaper Dagens Nyheter re- Minnie Scott, Lebanon; Mrs, Nora |mines and sank off Hango on the children’ and two great-grandchil-Some 100 survivors were rescued Monday in the Farley funeral home, and ohiman, . at 1118 N. | Gerald, Norma Hamilton, at Coleman pata, Norma Jeanne Button, at Method.
| Anderson, Ind., was one of two P-38 DIES HERE AT AGE 16 ofcers announced today. | of her daughter, Mrs. Marie Gwinn, Wright is the son of Mrs. Jennie Lge, lived in West Indianapolis more | Marmon-Herrington Co. She was DESTROYERS SUN Survivors besides her husband ported today that two German de-' Moore, Indianapolis, and Mrs, Sarah fsouth coast of Finland Dec. 19, pre- dren. will be given to Russia as Burial “will be IN INDIANAPOLfS Boys | Angelo, Georgianna Zullo, at Coleman,
MARRIAGE LICENSES Bpann,;
Geraldine G, Lloyd, 1201 Oliv ist Lois Marvin, Dessie Van Bickle, at Methodist.
red Thrasher, 501 Chas Barl,. Veana Strate, at 1746 Howard,
Share Louise Young, Rockville g “P.. Mitchell, Pt. Harrison; Betty DEATHS Nagy. Detroit, Mich. ‘Massa. | Calvin D. Heckman, Ma at 1508 W. 28th
coronary throm
tuberculosis.
i John Rdward Lawrende, 0, at 1434 N BIRTHS Chester, carcinoma, SV Gels Walter W, Hewitt, 77, at Bt. Vincent's, < fakrsnral a ark, Roda Maritn, a Lo vs Lauga Patterson, at 1074 Ww, Ath, Dodds incent’s. cerenral hemorrh
Lucille Faltes, 20, age, Flower sisson, bercilost John Ray, ss Pon 2712. Indianapolis, eoronary occlus Charies A "oh ‘at 610 Patterson, chronic my De "Wa Iter Downing, 60, at 808 Pletchi cardio vascular renal.
and, Gladys Gatyean. at St. Vincent's. Wayne. Mildred Long, at St. Vincent's. bert, Kathryn Permett, at St. Vincent's.
at Methodist, i ores : 8% Method.
died today in the home|.
in the Lutheran].
E LEAVES ITALY FOR AMERICA wil be in Berlin at the end of the,
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corridor near Celles (see arrows). slashed deeply inte the German southern flank.
ROME, Dec. 20 (U. PJ. — Rep.| poioyiim
between Cherbourg. and Paris on Clare Booth: Luce (R. Conn.) was headed for the United States today'on the fact that the German rail-'sian system.
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Verviers . . Manschou - wl.
Grondmenil eo , Liernewr
Vielsalm
‘Where Yanks Threaten Close Death Trap
Two Yank armies are threatening to engulf thousands of Nazis fleeing through a narrowing escape Above Bastogne, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s 3d army tanks have
JUDGES TO TAKE DATHS JAN: 1, 2
Hamilton, Flanagan, Gilke= son, Young and Starr . Await Swearing-in.>
Little pomp but much dignity will
‘mark inauguration ceremonies Jan.
1 and 2 for three supreme court and
two appellate court judges, all Re= publicans, Appellate court justices, who will take the oath at 10 a. m. New Year's day, are Frank Hamilton of Terre Haute, first district, and Dan OQ. Flanagan of Pt. Wayne, second district. Mr, Hamilton, succeeds Judge Edgar M. BleSSing, Republican, of Danville who, because of illness, has been off the bench for 22 months. He was stricken in March, 1943, Judge Flanagan succeeds himself,
Judge Draper to Officiate |
Chief Appellate Court Justice Floyd 8. Dfaper will swear in Mr, Hamilton and Justice Harry L. Crumpacker will administer the oath to Mr. Flanagan. Judge Hamilton will be succeeded in his present post as assistant ate torney general to Atty. Gen. James Emmert by William Foust of Columbia City.
Supreme court judges, to be sworn in at 2 p. m. Jan. 2, are Frank E., Gilkeson of Washington,
after predicting that more American | | way system is better integrated with | Indianapolis,
{first district; Howard S. Young of second district, and
{and British soldiers than Russians | the system the Anglo-Amerlcens are | Oliv er Starr of Gary, third district.
war despite the German offensive | | tries—both being
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using in France and the low coun-
They. succeed Democrats Curtis Shake, Nathan Swaim and Michael
narrow gauge— |i, pansler respectively. Senior Sus She said she based her prediction | than with the standard gauge Rus- | preme Court Justice Frank N. Riche
man will be the inducting officer,
DAY NEARER VICTORY
A WELL-DRESSED SNOW-SHOVELER WEARS (NO DOUBT
HE HAS A PILE LINED COAT—that keeps
his ‘bodily warmth in——and keeps the marrow-chilling winds out! - It's easy. and free from bulk—allows him freedom of the
He has himself warmly gloved and shod— Of course, a SWEATER helps a lot—and
arms,
the
PANTS are a physical and legal requirement.
WHICH BRINGS US TO THE POINT at hand— that The Man's Store is very well equipped—.
to turn a man out into the cold—with - a feeling of comfort—with the déeep-down' . stores that come. from surety of quali
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