Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1945 — Page 4
Germans Braci
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“Imminent Smash by as OPENS SE SESSION -
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‘ater recalled recent assertions By P.)—~German losses in the Ar-
supreme headquarters sources’ that the time was at hand. for’ Rithd-| stedt to decide whether. to get out
of his salient or renew hiy attack.
Latest Indications ‘Latest indications were that the|
Nazis were prepared -to-contest-any American thrusts from ‘the north,
WITH 21ST ARMY GROUP” WESTERN FRONT, Jan. 3 (U, Ready to Take Up Up Problems Dealing With War and
The Peace.
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| “dennes salient im the first 16 days | | of the battle were estimated today to include 15,000 to 20,000 prisoners. - Four hundred tanks and | armored vehicles were knocked - out or destroyed, it was said. (The dispatch did not say who made the estimates.) | Five panzer divisions, one pan-
penditures somewhat below the $100,000,0600,000- figure proposed for
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but were coritent to pull back slowly before the triphammer blows| raining on the south flank, Already Patton's advanced spear- | head northeast of Bastogne was| gouging .past the village of Mi- 4 mies were gathering in increasing |
zer grenadier. and five volksgrenadier divisions were reported badly | mauled.
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this congress than in.the last.
new ‘CcONgress,
Democrats age more numerous: in
Some colorful and some contro-}
versial figures are missing from the|. cunningly placed. wooden blocks.
champ to the area of Bourcy and | Bois Du Maister, -beyond. Armored outriders were a minimum of five and a half miles be-! yond ..Bastogne and strofig units] were not far behind. Along a line two to 11 miles west of Bostogne, the 3d army captured
about a mie]
| strength. Rep. Martin Dies did not seek American 3d army artillery opened | renomination. Three other mema rolling bombardment across -.the bers of his committee were licked. less than 15-mile corridor still’ in| Rep. Hamilton Fish was: an elec- | German hands nofth of Bastogne. -|tion casualty. Thé¥yanks pounded every cross-| Senator Ellison D.' (Cotton Ed) roads over which German "troops| |Sniith (D. 8. C), lost in his state's {and armor, were moving. | primary and. soon afterward ‘died.
SenatorRobert R. Reynolds (D. _Panzers Fall Back | Rey,
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British Disclose Gin T orfures
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camps at Brussels, Charleroi; OsLimbourg, Bourg-Leo-pold, Antwerp and Liege. But the horrors of the ‘windowless, stone torture chamber .at Breendonk were - perhaps + the worst, “ ; ® x » THERE THE victims - were stripped, hand-cuffed and beaten with a truncheon or cat- y's -ninetails. They were hauled to the ceiling by a rope and pulley, beaten and dropped onto the sharp edges of
Prisoners were lashed to a table and .burned about the body with
heated metal plates of needles. Their fingers were~crushed in a special press. In the floor of the chamber, the Nazis thoughtfully had cut. a.
of the victims.
PRISONERS every ‘day . were taken- into the courtyard and
forced to. watch while their fellow "|
captives were. subjected to the Nazi horrors. * THe most common punishment was 30 strokes on the bare back with a stick that flayed the flesh to a gruesome pulp: The following day the victim of this treatment customarily was ordered to work all day carrying” bricks. The testimony of a mysterigus Madame “X.,” whose name was not divulged, revealed how women
.were abused in the round torture
room when the Nazis felt it necessary to drag secrets of resistance from them, ’ ~ ” » “MY HANDS were tied behind my back with big fiber hand cuffs which passed through a running knot,” she said. “Entirely naked, I was lifted above the floor (by a pulley) and beaten with rubber truncheons wielded by two SS men. es
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NEW. BRITISH FLEET | "REACHES AUSTRALIA
By UNITED PRESS - cluding aircraft carriers, a. screening ers and ‘other warships, has ved at Australia, under the command of Adm. Sir Bryce Fraser, an NBC ‘broadcast from the Philippines said. today. The Australian squadron which
has been operating .under Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's supreme command will continiie to fight with the Americans, however; the broadcast said.
terrogation. I had my nalls crushed in a kind of tron letter copying machine.” She also disclosed that a German medical orderly once gave her an injection into her breast, apparently with the intention of stupefying her. ‘But she upset the idea by putting her fingegs down her throat while the Nazis were lax and making herself vomit. “ The woman and a cell companion in addition were beaten every day with truncheons which
‘The fiew. British Pacific fleet, tr-| ~
TEN REMAIN IDLE Report Anti-Nazi “IN CITY PARK: Row, Posters in Reich |
“Téh workers at Broakilds shops! ; LONDON, Jun: 3 (0 nom of the park department were 8tll| gnti-Nazi posters appeared re= "absent from work today following | cently in & number of German walkout yesterday. cities. Eight other workers who partici- At Dresden, the broadcast sald, pated in ‘the walkout returned to| the posters were plastered all their jobs today. over the town with the slogan, - Paul Brown, city parks supérin-{ “Hitler Is a Murderer of German tendent, said he had begun recruit-| Youth.” ine applicants to fill the remaining| Pamphlets ‘depicting a bombed obs.
German ‘town were ‘reported dis.Dissatistaction over provisions of
the 1945 budget caused’ the workers to remain away from Weir Jobs yesterday. Those who returned were charged with vacation leave for their absence. *
tributed at Osnabruck with the Inscription, “For This We Thank Our, Fuelirer,” : : A Hitler ‘bust at smashed, tion sald.
Bonn - was thé Luxembourg: stas
The work stoppage was minor in|. ‘nature since about 150 persons are employed in the park maintenance department.
COTTON LANDS FLOODED COLDWATER, Miss, Jan. 3 (B,
rns river in the Arkabutla reservoir hex area have inundated thousands .of - TURKEY PICKS OWN FEATHERS acres of unpicked cotton land and CHICAGO. — Feather picking displaced a section of the highway among turkeys is a common un- 51 bridge over the river ‘two. miles
desirable practice.
P.).—Flood waters of the Coldwater §
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‘ment to farm wi Byrnes wrote FE d been advised Henry L. Sti mes Forrestal hm the army anc fue coming year psent) eligibles | vear-age group “The army and lieve it essentia osecution of the bre men in: this
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Bande) AM v “In the cou . r : nde, Gerimont. and be : the c Ise of one such in< broke her teeth
Bonnerue. Patrols speared into St. ——but—withdrew:
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=n MCrl-decided-npt-to-run-againe— At tife same time, the panger ar Senator . Hattie W:=Caraway (D. Hubert | visions that burst out: of thé Sieg- |Ark.), lost to Rep. J. william Fuj- : rfFed tne less than three-weeks ago Loright: aiso-a-Democrat: - heaviest fighting west of |and “drove to within four miles ot| ‘There are 243 Democrats, 190 ReBastogne was ‘around a hill be-| .. jeyse‘ river were racing back publicans, 1 Amarican-Laborite and | Dees Bonnsrve ad He i Ths from their westernmost positions, |1 Progressive” in the new house, | ermans he ne hill, bu e These figures embrace 79 new mem-.-doughboys gained half a mile to ‘The Germans were speeding to Els [bers of ts 59 are Democrats and its right, putting them. a .quarter behind their new defensive screen in |20 are Republicans. i i the center of the Ardennes. of a mile from Tillet. Teand the Fi of i] In the 78th congress which anded) : 1700 Planes Attack Ty Viete Aun ae! ack onl {last month; the Democrats and Re- |
Bad weather grounded the tac-|the defensive. : | puniiens Were Usd wih 212 mem» tical air forces this morning. More| They were digging in on thel mpere are 57 Democrats in the | than 1700 American bombers and |porthwestern and. southwestern|,.y senate, 38 Republicans and one | fighters from Britain swarmed, 0 |gnoulders and yielding ground ip. ovecqive compared with = 561 the support of the ground armies. some sectors of the southern .flank Democrats, 39 Republicans and one | hitting transport. centers scattered |i, permit transfer of reserves to Progressive: when the 78th’ congress behind the battle lines from Bel-| 0 exposed areas. endo. Slum to the Karlsruhe area of ‘the Censorship limited. speculation on|™,
- Upper Rhine. { These numerical Heavily- censored field dispatches (XAT Sop movements inside pt exactly reflect e pocket.
said an air of tension hung over the" : alignments. Ardennes. Defensive Activity Some. Southern and other Déem-= Both sides braced for a major bat- Low £ _tocrats balk at. various New Deal! Spokesmen acknowledged the en te that sould affect the Surdun of emy activity was primarily defen- i ih lpn He a a ie re- sive, however. | across party lines. But the conteady st t G The Nazis obviously were prepar-| Ein substantial . teErment on poijed 2 sitady stream of German ing to meet some kind of allied | k g convoys jammed the roads in the threat, it was said. voting men,. money and powers for (A compilation of headquarters |
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center of the pocket. {all-out prosecution of the war.
They were moving out to the
flanks on which the 1st and 3d U. 5.) 20d front dispatches suggested the
‘| Germans were expecting the main assault to come ‘rom the north] along the St. Vith-Stavelot-Grand-menii line. The Nazis apparently believe Patton's 3d army attack from the south will serve as the|
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self a “Victory Congress.”
anvil for the 1st army hammer.) | The mass movement of German
Faces Peace Problems -In contrast. with the 78th congress which convened two years ago, this one. probably will not .anticipate better times by calling itBut it will be concerned with the prob- | lems of peace... The senate is: expected to receive
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a Dumbarton Oaks world security organization proposal which will | precipitate a full dress foreign making| { policy debate. Democratic leaders said privately that hational service legislation | would be offered early in some form —something short of a labor-draft but designed to force F's and others into war work.
reserves inside the . pocket -overshadowed developments on fighting front. Patton's troops were steady but slow progress pom . Bastogne and American 3d and 7th ing gas, So smack and beariburn daar wnat army forces to Jn stints were] prescribe the fastest-acting medicines kn or| successfully containing heavy -) t medicines in Bell. So Larstive. Bellians brings comfort. in 8 | man counter-attacks on the Saar i tinate lines. and Rhine Palatinate Sn rar ia OW 46 per
or double your money back on return vy bottle | us. 25¢ st all druggists, Bitterly Cold Weather |suade thousands of qualified women ~ What A ou Fighting in bitterly cold weather to accept service as army and navy’ ll, re stiff resistance, Patton's nurses.
| forces expanded their wedge north| After national service legislation _ And howithurts, and DAS and east of Bastogne by a mile or| to improve the use of available ‘Chronic bronchitis may develop if |
{ more. They won equelly, limited manpower, most pressing legislative igains on a 15-mile line extending business involves peacetime univercough, chest, co - | west to St. Hubert. sal training; permanency of fair you is goa. You cans German reinforcements were re-| employment practices policies, labor ford to kes chance vithany = (ported moving into the Lutrebois affairs, taxation and the whole field sector. United Press correspondent | of our. foreign diplomatic and ecoRobert Richards reported that the nomic relations. {enemy appeared ready to stand and | Price Control Is Issue oe tatame| fight there regardless of the dan-| This covers financial, aviation, a. ser of being cut off by Patton's, lend-lease, reciprocal trade, petro1 process with other | northward advance, { leum and related policies. medicines for goughs.| Very heavy fighting was continu-| This congress must determine cines {ing around Lowes, German Jethods of continuing price control matter how. many edi multi - barrelled mortars—theland stabilization policies. It may | “you have tried, tell your druggist to | ‘screaming meemies"—were pound- | consider revision of the corrupt | bottle i
n fe aan EE ng American positions three miles | practices act and the Hatch clean | | politics act, having in mind the in- |
3 quickly ~s the cough, P= farther south at Honville. | fluence organized labor now _pos-
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The Con- | ' The icy glaze over strests and + | sidewalks here was blamed for the the Hick-|injury of several persons. man Oldsmobile Co. { ‘Marion Marlett, 31, of 5212 Regent 3815 College ave, Wiles-Johnsan st, fell near her home last night Motors. ~ =r. (while alighting from a bus. 3012“ Northwestern ave, Guaran- Mrs. Ruth Bushfield, 23, of 536 N tee Tire & Rubber Co. Keystone ave., slipped in the 900 2358 Station st. (Brightwogd),|block on Keystone and broke her | Rettig Hardware Co. {right ankle. i * 2421 E. Washington st., Jones & | Henry Stevens, 68, of 745 N. Noble Maley, Inc. ; | st, fell while crossing Noble st. at 2045 W. Washington st.- | Massachusetts ave, 1246 N. Holmes ave., home of Mrs. eB: Elizabeth Downing Kirk Spencer, 65, of 224 E, Henry 25th st. antl Martindale ave, Me-| St. -8 night watchman at Manual Coy grocery store Training high school, dislocated his 9 1037 Virginia ave left shoulder in a fall which knocked Co. (tentative). : him unconscious.” He was picked up In addition to these, the Foun- by a passing motorist who took him tain Square state bank will accept| Ome.
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Feb. 281s Deadline Deadline on use of 1944 licenses is “+70 ANDERSON YOUTH Feb. 28, Secretary of. State-Rue Alex-| ANDERSON, Ind; Jan. 3 (U. P.). ander warned. A receipt proving|—Robert Bailey, 13, son of Manager payment of 1944 poll and personal E. A. Bailey of the Anderson Herald, rk Rg pu taxes must: accompany all license | died of a skull fracture received tions where a bland. mila anodvne mas- 8pplications, whether presented | last night in a.fall from a bathtub
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