Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1945 — Page 2

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10 END DHE RN;

No Outstanding Rationing

Stamps to Be Canceled, Public Told.

WASHING TOR, Jan. 4 (U. P).—

The OPA moved today to ‘halt a 3 serious” run on. the nation's shoe '::

supplies. -

No outstanding” shoe ration d cancelled, . OPA |

| stamps will’ be promised unreservedly Airplane stamps Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are how good for a pair of shoes

piste OPA was aroused by reports] that panic-buying of shoes had set | ‘in all’ over the country fof fear some of the stamps might be can- | celled.

snot a chance tn a million.” “We are not going to cancel’ any| outstanding shoe stamps,” he said flatly. ol Began on West Coast A nation-wide United Press survey showed that the rush to use up| valid shoe ration stamps began on the West coast immediately after | the OPA cancelled all food stamps] validated before Dec. 1 | Many persons, caught unawares | on their food stamps, apparently | were convinced that the same thing| would be done with their shoe | ‘stamps. ,, They rushed to stores in|

.-.. Price” Chief Chiles Bowles de-|’ —glared ‘emphatically thatthere was; :

{Novy oir roids on “| Formosa, Ryukyu Is. give Japs ptters

| FORMOSA

silo’ New Tandings. give 8 + Mind to control

PHILIPPINE 1S. Acme. Telephoto

Here is white U. §. forces struck on an ,1100~mile “front in the Pacific. The score: 1. Two new landings on Mindoéro. 2. Bombing of Formosa and Okinawa in Ryukyu islands. 3. B-29 attack on. Jap air center at Nagova.

Indianapolis, New York, Chicago, | Boston, Atlanta, Houston and other} cities to use their stamps while they | gould. (In a survey of dow ntown stores in Indianapolis yesterday, concerns reported an increased business of from 5 to 100 per cent. ‘Men led . the raid on the stocks, many buying two pairs.) L E Langston, executive - vice president of the National Shoe Re: tailers association, said in New York he had received “hundreds of telegrams from all over the country reporting tremendous runs. - Houston retailers reported they had to clese their doors at 4 p. m. Saturday .and the Tuesday after New Year's day because of a terrific, jam of frenzied customers seizing any and all shoes they had on their shelves. In Chicago the rush. was concentrated on men’s shoes. Dealers | § contemplated sales on a daily quota | basis ‘unless “scare-buying” ceases at once. Charles E. Lanchintin, secretary of the greater Chicago Shoe Retailers association, said there were “enough shoes to go around for six months if only consumers take it . easy.” Five out of six representative dealers in Boston reported a demand of “unheard of’ proportions since last Saturday. They said their * shelves might be bare by Easter if! it continued.

‘Unheard of Demand’

The same was true in New York.| In Atlanta shoe dealéds said continued runs would wipe out stocks in 45 to 60 days. | Langston said the run was due tof the OPA’'s language in saying it| “does ‘not contemplate” cancellation | of shoe stamps when announcing | Jast Saturday that airplane stamp | No. 3 would have to last well into| next summer insiead of Just ‘until May 1. He said the public apparently did | .. pot take the phrase as a positive denial of such intentions.

. ENROLLS AT CINCINNATI

Thomas S. Shimer, son of Mr. and Mis. Thomas S. Shimer, 5815 E. New York st., is one of four Indiana students enrolled as freshmen at the University of Cincinnati school of = applied arts. He is a graduate of Technical high school.

T.M.Wimberly,

Former Bowling"

Champion, Dies

ONE OF THE CITY'S ranking -bowlers,, Thomas: Milton Wimberly, hospital today, ness of several weeks. *

Mr. Wimberly, who was 41, was employed at the | Pennsylvania |

alleys . at , the time of his

past 20

this city.

Mr. Wimberly was a member of | ‘the Pénnsylvania Recreation and | ‘Washington leagues prior to his | in the ||

illness. He had rolled

Indianapolis, Fox-Hunt classic,

West Side classic and other lead- | ing loops and .was one of the few |

bowlers who could control a “palm

ball.” 8 2 =

‘HE WAS state all- events cham- |

pion in 1930 and had ‘placed high

in several national, state and city |

meets. He had a reputation of

Wimberly of Kokomo. nieces, Marguerite . Moore, Laura Cloyd and Mrs,

"survive him.

Services will be held at 2 p. m. | Saturday from the Montgomery | with burial in |

funeral * home, Grown Hill.

FALSE NEWS FROM BERLIN STOCKHOLM, Jan. 4 (U, P.).—

{ A Berlin- dispatch said teday that

false teeth will be rationed strictly in Germany from now on, and-can: be had only by special permission

lof authorities.

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: Parker's

One botile makes two!

Perfect Polish

| Mary ~ president.

top- |

died in the Methodist | following an ill-

fc SORORITY OBSERVES |

~ 67TH ANNIVERSARY

The 67th anniversary of Mu chapter, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, at Butler university, was celebrated last night at a dinner in the chap-.

Re ter house; -821¢ W. Hampton dr,

Approximately 50 alumnae and 50 collegiate members participated in the .program. Walter Leckrone,

editor of The, Indianapolis Times, Peace Prob- |

spoke on “Post-War lems.” The program also

toast to Mu chapter by Mrs. George

| Oburn, president of the Mu Alum-

nae club, and a response by Miss Lu Marshall, active chapter Mrs. Everett .M.,- Schofield was general chairman of the event, and Mrs. John Brayton presided at the business session.

BUTCHERS FACE CLOSING NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (U. P)—

‘Hundreds of retail butcher shops|

in this area were threatened with]

clared. they would convert their | plants to government service unless their allotments of meat were -increased immediately~’

| |

y ’ { inéluded &|

: permanent Llosing, today, - A” groud! the 1st army. on the of wholesalers and distributors de-| flank. A

By JOHN McDEEMOTT United Press Staff Correspondent U. 8. 1ST ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Western Front, .Jan. 4.— The 1st. army paid high tribute today to the fighting 30th divi-

ston. *

(The 30th Old Hickory division was trained at Camp Atterbury, Ind, from November, 1943, to January 1944). Lifting its security ban, 1st army headquarters permitted disclosure of the role played by the

30th and nine other Yank divi-.

sions in stemming the Wehrmacht's bid for a breakthrough in the Ardennes last month. 2 2 8 » THE 30TH, in the thick of the fighting at Stavelot. and La Gleize, knocked out 92 German tanks and 360 vehicles.

‘It captured 337 prisoners ‘and .

buried 117 enemy dead while serving as the forward wall of northern £ " In the Stavelot area alone, the division’s = supporting . artillery claimed to have killed 2000 Ger-

mans and destroyed 200 vehicles.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

Afiarbury s 30th Lauded for Role i in Stopping Nazi Drive

The. 30th, commanded" vy Maj. Gen, Leland 'S. Hobbs, Washing-

%on, D. C, won grudging praise’

from the Germans themselves. They dubbed the* outfit “Roose=yelt's shock troops.” Lee. ,» THE “BATTLE BABIES” of the 99th division also came in for high praise.

« The 99th received its baptism

of fire on the bloody northern corner of the Ardennes salient. The. division fought off four German divisions for five days and nights. at the start of the Nazi winter offensive. Going into action for the first time, the 99th faced wave after wave of German assault forces at the beginning of the Ardennes drive. Two panzer and. two Volksgrenadier divisions, reinforced by tanks, hit it amidships on Dec. 17 4. the vicinity of Hollerath, Bulling and Wirtzfeld, below Monschau. Some of the bitterest fightifig ‘of the entire..offensive ' ‘centered “around’ ai towns. ee

: » FOR FIVE DAYS the 99th bat-

‘tied around the clock.

Sometimes it fell back.

“divisions,

CElenborn,

Then "eo charged the Germans and. forced the Nazis to retreat.

“The “baptism of fire was one of

- the strangest- any American outfit ever.received. that captured Marshal Karl von Rundstedt's order. telling . his troops their moment had come to strike a decisive blow-tipping the allies that this was a‘ fullscale Nazi offensive. The 1st army also paid high

tribute to the stand made else- |

where in the Ardennes: by the 9th, 2d, st and. 75th - infantry the 82d airborne, Tth and 9th armored, and the 112th regiment of the 28th division, 8 5 - THE 9TH infantry, commanded by Maj. -Gen.. Louis A. Craig, Raleigh, N. C, was thrown into the line in the Monschau area when the German offensive began, When the 99th was “taking it” hardest, the 9th moved in to relieve that division

The 75th held the line- along the Hotton-Grandmenil where the Germans were stopped in their racks, =

It was the 99th.

the

around

sector |

That was the first important action the 75th Kad. seen since it was activated at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., in 1942, * The 9th armored, part of which was going under first time, held off the Germans near St: Vith until it was relieved | by the 7th armoréd. - » »

THE 7th armored, which fought

‘one of the most’ gallant" holding

actions of the battle in the St, Vith aréa, previously had been identified as in action in the.Ardennes, along ‘with the 83d air-. borne and the 1st infantry. The 2d infantry division held the “hot corner” around Bulligen. It plugged the holes ripped in the advanced American lines,

‘winning ‘special citation from 1st

army commander Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges. The 2d had just begun a. smallscale attack of its own into Germany on Dec. ‘16- u. when the Nazis struck,

“WHen” tire” “Hot porter Coote 4 ‘off -700-enemy dead-were-counted |

there, another 1000 or more were prisoners and the Nazis had lost. 50 tanks.

e for the

_ THURSDAY, JAN. L 1045

SHOW OF AUTHORITY. |

RESULTS. IN ARREST

Frames Elmer McReynglds, 903 Paca st, was being held today on, a charge of vagrancy after he is al leged to #rave used his special-police powers to stop two Anderson men unlawfully. . Lester Farran, 33, and Morris Green, 33, both of Anderson, said. they stopped their automobile at ‘Michigan and West sts., yesterday "afternoon, They said McReynolds drove his ‘car alongside and waved a gun at . them, telling them to pull to the ciel, After telling him they were sup= posed to heed a policeman, Mec Reynolds Is. said by the two men to have released them. : Police said he had in his possession an Indienapolis-auxiliary police badge and a gun, for which he had a permit. Both the gun and badge (were taken from him at police headquarters, Ny. >

FORMER SHERIFF DIES

county, Indians, died yesterday of a

heart ailment, He was first super-

- lintendent of Shakamak state park.

re BRAZIL Jan, 4 (UTP). = Willa :

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“The average own dweller is ry,” explained ennes Brothers

Mrs. Charlotte bf the Gooding pounded by the k 20 bills, then n wdust.”

Once hams an given away at | t's plaster dolls nd still the cus games, largely be he only games |

With the manj sideshow threate: art, showmen sa are carrying on he trained pe sword-swalloweérs are thinning out

“Scarcity

As for Jaborer roupes try to offering a $5 a put in a lump season's close. Leo Krancis, al who should know arem’t clowning fighting Nazis a: on assembly lines - For . many ye

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