Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1945 — Page 2

_~ "The mayor of Warsaw pointed to

Fighter Pilots

“POLISH CAPITAL ~ LIES IN RUINS

Warsaw Seen Desolate by Writer—Mighty Armies Poise on Vistula.

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent

LUBLIN, Poland, Jan. §.—War-

wi oP ay C. Diersing Carl Clouser Two Indianapolis men who™ re-| cently were graduated from the] aw is a aly of Sesviate FUS, Aloe, en. Se air field as fighter | stretching mile upon mile in’ every| noes are 2D LTS. CHARLES E.| - direction, but in its eastern districts DIERSING, son of Mr. and Mrs. | are’ poised several mighty Soviet Frederick MH. Diersing, 822 N.| and Polish armies ready to strike Olney st, and CARL VINCENT) _mcross the frozen Vistula in what/CLOUSER, son of Mr, and Mrs. “may be the decisive winter offensive Carl Victor Clouser, 62 8. Chester | of the Eastern front. - st. Lt. Diersings wife, Helen, lives | I have just returned from War- at 3339 E. St. Clair st. saw, where I saw those armies and

Eom en LAWRENCE SET | ernie: FOR 12TH NIGHT

the east bark of the Vistula and as much an integral part of Warsaw as Brooklyn is of New York City. From the east side of the Vistula, 2] just below one of Warsaws four iisnor Roll I Dedication to wreckage left by Germans, tnen| Feature Observance of Soviet bombs and shells since that] : : fateful Sept, 1, 1939. Old Custom. No Sign of Lif¢ A comniunity war service honor roll ‘will be dedicated at the an-| a macabre skeleton. For miles be-| morrow. hind the long lines of German| "A modernized version of a cen-| trenches, pillboxes and artillery |tury-old tradition, 12th Night was emplacements, there was. no sign introduced by the Lawrence Boy, trenched underground and behind lieved to be the first and only ob-| the vestiges of tenements broke the|Servance of its kind in this sec- | monotony of the winter day with|ton of the country. bullets and artillery shells. The custom is widely observed in| man’s river’—Col. Prosk, the con- In addition to the tree burning | ducting officer, said that this was| and the singing of Christmas carols, | 8 “quiet day—the same quiet day | the observance will be. highlighted | that an shells = Killed or| bY dedication of a new community | Lawrence servicemen and women. | The pole and -cabinet are being | presented to the town by the Scott] troop.

bridges and only 300 yards from the German lines, I looked across fue 8 ked frame of 15~-sto ge es th oi ] nual 12th Night observance to be| RNdIng Coming € Styne held in Lawrence at 7 p. m. to- | of any living thing. Scout troop 100 a yedr -ago as a But invisible Germans were en. community celebration. It is be-| As we stood on the edge of no|the East and features the urine man’s land—more properly “no|0f Christmas trees. woun more. than 70 civilians in|fl88 Pole and an honor roll cab- | 4 inet containing the names of: 202

what used to be the central section of the capital. He said it was the focal point of the ill-fated insur- - rection in August. Only Handful Escape,

“Not a single soul zemained there

Music on Program

Capt. Leving McCarty, provost | marshal and intelligence officer at to tell the tale” he said. “Of a Ft. Harrison, will speak at 7 p. m.!

pula i i ditorium | tion of more than 700,000 |" the Methodist church au a handful of survivors managed “here the program will be held. to cross the Vistula and now are in A special color guard commanded by | Praga. Every one of the others Capt. Frank H. Allen will Pere p either was killed or taken to Ger-|Pate in the ceremonies. ‘ many.” " Post Chaplain Capt. Albert M. B.! Only approximately 120,000 Poles| Snapp from Ft. Harrison will honor | remain in Praga of Warsaw's 1,800,- | the gold star members of the serv-| 000. In basements, dugouts, and ice roll : roofless, unheated ruins, I saw these Music will be provided by a brass women and children carrying on . i with the same spirit I once saw school, consisting of Richard Hoot- |

among the people of besieged Lenin- | en. Jack Deputy and Richard Van-| grad. « dercook, and directed by Karl SarPrimitive factories were arising|8ent, music supervisor.

from the ruins. The Polish army | Cub Scout Bobby White will pre-| was growing daily. jpant a regulation army flag to be) There was a. little cemetery ‘at flown on the new flag pole in,mem- | .. almost every corner. Victims of the| OY of his brother-in-law, Herbert war were buried immediately almost E Kramer, who was killed in ac-| where they fell. ion

] Ho Rev. B. J. Renner, pastor of | {the Lawrence Methodist church, and | {the Rev: Marvin Schramm, pastor

PARRISH IS ADDED | TO BARN'S FEATURES ("Coren "vin partion i the

Frank Parrish, local radio singer | Program. and entertainer, has been added oe Norman H. Brinsley, scoutmaster

one of Castle Barn's entertainment of the Lawrence troop, and Fred | features. | Hulgan will be in charge of" thé af-| |

Mr. Parrish will appear tonjght, | | fair.

EE SE vA ONG TRIAL SET FOR TUESDAY

port orchestras. Tea dancing each Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 will be featured] . at the night club, located on Pen- | dleton Pike. Dancing on Priday and 5 | Saturday nights is from 9 to 3 and| A Chicago woman who allegedly| on Sunday ni night from 8 to 12. {swung her fists at a policeman here | ee —— when he attempted to halt-her jay-| TRAIN CI CRASH FATAL {walking will tell her story in Mu{nicipal court, room 3, Tuesday. She is Mrs. Blanche Viola Farley FOR TWO, PROBED fr: FT. WAYNE, Ind, Jan, 5 (U.P). Arraigned yesterday, she pleaded —Railroad officials in Dola, O., to-!innocent of the group of charges day opened an investigation in the [lodged against her after the alleged train crash which resulted in the! fisticuffs. | death of two Ft. Wayne men,| Mrs. Farley explained in court she Francis J. Greter; 33, a Pennsyl- | “didn’t know the officer’ (Horace vania railroad brakeman, and Wil- | Eller) was whistling at me,” adding! mer T. Turnpaugh, 40, conductor, | that she wasn't aware either she yesterday, was breaking the law. Early reports indicated that the | But Eller’s . charges still stand: two men were sitting in the caboose | | Disobeying an automatic traffic of their train, which was taking on |signal, disregarding a police officer's - coal on a side track, when a freight whistle, profanity and resisting] plowed into it. {arrest.

On Exhibition at Ayres’

rworuiroad

The HOFFHEIMER COLLECTION, of MINIATURE ROOMS

Tiny, cirelilly scaled [ore inch to. one foot) model rooms that range frst a country general store . , . with all the details even to the cracker barrel by the

stove toe sophisticated-moderm-penthouse:

Started as a spare-time hobby for his own amuserment by Mr. J. H. Hoffheimer of New York, this collection of ten miniature rooms now is being exhibited all over the country, o oe

NO ADMISSION CHARGE

ON THE SIXTH FLOOR January 2nd through January 27th

trio from Lawrence Central high}

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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FRIDAY JAN. 5 104

‘Writers View Bastogne as German Gots With Tide Turning Now r Favor of Allies,

* Two United Press war’ correspondents who completed independent tours of the Western

| Front present in the following dis- | patch their impressions of the

current’ situation on the hasis of

{ information obtained from the best military sources,

By ROBERT MUSEL and WALTER CRONKITE

United Press Staff Correspondents

ADVANCED NINTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Jan. 5-—Bastogne may well prove to be a German “Gettysburg”—representing the high tide of _ the enemy's ability to wage offensive war in the period between D-day and the end of hostilities. . But whatever fate awaits the Nazi war machine, it is now obvious that . Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s brilliantly - conceived breakthrough into Belgium gained time—and time was one objective at least.

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| German offensives in the future.l

before final defeat. But every German attack henceforth should be weaker unless the Germans have undisclosed reserves — and that seemed improbable. The present situation offers

* bright spots on both sides, but

more particuldrly for the allies. It.is significant that today — nearly three weeks since the start of the German counter-thrust— a Nazi withdrawal from pars of the salient already is. underwhy.

GIVEN good weather, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3d army could

. wreck the entire German plan by

crashing through from the south with the help of fighter-bombers.

The chances of trapping some:

German men #nd material are favorable, but should net be overestimated.. Von Rundstedt is recognized as a master of defense, and it would be unreasonable to assume that he had no plan for a withdrawal.

The first. violence of the Ger-

1.man._ surge into the ' Ardennes:

bulge deceived some observers

into. believing that—Von—Run~|-

| ope do-or-die gasp.

‘Rundstedt struck into the thin-

‘because he was desperate for time

dstedt was gambling his all in

8» wi IN THE LIGHT of the present situation, however, it is ‘more reasonable to assume that the main German objective ‘was to scramble the allied plan for a decisive onslaught toward and perhaps across the Rhine — what might have been the final push of the war, Otherwise the entire luftwaffe probably would have been thrown into the battle. As it was, Von Ruyndstedt committed only part of the knowh frontline ‘strength of the German air force, and virtually none of his jet-propelled planes. 1 From our observations and information obtained from military sources, it appears now that Von

nest-held portion of the allied line

and prestige. a 2 8 ®- : THIS TACTIC, “developed by

Front, is known to the Russians as a “spoiling attack.” , ° Von Rundstedt apparently hoped he could. seize American supplies —and he may never know how close he came to one great dump. In event of a big unexpected success, he obviously intended to aim for Liege, the most important commuiiications center. in Belgium. “The prestige angle was port= ant to the German - high’ command to restore the tarnished reputation of the wehrmacht. » » »

TIME WAS paramount.

ing men and material at a tremendous rate, but they had not completed their inner fortification lines. : Moreover, a new army class is due in the spring, and the Germans still are banking on new secret Wweapons—-other than the three V-bombs. There hag been evidence. that the Nazis hoped-to counter allied

heavy-bomber attacks with the |

underground production of jet-

" cracked, through more

Not -only had the Nazis been sacrific-

propelled planes armed with big

no-recoil guns, » » . THIS, then, is what happened: Von ‘Rundstedt played the elements and came up with “misty weather - which grounded allied bombers and fighters, ‘Behind this screen, he struck

swiftly through some, of the worst

terrain in Europe, The Germans ster heavy casualties, but there seems no question that: Von ' Rundstedt easily than he had dared hope. Then he .began turning north toward Liege and south toward Sedan. Only probing thrusts were made north and south before it became evident that Patton's realign. ment ata moment's notice had Torestalled any sudh Tsjor moves, f J AT THIS poist, Patton began his counter-blow, striking at Bas-

togne where the garrison had held. out heroically: ‘against “Superior

Nazi-forees.-

center, but represents the farthest

Bastogne not. only i -a--road|

eastern point at whic it would be possible to slice the Germany bulge because of the broken, dif

| fleult terrain over a wide area.

Meanwhile, thé ‘allies face multitude of problems. If will b more than a month before Germans are driven back to th starting points—and there mus be regrouping and replenishment of supplies before the Americans can roll again.

IGRIPSHOLM TO LEAV

FOR NEW EXCHANGE

" WASHINGTON, Jan. § (U.P. The motor vessel Gripsholm wi leave New York tomorrow or sho thereafter to carry out another ex change with Germany of serio sick or wounded prisoners and som civilians. The state and war department announced that the Gripsholn would dock at Marseilles and

Gripsholm will arrivé. back fn Ney York late in February. -

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