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| firmed that its planes raided the

two ‘islands yesterday (Wednesday, Pearl Harbor time) for the second straight day. Tokyo said 400 planes participated, f owing up the initial strike by 5 The raids appeared designed to neutralize the two strongest enemy bases south: of Japan and presumably. isolate the Philippines . from further aerial reinforcement while land-based aircraft soften up Luzon, ' MacArthur's bombers wrought

‘havoc among enemy shipping in Lu-

gon's Subic bay and Lingayen gulf 100 miles north of Manila.

Shipping Toll

Sunk or damaged severely were: Twenty - five transports and freighters ranging from 300 to 12,000 tons and totalling 57 000 tons. A seaplane carrier. er ~‘Three naval escorts. A coastal vessel and five luggers. Fifteen ships, including, 14 freighters and transports and the seaplane were.: known definitely to have sunk. 3 Twenty-five other vessels were sunk or damaged by. MacArthur's bombers off Luzon Monday, ° There was no further news from the two landing forces which pushed ashore on the east and west coasts

of Mindoro Monday and Tuesday.

Major Port in Burma Captured by British

By McQUOWN WRIGHT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH BRITISH 'WORCES AT AKYAB ISLAND, Burma, Jan. 3— (Delayed’ — The largest’ combined operations force . ever launched against the Asiatic continent seized Akyaby Burma's third largest port, without opposition today.

Ir? 1042 and 1943 the Japanese

savagely repulsed small-scale British .attempts to .reach Akyab in li thrusts through the Burma jungle from.India. - . This time they evacuated the stronghold without a fight. Cruisers, destroyers, transports

4and planes had converged on them

for-a mighty land, sea and air blow. (B. B: C. said not a shot was fired in the landing.) :

Small Island

Akyab is a small island at the mouth of the Kaladan and Mayu rivérs 75 miles south of the Indian border. It gives the British a “harbor capable of handling ships up to 8000 tons and air bases a little more than 300 miles ‘northwest of Rangoon. With Akyab in their hands, the British 15th corps won control. of all Arakan province west of the Kaladan river, It is in a position fo cut the enemy's otily escape’ route

from the ~pfovifice, a road from

Kyauktaw through Taunguo to Prome, the latter on one of the main railways out ot Rangoon. Akyab, largest Burmese. port west of Rangoon, in peacetime had a population of 78,000. It was believed to have dwindled to a mere 2000 since the start‘of the war, Natives said the Japanese began pulling out of the port ‘last Sunday. : Both British and Indian troops participated in thé lading."

CHUNGKING, Jan. 5 (U. PJ).— The China-India land route lacked only one mile of being connected taday, headquarters announced following . the fall of Wanting Wednesday. to Chinese forces from the Salween river front. Meanwhile ether Chinese forces were reported making steady-prog-ress in pursuit. of beaten Japanese troops down the Bhamo-Namkam

road south into Burma

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BILLS ATTACK STATE WELFARE -

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death all or part of the benefit funds paid to them.

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<Pertains to Taverns

A bill requiring taven patrons to display certified proof of their age if asked to do so by the bartender, was submitted by Robert Heller (D. Decatur), house minority floor leader. ~ An amendment to the present alcoholic beverages act, the bill de-

being a minor,

to habitual drunks,

imprisonment. Proof of age, as defined in the bill,

voted in a previous election. at the opening day yesterday when

dumped into the hopper in the last hour. { Sevénteen | “ot the bills were sponsored by the Republican majority and 12 were introduced by| the Democrats. * Eleven of the bills and one’ resolution dealt withthe general wel- | fare and legal status of men and} women in the military service.

“The measures would:

ONE: Provide for the appointment of conservators to protect the property rights and handle the affairs of. missing or captured service men.

resolution sponsored by the Democratic minority in the senate. to give the vast number of service men under 21 their franchise on the ground that they have earned the right to a voice in government.

THREE: Create a permanent joint senate and house legislative | commission to make periodic investigations “of all departments of | state government similar to the legislative committee created by. the last legislature to probe the state welfare ‘department.

FOUR® Create a new office of state public defender to represent | all paupgrs in perl institutions who néed “Ifgal

FIVE: Fix 65 “cents an hour as the minimum wage for all govern- |

county and township units. The bill also would establish an eight-hour working.day in public offices with time and a half pay for overtime work:

introduced on this subject both in the house and the senate by Democratic minority legislators.

SEVEN: Raise thé occupational

“|disease act maximum benefits so

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around the neck—(and adjacent regions). And here are good all-wool mufflers— ._plain colors and |i in

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1 Bonnie D. 601 Grande. Kenneth William “Underhill. U.

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that -the total compensation payable would be $13,750 instead of the present maximum of $5500.

EIGHT: Give honorably discharged servicemen and women the right of re-employment in the same Jobs they had before entering the service.

NINE: Raise the monthly salaries of Indianapolis policemen . and ¢ firemen to $230 compared to $200 under present laws.

TEN; Raise the maximum benefits under workmen's compensation law to $50 a ‘week compared to present $3¢ maximum.

The house passed its first bill yesferday by suspending the rules to approve. an appropriation of $200,-

|000 to pay expenses of the session.

RISING CASUALTIES CROWD HOSPITALS

The large number of<gasualties returning from battlefront areas is making it impossible for the army to send all patients to hospitals near their homes, Maj. Ben. Norman T. Kirk, army surgeon _general, reported today. He said efforts would be made to hospitalize .soldiers as close to home as possible but that the job is getting increasingly difficult, For example, he sald, more than 30,000

IE —}4sick-and wounded returned to this

country in December, an increase of 300 per cent over July, '

EVENTS TODAY

Deeatus township farmer's institute, meetng, Decatur high school. Wh State Medical Framining board, meeting, Claypool hote

MARRIAGE LICENSES

Livergood, ha denie. Pa.

migens J. Carney, 2034 8. Delaware; Marie Bauer. 2034 8. Delaw Lester Faith Jr. ivy TRowpitali a es Helm, wu Hospital. Geo Farr . Watne ve. Pare Royalty, 635 Pt. Wayne Elmer, D. Jackson, 631 E. 16th; Blanche Alice’ Wilcox, 1031 N. Tllinois Kenneth Lawrence Smith, 1750 N. Tibbs

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. Army, Mary Jane Keating, 2602 E. North,

BIRTHS Girls . Luther, Sarah Crawford, at St, Rrantis.

Lawrence, Nora Heugal, at St. Fran George, Mary Scrutham, at x t Francis

Leon, Esther Legge, at & 1

nald, Ethel Flower, at Method rank, Sally Moore, at Methodist. Edward, Ranh N ers, at Méthodist. rhines, a

. t Methodist. Arnold, Estella odin , at hardt. | Donald, with Hh, be + Bmhardt rig

LY hate rdt, ‘| Leo, Irene haning BL a

Bt. Vincent's,

‘mands bartenders to challenge the age of any persons suspected of Bartenders also wotild be required to refuse services

Service to minors, resulting from failure to question the customer’s legal age, ‘would be punishable by fines of from $20 to $50 and 10 days

would consist of a sworn statement or certification by a circuit clerk to]. the effect that the possessor has Legislators got off to a fast start| ,

29 bills and three resolutions were

TWO: Change the constitution to permit persons 18 years old or over to vote. ‘This was in the form of a

ment employees in the state, city. | aon official chronology of the Ger-

SIX: Provide for free textbooks | in all state schools. Two bills were |

WASHINGTON, Jan, 5 (U. P.).—|

IN INDIANAPOLIS

“Army! Mifiam |

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Aboichrient of All Boards. mounted on trucks were scattering

sand, gravel and ashes on the glazed roadways to give traction to the tanks. One dispatch said there were some indications that the Germans were trying to ‘get their. forces out of the western toe of the sock before the Hodges-Patton pincers can trap them,” but the overall reports added up to a less optimistic conclusion.

The weather was too overcast to

hurl its full weight into battle. But the 8th's air force sent 1000 Flying Fortresses. and Liberators with 500" escorting fighters into another smash at communications points and junctions behind Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s salient. At the extreme southern end of the front the American 7th army still-was falling back under cans tinued. German. pressure.

was given’ Wednesday, The lafest reports said that Lt.

in a front dispatch

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES |

13 “Allied Armies Toch Ahead In Icy Cold Under Bitter Fire

allow the allied tactical air force to |

Gen, Alexander Patch's troops were fighting hard in the Bitche area where the Germans attacked Lemberg. to the west and Barenthal on the east. : Nazi forces infiltrated to Wingen,

main highway

and threatened the guemines-Hagenau railroad. The push threatened

and the , comridor. : The enemy was caught gigantic nutcracker between three allied armies. The Germans still were concen-

armor in the south.

start of the big drive on the north-

that front.

vast mine-field. They were np

in. snow-covered ravines.

three miles south of Reipertsweler, | Sarr- |*

munications line of American troops still in the. Wissembourg gan cor-

in. al the trating their main forces on Patton's More than 38 hours after the

ern flank, the Nazis still had failed to mount a major counter-attack on

Field dispatches said the Germans;

rywets-talling. Sow. DenRA. Aes itberated Poland was received First news of this U. S. retreat, Th Pola iS

RUSSIA FECOGNIZES LUBLIN - GOVERNMENT

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which of two Polish facsons op: i

| stitutes the government of Poland | The United States was

{to recognize the government of] Premier Tomas Arciszewski here. The Soviet: announcement was,

broadcast from: Moscow almost |

simultaneously with President) fRooseyelt's disclosure in Washing-| | ton that he, Prime Minister Church- |

ill and Premier Stalin expected to {meet-some time after Jan. 20. |" Strong hopes had been ete

Russia would not ‘recognize the) Lublin committee before the Hieetling of the big three.

News Disappoints

Washington Circles

WASHINGTON, Jan, 5 (U. PJ), —News that Russia ‘had recognized | t£he *Tublin: provisional government

hiing! with disappointment here as em-! in small groups with dug-in tanks PI

and machine gun nests emplaced

phasizing the cleavage among the {major allies on Edtopean political ‘| affairs.

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their offensive. * Bradley's army group was car-

many. Theséy were the ‘attacks along the Roer river towards Co-| |logne by the: 1st ‘and 9th armies, Tand the 3d army's offensive into the Saar basin. President Roosevelt: called the ation. Congressional reaction to the command * shift emphasiZed that Gen. Eisenhower's action was considered a purely military one.

Wiley Gives Views

Senator = Alexander Wiley (R. Wis.) newly appointed member of the foreign relations committee,

by: Eisenhower in shifting his combands, we have gots to- hope for the best.” ? “I don’t feel that I can criticize | his action, since he is on the spot | and knows the situation,” Wiley said. Meanwhile, indignation of American war correspondents at the su|preme allied headquarters boiled |over as they charged that SHAEF. |is giving the American public a dis|torted picture of the situatibn.’ | Despite publication of the Montgomery shift by Time magazine, {S. H. A. E. F. correspondents were [told today by Brig. Gen. Frank A. | Allen) chief of S. H. A. E, F. public relations, that the story could not | be written from S. H. A. E. F. until

man attack, now being prepared, has been made public.

U. S. Writers Handicapped

Previously, when the Montgomery report first appeared in print in Stockholm newspapers and later in various British publications, S. H A. EF. correspondents were told they could not be allowed to speculate on this subject from S.H.A.E.F,, but that correspondents in London, farther from official sources, would

ulate.” Despite evidence that the Montgomery story had been published in the United States, S. H. A. E. PF. censors today still refused to -pass the full United Press story “of the command changes which is on file {with them, 8. H. A. EP. correspondents futilely pointed out to public relations officers that.the news blackout policy followed since the German. counter-offensive was bound to lead to exactly the type of leaks which have occurred -and to cbnfusion in the mind of the American public. " Front Restrictions Bad Front reporters said the press restrictions were as bad there. They had beeri instructed that their dispatches on the launching of Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges’ coun-ter-offensive could not be passed until 5 p. m. yesterday and accepted the restriction as necessary on security grouids. "While their dispatches still were being held by censors, they learned that B. B. C. hours earlier had broken the news. United Press War Correspondent Boyd Lewis reported that some indignation was general ** by guidance given - field censors ‘to. pass statements that progress had been good.”

ents,” he said, “this is likely -to evoke. optimism on the part of the home front which might visunlize ‘good progress’ as something resembling the German initial thrust

James, Georgia McBride, at St. Vincent's. Howard, Mary Smothers, at St. Vincent's Royle, Donnabelle Strother, at St. Vin. cen Weymolith, Betty Vogelberg, at Bt. Vin.

Donate Martha Royer, at Coleman, - Bwin, Helen Shepard, at Coleman. M., Dortha Booe, at Methodist,

James, ‘Mary McDonald, at Methodist. Robert, Lillian Trattner, at Methodist. David, Elizabeth Maffet, at Emhardt. Samuel, Ida Morton, at Emhardt. Arthur, Goldie Carver, at 534 Coffey. Theodore, Virginia Guyness, at 713 Locke.

DEATHS

Leo Daugherty, 41, at 3720 N. Pennsylvania, coronary occlusion, Ivan Eugene Higdon,- 10, at City, ‘lobar pneumonia. Mary Catherine Pearsey, 54, at 1437 N. Warman, carcinoma John Crowe, 76, at 804 W. New York, chronic myocarditis Mary Willie Boone, 57, at "2303 Ralston, chronic mvocarditis. Lutellus T. Rutledge, 77, at Long, pneu-

- monia. Clarence E. Bradshaw, 3, at Long, peri-

tonitis Patricia Ann Smith, 8, at, Riley, rheumatic fever, ‘Ehrlich, 38, at City, broncho"pneumonia, Willem Se, 59, at 6135 Ralston dr,

‘William E Tucker, 1) at 118 Reid pal

said that “whatever has been done{

be allowed more freedom “to spec=i-

“In the opinion of correspond-|._

Tiak, Genevieve Davenport, at Methodist |

Montgomery i in Command of

U.S. 1st, 9th, SHAEF Says

of more than 20 miles.

| “It wasn't, until 5 p. m. that corrong were permitted to give the initial modest advance figures rying on the two allied offensives | pc by that time anyone who had (most seriously threatening . Ger-| followed the earlier guidance had

|doné damage.

“Correspondents-believe such-dis-tortion is unfair to the troops who are slugging through the Ardennes

{under incredibly difficult

€| and weather conditions

knowledged to be superior to ours.

The difficult Polish problem has |strained Soviet-British-American | relations in the field of foreign affairs for many months,

Britain sought to solve the problem by urging the Polish government in London to aecede to Soviet | boundary terms. The United States, however, did not go that far.

LOCAL FRANK SINATRA LOSES HIS WALLET

Frank Sinatra==not The Voice, {however—lost his. wallet yesterday somewhere between his home at™946

ket. Mr. Sinatra, who_plays the kettle drum’in the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra, told police the wallet con-

tained $15 and some valuable papers. |

.under- | stood to be, like Britain, continuing |

{ tained in high London quarters DIVORCE BILL URGE

Meridian st. and the city mar-!

TE Come, Torr SOVIETS. FIGHT

Go for This $45 GERMAN TANK ARMY

“PENNIES FROM HEAVEN" (Continued From Page One)

turned into one dollar bills today for Mrs, Frances LaMartina, 2716 Soviet defenses some 30 miles north * E. New York st. west of the capital. 3 But it was easy come, easy go. It was their first big counters Early today. her husband found offensive -on the Eastern front in | '$45 strewn. over .the pavement at |more than a year. ~ Rural and New York-=sts. He | The German | onslaught,» after gathered it “up, presented it to | gaining as much as six miles glong his wife and started to work, with | the south. bank of the Danube the admonition: Tuestiay and Wednesday, broke “We better call the police and: | against stubborn Russian resist report it.” : ance yesterday. : Police are holding the money. | Field dispatches said the Nazis | ade been halted all along the ate +tack front. Elements of six Nazi tank divi {sions and many infantry divisions | § 4 spearheaded the assault. COOLING- OFF TIME Both sides were repogted* pouring | reinforcements ‘into the battle, A “cooling-off” period before Thousands of Germans were killed hasty wartime matriages could. be 10 the Pguing 0 WAS 5 - dissolved is provided in a bill in- De a d OE { troduced in the senate. today by destroyed almost 100 Nazi tanks.

(Senator TRhurman C. Crook {D.{ "1162 Troops Captured

South. Bend), . ,: ; Fhe plaintiff, husband or bE “Tradition; the rt oe

in any proposed divorce action [eg SHany troops were; be required to file an affi-|/l0 that area. Would ve rey 9 Inside Budapest, meanwhile, Red q army forces carried into the 11th

davit with his county clerk at least 45 days before a divorce suit coul I id |straight day their | battle of annihila~, | The affidavit would indicate in- Son Jaan Ye survivors of some tention of the complaining party bax S. to “file suit for divorce. It also a would iist the reasons.for such con- gar oh fs fight on both banks of the Danube. The - measure Was I'hey apparently hoped that the rejudiciary %. committee: liet, column to the northwest would ah |break through and lift the siege.

WIFE IS SOLE HEIR lui inet iovr sere nin ‘OF DEERY’S ESTATE

compressed. steadily into narrowing James E. Deery former city con-|

pockets around the royal palace in Buda and the Budapest university troller who died Sunday, left his grounds o on the east bank in- Pest. entire estate to his wife, Mrs. Mabel y M. Deery, who was named executrix. RESIGNS I U. FACULTY Mr. Deery's will was filed yester-| Dr Thomas D. Speidel today reday in Marion ccunty. probate court. signed as a faculty member of the Written on a single sheet of note school of* dentistry at Indiana unipaper by Mr. Deery, it was dated versity to accept the post of dean June 20, 1925. uf the school of dentistry at Loyola. No value of the ‘estate was given. university in New Orleans, La.

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THE WEATHER MAN

PREDICTS: A COLD WAVE

FYOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED in the ITEMS BELOW)

We've been reading a little bit on what to do when it's really cold! The ariicle was written by a-man who had lots of experience in the polar regions— He said—it's-the,wind that bites and gets you—that you can stand a lot of cold when it's calm—and he strongly advocates wind-proof garments lightweight)

Keep the feet and hands warm—Dbecause if these are chilled—the temperature of the blood that flows through is lowered. - Don't wear tight shoes, or tight collars, or tight clothes—Keep your feet off the floor—{cold air settles on the floor). ”

‘And he concludes that—with a few precautions and the right mental attityde that winter will not be bad—and, anyhow, you don't usually catch cold "from cold—

ALPACA LINED CLOTHES—and plenty of ‘them—and they are perfect for this weather.

~~ HEAVY OVERCOATS

WOOL SOCKS

THICK SOLED SHOES - LEATHER: JACKETS, ETC.

THESE ARE—we thinkagood precautioni:sthese ought ta put you Inte . good mental (and physical) attitude, * Look out for the gormal,’. :