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FDR Message Asks Total a Of Men And Women

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U.P.).— Highlights of “President Roosevelt's message to congress and the far-reach-ing program it set forth: ~ "MANPOWER

NATIONAL SERVICE—Congress should enact & national service law at the earliest possible moment

~-far.the. total mohilization.of.gll. our. -puman xesources. ....

for the prosecution of the war.” This would’ give the ‘government the right to say where every man and woman should work, but the power would be used only to the degree absolutely necessary, he said.

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4-F's — Pending a national service act,- congress should authorize use of 4,000,000 men in 4-F “in whatever capacity is best for the war effort.” ' NURSES — The selective service act should be amended to provide for induction of nurses into the

* armed forces.

‘POST-WAR PROGRAM

MILITARY. FRAINING-—-Should be required for all youths. T.. JOBS— Employment. “for. 80 000, 000 ‘persons must be provided. The administration policy will bé “to rely as much as possible on private enterprise.”

AID TO BUSINESS—-Appropriate measures should

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1945

be taken to provide financing for new small Slarpitses and for productive business expansion,

PUBLIC WORKS—The full-employment program

will require extensive development of natural resources ¥

and other useful public works. TAXES—The tax system must be revised for peace-

, time “so as to encourage private demand.”

SOCIAL SECURITY—Should be expanded as part of the program to support+individual productivity and

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i FIGHTING FRON TS

VICTORY —"“We have no ‘question of "ultimate

victory , . . Oyr losses will be heavy. ... 1945 can see

+ Gen. Eisenhower .

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the closing in of the forces of retribution atait the center of the malignant pqer of imperialistic Japan.” WESTERN EUROPE—“Further desperate attempts may well be made t&.break our lings . .. we must never make the mistake of assuming that the Germans are peaten unitl the last Nazi has surrendered. . . . . . has my complete confidence.”

PACIFIC—"During the past year... we have driven the enemy back more than 3000 miles across the Cen~ tral Pacific” Super fortresses “will * contintie to blast. Japan in ever- increasing “numbers” “Our over-all

strategy has not neglected the important task of rendering all possible aid to China.”

20,000 More Nurses Needed at Once—The Situation Is Tragic

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FOREIGN POLICY

PEACE MACHINERY “1945 can and mfist see the substantial beginning of -the organization of world peace.” ATLANTIC CHARTER—The. U. 8. will use its _influence “to secure so far as is humanly possible “the fulfillment of the principles of the Atlantic Charter.”

DIFFERENCES—"The nearer we come to vanquish=

ing our enemies the more we inevitably become cone scious of differences among the victors.”

. SELP- GOVERNMENT—The allies have PromseT’

to permit all peoples to choose their own form of government; but internal dissension in liberated countries makes it “difficult to guess the kind preferred.”

WASHINGTON, Jan..6 (U. P.).—In his message to congress today, President Roosevelt declared that the army and navy need 20,000 more nurses at once and the situation is tragic.

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CASUALTIES FAR OUTSTRIP OURS

SHAEF Hints at Scale of Yank Losses in

Battle of Bulge for First Time; ‘No Scapegoats’ for Setbacks.

.By JAMES McGLINCY United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Jan. 6.—Supreme headquarters said today that German losses in the Battle of the Ardennes Were about 100,000, American casualties were nowhere near so high, it was stated. «. . Other reports to the contrary, headquarters said that Is the assessment of the comparative losses upon which future operations will be based. Indefinite though it was, this report of the “ceiling” figure was the first authoritative indication of how many United States troops were killed, wounded or captured in the German breakthrough,

Yanks Push Ahead For the first time, also, it cen. be said that there will be

no scapegoats for the allied setback in Belgium and Luxem- |

bourg. : The sithoritative v view is that Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery had a tight grip on the situation within 12 hours of the German attack. * Montgomery, Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges all appear to be held in as high esteem as ever at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters. High quarters said that Montgomery had the situation under control in a remarkably short time. . ° Bradley's maneuver in sending the 7th armored division

in to hold strategic St. Vith, thus splitting the 5th and 6th

German armored ‘armies, was regarded as an almost psychic stroke, Deciding Move The decision to hold Bastogne with the 101st airborne division was believed to be one of the smart and deciding moves in breaking the German offensive. Further, it can be said that high officers are pleased with the way Hodges handled the 1st army in the ecrisis. Montgomery may yet benamed deputy supreme com-

half a mile to more than a mile on a broad front. , Belgian front dispatches filed late

in the day reported the first ease-|-

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mander for the whole West-

ern front, with- jurisdiction over all the ground forces.

‘1st Army Gains Mile

As Germans Weaken By J. EDWARD MURRAY

United Press Staft Correspondent

PARIS, "Jan, 6.—German resistance softened on the north side of the Ardennes salient today. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st army advanced southward from

off in the heretofore desperate German opposition to the four-day-old offensive of the American 1st army, The 1st is driving for a junction with Lt. Gen, George S. Patton's 3d army on the south side of the bulge. A field report said one unidentified

unit advanced 2000 yards—more|.

than a mile—in the snow-swept Ardennes hills without making contact with the Nazis, American troops extended their offensive front some half a dozen

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Maj. Sherwood Is Appointed As State Adjutant-General

Maj. Elmer W. Sherwood of Indianapolis has been appointed state

adjutant general by Governor-elect

Ralph Gates: Now public relations officer at the

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army distribution station at Lake Placid, N: Y,, Maj. Sherwood will assume his new duties Jan. 15; or as soon as-the: war department approves his transfer, He recently was public relations officer at Ft. Harrison, During this war he also has served as post inspector at Pt. Knox, Ky. and as public relations officer ‘at the 3d service command headquarters in New York City. Ma). Sherwood siicceeds William Weimar: in the $5000 .a year adju-

ment was announced today by Ruel Steele, executive secretary to Mr. Gates. Maj. Sherwond is a native of|; Linton and was attending Indiana | university when on Ju was, declared

tant general's post. .His appoint-|

The services now have 40,000 nurses. There are 280,000 registered nurses in

the United States.

The President said it was estimated that 27,000 could be made available to the

Wounded GI's Edits

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN ONE WOUNDED SOLDIER was wheeled out of the operating room at Wakeman army hospital. But the work wasn’t ‘over for the doctors. and nurses. There was another patient and still another lying in the "hall, Waiting in line for an operation. Waiting for the shrapnel to be taken from their backs. For their faces. to be “re-made” or for their leg or arm nerves to be patched up. ” » " THIS WAS the picture at the general and convalescent hospital at Camp Atterbury. It's the picture at Billings and every army and navy hospital in the United States. That's why Indianapolis and. every other city in the nation are crying for nurses and nurses’ aids. The shortage is the worst in the history of the country. - » . “IF WE didn"t have a heck of a good bunch of nurses, we would be out on a limb,” Col. H. Li. Con« ner, commanding officer at Wakeman, said. “And we don’t know what we would have done without. the nurses’ aids. They've been lifesavers.” -At. Wakeman, the largest hospital of its kind in the country, 74 nurses and 11 aids are working under the supervision of Lt. Col Mary Gali, But for the 1500 patients, most of them overseas men, at least 167 trained nurses and 100 aids are needed. In the hundreds of hospital beds young fellows are trying to

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First Lt. Margaret Sramcik . . . she’s nursing soldiers at Wakeman after combat nursing in front lines in North Africa and Sicily.

Hoosier Heroes—

CASSERLY, SPENCER

-DELONG KILLED;

Three Reported - Missing And Four Wounded

Fighting in Germany and France has cost the lives of three more Indianapolis men and three others in|have been ‘reported missing. In addition, four service men have béen wounded in Europe and one B a prisoner of Germany,

“KILLED Pfc. Michael J. Casserly, of N. Keystone ave. in Germany. : Norbert J. Spencer, 3415 Winave, in France, Sgt. Walter R, DeLong, 229 Ww. Morris st, in France,”

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Nurses’ Aid Lucille Ingram lights a cigaret for Sst. Winfred Steves, a wounded hero at Wakeman Mrs. Ingram holds a national record for her 3650 hours’ service as a

general and convalescent hospital. nures’ aid.

Snow Likely for Week-End

Snow is in store for Indianapolis residents week-end, Clouds which will hang over the| 7 city today will give way tp snow tonight and tomorrow, the U. 8.

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armed services without “ seriously” with civilian needs. The President proposed that they be drafted, and at once by amendment of the selective serv-

What FDR Means; ‘Life Savers, Say The Men at Wakeman

Second Lt. Eunice Halfkill bathes s. Sgt. Clyde Cole in his bed at Wakeman. Sgt. Cole, hit by a sniper, is paralyzed.

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weather bureau predicted. noted that the temperature in In‘The week-end . will see little | dianapolis on Jan. 1, 1864, zoomed change in temperature, and the to 27 degrees below zero, mercury is expected to hover around| The weather was so pleasant the normal for the next five days, day before, he said, that residents John W. Stokes, 120 E. North st.,| were able to- sit on their porches in looked into lis records today and |their shirt sleeves.”

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JAPS REPORT 3 U. $. CONVOYS OFF LUZON

Landing, Foe Says.

By UNITED PRESS

terday, Tokyo timé)*thit “present positions of three large American convoys “point to a landing on Luzon in the Philippines.” a A broadcast recorded by United Press at San Francisco said:

- | estimated "100" landing barges and escorted by a large task force, is { now west of Lingayen gull in West« ern central Luzon, ' © “In the waters west of Panay Is Somer strong SONS Sonor: including 10

URGES DRAFT

1 OF 4-F°S AND Outline of Allied Unity Policies Forecasts Nazi Fall This Year;

Job Program Mapped.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—President Roosevelt today asked congress for a national service law totally mobilizing our manpower and womanpower to help lick the Germans this year and to. Spesy destruction of Japan's “malignant” power. The vequest was s made in his 13th annual message to congress on the state of the union. It embraced the whole fields of troubled domestic and foreign affairs. The President implied that a united nations treaty marking the “beginning of the organization of world peace” would be submitted to the senaté in 1945, dn addition te-a-national.ser vice law, heasked: for ment of the selective service act to permit immediate ind tion of nurses into the armed forces and for legislation mak-

ling 4,000,000 4-F’s available “ in whatever capacity is best

for the war effort.”

Calls for Unity Among Allies Devoting much of his message to an urgent plea for unity and mutual understanding among the allies, he said: “This new year of 1945 can be the grestast year of achievement-in human history.” The 8000-word message was read to a joint session of house and senate by clerks immediately after congress had canvassed the electoral votes and officially declared Mr. Roosevelt elected for a fourth term. ; Disillusionment -after world war I led us to prefer “international anarchy to international co-operation with, nations which did not see and think exactly as we did,” Mr. Roosevelt told the congress. He warned that if it happens again we shall be on the “road to a third world war.’ : ; “We cannot and will not shrink,” he continued, “from the political responsibilities which follow in the wake of battle—we must pot this time lose the hope of establishing’ an international order which a Shout thie Greek capo will be capable of maintaining situations. He said there were many peace and realizing through [troubling matters.

; i11e.| But he reminded that they are not the years more pertect us dealt with simply and ‘that we do tice between nations. have obligations, not necessarfly Hints of Peace Machinery legal, to the exiled governments, to “Most important of all,” sald MF. {the underground leaders and . to Roosevelt, summing up post-war |“our major allies who came much political hopes, “1945 can and must nearer the shadews than we did.” see the substantial beginning of | He pleaded that we do net exploit the organization of world peace”-| nor exaggerate the differences bean obvious hint that some part of tween ourselves and our allies.

Tokyo radio” said Saturday (yes-|.

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the proposed machinery is to be submitted to the senate this year in treaty form. Mr. Roosevelt frankly admitted

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington ~ Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Congressional criticism of basic conduct of the war is brewing.

decisions of our top policy

makers have been accepted almost without question on the Hill: But the picture is changing.

Europe, following the summer's official Broad hints“from. our correspondents. that we haven't yet heard

Dissatisfaction of some Americans returning trom battlefronts.

these things:

Over-confidence and failure to learn enemy strength; failure to

Decision to open the Philippine ¢ampaign ‘before finishing the. job in Europe, thus compounding our supply and replacement Jroblom j

Serious ‘siscalculations of. supplies needed, premature closing ‘of war plants. Lag in improving weapans to that new factories for ‘some items are only mow being built. ~~ mp ode i ego nad tan, ae i

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