Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1945 — Page 1
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VOLUME 55—NUMBER 259 °
“Congratulations governor,” said Former Governor Schricker to Governor Gales seconds after Mr. Gates had taken’ the oath ushering
him in as Indiana's 36th chief executive.
to receive the honor since 1932.
OVATION
He's the first Republican
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GREETS
Kleig Lights Flash but Ceremony Is Quiet As 5000 Hoosiers See Columbia City
Lawyer Replace Schricker.
By SHERLEY UHL A tousled shock of unruly hair replaced a creamy -w hite,
. Stetson hat in the Indiana gov
ernor’s office today.
Ralph F. Gates, the small-town lawyer from Columbia
City, who made good in'a big
chief executive at high noon midst a thundering ovation of |
way, became the-state’s 36th
applause from Republicans and Democrats alike.
Jrass bande played, the kleig lichts cast a withering! beam on the flower-decked inaugural stand, cameras flashed and the Republican oc-| cupation of the state house was complete.
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Carries on Tradition
‘®*The-energetic, fidgety Gates succeeded another small town boy —| Henry Schricker of Knox. Hoosiers | l'’ke folksy, small-town men in their governor's chair and Governor | Crates, whose career is rooted deep | ' , 106 lake-dotted soil of northern diana, promises to ean on the * dition, he retiring governor gratefully owledged a storm of applause h-{ear-dimmed eyes. © While the | ats flickered down on his chalky
‘OUR JoB AHEAD BS VETERAN AD
Governor Stresses Problem Of Rehabilitation for 300,000 Men.
By NOBLE REED
| officials
The youngest lieutenant governor in Indiana's history, Richard T. James, Portland attorney, is sworn in by his predecessor, Charles
M. Dawson. 1940 to 1944.
Governor James, 34
years old, was state auditor from
With characteristic seriousness, oath as state attorney general,
James A. Emmert took his second succeeding ‘himself in that post.
Administering the oath is Judge Mart J. O'Mhlley; chief justice of the
Indiana supreme court.
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Inaugural
It ‘was -a proud day for Mrs. Alice Gates, Columbia City (left), for today her son became governor of Indiana. With her fo the right are Mrs. Ruby Wilcox, a friend; George S. Gates, brother; Jack Gates, nephew, and Mrs. George S. Gates; sister-in-law,
| COLD WAVE DUE—
Mercury Dive
NEW EXECUTIVE
To Near Zero
Is Predicted |
Another cold the city tonight,
wave will - hit weather bureau announced today, and with it will come a snowfall,
light
4-F MEN HERE HEED PLEA TO GET WAR JOBS|
U. S. Eriloyment Service| Says Rush On; Nurse Enlistments. Seen.
Although
'WE'RE ‘READY'—
Manpower and draft developments :
§ temperatures in the northern | part of the state will fall to near zero tomorrow, the
of the past week, climaxed by the
| President's plea Saturday night for | total. mobilization, today had this
effect in Indianapolis:
lowest temperature in Indian~apolis will be a from 5 to 10 | above zero, the bureau predicted. Light snow flurries are forecast for tomorrow. ” » n ’ BELOW FREEZING tempera- | tures are forecast for most of the Middle West and the Eastern seaboard, except for the New England states, 7 The U.-8. weather bureau at Chicago reported a change already had occurred in Minnesota and |
. Colder
| northern’ Wiscanhsin, where below
The greatest test Indiana faces in|
the immediate future is the .readjustment of its military personnel
and its economy after the war, Gov-|
ernor Ralph F. Gates declared in
his inaugural address at the state
| house today. “Great
zero temperatures were registered. At Bemidji, Minn., the mercury dropped to 26 below from yester- | day's: reading of 10 above, while | the - official reading .at . Dulath, | Minn., was 14 below. a. ” ” ” BLIZZARDS were forecast for eastern Nebraska and the Omaha board of education closed all pub- |
| lice schools.
though our tasks have |
The cold wave which. is moving
{ figures on the rush, the response so
MANPOWER: The U. S. emplofs] | ment service office reported a rush | of 4-F's and other men and women | now in non-essential industries for war jobs. 2 : SELECTIVE SERVICE: State | draft headquarters prepared for the ‘immediate pre-induction physicals | for all men under 26 now holding]
Other Draft and Manpower Stories, Page Two. y
| deferments, many of whom never] have been examined. a check on] 75,000. 4-F's, and reclassification oH {“the-11,000 farm workers: NURSE RECRUITMENT: Red | Cross officials expected a “wave” of enlistments, Maury Fadell, U. S. E. S. area | manager, disclosed that the local] office “is doing its biggest business | in months.” The renewed interest | {in war jobs started last Thursday | { and was expected to establish a rec-| ord today. “While it’s too ston to compile
| sible and probalie that New York
{ the next 30 or
'V-Bombs May
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Hit N.Y. in 30
Days’ ~ Ingram
AN EAST COAST PORT, Jan. 8 (1. PB). —Adm. Jonas H. In« gram of Jeffersonville, Ind., com-mander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, said today that it was “pos-
City or .Washington will be hit" by. buzz bombs within
60 days.” - Ingram said he would take charge of coastal defenses of New York and Washington and that he had moved “plenty : of forces” to take every possible precaution against the attack. He said the bombs would come in one of three ways: ONE: Surface ship, - TWO: ' Submarine.
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Adm. Ingram
YANK INVASION
OF LUZON NEAR
Powerful Armada Shelling.
Lingayen Gulf for 3d Day, Japs Say.
By MAC R. JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL, HARBOR, Jafi. 8.—Tokyo said. today that an Ameérican landing on Luzon appeared imminent. The Japanese reported that a powerful invasion armada has carried an unparalleled” bombardment of beach defenses ih the Lingayen gulf into its third day. Lingayen gulf is north of Manila. All told, four invasion fleets are converging on the capital island of
i the - Philippines, Tokyo announced.
Some 400 to 450 American vessels are bound for “some not too clearly definable pbint on or- near Luzon," Tokyo said. The Japanese warned, however,
ALLIES CRUMBLE NORTH ~ WALL OF NAZI SALI NT
TOKYO REPORTS German
Pulling Out of Bulge; Tide of Battle Swings in Favor : Of the 7th Army.
4 By J. EDWARD MURRAY 1 United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 8.—American forces today drove through a swirling snowstorm a mile to a mile and a half deeper into the crumbling north flank of the Ardennes salient. The Yanks crushed ahead on’a 15-mile front. The Germans began pulling out of the salient’s blunted | nose. :
BUDAPEST SIEGE LINES BUCKLED
German Thrust Shoves Reds Back as Much as 15 Miles From City.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON; Jan. 8.—The Red army siege lines west and northwest of Budapest buckled dangerously to-
The tide of battle also
swung in favor of the Ameri. [can 7th army in northeastern France, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's troops seized the initiative in-several | sectors. They compressed a German bridge« nead north of Strasbourg to ease a threat to that city, and drove the Nazis back two miles from the nigh water mark of their Bitche' bulge. Supreme headquarters and front reports sketched one of the mask encouraging overall situations on ithe Western front since the German offensive began on Dec. 16.
ste face, Mr. Schricker blinked, | nodded and smiled. : {been during the war period; these|
Except for the applause that tasks ahead grow in magnitude|< ee re ay the various AD figures, When we consider the problem of, (Continued on Page 3—Column 5) the ceremony was relatively sub-| the rehabilitation of our 300,000 or .
far .is very promising,” Mr. Fadell declared.
10,000 Jobs Now Open With 10,000 jobs open now in
from the far northwest, is -ex- THREE: Long range planes. He said the bombs would probably be smaller than the V-1 or
V<2-launched against Great Brit-
that the American maneuvers were so complicated that false conclusions might be drawn.
day. Report General Gains
A pile-driver German attack car- Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st ried vanguards of a relief army tarmy- headquarters reported genes
within 15 miles of the beleaguered
dued. No Noise-Making
There was no riotous noise-mak-ing. The jam-packed crowd ap-| “peared to be transfixed with the solemnity of the oceasion. Only 2500 invitations had been * dispatched but nearly 5000 attended. Onlookers -were packed shouldertight on each tier overlooking the state house rotunda. Some, on the second and third tiers, had placed chairs in vantage points as early as 8:3(s8, ° Immediately surrou augural stand were friends of those sworfl bia City was well repiiss Gates’ mother, Mrs. [58 sitting in the front ri this never-to-be-forgo son was No, 1 man | I
Three Brothers
Also present were proud brothers, Sco John, his associates many; years. Outside, the day wg
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{and agriculture to peace-time re-
{ more members of the armed forces | | and the conversion of our industries
GIRL RISKS HER LIFE IN FIRE E KILLING ONE
Heroine Cr Burnet in Giving: Alarm, Two persons, one of them a 10The new governor asserted thal year-old heroine, are fighting for a large part of the post-war read- their lives in. €ity hospital today
justment problems must Be solved after flames swept their rooms at in the local communities with the|g31 N. New Jersey st. yesterday.
state government giving assistance.|. The fire, which claimed the life “The task of the state is to prop- lot one occupant of the lodging | erly co-ordinate the efforts of the \house, was discovered by Audrey | various official and unofficial groups|pees rong, 10, who was overcome by |
in local communities with the state | smoke and collapsed in the burning (Continued on “Page 3—Colump o] | building after- she had awakened
STOUT FIELD PLANE
quirements,” he said. “Qf first importance is the of fective channeling of our boys girls in the armed forces oh ne peace-time- occupations. The re sponsibility is upon this great state to care for these people upon their, return.”
Problem Is Local | -
Hon Eblin, 32, a first floor occupant of the two-story frame building, died of third degree burns yesterday -afternoon in City hospital.
llocal war plants, Mr. Fadell dis-| in 8 » »
Ships Hurling Shells Japanese broadcasts said Ameri-
| closed that many of those applying tare in ‘the 26 to 45 age group which is affected by the order for draft | review. | Draft boards. in Indiana were!
HE SAID thesgreatest danger to expect was from fires, and that the bombs” were not expected: to | seriously damage any large build-
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|can battleships and other warships, tescorting 70, to 80 landing craft, { penetrated ‘Lingayen gulf to within
a few -thousand yards of the coast.
mags. He warned against. panic which | he said could increase the damage. “The next alert will be the real McCoy,” he said. The danger area, he said, was a | 300-mile arc from which either New York of Washington could | be hit;
awaiting written instructions froni Washington, D. C., before proceed.ing with- the review of the 4-Fs. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state draft director, said the orders were expected late today. “The first men we are going to| go after are thé 4-F's who have | taken a don't-care attitude about | their work as a result of their draft!
” ” S ” HE SAID the Germans has 30 0 | submarines “at. least” in .the Ate lantic and that the navy w prepared to keep them from coming close enough to fire, or to stop them before they fired very many bombs. - He said six or eight subs would be needed to bomb ‘New York. “1 consider that adequate meas-
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14TH BLASTS 223 JAP LOCOMOTIVES,
CHUNGKING, Jan. 8 (U. P).— The 14th air force announced today that it had ‘destroyed 223 -Japanese locomotvies in concentrated attacks i on the enemy's continental corridor | (Continued on Page 3—Column 2)
RASH KILLS SIX
(He was overcome. by smoke while
from French. Indo-China, through |
The ships were hurling shells into a 27-mile stretch between San Fer{nando and Damortis, . the latter] {about 116 miles northy of Manila, | [it was reparted. Fighters, bombers and dive-bomb-
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| Hoosier Heroes—
THREE SERVICEMEN KILLED IN BATTLE
(Four Others Wou Wounded "
Two Are Prisoners.
Three local servicemen. have been. |
era. gains along the north rim of city. | Marshal Karl von Rudstedt's The Nazis were spending men shrinking salient in Belgium. and armor recklessly in an 11th-| With the main east-west road on hour bid. to rescue the remnants of | the north side of the bulge cut and, some 80,000 axis troops holding that. on the south side. under fine out inside Budapest. | British troops at the western-most The Germans slugged their way séctor of the Belgian front wers talmeost within artillery range of the!advancing against negligible resists {capital.. \. {ance in some sectors. They drove ahead in the face of| At others they found no sign of {terrific caspalties and a growing the defense front which. faded back | threat to their left flank north of | with a German withdrawal. the Danubd. | Hodges’ 2d and 3d armored. divie of Ove Nazi column recaptured the sions pushed their way south
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HUNT 13 BODIES IN FIRE [Killed in Germany and France, and |
gray, It was blue LIMA, O. “Jan. 8 (U.P.).—Crews four others have been wounded in
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Army authorities today were seek- |
’ ¥ ing to identify the bodies of six Fi fliers pulled-from the battered fuse- ¥ [lage of a Stout field transport which
crashed near the Tennessee-Missis-sippi line. © En route from Stout field to the Memphis, Tenn, ‘municipal airport, the twin-engined plane came down lilast nighf along a highway just {outside of Horn, Lake, Miss. The piahe had made a stop at inker field, - Oklahoma City, ac< Arding to an announcement by the fourth ferrying group reported ny the United Press. - At least. the pHot of the plane
] hi, known to be from Stout field, but’ . authorities here could not say how
ause of the Tinker field stop,
many of ‘the passengers likewise were from Stout. field: Announcement. of 'the names. of
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ithe vietims will not be made until Bex; on kin, Have heen amites,
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Five Others Injured
Others injured are: MISS BEATRICE BELL, deaf mute, critical. JOHN E. HORSLEY, 49, lodging house operator, fair, GEORGE WOOD, 37, face burns, treated at. City hospital, MRS. MARGARET WOOD, 37, Mr, Wood's wife, back injury and
40, a
| shock, treated at City hospital.
MARY CATHERINE WOOD, 2-year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Wood, given first aid. The smiell of smoke awakened Audrey at 3 a. m, yesterday. . She
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FRANCE CALLS 1,500,000
PARIS, Jan. 8 (U, P).=S8ix French "classes, perhaps ‘1,500,000 men; will ‘be called to the colors| soon as result of the allied decision. speed. equipment to tlie reborn nch army. 4A
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34 bridges and two tunnels had been | destroyed in the period and scores | of Japanese trains hit.
Monty:
By BOYD LEWIS.’ United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN BELGIUM, “Jan. 8.—~The German. offensive in the Ardennes has ended in failure and the Nazi armies that launched lit three weeks ago are now being “written off. » ¢ That is what Field Marshal Sir Bernard L., Montgomery said Sunday, ‘He conducted his first press conferencé Since assuming command of the allied ‘counter-attack in the north. ontgomery ‘warned that the bat-
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| yesterday. ‘Nazi Drive a Failure,
Armies ArgBeing | Written Off’
and the valor of Aiefican fighting ‘men that Were con
An unofficial survey showed that searched the fire-charred ruins of |Europe.
|the Milner hotel today for 13 per-| sons believed missing after a fire]
great deal of hard fighting lay|
ahead. He asserted, ‘however, that the Germans definitely Have ‘lost the initiative without gai any. im» portant advantage from their initia) successes. © (Official statements .earlier said German ‘casualties approximated
100,000 killed, wounded or captured:
in the Ardennes, against considerably smaller Ametican losses.) The colorful British leader paid | high tribute to the allied teamwork
In addition two enlisted | men are prisoners.
KILLED
8. Sgt. Vernon Winters, Somerset ave., over Germany; Pvt. Charles K. Elliott, McCordsville, in Germany,
965 .N.
Second Lt, Paul A. Barmann, 2186,
8. Delaware st., in France, WOUNDED
East st., in Italy. Pfc. Ernest. L. Swihart, 1434 N. New Jersey st., in Germany. Capt. Carlton Garrison, Sheridan ave., in Germany. Sgt. Walter F. Quick, formerly of 556% Ww. Washington st.
PRISONERS
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Pfc. Jesse Elsbury, 4714 Bertha at. 15
of Japan, Pfc, Fred L. Schilling, 2006 MacPagreon, st., of | Germany, :
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Sgt. Charles H. Persinger, 1707 8. :