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GEN. MacARTHUR'’S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzon,
Jan. 11,—Sixth army vanguards drove 18 to 20 miles inland from the Lingayen gulf today. They overran perhaps 30 cities, towns and villages and
"at least one airdrome. .
The powerful Yank drive across the plains of central Luzon reached within 90-to 95 miles of Manila.
‘Reliable reports at Gen. Douglas MacArthur’ $8 head-
| MOVE STARTED | FOR RETURN TO PRIMARY PLAN
Bid to Abolish Convention May Split Republican Assembly Leaders.
By KENNETH HUFFORD
A proposal to abolish the convention system of nominating state officers, replacing it with the direct primary method, is being drafted for introduction in the general assembly, it was learned today. If and when the measure actually hits tie assembly hopper, it probably will be in the form of an amendment _to the election law recodification bill. Such a maneuyer would split the Republican majority into opposing factions. The strongest of these factions, embracing most of the party leadership, already has mustered a potent defense against any attempt to change the present convention nomination procedure.
Picked Successful Slate ‘This is logical, since the convention method was the one by which the successful Republican state slate has been chosen. Another Republican phalanx, however, whose experience with the convention system hasn't been too
“happy, is grouping its forces behind
the direct primary amendment. In the senate this faction is spearheaded by Senator Clyde Black (R. Logansport), In the house, its most influential spokesman is Jesse Andrew (R. West Point). Fate of the amendment: depends largely on whether the powerful Republican legislative policy committee can sqelch its sponsors on that particular issue. Some pressure probably will be applied by the steering group to prevent its introduction. But if it finally breaks. into the assembly floor, indications-are that the G. O. P. policy committee— which includes the top command--may take a definite outspoken stand against it. This would whiplash back into the fold any “undecided” assemblymen who might be personally predisposed in favor of the direct primary. Would Present Opportunity At the same time, a policy committee’ veto of the direct primary proposal would give the G. O. P. leadership an opportunity to pres] #erit, calmly antl reasonably, its rea sons for opposing such a step, These reasons include arguments that direct primary nominations play into the hands of “pressure groups” whose influence tends to outweigh their actual representation. Opposition spokesmen likewise would point out that the choice of
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WULFMAN IS NAMED
TO HEAD TAX BOARD|
Appointment of Otto C. Wulfman of Huntingburg as chairman of the state tax board was announced today by Governor Gates, A strip mine operator in DeBois and Clay counties, Mr. -Wulfman was postmaster at Huntingburg for five years. Mr. Wulfinan succeeds Charles H. Bedwell (D.), Sullivan. The Gates appointment was the first involving one of the numerous
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Taverns May Lose an Hour
Off Saturday Night Closing
By SHERLEY UHL Forthcoming amendments to the alcoholic beverage act may include
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present Saturday night. Slosing time limit for taverns, J
TIMES INDEX
18; Jane Jordan... 25 Daniel Kidney 14 Ruth Millett. 13}
CLASH PENDING ON BONUS BILL
Governor and Policy Group Opposed to Democrat
Minority Measure.
By NOBLE REED A bill providing for payment of a state bonus to Indiana’s returning war veterans will be introduced in the legislature within the next few days, Democratic minority leaders revealed today. 2 The measure may pui Governor Ralph F. Gates and the Rfepub'ican majority leaders in a tight spot. Governor Gates ceclared in his formal message to the assembly Tuesday that he does not “favor a state bonus to war veterans,” explaining that he considered that a “responsibility of the federal government.” Also the Republican legislative policy committee has brusnea oil all pleas so far for some kind of a war veterans’ bonus despite increasing pressure from groups seeking to smooth the way for the soldiers when they ¢ome home. Rep. Robert Heller (D. Decatur) minorfty floor leader in the house, sald Democratic members of ‘both the house and the senate will caucus
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STURDEVANT TAKES INCOME TAX POST
Walter L. Sturdevant, Hamilton county farmer, today accepted Governor Gates’ appointment as assistafit income tax “divisicn. Gilbert K. Hewit, present director of the division, will remain temporarily as head of the department. Mr. Sturdevant is a former Hamilton county auditor and for the last two years has been a 'field repre sentative of the Indiana Taxpayers association,
The provision would compel beer and liquor dispensers to shut their doors at midnight Saturday instead of at 1 a. m. Sunday, the current deadline, ‘Another tentative amendment, under serious consideration by Republican legislative commandos, would ban “juke box” dancing in taverns where space is cramped and the music is an incidental feature only, Both plans, especially the first, have gained much headway in the all-important Republican legislative |eling are anxious to” fortify liquor law enforcement and thus pin a blue ribbon on the new tion,
present law would be in the form
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FORECAST: Fair and warmer tonight and tomorrow.
quarters said that at least
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1945
a few patrols already had
reached the Agno river at a point where it bisects the
Luzon plains. : This is some 20 miles i
"invasion beachhead.
The Japanese had been
nland from the 20-mile-wide
expected to make their first
defense stand along the Agno. But military sources suggested that the enemy, caught off balance, would be unable to organize quickly
enough. to defend the river.
Russell C. Bowers, 564 West dr, Woodruff Place, was quick to heed health commissioner who urged men who work in comfortable offices to let their wives shovel the family snow. He directs. Mrs. Bowers while he rests.
Morgan Opposes Tip That Women Shovel the Snow
WOMEN IN Indianapolis today found a champion in Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary of the city board of health, He came to their defense when a Buffalo, N. Y., health commissioner was quoted by the United Press as advising husbands (as a health tip) to let their wives shovel. the family snow. ® = =»
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of men overcome while shoveling after a recent storm, Francis E. Fronczak of Buffalo opined to wit: “If the wife puts in a goodly share of her time scrubbing walls and wrestling with the wash, she may be in better condition tomove snowbanks than her husband who sits in an office all day.” » » *
DIPLOMATIC Dr. Morgah agreed in thought with the Buffalo man—he said, in fact, that too many men are needlessly ryndown—but he warned that in practice “It’s still the man’s job.” “What the man of the house should do is build himself up during the summer and then try to take some sort of exercise every day to stay in condition,” was his prescription for physical reserve. x x = 80, MEN, if you want aid for your cause youll have to stress Commissioner Fronczak’s advice. But, if you're the diplomat that Dr. Morgan is, you'll avoid both ‘argument and thé backache by following the doctor’s own method: He lets his two sons shovel the Morgan snow.
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ITY 1S PROMISED COLD WAVE BREAK
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10 10am 11 lam 12 12 (Noon)., 24
The ©old wave which has engulfed most of the nation will break in the Midwest tonight and Indianapolis will enjoy fair and warmer weather tomorrow. Temperatures are . expected to rise to minimums of 15 to 20 degrees over most of the central states. In Indianapolis today’s low was 10 degrees above zero but the mercury climbed to 20 by 11 a, m. Meanwhile city crews were kept busy today clearing streets of ice and snow. -7 Sherlie A. Deming, president of the works board, made an urgent appeal for snow-loading machinery. With one of the machines, tw trucks and three workers, he said, as much could be accomplished as with eight trucks and 32 men shovby hand. Bach. of the ma-
Instead, the Japanese. would
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EDICT ON FUEL PONDERED HERE
68-Degree Order Keeps City Residents; Firms Guessing on Outcome. -
Federal orders to limit temperatures to 68 degrees in homes and buildings and to shut off :non-es-sential power and lighting uses to-
{day had Indianapolis guessing at
what the local outcome would be. Still in the formulative stage, the orders presented a confused picture to users of coal and electricity. Announced by War Mobilizer James PF. Byrnes, the orders were ‘designed to conserve the fast dwindling national coal supply. A meeting of electrical utility representatives at Washington, D. C with-the WPB today was expected to clarify the application of the orders to electricity users.
ture: Indianapolis for the first time in this war" faced darkened theater marquees, store signs and window
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An Indianapolis ensign is missing in action in the Pacific and 14 local men have been wounded, while a Liberator pilot formerly reported missing has cabled his wife that he is safe. MISSING _ .
Ensign Harold E. Schenk, 1218 Oliver ave. in the Pacific.
WOUNDED
Cpl. Joseph Cheek, 718 Chigomar st., in Belgium. Pfc. Paul Leslie, 3924 Carson ave, in France.
1112 N. New Jersey st., in the Philippines.
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attempt to stem the American advance farther south, it
was said.
Already behind the Americans were the cities of Lingayen ‘with its. airport, Dagupan, Mangaldan and San Fabian, as well as a cluster of 25 to 30 lesser towns and
hamlets in the invasign area.
All four initial beachheads had been linked. Army engineers were enfarging the Lingayen air-
drome for imminent use.
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U.S. MAY TAKE ALL UNDER 30; LOSSES UPPED
8241 Casualties Reported For Week; Commanders In Field Relieved.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (U. P.)— Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today “there seems to be no escape” from inducting. into the armed forces “substantially” all physically-qualified men under 30. At the same press conference, Sec. Stimson declared:
ONE: That U. S. combajp casual-
“ties, still not including those suf-
fered in the German offensive, reached 646,380 today, an increase of 8241 over those disclosed a week: ago. i TWO: That a “number of commanders” have been removed from their battlefront commands f ing to meet the standards of formance placed upon them by the war department. --
Army Boosts Calls
Of the newest draft policy, reporters were told the army is upping its monthly calls on selective service from 80,000 in January and February to 100,000 for March. The army's big need is for young and| physically able youths with aggressiveness and endurance, Becretary Stimson said. At almost the same moment, Col. Francis V. Keesling, selective service legislative representative, told a house committee the 100,-000-a-month army call rate will last through June. He said the navy will need 32,000 men for each of the first six months of this year. These calls, plus es-
‘| timated = enlistments of 150,000,
would make a grand total of 902000 men entering the services in the six months,
Asks National Draft
Stimson called for enactment of full-scale national service legislation to meet the nation’s manpower needs. “This is no time, i he said, “for piecemeal or makeshift legislation.” Congress, however, was continuing to concentrate on the limited legislation which would put a threat of induction over men,.including 4-¥s, who refuse to take or hold an essential job. Speaking of casualties, Secretary Stimson added, however, that he expected “to have next week the figures for December .which will
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SEAT SALE TO OPEN
Reserved seat tickets for the 12th
' | Times-Legion Golden’ Gloves ama-~
teur boxing tolrnament will be placed on sale tomorrow morning at the Sportsman's store, 126 N. Pennsylvania, and at the Bush-Callahan store, 136 E. Washington. Prices, including tax, are $1.80 and $1.20. Tourney dates, at the Armory, are Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9 and 16. - General admission fee will be 80 cents, including tax.
EIGHTY-TWO DOLLARS worth of traffic stickers for. $40. That was the outcome of cases 86 and 87 in municipal court 4
Judge Pro Tem and Wife Settle for 41 Traffic Tags
theater (three stickers), double parking (three stickers), parking in"a safety zone (one sticker) and prohibited parking (the reremained). Mrs, Miller did not appear mn
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\ American convoy still was in
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the waters west of Lingayen
gulf. A third was reported west >f Panay in the central Philippines, “unable to continue northward because of
Japanese air attacks.”
(With the landing on Luzon, Tokyo said, the Battle of the Philippines has reached the “decisive stage.”
(A Japanese broadedst claimed a new American landing on Lingayen gulf was attempted yesterday near Rabon,
six miles north of San Fabian.
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30 Luzon Towns Overrun-by-Yanks
SOVIETS CAPTURE 25 BUDAPEST FACTORIES “
Three-Fourths of City Now
Taken, Moscow Says.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Corrdspondent
LONDON, Jan. 11.—Soviet front dispatches said today that Russian bésiegers of Budapest had occupied nearly all of Pest. Russians had seized 25 war factories on the industrial island of Cespel, A Red army counter-blow had snuffed out Nazi hopes of breaking the ring around the Hungarian capital. : Hungarian front reports relayed by Moscow said the critical phase of the battle had passed. The Red army had the situation well in hand; Moscow said. The mop-up of Pest, the: part of the capital on the east bank of the
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The Yanks have overrun perhaps 30 towns in extending their Luzon beachhead to a width of 20 miles and 4 to 20 miles in depth. The, dotted lines show where American vanguards have reached the Agno river, supposed to be a part of the Jap defense line on Luzon.
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U. 8 12TH ARMY GROUP | HEADQUARTERS, Western Front, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—~Doughboys of the U. 8. 30th infantry division—who had beaten off one of the heaviest German attacks of the Ardennes offensive—wept with rage when American planes mistakenly bombed their positions in Malmedy twice in less than 24 hours. The 30th “Old Hickory” division trained at Camp Atterbury, Ind., -early in 1944. Twelfth army group authorities confirmed the incident in a brief announcement. This stated that six B-26 Marauders of the U. S. 9th. air force’ bombed Malmedy and its .American defenders on Dec. 23. ‘The announcement said 18 B-24 Liberators of the 8th air
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ARDENNES ANCHOR FALLS EE FOR REICH
BRITISH STAB
4 MILES, FIND NO GERMANS
German Exit From Bulge Becomes Brisk in
Every Sector.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 11.—American forces today captured La Roche, northern anchor of the fast shrinking Ardennes salient.
The outmatched Germans were fading back into the Siegfried defenses beyond the borders of the Reich. et ul 5 British patrols stabbed unopposed four miles into the now spongy nose of the Belgian bulge. : The U. 8. 3d army on the south : tt the east and val _ the roads back to Germany. Retreat Becomes Brisk
Today's reports were the first in- | dicating that the Nazis were pulling ! out at anything faster than a snail’s | pace. The exit from the costly -| pocket took on a briskness in keep- | ng with the collapse of its defenses | in the key sectors all around its rim. _ United Press Correspondent C. R. | Cunningham reported the fall.of { La Roche at 9 a. m. today, after | about 24 hours of street fighting. | The road junction was one of the _ | most important towns on the north | side of Marshal Karl von. Rund- | stedt’s. salient. It was doomed yesterday by an American victory in a tank battle to the northeast, after ‘which the Yanks speared into La | Roche itself.
| Flail at Thin Air
The Germans pulled out suddenly after hours of stubbon resistance. All at once the Americans found themselves flailing at thin air. Only nine prisoners were sent back in the first hour after the fall of La Roche. Supreme headquarters reported that many sectors of the bulge remained stiff. The Germans struggled to keep its walls propped up until they could get out from underthe crushing impact of the AngloAmerican close-in, The four-mile hound forward by ‘Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s British forces was made from
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