Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1945 — Page 3
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Yanks Gaining on 20-Mile
Front in Broad Luzon Plains
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to three cruisers, and damaged 13 other, including a battleship, an aircraft carrier, two carriers or battleships, and two cruisers.) The frontal advance toward Manila still was meeting only relatively negligible opposition. Ob-
- servers said the Americans probably could cross the Agno in
strength now without major resistance were it not necessary to consolidate their flanks. Veteran jungle troops on the
_eastern flank of the beachhead al-
ready were battling the first sizable Japanese force encountered along the road to Pozorrupio, 10 miles inland from San Fabian. The Japanese were known to have strofig forces in the San Fernando corridor north of San Fabian. A fair proportion of the thousands of reinforcements pouring into the
American beachhead were being
diverted to that area, ——Jap-Gunfire Feeble... Warships® lying off the Lingaver coast pounded away steadily at Japanese fortifications in the corrider and the hills behind, Ground artillery already ashore, - including heavy guns, also was in action. A dispatch from 6th army headquarters said the troops above San Fabian were clearing up Japanese pillboxes and trenches, in which the enemy “appeared to be fairly well fortified.” Japanese gunfire continued feeble. Each night a certain number of shells has fallen in the American flanks, most of them harmlessly. Whether the Japanese succeed in defending the Agno line or not, everyone at head ad was convinced that a really largé-scale and
~*plenty tough” battle will he joined
within a few days; perhaps-within 4 week.
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_ Thevmouth of the Agno was secured with the capture of<Labrador, six miles west of Lingayen. It was possible that the allies might move troops and supplies down the river on shallow draft barges and other landing craft. : Light American reconnaissance planes already were operating from the captured Lingayen airdrome. Enemy air activity was negligible.
1000 CLUB IS DONOR |
IN LOCAL CAMPAIGN
“Times Special
WASHINGTON, Jan, 12.—James Beatty, Marion county Democratic chairman, received $5000 Jor campaign expenditures from ‘the One Thousand club, according to a report filled today with congress. The One Thousand club was organized in Chicagp to get 1000 well‘Heeled Democrats to contribute $1000 each: for the 1944 campaign. Only two $1000 contributors were listed from Indiana, They were former Rep. Eugene B. Crowe, Bed~ ford and William J. Gavin, Jeflfersonville, Another $5000 donation was made by the club to William E, Harrigan, Lake county Democratic chairman. Each Democratic congressional-can-didate received $250, except Arthur Greenwood, Washington, Ind., who got $500. He failed to unseat Rep. Gerald Landis, his Republican opponent in the seventh district, however. Mr. Greenwood was one-time whip in the house. Democrats re-elected Rep. Louis Ludlow in Marion county and Rep. Ray Madden in Lake county, the two spots where the $5000 contributions were made to the party chairmen.
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DAY
KNUDSEN JOINS IN WORK MOVE
Production Chie Chief Stiff Penalties for ‘War Sluggards.
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is the group, he said, that the May bill would force into essential industry to meet lagging war production. Knudsen pointed out that the demand for heavy ammunition is five times what it was a year ago, and that there are shortages of ball bearings, tires and other equipment. : “I -can’t stress enough the advantage we will gain from getting these men as soon as possible,” he added.
Unions Ask Hearing
May ‘said he was willing to aban= don ‘the induction section of his bill under which recalcitrants would be put in special work battalions, in favor of civil penalties. He said he understood several members of his committee preferred the fine-or-imprisonment clause now in the selective service law, under which violators are punishable by fines of up to $10,000 or imprisonment for five years or both. He indicated the committee would delay action on a new manpower bill to give the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor their requested opportunity to present their views next week. The proposal to substitute legal penalties for the induction. provisions in May’s bill also found support from Rep. Paul J. Kilday (D.
Tex.).
NEARER VICTORY
THE ARMED SERVICES
‘(ARMY and NAYY)
Favors:
Wite Gets Word On Bulge Battle
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veteran of 28 yéars of service in 1 the regular army. ’ “© 2.8 HIS WOUNDS—for which he has received the purple heart— was revealed in a letter written Dec. 28 and received by Mrs. Shuck last week, the first word she had from him in two weeks. It and the Dec. 22 letter arrived together. The latter presents a graphic picture of the Germans: “I have come to the conclusion the Germans must be just: plain beasts to continue such a race suicide of their own people when they must realize they never can recover, ” s »
“THE PEOPLE around here take the potato peelings we throw away and gather them up to make soup. Now you can understand when I say I have seen people slowly starving to death. “The weather is turning colder and so it looks as. though many people in Europe will freeze or starve to death before spring comes around again. “Sometimes one has to see it to actually believe it does happen. .
MRS. SHUCK lives at 15 N. Oriental st. She and her husband have written each other daily sirice he went overseas with the division last April 5. “Sometimes he writes a lengthy letter, sometimes only a few lines, but he’s only missed about four days,” Mrs. Shuck said, “And that was last month when the 83d was getting into the battle of the break-through.”
CITY EYES PARK AT BROAD RIPPLE
Board Officials Expected to Discuss Purchase With
Oscar Baur. (Continued From Page One)
department and outlined by Paul V. Brown, city park superintendent, and. J. I. Holcomb, chairman of the post-war planning committee's parks and recreation division. This included new playgrounds in the vicinity of 30th and Illinois sts., 22d and Alabama sts., Michigan and Rural sts., Michigan and Grant sts., 48th and Meridian sts. South Irvington, and 16th st. and Northwestern ave. New playfields would be in' the vicinity of McCarty st. and Capitol ave, 38th and Meridian sts, 16th st. and Central ave. Spring and Walnut sts, and Fountain Square. Playgrounds to be enlarged would be Greer st. and ‘Ringgold st. to four acres, Finch, Hawthorne and Arnolda to five acres, Parkway extensions planned include Fall Creek pkwy. from 10th
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PACIFIC BATTLE
MAY BE RAGING
Carrier Wircraft ‘Attack Japs ‘Off the Coast’ Of Indo-China.
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whether part of the Japanese fleet had been brought to bay or a reinforcement convoy bound for the Philippines had been intercepted awaited further news _from the scene. However, Camranh bay is con-
‘sidered the fourth best natural
harbor in the world. It has protected anchorages for a large number of capital ships, cruisers and destroyers. Saigon, 60 miles to the southwest, before the. war was French Indo-China’s first seaport and a naval base.
May Have Been Refuge Naval observers speculated that
Japanese -fleet. -unis may - havef
sought refuge for ‘repairs or regrouping at Camranh bay or Saigon after their disastrous defeat in the second battle of the Philippines last ,1 Oct. 22-27. Then 24 Japanese war- | ships were sunk, 13 probably sunk and- 21 damaged. Japan was known to have several battleships and aircraft carriers, as well as numerous cruisers and de-
stroyers, in fighting condition. It]
long has been thought that an American’ landing on Luzon would force the reluctant Japanese fleet into action again. The communique did not-specify that Halsey's fleet was carrying out
the attack. The fact that Nimitz| however, con-|
released the news; firmed that it was the 3d fleet with its huge carrier force under Vice Adm. John McCain, * capab€ of putting 1000 planes into the air simultaneously. Had Vice Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid’s Tth fleet béen invoived, it was pointed out, the attack would have been announced by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, under whose command Kinkaid operates. The 7th fleet at last reports was off western Luzon and in the Lingayen gulf protecting and reinforcing MacArthur's invasion beachhead. Saigon lies 874 miles southwest of Manila.
Climaxes Other Strikes
Halsey's daring thrust to French Indo-China by-passed the Japanese naval base at Hong Kong. It also carried to within 700 miles northeast of Singapore, keystone of Japanese defenses in southeast Asia. Singapore was attacked by American B-29 Superfortresses yesterday. The indications were that American .search planes or submarines noted Japanese activity in IndoChina waters and flashed a message to the 3d fleet. Thus the fleet was enabled to pounce on the enemy forces even as they pulled out of Indo-China ports. The attack climaxed other strikes by the 3d fleet in the first eight days of this year. Japanese installations from tHe Ryukyu islands off the southern tip of Japan proper,” through Formosa to Luzon were attacked.
st. and Indiana ave. to 16th st.; Brookside pkwy:, following Pogues run from Brookside park at Sherman dr. northeasterly to 30th st.; Pleasant Run pkwy., improving connections in the vicinity of the Citizens gas plant, the railroad underpass at Colorado ave., and near Arlington ave, Enlarging seating facilities at the band shell at Garfield park so the amphitheater could seat 4500 for summer light opera, also was approved.
MAYOR OFFERS AID ON GOAL DELIVERIES
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coal shortage exists in Indiana. It is due to the prolonged cold weath-
‘jer, a tiesup in transportation facil-
find The Man's Store's Military Shop—a source of a. great deal of satisfaction.
The stocks, although in a “fluid state” —are, generally speaking, quite - comprehensive.
The services are informed—and
“surrounded with every facility and
courtesy.
Military Shop, Third Floor,
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ities and the cutting -off"of" 300,000 tons of Appalachian coal which normally would be shipped to this area by April 1.” Railroads absorb about a million tons of Indiana coal a month and the 300,000-ton deficit will be made up primarily from them, An order from the department of interior directs railroads to take! coal with a 15 per cent slack substitute. The slack is in storage in huge quantities and is not suitable for home use. from the railroads will be of the coarse variety normally burned in homes.
FOUR DIE IN B-25 CRASH PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12 (U, P.).— An army B-25 bomber crashed and burned near Morgantown, W. Va., airport today, killing four crew members and injaring four others, two seriously, Maj. W. G. Brown
ofthe army air transport com-| | mand announced” here,
Still further bad news was in prospect for the Japanese, Vice
Adm. Richmond K. Turner, com-|-
mander of American amphibious forces in the Pacific, revealed. ~He asserted that- “larger and farger landings are ahead—even in the Japanese homeland.” He warned that American losses must be expected. “There aren't so many places where they ain't,” he said. An earlier Pacific fleet communique disclosed that army bamb-
~~... |lers~from bases in the Marianas and
Aleutians had attacked Iwo Jima in the Volcanos, south of Japan, Monday (Tuesday, Tokyo time) and
| Suribachi- on Paramushiro in the
Kuriles, north of Japan, the following day.
NORWEGIANS CUT LINES LONDON, Jan, 12 (U. P.).—=Norwegian parachutists flown from Britain in the past two weeks have succeeded in cutting the three main railway lines in Norway.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Bureau
(All Data in Central yar Time) jas, 12, 19 . 8:08 | I AL 5.41
Sunrise. .
Precipitation 24 hrs. end. 7 7:30 a. = base
Total precipitation since: Jan, Deficiency Since Jan. 1
‘The fullowing table shows the highest temperatures for 12 hours ending at 7:30
vn. m, yesterday aid the lowest tempera-
tures for 13 hours ending at 7:30 a. m. High
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EVENTS TODAY
Indiana State Bar Speciation; mid-winter meeting, Claypool Hotel. Indiana section. American Society of Mechanical engineers, dinner, 6:30 p. m., Hotel Antlers,
p. m., Hotel Washingto Hoosier Farm Bureau Lite Insurance Co., eeting, 10 a, ‘Hotel Lincoln. tndianapsis Electrical association, meeting, 10 a. m., Hotel Lincoln.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Edward Haiiison Corbin, Camp Atterbury; Virginia Mae Allen, 1318 Central, Harry A. Mills, Noblesville; Estelle Ellen Booe, .726 Ger James JH. Brag, %. Harrison; Dorothy Dyer, 913 Congress. Marshall Harris, U, 8. navy; Jackie Carole Simms, 829 Banders. William H. Burk, 1342 Resener; Mae ElizaSeth Brown, 1279 Kentucky. non Lawrence West, 1315 8. Lee; Char. Sots Lillian Tarpenihg, . jae Hov. Lee Kenneth Yaryan, 211 N, Randolph: Delores H.. nom 128 Samuel Sight urn, R. Br Acton; wre 4 CN arie enna 2302 Park. Olivia ? army; oo. \ Zink, 404 Park,
W' liam Henry Bronaugh, 1 Michi aa; Mary Hurt Guynn, Ts w Michi«
H dianapolis Speakers’ shun, meeting, 6:48
iN INDIANAPOLIS
Joseph Eugenia Javor, at Coleman.
Thomas, Dulcia Hugjll, at Methodist, Elbert, Evelyn Johnson, at Methodist. Edward, Ruth Lyzoot, at Methodist, Edna Stancon, at Methodist,
Merrel, Albina Evans, at 2053 McClure. Jesse, Geneva Moore, at 1441 Perkins.
Boys Clifford, Mildred Cockrell, at St.
George, Betty Sample, at City Vernon, Sarah Pranklin, at City.
Francis.
‘| Harry, Marjorie Clifford, at Coleman.
Anthony, Virginia Jerman, at Coleman. Michadl, Marie Madonna Andre, at Meth-
Russell, James DeVore, at Methodist. William, Rosemary Kruger, at Methodist. Eugene, Almer Louise Riggs, at Methodist, Bernard, Dorothy Smoot, at Methodist. Rellions, Ora Hamilton, at 552%: 8. Ni dvara, Mary Knox, at 20 N. Bloom-
gine. Mary Short, 510 E. Buchanan. Ray, Grace. Bigvenson, at at 1450 Hillside.
DEATHS Maxel T. Crawl ford, 922 N. Teh, chron Ms ai Ads F iin, 67. st. incent's, cere-
Melvin L. Anderson », at City, hyper-
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STRAUSS SAYS:
ALSO some leather UNFITTED CASES at almost GIFT PRICES
L. STRAUSS & CO.
LOOK! ’ SATURDAY A FLASH - ‘CLEARANCE OF MEN'S Bb ILLFO L DS!
"saddle Leathers Goat Skins Morocco
" pigskins Calfskins and others
There are 200 of them—a Tot of different kinds—some with zippers—some with windows— * regular prices $I to 7.50.
While they last—at . 50¢, $1, 2 and $3 (plus 20% tax) .
The “excitement” is Just inside the doors—turn left— Don’t Miss!
THE MAN'S STORE
STRAUSS SAYS
And with them all ~is a CAREFUL
KNOWLEDGED FITTING ~~ «=
SERVICE!
f«««|IT'S ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY
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we just want to mention that good hefty oxfords— are an especially good buy!
We don't mean particularly from a dollar and cents standpoint—although they “are THAT—
But they are something to put between you and the icy, sleety earth—
Something to keep the feet dry and comfortable— Something to make the ‘traction better. Something good for the state of the health.
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Prices range-from 5.85 by easy steps upwards— with a good concentration
- around 7. 8