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A “gigantic struggie of decisive importance is raging” on a 600-mile front between the Baltic and the Danube
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Berlin reported that one day after blasting open the Polish front the Russians mounted full dress offensives
Don't let this happen. rad One pint of blood in the refrigerator at the Red Cross blood donor center here. . . .
6. I. BILLS HEAD CAPITOL'S WEEK
Most Measures Introduced Are Routine and Stir Little Debate.
By SHERLEY UHL Hoosier legislators: today had polished off a solid week of routine work virtually devoid of debate, Their early efforts concerned @G. 1. bills having little to do with partisan politics. Twelve war bills pertaining directly or indirectly to
servicemen were introduced -duringi-
the first three days of the session. Eight of these have been reported for passage by the committees to which they were assigned. Both Republican and Democratic leaders say the remainder probably will be approved at the next meeting of their respective committees, All are expected to pass with little or no opposition,
Bills Listed G.I. and war emergency bills
submitted so far would: | ONE: Authorize county probate]
court appointment of conservators to protect property of missing or captured servicemen.
"TWO: Give veterans preference among applicants for state and city government jobs, providing fine and imprisonment - penalties for failure to do so. ! THREE: Supplement the existing selective service act by making it a state offense also to refuse discharged G.I's the right of reemployment in the same jobs they held before entering the service. FOUR: Authorize youths under 21 to enter into contracts involving the G.I Bill of Rights. State law at - present forbids contractual agreements by minors, > FIVE: Grant notary public powers to all commissioned officers in army and navy. This is intended to facilitate certification of legal and official documents. SIX: Preserve the dignity of the khaki and navy blue by making it
forms without full authority. Violations would be punishable by fines of not more than $250 or 60 days imprisonment. This law would supplement a federal statute. SEVEN: Deduct $2000 from the
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LONDON, Jan, 18.--Alarmed Nazi broadcasts said
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there will not serve two wounded | GI's. But here at home that pint is divided. One part is plasma. That goes overseas. The residue, the cell tissue, can be used in two ways for our. wounded. brought home. foes If the blood 4s the universal type, the cells can be placed in a state of suspension and used to
GIS GET LONG TERMS IN CIGARET THEFTS
Court-Martial in Paris Sen-
tences ‘Four.
PARIS, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—Four more G.I. black marketeers started long prison terms today for stealing cigarets and other supplies from U. 8. army trains in the Paris area. The length of their terms stirred speculation that they were being used as an object lesson to other soldier offenders in the European theater. A court-martial sentenced the four to terms of 35 to 45 years’ imprisonment at hard labor yesterday after finding them guilty on a
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Couple in Child Neglect Case ‘Sentenced After Baby Dies
Mrs, Homer Biehl, whose five children were found Wednesday
roundings, was sentenced to 180 ‘days in the woman's prison today on charges of violating her proba~
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tion in a child May. a Her husband was septenced to 180 days on the Indiana state penal far on the same charges. His sentence, however, was suspended by Judge Mark Rhoads in juvenile court, Mr. and Mrs. Biehl were arrested on charges of child neglect Wednes-
neglect case last
Amusements . 4 Ruth Millett. 7|d8y after their baby, Homer Glenn Churches .... 10] Obituaries ... g|Jtidied of exposure and underComics .....: 9| Fred Perkins . 1 nourishment in their home, 7236 ‘Crossword ..." 9|Radio ........ .|Fitsh ave, Ravenswood. Editorfals 6 Mrs. B Their five other children, whose ‘Forum ....... | 6|ages range from 9 to 15 months,| Preckles ..... * 8| were weak, - and in-{
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apparently aimed at securing the flanks of a Soviet push
across the frozen Polish ~.to Berlin. :
plains on the shortest route
Ag usual in the first phase of new operations, Moscow had not ‘announced the Nazi-reported attacks. (Premier Stalin announced-in an order of the day tonighf{ that Marshal Ivan S. Konew's 1st Ukrainian army .in a new
offensive west of the Vistula broke through the German positions on a 25-mile front.) Pres
“There is no doubt that the Soviets now are staking
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build up the blood supply and count. All other types can be made into a .paste which .is used extensively at Nichols General hospital in Louisville for the treatment of burns. This sounds wonderful, Medical science has found many ways each pint of blood and all its properties can be used. But ‘there is one flaw. There is plenty of blood in this country . . . plenty in Indianapolis. Not enough is being given. The Red Cross Blood Bank is running ‘behind schedule 50 pints a day.
Light Showers Slated Tonight
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Light showers tonight and tomorrow are forecast by the weather man to help wash the ice and snow from Indianapolis’ sidewalks and streets. ‘ It’s to be mostly .cloudy and mild this week-end. The mercury climbed to 44 yesterday and fell to 30 by 6 a. m. today. .
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C. I. 0: OPPOSES | A-F WORK BILL
Waste of Labor Charged: Draft Plan Branded as
‘Unworkable.’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt's request for “work-or-fight” legislation to force 4-Fs into war work ran into tough obstacles today, as the following develdpments were reported: ONE: Thé C. I. O, said such a law would be “thoroughly unworkable”; that in fact no form of manpower draft was needed but that manpower problems should be worked out by management and labor conferences with the government. TWO: Members ; of the house military affairs committee, current ly considering the May work-or-fight bill, began to wonder if such a
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Hoosier Heroes—
LASWELL IS KILLED FIGHTING ON LEYTE
Today's casualty list includes a second, Indianapolis man to be reported missing after action with the famed 106th infantry division, a local soldier who died of wounds received on Leyte, three wounded and three prisoners. KILLED Pvt. Bernard L. Laswell, 1214 Bates st., on Leyte. = - MISSING
Four fire companies answered a call this morning to the Stokely Foods, Inc., 8. East st. plant. Fire, believed to have resulted from spontaneous combustion, had broken out in the fourth floor locker room, but was extinguished before production equipment was damaged. The company, which is packing rations for the armed forces, con-
Pvt. Russell E. Kattman, Hancock ave., in Germany.
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EL ————————— BURNS KILL FATHER OF SIX KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 13 (U. P.) — Six children were made fatherless today by the death of Thomas Witacre, 29, from burns sustained early this week when he attempted to
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everything on one card,” Ernst von Hammer, Berlin military commentator, said. “A great testing of forces with the Soviets now is in progress on six battlefields scattered
from East Prussia to Buda “They are: : “FIRSTLY around the
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WAR INTERLUDE— 1300 Yanks Return For Visit Home
By BARBARA BUNDSCHU United Press Staff Correspondent NEW, YORK, Jan. 13.—No cold gray January day could dampen their grins. They are 1300 American, combat soldiers, most of | them outstanding heroes, and they were home—for 30 days. They were men of the 1st, 3d, 7th and 9th armies. They were be-ribboned veterans from the sands of Normandy and Salerno, the mud of France, the hardfought bastions of Bastogne and Metz, n n ” THEY WERE selected for length of overseas service and outstanding bravery in action. The rules were different in each army but the 3d army, for instance, allotted the furloughs
only to.men who had at least two 5 purple, hearts for wounds,
As a band played “Make Believe” for the first public troop debarkation of this war, the men feasted their eyes on the overcast skyline of New York. 8 4 4 THEY PORED over newspapers as they crossed the river to New Jersey and peered from train windows on the way to Camp Shanks. for reassurance that this was the same United States they'd left— one, two or three years ago. Strikes at home? “I'll come home and pay the government $50 a month if they'll just let me stay here and work in a nice war plant,” Cpl. Frank Kordasiewicz, of Philadelphia, said. 7 » » » CIVILIAN shortages? They soHeitously offered a rolling-his-own reporter a tailor made cigaret. “I'll come back and eat nothing but bread and water for the duration,” David Hughes, of Franklin, N. J, said. But those were dreams were willing to forego. “We've got a job to finish, and I want to be in on tne. finishing,” Pvt. Kenneth McNally, of Norfolk, N. Y,, said. The majority of the men will return to their old combat outfits after furlough.
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» » #“ “I'M ANXIOUS to get home,” Pfc. Seymour S. Karp, of New York, said, “but after my furlough is ‘up, I want to get back to my regiment.” He had left it at the. Siegfried line. At Camp Shanks, the 1300 officers and men filed in army order to the recredtion hall for instructions about those leaves! which will start from the reception centers nearest their homes. But they. stampeded the telephone center, “Hello, Mom. It's me.” “Honey, I'm home. “Aw gee, Honey, don't cry.”
ISSUE WAGE PARLEY CALL WASHINGTON, Jan, 13 (U, P.). —The United Mine Workers arid coal operators today issued a joint call for a national bituminous wage
POIND AT JAPS IN" INDO-CHINA
‘Carrier Attacks Renewed as At Least 38 Supply Ships Are Wrecked.
By MAC R. JQHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent
coast today. They had wrecked 38 Japanese ships in the first phase of an assault that apparently has smashed a major. enemy attempt to reine force ‘embattled Luzon. Carrying the attack into its second day, hundreds of dive-bombers,
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—~When reports from the sea battle off the Asiatic coast arrived, one wag at Pacific fleet | headquarters couldn't resist writ- | ing a suggested communique for | the Japanecse. _“One_of our fleets is missing.”
torpedo “planes ‘and fighters hammered at shipping, airdromes and other enemy installations from Sal- | gon in the south to Quinhon in| the north.
Report B-29 Attack
| | (A Tokyo broadcast heard in| London said 90 B-29 Superfortresses also attacked Saigon last night. | There was no confirmation from | American sources. The Tokyo | broadcast said 20 Superfortresses were shot down). | A Pacific fleet dispatch disclosed | that 25 ships, including six and | possibly 12 transports, a 5800-ton | Katori class light cruiser and several destroyers or.destroyer escorts, | were sunk and 13 other vessels damaged heavily in the initial attacks | yesterday (Indo-China time). Thir- | ty-nine- Japanese planes also were | destroyed. - “At last reports, our service forces have suffered no damage and were continuing their attacks,” - Adm. | Chester W. Nimitz announced. At least four Japanese convoys | were hit in yesterday's strikes. It was theorized that some, if not all, had embarked on an attempt to
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LONDON, Jan. 13 (U. P.).—Axis| broadcasts said today that the Jap- |
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conference to begin here March 1,
Yanks Drive Six Miles Into
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QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 13.—8ixth army forces have, driven six miles into the enemy's fortified flank on the eastern shore of Lingayen guif under supporting fire of American warships, a front dispatch disclosed today. :
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a growing crisis in the Pacific war.
Lingayen Gulf
reinforcements and supplies at San Fernando Thursday were sunk or damaged’ heavily. (Radio Tokyo said two American convoys already have landed troops and supplies; on the Lingayen gulf and a third of more than 100 transports, 100-odd landing craft and 10 escorting aircraft carriers had arrived in the gulf. Tokyo also speculated that other American landings were impending at Batangas, southwest of Manila,
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 13.| —~Carrier planes of the 3d
fleet struck powerful new lhe Germans are withdrawing under ‘the impact of a conblows along a 250-mile stretch | verging attack by three allie i
of the French Indo-China jat 6:30 a. m. the 84th infantry and 2d armored division
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border; “FIFTHLY the Vistula
bridgehead west of Baranow;
“SIXTHLY the East Prussian fighting zone. “It must be assumed that the Soviets will still further
enlarge the scenes of the fi
In addition to the maj reported-flareups—of-undete Scattered along the entire | ‘The entire Vistula line
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German Position as U.S. Planes
Bomb Roads,
Rhine Bridges.
By J. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Jan. 13.—Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st
‘army smashed into the northeastern shoulder of the Ar-
dennes salient in a new attack along a nine-mile front be-
(tween Stavelot and Malmedy today.
It drove a spearhead 1200 vards into the German de-
fenses. Maj. Gen. L. S. Hobbs
' 30th “Old Hickory” division
(trained at Camp Atterbury) led the American drive, The Yanks plunged southeastward into the network of roads through the neck of the menaced salient from which
d armies.
An hour and a half after the Stavelot-Malmedy attdtk
START DIGGING— Nazi "88 Shells: Plow Fox Holes For Chilly GI's
By B. J. McQUAID : Times Foreign Correspondent IN THE ARDENNES SALIENT, Jan, 11 (Delayed).—The serious problem. of how to. keep warm. is
not the worst hazard yhich snow |
and near zero temperatures afford the fighting men on the bleak Ardennes front. Winter, summer, spring and fall, there is just one standard procedure for the soldier who finds himself heavily mortared shelled. He starts digging. # = ” “BUT HAVE you ever tried to dig through a foot of snow and four or five inches of solidly froZen earth's crust?” Joseph Bolinsky, Yonkers, N. Y. His armored infantry machine-
gun squad helped turn back some |
of Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt's armor near Marguerite, “I've been in spots where 1 thought I could dig through solid rock with my bare hands, but that's only a feeling you get. 4 8 un 8 “WHEN WE got a shower of shrapnel tossed at us, in that
scrap around Marguerite, we put |
the theory to the test, and it's no good. “You can't dig through solid rock, which is what this frozen ground is like, with your bare hands or even with your spade.
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anese government had ordered the A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington
power and extended military control | Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 observers here are saying: One of the turhing poin the next 30 days. It will be
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struck east of LaRoche. Thirty minutes later the 83d infantry (trained. at
Camp Atterbury) and 3d 4
armored divisions joined the [Foneerted push. American and British forces now {were hammering the perimeter of
the salient on an 80-mile front. It
jcurved from Malmedy around to the (Southwest and back to Lt. Gen. | George S. Patton's 3d army sector jon the right wing southeast of -| Bastogne, ; : Front dispatches said the new 1st army attack was launched at 6 a. m. today. Patrol activity in the last three days showed that the Germans had weakened the shoulder of the bulge. Mounting pressure by the 3d army on the south had forced withdrawal there, Hodges was quick to exploit the | enemy weakness. His strategy, field reports said; was to keep hitting the Germans while they were reeling.
Drive May Isolate Nazis
First army tanks and troops [Struck out from the Stavelot-Mal-|medy line. The drive carried the | Possibility of slicing entirely . across the base of the dwindling salient. Thus the Germans, fighting a rear guard action to the west, would be cut off, . The gains of about three-quarters of a mile along the nine-mile front Were scored in the first few hours. {The weakened German defenses | were unable to recover from the first impact of the push. The enemy was caught by surprise apparently. Recent efforts had been concentrated on withdrawing from {the salient to escape the closing jaws of .the nutcracker set up by {the 1st and 3d armies. The best weather since the allies
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3.—Some of the best posted
ts of the war is likely within political, not military.
In the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting don't count too heavily on Stalin agreeing to the Vandenberg formula—if the President
offers it
Stalin Is believed to be hewing to a cut-and-dried program which
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calls for a “Russian peace” —a “sphere of dominance reaching ‘from Narvik, Norway, to Fusan, Korea, ind from the Barents sea to the Persian gulf. : Once that is a fait acompli, Russia will ‘gladly sit with the big powers in the Dumbarton Oaks organization—again provided she can \
When the United States breaks the back of Nip) resistance, Moscow will break with Tokyo—whether the Nazis have been finished off by that time or not. vi ; ¥ cot Al Li Russian plans in the Far East necessitate such a break, just as fen plans in Eurgpe necessitated a break with Poland ph _ Look for an early Muscovite move in the Dardenelles, be required to give Russia free access to the fod