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to be diteator. The youthful King Peter is already being thimble~ rigged® He didn't have a chance from the beginning,

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Hard Fight Ahead on Luzon ~*~

THE LANDING on Luzon was relatively easy and our loss was negligible, but there's a .great deal of hard and bloody ahead for Gen. Krueger's 6th army.

The Japs have many troops

planes, and their supply source in

away.

We have been plastering Formosa,

deep-water ports to supply our

Ahd don’t think the Jap navy is done for. another tough scrap with it—maybe it's going

fighting

there; they also have land-based Formosa is only about 500 miles

but we still do not have troops. . » Our men look for on now.

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THE NEW German submarine threat could be serious- Jo our supply lines .in the European theater of operations, but it isn't yet.

So far subs have -Been operating chiefly in sources say. Our losses !

gressional in December were about twice what they were in November. The Nazis may have from 200 to 300 submarines. Fact that they're able to get enough trained crews to operate them causes surprise here. Trained undersea teams are considered more difficult to provide than first class trained aircrews. oe.

Federal Spending TREASURY DEPARTMENT and congress tax experts, in estimates soon to be released, will predict a lapse of five years after Germany's defeat before normal peace time budget can be reached. They estimate first year’s budget at 74 billions (assuming Jap war is still on), second year at 44 billions (assuming Jap war is over), third at 33 billions, fourth at 28 billions, and. fifth at “normal” level of 21 billions. ~ » =o

THERE'S A chance that when the May “work or fight” bill reaches the house floor, probably week-after-next, one of the major fights will hinge on whether new 18-45 men forced into war industry will have to join unions. It's been a hotly debated issue in house military affairs committee hearings and unless the com-

mittee can find some solution, it

could start a bad labor union fight

“on the floor.

Odds. now are the labor battalion section of the bill, which would force physically deferred draft registrants into non-combat military service if they balked at getting into war industry, will be tossed out. The “fight” part of “work or ficht” will be a misnomer. Civil penalties, like those of original selective service act, probably will provide teeth. On draft legislation for nurses, Chairman May of house military affairs committee says mail and telegrams being received are mostly favorable—including resolutions passed by National Nursing Council for War Service, of- New _ York, . ;

Airlines Suffering

COMMERCIAL airlines felt the German offensive; release transport planes for their use tightened up at once. Now, however, planes for airlines are again

of |

channel waters, con-

are

| becoming available. . They | allocated by CAB. CAB is making a determined effort to keep state governments from entering regulatory field for airlines, Members maintain that swiftmoving air traffic should not be

tion, such as states would provide. They encourage promotional

setups, however. They particularly oppose putting regulation under state public servjce commissions because of the danger of railroad domination.

lines enter the air transport business. » n 5 NATIONAL EDUCATION association policy on peacetime military training will be formulated and announced shortly, Of 1300 educators polled, a majority opposed army-navy plan for military training; 48 per cent waited national service law. s - : 2 s 2

Troubles of Higgins

TROUBLES OF Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans builder of ships and airplanes, with 13 craft unions of the A. F. of L,, may bring an effort by this organization to adapt-itself to demands of industrialists for one union spokesman in their plants. The C. 1. 0. form of “vertical” union already met that demand. Authorities don't expect anything like an amalgamation of A. F. of L. unions, but hope for a blanket contract under which in-

| terests of craft unions would be.

o protected with .a minimum of | negotiation te be done by the | employer,

| o 2 ” | SECRETARY ICKES is due to | appeal to John L. Lewis for ad- | vance in the date of this Vear's coal-wage conferences between | the United Mine Workers and bi- | tuminous coal operators. The date under the contract is March 1, but officials think Feb. | 1 would be none too-early to begin efforts toward a new contract needed before March 31. A F. of L. and C. I. O. leaders are as anxious as anybody else | that this year's coal proceedings | be completed without shutdowns. {| They fear more coal strikes | would whip up demand for fur ther and more stringent union: regulatory legislation.

in ships |

hampered by small unit regula- |

air activities by state aviation |

Roosevelt is on record against | letting railroads and steamship |

Yanks Drive Six Miles Into

Jap Flank on Lingayen Gulf

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operation.)

On the western flank of the { beachhead, other American columns : | brushed back small enemy groups - clared units of the British fleet | near Umanday, six- miles’ below were ‘taking part in the Philippines | Lingayen gulf. They pushed on to the south in a drive that held a (The first irfdication that the { potential threat of outflanking the Lingayen airfield was being used | AgNO river line. Umanday is west

CLEVELAND'S POWER NORMAL

Service Restmed as Men Return to Work Under Us S. Flag.

CLEVELAND, Jan. 13 (U. P).— Normal power service was restored

this important war-manufacturing center today. :

{land Electric Illuminating Co. re={turned to their jobs under orders fof the army to “work or be fired.” Col. E. A. Lynn, head of the Cleveland district army ordnance department, announced that 90 per cent of the strikers had reported for work. As power service Was restored, Col. Lynn rescinded a request to householders and merchants to Keep use of electricity to an-abso-Jute minimum, :

to a five-county area in.and about].

Striking employees of the Cleve-

——

walk Out Yesterday The strikers walked off the job |yesterday. They were ordered to terminate their wildcat walkout] after President Roosevelt directed | the army to take over the com-| |pany's facilities to prevent further | curtailmen of war production depending on electric power from the {C. EL | Mr. Roosevelt acted faster than|

Arrangements were being made today by officials at P. R. Mallory Co., Inc, to enlist ‘the aid of patients at Wakeman genera] hospital at Camp Atterbury to help meet the firm's “enormous” war production schedules. : This was announced at the beginning of an all-out drive by

recruit toward

____ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ War Veterans. Called to War Plant

INS

friends the goal

tion.

and

Two ‘convalescing war veterans at Billings general hospital are shown receiving clearance papers from Lt. Karl E. Smith permit ~ting> them to-return to their former jobs at P. R. Mallory. Co., Inc. They are Pvt. Charles Millet, left, and Pfc. Oliver Grady, center.

plant employees and .officials to neighbors of 1000 new workers needed to meet production schedules for batteries. A number of war veterans from Billings general hospital at Ft Harrison already have volunteered to work toward increased produc-

Most: Measures’ Introduced . Are Routine and Stir Little Debate.

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property tax assessment against homes owned by honorably discharged war veterans and veterans’ widows who have not remarried. EIGHT: Permit returning veterans to deduct all mortgage indebtedness from the assessed valuation of their real estate. * Four remaining bills concern legal problems relating to war casualties or absentees. They would: NINE: Permit servicemen under 21 to make wills and legalize all such wills made since passage of the selective service act. ; TEN: Authorize the official acceptande of military death. notices in all courts and offices. * ELEVEN: Admit to probate, wills whose witnesses are unavailable because they are in the armed services. TWELVE: Provide that power of attorney for agents of servicemen shall not be considered revoked by the serviceman’s death if-the agent has not been informed of that fact. All of the first week's chusiness was occupied with the introduction of bills or committee meetings. As

he has ever done before in any | seizure case. { The strike had curtailed production in at least 40 war plants and| | threatened to shut off power to | homes, hospitals, transportation fa-| | cilities, street. lights and other elec- | | tric-using services.

Seeks Induction Order

Meanwhile, in Columbus

iMaj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, na-

| 37 who participated in the strike. Lausche asked company officials | for a list of strikers’ names i addresses for referral to their draft | boards for action on his request. ~ | The wildcat strike of 400 main-| tenance workers reportedly started over a union stewand’s resentment of the company’s refusal to substi-| tute a day shift for the overnight shift to which he had been assigned

“FOR CHILD NEGLECT

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|dren’s Guardians’ home.

{to pay support money for his five {children to the Marion county de{partment of public welfare. | also was ordered to continue to pay | {$15 a week for support of four | {other children by a previous mar- | riage. Social workers and deputy sher|iffs testified _in a crowded court-| {room this morning that the con-] ‘ditions in - the house were de- | Iplorable. Sticks, ‘papers; bottles {and other debris were found lying |

{six inches deep on the. floors off

{the three-room : house, witnesses | isaid. | Frank L. Heeb, attorney for the | defense, explained that the $95-$96 learned every two weeks by Mr. Biehl would not reach. |

Another Baby Expected

Mrs. Biehl, who is expecting another baby, said that the roof of the house and the oil stove leaked. She said there were no closets in the three-room home and that they paid $40 -a month rent. William Cordonier, Ravenswood constable, testified that the town hoard had served notice on Mr. and Mrs. Edward Holtan, 4146 Wash-| ington blvd., -owners of the Biehl] home, that the house and three others in Ravenswood had .been' condemned. He said about 30 children and adults were occupying

by American bombers came from |°f the Asno, which turns sharply these houses.

Tokyo-'in a brogdcast reporting that'35 B-24's and 23 P-38 fighters raided Manila yesterday, and were seen returning to land Lingayen bay sector.)

troops “trying hard to drive south of , the south bank of the Agno river,” strongly intimating an admission of a crossing of the vital barrier.) (The Japanese Domei agency insisted that the American forces on the southern flank of the beachhead are moving on Aguitor (pos-

east some 20 miles inland.

The main advance through Mala- | ington two years ago. She was first | in high|

| siqui brought 13 miles of

{railway under

|of Lingayen, also was captured.

RUPPRECHT NAMED

| Paul E. Rupprecht

the in - the | Lingayen gulf-Manila narrow guage American control. |

(Tokyo also said Japanese land | San Carlos, four miles northwest forces were “intercepting” U. S. of Malasiqui and 10 miles southeast

~ CONVENTION CHIEF

was elected

{| The Biehls came here from Hunt-

married while a junior school and was expecting a baby at that time

LEGAL FRATERNITY TO SEAT OFFICERS William ‘H. McKitrick will be in- | stalled president of the Indianapolis

Alumni chapter of Sigma Delta

Kappa, legal fraternity, at noon Monday in the Claypool hotel. “New -Horizon in World Geogra-

| | { | | |

sibly Augtlar, 10% miles inland) on president of the Indianapolis Con-| the Agno river and that a major vention and Publicity bureau yestery. succeeding Mark R. Gray. | Mr. Rupprecht, manager of the Lincoln hotel, served as vice presi-

ground clash on the north central da Luzon -plain was imminent.)

Claim U. 8. Ships Sunk

phy” will be the subject of L. B. Dotthit, of ‘the George F. Cram Map Co., Inc.,. who will speak at the fraternity’s first luncheon meet{ing this year.

(Another Japanese. broadcast said : Japanese forces had sunk 31 and Atkins, vice president of E. C. Atdamaged 25 American ships in tie kins Co., vice .president: Lingayen gulf between Jan. 5 and | Vonnegut, vice president of the, 10. The German Transocean agency | vonnegut Hardware Co, claimed a Japanese submarine sank | 'Féasurer, ‘and Henry T. Davis, re-|

an American battleship last nigh in the gulf)

At the center of the béachhead,

Amercian forces - ‘advanced

strength through Malasiquis 12 miles inland, to: within six mifes of the Agno river line on the main high« way from Lingayen gulf to Manila, American reconnaissance patrols mercial already have stabbed across the. Agno river, along which thie Japa- Clarence Domhofl, general man stand of the Guarantee Tire & Ru

nese may attempt their first 90 miles north of Manila. Japanese = resistance

midway - between Malasiqui

continued Fendrick Terminal Co feeble at the center of the beach- Gates, Joseph L. Mie head, But sharp fighting was raging of the J. P. Michael Co. "J along the eastern perimeter roughly Palise, resident manager and Severin ‘hotel. | “Also elected were A. K. Schneiden<helm, treasurer of Banner-Whitehill Co.; Virgil Stinebaugh, school superintendent; Robert Stith, president

{dent of the bureau last year, Other officers are

t named secretary-manager, | ‘New. members of

Co.; Walter B. Smith,

I Block Co., and Mr. |lisher

Newly-elected directors.

Co.;

Walker, public relations. director

William A, George

renamed

the executive committee are William O. Wheeler, Judge Dan C. Flanagan, Judge Hez- U

president of the Wheeler Catering %® B, Pike, Cec A. Taylor, amd secretary- Huber Patton. treasurer of the Brevort hotel: §, B.| Walker, controller of the Wm. H

iio X Organize Now for 1948, Moley Tells: GOP

of’ the Indianapolis Com-

bber |

Indianapolis Railways; Emil Woemp-

| Other officers who will be installed are Ray W, Hilgedag, first vice president C. Tom Johnson, second vice president; Cecil A. Berry, Isecretary, and Marvin E. Curle, | treasurer, = | The directors include Henry PF. {Schricker, B

C.I.0. Opposes 4-F Work Bill; resent Labor Waste Charged

dations and to list certain practices which they said were wasting labor (law would force new war workers tO) anq should be corrected. | GOv-| join unions against their will, ernor Frank J. Lausche called upon | THREE: And at the same time! for example, charged the Curtiss- : ; ** war production officials said the Wright plant at Columbus, O., with tional draft director, and ORiO|yanpower crisis in industry would (draft, chiefs to start immediate in-| pe oreatly eased anyway if the cur[duction of occupationally deferred ..,t1v reported trend of 4-Fs into iC. E. I. employees between 18 and war work continued.

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plan for a national inventory-of t less essential firms with a view top imposing limitations on the num-|

now they will be extended.

COUPLE SENTENCE | May (D. Ky.) to set up special army| wastage of manpower and MONEY| the first time in 20 years. It would! | units for men 18 to-45 who refuse by federal government agencies and by private industries engaged in war production.” Chairman Elbert D. Thomas (D. Philip Murray, C. I. O. president, Utah) of the senate -military af- : {and spokesmen for most of the big| fairs committee said he intended {taken to the Marion County Chil- |C. I. O. unions met today with to find out if there was a “real | military and civilian government need” for national service legis- | Judge Rhoads ordered Mr. Biehl leaders to give specific recommen- | lation.

to do essential war work. Labor Waste Charged

The C. I. O. auto workers union,

ol, Pa, ast.

firing many employees for “petty | violations of the rules.” And it said the army and navy|. ! were ‘not providing work for 700 FOUR: The war manpower com- workers laid off by the Fleetwings mission prepared to put in force a division of Kaiser Cargo, Inc. Bris-

Ready to Testify Muriay and Lewis G. Hines, A. F. ber of persons a“ company could of I, legislative representative, are hire. Labor ceilnigs already are in| scheduled to bring their stories to {effect -in a good many areas but the house committee next week. | A joint A. F. of L,-Railroad The house committee has. been Brotherhood conference last night holding hearings all week on a bill authorized Hines to present to the introduced by Chairman Andrew J.|committee evidence of

“flagrant |

a consequence there were no floor debates. Controversial Bills

Only three obviously controversial measures have hit ‘the hopper so far. One is Indianapolis Rep. Earl Teckemeyer’s proposal to overhaul the present state and county welfare setups. The others are foredoomed to defeat, one because it's a Democratic bill aimed at Repub< licans, the other because it would slice off small town representation in the house to the advantage of the cities. The Democratic dart against the G. O. P. steamroller (the over-all ratio 1s 106 to 44) is a proposal to limit ‘campaign expenditures of political state committees to $100,000. Republicans, no pikers when it comes to financing elections, undoubtedly will pigeon-hole the measure.

Reshuffling Is Urged

the- house of representatives for

reapportion the number of representatives from each county on the basis of all votes cast in the last election for secretary of state. At present te apportionment is on the basis of the number of registered male voters in each county. Thus the balance is weighted heavily in favor of “small town and

(Continued From Page One) specific charge of conspiracy in the theft of 5000 packages of cigarets and other articles on which they netted a profit of $2000. ~All four were members of the 716th. railroad = battalion, out of] which “182 enlisted men and two officers.” have been arrested for robbing supply trains and reselling their loot in the black market. Sgt. Paul W. Hart, 28, Ft.-Leéav-enworth, Kas., a former fireman on! the Burlington road, was sentenced | to 35 years at hard labor and 43year terms were imposed on Pvt Robert L. Cosgrove, 21, Columbus, O., a former brakeman on the New York Central; Sgt. James E. Lemen, | 31, Sacramento, Cal, a former] Union Pacific engineer, and Cpl. | Howard S. Raubolt, Detroit, who, was a New York Central brakeman | before the war.

Maj. Carleton C. Harris, prose | cuting judge advocate at the courtsmartial, tacitly admitted the sentences were intended. to discour~ age. other potential G. I. offenders, | and acknowledged - the convicted | men were only “small fry” in the| black market ring. Reflecting the French public's; reaction to the mass trials, the

| Paris - morning newspaper Aurore |

rcarried a front-page cartoon yes-| terday showing a Frenchman and| a G. I. sitting in a prison cell. The American is saying glumly that he is serving 50 /jyears. for ‘stealing a | | package of cigaretes, To which the

| Frenchman replies: “Why I received five years for betraying France.”

MRS. ELLA BETHARD DEAD HERE AT AGE 86

| Mrs. Ella M. Bethard, 615 E. 40th’ st., died today at St. Vincent's hos-, pital. She was 86.. The widow of W. J. Bethard who founded the W. P. .Bethard Wallpaper Co. she is|

|syrvived by a daughter, Bess and| | four grandchildren, Mrs. J. E. Gil|lespie, Indianapolis, Mrs. Frank Jones, Peru, Mrs. Harvey Hunter, |

8. N. R,, San Diego.

|Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. |

technique.”

The sergeant explained the new which probably was

technique,

: I'S GET LONG TERMS | Nazi ‘88 Shells "IN CIGARET THEFTS Plow Fox Holes

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| The situation requires a new

rural areas where the female vote is much less, proportionately, than it is in the metropolitan areas. The small town majority will squash this proposal. Sparks are expected to fly on

public hearing to be held at 1:30 {p. m. Tuesday in the house cham|ber. Mr. Teckemeyer proposes to !7ive the state welfare broader ad-

6.1 BILLS HEAD. CAPITOL'S WEEK

A reapportionment resolution, in-| troduced. yesterday, would reshuffle

SPANIEL FANCIERS NAME M. F. CARSON

A former Indianapolis resident, has been elected

Mr. Teckemeyer's welfare bill at a

Carrier Pla

east.

to disperse.

Japanese émpire in

damaged last

Formosa.

aged.

sive evidence" had

nese navy.

M. PF. Carson,

Other officers elected are Ralph Carlton, vice pres ident; Mrs. Donald White, secre. tary; Miss Ruth Lewman, treasurer, and Harold Gray and PF. C Conrad, directors Mr. Carson has ‘named Ray Ed-

ministrative power and to decrease wards, correspond- MF

evolved simultaneously by a great (ne number of board members from ing secretary;

many others. ” 5

“YOU WAIT for an 88 to come [contend that the present five-man | mittee, . “You know what |advisory board fs good enough for | Arney and J. E. Matthews, publicity’

along,’ he said.

a nice deep little hole an 88 digs? .|

“Well, that breaks this frozen ground and gives you a start. “It's not much trouble to expand- the hole once it's begun. anything bigger |

“Of course,

A GOOD

of armored infantrymen stopped a German force of half-a~dozen

light tanks.

Bolinsky and his men fired a {Jorg (R. Ligonier) and Ray E.| day, one of them seriously, when

MANY 88's pitched at Bolinsky's squad, whith

suffered 50 per cent casualties in |the new chairman who said that the the fight in which a small group (board was organized at its first

{five to three.

of them * welfare workers,

them.

i»

‘SECRETARY NAMED

nounced today that Maurice Wolf

e |secretary of the board.

The announcement was made by Otto C. Wulfman (R. Huntingburg), |

meeting yesterday.

machinegun and a couple of [Smith (D. Indianapolis).

around and retreated and called down shellfire on the American

position,

Bolinsky not only pinned down all night in an expanded 88 hole,

but wound up in a frontline medical station, suffering from exposure.

LUNCHEON TO" MARK SERVICES BY POLK

Ralph Polk Sr. will be honored luncheon meeting at noon Monday in the Columbia club com-

at a

| bazookas at them and they turned | An insurance salesman before en-| {tering public life eight years ago,/at E |Mr. Wolf has just completed his| Pus ; secoftd four-term as Decatur county |the battery had gone dead, Richard auditor. He.succeeds J. R. Robert-| Allen, 17, of 1056 8. Webster ave, ison, Indianapolis, as secretary of

{the board The position pays $420 annually.

PAST MATRONS TO MEET

| North and Illinois sts.

BY STATE TAX BOARD «

New members of the Indiana state | = than an 88 “is_even better, but |poard of tax commissioners -an-| it's got to be at least an 88.”

Remonstrants, many Harry Kendrick and : wil Talge, members of the show chmEdwards,

and Mr.

committee

A meeting of the club will be {held Sunday in the home of Miss 5940 Carrollton ave. overed-dish supper will be served t 6:30 p. m. Miss Lewman will pe assisted by Mr, and Mrs. Roy

Lewman,

| Ruffin.

0 |

nes

two.

club of central Indiana.

Renew. Attacks - Off. Indo-China

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to Luzon, about 1000 miles to the,

around

Jap Battleship Blows Up

Nimitz also announced “conclubeen obtained {that the 45,000-ton Japanese bat- | |tleship Musashi blew up and”sank |as result of damage inflicted on her tuo miles north of Kestern by carrier planes in the second bat-| other elements of the 9th rnd tle“of the Philippines last Oct. 24. two attacking German | The ‘Musashi and her sister ship,| companies. {the Yamato, damaged by bombs in the same action, were the two most| target in a long column .of German powerful battleships in the Japa-| vehicles which was mofing to the

, Carson WwW. E. Van

charge of drunken operating.

memorating his 14 years -of service as chairman of the advisory board of the local Volunteers of America. Col. -Ralph 'F. Hites, executive director and area commander of

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the Volunteers will pay tribute to Mr. Polk, who will be unable to be

present.

Other members of the board are Maj. K. Grace Crandall, secretary; Bishop H. H, Fout, chaplain; ClarThomas J. Howard Caughran, Chicago and Lt. William Bethard,| Beasley, George E. Bemberger, Dr. | Harry L. Foreman, William H. InsServices will be Monday at the ley, Arthur R. Robinson and Judge

ence L. Baker,

Dan V. White.

Dr.

coming to life. blow was struck north of the San

and at Magnuszov on

of Warsaw,

Political liberty through political] - Members of the "committee are| In an interview yesterday Mr. are parties was discussed by Raymond Joseph J. Daniels of Indianapolis, | Moley advised Republicans to orager| Moley, associate editor of News- | chairman; V. M. Armstrong, Fran week magazine and one-time mem-| McHale, Donald 8. Smith, all of InIrvin -Fendrick, president of| ber of the New Deal's “inner circle,” |dianapolis; Ewing R. Emison of Ip.;, Governor before , Indiana lawyers today. ‘ hael, president His speech highlighted the clos- Huntington, and George W. Henley W. ing session of the mid-winter meet- of Bloomington. of the ing of the Indiana State Bar asso-

ciation in the Claypool hotel. *

business meeting this mo J A special legislative commit

of assembly concerning

manager, Indianapolis appointed by Aaron H, Huguétnard|Judge H. Dewitt Owen

of South. Bend,

Vincennes; Lawrence Carlson of

| At a meeting of the Indiana Juages' association a _five«hember

The association's legislative pro-| committee to study a. proposed ju(gram wag introduced at a general venile court bill- was appointed by

.| President Dale Eby of Princeton.

of BUith Wak : to, Committee members are Judge ; Wake-Up System; Evan | present bills to the Indiana general Chester A. Davis of Bedford, Judge the :judicigry| Karl O. Voslov of Bloomfield, Judge

nville,

J. Harold Hendrickson of. Boo : Owen of Terre . Rhoads

”

years.”

candidate you will

spent 4n 1945, 1946 e in 1048, he ¢

ganize now for the 1048 presidential

campaign and formulate progressive but anti-New Deal principles. He told the G. O. P, party to “forget about candidates for three

!“Personal ambitions and idle speciilation take energy from the job of party building,” he said, “and you can't tell yet what kind of a need” ! “Mr, Moley also. advised the G. P.,to budget its finances. A dollar

parently sought tial threat to the

its positions on both sides of ‘minton Heath

fire.” = That

'0.{most German

dollar [virtually all of, its eastern border

zone,

The main opening =| “On the Vistula front the long expected Squiet winter offensive has started. After extraordinarily strong artillery preparations the enemy launched his offensive first in the Baranow bridgehead with: nu-| merous infantry divisions and tank

domierz bridgehcad«120 miles south of Warsaw. Berlin said the Russians also attacked in the Kazi- - mierz area 28 miles west of Lublin the east

bank of the Vistula, 30 miles south

Beyond the East Prussian front to the north, brisk fighting was reported in the western area of Latvia. There the Red army ap- ) to erase a potenright flank of the forces attacking on German

iL The East Prussian attack opened on a 12-mile front between Pillkallen and Edutkau, the Nazis said. Evidently it’ was aimed at the key and the capital city of Konigsberg. The German high command Sale in southeastern E East Prussia “lay under heavy artillery % "indicated that the ‘|rontal onslaught on the eastern-

hu eri or sor 1

casts yesterday:

formations."

‘SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1945

Early advices gave no clue as to whether the convoys had been wiped out completely. It appeared certain, however, that they had been forced Such ships as might have escaped may be overhauled vet and blasted tothe bottonf: ‘(The Japanese Domei agency, in its fitst comment on the attacks, sald approximately 90 carrier-based planes raided the “Cochin-China sector centering around Saigon” for nine and a half hours yesterday, with 20 of the- planes being shot down by anti-aircraft batteries.)

No Major Units Engaged

No major Japanese fleet units were engaged in the early phase of the attack. The possibility remained, however, that the .enemy might send naval forces into action to counter Adm. William F. Halsey's thrust across the South China sea. In effect, the thrust has ‘cut the

The toll of shipping off .IndoChina brought to 286 the number of Japanese vessels sunk or damaged by the 3d fleet since Jan. 2. The over-all total included an additional 110 ships revealed by Nimitz last night toe have been sunk or Tuesday

That brought the toll in the Formosa raid to 33 ships sunk, including two destroyers or destroyer escorts, and 104 vessels damaged, including a destroyer and five destroyer escorts. Thirty-seven enemy planes were destroyed and 61 dam-

In the opening sattacks on th Indo-China coast, numerous fires were kindled in the vicinity of Saigon, the colony's first seaport and a former French naval base,

president of the Cocker Spaniel 7

Roy

G ’| Arrangements. are underway for 5 + $ a | Greensburg, has been appointed a a puppy ‘match in the spring and

{an annual specialty show,

3 PERSONS INJURED | WHEN HIT BY AUTO wlready had been “rendered unserve

Other members, appointed this | week by Governor Gates, are Roy J... Three persons were injured to-|

| they were struck by an automobile wing and E. 10th sts. hing an automobile in which |’

was seriously injured and Flora Burris, 18, ot 1125 N. Bancroft st. and LaVerne Schlenz, 1313 N. Riley ave. were injured when they were struck by a car driven by Lester Past matrons, 1934-44, 11th dis- Fields, 42, of "512 N. Gladstone ave. trict, O. E. 8S, will meet at 7 p. m. Thursday in the Masonic temple, [pital and Fields was arres

All three were taken to City hos- | ted on a

Russ Attacking on 600-Mile | Front, Berlin Radio Reports

A Berlin communique said of the Polish-drive reported by Nazi broad-

1he German D. N, B, agency reported that the Soviets had thrown at least three armies, two tank corps and other independent units into the Polish offensive. Admittedly the Reds. already hs breached the outer Nazi defenses before Krakow in southern Poland. Today's Soviet communique centered again on the fighting in arid around Budapest. On that sector, Moscow said the Red army gi. beat off new German -counter- ; attacks west and northwest of the Hungarian capital, Another enemy-held blocks were m

U.S. PLANES RIP NAZIS IN BULGE

Swarms of Fighter-Bombe« ers Blast Fleeing Foe; Weather Clears.

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regained” the initiative in Belgium favored the new push, Allied. planes in some force swarmed through the sunshine. They pounded German concentrations and transport in the salient, and were supporting Hodges* drive, ; The 30th division halted the German winter drive last month and blasted through the enemy lines in

the same sector where it now was attacking.

Resistance Stiffening »

German infantry amd artillery went into action against the "30th division after the “surprise element were off. There were indications. that resistance had stiffened é¢on< siderably. The ‘enemy rushed to bolster the defénses of the base of the salient. : In the early hours no German tanks were in action on the newlyopened front. Field dispatches said most of the German armor had been pulling out of the salient as fast as possible, Supreme headquarters revealed that Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's 9th army had taken over the Roer river front in Germany as far south as Kesternich, four and a half miles northeast of Monschau. The ‘1st army held the Roer front from above Duren to the Monschau area before the Germans attacked Dec. 186.

Capture Four Pillboxes

Attacking at Kesternich troops of {the 9th army captured four pill-

| boxes, destroyed three and took a {few prisoners. Near Rollesbrich,

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About 400 fighters found a prime

southwest along the St. Vith-Houf« falize highway, They found a prime target in a long column of German vehicles which was moving to the southwest along the St. Vith-Houffalize highway. : . This route has been under heavy artillery fire for dwo days by bate teries of the 3d armored division. They reached a point only about a mile and a half from the escape route. 7 A front dispatch from John Mce Dermott, United Press war corres spondent with the American 1st army, said the Germans apparently were running the gauntlet to HoufTalize, Seek Secondyry’ Roads | From there they hoped to find {back roads and secShdary high- | ways along which to move toward | Germany without undergoing the harassing American peitlery fire. The 3d armored division and the 2d armored artillery have been i plastering the highway with “every {thing but the kitchen sink,” Mce Dermott reported. = More than 900 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, ‘escorted by about 400 -fighters, attacked seven rail bridges across the Rhiné and two rail - yards. - Approximately 2000 tons of bombs were dropped by the 8th air force fleet as it concentrated on the | Rhine rail crossings from Bingen south to Karlsruhe. The attacks apparently were aimed at not only cutting Marshal Karl von Rundstedt's supply lines to the Ardennes bulge but alse block the Germans’ retreat, Announcement of the raids came shortly after the strategic air .| force disclosed that reconnaissance | photographs showed that-out of five ! Rhine bridges attacked recently, twa

gable.” The railyards attacked today were at Bischofsheim, near. Mainz, and at Kalserlautern.

Germans Thrown Back

Meanwhile the Alsace corner of northeastern France, the Germans threw a heavy armored attack into the American Tth army's Maginog line defenses on the edge of the Hagenau forest and were thrown back with heavy losses. A Hard fighting was continuing there early today, however, and long-range German guns across the Rhine opened a drumfire barrage on the American lines. 2 There were no important changes in the Rhine bridgehead northeast of Strasbourg. French forces south of Strase

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