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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,

15.—Allied satisfaction with the Russian winter offensive was tinged today with regret that present European strategy obviously lacked the co-operation aimed at crushing Germany by simultaneous blows from the east

and west,

The Red army offensive was welcomed unanimously

Rep. Mary Norton

SPENDING SPREE SEEN FOR STATE

Proposed Budget Calls for Record $96,000,000 in

Next Two Years.

By NOBLE REED The biggest state government spending program in the history of Indiana is provided in the biennial budget bill to be introduced in the house next week, it. was revealed today. Senator I. Floyd Garrot (R.. Battle Ground), chairman of the state budget committee,’ said the approp-

riations bill will call for about $96,000,000 expenditures during the next two years, an increase of $12, 000,000 over the current budget. This does not include the proposed construction of new institutions estimated at near $15,000,000 as a post-war project,

Pay Hikes Proposed “If the legislature decides to put appropriations in the budget for the institutional building program, the

biennial expenditures will run to}. .

$110,000,000,” Senator Garrott said. Most of the increase in the budget is for additional workers in state institutions and for an increase of about 10 per cent in wages of state émployees in the low pay brackets in departments other than the institutions. Senator Garrott pointed out that wages of institutional employees already have been increased.as much as 66 per cent in the last four years,

VOLUME 55— NUMBER 25

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By FREDERICK C, OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 15—The ladies of congress discovered to their amazement that instead of going naked, as charged, America’s babies are receiving more diapers than ever before. Rep. Mary Norton. (D. N. J) called a hearing for congressional ladies only to go into the charges and counter-charges“ concerning infant wear, She found herself blushingly learning how to fold diapers in accord with the latest scientific "principles, ; “This is the way you do it to get a more strategic result,” announced the tall, dark, handsome and curly-haired George Garland, executive secretary of the Institute of Diaper Service, who had “brought a consignment of i A's.

MAY PROPOSES

As Labor Opposes Work-Fight Plan.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U. P.). —Organized labor formally opened

its campaign against national service and work-or-fight

what appeared to be a drive for

Help Need Cited

“The budget payroll increase is to make available more funds to hire additional wqrkers in the institutions if and when more can be found to relieve the seriously under: manned conditions,” he said. Drafting of the “budget bill will be completed “this week for intro= duction next week along with a special message “on state finances by Governor Ralph F. Gates. Among administration bills prepared for introduction this week is the measure providing for a public hearing on every rule, regulation or directive issued by any state agency affecting the rights of the public,

Publication Required

The bill also would require any state bureau issuing a new rule to file it with the secretary of state, who would be required to publish them at intervals, All rules and regulations would be subject to the scrutiny of the

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CLAIMS LONDON SITE

imposition of a statutory 48-hour week in essential war industries. Chairman Andrew" J. May (D. Ky.) of the house military affairs committee urged prompt enactment of a work-or-fight bill with provisions to put all essential war industries on a 48-hour-work-week basis. He said in an interview he would offer this proposal as an amendment to his bill to force all 18-45-year-old men into essential jobs on threat of induction into the army. Lewis G. Hines, legislative representative of the American Feder-

ation of Labor, meanwhile told the

house military committee that present manpower shortages were

caused principally by frozen wage levels in certain plants,

He said wage increases in plants

where production speed-ups were needed would have no significant inflationary would involve relatively few plants and, in the main, products bought by the government. Hines insisted that national serv- | Al ice legislation would discriminate against labor by forcing it to work

effect because they

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FOR ‘BIG 3’ PARLEY

LONDON, Jan. 15 (U, P.).—A page-one headline in the London Evening New said today that the forthcoming meeting of the “big three” will. be held in London. The report was attributed to information from Washington and said that Presidential Adviser Harry

discuss’ plans for the meeting.

TIMESHINDEX

Amusements . 14) Music ..14/ empire.” Businéss 1 Obituaries ,... 5| Brigadier Irwin, 6ne of the more Comics. ......, 13 Fred Perkins, 9|distinguished officers of the Indian

Crossword ... 13! Radio . 13

Editerials ....10 Mrs, Roosevelt .9|tion on the 700-mile-long Burma Fashions ,,....12(Side Glances..10| front—second in length only ‘to the Forum “-......: 10/ Wm. P. Simms 10] Russian front. Freckles -. ..... 13!Sports ..... ... 6 “our allied troops pushed the Meta Given ..12|State Deaths 11 Japs back 300 miles through jungle In Indpls. .... 3 Thos. Stokes..10|from his farthest advince,” the

Inside Indpls.. 9, Jas. Thrasher 10 Jane Jordan ..13/ Up Front 8

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member. of the honorable Brit

army, described the tactical situa-

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: sponds . to an American one-star Charles ILucey » Joe Willams , 6} general.

“We thought he was bloody well This was the way

be taken prisoner amo: of the Burma border,

“Me want to become honorable

lated —his rank corre-

. ‘Ruth Millett . 4 Wom. News . 12 Wii Feorissy. 1944, io ay, For Fine & Courteous SERVICE, 7 a Eo

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48-HOUR WEEK

Seeks Increase in Plants

ht legislation | today coincident with the start of |!

‘as virtually precluding any major German push on the Western front. But it ‘was becoming increasingly apparent that Germany had not yet been made to fight a real two-front war, and is in fact fighting one war at a time. That is not bleeding the Nazis enough to produce any hope of victory before warm weather, at least. Why Anglo-American strategy on the one hand and Russian on the other has not been integrated more tight

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Tall, Dark and Handsome Expert Teaches Four Lady Lawmakers How to Fold 'Em

MRS. NORTON blushed and said that his demonstration was interesting; that it had been many years since she had ‘been in the diaper folding business. ® The only other ladies who showed up included Reps. Emily Taft Douglas (D. Ill.), Margaret Chase Smith (R. Me.), and Helen Gahagan Douglas (D. Cal). Mrs. Douglas of Hollywood posed for the folding demonstration in a furred hat and left shortly thereafter. This caused Mrs. Norton to look over the 50 men in the room and announce that it would seem men were more

interesfed in the subject than women.

” = » FIRST WITNESS was A. C. Hill, deputy vice chairman for civilian requirements of the war production board. Hill said he

HOOSIER HEROES— 8 Listed as Dead: 11 Are Missing And 6 Wounded

Four Indianapolis’ men have been killed overseas and two, have been killed .in plane crashes in the United States. Today's casualty list includes 17 other servicemen, 11 of them missing and six wounded. Six of the! |inissing entered Germany with the 106th, |

KILLED

MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1945

Russ Drive Blow To- Nazis,

By ROBERT MUSEL United Préss Staft Correspondent

The relief ,with which

nouncing the offensivé was greeted at S. H- A. E. P, gave observers the definite impression that there was

no specific foreknowledge the allied fortunes.

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Diaper Shortage ? It's Not So, Astonished Congresswomen Learn

Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas »

was the father of one and that he certainly was interested. He testified that the WPB long had been aware of babies and their clothing problems and that when the war started the government realized there would be more babies born. : “There always are in wartime,” he said, “and we, therefore, increased diaper yardage from 46000,000 to 92,000,000.” 2 5 » EVERY LOOM making diapers was frozen to that purpose, he said, and .therarmy was prohibited from using diaper cloth for cleaning guns and industry from ‘using it to wipe machinery. “The result may not have been perfect,” he said, “but we now are manufacturing three dozen diapers

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SNOW AND COLD

For Tomorrow; Traffic

Slowed by Ice. LOCAL + TEMPERATURES

Gunner's Mate 3-c Harry Eugene

action with the navy,

Pfc. James Claude Coffey, Bridge st., in France. First Lt. David William Foster, | R. R, 10, Box 273, over England. Pfc. John Wallace Rich, 3206 N. Capitol ave, in Germany. Capt. James Rowland Stout, 53 W. 32d st., in Arizona. Cpl. Ray C. Goudie, 825 N. Oxford st., in California.

MISSING

Pfc. John Peter Smith, 3632 N. Pennsylvania st., in France. Chaplain George Curtis, 1802 N. Talbot st., in Germany. Pvt. Harry Morton, nephew of Mrs. J. B. Morton, 1205 Namoi st., in Germany. Pvt. Richard W. Thomas, 2857 Southerland ave., in Germany. Pfc. Howard D. Turley, 4042 Otterbein ave, in Luxembourg. Pvt. Alfred E. Jordan, 2234 N. Alabama st., in Germany Pfc. Kurt Vonnegut Jr, R. R. 4, | Box 223, in Germany,

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slow-moving traffic put city busses - |About 10 minutes behind schedule. Streetcars and trackless trolleys, however, were running only a few minutes late.

terday in falls on the ice. are Della Wartham, 56, of 124% Virginia ave, who broke her hip in a fall at 2601 Ww. Michigan st., and Vera Gandolph, 37, of 2050 N. Olney st. broke her arm at Delaware and Washington sts.

snow blanket ranged from one to 30 inches in depth. Temperatures | ranged 3-—-Column 1) \normal.

grow heavier before the day is over.

py The weather man forecasts snow 12 49) | flurries and colder for the city to[ni and mostly clearing tomor-

row, The new flurries, which began during the* night measured 7 inch this morning. Meanwhile, the

{ mercury slid from 32 at 6 a. m. to

26 at noon. Slick streets, poor visibility and

Two persons were injured yes« They

who slipped and Throughout the central states the to

from normal above

British Brigadier Here Tells of Burma Fight

crazy.”

Brig. Fenimore Irwin, chief of staff of the 14th today described the lone Japanese who asked to ng 80,000 of his fellows who fought in the’ battle A

The brigadier, who is touring the U, 8. under auspices of the British - information services, paced his room at the Columbia club and told how the single Jap—one of only 600 taken prisoner during the campaign —had said in broken English:

nese, British troops, Indian and African troops, destroyed five divi« sions of Japs and mauled another thrée divisions. -Out of 80,000 men they had ‘when they began, we killed 50,000. “Our Burma campaign riow finds us 30 miles from Mandalay and in an excellent position to assist General McArthur,” the nastily~ dressed Britisher declared. .He asserted that allied forces are prepared for another two years’ fight against .the Japs ahd said he felt their mainland would have to be invaded before victory would come, - 3 The Burma road, while not yet’ open, will be before long, Brig. Irwin

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Several high officers admitted some days before the

COMING TONIGHT

Clearing: Weather Forecast

a.m... 32 10am ... 27 again. 7am .;...30 Nam... .% It was the first junction of Hodges’ 8a.m....2 12 (Noon).. 26 |and Lt. ‘Gen, George S. Patton's 9am... ..28 1pm . 26 |troops since the first phase of the T——— | r ffensiv hi lit th Once again Indianapolis’ old German offensive. which sp the

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1250-mile stretch of the French ' | Indo-China coast last Friday.

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ATTERBURY ‘OLD HICKORY" OUTFIT IN BITTER FIGHT

As U. S! Troops Storm

Approaches.

By BOYD D, LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Jan. 15.—American tanks and infantry stormed the near defenses of Houffalize today. A dispatch from Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ headquarters forecast the early capture of the Belgian base which once was at the center of the collapsed Ardegnes- salient. Troops of the 30th division (trained | at Camp Atterbury, Ind) were! battling inside Thirimont, four miles southeast of Malmedy. This battle, the bitterest of the 1st army front, had been going on for more than 24 hours. It was holding up the push down into the northeastern shoulder of the salient by Hodges’ left wing. Houffalize was invested on all sides. Assault forces of the 1st and 3d armies were closing in for the kill. One spearhead drove down the main highway from Liegé to within

a mile and a half of ihe key transport center. *

1st and 3d Meet

A few miles to the northwest, outriders of the 1st and 3d armies met

12th army group wide open. United Press Correspondent John McDermott reported from Hodges’ headquarters that two 1st army columns were shouldering in toward Houffalize against stiff German resistance. By early afternoon one had struck down the trunk highway. from the

town. M~Dermott said that ‘there is a good possibility it will fall soon” The German garrison, ringed by American troops and armor, was fighting desperately. Fragmentary units were trying to filter through the U. S. lines and escape over the thinly guarded back roads to the east.

Transport Battered

Hodges’ artillery was shellacking the German transports milling around in the battle zone and gen-

Fall of Houffalize Awaited

north almost to the outskirts of the

Western. front.

Entered as Second-Class ‘Matter at Postoffice Indianapolis 9, Ind. 1ssued daily except Sunday

But Why Is Real 2-Front War

Probably it will form atr important item on the agenda of the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting.

offensive that they had no idea when it was due, if at all, The comparative lull gn the Eastern front coincided with the period of Germany's greatest damage on the And now the Rugsians are on the offensive when to all apparent purposes the western allids are on the defensive. - The German counter-offensive bled the allied plans for the Anglo-American winter offensive. But if those Plans had unfolded on schedule, the

3,250,000 TROOP IN GREAT BATTLE IN EAST

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JAPS SAY FORMOSA IS RAKED BY PLANES||

Halsey’s Fleet Still Under

Radio Silence.

By MAC R. JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent PEARI» HARBOR, Jan. 15.—Enemy broadcasts. said 200 American r planes — presumably from Adm. William F. Halsey's rampaging 3d fleet—raked airfields and communications on the Japanese island bastion of Formosa today. The 3d fleet has been under radio silence since it wrecked 38 enemy ships in attacks along a

The broadcasts indicated that

sault on Formosa in two’ weeks, A communique issued by Japa's said the

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width, and now hold an area of 400 square miles. They took Bayambang in forcing the Agno river. Pt. Saul, Damortis and Catablan also fell.

Alaminos, Urbiztondo, Mangatarem,

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- Rolls Ahead Toward Manila

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent.

MacARTHURS HEADQUARTERS, . Luzon, American invasion troops poured across the Agno river and ad-

vanced to within 80 miles or less of Manila today.

They stabbed 30 miles inland from Lingayen gulf. The forcing of the Agno strength shattered at one stroke probably the strongest natural defense line north of Manila. Optimism grew at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters that the Philippines capital. would be

American hands within a few { weeks, rather than months as first pelieved. :

While the main American columns speared more than a -quarter of the distance from Lingayen to Manila in a frontal advance, other

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forces widened the 6-day-old beachhead along the ou itself to 45 miles.

A front dispatch disclosed that American troops striking east from Dumortis at the northeastern tip of the bridgehead had. been halted temporarily by mortar and sniper fire west of the Apangat river. This

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‘SOVIETS INTEND T0 FINISH WAR, BERLIN REPORTS

Nine Closely Synchronized Struggles Rage All Along Front.

By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 15.—~One of the greatest battles of the war raged today along a vire tually unbroken front from Lithuania to Yugoslavia. Possibly 3,250,000 Russians and Germans were locked in at least nine closely synchronized struggles. “Bitter fighting has flared up on the entire front,” the German high command reported. The Russians already were calling their great winter offensive the March to Berlin. Nazi military spokesmen warned that the Red army “intends to end the war.” | So far Moscow had confirmed only Marshal Ivan S. Konev’s push across the frozen plains of ssuihe

céntral Poland. This assault was aimed squarely

and the rich industries of German Silesia.

Sledge-Hammer Blows

But Berlin said the Red army of« fensive had raced to both ends of the front. Russian sledge-hammer blows were reported so near each other that it was difficult to determine where one attack left off and ane other began. : Nazi propagandists said the Soviets had flung 115 divisions, plus more than 15 tank corps, into four fronts alone. - A United Press dispatch from Moscow figured German strength in Poland at 100 divisions. On the single new front reported by Moscow, Soviet dispatches said the Germans had been unable to rally. The Russians were reported rolls

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