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VOLUME 55-—NUMBER 267
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LONDON, Jan, 17. (By Cable) .—Senator Vanden-
berg’s pronouncement - last ‘for an active and vital coll
week of downright support aboration between the allied
nations after the war carries us a long step forward to the goal at which the whole civilized world is aiming today. .- We read it as expressing the considered view of the “leaders of the Republican party, and as a statement of
their official policy. overestimated.
‘DIENHART HAS NO CLAIMS ON
JOB'-HERSHEY
Ruling Exempts City From Legal Responsibility For Veteran.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Jan,” 17—~L" J. (Nish) Dienhart, honorably discharged navy veteran, cannot make the city of Indianapolis reinstate him in his pre-war job as municipal airport superintendent, Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, ruled today. Mr. Dienhart, who got the original appointment as a Democrat, was succeeded by Lt. Col. Walker Winslow, a Republican appointee. Reinstatement in pre-war jobs is mandatory for veterans in federal positions and private business, Gen. Hershey "pointed out. But such mandatory provisions of the selective service law do not apply to states, counties, municipalities or other local political subdivisions, he said. Text of Ruling
Yollowirig is the text of the Hershey ruling in the Dienhart case: “The case has to do with the reemployment rights of a’ veteran. Those rights are established by section 8 of the selective training and service act of 1040 as amended and not by the so-called G.I. bill of rights. Section 8 provides reemployment rights to employees of the federal government and of private employers, where such employees qualify otherwise under the act. “As it affects employees of state or local political unit section 8 says: ‘If such person was in the employ of any state or thereof: declared to be the sense of the con- | gress that such person should be! restored to such position or to a position to like seniority status and pay.’ “It will be noted that whereas the act makes reinstatement mandatory for federal government and private company employees, it declares merely that it is the sense of con-| gress that employees of a state or| political subdivision be reinstated.
Suggestion for Aid
“Although it appears that this veteran is not entitled to reinstatement in his former job under thé present act and that no legal remedy . is available, the selective service system takes the position that its functions include any possible assistance to all veterans. “It is therefore suggested that Mr. Dienhart consult with members of his local board No. B-3, Indianapolis,” with the object of enlisting such aid and co-operation as members of the board may be able to give in negotiations for mutual agreement on a satisfactory settlement of the question between the
city of Indianapolis and the vet-|'
eran.”
Told of Gen, Hershey’ssopinion, Mr. Dienhart said he would not know his next move until after consultation with his attorney, Leo X. Smith, : “This 1s class legislation, pure and simple,” he declared. “The law apparently protects the jobs of some but ignores. the rights of municipal workers and others like .ne.” Sidney Miller, city corporation counsel, had no comment.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U, P.). ~President Roosevelt today determinedly called on congress for enactment “without delay” of legislation to force 4'F’s . into essential jobs, and also renewed his request for a national service law,
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at the N, Belmont ave. crossing.
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Track Intersection on N. Belmont Ave.
Eleven persons were injured early this morning when locomotives of a New York Central passenger train
intersection of the tracks on N. Belmont ave,
Those injured are: A. T. NALL, 49, of 342 8. Walcott ave. freight train engineer, back injury. WESLEY J. RAY, 28, of 2002 Hoyt ave, freight train fireman, feet and back injuries. I SEWELL W. TAGUE, Crawfordsville, freight train.brakeman, broken arm, back injury.
CARL C. BRADLEY, 857 N, Bosart ave, passenger train fireman. .
5127 E. North st. passenger train conductor, wrist injury. RALPH BARNARD, 48, Mt. Stering, Ky., Pullman passenger, ang ~ and back injury. JAMES B. KELLY, 356 S. Ritter] ave, passenger train engineer, back | injury. BENJAMIN PERKINS, 44, of 5535 Kenwood ave. pasenger, hip injury. JOHN JORDAN, 17, Chicago, passenger, shin injury and shock:
Ill, pasenger, leg injury. CORA BARTLEY, 65, passenger, shoulder injury. Mr. Tague, Mr, Shonkwiler and | Mr, Ray are in Methodist hospital.
Chicago,
The other injured persons were treated and released. The §7-car freight train was
creeping along and the 12-car pas-
PWS GO TO KNOX
Seventy-five prisoners of war ‘aré being transferred from Ft. Harrison | to Ft. Knox, Ky. where they will{ be used as labor in the Jeffersonville depot. A total of 600 prisoners | now are held at Ft. Harrison.
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By JOE JARVIS Existence in “Indianapolis of “thousands of homes unfit for human occupation” was charged today by Dr, Herman G. Morgan, ! secretary of the board of health.
been growing worse for the past 18' months, Dr. Morgan said the current attention focused on unsanitary | homes “is a blesfing in disguise.” “We have been- attempting to 2 check on as many as “possible of
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these homes and to force owners and Yenants to clean them up and,
FREIGHT CRASH
Locomotives Sideswipe at
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British Editor Hails Vandenberg Plan As Step Toward Lasting ‘Peace
which will need real statesmanship for their solution. But the outstanding. basic one is that of solidarity and
alliance against the possibility of World War III.
It- means that the two great political parties of the United States have now adopted the common policy of planning against the axis aggression in the future. This gives us grounds for solid.hope that the grand
alliance,
so ‘painfully re- -achieved during: the present ~
struggle, will not fall to pieces once again.
Eleven Are Injured When Two Trains Collide Here
Eleven persons were in jured today when a New York Central passenger train and a freight sideswiped Impact of the crash threw the freight engine out of line with the tender.
From the demolished freight engine cab, shown here on the left side, A. T. Nall, 342 S, Walcott ave, engineer, and ‘Wesley J. Ray, 2002 Hoyt ave, fireman, escaped.
BILL WouLD DOUBLE | HOOSIER HEROES— PAY OF MAYOR HERE," © Are Killed:
Wouldn’t Benefit.
A bill doubling salaries of .In- | dianapolis’ mayor and city council- | men, but only after the present ad- | ministration leaves office, was introduced today in the house. The bill also would hike the. pay of the next city clerk from the present $2400 to $4000. Mayor Tyndall and the present {councilmen are not covered by provisions of the proposed bill. The
pay. increases would -not go into st
effect until Jan. 1, 1947, : The bill provides for an increase (in the mayor's salary from $6000 to [$12,000 a year. Councilmen, who | now receive $600 annually, would be {boosted to $1200. It also proposes
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Thousands of Filthy Homes Here, Dr.. Morgan Charges
provide adequate health measures,” | s the health board secretary declared.
| needing inspection without tite publie’s co-operation in reporting them to us.” » Hé said the shortage of homes and. the migration of war workers 40 the city. were largely responsible for the conditions.
asserted, “in cases where condemnation of the property is indicated we | face: Mie propien of f Providing other
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But Present Adm Administration
our Missing and
5 Listed as Hurt
An Indianapolis glider pilot has been killed in Italy and a member of an anti-aircraft unit has been killed in Holland. "In addition, four others are missing and five have been wounded. : KILLED Flight Officer Bryan F. Moomau, 1310 Cruft st, in Italy. Pvt. Joe Sering, 221 E. Michigan , in Holland. MISSING Pfe. Furl Coy McMillen, 1841 N Talbot st., in Europe. Seaman” 1-¢ Newton Craig Crawford, 7651 E. 46th st., in the Pacific. Pfc. John Richard Brown, 2008 | Prospect st., in Luxembourg. S. 8gt.. Everett Turner, 212 Ful-
| ton st., in Italy,
“But, unfortunately,” Mr. Morgan |
WOUNDED Marine Sgt. Paul Richard Crawford, 61 E. Schiller rd., on Guam. bine Roy K. Rader, 1401 E. Orange , in Germany. ns Mate 1-¢ Henry How-
“But we can’t learn of every home! ard Manning, 717 E. Epler ave! in
the South Pacific. Pfc. Daniel A. Brock, 216 8 Holmes ave. on Leyte, Pvt. James Hutchison, 842 Edison st., In Italy. -
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There are, indeed, many relifionships to be settled, there are many thorny problems in those relationships
TWO 6TH ARMY UNITS MERGED IN MANILA PUSH
Advance Force Near Tarlac And €lark Field; Jap Resistance Light.
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 17.—Two
Ee | dispatch said today. I “Pariac,” = “provincial capital and
"| relidve the crisis,
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| strong 6th army columns have merged near Paniqui, 36 miles inland on Luzon. They are sweeping south across | the" plains toward Tarlac and Ma- | nila virtually unopposed, a front
strategic commumications hub only 12 miles south of Paniqui, was expected to fall without a fight
I would emphatically indorse the words used by Senator Vandenberg when he said: determination of our other post-war relationships. This
mighty
“We need not await lective security with peace in
apart by itself.”
Soviets 15 Mi. From German
Border Fall
In Greatest Drive of War;
Of Krakow Reported.
By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 17.—Warsaw fell today to the greatest Russian offensive of the war, Three mighty Red armies wrecked a 250-mile German defense belt entirely across Poland. They hurled a spearhead ‘westward within 15 miles of the Silesian border, Premier Stalin announced the capfure of Warsaw on the sixth day of the epic Russian drive. Rampaging Soviet task forces meanwhile raced over the Polish plains -at a pace promising the complete liberation of the country soon. The Lublin radio, first to report the wetipation of
Warsaw, later said the speeding Russian mobile forces had overrun the old Polish capital of Krakow.
Speculation was growing that the Japanese might not even attempt a strong defense of Manila.-'65 miles farther south. . . H. D. Quigg, United Press correspondent, said the two columns joined forces near Paniqui. They advanced respectively from Moncada; four and a half miles to the north, and Camiling, n miles to west northwest.
Lack of Bridges Felt
Lack of bridges was causing more difficulty than enemy opposition in the frontal advance on the Tarlac, Quigg said. He said the Americans may use {the road bed of the narrow-gauge {railway running from Moncada as the road bed fora new highway to Manila. Five highways merge at Tarlac. Its capture would put the Americans only 20 miles from the great Clark field air center and almost half-way from Lingayen gulf to Manila bay. Though there was no sign of Japanese preparations for a stand north of Manila, the enemy was offering. stiff resistance on the northeast. The Japanese even attempted a futile tank counter-attack at the northeastern corner of the. bridgehead. : , Francis McCarthy, United Press
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PLAN STEPS TO HALT CRISIS OVER GOAL
Dealers Discuss System to Supply Urgent Needs. |
With Indianapolis’ coal shortae growing worse daily, . retail . coal dealers, federal and city officials went into session at the Athenaeum today in an effort to find a way to
Several plans were placed before the dealers—some of whom revealed that they have coal but no way to haul it to customers. Clarence A. Paul,_chairman of the dealers’ committee which sponsored the meeting, said the coal men would attempt to establish a checking system on orders, screening the emergency cases from those not so urgent,
(OUTPUT AT JAP AIR FIRM HALVED BY RAID
TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER COMJan. 17 (U. P.) .—Production at the
Nagoya was cut 50 per cent as a result of damage sustained during the U, S. Superfortress raid of Dec. 18, it was officially reported today. Hit by a sizable task force of B-29's, the factory, which ‘acts as a {feeder plant. for other Japanese air-
They were reported plunging on toward the rich industrial regions of German Silesia.
re Another Army Strikes
Marshal Stalin also annouhced that the 2d White Russian army under Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky had launched a’ ‘crushing’ offensive from bridgeheads across the Narew river northeast of Warsaw last Sunday. In four days of violent fighting, Rokossovsky’s forces stormed forward 25 miles through an intricate network of German defenses. They expanded their breakthrough -to 62 miles, “captured more than 500 towns and villages, and decisively flanked Warsaw on the north. The Soviet forces destroyed the German front north of Warsaw to within 25 miiles of the southern border of East Prussia.
They captured Pultusk, on the Narew 30 miles north-
east of Warsaw; Ciechanow, 45 miles northwest of Warsaw;
Nowe Miastro, 31 miles northwest of Warsaw; Makow, 42 miles north-] - Below Zhukov’s forces was the 1st west, and Nasielsk, 18 miles north-| Ukrainian army under Marshal
west of the capital. Stalin's order revealed that Ro- [ewe wt er Io surike kossovsky had taken over somman Marshal Josef Stalin proclaimed of the 2d White Russian army after the capture of Warsaw in a special being relieved by Marshal Gregory order of the day. ? Zhukov of the command of the 1st He revealed that the 1st White White Russian army, which flanked |p «sian army had forced the Vistula
and captured Warsaw. north of the capital clamped The two armies now were fighting | Pp ang pe
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With Britain-and the United States and also, we hope, Russia allied together for world security——cole
it—there is a new hope for
the civilization we have so nearly lost in this conflict. With ‘the growing success of our arms, -a--tendeney has become noticeable in Britain and America for each
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REDS CAPTURE WARSAW, RACE ON ACROSS POLAND D
Yanks Slash Into Caving Salient
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BRITISH SLOWED IN NEW OFFENSE BY BIG BLIZZARD
Atterbury 83d and. 30th Batter Germans in Heavy Fighting.
BULLETIN PARIS, Jan. 17 (U. P.)~The U. 8. 1st ‘army's 15th division to= day captured Vielsalm, big read hub nine miles west of St. Vith and seven miles south of Stavelot on the northwestern arc of the flattened Ardennes salient. By BOYD D; LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 17.—Troops of the 101st airborne division struck two miles into the flattened Ardennes salient today. E They entered the road junction of Bourcy, five miles southeast of Houffalize, setting the pace for the
pocket. A howling blizzard slowed to a crawl the British 2d army drive against the south flank of the German bulge into the Dutch ape pendix. -Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C., Dempsey opened the assault yes terday. Volunteer Dutch civilians were out helping the British scatter sand and cinders on the glazed roads.
83d Has Hard Fight
In the northwest, the 3d armored and 838 infantry divisions ‘(the late ter trained at Camp Atterbury, Ind.) had their hands full with German counter-attacks in the Cheraine Vielsalm sector. The 83d turned back three thrusts in the woods northeast of Bovigny. The 3d division repulsed a frontal
attack near - Sterpigny, east of Cherain. , Farther east the 30th division
(also trained at Atterbury) advanced almost two miles to the outskirts of Recht, about five miles northwes¢ of St. Vith. First division elements gained a
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steady compression of the German