Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1945 — Page 2

Policy Group “to Reveal

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The Republican party’ s legislative program on labor and future avia‘$fon development in Indiana will be outlined by the G. O. P. policy comips this afternoon. + The committee is expected to recremmend that the party's majority #Yeadership in both houses follow lapor pledges made by - Governor Sues and the party platform. , The committee yesterday voted jie recommendations of the state election recodification commission! to permit voting by affidavit in| gases where the voters’ names, are + 7ob on registration lists.

“Same Election Boards

The commisison’s code provisions for abolition .of present county and | state election boards also were rejected by - the. policy committee. : «The code proposed that three - member. . full - time county election boards be created, el liminat- | ing county clerks .from any par‘ticipation in the elections. The G. O. P. committee recommended that ‘the present election board be retained with county clerks in control, However, the conmmittee voted to back a provision _gpreating - four-member, bi-partisan boards to cornitrol registration ma_chinery in the seven larger counties. " Certificates of Error

Instead of permitting voters to, cast ballots by affidavit when their]

names are missing from registration rolls, the policy committee recommended that the registration boards or county clerks. be. em “pbwered to issue certificates - of

J committee voted to return) Be “voting hours to 6 a m to 6) ‘fi. repealing the recent special 3 law that extended voting] to 8 p. m.

be Other porvisions of the volum- |

fous election commission's code approved by the committee. A

ain embracing the policy commit- | Rundstedt to the punch by attack-

fee's recommendations was ordered % drafted for introduction in the next | n days.

“LANE BRYANT HONORS

£3 LOCAL EMPLOYEES

Three Indianapolis employees of ne. Bryant, Inc, are among the | charter members: of the organi-| s ‘Twenty-five Year club 3fotmed in New York City. ey are Roscoe C. Wadswarth,|

Bagal, assistant general man- , and -Paul Frank, general ofmanager, all of the firm's mail r division at 752 E. Market st. e firm donated $100 for each|

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: Eclen Denies Allies in Rift

Over Trials of

LONDON, Jan. 11 (U. P.).—For-, Secretary Anthony Eden said| that the punishment to be “Hise out to Adolf Hitler, Benito “Mussolini and other major war i Leriminals whose offenses were not) * confined to a particular geograph- | {cal ‘area would be decided jointly +by the allied governments. i He denied that / differences” existed between the

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Offensive Sealed Nazi Doon,

By BOYD D. LEWIS ! United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, "Jan. 17.—Adolf Hitler's desperate thrust imto:-the Ardennes failed in all its major: objectives. But it chewed up American men, armor and supplies that had been fp. war a month. massed for an offensive of their | |ownsand ‘prolonged the war -any{where from one to’ six months:

up in Hungary.

temporary initiative.

|offfcers who believe six would be a closer estimate,

| This sober judgment of: the Ger- | It also is no secret’ that Von | Rundstedt barely beat an allied of-

| man offensive is based on informa[tion obtained from reliable sources. | tensive to the punch, It was garnered while covering | American men and materiel have [three army fronts—the Tth, 1st and peep expended which otherwise gth—during the month following | would have gone into carving a Marshal Karl Von "Rundstedt's|preach in the west wall, preakthrough. | Hitler's Aims and losing their supreme gamble in | {the West, the Germans sealed their To weigh the results, Hitler's aims own fate, come later though it may. first must be considered. son dbiaiteduibainansl A captured member of Hitler's DRINKING RECORD SET |escort guard said the Hehe ad- WASHINGTON, Jan, 17 (U. P.).— dressed ‘a conference of army gen-|m, : {erals, inciuding Von Rundstedt, Dec. He TROL hie. an unprece 3.” He reportedly called’ for his] (forces to reach the Meuse river in| aleoholic beverages. ‘the commerce {three days and “Antwerp in three | department revealed today. | weeks. | | The capture of Antwerp, ‘Hitler !said, would cut off 38 allied divisions | north of the breakthrough area and deal a death blow to the American expeditionary force. He even: hoped one of the allies would be knocked out of the Eu-ij, ropean war, |

Wanted Supplies

Runndstedt wds to smash through | with such terrific speed that vast] allied gasoline and supply dumps | would be overrun, enabling the Germans to feed off their booty. Liege and Namur were to fall like ripe plums. The race northwest to Antwerp was to be aided in its final phase: by a coup de grace delivered from northern Holland. Forces drained off from Norway and other sources’ were massed there. a The offensive was halted by the American 2d armored division three miles from the Meuse. | There Rundstedt’s men, unable to, {capture sizable supply dumps east of the Meuse, began. to run out of | | food and fuel for their tanks.

Beaten to the Punch Then the American lst army beat

ing before the Nazi commander had a chance to regroup for a new) lunge toward Namur and Liege. With the initiative lust and allied {forces attacking from three sides. | the paramount task for the Germans became the withdrawal of as] {much as possible of their combat forces to avoid encirclement | But of the more than 00 tanks] committed Tor the offensive, be-| tween 500 and 600 were estimated conservatively to have been wrecked so far by American ground forces and planes,

Tigers Knocked Out |

i Among the enemy tanks knocked | out were many of the prized 70-ton King Tigers. The allies knew it was all over as long ago as Jan. 3, when the] Germans began to withdraw their | striking force in north Hollarid.

War Criminals

an inter- allied court be established | to try Hiuler, Mussolini and other international culprits. Eden said there had been “a good | deal of ‘misundefstanding” regard- | ingAthe war crimes commission. Its purpose, he said, was to- investigate | {all cases referred to it by any of the allied governments of atrocities com- | mitted by, ‘or by the. order of nationals of any country at war

~ But Delayed Allied Victory

The Russians said one division, Norwe ian forces, reinforced by pooriginally from Norway, had burned; E fo yp

Von Rundstedt’s principal gains| {flown to northern Norway in Amerunquestionably were time andthe ican transport planes,

At the very least, he prolonged pq army.

I have talked with some ranking o..¢eq it was disclosed today. months |

But at the same time, by making |

NORWEGIANS RELIEVE

REDS IN N. SECTOR)

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 17 (U. P.).— lice’ troops ‘trained in Sweden and

have taken lover the Finnmark front from the

Half the province has been lib

Advancing west across mountains from the-~Tana valley district, the Norwegians increased the freed portions of Finnmark, northernmost province of Norway, to 80,604 miles. A communique. from the Norwegian government in exile in Lon{don said the Norwegian troops were {holding positions south of Porsangerfjord and were in contact with {the enemy.

LESS MEAT FOR BRITONS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.

‘By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 17.—~B-29 Superfortresses bombed military installations on Formosa in daylight today. Carrier wrecked at least 30 and perhaps 100 or more Japanese ships off that island bastion and the China coaat in a three-day assault. 2 (A Japanese broadcast said that single -B-29's,. presumably on weather and reconnaissance missions, raided central Honshu island three times during the night. (One dropped bombs on Nagoya, a second was over Kyoto, and a third over Shizuoka, Nagano and Kanto, the JapanéSe said). It was possible that planes of Adm. William F. Halsey's 3d fleet extended their attacks on the For-

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U, PJ). —Clvilians in the United States fand Canada consumed nearly 50

spending" amore pounds of ~meat-—per capita immediately; {recorfl average of $54 per person onlin 1044 than did the British, the China-based B-29's struck at air-|ber of ships hit. may exceed 100. Eighty-seven planes were destroyed or damaged Monday and |

combined food board reported ”] day.

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mosa-China coast area into a fourt. day. : : Though no details were available it—was likely x-the fields, supply dumps and similar military targets.

planes already had]

First reports from the 3d fleet | coveredsonly preliminary results of the second and. third. days-—Mon-day and Tuesday (Japanese time)-— of the carrier-based assault. Targets . included Hongkong, Canton and Swatow. ; On Monday, a Pacific fleet communique said, the navy fliers sank nine ships totaling about 22,000 tons. They damaged nine other ships and nine small vessels, Another 82,000 tons of shipping was sunk or damaged Tuesday, including the 17,000-ton tanker Kamoi, last seen listing, and two oilers set afire, the communique said. The large toll of tonnage listed for Tuesday indicated the number of ships hit during the 48-hour period actually totaled between 60

and 70. Observers belieygthat when figures are received for Sunday, the first -day--of-the-attack, the--total-num-

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allied war crimes commission and|against the united nations, particu“the British government and said|larly atrocities organized and com“the allied governments had made mitted in accordance with a delib-| Jkmown their stand on the punish-|erate policy. Pent of the chief war criminals in| Emanuel Shinwell interposed a ‘a statement issued - following the|question as to whether an attempt conference in|was being made to whitewash Hit-| ler publicly, but Eden declined to| ©". Reliable sources have said that answer on the technical grounds | i has refused to indorse the|that the question was on the order!

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Tuesday. * Ground instaliations.piso were hit heavily, The raid was the first carrierbarne strike against Canton, 00 miles upstream from Hongkong and the largest city in South China. Swatow details were not announced. Little air opposition was encountered over any of the targets, Nimitz's communique said; From Southwest Pacific headquarters on Luzon came word that Gen, Douglas MacArthur's patrol bombers attacked Okayama, an im-

porignt air Base on the southwes

co! of Formosa, Sunday nigh.

FRENCH WARSHIPS IN PACIFIC ACTION

MELBOURNE, Jan. 17 NU. P.) — French warships are in the Pacific

"and some of the capital ships already have seen action against thel

Japanese, a spokesrtan for the French legation said yesterday. -He-predicted-that-—naval-and- afr units of France would play an increasingly important role in this

theajer of war,

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_ ‘WEDNESDAY, JAN. B-29's Bomb Military Installations’ on Formosa Following 3-Day Carrier Strike

GIRL, 5, TAKES 0, S

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Jan. 17 (U. P.. —Ft. “Wayne, had its youngest naturalized citizen in its history today

y!in G-year-old Dianne Mary Martin,

who fearlessly and proudly took the oath of allegiance to her new country yesterday when 59 persons became citizens in the federal court. Dianne, who was born in Canada;

— Was. adopted when 17 months old

{by Mr. and Mrs. Ora Martin.

cases, James Paris, Ft. Wayne, pleaded guilty before U. 8. Federal Judge Luther M. Swysgert on five counts of overcharging on meat and fish dishes. A trial date will be set for George Winnicki, F't. Wayne, who allegedly {purchased tires without proper cer tificates.

SYNTHETIC RUBBER CHEAPER WASHINGTON, Jan, 17 (U. P).

—Some of the nation’s synthetic rubber plants are now producing

ural ‘rubber, Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones sald today,

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