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full strength.

106th in the Ardennes,” said

416 killed, 1246. wounded and

7001 missing—slightly more than half of the division's

“It was the contribution of the men of this division and of others less heavily hit , , « which helped make pos-

Frank Merriwell Dead?.

No, Junior, Never Let Them Tell You That... Our Hero Is as Indestructible As the North Wind.

By JOE WILLIAMS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 18. —Junior, never let 'em tell you Frank Mer-

riwell is dead. .

Nod your head and say you understand when they tell you Gilbert Patten, his creator, is dead, and be properly sympathetic, For Patton was a fine, sensitive, imaginative man, But don't you ever let ‘em tell you our hero is dead.

One of the things that keep our youth what is is today, yes, and our country, is the fact that Frank Merriwell 18 as indestructible as the north wind, as enduring as the sun, I've known him many years and in many forms, just as your dad has known him and his dad.

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IT NATURALLY follows I've ‘known him mostly in sports. I've

- known him by the name of Babe

Ruth, an urchin off the streets of Baltimore, who was sent to what was euphemistically called an industrial school. It was here the good brothers brought him a right-handed glove « and put-<him back of the plate to catch for the school team, It was here, at the age of 14,,he began to hit the ball out of the yard for unbelievable distances. You know pretty much of the rest. How he came up as a lefthanded pitcher with the Boston Red Sox. How Ed Barrow, now president of the New York Yankees, changed him over into an outfielder. How by the violence

of ‘his bat he tore the record books. apart. How finally he was making more money than we pay the President of the United States, and how his fame had spread from Sacramento to Singapore , . . no, don't let 'em tell you our hero is dead.

FE AND THERE was a Prank Merriwell in the prize ring I knew as Gene Tunney, He came off the harsh downtown docks in New York an undernourished boy from a prideful Irish family, There is a tale that this Frank Merriwell did not read Frank Merriwell, preferring the classics instead, but I refuse to believe it. He had the true Merriwell qualities — bravery, adventure, romance. There would come a day when he would slap the ‘dragon, Dempsey, and take from him the prized treasure of the ring, the heavyweight championship. He would earn on his own a million dollars and then marry the

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G. O. P. Leaders Study Action On Ticklish Beverage Law

By SHERLEY UHL State Republican policy-makers this afternoon attempted to solve what may well be the biggest legisla~

assembly-—the wholesale beer issue. Their difficulties revolve chiefly the $60,000,000 Indiana wholesale beer business monopolized by Democrats ever since prohibition’s repeal. Republican county chairmen and other patronage dispensers are clamoring for a huge slice of this bonanza. For the G. O. P. leadership, it's matter of capturing the goose that lays the golden eggs without killing the goose or dropping too many eggs. They realize that too much uproar over the beer wholesaler issue might result in the introduction of a local option bill. Debate-weary legislators, disgruntled over the beer wrangle, might conceivably: become more favorable toward local option than théy have been during the past two legislatures, Republican chieftains reason.

Thaw Scheduled To Start Today

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sam..... 4 oa.m..... 27 iam..,.24 lam... 28 Sa.m...., 26 12 (Noon)... 30 Sam..... 2 1pm... 3

Indianapolis’ hopes onee again are ralsed by today’s weather forecast. It's supposed to be cloudy and slightly warmer today, tonight and tomorrow to help melt the monthold ice and snow.

The temperatures stayed between 22 and 23 degrees yesterday and the thermometer read 25 at 9 a. m, today. Seven persons were injured in falls on the ice yesterday. They ‘are<Emily Gilbert, 27, of 827 Muskegon st., elbow injury; Keith Bailey, -6, broken wrist; Mrs. Milton Morris, 44, of 326 Parkway ave., leg injury; Katherine Linstry, 61, of 1305 E. LeGrande st, back injury; Mrs, John Durham, 30, of 2137 N. Wallace st.; Dovie Baxter, 47, of P14 E. New York st, wrist injury, and Edward Yates, 43, of 1222 Vanderbilt st. leg sprain.

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For this reason, they'll tread as lightly as possible, Democrats ladled out beer wholesaler permits. like so much patronage during the McNutt regime.’ Now the G. O. P. plans to follow suit. Pirst step in cracking the Democratic hold will be to reorganize the present 'four-member bipartisan alcoholic beverage commission on a partisan basis. This probably will be done by making the commission either a five-member or three-member body, with the majority Republicans. Then scomes the problem of squeezing the Democratic wholesalers out of the picture. Topdrawer Republicans have pondered three possible methods: One would knock out the Democratic distributors in one blow, as it were, by passing legislation to terminate all beer wholesaler permits as of a certain date. Another would pluck wholesaler plumbs off the Democratic tree one

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STATE GETS LABOR FAIR PRACTICE BILL

Other Measures Affect

Schools and Medicine.

By NOBLE REED Bills that would create a new state employment fair practices board and take the Indianapolis park department out of politics were introduced in the legislature today, + A third bill submitted would give the state department of public. instruction control over construction of all new schoo] buildings in the state, Another medsure is designed to remove present members of the state medical examining board by abolishing it and creating a new commisison, Under its terms Governor Gates ca nam name 8 whole new

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1945

sible the halting and repelling of the enemy,” Secretary

Stimson said,

‘Recent reports from front correspondents have listed. the now famous Lion division as still fighting. Today British Prime Minister Churchill said that the Ardennes battle had been turned into “an ever famous

than tengthen it

American victory and is more ® Likely to shorten this war

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Friends and relatives here have followed every news break and traced the 106th division’s movements from let-

ters sent home.

YANK LOSSES FOR DECEMBER SET AT 74.788

Stimson Places Nazi Figure One-Third Greater Than

U. S. Casualties.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P.) — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today estimated that German casualties in December, including the period of heaviest fighting in the enemy's Ardennes breakthrough, were more than one-third heavier than American losses. Stimson said at his news conference that U, 8. ground forces on the entire Western front suffered 74,788 casualties In December — 10419 killed, 43,554 wounded and 20,815 missing. But German casualties in

110,000 to 130,000, including. 50,000 captured. From D-day on June 6 to Jan, 1, Stimson disclosed, American ground forces on the Western front suffered 332917 casualties—including 54,562 killed, 232,672 wounded and 45,678 missing.

Mentions 106th Division

Stimson had no new estimate of American losses confined strictly to the period of the German offensive. On Monday, however, he estimated U. 8. losses in*the Ardennes area fram Dec. 15. ta Jan, 7 at 40,000, ine cluding 18,000 missing: Today he mentioned particularly that one American division, the 106th (which trained at Camp Atterbury), suffered casualties equal to more than half its entire strength in a “gallant stgnd” against the Germans in the Ardennes. Stimson * also announced total army combat casualties in all theaters as compiled through Jan. 7. This compilation, however, reflected casualties actually suffered only up to the early days of December, This overall figure was 580,485, bringing the total. number of casualties announced here for all branches of the service—but not counting the 40,000 for the Ardennes breakthrough—to 663,859, an aggregate 17,479 greater than that disclosed one week ago.

Overall Total Would Be 703,859

Counting the 40,000, the grand overall total would be 703,859, as compared with a grand total of 259,735 for all of world war I. Stimson broke the 580,495 army total down into 11,306 killed, 343,250 wounded, 57,462 prisoners of war, and 68,477 missing. Of the wounded, 172,004 have returned to duty, The most recently announced casualties for the navy, marine

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And 8 Wounded

An Indianapolis infantryman and a Greenwood man have died in action in Europe. Today's casualty list also includes five missing, eight wounded and three prisoners.

KILLED

Pvt, James Stephen Scribner, 844 8. Missouri st., in Burope. Pfc. Kenneth E. Simpson, Greenwood, in France,

MISSING Sgt. Robert L. Wasson, 1105 Waldemere st.; in Belgium, Sgt. Eugene A. Byard, 913 High st., in Belgium. 8. Sgt. Norman E. Brock, 844 8. Mount st, in Germany. First Lt. Charles Richard Haddock, 146 Caven st. in Belgium,

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Atterbury’s 106th Lost 8663 Men In ‘Gallant Stand’ At Ardennes

SILENCE ON the fate of the 106th Camp Atterbury

THE 106TH reported to Camp Atterbury in March,

1944, following Tennessee maneuvers.

In October, under

command of Maj. Gen. Alan Jones, it shipped for .the

East coast.

Letters indicate the division was sent to England in the middle of November and by Dec. 3 was going into

France.

~Thus-the-“gallant-stand”-in-the-Ardehnes-was made ww men- who plunged into battle two weeks after they hit continental Europe. Mrs. Doroiy F. Buschmann, U. S. O, head, said to-

‘Ardennes Great U. S. Victory: "Churchill.

By PHIL AULT United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 18~—Prime Minister Churchill today called the Ardennes battle “an ever-famous American victory” which likely would shorten the war, Speaking for all the united nations, he called upon Germany and Japan to accept “unconditional surrender” terms now. He paid high tribute in the house of commons to the American Sr in the Ardennes. He said it had robbed Germany of the “flower of their last army” and

Reich to lay down her arms, The alternative, he suggested, was nothing but ever greater misery and suffering. He specifically drew the Germans’ attention to the fact that other na-

ally and been given humane treatment, ,

appeal had been made by one of the Big Three. Churchill, speaking on the eve of the Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill

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PLAN SCREENING OF COAL ORDERS

Be Served First in New Scheme.

Indianapolis coal dealers and city officials wlil meet today to draft a

plan to check on the avalanche of “emergency” orders so that homes

served first from the limited supply of coal in the city. Decision to screen the orders was made last night at a meeting of a subcommittee ‘of the Indianapolis Coal Merchants’ association. Lewis F. Shuttleworth, president of the association, said several plans have been proposed, including establishment of a clearing house for gll coal orders and a check on bins of “emergency” cases by boy scouts. Meanwhile, Mr. Shuttleworth said

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GRAPEFRUIT JUICE PUT ON RATION LIST

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. P.. ~Two types of canned fryit juice— grapefruit and orange - grapefruit blends—were back on the ration list today and at high point values. The office of price administration ordered the changes effective last midnight after.the war food administration directed that the entire output of the two items be held for the armed forces. °* The new ration values for the two types of juices will be 10 blue points on the No. 2 can, 20 points on the 46 ounce can and 40 points on the No, 10 can. Orange juice remains point free. Price Chief Chester Bowles estimated that the supply’ of canned citrus juices available for civilians during the current year probably

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will be one-third less than a year i

Col. Roosevelt 'Knew Nothing’ of ‘A’ Dog Shoving Servicemen Off Plane, Early Says

- WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U, P.).—~ White Hpuse Secretary Stephen T. Early today described the high priority transcontinental air shipment of a bulldog belonging to Col. Elliott Roosevelt as “a most re. grettable combination of errors.” He stated emphatically that the President's son was in no way responsible for it and knew nothing about it. |

het gown Xie lines mistake.” “He sald

he had received no official word of the incident. “ “The dog did belong to Elliott but he was not responsible for its shipment by air by any priority,” Early said. . He explained that Col. Roosevelt returned to overseas air force, duty more than two weeks before the dog

was shipped from Washington. to the Hollywood. r Henry L. Stim-|.

that was going across the country, Soule they please take along the 0g. “He also said that the dog was friendly and it would not be necessry to crate o. box him.” “The President knew nothing about it," Early said, “and no one here knew anything about it until stories appeared in the poe Jesariay aliernoon” :

that the time had come for the|

tions have surrendered uncondition-|.

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critically in need of fuel will bel"

homeland.

& Co. employees march en masse

Store Pledges

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Bank.

donations. But it is just the start.

to the center with each department seeing to it that donors come forth. x At_the end of the year a plaque will be given the department with the highest percentage of donations. Harold C. Williams, head section manager of the firm, is the, power behind the move, “We had been thinking of it for some time, Then Saturday we saw the story and pictures ‘in The Times. That one pint of blood looked awfully alone in the refrigerator,” he said. “On top of that, Ayres donated

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24 MORE JAP SHIPS SUNK BY U. S. SUBS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (U. PJ. ~U, 8. submarines” have sunk 24 more Japanese ships, including four combat vessels, the navy announced today. The four warships were a destroyer and three escort vessels. The others included three transports, five” tankers and 12 cargo vessels, oS inaintena nce of the high rate|. of sinkings evidenced the advantages derived from American seizure

Off to set a record and back up the men at the front. L. 8. Ayres

help Indianapolis meet the quota of 150 pints a day.

62 March to Donor Center;

L. 8. Ayres & Co. employees have set a record at the Red Cross Blood

Sixty-two went en masse to top all organisations for individual

Employees of the store have pledged a minimum of 40 pints a week

‘| corded by the FOC claimed that a

“heavily blasted and set ablaze en-

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to the Red Oross Blood Bank to

Weekly Quota

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HINT JAPS PULLING. (OUT FROM MANILA

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Stal Correspondent GEN... MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 18.<Field reports indicated today that the Japanese have begun evacuating key. personnel by. air from Manila to northern Luzon and possibly even Formosa. : It was Indicated the enemy anticipates the early fall of the Phil. ippine capital. (A Japanese Domel dispatch re-

Japanese unit had landed “from the sea to the rear” of American positiohs in Lingayen gulf Tuesday night. (The Japanese claimed they emy munitions * stored in native houses along the coastal highway.”) News of furtive northward flights by enemy Srangpor | planes reached

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day that the division was-very young, having an average

age of about 201% years.

“Most of the boys are from the Middle West and New

England,” she said.

“They are men who had been

washed out of their air corps and A. 8. T. P. students transferred when the program closed down. “They had the typical youthful cockiness and every place they went they livened things up.”

Jt was these men with

the Lion patches on. their

shoulders that Indianapolis got to know as they swarmed

the city on week-gnds.

They are the same men who made that “gallant stand ® :

Than 50 Miles Silesian

LONDON, Jan. 18 (U. Berlin.

off East Prussia.

By BRUCE

the Red army was believed

of Betlin, it was said.

NEW ASSAULT

13d Crashes Into Deflated

Salient; British Break Into Reich.

By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 18.—American . 3d army forces crashed into the southeastern shoulder of the deflated - Ardennes bulge today. A new attack carried across the Sure river in the area of Diekirch, 15 miles north of Luxembourg City. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton attacked in northeastern Luxembourg some five miles from the German bordes. The assault brought virtually all of the thin Naz crescent in the Ardennes under the fire of the American 1st and 3d armies.

British Enter Reich

To the northwest, the British 2d army broke into Germany at a new point. Lt. Gen. Sir Miles CO. Dempsey’s troops, stepping up the pressure on the German pocket west of the Roer, gained up to two and a half miles. They seized Susteren and Echt above Sittard. They stabbed across the border directly east of Susteren. Elements of Maj. Gen. Raymond O. Barton's 4th division and Mal}. Gen. Stafford L. Irwin's “Red Diamond” 5th division jumped off at 4 a.m (10 a. m. Indianapolis time) today in the new Luxembourg attack. They forced the Sure river defense line from the south somewhere near Diekirch and beat forward in the teeth of a storm of German mortar, machine gun and small arms fire, ; On the opposite shoulder of the

Polish frontier into Germany. An unchecked invasion was surging to within less than 50 miles of Breslau, Silesian capital, 225 miles southeast

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REDS REPORTED INSIDE REICH IN DRIVE 250 MILES FROM BERLIN

Ayres Workers Set Blood Record

Soviet Steamroller Believed Less

From Breslau,

Capital.

P.).—~Marshal Stalin’s fast

‘breaking winter offensive was reported today to have crashed into Germany some 250 miles southeast of

An army in the north was said to have blasted open the way for a flanking drive to the Baltic aimed at cutting)

W. MUNN

United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Jan. 18.—Moscow reports said today that

to have smashed across the

Marshal Ivan S. Konev’'s 1st Ukrainian army spearheaded the Soviet offensive that was pushing the Germans westward at a mile an hour elip. He was reported unoffipeially to_have crossed the border west of captured Caesto-

pve. United Press dispatch from Moscow said the western

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elements of Konev's forces had “reached” the Silesian

frontier west of Czestochowa. The momentum of the push appeared sufficient to carry into Gere many. Breslau Is Goal

A Moscow dispatch of the Exchange Telegraph said Konev's vanguard was believed to be within 50 miles of Breslau. The city is the industrial -and communications center of all Silesia, the “Ruhr of the East.” It is a prime source of supply for the German war machine, Konev's advance had cut the lat« eral communications between the German armies in the Krakow ares and those fleeing Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov’'s 1st White Russian army to the north. “The liberation of Warsaw fore shadows the early fall of Berlin™ Ilya Ehrenbourg, authoritative Soe viet writer, said in a ringing article on the record Red army offensive shredding the German defenses of all Poland. “No matter what city we take, we think only of one. “We think of the capital whither we are tearing with all our souls, and coming soon, too,

“Dead Warsaw”

“Dead Warsaw will rise. “Berlin is alive, but won't live much longer.” Triumphant proclamations from Moscow and a'clamor of dark dis aster from Berlin indicated that the Red armies were swarming unchecked across Poland and at least preparing to open the battle of Germany in the east. The Nazis acknowledged the loss of Tomaszow Mazowiecki, major transport junction 29 miles southe east of Lod% Poland's second larg« est city, 7 The Russians apparently were converging tn Lodz from the east and south, Indicative of the fury of the Red army winter campaign, the Gere man D. N, B. news agency said today that in five days the Russians lost 903 tanks, United Press Correspondent Hen-

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By DUDLEY ANN HARMON United Press Stat Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 18.—Five American soldiers who stole “huge quantities”

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Five Yanks to Die for Theft Of Gas in Paris Black Market

{sertion in time of war and con~

spiracy to Steal army gasoline. . Brand refused to reveal. names

and addresses of the