Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1945 — Page 7

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TUESDAY, JAN. 23, 1045 _

Yanks 53 Miles From Manila

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i at Bamban, headquarters now anticipated no more than a delaying action. Optimism tose that all 11 of Clark | fleld’s valuable airstrips soon may be in American hands. The Americans also further their eastern and | western flanks ‘against the possibil- | {ty of a counter-attack as the inva- | sion of Luzon went into its third week. i One column thrusting down the | west coast of Luzon beyond the | Zambalos mountains reached Inb fanta, 74 miles north of Bataan | Peninsula. The eastern wing captured CuFIRST IGN OF A

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yapd, 30 miles northeast of Capas, and Anao, five miles southeast of Cuyapo, sent patrols onto nearby Mt. Balungao. They beat off a Japanese banzai charge near Damortis at the north-| eastern tip of the invasion area. Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed that five divisions and a special regimental combat © team— a total of 75,000 to 100,000 troops— were fighting on Luzon, divided into two corps, Spearheading the advance on Manila, Maj. Oscar W. Griswold’s 14th corps captured both Capas, 11 miles south of Tarlac, and Santa Monica, eight and a half miles east of Capas, yesterday.

HIMMLER LEADS ARMY IN EAST

Berlin Evacuation Reported Under Way as Russ Cause Panic.

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were- preparing -counter-blows, but it would take longer tham the preparation of “tactical defense measures.” A, D. N. B. commentator, calling on the Germans to “make Germany an

bulwark of fanatic resistance,”

The 14th corps sent oné column

to the west toward Camp O'Donnell, | cried?

86 miles from Capas. A large number of American war prisoners] formerly were confined there, The. Japanese may make their first strong stand north of Manila |® in the Ft. Stotsenberg area, 10 miles

of. Bamban... They. were" knows to have strong forces at the

| fort. The 14th corps comprises Maj. Gen. Robert F. Beightler’s 37th and Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush’s 40th divi- | sions, all veterans of the Solomons. The 1st corps under "Maj. Gen.

a | INSiS P. (Bull) Swift, holding down fe. | the eastern flank, steadily was driv-

{ing the Japanese deeper into the

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— | the Russian invasion.

“What is all the Soviet mass brutality, all the Jewish hafred, the instincts, * compared with the glowing will to live of 100,000,000 persons? At no time shall we forget that we were and will be Germans, ard therefore are gtrorigér than” all Gur enemies 10= gether.” The British broadcast monitoring service reported that it had been unable to hear the German broadcasting station at Poznan but that the stations at Breslau, Koénigsberg and JDanzig - were operating ‘normally. A wave of hysteria was said to be sweeping the Reich in the path of Radtc Berlin | repeatedly blared out urgent appeals {to the Wehrmacht and the people's {home army for a “now or never” stand on the eastern frontier. | Word of the reported flight from | Berlin came in a Swiss dispatch | | the Stockholm newspaper | bladet. A neutral diplomat arriving in | Bern from the German capital was | quoted as saying that the Nazi party chieftains were leaving for an undisclosed spot, removing the govern- | ment archives with them. * | The diplomat’s account, which was | not confirmed from any other source, |caid Berliners were losing their | nerve as reports told of the steady march of the Red army approximately 138 miles of their | capital, | German spokesmen made fio at{tempt to conceal their alarm over the Russian sweep thfough East | Prussia, western Polafid and Silesia. | The Deutsche Allemeine Zeitung | said Adolf Hitler had rushed. to the eastern front to assume personal command of the battle. “The ~ Soviets. have broken through,” sald one intercepted Berlin broadcast. It appealed to Ger-

man soldiers to “stand firm at any

price until reserve which are coms

—ting-up-intervene-in-the-fighting,” | * The broadcast admitted that Rus-

sian forces had broken open the Polish. front with “prodigious masses” of men and material. It warned that “everything , . . is'at stake.” . { In East Prussia, already more {than half enveloped by Russian armies, there were evidences of spreading panic among the civilian | population. | The clandestine radio Atlantic said thousands of Prussian civiljans were frying to escape from the province by rail and steamship. They were offering fantastic sums | for the few available tickets. The Konigsberg radio tacitly confirmed the evacuation reports, broadcasting an official reassurance that trains still were running from { Bast Prussia into Germany proper.

{ Efforts were being made to put on

special trains, the radio said. It warned, however, that trains are needed desperately to move troops and equipment to the fighting front and that civilians must wait their turn,

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ground-air engagement yet joined in the war. It- was fought out under the leaden - skies of the GermanLuxembourg border region. And it ‘was won back here in this little 8 by 10-foot trailer. For without this trailer and its one or two auxiliaries, nestled in the snow under a clump of Ardennes pire trees, those whitestarred death-spitting fighters ‘perhaps never would have found and destroyed the massed enemy. 4. HERE 1S a play-by-play account of how the air force's greatest kill was made: Somewhere out over the German lines this morning, an artillery observation patrol of Piper Cubs-little two-place sport planes that used to rattle around

~the-ajrports. back Rome—skippeg. |.

in and dut of the clouds looking for the enemy, Two of the pilots, 1st L$. Ellis E. Thompson of Fairfield, N, D, and 2d Lt. Bernard B. Mackell of Pittsburgh, Pa., were’ given equal shares of credit tonight for discovering and reporting the enemy vehicle concentration. » ” ” OFF IN the distance they had seen a fine snow slit, such as a column of vehicles spins behind it. They flew closer to look. What they saw was almost un« believable. There below was a column of trucks, halftracks, busses and trailers that: stretched and up and beyond a hill. One of the pilots lifted his microphone. Back dt “the infantry division for which he flies the radio crackled: “There are trucks and tanks up here—millions of them,” the pilot yelléd. “Let's have some air quick.” i ” » ny FROM DIVISION headquarters word was relayed to the air liaison

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officer up in a forward observation post and he flashed word to the tactical air force. At T. A. C. they took a quick look” at the operations chart and called this fighter control station, Flight Officer William Stephens of Glendale, Ariz, took the eall, As the voice at the other end spit directions Stephens drew -on a .map which co-ordinates all available information ‘a heavy black circle,

column was doomed to die.

» » ” STEPHENS hung up the receiver. and reached for the micros phone. “Red leader, red leader, red leader,” he called. “I have a. target for you.” He gave the map co-ordinates and then he called in a. lot. of

flight: and green flight. Those were not their code names but they will do.

through the woods, down a dale

As the Thunderbolts roared toward: the targets up above -a heavy cloud layer, Stephens gave directions by radio and kept them right on the track. n » » “YOU SHOULD be over target now,’ he called at last. “Rodger, dodger,” crackled back the voice of the red leader. “We're going down.” # There was a minute's silence. It seemed interminable, The loudspeaker crackled again: “This is red leader. There's ‘plenty of stuff down there. “We really let-'em have it. “We're going in again to give them another dose.” That was the story out the day. Flight after flight was steered to the target. : Flight after flight crackled out success reports logging through ether the gredtest day in the air war.

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through-

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Then as you keep having close calls, you gradually figure you've used up all your chances of comng through.” 8

bombs in December 1940, when London was blitzed. Machine gun bullets spat around his foxhole in North Africa. A German bomb tossed him around in a villa at the Anzio beachhead. After the break-through at St. Lo, the unfortunate bombing of American troops by American planes came close to getting him. And there were dozens more. #" s ” “WELL, you begin to feel that you can’t go on forever without being hit,” he said. “I feel that I've used up all my chances. And I hate it. None of us wants to be killed. And I don’t want to be killed.” So Ernie doesn't relish going back to war on a new front and on a new assignment to the navy. But, he says, neither does any soldier, sailor, marine or flier like the idea of going into the danger of war, i And Ernie feels he is just going back like any serviceman to do his job—a job he feels he has to do «+ « 8 job that scares him. * ® = ERNIE is a bit dubious about the prospects of doing a good job covering the navy. He says it’s tougher to dramatize the life of a sailor, who lives a fairly normal life, except when in battle. Letters have come from men fighting the Pacific that they are happy Ernie's coming; they've felt the war on the Japs has been neglected by the people at home.

ERNIE stood oY the rain of

go with the infantry in the Philippines and advanced outposts, » Ed J “IT'S NOT possible to do my fob without going back to the infantry. And in the infantry you get shot -at—and -get—scared-enough to -gocrazy. “You see, it's grown up that I'm sort of the spokesman for the poor “old doughfoot.

back to the kind of fellows Bill Mauldin cartoons—then men with the black, dirty beards, who fight the mud, and the everlasting noise, and the heartbreak and the homesickness.” °

Beer Certainly Agrees With Her

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (U. P.).— Mrs. Anna Bittnér savored wine in her native Bavaria but when she came over here she switched to beer because she didn’t like wine from American grapes. #sYesterday she celebrated her 100th birthday over a glass of beer with friends in her Queens honie and explained that beer seemed to agree with her.

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Ernie Pyle Off to Pacific On Latest War Assignment

“So after the navy, I'm going

DECISION ON JENNER

SEEN IN 10 DAYS,

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| Mr. Morris was defeated for the

| post by Mrs. Dudley C. Hay, Detroit, | | national committeewoman for Mich- | ligan, who received 52 ‘votes on the { Montgomery, Helen Fragee and Jane Mesdames Charlotte Ryker,

{second ballot to Mr. Morris’ 24. | A third entry, Mrs. Cooper B.

| Rhodes, Washington, D. C., received |

{16 votes. Harvey Jewett Jr. South Dakota, [ride after the first ballot, 7.

ave, today was minus valuable papers after being slugged "last night in a tavern at 942 Ft. Wayne ave,

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