Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1945 — Page 3
FRIDAY, JAN. 26, 1945
U.S. Fleet Reported Winning China Sea Battle With Japs
REPORT REDS 94) | MI. FROM BERLIN
Germans Tell of Russian Breakthrough to -
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through to the Nazi frontier at the center of the front came as Red 1] army divisions in Silesia ripped (11 through a half-dozen breaches in [% | the Oder river line on the south- | eastern road to the Nazi capital.
Last Nazi Reserves?
| Enemy reports disclosed that the # | Nazi high command was throwing | probably its last reserves of air power into the battle in an all-or-nothing gamble. ! Berlin revealed that perhaps 3000 | fighters and bombers which the ‘| Luftwaffe had beén hoarding to ‘| meet the Anglo-American spring | offensive were swarming out over the Eastern front, { Moscow simultaneously told of {| *huge” formations of Soviet war--planes on the attack, | It appeared that the greatest air battles of the Eastern campaign were in progress. The Nazi gamble in the air came at the blackest hour of the war for German arms. East Prussia was all but lost. The strategic Oder river barrier was broken in Silesia. And the Red army was hammering along on the direct road to Berlin. In Silesia, the Germans acknowledged that Marshal Ivan 8, Konev had won a number of bridgeheads across the Oder on both sides of Breslau, He breached probably the strongest defensive line before the enemy capital. Breslau Under Assault
Konev swung the main weight of his assault directly against Breslau, keystone of the upper Oder line and the ninth city of the Reich.. Other armored columns enveloped the Silesian industrial basin to
the south and 'swung across the river 31 miles to the northwest at Steinau, 136 miles southeast of Berlin, Storming in on Breslau, thé Boviets were reported battling into the section on the east bank of the Oder against- furious resistance, German civilians were pouring out of Breslau by the thousands. The city shook continually to the explosion of Russian shells and Nazi demolitions. The Germans had little hope of a successful stand in Breslau, but they appeared ready to put the torch to the great industrial city before abandoning it. : The principal bridgeheads below Breslau—none of which was claimed in Moscow—were said to be in a 50-mile belt extending from: Brieg; 22 miles southeast of the city, to th& Glejwitz area, including one at Oppeln, 47 miles from Breslau,
Gleiwitz Seized '
i Glelwitz, one of the major steel and iron centers Silesia, fell to Konev yesterday. = 3 The southern wing of Konev’'s | army simultaneously swung in behind - Silesian basin to capture | Chrzano and Jowarzno, 34 and 28 | miles southeast of Gleiwitz. | Hindenburg and Beuthen, the two "remaining major towns in the basin, | seemed certain to fall in short order. | Fourteen miles northeast of Bres- | lau, other Soviet forces took the i big transport center of Oels and | pushed ahead to the Oder, + Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's i army linked up its southern. flank { with Konev's troops in the Silesian- | Polish bordeg area above Steinau. ! There was no official word, however, as to whether this was the | spearhead reported by the Russian i army organ Red Star as about 124 | miles from Berlin. | At the same time, Zhukov swung i up toward the border of German | Pomerania on a 30-mile front. He | advancegsas much as 10 miles to | take Exin, 22 miles from Nazi soil.
Nazi Grip Breaking
Meanwhile, the Nazi grip on East || | Prussia appeared to have been all lb but broken. | Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, according to German radio | reports, sealed the last German | escape road between East Pr and the Reich yesterday with an advance to the Baltic coast north- | east of Elbing. The Soviet communique, however, claimed only that Rokossovsky's troops’ were three miles from | the Konigsberg-Danzig railway at | Preussches, Holland, and moving on i the rail line along the nine-mile front between that town and the | Hermsdorf, i At Preussches, Holland, the Rus- | glans were 11 miles southeast of El- { ‘bing. Gen. Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky’s | army was moving down on the East | Prussian capital of Konigsberg. | Berlin indicated he had reached | the city's outskirts. i=+-At the southern end of the front, | the German diversionary drive to rescue the trapped Budapest garrii son was halted.
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
i Senne U. 8, Weather Bureau (All Data in Central, ar Time)
~Jan, 26, 1 Sunrise... .... 7:50 Bator eas 5:57 2 30 a.m. .00 1 eh
Bracipitation 24 hrs, fading otal precipitation since Deficiency since Jan, 1
The following table shows the Siahost temperatures for 12 hours ending at 7:30 esterday and the lowest tempersures for 1 hours ‘ending at 7:30 a. m,
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Formosa area ‘Sunday a major American warship—possibly a battleship or an aircraft carrier—was damaged. It was the first time since the early days of the Pacific war that American warships have been reported in the East China sea, which is bounded o the north by Korea and Japan, on the west by China, on the south by Formosa and on the east by the Ryukyu islands. American warships have not
tangled with Japanese naval units in ‘strength since ‘the second battle of the Philippines last October, when the 3d and 7th fleets smashed three Japanese task forces off Leyte. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Philip-oines-based bombers, meantime, continued their nightly attacks on Formosa. Liberators set off fires and explo= sions in an attack on fuel storage facilities at Takao, while air patrols shot down an enemy bomber and
sank a coastal vessel,
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the U. 8. 1st army virtually is marking time, waiting for the 3d army to complete the straightening out of its side of the former Ardennes bulge. To the north the British 2d army and the U, 8. 8th shoved ahead to widen their frontage on the Roer. They held most of the west bank of the stream with the exception of a small Nazi bridgehead north of Brachelen. : 8. H. A. E. F. observers noted with interest that the new promotion list
MAY BE ‘BIG 3’ TOPIC
LONDON, Jan. 26 (U. P.) .—Diplomatic quarters said today that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will discuss the war against Japan with Premier Stalin at the impending “Big Three” conference, despite Russia's present neutrality. (A Swiss broadcast recorded by C. B. 8. quoted unofficial London sources Thursday” as saying mem-= bers of Churchill’s staff for the con-1 ference already may be on the way to the meeting place.) There has been widespread unofficial speculation in diplomatic and military circles that Russia may join the-allies against Japan after victory over Germany, Japanese broadcasts have betrayed uneasiness over the possibility that Russia may. exercise her right to terminate the Soviet-Japa-nese friendship pact next April.
BILL WOULD MAKE UNWED FATHERS PAY
Charges that welfare workers have ignored the law in providing aid to dependent children of unwed mothers weré made in the senate today by Senator Samuel E. John-
Senator Arcadia Balz (R. Indianapolis) of a bill to make such cases subject to circuit court review. “This measure would require that ge circut -eourt judge determine e father of an {illegitimate child,” Senator Johnson declared. “He's going out and having his fun. I say let him pay for it.” Senator Balz stated that there are 272 dependent children of unwed mothers in Maripn county: The bill under debate on third reading would make it possible for a county to transfer responsibility for support of many illegitimate children to the fathers, Senator Johnson added.
HOUSE VOTE BILL DOUBLING CITY PAY
An Indianapolis bill, doubling the salaries of the next mayor and all city councilmen, was passed by the house today by a vote of 74 to 7... The measure would boost the pay of Mayor Tyndall's successor from $6000 to $12,000 a year and would raise council pay from $600 to $1200. It also increases the city clerk’s pay from $2400 to $4000. It would ‘become effective Jan. 1, 1047. The bill also gives city council authority to fix the wage scale on all municipal appointees’ jobs, including many now- established by
state law. In this respect, it pro-
vides the G. O. P. organization-con-trolled city council with: an effective whip over the city hall faction with which it has been feuding for two years. The house unanimously indorsed a bill giving the city clerk the right to succeed himself,
WARSAW REVIVAL PLEDGED
MOSCOW, Jan, 26 (U. P.).—Marshal Stalin has promised the Poles all possible aid in the resurrection of a dead Warsaw, Sygmund Modzelewsky, ambassador of the Lublin provisional government to Moscow, sald today.
EVENTS TODAY >.
Indiana Council of Fraternal and Social Bocleties, convention, Lincoln hotel, Tniianapgits Town Hall, lecture, English's,
m Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Columbia club, noon, ‘
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EVENTS TOMORROW
Infantile Paralysis Fund benefit show, Cadle Tabernacle, 8 p. m. Indianapolis Symphony orchestra chil dren's concert, Cadle Tabernacle, 10 a. m.
— MARRIAGE LICENSES Charles Willian upauet, 4212 EB. Washing ton; Letha e 'Ransd®ll, 42 Harbison. Lamar - on Bh fio w. New York; Genevieve Cecil, nd, Beech Grove. ley B en Cordelia
WAR AGAINST JAPAN|
son (R. Anderson), co-author with
Yanks Smash Nazi Drive
In Alsace, Restore Lines
submitted to congress would bodst Maj. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow to the rank of lieutenant general. The army table of organization provides this rank for the heats of armies. The nomination Simediztely sugsested a new American army may enter the field in the Western front. Gerow commanded the 29th division in England and commanded the 5th corps in France. The 102d infantry division of the 9th army added another five square miles to the American line along the west bank of the Roer 27 miles due west of Cologne, The 102d made an unopposed advance across the. Wurm river just north of Linnich befere dawn. The advance resulted in the capture of Brachelen, two miles northwest of Linnich and 10 miles inside Germany. Pagrols reported the Germans had pulled out of the area under cover of darkness last night. The British 2d army also enlarged the allied springboard for the next phase of the advance into the German Rhineland. A 2000-yard British advance engulfed six more Nazi villages six to 12 miles northwest of Linnich.
British Reach Wurm >
The British reached the Wurm along a two-mile stretch and erased all of the German bridgehead west of the Roer with the exception of a strip less than a mile deep. Grebben, Huloven, Dremmen, Horst, Norm and Hoven were captured. A fiont dispatch said the German lines were “sagging at a quickening tempo.” A German D. N. B. dispatch broadcast by Berlin said tank-sup-ported American columns attacked yesterday morning on a wide front stretching from a point southeast of Malmedy in eastern Belgium to the junction of the Sure and Our rivers in central Luxembourg. The Nazis did not make clear immediately. the scale of the assault. $ Latest American dispatches from the Ardennes front made no mention of a new assault. They told of advances, however, of up to a mile and a half within sight of the Our river border of Germany in the continuing process of. whittling down the former Nazi bulge to a harmless bump. Patton Gains
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American 3d army meanwhile sliced away at the last few miles of the former Ardennes bulge. They cut the so-called “Skyway Drive” highway between 8t. Vith ‘at Diekirch at a third point within sight of the Our river, which forms the German-Luxembourg border in that area. The 3d crossed the Clerf river, last natural barrier before the Our, at four places and was fighting into Clervaux, German anchor stronghold astride the. stream. Ninth air force planes continued their bombardment of columns withdrawing east from the Ardennes into Germany. They destroyed or damaged more than "1600 motor vehicles, tanks, armored cars, railway cars and locomotives.
NEGLEY BACK ON DUTY
Howard Malcolm Negley, m. m. 3-¢, of the ‘Seabees, recer.tly spent a leave with his wife and two sons at Tucson, Ariz. He also visited several days with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. C. C. Negley, of E. 82d st. before reporting for duty at Camp ‘Endicott, Davisville, R. 1.
State Deaths
FAIRMOUNT-—Mrs. Jennie Spence, 65, Burvivors: Daughter, Mrs, Norman Mason; Son, William, Tony; brothers, Oz, Walter
NEW ALBANY-—Ernest QQ Austin, 72, Survivors: Wife, Lillian; daughters, Mrs. Guy Stopher, Mrs. Chester Longerbon, Mrs. Niles Gilley; brother, Weaver Austin; sister, Mrs, Ethel Leisure. Mrs, Katie Miller, 73, Survivors: band, William; brother, Harry Wells; ter, Mrs. Belle Harris, Peter Stewart, 75. Survivors: Elizabeth; son, Lewis: daughter, Zella McRae; brother, William H.
SOMERSET--Curtis C. Deeter, 60. Survivors: Wife, Bessie; son, Verlin; sister,
Hussis-
Wife, Mrs.
“| Robert William Stader,
+ | Charles, Laila Geor ges ; | Thomas, Sarah
Mrs. Sam Gavit,
4720 Caroline; RR. 1, Box 34
Cam Bao Y orman Stewart, Chicago; Ella Hartje, 701 Prospect. Max Zweck, R. R. 15, Box 740; Betty Drury, 1602 E. 71st. Frank Redelman Jr., 2275 N. Illinois; Mary J. Witman, 850% Virginia,
BIRTHS
Girls George, Beulah Weler, at St. Francis. Willis, Cecelia Downey, at Coleman, Jack, Mary Sosayne, at Coleman, Clifford, Lucille Birk, at Methodist. Boone, Louise Galt, at Methodist, william, Frances Coleman, at St. "Vin:
ee Ruth Haas,
Rose
Prancis, Ardis Davis, at Af Vigcanvs, t 8t. Vincent's, Bt. yinests. | som, at Bt. V Rohatt,: Ann Wolfensberger, at Sty Vin-
James, Emily Burns, at 1204 arth, aave Bg 40 Js + 3836 Bal-
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John, Violet H
BAYS IS FACING
Foes in Democratic Ranks Aim to Cut Off Salary ~ Of State Chairman.
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suffered the “greatest Democratic defeat in the history of the state.” Meanwhile he continues to maintain a far more elaborate and expensive staff’at state headquarters in the Claypool than the winning Republicans maintain. Principal supporters and apologists for Mr. Bays are the Political Action Committee people who po out that he, more thap any -oth Hoosier Democrat leader, welcom and co-operated with their support for President Roosevelt's fourth term. An odd angle on this P. A. C. support, however, is that their outstanding Democratic voting strength was in Lake county and there the chairman, William J. Harrigan, Hammond, is reportedly ready to give Mr. Bays the boot. On the other hand, , Third District Chairman Ed Doran, South Bend, who was very lukewarm toward P. A. C, also is out. with a tomahawk for the Bays’ scalp. Losses Are Cited The Bays oppositionists are arming themselves with statistics to show that every campaign the Democratic party has been in since Mr. Bays became chairman they have lost ground. There has been three Bays’ directed campaigns and the last one left them in control of only 17 counties in the state, they declare. Both former Governor Henry F. Schricker, who was defeated in 1944 for the United States Senate, and former Senator Samuel D. Jackson, who lost the governorship race, are now off Mr. Bays and want the party's high command reorganized, it is reported. __ So the dapper, white-haired Democratic - chairman, whose gaudy
"| headquarters has been a feature of
state politics since 1939, seems in for some very tough sledding. A state Democratic committee was called yesterday by Chairman Bays principally to outline basic strategies for the 1946 congressional campaign in Indiana and to hear detailed reports on the federal investigation of alleged election irregularities. 4 Chairman Bays spent several days in . Washington recently collecting data.on the U. 8. senate committee’s investigations. He said senate committee members indicated they would continue the inquiries. The state committee also will consider resolutions adopted last week by the Indiana Democratic Editorial association which asked that it be represented at state committee meetings and be given more voice in party affairs.
DELIVERY OF COAL
(confinued From Page One) _ remain in effect “until further notice.” ; Ickes explained his action was necessary to make fair distribution of available coal supplies to meet the emergency caused by the storminduced railroad freight embargo. In addition, bad weather unavoid-
said,
By UNITED PRESS Subzero weather continued today along the Eastern seaboard and widespread fuel and food shortages threatened New York City and upstate areas because of what the Association of American railroads: described. as one of the worst trans= portation crisis in history, An embargo announced by the office of defense transportation on all freight shipments, except war goods, moving to and from and within the Eastern state area was extended through the week-end to facilitate clearing of traffic. States included in the embargo were Indiana, lower Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and portions of Virginia and West Virginia. The order forbade any freighting to any of these areas, and banned all traffic except war goods within the areas. .
LEGION, BOOSTERS BENEFITS TONIGHT
Broad. Ripple post 312, American Legion, and the Boosters at the Riveria club will hold benefit dances tonight to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign. Climaxing the drive will be additional organization dances tomorrow night and the all-tar talent show at Cadle tabernacle at 8 p. m. tomorrow. The show is sponsored
by the Marion county paralysis committee,
IN INDIANAPOLIS--EVENTS—VITALS
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+| Joseph, Rowena ov at St. Prancis.
Norman, Betty Morgen. at Coleman. Coley, Augusta Cox, at Methodist, Ron, Audrey Dillon, at Methodist. Lester, Macy Jessup, at Methodist. Jay, Gladys Robey, at Methodist. Paul, Heler Bparks, at Methodist, Harry, Pauline Grisby, at 8t. Vincent's. Vincent's
ng, a f Ancle, Virginia Barnett, at ‘2737 Rybolt. Lawrence, Rosaland Breeden, at 3520 Robert, Gladys Tardy, at 2755 Hillside.
James, Nellie Whittaker , at 810 Blake. Carl, Eunice Wilson, at 921 Stillwell.
DEATHS 44, at City, tuberculosis ulu 62, at 3335 Madison, care cinoma. - bFrancis CG. Kern, 46, at Long, myoElva Breeden a Methodist, Jremi Walter a 1, a 3610" N. Hoon. 76 earein : REET oo. 14 a8 RO W. Michigan,
ow at 3538 Ken-
Rufus Parks, meningitis.
Penn.
“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES. .
TOUGHEST FIGHT
T0 STATE CURBED
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Arch N..Bobbitt Is Likely to Get ~ Top Legal Post
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is believed to have put Mr. Bobhijtt in the No. 1 spot insofar as Mayor Tyndall is concerned.
“Observers also believe that the
mayor would hesitate "to pass over Mr. Bobbitt since he is thoroughly experienced with the cityls legal problems and therefore extremely valuable to the administration.
Remy Was Candidate William H. Remy, president of the board of safety, has been a candidate for the job. Mayor Tyndall however; is said to consider him more useful in his present post. Another . possibility, Harry E. Yockey, director of the city’s office of civilian defense, was believed out of the running although those backing him point out his appointment would be “logical” as a reward for services in his non-salaried OCD st. Apparently, however, Mayor Tyndall intends to let the speculation continue. He has indicated he'll not announce his appointment for several days.
B-29s OVER SINGAPORE By UNITED PRESS The Japanese Domei agency reported” today that “several” B-29! Superfortresses made two flights over Singapore today, but claimed that no damage was caused.
The Men's CLOTHING is on the THIRD FLOOR—
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The FURNISHINGS, HATS, SHOES, ete.
—are on the
FIRST FLOOR—
The WOMEN'S SHOP and the BOYS' SHOP-— SECOND FLOOR
PENSION FOR STATE EMPLOYEES ASKED
Establishment of a state retire- |’
| Beaudet of Providence, R. I.
ment fund for all local and state government. employees is authorized in a house bill introduced today. The voluminous 40-page pension plan would +make participation in its benefits permissive for hundreds of thousands of office holders in Indiana. i An initial appropriation of $1,325,000 is asked for the payment of retirement; deaths and disability allotments. The bill also requests $67,000 for administration expenses and $35,000 for organization costs.
MORE NOTES ARRIVE | FROM 106TH TROOPS
More and more men of the now famous 106th Camp Atterbury-
from, Miss Betty Holmes, 2417 W. Ray st, has received word from Pfc. George O. Grimes, Pittsburg, that he is safe but has been on the move so much that mail has not’ caught up with his unit. Miss Kittie Wiggs, 1405 E. 11th st, has heard from Pvt. Andrew
HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT William V. Black, 12 S. Downey
trained division are being heard |
Clark Airfields
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brated his 65th birthday today by announcing the capture of Clark field, greatest air base in the western Pacific, Only a few days after the smeak attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 8,
| 1941, Gen, MacArthur's origina] air
force was wiped out by dive bombers at Clark field. Though cratered by bombs and littered with the wreckage of Japanese aircraft, Clark field probably can be restored to operational condition quickly. Its dozen airstrips and thousands
lof acres of dispersal areas make
Clark field big enough to handle the entire present strength of MacArthur's 5th and 13th air forces— Thousands of planes. It was obvious, though, that all would not be concentrated there. From Clark field, American planes can fan out over Formosa, French Indo-China, and Hongkong, as well as cover any projected landings on the China coast. The 40th division met only scattered. Japanese patrols and light harassing sniper fire in its capture of Clark field, 60 miles northwest of Manila, and Ft. Stotsenburg, three miles to the west.
ave, is in Methodist hospital with |
his car struck a utility pole at Tux- |
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The division also overran Angeles, 45 miles from Manila and 22 miles
head and leg injuries received when | | north of Manila bay.
Magalang, six miles northeast of
edo and Washington sts. last night. | clark field, also was reached.
DAY NEARER
ACCENTUATE
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IT IS POSITIVE — that we'll have the
usual strange mixture of weather — and the sudden changes for the next 2 or 3
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Are Token:
Manila Now Only 40 Miles les
Other units were clearing scat~ 161% SNENY WoUPS from the esti
Maj, Gen. Insis P.. (Bull) Swift's
CHINA'S WAR OUTPUT CLICKS, NELSON SAYS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (U. P). —Donald M. Nelson has reported to" President Roosevelt that China, with the aid of American experts, has now co-ordinated her economic war effort “for the first time” and is ‘throwing its weight into the job of winning the war,” the White House revealed today. The former war production chief, now Mr. Roosevelt's personal trouble shooter in the Far East, gave his optimistic appraisal in a report sub~ mitted to the White House Dec. 20, covering the work in China by his economic mission and the-military mission headed by Maj. Gen. Pate rick J. Hurley, now amhassador to China.
LONG PAPER PINCH SEEN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 36 (U. PJ. —The department of commerce pre~ dicted today that the paper shortage would continue for one year
after the end of the European war,
VICTORY
months — Come rain and hail and snow
and sleet and freeze and blizzard —
and sun more or le
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IT IS POSITIVE—that there will also be a winter and Spring in the year 1946—with the same weather hazards.
IT IS POSITIVE—that a man can come to the Man's Sfore—
"and find plenty that is good—from head to foot—to give
him comfort and protection against the elements—and to turn
him out in Style!
that you will enjoy—"The BEST at YOUR price—no matter
what the price" —"It's an old
"And we wish to ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE—in asserting
Strauss Creed and Practice.”
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