Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1945 — Page 1

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Freezing Yanks Fight With Inadequate Clothing

By JACK BELL Times Foreign Correspondent WITH THE 75th DIVISION IN BELGIUM, Jan, 29.—Fifty Amer~ ican soldiers sat in a big room. ~ ‘Their: eyes were red, their faces drawn. They hadn't shaved for days. Their combat jackets and trousers were wet and muddy. {

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On the floor beside each were his shoes, socks and overshoes. The doctors went down the iines examining their bare feat. The men flinched as the medics lightly pressed unnaturally white or bluish sopts. Their feet had been frozen. “They've not been warm since

FORECAST: Cloudy -and continued cold tonight and tomorrow; occasional light snow.

it started to snow weexs ago,” said o sergeant. ~ “You can't keep dry,” one private cried angrily. “We crawled 500 yards through deep snow just before dark yesterday, then were on sentry duty all night. Our clothes get wet, then freeze.” “We waded through snow -hip-

They're All Good Children, Says Mother of Seven, 25

Presenting the Charles Nicholsons of Shelbyville, a rarity in an age of small families, They are (left to right) Beverly, Mrs, Nicholson, Keith, Mr, Nicholson and Sharon. Front (left to right) James, Wanda

Mie, Richard and Roger.

BRADFORD QUITS AS 6.0.P. LEADER

Joseph J. Daniels Succeeds

To Chairmanship of County Machine.

James 1. Bradford aesigned as Hth district Republican chairman today to enter the wholesale liquor business. Joseph J. Daniels was ndmed to succeed him: * The colorful, outspoken Bradford who, as Marion county G. O. P. political boss, won a multitude of ward and precinct followers, will liquor wholesaling business at 3¢ W. Georgia st. Mr. Daniels, influential Indianapolis attorney and close personal friend of Mr. Bradford, was appointed by Marion County Republican Chairman Henry E. Ostrom.

Of Old School

Mr. Bradford has held the 11th district chairmanship since last May. He has repeatedly parried factional thrusts against his reign as undisputed champ of the oldschool ward electioneers. Mr. Bradford said he will go to New York soon where he will sur= vey the liquor, wine and cordials

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COL. HALSEY, SENATE. SECRETARY, IS DEAD

WASHINGTON, Jan, 29 (U. P.. =Col. Edwin C, Halsey, secretary of the senate for the past 1 years, died at his home here early today. He was 63.

A native of Nelson county, Va. Halsey had served continuously as an employee of the senate for nearly half a century in various capacitics. He was elected secretary of the senate on March 9, 1933, after having 16 years in the upper chamber press gallery, and was re-elected to the secretaryship in 1043.

Young Couple’

s Large Family

Rare in Complex Modern Life

By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Jan. 20.— When pioneers were pushing ‘America’s frontier westward, the large family by young couples was a necessity of life, They needed the helping hands of youth to carve a Home in the wilderness. Today the large family is a rarity in complex modern life. The Charles Nicholson family in Shelbyville is such a rarity.

MR. NICHOLSON is 28; his wife, Mary, is but’ 25. Yet they have seven children. An eighth child is expected in April. They have been married" nine years and the children range a year apart. They are Sharon, 8; Beverly, 7; Roger, 6; James, 5; Richard, 4; Wanda Mae, 3, and Keith, 14 and a half months old.

As to the eighth child, mother and father Nicholson can’t say

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5 HURT ON ICE: MORE COLD DUE

Snow Is Forecast Tonight With Mercury Havering Around 12 Above.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

‘6a.m.... 11 Tam.... 10 sam..... 9 fam..... 9

10am... 13 11am

12 (Noom).. 1

Temperatures averaging from 12 to. 14 above . zero. tonight and occasional light snow tonight and tomorrow are forecast for Indianapolis by the local weather bureau. The mercury dipped to 9 degrees in the downtown district at 8 a. m. today and to 4 above at the Weir Cook airport. The thermometer reading began going down about 8 a. m. yesterday, shortly before it started snowing

ered with 1.3 inches of snow before the day was over and driving and walking became hazardous. No additional snow is forecast for the state today. In Evansvill the mercury hit 2 above zero by

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Train Makes Up Hour Lost Waiting for James Roosevelt

LOS ANGELES, Jan, 20 (U.P,).—|

If the streamliner City of Los Angeles doesn’t arrive here on time today, it won't be the fault of Col. James- Roosevelt -because the hour and seven minutes lost waiting for the President's eldest son to arrive in Chicago Saturday night were made up by the time the train reached Cheyenne, Wyo, rallroad officials said. Col, Roosevelt and his wife, who i Were returning to the west coast < from. the inauguration, were traveling on a Pennsylvania train which was more than six hours late.

TIMES INDEX

Someone wired ahead to Union Pacific -officials who ordered the train with its 300 passengers held 50 the Roosevelt party could make connections.

However, no one seemed to know who ordered the streamliner’s delay. Chicago & Northwestern officials, who handle the train out of Chicago, said depot officials ordered it held but they didn’t know who gave the order.

“Trains were held occasionally, they said, for persons travelling on tight schedules where a delay would force a hardship, but never before had the train been held that long. Roosevelt denied he asked that the train be held and Pennsylvania officials said the conductor of thelr train had made no such request.

However, they pointed out, such 5/4 thing was done only with trains ‘travelling long distances which

would have a chance to make up the )

HOOSIER HEROES— 4 Listed Killed, Two as Missing,

Ten Wounded

Action on the Western front has claimed the lives of four more fighting men, while two local men are missing and 10 more have been wounded. KILLED

Pfc. Eugene L. E. Reid, 708 E, New York st., in Belgium. Pfc. Ira~E. Chappell, 2212 Bethel ave. in Belgium. Capt. Richard 8. Lukenbill, Spencer, grandson of Mrs. Ida Spangler, 1402 Kenyon ave., in Germany. Cpl. Eugene Rodney Temple, 3522

| Kenwood ave, in France,

MISSING Pvt. Minna F. Zellinga, R. R. 9, Box 528, in Germany. Pvt. Lawrence William Smith, 910 Bellefontaine st., in Belgium. WOUNDED Pfc. Robert P. Bruce, 1245 W. 34th

.|st., in Germany. '| Icy streets and sidewalks were cov~

Pvt. Glenn D. Goad, formerly of 123 Dickson st., in Belgium. Pvt. Paul Middleton, Sheffield ave. in Belgium. Pvt. Marshall C. Mitchell, 808 Fletcher ave, Apt. 8, in Germany. Sgt. Charles F. Miller, 906 N. Parker ave, in France. S. Sgt. Isawo Tabata, 1115 Rural st., in France. Pvt. Charles T. Hughes, Downey ave, in Germany, Cpl. Paul R. Haehl, 730 Congress ave. in Belgium, Pfc. Wilmer Gayle Crabb, formerly of 1244 E. Washington st. in France. Sgt. Bobby G. Hawthorne, Warsaw, formerly of 350 Congress ave., in Belgium.

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BRIDGES GRANTED REVIEW OF CASE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. P.).« The supreme court today granted Harry Bridges, West Coast C. I. O, leader, a review of his suit to escape deportation to Australia. . Bridges was ordered deported ‘by the attorney general in May, 1842, as an alien Communist. He is seeking to block expuision through habeas corpus

~~ BACK MILITARY TRAINING

NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (U. P)—|

Reps. Clare Boothe Luce (R."Conn.), and Frances P. Bolton (R. O.), have expressed support of legislation for continued universal military training, the women’s national commiit-

[tee for universal military Cie 1 today. |.

MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1945

deep, it filled our overwios and our pants were soaked,” was the report of another private. “Our shoes get soaked, and our -overshoes won't” turn water, so what good are dry socks?” said a sergeant. I picked up his shoes and overshoes. They were wet inside and

WARD RULING 1 PRAISED BY LEGISLATURE

Loud Protests by Democrats Are Shouted Down in Roll Call Vote.

(Another Ward Story, Page 11)

By NOBLE REED Beating down loud protests from the Democrats, Senate Republicans passed by a vote of 35 to 11 today 2 resolution praising Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan, Chicago, for his decision upholding Montgomery ward & Co, in its fight against army seizure of its stores. The r8solufion described the decision as a “notable stroke for freedom.” “By this decision the constitutional guarantees of the sacred rights, liberties and. property of American citizens from the humblest to the most exalted still remain inviolate,” the resolution stated. Leap to Feet When an immediate roll call for passage was asked, Demecratic senators leaped to their feet all over the chambers. Shouted Senator Leo J. Stemle (D. Jasper): “This resolution stinks so badly to me politically that the windows of this chamber should be thrown open. If you can’t stand behind the commander-in-chief, then it's wo bad. This is just another attack upon the President in time of war,” Other. Democrats, including Senator Walter Vermillion (D. Anderson), Democratic floor leader, followed Senator 's theme, decrying the. Aas “playing politics with war emergency issues.” Introduced by Ferris The resolution was introduced

‘|by Senator Albert Ferris (R. Mil-

ton) and was supported unanimously by all Republican senators. In a speech defending the resolution, Senator Ferris said the court decision means that “constitutional government still lives.” A bill introduced by Senator Charles F. Lietz (D. Evansville) would create a legislative commission of three representatives and three senators to investigate the causes of failures among small business firms. . { The bill . would appropriate {$10,000 to pay the costs of the survey. Another measure introduced in the senate would raise the minimum teachers’ salaries from $1000 to $1200, fixing $140 a month for all beginning teachers with 72 weeks’ experience or less with $250 a month additional for each year of experience up to and including the eighth year.

HOTEL STEVENS FIRE ROUTS-25 GUESTS

CHICAGO, Jan. 290 (U. P.).— Twenty-five persons fled from their rooms and scores of guests were roused efirly today when fire broke out on the 24th floor of the Stevens hotel. Damage was estimated at $1000. Firemen chopped down a locked door to- rescue Y. de Dood, 69, Ozone Park, N. Y., who had attempted to keep out smoke by placing his matteress against the door.

CROSBY BUYS COLT

WELLINGTON, N. Z., Jan. 29 (U, P.).—Bing Crosby was reported today to have paid 3000 guineas (about $10,250) for a colt at the annual yearling sales here,” the highest price ever pald in New Zealand for a yearling. It was said the colt would be kept in New Zealand until after the war.”

As They Are

IF YOUR WAITRESS is in a stew today, chances are she's been talking turkey with the federal government. It seems some of the gals were short on kale when it came to paying income taxes. How were - they to know Uncle Sam considers tips taxable income?

IMANILA DYING—

out. Every man's feet were swollen, some were hot with fever, a few already had breaking blisters, which indicated bad (rostbite. They all told the same story. I've heard it ever siuce the cold and snow hit the front, from generals and privates “When a man has to stand out

Many Starve; U. S. Arrival

Is Only Hope

By ALFONSO DENOGA Written For The United Press

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, »Luzon, Jan. 29.— | Manila is a dying city today. It is stripped of its food by the Japanese and packed with almost 1,000,000 starving people. Their only hope of life lies literally in early rescue by the American army, This Japan's

is the state to which “greater East Asia co-

A former reporter for the Manila Daily Bulletin has escaped into the American lines with this eye- - witness account of conditions inside Japanese-occupied Manila, 33 miles away from Gen. MacArthur's forces.

prosperity sphere” has brought my people in three years of occupation: 8 ” » THE children of Manila poke through the garbage cans for their food. Scores die each day. The dead are byried naked, and their clothing”sold to buy a meal for the living. * Since Nov. 20 the Japanese have forbidden the importation of

. to meet it. His fingers freeze in

* ‘Entered as Second-Class Malter at Postotfice Indianapolis 9, Ind Issued daily except Sunday

| all day or night, in this kind ot | weather in these clothes, he's gong to be frozen.” The American doughboy, asked to fight the war under terribie winter conditions, is not equippea

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JAP DEFENSES SPLIT 33 MI FROM MANILA

| Enemy Retreating to Ba-

taan, Jubilant Filipinos Tell Yanks.

By WILLIAM “B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 29.—Tankled American infantrymen virtually

— | split the Japanese defenses on Lu-

zon today. They drove to the outskirts of San Fernando, 33 airline miles from Manila, in.a two-pronged attack. Raked by increasingly heavy American air blows and harried by. guerrilla uprisings, the Japanese were reported abandoning San Fernando.

Link With Garrison

Its important road network links the Manila garrison with the enemy concentrations in northern Luzon. Jubilant natives swarmed out to meet the Manila-bound doughboys. They reported that the Japanese were -pulling out hurriedly to the west, apparently. retreating toward the base of historic Bataan peninsula=~ Headquarters observers: believed

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BATTLE PUT OFF OVER WALLACE

Bailey's ~ Adverse Report|s Expected to Reach Floor Middle of Week.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (U. PJ). —Skirmishing continued today in the battle over President Roosevelt's designation of ‘former Vice Presi-

dent Henry A. Wallace to be secretary of commerce. Formal senate consideration was put off until at least Thursday. Chairman Josiah Bailey (D. N. C.) of the senate commerce committee postponed filing of an unfavorable report on Wallace's nomination. He also held up a favorable report on a bill to make the job less attractive by divorcing from the department the vast lending powers of the reconstruction finance corporation and its subsidiary agencies. Bailey said he was still writing the reports, and that they would not be completed in time for submission inasmuch as the senate session was cut short. It adjourned out of re= spect to Col. Edwin A. Halsey, its secretary, who died this morning.

May File Tomorrow

If Bailey filed the reports tomorrow it would be possible to consider the bill—or the nomination— on Wednesday, but there might be further delays. Senate Republicans, meeting in a party conference this morning, discussed the Wallace nomination and the “divorce” bill but took no formal action. Conference Chairman Arthur H, Vandenburg (Mich.) said there was “a general discussion” but no effort made to bind Republicans to any particular position on either case, All but about three Republicans are expected to vote against Wallace, however. Bailey said he .was preparing a written report on the Wallace nomination, an unusual procedure. Nominations requiring senate confirmation usually are merely pre-

‘Some 75 waitresses have been .

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Waitresses Caught 4 in Stew

Taxed for Tips

‘the exception, not the rule. The delinquents, it seemed, as‘sumed they were excused from tax payments altogether because their actual salary earnings, minus. tips, are often below. the \ $500 exemption scale, Some make only $26 a month in wages, but 3 tril 98 $8.08 34 a dag ink Hp. The average daily tip take in

the last formidable defenses barring the way to "Manila had been reached. The liberation of the capital was now only a matter of a few weeks at most, it was believed,

Drive May Be Delayed

up resistance on the flanks,

t new American offensive maneuvers elsewhere in the Philippines, asserting that Japanese torpedo boats attacked a convoy in the Mindanao sea last Wednesday. (Tokyo claimed the sinking of three transports, a battleship and an unidentified warship. (A later enemy broadcast recorded by FCC said two additional American divisions have been landed on Luzon, raising MacArthur's attack force to seven divisions.) Meanwhile, tank and infantry spearheads of the U. 8S. 37th (Buckeye) division were within sight of San Fernando early today. They -were advancing in two parallel spearheads from the northwest and northeast, The latter column pushed through Mexico, three miles northeast of San Fernando, late yesterday and moved ahead against scattered opposition.

Bridge Standing

Guerrilla fighters said the Japanese had had no time to destroy the concrete bridge spanning the San Fernando river to the south or to destroy the town's modern buildings. ] Other American-units pughing out on the flank“wvest of captured Clark field were running into savage opposition; however. The Japanese were fighting a hard but losing pattle to hold their artillery positions in the hills overlooking the airfields. At last reports the enemy estimated at several thousand men, was being pushed back into the

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HOPKINS MEETS WITH

Delivers F.D.R.’s Messages, |

On ‘Big 3’ Issues.

LONDON, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—Harry Hopkins, it was revealed today, is touring Europe as advance man for the Big Three conference, carrying

ston Churchill, Gen. Charles De Gaulle and possibly Marshal Josef Stalin.

Saturday. Yesterday he met with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Finance Minister Rene Plevin and Transport Minister ‘Rene Mayer.

second time, \ (The Paris radio reported Hopkins had left Paris for Rome, where he may see Pope Pius) Hopkins went to Paris, after hav.

It was expected, however, that Gen. Douglas MacArthur might hold | up the drive on Manila briefly to consolidate his positions and mop

(Tokyo radio continued .to hint

LEADERS IN EUROPE |

messages for Prime Minister Win-

Hopkins conferred with De Gaulle | {

Today he met with De Gaulle a}

HOME |

FINAL

PRICE FIVE CENTS

EDS INVADE GERMANY ON BERLIN ROAD

To Make Stand

By United Press Sta

LONDON, Jan.

of Brandenburg.on a 100-mile

of Berlin. Russian columns slashed on a broad arc, the center of Berlin.

As $ a result result of

YANKS PLUNGE AHEAD IN SNOW

and and Danzig.

Area Against Light

Resistance.

BULLETIN PARIS, Jan. 29 (U. P.) —Amerfcan 1st army forces storming the last few German positions in a tiny pocket of easternmost Belgium today captured the Bullange road hub 10 miles east of Malmedy and reached the German frontier northéast of St. Yith, :

... By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

army troops broadened their offensive front against the last German toehold in -Belgium today. They plowed through two feet of snow against light resistance to the frontier area east of the Mal-medy-St. Vith line. White-clad doughboys of Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ 1st division stormed into the transport center of Bullange. Six miles to the south they cap~ tured Herresbach, the same distance northeast of St. Vith. Hodges’ entire offensive front was swinging eastward within small arms range of the Siegfried line's forefield. Since_his troops’ went into action at 4 a. TA. Sunday (10 a. m., Indianapolis time), maximum gains of three miles had been scored.

Shift Air Strength

A dispatch from 9th army headquarters said “the Germans were believed to have shifted about 25 per cent of their fighter plane

the Russian front. Ludwig Sertorius, German military commentator, said fighting flared up along the lower Maas river and in the area of Nijmegen. He said the Germans still had not determined wheth&r the activity by the 1st Canadian army could be considered preparatory to a new

29.—Marshal plunged four armored spearheads into thie German province

1st Army Plows to Border,

PARIS, Jan. 29.—American 1st

strength on the Western front to!

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‘Moscow Reports Nazis May Not be Able

Short of Oder 40

Miles From Capital.

ROBERT MUSEL

ff Correspondent

Gregory K. Zhukov

invasion front today.

Moscow said the Nazis had shown no signs of heing able to stem his onrush short of the Oder river 40 miles east

into Germany from Poland which was aimed squarely at

Zhukov’s flanks were firmly in the hands of two other supporting Red armies hammering at the gates of Breslau

Zhukov’s phenomenal advance —lacross the Brandenburg frontier, the ‘March toward Berlin’ has become more than a patriotic slogan,” a United Press dispatch from Moscow said. : i “Military observers believe this is the first of two stages in the final, iecisive hattle of Germany.” A Nazi ‘newspaper asserted the

| next eight days may decide the war,

Town Encircled Zhukov's right wing had encircled Schneidemuehl, 50 miles north of surrounded Poznan and four miles inside Germany, the Nazis ade mitted.

Other forces thrusting out of the { westernmost bulge of Poland were cracking into the Obra river defenses in the frontier area , For the first time Berlin come mentators | the Oder, 0 ; as an immediate objective of the Soyiet forces. - They said that Zhukov's tanks had been checked in the push to- : ward Frankfurt. Moscow dispatches said that in Silesia the Russians were smashing at the gates of Breslau, the pro vincial capital, and expanding bridgeheads across the Oder on either side of it. The German high command said that along the Oder southeast of Breslau, repeated Russian “attacks were contained. ?

Zhukov Moves West

Several Soviet bridgeheads were “eliminated or narrowed down,” the ‘Nazis added. “Roads from encircled Poznan west to Brandenburg are filled with endless columns of Soviet tanks, self-propelled guns and infantry streaming toward Germany,” one dispatch said. “They are meeting only thous sands of Poles liberated from cone centration camps and returning home. “The hour is near when the hurs ricane from the east will reach Ber« lin,” Radio Moscow said. Pniewy, 28 miles west of Poznan and 109 miles east of Berlin, fell yesterday to Marshal Gregory K.: Zhukov's 1st White Russian army, moving along the Warsaw-Berlin super-highway. Rolling up the northern end of the 200-mile arc menacing Berlin,

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