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“death march”, from Bataan and the executioners of the Doolittle fliers. Working in the judge advocate general's office, however, is nothing new to Gen. Weir. His career there extends back to 1018 when “he became judge advocate of the American embarkation center at Le Mans, France. sass es “3 “a sadist

THE GENERAL was graduated from Manual high schodl back in 1909 and even then his teachers were sure he would make good, John Weir was a very good pupil and a very enthusjastic Manualite,” Miss Arda Knox, retired Manual teacher, recalled. “He was a good-looking, erect and well-built boy,” she said. “I believe he showed the qualities of generalship even while he was‘ in school.” Miss Knox, who is known by

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“IN HIS new job Gen. Weir and his staff will investigate axis war criminals from the highest enemy officials to the lowliest enlisted man. The new section will compile dosiers of individual perpetrators of atrocities against American nations, such as the Filipinos, and U. 8. civilians as well as members of our armed forces, a high army official disclosed. The agency was set up in the war department by agreement with the state and navy departments which will co-operate in its work. Fd d » THE ARMY refused to reveal details of the procedure to be a1sed by its war crimes section against the enemy war criminals. Nor did it say whether prosecution. would start sumediaiely or after the war,

outbreak of world war I, Gen. Weir practiced law with his father from 1914 to 1917. The 53-year-old native Hoosier participated in debates at Manual and was aymember of the school’s mock senaté This provided good

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AFTER his high school graduation, Gen. Weir went to Stetson university in Florida, receiving three degrees there. He: came back to Indianapolis but his career was interrupted by the outbreak of world war I From May to August, 1917, the general, then ohly 24, attended officers’ training camp at Ft. Harrison and later was assigned to the 835th infantry at Camp

«= HE ‘WAS selected to precede his regiment to France in August, 1018, and then he served as an instructor with his regiment and other, units of the 84th division in France. His career as judge advocate of the American embarkation center at Le Mans began in 1918. Gen, Weir transferred to Brest in_ August, 1919, to serve as executive officer in the judge advocate's office there. He returned to the United States in October, 1919, holding various positions in his field until October, 1023, w. 8.8 IT WAS THEN that he entered infantry training at Ft, Benning, Ga, He was graduated in June, 1924, and assigned as a law instructor at West Point. On April 24, 1028, he was transferred from the infantry to the judge advocate general's department. In August’ of 1928, the general went to Washington for duty in the judge advocate general's office civil affairs section, later working in the claims and bonds section of that office. He was ordered to Ft. Hayes, 0, in 1932 as assistant judge advocate of the 5th corps area, Back to West Point was the general's destination in 1934. He taught there until July, 1938, and his son, Jack, is at the military academy now. 8 » » GEN WEIR -went to Atlanta, Ga., for duty as assistarit judge advocate of the Fourth Corps area. In November, 1039, he went to San Juan as judge advocate of the Peurto Rican department. His duties brought him back to the United States lin#September, 1941, and Gen. Weir has been in the judge advocate general's

IREPORT REDS 58 MI. FROM BERLIN

Huge Battle Are Closing On Capital, Nazis Report.

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surances that the enemy would be stopped in du€ time. At Soldin the Russians were 58 miles northeast of Berlin, 38-south-|

Landsberg. Landsberg is on “the north bank of the Warthe river and a major junction on the Danzig-Berlin railroad 68 miles northeast of the capital, ~ Zielenzig, 20 miles south of | Landsberg, is 65 miles due east of { Berlin, 25.northeast of Frankfurt and 30 miles inside Germany. Russian © and German reports agreed that the threat to Berlin was mounting steadily. Zhukov's forces already were within easy. reach of the Oder,

BERLIN, N. H,, Jan, 31 (U.P). --Russian forces today were reported within 58 miles of Berlin, ‘Germany: That is the approximate distance between Moscow, Vt. and Berlin, N. H.

which winds about 35 miles east of the capital. It Was there that the Nazis must check the invaders if the siege or capitulation” of Berlin was to be averted. The German Transocean agency acknowledged that a frontal assault had crumpled the Meseritz-Schwie-bus-Zullichau defense ‘ine. The line was. only 45 miles east of Frankfurt-on-Oder, 80 miles east of Berlin and nearly 20 miles inside the capital's. home province of Brandenburg. “Advance detachments are drive ing forward beyond the line toward the lower course of the: Warthe river and the region between Frankfurt and Kustrin,” Transocean said. Breaching of the Meseritz-Zulli-chau line put the Soviets seven to 11 miles west of positions seized

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testimonial dinner in New York City Monday he said he would like very much to have both. However, he had talked to Mr. after the speech and felt sure he will accept the without the RFC.

Ld ” . CHAIRMAN BAILEY C.) of the commérce committee held a press conference immediately after Senator Pepper's and

‘Wallace nomination promptly | and then passing the RFC separation measure subsequently, Putting both conferences. together, some newsmen decided that it seemed to boil down to a question of whether Mr, Wallace called enemies or so-called friends. For in his New York speech | Mr. Wallace referred to Senator 2ailey as: his “friend” and said that he (Bailey) knew that it

turned down by he senate.” 5 ” AT HIS PRESS conference, Senator Bailey sald he would accept the title of “friend” from Mr, Wallace, but refused to con jecture as to whether the Wallace prestige would be enhanced by a senate turndown,

Mr. Ewing, who is 55, was born in Greensburg, Ind. "He received his B. A. degree from Indiana university in 1910 followed by his LL.B. at Harvard in 1913; In 1915-16 he. was a member of the firm, Weyl, Jewett & Ewing. = Mr, Ewing was back in Indiana in May 1942 when he was appointed special assistant to the U. 8S. attorney general in the prosecution of Silver Shirt Leader William Dudley Pelley.

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INDIANA 38TH LEADS] RETURN TO BATAAN

| cluding cooks and mechanics. [across the Our river into Gormiot Eléments of the U. 8. 9th division! to a width of five miles and a depth {were converging from the -north- [of almost two miles, west on -the road junction of} Field dispatches sald the doughWahlerscheid, ‘five miles southeast boys ‘were across the Our in con. {of Monschau. | siderable strength from a point Armor attached to. the 78th di«four. miles southeast of St. Vith [a crossed the Roer from the down to Schiebach, nine miles north near its source and entered south-southeast of that town. « the hamlet of Widdau, two and a a so {half miles east of Monschau. scale counter-attack by AanOther unité of the 78th cleared |U/YMen against the southern corner Eicherscheid, Kesternich, and Hup-|9! the bridgehead just above Schie-

penbroich. They ‘were eliminating | ch late yesterday.

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the other east of Lazentath, 10, The German D.N.B. news agency | (Continued From Page One)

YANKS RIP INTO’ SIEGFRIED LINE

7 Divisions Cross Upper Roer, Pass Rundstedt’s Starting Mark.

miles northeast of St. Vith, lsaid that after a.violent barrage With the 15t and 3d armies push- | dawn the Americans opened a wig [Ing Through the Outposts of ~fheTcenirated attack between KesterGerman West wall, a Berlin mill- nich and Kaltenherberg. {tary commentator said it was in-| Heavy fighting followed with the creasingly clear that the allies were! germans losing a number of local-| readying a major offensive. ities, it was admitted. Its_main weight was expected t0| “One of a number of breaches | was announced today. | be focused against the Coldgne plain brought the enemy to the western Btettinius—and Hopkins wers- | east of Aachen, the commentator fringe of the Monschau forest, but guests yesterday and today of Lt. sald. this was sealed off.” the German Cen. Joseph McNarney, deputy alThe Nazis sald American forces agency said. lied commander in the Mediterra|wefe deploying in force along the The Canadian 1st army mean. | nean theater. | Roer river east of Aachen, estimat-| while wiped out the long-held Ger-| McNarney, Lt. Gen. Ara Eaker {ing that the concentratién included man bridgehead on the south bank and Hopkins met Stettinius at a six tank and four infantry reserve of the lower Maas river five miles) nearby airfield yesterday afternoon. | divisions. least of Gertruidenberg. | This was the first disclosure of the A 1st army front dispatch said, There were no major changes| secretary of state's presence in this Von Rundstedt apparently h a d elsewhere on the long front. ares. Alexander Kirk, U, 8. ampulled back into or beyond the French and American forces in|bassador to Italy, also was at the Siegfried line virtually all of his| Alsace continued their slow, grind-| field; first class fighting forces. {ing drive through the northern and| The party left. after several con Those the Americans were en-|southern flanks of the Colmar! countering in the forefleld were de-| pocket. . scribed as a ragtag collection, in| The 3d expanded its bridgehead

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Personnel of the division was drawn from Indiana (60 per cent), Kentucky (30 per cent) and West Virginia (10 per cent). Credit for the progress made by the 38th during peacetime goes to Gen. Tyndall. Under his coms= mand the division gained a repu= tation as the best-trained national guard division in the country. On the general's personal staff were 13 officers from Indiana, eight from Kentucky and five from West Virginia, The division trained each summer for 16 years as a fully-equipped combat divie sion, Ft. Knox was the scene of the annual maneuvers, and it was Gen Tyndall who was responsible for influencing the government

ALL-WOOL not to dispose of the fort after its around the Pomeranian border world war I usefulness had been

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