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Entered as Secand-Class, Matter at Postotfice Indianapolis 9, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday

Emergency use of industrial coal reserves,

was being considered by coal relief authorities today in an effort to TelieVs the coal Shortage here.

ASSEMBLY GETS 2ELECTIONBILLS

One Provides for Primary, Other Would Reform Code.

By NOBLE REED . Bills that. would make. drastic changes in Indiana's election machinery, including one to abolish the state convention system of

nominating -- state and senatorial]

candidates, replacing it with the direct primary method, were introduced in ‘the legislature today. " The direct primary bill, which is expected to touch off one of the hottest debates of the session on an issue that already has crossed party lines. was submitted in the house by Reps. Robert Heller (D. Decatur) and Jesse L. Dickinson (D. South Bend), There is a bloc of Republicans tn both houses that is favoring the direct primary. It is made up of Republicans whose candidates did pot: fare very well at the last state convention when the G. O. P. ma¢hine “steam-rollered” a slate of eandidates through with little trouble.

Democrats for Bill Although the bill is expected to

‘be supported by most of the Demo-

crats in both houses and a sizable

Direct

Nothing effective has crisis. There is not even a

ernment to take control of

homes that have none. If

be seized,

about it next summer, We believe the mayor

vigorous action.

bloc of Republicans, it appears to be facing tough sledding with most | of the G. O. P. high command op- | posing it. Some Republican majority leaders openly hdve predicted that it will not be passed. The much-discussed election re- | form code was introduced in the | senate by two Democrats, Senators, Walter Vermillion (Anderson) and! Edmund Makowski (East Chicago). | It is’ the controversial election

SEE QUICK APPROVAL FOR GEORGE RGE MEASURE

| Action Viewed Hastening

Wallace Confirmation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.).—

| Early house approval-of the George | bill, degigned to divqrce lending

Tires tor Action—NOW

This city’s fuel shortage is critical. Hundreds — maybe thousands — of Indianapolis homes are without fuel right now, or will be in a few more days of near-zero weather.

hands of how many families desperately need coal. There are a dozen conflicting estimates of how much coal is in town or likely to get here. The fedéral fuel administrator, the coal er! chants, the Red. Cross, the ¢ity government, the county government, the state government, have all made tentative gestures at the problem. : no nearer solution today than it did ai week ago—and the shortage is getting worse. A It is time—right now—for responsible local gov-

what coal is in town, and where, and to get it to the if trucks have to be commandeered,

tape has to be slashed—let’s do it NOW and argue

ernor of this state, have all the authority needed to act in this emergency. We believe the people will back their judgment to the limit if it leads to prompt;

The time for such action is NOW:

| nave been wounded. A former miss-

eode drafted by the Indiana Elec-|a8encies from the commerce depart i | ment, appeared assure ay wi tion Recodification commission conséquent, -imprdvement, in pros(Continued on “Page 3—Column 3) pects for senate confirmation of

Peter Edson .. RO Mrs, Ferguson 18 Side Glances 16 Forum ...... 16 W. P. Simms 16 ar Ta 25 Sports

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10am. ..12

Henry A. Wallace as secretary of commerce. ‘Although opponents of the nomination declared they would continue their fight to block confirma-

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Womer Included in New ‘Manpower. Control Hore

‘Tighter controls over manpower will ge into effect here next week, | ordered by the regional war man.’ power office for Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. ‘iva

Women, who heretofore have been free ‘to take jobs wherever they pleased, will be channeled

TIMES INDEX

Amusements. 20 Inside Indpls. 15 Bell ..........15 Jane Jordan 25 Business .... 12 Charles Lucey 16 Comics . ..... 2 Ruth Millett 15 Crossword ... 25 Obituaries ... 7 Editdrial 16/ Radio . “25 16 Mrs, Roosevelt 15

through the U. 8. employment service to high priority war plants, as | men are now. . Unclassified businesses--those not | listed as: critical or essential—will have to.release 5 per cent of their employees for war jobs by Feb, 15 and 5 per cent mqre by March 15 should the WMC request them to do so, The u. 8. E. *s. will refer jobseekers” to. priority work (there are 31 priority plants in the city) before jobs in essential or locallyneeded industries, Nuardien of the person’s highest skill. - Employment ceilings, which previously applied only to male workers, now include both men and women. “Cotjtngs for essential and locally

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yet been done to avert a reliable estimate in official

It appears

this situation—to find out

surplus stockpiles have to if red

of this city and the gov-

Four More Killed In Europe, 1 Lost, 11 Are Wounded

Four more fighting men have | been killed in the European theater,

one local man is missing and 11

ng man has been reported a prison KILLED Sgt. Robert, D. Richardson, W. 12th st., over Germany. . First Lt. Frederick B. McRee, 8300 E. Washington st., over Germany. Pvt. John Dexter Sansom, 2110 Central ave, in Germany. Pvt. Walter C. Pinkston, R. R. 20, Box 213, in Belgium. MISSING Cpl. Byron Wilson, 402 Eastern ave, over Austria. WOUNDED Second Lt. Paul H. Seehausen, 744 N. DeQuincey st., in Belgium. Sgt. John Donald Lowe, 5820 N. New Jersey st., in France. ; LBV James R. Fleener, 1412 Lee , in Germany.

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such as this stock of 4 000 tons at the Perry-K plant of the Indianfipolis Power and Light Co.,

INDIANA PLANTS FAGE GAS CURB

War Production T Threatened, In Cities Served by Texas Lines.

~dianapolis Power and Light Co.

ing last summer for protection of |

Somé factories in Indiana may

-| be forced to shut down. iemporsrily

because of the natural gas shortage, | it was reported today. ! The Public Service Co. of Indiana

said a WPB order curtailing use of | | Edgar Booth, 1157 E. 34th st. and | {Elmer Booth, 183% N. Rural st.

natural gas by concerns normally requiring 30,000 cubic feet or more | a day for their operation was due; to the cold spell and coal shortage, | The utility, which supplies Texas| natural gas in several cities in cen~| tral and northern Indiana from the’ Panhandle Eastern Pipe Liné Co.'s transmission main, said - factories | affected would be in Lafayette Attica, Crawfordsville, Frankfort and| New Castle, Utility Official Explains

“Many factories in this territory and-parts-of Ohio and Michigan, are served with this natural gas, and| most of them are engaged in war production,” said G. - J. Oglebay, Public Service Co. vice president. “But domestic. needs in Ohio, we understand, make it imperative to| curtail industrial uses until normal] weather returns and the coal situa-| tion improves.” | Neither of the: WPB orders cur-| tailing use of natural gas or mixed | gas effects Indiandpolis because the |

Indianapolis is not hit bécause the. The capital and the entire Japa- [2nd French units had joined at TVET Were trying to smash across [city's gas’ supply is of the manu- nese defense system in southern

factured (or artificial) type, sup- | plied by the Citizens Gas & Coke | utility.

{er of Mrs. Robert Hamke, 3128 Win- | |throp ave.

YANKS ROLL ON

. Surprise vasa. Outflanks.

By JOE JARVIS

"Coal relief authoritiés today considered asking for some

of the coal reserves of industrial and other big users as a

means of easing the coal famine in Indianapolis. Under immediate consideration was a 3000-ton surplus stored for government use at the army air forces depot at the Indiana state fairgrounds. Release of the government, - coal was being sought from the war department in Wash-|

AT A GLANCE

1. Authorities were consider- | ing a “last resort” use of some the} of the coal reserves of large ’] industrial users, including a

Officials also were eyeing 190,000-ton reserve of the

3000-ton surplus of army coal stored at the Indiana state fairgrounds,

53 Days’ Supply On Hand Officials of the company said the!

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fuel was sufficient for 53 days’ use. | 2. Plans were being made to

h any amassed the coal dur-| Use state-owned trucks for emerThe company | gency deliveries in Indianapolis.

the public in ‘emergencies, a spokes- | 3. Use of county jail prisoners

and county trucks s y man for the utility announced. \ roral to og V Fue a Supply Myron R. Green, city co-ordinator | ered. ? of the coal relief program, said in- . dustrial coal is difficult to burn and| 4. Coal dealers have asked the that proposed use of the power and solid fuels administration to light reserve had been held up in| order more coal shipped here, the hope better coal could ‘bel charging that present average shipped here. | daily deliveries are more than Experts, however, reported that| 950 carloads below the city's even though the power and light] needs. coal is unscreened and of a poor! quality for domestic ‘use it could be

. the state highway commission, to ned in én ergency. | ’ : burned in dn emergency work out details for use of state State Trucks Ready | trucks. :

Meanwhile, low temperatures to-| However, . Ber Sheen oey pe rte at only carloads of coa day continued to drain coal stocks | were received in the city yesterday in Indianapolis faster than incom-| nq that many of the yards would ing shipments could replace the fuel be out of coal by nightfall. consumed. | “It's ironical,” Mr. Green deBut dealers, nopeful that ship-|clared. “For the past two days ments would be increased by the dealers have had a little coal for, solid fuels administration, prepared delivery but they've lacked trucks. to make use of state-owned trutks/Now we have been offered the use

to relieve distress cases in the city. of state trucks but the coal stocks ¢

The dealers, the Red Cross and are on the.verge of being exhausted. city offiicals"met today with Albert) “The 28 carloads of coal—that’s|

Wedeking, temporary chairman of all kinds of coal, industrial as well

More Indiana ALLIES RP INTO Men Listed in ALSAGE BASTION

Luzon Rescue ‘Wedge Into West West Wall Rim -

Bight Indiana men are known to| y have been rescued in the daring] AS ‘lke’ Sees Top Army Luzon raid Wednesday night and ¥ many more are believed to-be-in Commanders. the area being liberated. By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

The rescued Hoosiers are: ? CAPT.. RAYMOND H. KNAPP! PARIS, Fev. 2...~ Allied afmies broke into the big Alsatian strong-

son of Mr, and Mrs. John F. Knapp, I [43 N. Vine st. - VERNON BOOTH, ‘brother of | hold of Colmar and the outer crust lof the Siegfried line today. Simultaneously, it was disclosed

8. SGT. FLOYD COONEY, broth- that Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower | {ferring on current operations. COL. ALFRED OLIVER, father American and French forces overrunning the German pocket on the (Continued on on “Page 3—Column 4)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.). —Acting Secretary of War Robert i Patterson suggested today that Germans soon will feel the fhe Gur of a powerful allied offensive from thé west,”ind said

NEARER M MANILA!

| Oder rivér-in the east was doubtful.

Rhine in lower Alsace crashed rr Colmar, its biggest city. - Earlier gains foreshadowed the] doom of this enemy bridgehead left behind in the early winter push

Capital and Entire

Jap Defenses.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb, 2.—American tanks and infantrymen coh-|had been captured.

verged on Manila from two sides | French military quarters in Paris | today. |reported late today that American |

of France, (A French home radio broadcast reported by the FCC said Colmar

noon in the center of the city. Tanks and infantry of Gen. Jean | de Lattre de Tassigny’'s French 1st!

Luzon were outflanked with a sur-

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and his commander¥ had been con- |

___ Wilson's historic 14 points.

RUSS SMASH AT

that their ability to hold on the

through most of the eastern strip |

1 LONDON, Feb,

Horrors in Jap Prison Camp

REPORT HIGH 'BULGAR ‘TRAITORS’ EXECUTED

By UNITED PRESS The Ankara radio reported foday that Prince Cyril of Bulgaria; former Premier Bogdan Filov, and Lt. Gen. Nikola Mikov, former regent, were executed in Sofia last night after being condemned for treason by a people's court.

BIG 3 MEETING?

LONDON, Feb. 2 (U: P.) ~The Transoceali News agency said to-

day that a Berlin foreign office ‘spokesman “hinted that Stalin has invited Churchill and Roosevelt for |

Revealed by

By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Feb. 2 (U. P.). ~Cgpt. Ralph Hibbs of East Oskaloosa, Towa, said today ai least 20 American and Filipino prisoners had been executed and hundreds perhaps thousands, of others had died of neglect in prison camps | Luzon. Hibbs, among the 510 allied pris- | * oners rescued from the Cabanatuan | prison camp by rangers in a daring | | commando raid, said 27,000 Filipinos | {and 100 Americans died of various | causes in He O'Connell prison camp |

Rescued Yanks

alone and more than 100 Americans died at Cabanatuan, Prisoners often were beaten with sticks which they called “vitamin sticks,” Hibbs said. ‘When men fell ill, the Japanese often refused to release medical supplies: for them, he said, ; Once 100 men died of diphtheria

before they. were.given anti-toxin. | Aiothey 100 died of dysentery, he |

aid. Hibbs said that at Bilibid, the {ancient Manila prison, the Japanese |

gave prisoners rotten: vegetables.

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‘There's a War On and I'm

Part of It,

Ernie Pyle writes again.

Ernie Writes

And here is what he says about returning to the war front—

this time in the "Pacific:

“I'm going simply. because theré’s a war on and I'm part’ of

”

it apd I've known all the time I was going back.” In his first few columns, the No, 1 war cortespondent of world war II will tell what his life was like after his

return from Europe.

Then ih pitch in as only Ernie can, when he and the navy hit

their side 3 the world,

Watch Tor the Hi r Vagabon

i. ms, BEGTNG TAY

stride, to depict. the background of the war on the other

d's first coluthn.

Jd Hallsworth, a Britisher who 1s acting as chairman in the absence

fn! the ne ris Bn dae

WORLD LABOR MEET FOCUSES ON RUSS

‘French Throw Support fo

Soviet “Unions. |

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Star Writer

LONDON, Feb, 2.—Strong French | support for Russian trade unions in their fight for a voice in world | {labor affairs showed up in the opening session here ¢f the general Lcouncil of thé international fed- | eration of trade unions. | So there will be a decided divi{sion when this body tackles today its chief problem—whether to recognize unions that admittedly are! arms of the Soviet government, and | therefore not “free” in the view of the American Faderation of Labor, " A. P. of L. Delegate Robert Watt was one of the three who replied to French criticisms that the I. P. T. U. had outlived its usefulness and had failed to advance the world aims of organized inboy "uring the WAr years. Others siding with Mr. Watt were

of Sir Walter Citrine, Who ‘is still

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“Dont your Income - :

{furt, 38 miles due east of Berlin,

Almost empty—more household coal bins looked like this today as low temperatures and almost exhausted coal Supplies put the coal shortage at the crisis stage.

as household—meant an average of manned by prisoners from the

only 10 tons of coal for each of ‘county jail, would make deliveries

[the city’s 102 dealers. We aren't going to lick the shortage this way. to Sificyer households in Marion | county.

We've got to have more coal.” - Meanwhile, Sheriff Otto Petit was] Representatives of the Red Cross

meeting with county commissioners and Municipal Court Judges John in an effort to work out a plan|{L. Niblack and John G. McNelis whereby county-owned trucks, were to attend the meeting. 2

BERLIN BRACES FOR LAST STAND

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Jittery Nazis Pear “Big Three Will Go Over Their Heads in Surrender Bid to Germe an People.

By UNITED PRESS LE Berlin-braced for a death stand against the onrushing Red army today. ’ Nazi spokesmen meanwhile speculated uneasily that the allied “Big Three” would go over their heads to the German

‘people with a new surrender demand similar to President

# x = | With Russian tank columns (barely an hour's ride away, the German capital was reported gripped by terror. .. A rising note of hysteria‘: was evident even in official propaganda broadcasts over the Berlin radio. ‘| Party leaders were struggling by ‘means -of threats and cajolery to “ Tank Thrust Aor Across River oo people tr Iine “against the dual menace of the Red army Barrier Repelled, {and the surrender proclamation. : . They frankly expected the surNazis Claim. render call to emerge from the . : f forthcoming Roosevelt - ChurchillBy ROBERT MUSEL Stalin meeting. United Press Staff Correspondent Domestic Propaganda 2~=The Germans| The Nazis carefully refrained {reported today that powerful Rus-| from mention of the new “14 points” sian forces massing along the Oder | In their domestic propaganda. Broadcasts directed to foreign | countries and intercepted by FCC | that last big barrier before Berlin, | mtonfiors predicted, however, that Terrified civilians were throwing | the “Big Three” would amplify or {up barricades in the streets of Ber- | modify their unconditional surlin, it was reported. | render program in an effort to split A Nazi spokesman said the Rus-| the German people from their 1 drive had reached “a major| leaders,

siar part of the course of the Oder.” "| “Information has reached the This river line “in- the broadest German foreign office to the effect meaning has become the bolt and that at the meeting of Stalin, | barrier front which is going to halt | | Roosevelt and Churchill political 'the Russian armies,” he asserted. | laction- is to be taken which re-

The German high command said | sembles that effected in 1918 by /

| strong Red army units had reached | President "Wilson, when he an-

ihe Oder on either side of Frank-| nounced his 14 points,” one broadcast said. and northwest. of Kustrin. The D. N. B. news agency brandThe Oder elbow there points down ed the expected proposals as *a' within 30 miles of the city. (This Wilson farce.” is approximately the distance from| It declared that “whatever the Indianapolis to Martinsville, Ind.). |three power conference may have A Nazi military commentator re-| to proclaim, the attitude of the ported that the first effort by Mar-| German people will not chafige.” shal Gregory K. Zhukov to force, Speaking to the German people

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U.S, Combat Casualties Rise To 737,342 for Army and Navy

WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘2 (U. P)— up to near the nd, of December, Total U. S. combat casualties as|however.

737,342 today. This figure was 35,392 feswd data higher than the last overs] com- | the German ‘pllation on Jan. 25, “or : The new total - included 650,420 were army casualties and . 86,922 casualties since Dee. 7, 1 dea,

the