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army, including U. 8. units, cracked into Colmar, | The Franco-American push wiped out the northern section of<the Colmar pocket along the Rhine. The allies were fighting within mortar range of the big Neubreisach bridges behind the Germans holding out in the mountains northwest of Colmar, * To the north, three American
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the - principal members of the supreme commander's staff were present, * another indication that big: things were cooking. The conference came after repeated intimations that: allied forces in the west propose to go over to the offensive at the earliest possible moment to take advantage of the Germans’ preoccupation in the east. Much German strength is known to have been shifted from te west
the’ Siegfried line with mortars, a morass as by enemy fire. machine guns and rifle fire. Stiffest fighting was reported«in German mobile field guns behind|the Monschau forest. the West wall were maintaining a! The American 9th and 99th insporadic fire all along tae front. fantry divisions there were closing Giant Amgrican. 155-millimeter {in from the northwest and southLong Toms meanwhile opened "a|west on the German border town
heavy barrage in support of thelof Wahlerscheid, five miles south-|
attacking doughboys. Patton's 3d army veterans pacing the assault on the West Wall ex-i{vanced almost a mile ygsterday to panded their bridgehead across the| within a few hundred yards of ‘the Our river to a width of seven| town, meeting brisk artillery and
east of Monschau,
Elements of both divisions ad-| °
Action Is fo Purchase of Tract on~ North Side.
A 10-acre tract betweeri Meridian and Illinois sts. and 39th and 40th
Ten outstanding political scientists today made public their suggestions for the modernization and reform of congress,
the Siegfried. defense. bolt ‘on a|t0 the east miles. rifle fire. sts. will be acquired by the city to broad front in the border region of Both the American 1st and 3d| Their vanguards were some five] A few miles to the southeast, | provide a densely-populated North Germany,” Belgium - and Luxem- |8fmies today found many aban-|Miles inside Germany. however, the U. S. 1st infantry and |side area with a park-playfield, Paul : doned German poistions, including 82d airborne division overran scores|V. Brown, parks and recreation
we housing if he jobs where added, } iculty- finding
headed by Will H. Adams, Indian|apolis, after a two-year study. The Republican policy committee
Marine Brig. Gen. Merritt A. wrangled over its provisions for sev-
y Biggest Gaing : o want them. Recommendations included mere| Edson, left, is shown pinning the 1. | bOurg. ti-tank n Na money for congressmen, more ex-| purple heart on Sgt. Eugene shal Weeks and Shpatently as yas The 1st and 3d armies, fighting |S0me in the Siegfried ine. But Te Bikes: 4 ot Siegiriod Dillioses is ahth-te Supetiplendent announced yestere ts 10 help draw up the nation’s Lashbrook. son of Mr. and Mrs. able agree on € propo below the 9th army sector, were elsewhere the Nazis were still put- e ggest gains were carve g y military men per ’ . changes. closing on the Siegfried line's main [UNE UP tough resistance. out at the northern end ¢f the| Many of the enemy positions were| Purchase of the tract is being
laws and a closed working part=| Earl Lashbrook, 428 N. East st.
were here for With the deadline for introducwere able to i ven Capitol Hill and Bt 2 navy hospital in the Cen tion of bills set for Monday, Chair-
i a. c lL \ i - oo n Adams handed his code to ———— 8 “The experts, members of the com-| Sgt. Lashbrook was wounded |D& Ebr : ; en ie ese ted | mittee on congress of the American| on Tn and recently was home [Democratic leaders to get it intro-| ‘one neadquarters announced der: the urgent necessities of the |Langenfeld and Heckhuscheid, seven WEDEMEYER HINTS AT bilities” lost to the city. reported Political Science association, said| on sick leave. He now is at the (duced. Id eliminate ani| Dat Eisenhower and his staft had east. to Sleht ties southeast of Si. Vith, LANDINGS ON CHINA 25,000 In Neighnorhood ¢ The measure would eliminate all |, to /veq with Lt Gen. Omar N.| Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers’ 6th army| More ‘than 100,000° American The superintendent said the site
m—— they had “no secret ax to grind or| naval hespital at Ft. Eustis, Va. ; | L TALK pet : loners from. any active participa. | Bradley, 12th army group coms [group was rolling forward steadily |\700pS Were on the move across or CHUNGKING, Feb. 2 (U. P).—!is available now at cost of abous
* Mr. Brown said, to The southern ‘flank Nazi of- |Pridgehead. found thinly manned or abandoned | “hurried up,” Mr ° The Americans there advanced entirely. prevent it being sold for private (housing and its “recreational possie
works along a 35-mile front, site in the Straseon ig i fensive e asbourg area ap-| ° : Ike Sees Bradley parently had been No ua Ap on a five-mile front to take Gross=1—
pet panacea to promote,” but were| where hi is awaiting Medical dis- sioners from any active participa- up t6 the German frontier on both
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concerned only in suggesting how congrees could function “more efi-
ciently.”
charge.
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—= (tion in election machinery. It would set up full-time election boards to control election machin-
“lation about the gathering. The conference was held. against
the significant background of a
|mander, but permitted little specu- [to its old positions.
Field dispatches said the Germans were abandoning entire sections of their first- line Siegfried
sides of the Our bridgehead. commander of American forces in They were driving ahead on a|china promised today that Japan-
line extending from northeast of ese authorities who expect allied|28,000
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, |$50,000, one-half: of its assessed
valuation. Mr. Brown said approximately persons, including 4700
on “The Life : Thelr Suggestions 2 poses youers’ See ballots Russian drive to the approaches of | defenses. Monschau down almost to the Lux- landings on the China coast “will schoolchildren, live within a mile ut thé month- \ © “Their major suggestions: Yin a oy oo tho een Berlin and American penetrations| They were pulling back into the embourg border town of Vianden. |, + pe disappointed.” radius of the proposed park playe ' Washington { Congressmen should have their| 2 TORTURES DEES an the o_— aint of of the Siegfried works. |main fortifications ‘three to four| The Americans pushed forward| Wedemeyer said recent reports| field. club Feb. 12. | salaries raised from $10,000 to $15. voters” nimes from lists oF 1ailare Its importance was indicated by |miles farther east without a as much as 2% miles in the last 24|of Japanese troop movements along| He said he Spots the Nonulsiien ade 2 sjudy 4 000 a year. fo. vote fi the last election. the fact that it was announced at struggle. hours. the coast and in sealing off the to increase : considera is wy 8 L. Murray © Committees should be veduced in : ————————— Other new bills and resolutions all, for the usual meetings between | At other points, however, the| They were hampered almost as Capfon-Hankow railway indicated | building restrictions are number, consolidated and fully 165 000 Prisoners of Warlintroduced would: commanders go unheralded. enemy was reported fighting stub-|much by a sudden springlike thaw the enemy was preparing against| Necessary legal Joveriiaing fom an equipped with “independent, quali-/|. ’ ONE: Create a Seven mbrmber The announcement specified that 'bornly along the outer ‘fringes of that turned roads and fields into allied landings on the mainland. ‘the purchase will § ursday,
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fled experts” to aid “them in law-
making. There should be twin commit-
ties in both houses each dealing
with some major area of public policy and administration. A legislative council composed of the vice president, house speaker, majority leaders of both houses and committee chairmen of both houses should be set up to plan and coordinate the and promote more. effective co-op-eration with the executive. Major executive agencies should appoint congressional secmetaries,
- much in the manner of the Brit-
ish system, who would devote “their full time” -to liaison with corresponding committees in congress. Time Limits Urged + A Automatic. time limits—"“say six | ‘years"—should be fixed for com-
mittee chairmanships. pat -
All groups whose representatives appear before congressional committees should have to register and record their membership and finances. The latter suggestion was to remedy what the political scientists noted as one of the chief hindrances to good government—‘the
groups which tend to divert legislative emphasis from broad questions of public interest.” In addition to these points, the experts said congressmen had too many local and private matters to attend to, and urged that they rid themselves of work such as governing the District of Columbia and settling private claims,
Pensions Urged They also suggested increased allowances for clerical help and
pensions for congressmen based on | length ot service.
Some of the experts signing the|
report: were Joseph P. Champerlain; professor of public law, Columbia university; Marshall E. Dimock, = professor of political
legislative program
Killed in Lithuania, Probers Report.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U, P).— The Nazis killed - 165,000 Soviet prisoners of war and “shot, burned alive or tortured to -death” more than 300,000 civilians during their occupation of Lithuania, according
to an official Russian report released here today. The report, prepared by an “éxtraordinary state committee” which painstakingly investigated the conduet of Germans in now liberated Lithuania, was published in the Soviet embassy’s information bulletin. It listed, in bold-face type, the names of scores of German 0ccupation officials who “will be called to strict account.”
Stole Everything
The state committee, headed by A. J. Sneckus, deputy to the supreme Soviet of the U. 8. 8. R., found that the Germans stole everything of value they could find in all Lithuania.’ The Nazis destroyed universities, libraries, and other cultural institutions, and persécuted and in many rinstances. murdered Lithuanian intellectuals. Among the refinements of torture practiced by the Nazis, the report said, was the stripping of civilians and forcing them to dig ditches naked in bittér cold weather. They then were “shot dow by tommy guns and rifles.” Before retreating, the Germans methodically wrecked as many homes and public buildings as possible, the report said.
SPEEDY 0K, IS SEEN FOR GEORGE'S BILL
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science, Northwestern university; tion when it is taken up March y
Pendleton Herring,
secretary of | it seemed doubtful #hat they again
Harvard university's school of pub- could muster the vote by which they
lic administration, and
Meyer | almost “forced a decision on the
Jacobstein, general counsel of the | | nomination yesterday..
senate special cdmmittee on post- |
Widespread sentiment among both
“ war economic policy and planning | Republicans and Democrats indi-
and a staff member of Brookings | institution,
SNOW DUE TO FOLLOW ON GROUND HOG DAY
{cated that the house would follow
| the lead of the senate in passing
the George bill to remove the reconstruction finance corporation and
allied agencies from the commerce |
department. The senate passed the bill yester-
The outlook for Mr. Greund Hog day by a vote of 74 to 12 following was pretty gloomy today as the the Pattern adopted by Wallace sup-
«weather chief forecast partly cloudy skies, followed by very light snow tonight. .
And with the prdeiction that the
little animal may not see his shadow came ‘the promise of rising temperatures today and tonight. The mercury climbed from one ‘above zero to 19 yesterday and went back dewn to 8 at 3 a. m. today. According to the five-day forecast, temperatures in the, state tomorrow through Tuesday will average near normal, Precipitation will be moderate, occurring’ as frequent light snow. Rain is seen on the map for the southern portion of Jndiana Sunday,
MOTHER OF 6 GI'S TO CHRISTEN SHIP.
porters once they became convinced that the former vice president could not be confirmed if the loan agencies remained in the depart= ment, Pro-Wallace forees averted an immediate vote on th: nomination by
an extremely close division and the|
senate then passed the George bill. After senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky read a letter from President Roosevelt announcing he would approve a divorce of the R. F. C. and the department of commerce, the senate adopted Barkley’s motion to postpone the nomination until March 1 to give the house and the President time to act on the George bill. ] Chairman Brent Spence of the
{house banking committee said the
group probably would begin considering the George bill lat: next or
Mrs, J. B, Pfister of Terre Haute, 'early the following week.
mother of six sons in the armed | forces, will christen the U. 8. S.| Terre Haute tomorrow at Portland, Ore, One of the sons, Pfc. Leo M. Pfister, has been a patient at Billings - hospital since May, having been injured after 26 months’ seryice in Panama. Lt. Paul Pfister, “havy pilot, now stationed at Whidley island, Wash, who served 14 months in Guadalcanal, will repre~ sent his brothers at the ceremonies. The others are: Pvt, William Pfister with the field artillery in Europe, Lt, Charles Pfister, in engineering corps of the 7th army, and 8. 1-c Robert Pfister of an LST outfit in the Philippines.
HOUSE PASSES BILL REVAMPING WELFARE
The highly controversial bill, No. 33, which would revamp the state welfare department regulations was | ge passed by the house this afternoon, 69 to 27, with the entire G. O. P. majority supporting it. 3 The bill, which would abolish the |* present centralized controlled system over paroles and empower the state to recover property owned by welfare recipients ‘after their deaths, has been bitterly opposed | Louis by civic groups and labor leaders.
em pete. STAMP CLUB TO MEET. Tr Ite er Tid look tonight. in the Ant-1,
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BERNARD VISITS FAMILY
Edward Alton Bernard, who has | Just completed boot training at {Great Lakes, Ill, is visiting his wife and children at 719% E. 25th st. and his mother, Mrs. Bessie Langford, 1016 Tecumseh st.
legislation commission to investigate all liquor and beér sales and distribution in Indiana. TWO: Eliminate “fixing” of traffic stickers in Indianapolis by having an audit made of them by the state board of accounts. Rep. Earl Teckemeyer, who introduced the bill, said it was designed to “crack down” on the “big fish that always escape
paying stickers.”
THREE: Appropriate $2,000,000 during the next 10 years for a complete topographical survey of Indiana. FOUR: Authorize all communities in Indiana to establish slum clearance commissions to purchase blighted areas and redevelop them with private capital the same as a similar bill introduced for Indianapolis. ~~» FIVE: Create a state flood control and water resources commission, appropriating $100,000 a year to hire an engineering .staff, SIX: Establish a legislative commission to study the need for a crippled ~ children’s hospital in southern Indiana. SEVEN: Exempt servicemen and women from paying tuition fees to enter state colleges and universities. EIGHT: Creates new state department of veterans’ affairs with
—a—four-member,=bi-partisan—board
empowered to hire a director at $6000 a year. NINE: Appropriate $4800 to hire a public defender .for criminal court,
Bring a Cookie, '‘N' Dance Awhile
CRACKERS, jelly, peanut butter or cookies will provide admission to the U. 8. O. dance to be held from 3:45 to 5 p. m. to-
day in the Technical high school girls’ gymnasium. The food will be used to supply the Wabash servicemen’s center: “Spring Green” has been selected ‘by a student committee as the senior class play to be given April 19, 20, 24 and » in Stuart hall. . An ‘instrumental trio éomposed of Tech pupils played at a tea for legislative women held in the governor's mansion yesterday afternoon. *
Begs for Nurses
For Luzon Heroes
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2 (U. P.). —Rescue of 513 prisoners from a Japanese * prison camp in the Philippines-by American Rangers; today brought a new plea for nurses from Maj. Edith A. Aynes, chief of the technical information army nurse corps brancn, “Every one of those ‘rescued prisoners will need medical care, most for a long time,” Maj. Aynes said in urging new enlistments to the armed forces nugsing tinits. < “We've got to have nurses, If a draft bill is the only way, I'm eager for it, But I believe if the nursing profession ever realizes the tremendous need there will be enough volunteers.”
On to Berlin
By UNITED PRESS The nearest distances to Berlin from allied lines today: EASTERN FRONT-—-30 to 39 miles (from northwest of Kustrin, by German report). WESTERN FRONT-—296 miles (from point southeast of Nijmegen).
IN INDIANAPOLIS
EVENTS TODAY Indiana City ana Town Euperintendents association, Sonveniion, Lincoln hotel. Indiana chapter, Western section, International PE _of Electrical In- ' spectors, convention, Antlers hotel. Mutual Insurance com any, Union of Indiana, convention, Sayrool hotel. |r Delia Theta, luncheon, Columbia club,
Indianapolis Town Hall, English’s, 11 a. m.
EVENTS TOMORROW Indiana City and Town (Superintendents’ AtsocijLion, Lincoln hot Del Tau . Hneuin. hotel,
MARRIAGE LICENSES Hic nd Shusiasich, U. 8. army; , “402 Western,
me Billy Town Ger hart, U. 8 n 3 fo 2355 N. Alabama. avy; Ciara a 3368 Jasin; Betty Jeanne nthro, 1 Robert Dunlap, Beech Grove; Cath Schrongham, 1866 N
nin, ker, Plainfield; Betty ‘Jane
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BIRTHS
Girls Robert, Mildred Talbert, at St. Francis. Fred, Mary Westfall, at Coleman. Gerald, Mary Carrier, at St. Vincent's. Theo, Cora Boger, at Embhardt. Wendell, Monta Fowler, at Emhstdts Gerald, Pauline Phillips, at Emhardt, Boys .
Opal, Elizabeth Hert, at St. jy1anchs ma , Josephine Carpenter, at "St. Vinent’s, rville, Ruth Cantrell, at Emhards, arl, Mary Dickerson, at Emhardt. Emil, Opal Kissell, at Emhardt. Ryman, Ella Mitchel, at 2701 N. Temple,
DEATHS Astia J Mercutio, 8, at 908 8. New Jer Aly ah Hugh Lawrence, 70, at Methodist,
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