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VOLUME 5—NUMBER. 294

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TIMES EXCLUSIVES . . . By Our Own Writers

McLean Dinner To Place Truman In High Society,

By EVELYN PEYTON GORDON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb: 17.—It's a long *long way from the plow handles in a Missouri cornfield to the vice presidency of the United States. It's equally a long way from a .haberdasher’s shop to the home of Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, Harry Truman has successfully traveled both distances. Tonight he, with Mrs. Truman and their daughter Margaret, will be the honor guests, at a huge

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dinner in Friendship, the fabulous Georgetown home of the ownerlof the even more fabulous , Hope diamond. The men, including the vice president will wear uniforms or dinner jackets, since white ties have been “out” since the beginning of the ‘war. But the women will dress in their elaborate best. Nearly 200 guests, drawn from many, cities and many circles of society will sit dowp at tables of 10 each to eat a magnificent dinner served by a Baltimore caterer

Weekly Sizeup by the Washington taff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers §

WASHINGTON, Feb.

17.—Don’t imagine it will be

over soon in the Pacific, even if we force the Jap fleet out

of hiding, sink it.

Elimination of Jap air force and airplane plants will still be necessary before the way to Tokyo is open.

and including Maryland's finest

epicurean offering, Diamond back !

terrapin. The McLean gold Service won't be used, unless possibly for the main table at which the. hostess ‘and guest of honor will sit. Such large dinners are too much even for thé gold service which is sufficient for $0. Twenty-six Democrats,

senators, some

some Republicans,

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TOP QUINTETS

DRAW UPPER

BRACKET SPOT

Howe’s Defending Champs

Ticketed With Less-Re-

“AND IWO JIMA ISLANDS, JAPS SAY

Banquet to Climax Manual's Celebration Tonight

Navy Blasts Smokin Tokyo for 8}

‘Hours in 2d Raid; Indiana 38th Leads Recapture of Bataan.

By UNITED PRESS

An avalanche of American sea, air and ground forces rocked the Japanese today from Manila to their capital of Tokyo. 2 Enemy broadcasts reported: that American forces: ONE: Made.two landings on Iwo Jima, 750 miles south of Tckyo. TWO: Invaded historic Corregidor in Manila bay. THREE: Bombed Tokyo itself for the second straight day. ; FOUR: Raided Hachijo, in the Izu islands, 200 miles south of Tokyo, since yesterday morning. Official American sources confirmed only the carrierbased raids on Tokyo and a continuing air-naval bombardment of Iwo Jima in the Volcanos. Tokyo claimed the American landings on Iwo and

garded Teams. nn Corregidor were carried out today. Luther Hittle (right) came all the way from Akron, O., to help Manual observe its golden jubilee | one 4

The fate of the draw cast the top| yesterday at the school and today at Scottish Rife cathedral. Joining in the reunion of the 1915 class vos d f|contenders for the Indianapolis, are (left to right) Miss Alvaretta Stoddard, Mrs. Eleanor Pollock Lacey, Edward Lacey, class of '12, and TWO Landings Made {crown in the upper bracket of the! Mrs. Hittle. 4 ~ On Iwo, Foe Reports _ By WILLIAM F. TYREE By UNITED PRESS

sectional pairings as teams awaited {firing in the annual state” Heb) United Press Staff Correspondent American troops invaded ADM. NIMITZ'S HEAD- the historic fortress island of QUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 17. Corregidor at the entrance to —Radio Tokyo reported that Manila bay by air and sea toAmerican invasion forces day, Radio Tokyo reported. ; ‘stormed ashore today on Iwo| “Fierce battles now are Silesian Capital Doomed, island, only 750 miles south raging on the southern shores of ; taf» 4 of Tokyo. the island,” a Tokyo domestic Observers Hint; Konev | Hecrile carrier planes still broadcast said. Battles Ahead. | were blasting the smoking Japanese| Paratroops opened the assault, By ROBERT MUSEL | capital itself for the second straight swarming down on the island from United Press Staff Correspondent : jaar transport, planes, Tokyo said. LONDON, Feb. 17.—The German Only, the carrier-based raids on| Soon afterward sea-borne forces high command said today that a Tokyo and a continuing air-naval {reportedly stormed ashore from Russian siege army had broken in

to| bombardment of Iwo were con- assault-landing barges. ed b official American sources, Breslau, encircled apital of Silesia. |r ire 3 Bataan Captured Other reports indicated that the|developments:

apanese radio told of these ba the Japa " * The reported combined operation industrial city of more then 600,000| . yn the Volcano lasids- American

And note how long Germany has ‘held out with greatly crippled alr force.

But the naval war's nearly over, our men think, U. S, navy is’ { *spoiling” for a fight, is chestily confident it will have little trouble sending the Jap fleet to the bottom of the Pacific.

Some think Spruance’s armada alone could finish off everything the Japs have left. { Complete high school basket-

; Naval spokesmen believe the Yams still have a_powerful air force | Jal teafament Paicings, Page 9; left, that it will put up its greatest fight as the battle lines move | Hoden Gloves inal results, Pages. 1 BRESLAL' NAZIS - | x { « into the Jap home islands. | school basketball tourney opening Pn | 1 | ? 3 ; ; | | . . hd ; re

Air-Sea Attack on ‘Rock’ Described

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Navy is guarded in talking about future plans, but no one doubts Thursday. there's big stuff ahead: Howe's defending champions were | matter: of days. alone in the lower bracket. with Battle over who shall be over-all commander of advance on less-regarded contenders. (Continued on Page 2—Column 1) Board of control members sidled away from the table to allow local newspapermen to draw that one, with disastrous results for the hopes of some of the favorites. In that rugged top eight were Broad Ripple’s once-beaten Rockets, Tech's powerhouse, the Ben Davis county tourney champs, Manual's upset-minded Redskins |and a Shortridge quintet which had

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Opposite the , Andiana

that big announcements may come in a Theater ‘

JOOSIER VAGABOND By Ernie Pyle Men Fighting One War Pay Little Attention to Other

N THE MARIANAS ISLANDS, (Delayed) .—Now we are far, far

important war. .ably it is.

And unquestion-

followed by only a few hours Gen. Douglas MacArthur's announce-

away from everything that was home or seemed iike home. Five thousand miles from America, and 12,000 miles from my friends fighting on the German border. Twelve thousand miles Sidi Bou Zid and Venafro and Troina and. St. Mere Eglise— names as unheard of on this side of the world as are Kwajalein and Chichi Jimi and Ulithi on the other side. . The Pacific nanfes are all new to me, too, except the outstanding ones. For those fighting one war

from -°

“We came to the Marianas by airplane from Honolulu. The weather was perfect, and yet so

left Honolulu, it was only the day before. We came in the same kind of plane that brought us from California —a huge, - four-motored Douglas transpory,

Li. Cmdr. off our neckties and put on our

WALLACE BLOC IS ENCOURAGED

‘Democrats See Trend Their

There are seven Kings in this Manual deck and these three will be on hand tonight. Mr. and Mrs. John E. King, class of 1905, inspect: the 1926 class banner of daughter Lillian King Hanske. Three sons, Lt. Frank King, '38; Lt. David King, '35, and Capt. John King, '32 are in the army, but anether .daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Meier, '29, will attend the reunion, (More photos, Page 7) » » » " "n »

King |

Moscow dispatches said the Red air force was carrying out one of | two landings only 10 minutes apart. its greatest campaigns of the war [Tokyo added the customary claim over the Oder, Neisse and Spree that the troops had been * ‘repulsed” |

[ valleys. Planes Spread Havoc planes

Fighting off German

shifted from the Western front; the Russian Of Hachilo,

Soviet reports said,

ment of the reconquest of Bataan.

on the Oder was doomed. It roops swarmed over the southwest

and southeast beaches of Iwo after A

by the |after fierce fighting. | In the Izu islands—At least 200 | American carrier planes have been attacking the stepping stone island

Pad

n amphibious landing Thursday the “Indiana” 38th division on tip of ‘the peninsula, five miles

{north of Corregidor, led to the relcapture of Bataan. The landing was led by Col. Ralf

dock, Frankfort, Ind. under

Brig. Gen. William C. Chase, El

200 miles south of pass Tex.

flown by the " naval air transport service. | As soon as we were in the air | Max Miller and I took |

| Way After Saving George 5000 Alimni From Teens Bill by a Squeak.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Scripps-Howard Staft Writer

airmen blasted German air fields: | They spread havoc through

By MILDRED KOSCHMANN and behind the front.

Tokyo, since early yesterday.

Chase: was promoted to command

In Japan—Hundreds of American of the 38th division—largely com-

{enemy communications, and scat- carrier planes, attacking in waves {posed of Hoosiers, including many oO 60’ S Ta e Part i In Jubi fn tered troop concentrations along! lan hour and a half apart, raided |Indianapolis men — after leading | Tokyo for at least eight and a half [the dramatic liberation of allied - Red Star, Soviet military journal, hours today following yesterday's | prisoners from the Santo Tomas

do -not pay much attention to the other war. Each one thinks his war is the worst and the most

(Class of 1939) sdid that for three successive days| |raid of nine to 10 hours. [concentration camp a few weeks Five thousand alumni-from their .teens to their 60's will blow out the Russians flew 10,000 sorties’ a| A Tokyo broadcast at 9:06 p. m.|ago. the last candles on the Manual birthday cake tonight to climax the! | day’, | (7:06 a. m. Indianapolis time) said] “We have captured Bataan,” Macgala celebration of the school’s golden jubilee. | A front dispatch to Pravda said|the air raid warning was still con-| Arthur announced in a triumphant . Ang while alumni talk over old times at the Scottish Rite cathedral, | |Russian mobile forces had broken |tinuing in the Tokyo- Yokohama communique. the pupils still will be rejoicing over their team’s gift to Manual, a through to thé Neisse river on -a | area “because of an unknown object| Less than 48 hours after the TT 7|29-26 vietory last night over Howe|pbroad front reaching within 12/in the southern. waters.” | landing, all the peninsula's mili- | Hoosier Heroes— high school’s basketball team. miles of Cottbus. This is a major| Fourteen minutes later Tokyo said | tarily-important objectives were in what they saw as a trend their way. Spurred on- by cheering young- pase in the southeastern defenses! American hands. sters and old-time fans, the squad | of Berlin. MacArthur's troops were pursutook their first game from Howe The 12-mile advance crumbled ling the disorganized enemy over

For them, the George bill test was |tne toughest of the session, because DEMOSS DIES FROM Ir J A » in. eight clashes. e same INJURIES IN CRASH More than 700 loyal Manualites| | (Continued on Page ' =Column 4) Col. Paddock of April 11, 1942, some 30,000 Amerid Frankfort Led

{in previous close floor battles they've been aided by a considerable debegan recalling their high school! rcans and Filipinos laid down their ays and their pranks, behind | jarms. teacher's back ‘yesterday at & PLUNGING CANADIANS | South side building. Botoromn Invaders THE. NAME of Ralf Paddock |

3 |fection in Republican ranks. and Vincente Lombardo Tole- | But they drew only two votes from It was on Bataan that they be- ' gan their tragic Death March to Eight More From Here Names of .classes dating back | to 1895 were written in the Sx book and hundreds more wil : i was on the lips of residents of “A Frankfort, Ind. today

dano, of Mexico, representing | | Republican ranks yesterday as they Camp O'Donnell, Listed as Wounded. down as jubilee guests today. - For Col: Ralf Paddeck, who led

houses slippers West of Pearl | - WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—House (Continued on Pane YColuitin 1) | PemotTatic leaders, catching their Ea | breath after the tight squeak by which they saved the George bill— and presumably Henry Wallace's

cabinet job—were cheered today by |

ABOR . .. By Fred W. Perkins

Thomas Meets King, Shoke: Hands ‘Like We Do in U.S.

INDON, Feb. 17. — Royal recognition for the world trade union conference, meeting in London, was given yesterday by the king and queen of England. Among those summoned to Buckingham palace was R. J. Thomas, chairman of the C. I. O. delegation; V, V. Kuznetsov, of Russia; George Isaacs, of England; Chu Hsueh Fan, of China,

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Monty Slugs Twe Two Miles in Siegfried Line.

By BOYD D. LEWIS

n » u n " ”

NEWS. ANALYSIS . . . By Hal 0} Flaherty Europe's Fear of Russians

Rises in Wake of Big 3 Pact

By HAL O'FLAHERTY

Times Foreign News Analyst

startled Japanese fought

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RUSS MAY FREE 27 LOCAL MEN IN REICH

Latin Aleriea., _,-|defeated the attempt to send the There wasn't much formality | Geurge bill back to committee and about it," said Mr. Thomas, who |block the Wallace appointment as Big Invasion Convoy - worked with his hands for years | secretaty of commerce. , \ before becoming head ‘of the | The vote was 204 to 196. Covered by the big guns of the United Automobile: Workers. Leaders said the house Demestyfyy A Mooresville man died. Wednes-; “Carl F. Brandt, president of the | U. 8. Tth fleet and the bombs and “We went into a big room. a |organization is beginning to JAY from, injliries received the da¥|school” board, and a 1908 ‘alumnus; | bullets of hundreds of American " |function better for three | before in-a plane crash here in.the|was the first to sign the register! { . into Bataan. s |Varplanes. a big invasion convoy (Continued on Page 7—Column 8) | reasons: s | states. He was on his way home [while the names of Felicia Adams | Americas Sarees 3 ’ [swept into the mouth of Manila ONE: The Democrats have been | | Leeds, January ‘02; Bess Sherman | a Frankfort boy. {bay dt dawn Thursday to spill tanks, “nothi [OF an Smergéncy Jenve Night In-/ | Lo J '02; Eunice M.| Frankfort residents not only treo and ns ashore at Mariwinning fights, and “nothing suc-|g4ianapolis men have been wounded | Lorenz, January n United Press 8(aff Carrespondent ahh Ps gu ceeds like ‘success.” | Hoefgen, June '96, and Emily” Helm- | . { were proud of the non-com who |veles. on the battle fronts. . PARIS, Feb. 17.—Canadian Ist| TWO: A considerable number of| ing, '95, were written on the. fol-| de hi > i ank | The KILLED lowing pages. |armhy troops plunged forward more Made his way up in army r Signalman 3-¢ Harry DeMoss,, Among distinguished guests was|than two miles in the northern in the nagonal guard unit -in the RY An Mooresville, in California, ~'|Roy Howard, president of The In- | section of the Siegfried line today.| town. but were jubilant over the LIVE BY 23RD PSALM v |dianapolis Times Publishing Co, They cut the Goeh-Calcar high-| Victorious entrance by a unit in WOUNDED and. a member of the Manual Halll | way, and closed. within a little, Which Frankfort men were in the VETERAN, 104, URGES _ etc. john M. Dellinger, 121 Wis- | more than a mile of both Goch and Majority. ; have revived the bitt don | ‘ consin st., in Germany. (Continued on Page 2==Colwmm 4) Calcar, twin German strongholds. Col. Paddock is believed still to of the past. Even the WEY of 105 ANGELER, Feb. 11 (I. PJ! Ble. Leo J. Shaffner, 5641 Green- Field Marshal Sir Bernard Mont-| be heading hse ad fotany of ‘ : made up of Frankfort the Crimea evokes a picture of |CPPt: John Alden Howell celebrates go)4 ave in Germany.

|gomery's forces overran stiff resis-| <the 38th,

EUROPE definitely is afraid of the agreement reached this week ‘at’ Yalta. * Ancient enmities arise like ghosts to haunt the minds

the original home of the Goths. The lesser nations cannot believe that Britain and the United

NAZI WITHDRAWAL

tance and flooded battlegrounds.

| men who were federalized with

Word came from London today

his 104th birthday tomorrow with | the same philosophy of life that | he developed when he was a boy,

Pvt. Armon Willharber, 330 E. Morris st., in Germany.

| Pvt. Fred Birk, R. R. 8, Box 365, |

IN ITALY-IS SEEN:

By UNITED PRESS

They threw their lower Rhineland offensive into high gear, First army troops were fighting |

the national guard in 194}. The leader of the historic landing: served as a non-com in world

that the Russians have freed Sagan, location ofeStalag Luft III, in which 27 Indianapolis men have

States are capable of dealing with the realistic policies of the Kremlin or reaching a compromise .of enduring worth,

riding beside “Stonewall” Jackson in the civil war. “If you want to ‘be 104, make

the 23d Psalm part of your daily

war I and became interested in national guard work when he returned to managing his retail shoe store here.

been held prisoners by the Germans. However, the Germans may have moved the prisoner camp dur-ing-the Russ advance.

in the Philippines. | Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, com-ion three sides of Goch, keystone Pic. william R. Lisby, ad Frmd of allied troops in Italy, iq base of the German defense front. | Orange st., in Prance. the people of northern Italy in 3| Infantry and tanks pushing along| | special message last night that Ger-|tne road from Kleve wefe Sloning}

now trying to weigh the: effects of the treaty signed by the three greater allies binding them in a grand alliance.

Shot through the millions of words of comment on the Crimea agreement is the fear of Soviet Russia. : The Poles, the french, the Italfans and the Vatican feel deeply the impact of the Russian triumphs military. and political, Their lives and their thought cannot immediately accept the facts. All ideas surging from the east

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Amusements. , Business ..... Churches .... 12

10| Movies 41 Obftaties ik Radio

11 {county line,

Obviously, Europe in general has not yet realized that the compromise between eastern and

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SNOW ONLY TOUCHES MARION COUNTY LINE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 10a, m

“THe snowfall which hit the Cen- |

10 tral states last night covered In-| . 10 diana as far north as the Marion the weather bureau

Comics”. ...... 11 Mrs, Roosevelt 7 [said today.

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Editorials a s Simms". , ..., 6 Sports «+ 3|8tokes Peau 8 oT Al Williams ..

% sao wee

today and Evansvilie is

6 police reported a light snowfall at|

! 1 Waverly on the southern Jing, of; Won New, 5 M ity.

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life, eat three square meals a day,

keep your chin up and your temper under control,” he said, Capt.. Howell is reported to be the oldest living officer of the Confederate army, the oldest retired

lawyer and the oldest Free Mason

in America, “

Sgt. Arthur B. Farmer, 609 Pros-| ..,n withdrawal from their country

pect st, in Belgium. Pfc. Marshall R, West, 1322 Shepard st., in Belgium.

st., in Belgium. (Detalls, Pag Page Four)

appeared-“more and more likely.”

against Calcar.

The. advance across the road

“The message, quoted by the Rome | inking the strongholds weakened

{radio in a broadcast reported bY|the German grip on both.

Pvt. Robert V. Hirt, 2725 N. Gale | the FCC, said the withdrawal might A third town, Uedem, was

be. planned in view of allied ad-|ihreatened by the drive across the |

vances on the Eastern and Western

‘fronts,

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He was a major when the 152d went to Camp Shelby for training and since that time has been promoted to full colonel. His wife, Mrs. Leatha Irwin Paddock, and his two children reside with his mother-in-law, Mrs. C. C. Irwin, in Frankfort.

The Nazi command admitted the loss of Sagan, key city of the Bere lin-Breslau railway and on the | Bober river to the 1st Ukranian army which is driving west toward | Detsden and nartwes, lowsrg Ber. lin,

Hiram Richardson, Hero of Thrilling Flood Rescue in 1904, Killed By vy Ato BULLETIN

Hiram Richardson, hero of one

of the most thrilling flood rescues recorded in Indianapolis history, metr death early today at 16th st, near Milburne st. less than @&ne-half block from the spot where the rescue story

i began in 1004, Two. inches of snow cover Terre | + v6 Haute 8 blanketed with one inch. State

Mr. Richatdson, who was a,

of 1020 W. 18th st, wis killed at

12:25. 2 ue when he ran into the path a car driven by Marine Sgt. James Davis, 23, of RR T,

Thé marine and # passenger in his car4old police Mr. Richardson

‘and apparently failed to see the car. The driver said he swerved "too late to avoid the pedestrian. «Mr. Richardson,. who was

: knocked 30 feet from the spot

where he wis struck, was dead on arrival of the police, The name of the accident Vietim_on ‘thie polite. blotter struck a Tipaniive Shord_in. the mid.

Oliver, who recalled the story of Mr. Richardson's heroism in the flood of March, 1804. PRE Mr. Richardson and “Doc” Smith maneuvered a boat in swift water covering the ‘from Fall Creek down to 10th street to ‘rescue three persons ‘given up as lost.

The episode began when “Tom ; . ‘Barnaby Sr, and Dennis Fletchér two sisters, ‘the late Mrs.

area

1114 Blaine ave., from their home at 16th and Montcalm, where they were trapped by flood waters. The boat carrying the four persons was swept down to 10th. st, near Indiana ave, by the current and was attempting to land there ‘when. the levee broke,

. capsizing the boat. Thrown into the swirling, wa

LONDON, Feb. 17 ,(U, P.) ~The Smith managed to take a "boat attle of East Prussia entered its into the torrent. : ; Fears tric k e n ‘spectators

watched the men . risk. being

to pick up the two men and Mrs. Hartley. Mrs. Bremerman had

been carriad off by the current

and’ drowned. After the victims were in the Mr. Richardson,

an i | sack dashed against the pole and trees E ¥ |