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By WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD A NAVY LIBERATOR BOMBER, OVER IWO JIMA; Feb. 19 (Via navy radio).—Tiny, tough Iwo Jirha was ablaze from end to end totlay as our bomber dropped down into its battle smoke to watch wave after wave of marines plough ashore from an 800-ship invasion armada for a showdown fight in the enemy's front

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1945

yard, From 1000 feet above the beachhead, it was obvious that the marines had a terrific battle on their hands, Even as the mighty battleships, eruisers and destroyers circled endlessly, sending crushing salvoes into the volcanic slopes of the island, I could see marines dashing for cover on the rocky southeastern beach. Some were far inland toward the airstrip.

underground defenses. Twice as we swung over Mt. Suribachi's crater at the south end of the island and around the northern wooden section, the Japanese gave us bursts of anti-aircraft. As we approached the island, hundreds of small craft moved toward the beach, unleashing thousands of rockets. Waves of marines followed within 45 minutes.

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Iwo itself logked like a fat pork chop sizzling on the skillet as carrier planes swept in under us, strafing and bombing every installation they could find. One fighter crashed in flames just inland from where the marines sfruggled to consolidate their beachhead. In the calm waters off the island, hundreds of ships maneuvered endlessly while old prewar battleships—New

However, the Japanese

PLANNING FOR RETURNING VETERANS—

Churches Here to Expand, Spend $3,000,000 for New

Buildings and Improvements

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER . Times Church Editor

WITH THE COMING eof peace, Indianapolis Catholic, Protestant

and Jewish congregations will begin construction and property im-

provement to cost between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000. . The’ program to follow Jifting of building restrictions surpasses anything the city has ever seen In church expansion, The buildings will be erected in aff parts of the city. They will

. The picturesque Methodist Church of the wildwood, Union chapel, 8301 Haverstick road, will be replaced by a modern building if postwar planners’ aims go through.

range in ‘type from the small $10,000 church to one representing an investrhent of $300,000. Parsonages, educational and recreational buildings, new wings to present structures, heating plants, organs and extensive repairs all are envisioned.

{thought any pay hikes would be}

CITY WORKERS AWAIT RULING ON PAY BOOST

‘Garbage Hauling’ Strike Threat Relayed to Attorney General.

Fate of the city's threatened garbage collection strike was shifted {into the hands of the Indiana atItorney” general today. | Following a hearing this morn-: ing, the state tax board requested {the attorney general's office to de{termine the legality of a 10-cent-an-hour salary increase voted | {garbage collectors by city council] {on Feb. 5. | Assistant City Controller "Larry | Parsons told the tax board that he!

law] for the

Indjana increases during

unauthorized since prohibits “salary” municipal employees budget year. . Board Sees Loophole The board, however, thought fit] might be possible to construe garbage and ash collection payments as “wages” instead of “salary,” and thus indirectly authorize the boost. Reminded by Chief State Accountant Otto K. Jensen that “peo|ple are clamoring for collection

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MARINES STORM INLAND ON IWO, ‘DOOR T0 TOKYO,” IN BITTER F IGHT

1 okyo Blasted By Record Force Of B 29’

KEY FORTRESS

SCOTS WINNING “IN WEST WALL

Two-Thirds of Goch Cleared;

3d Cracks Ahead

Inside Reich,

By BOYD D. LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent

“PARIS, Feb. 19.—Scottish troops cleared two-thirds of the West Wall fortress of Gech today. They closed in from two sides on| the companion stronghold of Calcar

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300. -Ship Armada Puts 30,000 Yanks on

Key Isle; 36 Japanese Vessels, 659 Planes Smashed.

By FRANK TREMAINE

. United Préss War Correspondent

| ADM. NIMITZ’ S HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 19.—Two divisions of U, S. marines—30,000 men ' —stormed Iwo island from an 800-ship armada today ‘in a fight to the death. KITA IWO. VOLCANO IS. Within the first two hours of bitter combat: they had 1 w0 Jima [TRPIVIER established a 4500-yard long heachead. > | It extended inland 500° yards. to the edge of Suribachi MAY | | Yama airfield. : PAGAN The operation is procesding satisfactorily, Fleet Adm. |] THAN ry A | Chester W. Nimitz said in his fourth communique of the day.

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|service,” Mr. Parsons replied that | MARIANAS IS. : hes Architects’ drawings, accumulated war bonds and bank deposits 'the city “possibly will be able to|barring the road to Germany's in-| |e GUAM Resistance Increases Sfter Pe AIGIY 3 HAL the Yahioue as bh . wi ine te | take care of that, even if collectors] dustrial Ruhr valley. Frama LUI0h Resistance from. the trapped enemy was increasing as » MOTiIgages re have been burn clear the way IOr sirike.” Fierce, close-in fighting raged - Ww CE the materialization of dreams of new churches. He said that Mayor Tyndall would | through the ruins of Goch tonight. : | the veteran marines pushed inland with flame-throwers. | The religious press expresses the opinion that new or improved [muster street repair forces for col-| The Scots battled with knife, 2¢ PHILIPPINE CAROLINE Is. | The tiny eight-square-mile island, doorstep to Tokyo,” at Grant church buildings will convey a definite message to the returning |lection duties, if the regular collec | {grenade and flame-throwers to wipe) South : > is 750 miles from the Japanese capital. 3, Minister service mah. ' , tors walk-out, as has been threat- out the remaining pockets of re-|- Chino i :40 A. M.: It is hoped that the veteran will see in these an expression of |ened. | sistance in the southern and south- Sea Two hours after the initial landing the marines had SELP DENIAL® ¢ Gratitude to him for his sacrifices to preserve religious freedom as | The tax board thought, however, astern end of the town. | pushed inland on an average of 500 yards. 30 to 7:30 ‘well as the desire to help THT Temttfust™vs civilian fife with the aid of {that a general “sympathy” strike Nuzis Being Mopped Up “Phe defenses ‘of Suribachi Yama- “airstrip were pene [l Visitors i adequate “church ‘homes. might ensue among all city laborers| - en TS trated east of the field, the communique added. Protestants of ‘12 different denominations will build 30 new |if the collectérs struck. : A few Nazi snipers and machine Marines ‘battled inland today on Iwo Jima, Japan's inner defense q oe HODIST churches. Catholics have purchased Teal estate on which to place new Another Plea Pending gunners were reported holed up on| bastion in the Velcano islands. The map shows how the Japanese | A pooled dispatch from the invasion flagship said hidht 3 A . 1 | both sides of the Niers river in the] home islands, plus Korea, Shanghai and Formosa, would be within ‘den Japanese artillery and mortars were pouring a deadly ROWNING : It was also revealed at the hedr-| center of Goch, but they were com-| range of U. S. bombers based on Iwo. In addition, its capture would | . ; : . 4 i : a OWN ing that street Separiment Che| Pietely surrourided and were being| relieve Saipan, Tinian and Guam (Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ new \crossfire at- the attacking marines. American casualties 6 P M9 P.M ployees had already peu oned the. ,nned up rapidly. ) base) from air ride. (Another map, Page Thies) were ‘‘considerable,” the dispatch’ said. city for a pay raise and are eager-| pyelq. dispatches indicated that . ETHODIST ly awaiting the decision of the ine fa) of the town, one of the Gunners Rooted Out JON ROAD stale tax board. main bastions in the Maas- -Rhine| € f tf F /] U No The: di ich’ added. howev that th : lowl RAKE Those attending the session voiced ‘bottleneck, was imminent. di uper Orrs roiliow P avy e dispatch added, however, that the marines slowly School. fear that allowance of a wage hike| goo miles to the northeast, |were rooting out the concealed enemy gunners and that the Service, lto the collectors would bring a de-| ther Scottish troops fighting under | f tl fact ih Service, Oller Be verall progress of the invasion was satisfactory. se luge of pay .hposts requests, and'ie panner of the Canadian 1s Smash af Japan’ S Capital 0 all p g (ETHODIST thus. endanger the city's budget... "to ont their way down the a Our meri*hre scattered all over hell's acre out there,” oi Tntiensbuit) Parsons said he doubted Kieve-Calcar highway into the town| . 2(ST BOMBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Guam, Feb. 19 Marine Lt. Gen. Holland M. Smith said. AN. Minister whether. a pay raise for collectors| of Moviand, barely two miles north- | (U. P.).—The largest force of Superfortresses. ever assigned to the Japan| “They're after those hidden Jap guns which are mighty nd 7:30 p. m. woud “solve the’ problem.” He ex x. | West of Calcar. run bombed Tokyo and its industrial neighborhood in a followup raid | d to locat iolained that many collectors ad) Far to the south, the American today to Vice Adm. Marc Mitscher’s two-day carrier strikes, ~ har 0 locate, t Aethodist ID a issatisfied with the cily's ate|3d 8rmY advanced a half-mile or | A second force of B-206 thundered out from bases in India today and | “Most of those guns are in caves. They come out and STREET tempt to place them on “a stab-|TCre into the West wall along a| pombe military and’ communications targets on the Malay 1 the Malay peninsula. = five or six rounds and then go back’ into hiding.” ROWN, Minister |ilized monthly wage scale.” He 30-mile front between Pruem my THe Japanese capital, third city | Th beachhead exténded orthwa d alooy th .9:30 a.m. Parishioners of Forest Manor Methodist church, 34th st. and 510 informed the board that city | ocr ernach. lin the world, still was smoking from | e marine heachhead extended n rd along tne

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Forest Manor, will move from their converted residence when it is possible for them to build a new church. : churches. Jewish congregations will erect a large temple, an educational building and perhaps other buildings,

Future plans of the Protestant churches were first revealed by a |

[trucks were -obliged to round up some 30 or 40 of the workers every morning . “in front of the courthouse,” and ‘that these same workers had demanded daily, instead of monthly pay.

At the southern end of their as-| ing week-end deluge ~f navy bombs | sault line, Lt. Gen. George S. Pat-| 100 “large” task force of Supef-|

RUSS REPORTED

ite coast from the 546-foot hi th volcano that forms the southern tip of the island. :

ton’s troops were completely through | a seven-mile stretch of the Siegfried fortifications to a depth of two miles. They threalened a further

| forts hit industrial targets of Tokyo | from bases in the Marianas. The B-29 raid came ‘one gst after the carrier force broke

Radio Tokyo conceded that the Americans had won foot~ holds on the southwest, south and east coasts.

IN KEY FORTRESS

an. Chtirel survey made by the Indianapolis Church Federation, The assistant controller, wha also breakthrough across the Pruem ,, ,iiack which destroyed or Si Swarms of Planes The members of St. Paul's Episcopal church have accumulated |; i imate = | TIVer. ’ d at least 38 Japanese ships ee : . FRAN Between HOD ang SHOUD i. War bonds vg an nadtions! su fn | 70 The] chiel, espmated wie In ‘Death Trap for Nazis alr uy” top * Soviets Ousted Fr From guten, Swarms of carrier and land-based planes and the 14 and ERVICES other securities for their new church to be built at Meridian and 61st | (Comtined on Page 3—Column 3)| pield dispatches said the entire Bomb Thitousli- Overcast 57 Mi. From Berli |16-inch guns of battleships were pouring thousands of bombs sts. The sanctuary, stained glass windows and other parts of the old BE EM | m 5 : « FIO erin, and shells into the eight-square-mile island in support of the

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'FOUR HOOSIERS FREED FROM MANILA. PRISON

chain of West wall fortresses on the 3d army front was rapidly turning into. a death trap for their Nazi defenders under the grinding Amer-

It wags believed that the number of B-29s participating in today’s

strike from Saipan and Tinian was

Nazis Claim. invasion troops.

By ROBERT MUSEL

tan pc Four Hoosiers were among the ican attack. : larger by 20 .or more aircraft than United ‘Press Staff Correspondenf reminiscent, of Tarawa.and P eleliu. 5 Daan ! military prisoners who recently were i More tian ad 5 the Genhan any. force. which has hit. Honshu| LONDON, Feb. 19.—A German “There is a whale of a serap going on back there at Iwo, even " i i sol, all ages i fiveraias from Biltbid prison, Mas| C000 been Killed wothoed ori. seven previous s Marianas-based, military spokesman said today that said a radio correspondent who flew over the embattled island 00 | ’ smoke Screen i " By Sor captured since Patton's men had | raids, | the Red army cracked into Guben,|as the invasion got under way. sday, 7:30 P, M. Lt. Col. Joseph S. Craig, husband [l2unched their drive across the Sure| my. 1argest ‘previous force was key fortress city 57 miles southeast | ‘I'ne invasion was an amphibious jump half way from 3YTERIAN lof Mrs. Goldie E. Craig, R. R. 19,[30d Our rivers three Wicks 380. |that which bombed Nagoya Thurs-|of Berlin, but was thrown out after| bases in the Marianas to Japan. It was announced in the h of Which box: 390, Jo dlanupolis The Seuss hast might after a|d8y—the day before Mitscherss|a violent battle. second of two jubilant “On to Tokyo” communiques issued was Minister | Pvt. Glenn B. Rigdon, husband of on ie last night after & .,rriers opened their attack. Moscow reported that - Soviet | J y young 5 ylvania Sts. |Mrs. Bertha Mae Rigdon, 23° 8. I oy Oe Abb) Returning B-29 crewmen indi- forces pushing westward from the ‘only an hour apart by Nimitz. D., Minister i |Richwein ave. : Tg 5 Into rubbleioated that at least the first ele-| Breslau area had unlimbered their ' i “histori 04s AM. | and exposed scores of steel aNd CON- | vaonts rer the. targets today | eslau area u ei Ihe first ‘communique had proclaimed an “historic and

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crete pillboxes hidden in the cellars of the town.

bombed through overcast with pre-| cision instruments.

big guns on Goerlitz,

Dresden and Prague. n Soviet dispatches said Coman ree jo Tokyo itself last Friday and Saturday.

gateway 0 gecisive” victory in the precedent-shattering carrier assault

ard meet One assault wave charged into , shvterian of John A. Sable, Gary. The India-based Superforts may | sistance was stiffening all along the ok yu : Je Rrostieess i area after out-| ooo nit the big naval base at| front. Ships Blasted . ¥, Minister LOCAL TEMPERATURES =n ing Soak Teo who West the| Singapore to prevent Japanese war-| Russian assapjt forces nonethe- | Planes from task force 58, the world’s greatest con ng. Worship : RTE 10a.m...21 d stormed In from the ning from going to the aid of |less, were batdering forward within] e—Giest Speaker : ey pe «++. “0 | southwest. : |centration of aircraft carriers, destroyed or damaged at least XT RICE The Crooked Creek Baptist church, Michigan road, is scheduled A third force moved down from their. homeland and _American-| reach of a number of anchor bases| din 140 come down in Javer vit Tew structure on the. sans. se. The Li A wn invaded Iwo in the Volcano islands. E the defenses before Berlin. 36 ships and 659 enemy planes in the two-day strike at the

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8ix; Methodists, seven; Presbyterians, one; the Reformed Church of America, one; Moravians, one; Lutherans, ‘three; Nazarenes, one, and United Brethren, one. The Baptist ghurches planning new buildings are: Calvary, at a cost of $35,000; Good Samaritan, $15,000; Crooked Creek, cost not yet estimated; and First, plans incomplete, There is to be a new West Side Gospel tabernacle of the Assemblies of” God denonlination; a new Seth Side Church of God,

representing ' an investment of $35,000; and a Community Shapel, cost *not yet decided. Chistian congregations which will build new churches are: ; Fortiinoos. ‘90st - undetermined; eming Garden, with an educa~

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| Amusements , 77 Inside Indpls. 9 prisoner of the Germans,

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Knuds 7 Business .,... 6 Movies” viene 4 : : | 13) Obituaries ...« 5 8. Sgt. Kenneth H. Monroe, Madi-

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KENNETH H. MONROE KILLED IN GERMANY

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By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

LONDON, Feb..19~The finishing touches were being applied today to the framework of a new ‘world labor ' organization which its fotnders®predict will affect not only the peace settlements but future social movements through-

LABOR . .. By Fred W. Perkins

Role in Peace Parley Sought

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d Labor Group

Russia and France also have three members each and so has the British trade union congress. Among the British. members is Sir Walter Citrine who led in the effort to. create a new world body, but without sacrificing the gains already made by the International Federation of Trade Unions and

action, one has been injured in ai

out the world. The framework is being completed ,by .a .committee ‘of the world trade union conference in which the American ©. 1. O. took a big part. The Ainerican Federation of Labor refused to at‘tend. The C. I. O. has three" members on the committee—8idney Hillman, R. J. Thomas and flip. Murray. Mr. Murray is

the International Labor Organization. The C. 1. O. takes a passive attitude toward both these latter organizations in which American representation is confined to the A FP. of L. The Russians actively’ Spee both — the international tion“because the A. F. of L. Russian unions as dic-" “tator ‘dominated, and the Inte:-

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Rail, dustrial Ce Centers Get,

Heavy Plastering.

LONDON, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—More than 1600 American heavy bombers and fighters pounded a dozen railroad and industrial centers in western Germany today, including the Osnabruck, Muenster, Rheine and Siegen freight yards. Upwards of 1100 Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the U, 8. 8th air force spearheaded the big raiding force, covered by about 500 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters, «Most of the industrial targets were in the Ruhr valley in the path of the attacking Canadian- “1st army, The American fighter A Shot

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invasion-jittery “Japanese capital. Nazi broadcasts said the Russians [hree Japanese warships were sunk and a |smashed across the Oder south of escort carrier—was set afire and overturned. ! Gube, £0, stock westward for Forty-nine American planes were lost. None of the hen, lms tisant. ships in the huge armada which penetrated to within less

Berlin military commentator Lad said that the thrust from the | (Continued on Page 3 Column 1) 8 88 ”

Crossen aréa had carried to Guben, o There the Germans opraccd, the) “5 Yanks Push Into Tunnels After Japs on Corregidor

spokesman sald, and shoved back the spearhead. | w By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON enemy was expected to make a laste United Press Stall Correspondent ditch stand. ?

Report Oder Crossing fourth—an

trcop coneentrations were seen at various points ‘behind the Russian | lines. A “great offensive effort” at| any time was predicted. Soviet tanks crossed the Oder

A Berlin broadcast said strong river into bridgeheads on the west| MANILA, Feb. 19. - American

The enemy garrison, however, was putting up a defense .

(A Japanese Domei dispatch re=

bank only 31 to 43 miles east of Berlin yesterday: the Nagis said.’ Another broadcast ‘said Russian guns were massed 400 to the mile along the Oder between Kuestrin, 38 miles. east of Berlin, and Fuerstenberg, 43 niiles southeast, . The. Russians reportedly were pouring a heavy barrage at the German before the capital R.AP Berlin Jagt Bight. A Moscow roa

osquito bombers raided

paratroopers and infantrymen Joined today in the arduous job of cleaning out hundreds of die-hard Japanese from the tunnels and crevices of Corregidor fortress,